Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-02-06 | Page 33 | Salt Lake Celestials Soon to Observe Their New Year

Salt Lake Celestials Soon I to Observe Their New Year P VERY member of Salt Lakes Chi Chinese Chinese EVERY E Lf nese colony yesterday began nurs nursing nursing nursing ing Chinese lilies that will be one of the chief reminders of old China during the Chinese New Years celebration which according to the official calendar of or the Orient begins at 1047 i Wednesday night The celebration will I continue for about a week when will be emphasized by the display of fireworks Representative Chinese yesterday began preparations to secure a permit from Chief of Police S M Barlow to discharge their fireworks In preparation for the greatest of Chi Chinese Chinese nese holidays members of ot the Celestial race in Salt Lake are purchasing all the i I i delicacies that can be obtained in the markets of the city and many days das ago the Chinese had bought up the bunk bulk ot of the local celery crop Every household and business organization will have a banquet and then there will be ban banquets banquets banquets of prominent representatives of the colony Just prior to the banquets the new year will be ushered in by dis displays displays displays plays of fireworks peculiar to Chinese manufacture The principal celebration will be by the Yee Hing King lodge of ot Chinese Masons which has its meeting hall hali over the Sing Sun Commercial company store in Plum alley Sing Sun head of ot the Commercial company store said last night that more mOn Chinese lilies had been imported for the Chinese colony for the approach approachIng Ing holidays hoUdas than during any previous New Year in his memory memo Sun is some sometimes sometimes sometimes times called the mayor ma or of ot Chinatown but he says that such a term is all aU non nonsense nonsense sense and that John Bransford is the only mayor maor recognized in any part of ot the Chinese colony