Show THE MAY DAY FESTIVAL How The Heralds Special Commissione I Viewed It To say this is a great day for Prov would be putting it mildly It is a glorious day I From morn till night the streets ham been thronged with citizens of the town and hnndreds from the surrounding settler settle-r scents Beginning early in the day the consolidated bands of tho various towns serenaded tho people At 1 oclock the new unfinished stake tabernacle I was filled I with people who had assembled to witness the event of the day the big concert Bigit certainly was with such artists asProf essors Weihe Kent Youngdahl and others on the I list The programme was of liberal length and with the recalls consumed most of the afternoon Head and shoulders in point of popularity came Willard Weihe who was compelled to respond twice after his programme number Miss Crissie Lawson Law-son and Miss Lillie Bover shared the hon ors sopranos and were each recalled The quintettes by Messrs Weihe Young sjjiwl l Rordame Olson and Kent was loudly applauded and the gentlemen were compelled com-pelled to come back Prof Maeser made a I jjpwerful and beautiful address on the subJect F sub-Ject of Music The combined bands and the choir and orchestra each were perfect In fact there was nothing but what was firstlass Prof Kent and all who have worked up the affair are deserving of great I credit for the smooth manner in which everything has gone off The receipts to judge from the number present must add a snug little sum to the fund for the COil structipu of an organ for the tabernacle Tonight we are to witness a grand concert con-cert at the theater to be given under the auspices of the Provo Silver band under the direction of Prof Kent which will be followed by a grand ball We will on with the dance and you will hear echoes from the ball later on IX Till AETERXOOX I At 110 the theatre was fairly filled below be-low and in the first circle a large number num-ber of women and children being present the silver band occupying the seats of the orchestra The house was tastefully decorated with festoons of evergreens and flowers and I the stars and stripes appeared from every available point cOn the stand were noticed I Mayor Dusenbury Judge Tudd W H King Judge Dusenbury Rev Goodhall J B Milner J B Walton and among others including a large number of ladies the choir etc Mayor Duseubury called the house to order Singing by the Tabernacle choir under the leadership of Prof J E I Daniel America Prayer by Rev Mr Jeffreys He thanked God that the Whit House had become a home of prayer After music by the band I icnon J w JUDD was introduced as orator of the day He started with the inauguration of George Washington one hundred years ago oration from which reading his UIUHU11 nuui manuscript tviii > i had evidently been carefully prepared and the reading of which was very f re I quently applauded by the audience After the oration the inaugural address of George Washington was read by M F Kellog Esq Chairman Dusenberry announced there would be a representation of America by school children The band gave the signal and immediately a young girl dressed to represent Columbia and a boy to represent each of the twentytwo Presideuts each carrying a Wag came in sight After the marching and counter inarching George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson Jeffer-son James Madison James Munroe Join Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buwn William Jackson John Tyler James K Polk Xacery Taylor Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce James Bucau nan Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson U S Grant R IJ Hayes 1 A Garfield Chester Arthur Grover Cleveland and Benjamin F Harrison Har-rison each represented by a boy came to the front and in a neat little speech told what they had done and what happened in the time This was really the best part of the meeting The Sword of Bunker Hill by Joseph E Daniels was the next on the line gnunme and was well rendered eliciting the most enthusiastic applause W H King being called responded in his usual eloquent style with a line patriotic pat-riotic oration and was frequently inter ruptcd by the applause of the audience The Star Spangled Banner was sung by J 1 R Twelves and the chorus by the Tabernacle choir in which some of the audience joined The Rev MrGpodhallncxt addressed the audience He said that just before coming into the meeting a friend had said i to him of lil the places in lfr the I country he woult rather be in Utah and Mr Goodhall said he sympathized with the sentiment of that man Would rather stand here today and feel that we are one of the people of the United States than be one of the royalties of the eastern continent He was proud to be citizen of the United States of America Amer-ica Music by the handHallv Around the Flag IX TilE EVENING At 7 io p l m the Provo silver band reappeared re-appeared on the streets and played a number num-ber of selections to remind the people that the closing attraction of the great pro gramme was drawing near At S iO tho concert commenced with the Phrcnix inarch by the band The boys certainly have reason to feel encouraged at the progress pro-gress they have made in the last three months It is needless to comment upon the way in which Prof Kent handled the clarionet He played with his usual professional pro-fessional skill It was 010 before the dancing danc-ing commenced Though rather crowded everybody seemed to have a very pleasant time During the evening Prof Willard Weihe kindly responded to a request from the company and favored them with the Swanee River On being encored he played Home Sweet Home The dancing danc-ing continued until after 2 oclock this morning |