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Show beautiful women and hansome men. From the preparations now made it is believed that the grand parade will bo live miles long and occupy two hours' time in passing a given point, it will be the grandest, the greatest and the most beneficial demonstration ever witnessed in the West. It will bo viewed by thousands of people homo antl foreign. Efforts are now being made to attract to this city during the carnival week the many excursion excur-sion parties that at this season of of tho year invade the West from the East, and to all mankind will be extended a Utah invitation to come to this chosen spot and partake par-take of the pleasures and delights that will be dispensed in honor of Utah's admission into the Union. Hon. Frank J. Cannon, Utah's youngest Senator, will deliver the oration on Independence Dav: an Special Correspondence. Salt Lake's Midsummer Carnival. ' Sau Lake City, May 30, 1896. With the murder mystery of the ' decade and the great Midsummer Carnival on its hands, Salt Lake is, at present, a very much agitated city. The manifesto is no longer discussed, and because of them peace again reigns in the camps of the Church and State disputants. And while the authorities and newspapers are busy in attempting to solve the gruesome mysteries of the Scandinavian church horror, and to locate the perpetrator, Rev. Francis Hermans, our business men are giving their time and attention at-tention to preparing for what can now be confidently set down as the greatest celebration the West has ever witnessed. It is expected that fully 30,000 strangers will seek army of musicians will discourse patriotic music; the multitude, led by vocalists of renown, will sing 1 the songs that the sentiments or turned many a battle and spurred men on to deeds so heroic that they will never be effaced from the minds of the students of, history; his-tory; Salt Lake's thousands of bright and beautiful school children child-ren will indulge in a Floral Festival; Festi-val; the Tabernacle choir will give a grand concert; the Queen's ball will eclipse all past Terpsichorean exercises; the National Guard of Utah will parade and drill; tho Fort Douglas boys in blue will participate; there will be exciting bicycle races; horse races on their merit; an athletic exhibition in which will bo introduced the cream of Utah athletes; there will be a carnival of fun, such as can only be excelled in New Orleans, . and' the grandest display of fireworks the West has ever witnessed. There will be many other features, fea-tures, new and important ones being be-ing added almost daily. the vales of Zion tor the purpose of participating in the Carnival as spectators, and the task of caring for and accommodating them will be a herculean one. But Salt Lake will be equal to the occasion. Her hotels are large and well equipped, and well managed, and there are half a hundred rooming houses where all that the hotels cannot accommodate can find quarters. Salt Lake has, of late years, become be-come a restaurent city, and there are now sufficient eating establishments establish-ments to provide for all who may come. The railroads have made liberal ' concessions in rates, and .from Montana common points the fare, will be $15.00 . and in Colorado, from Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, $20.00; from all other points in the Centennial State one fare for round trip. In Utah the rates have been constructed on a basis of from 1J to 1 cents per As work progresses on the floats some idea of how beautiful they will be when completed can be obtained. ob-tained. Master Mechanic Frank Pollard is in charge. He has a national reputation as a float builder and as a scenic artist and decorator, and for an adviser) he has Will Clawson, a local artist of repute, who gained his experience experi-ence with the palette and brush in the salons of Paris. In this department, de-partment, and the only one, is economy not practiced. Everything Every-thing needed to make the floats ' dreams of beauty and worthy of I the grand subjects they are to represent rep-resent is supplied. The spectacular specta-cular effects will rival the scenes inKiralfy and Henderson stage productions and the costumes will be as elaborate as'money can buy. There will be at least twenty-five twenty-five floats in line. Each will be hauled by twenty or more gaily caparisoned ca-parisoned horses driven uniformed uni-formed Jehus and occupied by |