Show One Man In Salt Lake Saw Comet 75 Years Ago NE of the few men In hi America ONE O and possibly the only man in Salt Lake who has any recollection of seeing Baileys comet com t years ago Is Garrett GarrettE E IL Conover C nover of West Fourth South street who on on n celebrated cel one hundredth birthday When asked about having seen the th comet the tho centenarian became enthusiastic enthusiastic when told that he would again have the pleasure of seeing comet cometa as a He ho sa wit in 1835 when hen he be was 25 years old and ana was living in New Jer Jersey Jersey sey soy I was a young Oung man when Baileys comet appeared In the western w tern heavens years ago said Mr Con Conover Conover over ovet There are some some people who no doubt remember seeing it when they were children n but I recall seeing it when I was working in my fathers field late one moonlight night Our farm fann was but a short distance from New Brunswick and I remember the wonderment that the comet caused among anions the simple people of the old New Jersey town The whole town was startled by the wonderful sight which spanned the heavens as far as the eye could reach Evening after evening the people gathered on the streets to behold with fear and trembling the th i but glorious sight and wondered what could befall the earth in consequence I of It Some said pestilence some said war but most of them talked In whis pers about the great Judgment day and the end of the world It was only a few years before that the people had seen the total eclipse of the sun Bun when all grew dark in midday mi day and arid the chickens went to roost The people had also passed through the phe pho phenomena pl e of f the meteoric shower when tho the heavens were ablaze at night with falling stars so they were pretty well worked up by the time tune that comet comel appeared I 1 look back years as though it were yesterday and see Jt again the great and awful mysterious something hanging up there with its head toward the east and the measure measureless measureless measureless less tail reaching as far as the eye could see until It was hidden behind the mountains So the big comet is going to appear again Are you sure it is the same one ono that I 1 saw years ago agoT When Wh n informed that it was the same comet and was already visible the old man sat up in wonderment He could scarcely believe that the evolution n of the heavens would again bring back bac the tho wonderful sight and that he would live lIyo to see it a second time I It have seen many comets in my day but after all they are not the most wonderful things he ho added In my hundred years of at life lIf If I 1 marvel more about the wonderful changes in things right here on this earth How things have changed since I 1 was a of a boy boyThe boyThe boyThe The old man heaved a heavy sigh and said that he lie would watch from the door of his home for comet |