Show I Utah 24 Years Yeats Old Today t 1 2 2 2 1 2 4 1 J J. J cJ 40 State Rejoiced in 1894 I I By Albert F. F Phillips Is th the t twenty fourth birthday T TillS J. J anniversary of or Utah An enabling net act had been passed by Congress Con and n approved by b President I Grover Cleveland July 16 It authorized the tho holding of a a. constitutional constitutional constitutional convention con to be composed of oC 07 These were to meet the first Monday In March 1595 and frame a state to constitution The late John Henry Henr Smith was presIdent of this convention which was wasn In n session sixty sixty- sixty six days The constitution constitution ution was ratified at lt the tho November election b by an overwhelming majority an and ind at ti to tiro o same sarno time officers for tor the state were chosen An engrossed copy of the tho constitution was sent to President President dent Cleveland Cle and on Saturday January January Jan- Jan uary lary 4 1 tsar he issued tho proclamation granting statehood Cannon Sounds Sound Glad GJud New cnA e Notice of the tho proclamation was announced announced an an- In- In to tho the people by tho the firing of or ofa i a gun bun In front of or the Vc Western Union Telegraph office situated where the tho Tracy Loan Trust rust building now no stands and anti the tho news was flash flashed l c over the he state by telegraph and telephone The Tho firing of or the gun was tho the signal that hat set the thc city wild Bells were rung runS whistles blown cannon fired CIrca and pandemonium reigned rl med Inaugural were postponed until Monday January C G and they were ere I held heMIn In iii the fal Tabernacle ern cle where the largest largest larg lars est cst American na flag ever mado made was unfurled un un- furled This banner feet teel b by 7 73 was suspended from the Temple T mple a year car later when the tho Jubilee was as hel held Inthe In tho the Tabernacle It covered the entire space between tho galleries and the forty fifth star for Utah was The decorations in the structure were ucro beautiful Thousands of persons unable to get et Ins Mo the building blocked every pas passageway sewa to the In Interior Interior Interior In- In and ond were present In and nd around tho Tabernacle 1000 Children JI Wove Wn nn ring Fins Charles C C. Richards secretary of or the territory now assistant attorney general general gen gen- en- en eral ernI of ot the United States presided at atthe atthe the tho exercises Music was wan furnished by bythe bythe bythe the Sixteenth Infantry band and tho the Denhalter band bana President Geor George o Q Q- Cannon C delivered tho the Invocation for President Woodruff who was present but In ill III health one thousand children waved American flags Jags and The Tho sang the tho Star Spangled Banner anner I proclamation of or President Cleveland j I was read by Joseph L. L Rawlins RawIn former Cormer delegate to Congress Cone afterward United States tates senator who presented to Gov leber M M. Wells the pen used by President President President I dent Cleveland eland In signing the bill 1111 Governor Wells ens was as sworn into office by Chief Justice diaries Charles M. M r Zane tho the Tabernacle choir sang Utah Wo Ve Love Lovo Thee heC Secretary of or State James T T. Hammond read the proclamation of or Governor Wells Wells' calling the tho Legislature in special session and Governor Wells delivered his I Inaugural augural address The choir then san sang America tho benediction benediction benediction bene bene- diction was pronounced by tho the late Dr Thomas C C. and the state tate of Utah was born |