Show the tho first handcart hand cart companies Campanie 3 having learned that capt edmund ella company camped at the willow spring springs on the evenin evening 0 of the dinst on the th e presidents brigham young and heber lieber C kimball gen geni D if wells and many other citizens in carriages and several gentlemen and ladies on horseback with a apart part of capt IL 11 B Claw sons sona company of lancers and the tb brass bands under capt william pitt left the governors office at 9 atwith am with the view of meeting and escorting them into the city within about a mile and a half of the foot of the little mountain prest young ordered the th party to halt until the hand carts should arrive and with prest kimball drove on to meet them ere long the anxiously expected train came la in sight led by capt ellsworth on foot and with two wo aged veterans vet erana pulling the front cart followed by a long line of carts attended by the tb old middle aged and young of both sexes when opposite the escorting party a halt was called and their captain introduced the ule new comers to young Z and kimball Kimbal lv which was followed by the joyous greeting of relatives and friends and an unexpected treat ef of melons while thus regaling capt daniel D mcarthur McArt hur bur came up with his bis handcart hand cart company they having traveled from the east ban bay of the big mountain from the halt to the public square on and 2nd west temple street the following order was waa observed under the supervision of capt clawson lancers ladies on horseback prest preal youn youngs gys prest eim Kim balls balla and benl wells carriages the bands caits and mcarthurs Arthurs DIc Mc companies citizens in carriages and on horseback the line of march was scarcely taken up before it began to b lbs its me met t by men w omen women and children on foot oa horses and in wagons thronging out to tied ties se and welcome the first handcart hand cart com companie companies panie panic 84 and the numbers rapidly increased until tiia the living tide lined and thronged thron ged south temple tempi 6 treet street the procession reached the public aquas about sunset where the lancers bands and andl carriages were formed in a line facin facing r the linw line of hand carts carte and after a few remarks by prest young accompanied by his blessing the he spectators and escort retired and the companies pitched their tents at the end of a walk wal and pull upwards of 11 1300 00 oo 00 miles this journey has bas been performed with less leea than the average amount of mortality usually attending ox trains and all though somewhat fatigued stepped out with alacrity to the last and appeared buoyant and cheerful they had often traveled 25 and 30 miles in a day and would have come through in a much shelter time had they not hot been obliged to wait upon the slow motion of the oxen attached to tha few wagons containing the tents and po git cerles ceries much credit is due to capt ellsworth for having abing a walked the entire distance thus thu cheer choo ing and encouraging his company by example as well aa as precept and the saints with their hand carts aided by caits E ellsworth Ils lis worth and ana mcarthur and their assistants elders oakly butler crandal and leonard and guided and sti stained by the almighty have preached to the ungodly a sermon louder than the voice of many thunders and thus has been successfully accomplished a plan devised by the wisdom and forethought of our president for rap idly gathering the poor almost entirely independent of the wealth so closely boarded be corid yo id their reach herein is exhibited a portion of the faith and patience of the saints but will the world 2 I 1 heed beed the lesson only the wise for the wicked will pass on and be punished |