Show EANG1PAT1ON M II DAY r Fittingly Celebrated Yesterday Yester-day By the Colored People HAD A BIG STREET PARADE QUEEN AND HER MAIDS BIDE ON A FLOAT Soldiers of the Twentyfourth Participated Parti-cipated Exercises at G A E Hall Governor Wells Speaks Chaplain Allensworth Delivers an Eloquent OrationA Ball In the Evening The day was glorious for the colored I population They celebrated the anniversary anni-versary of their emancipation with songs of gladness with festivities with the music of the fife and of the drum It was an occasion when they ceased to remember the > scars upon the backs of their fathers made by the lash of the slave owner The joyous colored men filled and blocked the streets all day ard the blue uniform of the musketeer was almost I IIII I h I = 1 I MISS MOUSES GARNER QUEEN as much in evidence as the more sober aittire of the civilian There was first a parade in honor of the day then eloquence at the G A R hall and finally as a fitting climax a ball from which no colored man in nIl the land around was absent THE PARADE Shortly after 2 oclock they gathered in black crowds in front of the G A R building where the parade was billed to begin from B B Voss faultlessly I attired and wearing a shining silk tile I rode to and fro among the crowd with aweinspiring dignity After some little lit-tle delay the paraders came in line and I the cpravan started Mr Yeas and ins silk tile were in front and just behind dim a platoon I of the Twentyfourth infantry trudged I through the dust with military dignity dig-nity The Twentyfourth Infantry band was there and during the whole march played some of the soulstirring airs whIch toutCi all hearts be they black or white THE BEAUTY COURT The Beauty Court float was for all that the leading attraction and the cynosure of all neighboring eyes On a lofty seat clad in white and beneath a parasol held by an attendant sat the queen picturesque in brunette smiles and southern digriy The maids I Miss Vrana Nesbitt Miss Sgnora Scott and Miss Ella Once were the other members of the beauty float and were pretty to look at Following the float was a long line of carriages The march was mode to Third South on Main thence to South Temple on State and back to the starting place via Main AT THE HALL A large crowd soon filled the G A P hall where the formal exercises of celebration were held The hall was decorated in flags and bunting The queen was enthroned on one side of the hall with her maids around her and a place near the platform was set apart for the band The speakers began to arrive soon after the assembling of the celebratory and there were cheers as Governor Wells appeared W W Taylor held the gavel in one hand and acted as chairman and general master of ceremonies cere-monies In the Other hand he carried a flag He opened the ceremonies witti some brief remarks about the significance signifi-cance of the occasion and the joy he felt and then called the general attention at-tention to the band which responded j with a selection Invocation was offered by Rev M I Jones and when tills was over the whole assembly arose and with its I united voice sang America GOVERNOR WELLS SPEAKS Then Governor Wells was introduced by the chairman who averred that everyone was proud of the governor I and that the audience felt honored in a distinguished degree Governor Wells said in beginning that the 22nd of September was a great day both for the white people and the colored for it marked a great event In the history of freedom No demonstration demonstra-tion could be too Imposing in celebration celebra-tion of the emancipation of a race of slaves Alixr itiruiOlcs the hLvury of the login lion ca EOstivecy the governor caCti it was tullnge tfrut such a conidLtiai of I tUroqu131y could ever have prevailed in the UrJwI Suites lot that die I iicckhtis bad tyan romoveil from them vis colored pieple had progressed won dijuoly they tttd advanttd Jn a single WVUrJ firm rueehudr ill EcEgti 1 moat Slavery had not been an un mired calamity Car had it never piisvaCCod lui13 ihs Msrcco woiiHi now be far fceWJcd Uic r pjaat state clf Ttnort He bfilev tl tdLjl ce bittt30ri cold be an Uuiriratca o the riefr anti wDoid t < sUit in bsitter lives I acid better pitGTCSG In the future Governor Wells otis frsatlently applauded MR VOSS RESPONDS The response to the governors speech I WI1U lo hive faI1I11 to R H RobInson bu as hii did not appear H H Vess prfccmed tbs duty He was glad he caCti th3it this calebralucin had come of becauce W Would cause Deoole to think In ILG opinlcci the ccCored people I clInic cia Sits tijuna grounds as any I ouhir time dn the wcird He referred to the govrrDrs aidSreiiB as a splendid effect anti cold he wished dt ccud be I tifJ3L acid spread broadcasc in coder that ei erjona might know tlhat tht sw errCL hud ban uth than At tints point the formalty of crownI ing tare queeia was attended to by Mr Taylor aa aut whCoh lie I eoppIemerJed by calltu ear there cheers for the cr2wrtsd one all of which were jriven I Ths aueea tI1Cll i read the CIimaiLJa of ernuaiCpatta CSiapliiCn AMenswoiLCi delivered the chief cxation of the day It was on Frejdiaia TVuuimph odd was an elo querC arl loscJhy effect The chaplain began by urging the rues to pay ieOT atiesiricui to pot m and I I mere to Iltis Emprovemecc of thetr socual I ataLus acd the dollowlag of iwiiietrJiI I pucjstiitita He tuftS their succC3 llstrIlII commercial and political dependeOgipcn I IdleSt moral allectual and social ad vanccmctrL acnanr tiheme ilv 3 bettors othics having a high socIal iCfeitu J Will I welcome thorn train Uia cammeucCal eoxl 1 < ii C c > 1 < I pcfittlal field He stewed to a speech made a few days 250 by a white man in Kansas City Mo who said that everyitcnrj rM ZtLD country is tea stale from a iraas occecfencs to the virtue of a wxxman The ohacOoJn iUCtl no AfroAmertcan had ever modi ruth a chairwe asaingt toa Anjlo axcC3 of Ohio couatrj He tutu the scuti made a midtoke in not tuCii3 < g bald of this cctored man alt t4ia cluse of itua war and making hCn their eVer tlEclg taboo ft nd taT the taints m cijii < e is teCfls miAds rjaw by utCcrv legIsIaCIca to piCtLJt the growth of irJhicd acid druittor ouit Clime which f decs exieiL He ass agaia ad ieglsIallton having i for its end the snforcemerit of fcttimate scoS reJUlicne aad all tesislaittai plac tas s rmos urea cc barrCrs asoDnst any does of citizens and that TO any comaiuuttv OT state whesr thIs is dent nvxQ dCcccdw than order is bounll to c tuiin He urged ups rAIse members of The race that they brace up by using the nvaans used by every successful success-ful man or woman that succeed in EfeHo Ho raTenrsd in complitnentliry terms to same of the ed3t tas of ThO Herald Her-ald as evidences cf the good feeHnifr on the port of the whIte Deocife of Salt Luke to the colored citizens THE NEGRO PRESS Tfce cccxCudins afiGrces of the allot noon was made by G H Gannoway who spoke on The Neccsslty ef a Negro Ne-gro Press He claimed that as a medium me-dium of en0ghttcni ncih03p was more portent than a newecaDer anrt hat rCzuo rtupexs had already worked great impravemsnt ta the cmndCtuca of tim race The colored people were out in full force last night at the queens ball given in the G A R hall The hall was decorated with bunting which was tastefully draped about the pillars throughout the room At the west end of the hall was a raised platform on which stood the queens throne The throne was heavily draped with red white and blue bunting and on a table in front of her was a large bouquet bou-quet of choice flowers About 9 oclock the grand march was begun it being led by Mr AI Townsend and the queen Miss Mamie Garner Behind them followed the queens maids Misses Nesbitt Signora Scott Ella Grice and Fanny Scott with their escorts Messrs Bosweil Banlon Wheeler and Gannoway After the grand march the couples formed for a quadrille and then dance followed dance in rapid succession until un-til after midnight when supper wan served to the many guests The orchestra or-chestra was composed of musicians from tie Tweniyfourth infantry band and they rendered very pretty selections selec-tions for the couples to dance by The hail was crowded to its utmost to hold the throng that was In attendance but nevertheless the dancing was enjoyed thoroughly and all had a good time This was the end of the emancipation j emancipa-tion proclamation celebration which j was held by the colored people yester I I day and it went off witha vim that l was greatly appreciated by the pro I meters The dancing did not terminate I until long after midnight I |