Show V Pioneers of 1847 to Be Honored Guests at Fete I V r F 4 I 1 S I It r t e kt z Aj i e. e VV I The Thc ten surviving Salt Lake pioneers who crossed the plains in IIi 1847 will wUl be the thc honored guests at the Pioneer day celebration next Monday night They are arc left to right light back row Angelina Bennion S Spencer John H. H Woodbury Caroline Cherry Harris Darris Joseph U. U Eldredge next and Elijah N. N Freeman front row left to right Melissa Jane Lamson Davis Kingsbury Fryer Hulda Thurston Smith Mary A. A Parks Brockbank and Robert Sweeten I Boys and Girls of r 47 to Be Honored Ten Survivors of Trek to Utah Will Be Guests at Legion Legion Le Le- Le gion Pageant e Ten surviving 1847 pioneers will be bethe bethe bethe the honored guests at the Pioneer Day celebration the features of which I will be the fireworks display at the University of Utah stadium on the night of ot July 24 Portraits of L. L D D. S S. S church officials of officiaLs done in fireworks will be bethe bethe bethe the highlight ht of the evenings evening's dis pIa play Clem general chairman of the American Legion c committee sponsoring spon the celebration tion announced Wednesday that virtually all arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments were complete and that the fireworks display promised to be beby beby beby by far the best ever shown in Salt Lake A foot 10 portrait of Joseph Smith founder of the L L. D. D S. S church will willbe willbe willbe be displayed 20 feet in the air he said Other portraits in flames to bo be shown will include those of Brigham Young leader of the 1847 pioneers and Heber J. J Grant president of ot the L. L D D. S S. church Fireworks also will vill be used to depict the history of Utah from the time of the eli cliff dweller to the present pres ent day airplane transportation Mr said EVENTS TO BE PICTURED Oxen plodding along ahead of covered wagons seagulls swooping down on gr grasshoppers and other important im events in the history of Utah will be shown This will be ordinary fireworks display consisting of ky rockets and anda a lot of noise Mr Schramm said It will be unique and will be a presentation with a meaning Eighty six years ago ngo nine little boys and girls clung to their mothers' mothers skirts scuffing the hard dusty ground beneath their worn little boots They were between one and four years of age and their eyes were wide with wonder at al the beauty of a new valley with a sparkling lake In the distance that spread before them In lii their hearts was yas a thank thankfulness ulness that a long hard journey had come cometo to an end No more trudging over o rough prairie or riding in jolting ox dra drawn wagons No more terror at sudden rudden wild yells from invading Indians In of ot the mournful howls of hungry hun bun gry wolves close by th the thc wheels of their covered wagon homes Those nine litle boys and girls just justas as much as their weary mothers and fathers were pioneers of Utah members mem bers of that band who with Brigham Young believed In 1847 that this Is 15 the place LIVING IN SALT LAKE Today in 1933 those nine boys and girls and one other girl who was born four months month after the arrival ore are still living in Salt Lake Each is an old man or woman all nearing 90 00 years yearn and Don none with many more milestones of life to pass They arc are to be the honored guests at this years year's Pioneer Da Day celebration next Monday The city sweltering under a July sun with its wide paved streets its motor traffic its tall well ordered buildings its myriad of trees and md parks and the droning of airplanes overhead today presents a startling contrast to the sight those children witnessed so long Ions ago ago a monument to Lo the faith of one man and his fol fol- lowers On July 24 4 1847 the temperature was 96 degrees No trees offered even temporary respite only under the canvas can vas covering of ot a wagon could escape escape escape es es- cape from the blazing ra rays s of the sun be effected Meager household furnishing and implements lay in some disorder as the men had searched through them for their farming ments meats Plows were hitched to the still sUll weary oxen and the first furrow was made In the exact spot of ground that now bears the busy traffic of Main street Potatoes were planted- planted several hours after the band of men women omen and those nine children had decided this spot was henceforth to tobe tobe be 30 home Gone were the memories of those 1054 miles traversed in four tour months with such heart breaking difficulties the the snow and weather at 35 degree degrees de de- degrees grees gree the struggle for food the thc incessant in watch against st the hostile Indian In dian dlan brol broken n wagons dying horses and oxen and the inevitable death of some of at the members D. D Kingbury Fryer Wilmington Wil avenue was the child who was born at Old Fort the November following the arrival in July y V Following are the survivors of that stirring journey Hulda Thurston S.-Thurston Smith North Main street was born in Van Buren Iowa in 1846 She later became the mother of 12 2 children On the crossIng crossing cross cross- Ing she was a member of the Third Hundred Elijah Freeman 1217 Indiana avenue avenue ave aye nue was born in 1845 at La Harpe IlL III He was a member of the First Hundred Joseph U U. Eldredge 66 East First North street was born in Barnstable Mass in 1843 He also was wasa a member of the First Hundred Caroline Cherry Harris now living in was born in 1845 at Adams Ill and crossed the plains as a member of f C. C C. C Richs Rich's guard Angelina Angeline- Bennion BennI n Spencer Simpson Simp son avenue wis was born in Garden Garden- grove Iowa lown and was a member of the Second Hundred Mary A. A Parks Brockbank Highland drive dri was born in 1843 in Warwick Kent upper Canada and c came me across the plains plainS' with the Second Sec ond Hundred Melissa Jane Lamson Davis Douglas street was born in Winter Quarters Omaha Neb in 1846 1840 and arid was a babe in arms in iii Hundred Robert Sweeten Eighth avenue was wag born in Kent Upper Canada in 1841 and crossed with the Second Hundred while John Woodbury Wood bury of at Granger was born in Nauvoo in 1845 and was a member of at the Fourth Hundred |