Show PRfSIfNT stiOW8 DfPARTURf I CHURCH OFFICIALS START FOR ST GEORGE Revival of An Oldtime Custom Es tafolished By Brigham Young Personnel of the Party President Snow and party left the city at 530 yesterday afternoon beginning be-ginning the extended tqur of southern Utah held In contemplation for sometime time past The personnel of the party is as follows President and Mrs Lo renzo Snow President and Mrs Joseph F Smith President and Mrs Franklin D Richards President Seymour B Young Bishop William1 B Preston Apostle A O Woodruff Mrs A O Wodruf W B Dougall Arthur Winter Win-ter L Roy C Snow and Mrs F M Lyman Apostle Lyman will join the party at Provo The Pullman standard sleeper Montana I Mon-tana was placed at the disposal of the party by the Oregon Short Line and is to run to Modena on the Utah Pacific arriving there Tuesday forenoon fore-noon when the journey will be continued con-tinued by team to St George President Snow explains that the tour Is in the way of a revival of those undertaken un-dertaken bj President Brigham Young regularly each year in earlier days when the coming of the presidents party was considered one of the chief events in the lives of the settlers President Snow accompanied the former for-mer leader alirost invariably and describes de-scribes the trip as a veritable jubilee from beginning to end There were sometimes from forty to fifty carriage loads of people accompanying the I president and the train was greeted with demonstrations on every hand As I many as 1000 children woul line the road each carrying a fag and singing hallelujah choruses a the procession drove into the settlements settements Conference days were holidays flags were raised and the country was in gala attire at the mere announcement Brother Brigham Is coming The trip was undertaken only once by the late President Woodruff during I his presidency In ISIS his fail health preventing him from traveling the rugged country in after years Upon this one occasion the president suffered a severe illness He was accompanied ac-companied by President George Q Cannon President Snow is in the best of health The Montana Is I the first Pullman sleeper to run over the Utah Pacific I and every means of comfort has been i installed for the presidents party I St George will be reached at I p mon m-on Tuesday if possible and conference I i I will be held there on Wednesday and I Thursday I |