The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-12
TRIBUTE TO GREAT
NAVIGATOR TODAY
Anniversary of Americas Dis
covery by Columbus VIII
Be Generally Observed.
K. OF c. HONOR PATRON
Knights, and Also Members
of Italian Societies, to At
tend Mass in a Body.

Four hundred and twenty-one years
ago today Christopher Columbus dis
covered for the world the western
hemisphere. IT was on the morning OF
October l2, 1902, that the courageous
navigator and his mutinous crew
sighted an island in the Bahama group,
which he named San Salvador.
The story Of the har1ships and dis
couragements which Columbus bravely
fought before he set sail under the
patronage OF Queen Isabella Of Spain,
and the final ignominy and poverty
that twere his lot in the closing years
of his life, after the death Of his royal
benefactor, are known to all How he
sailed on when his crew threatened to
throw him in chains if he did not turn
back and how he finally proved his
theory that there was land west Of
the Atlantic, has inspired every school
child in the land.
Anniversary Is Holiday.
Today the great work of the Italian
navigator and map maker is reeog
nized throughout the world, and espe-
cially in America Columbus day,
October ~, is now legal holiday in
Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colo
RADIO, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,, Mich
igan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Texas, Vermont, Washington and West
Virginia By vote of the Nevada state
legislature Columbus. day has been
made judiciary holiday. It is also
legal holiday in Porto Rico.
Most prominent among the celebrat
ors of Columbus day today throughout
the United States will be the order
which has for its patrton the great
navigator, the Knights Of Columbus.
On account Of the fact that the ami
versary this year falls on Sunday,
some Of the usual banquets and enter
tainments will be postponed for q day
or two.
knights Observe Day.
Salt Lake council, knights Of Column
bus, will attend high mass at st.
Mary's cathedral at IL O'Clock this
morning in a body as special COM
memoration Of the event. Tuesday
evening the council and its friends will
celebrate at banquet to be held In
the Hotel Utah.
The knights will convene In the
basement of the cathedral at 10:45
o 'clock this morning. A section Of
seats will be reserved for them and
they will march into the church at II
o clock. In honor of the occasion Miss
Nora Gleason, the cathedral organist |
and choir director, has arranged q pro-
gramme of music of Italian masters. |
Solos will be rendered by Miss Cassan-
dra Wood, Mrs. Stuart P. Dobbs and
2. P. Grady.
Solemn high mass will be sung as a
special commemoration Of the occasion
The Rev. Fr. NJ. J. O'Reardon will be
the eelebrant the Rev. Fr. W. K. RYAN
the deacon, the Rev. Tr. j. J. McNally
the sub-deacon and the Rev. Fr. Daniel
Slattery the master Of ceremonies.
Members Of the society Of the Sons
of Italy in the city will also observe
Columbus day today and will attend
the high mass this morning in body.
They will march to the cathedral from
their headquarters. Mrs. J. j.: O'Con-
Italians during the ceremony at 1920
o 'clock, when American and Italian
flags will be blessed. The Italians will
then attend the high mass.
Banquet on Tuesday.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the Knights Of Columbus
banquet, which will begin promptly at
'clock Tuesday evening. The en-
tertainment committee of the council
IS in charge of the affair. Last years
banquet was stag affair, but this
year ladies will attend.
W. j. Halloran will act as toastmas-
Ter The invocation will be delivered
oy the Very Rev. Father L. J. Kelledy,
president Of All Hallows college.
The speakers will be Mayor Samuel
J. Park, who will take as his subject
The Civic Attitude;' Senator Thorn
as Kearns, whose subject will be
tOur State;' Colonel James A. Irons
IF Fort Douglas, who will toast to
Patriotism - the Rev. Pr. F. South
elmer Of All Hallows, who will talk
IN Education:' State Deputy W. e.
Roche of Ogden, whose subject will
)e "The Order, and Past Grand
Knight William II Leary, who will
,ive commemorative toast to 'FCol- |
lmbus. - /
Music during the banquet will be [
furnished by Mcclellan s Hotel Utah {
orchestra. An elaborate menu is TO J
,e served and attractive menu cards
will form souvenirs Of the occasion. {
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