| Show First of April Pranks Shock Police Chief and Many Others ID you bite Were you among th the DID D stung If you failed to tall fall for some innocent prank yesterday you missed a lot of ot fun tun to say nothing of oC embarrassment for tor yesterday was waa April 1 better known the world over as All Fools bools Day If there Is one day In the year when foolishness reigns supreme it is on April Fools day Then it is that unsuspecting per persons eons fall tall into the many little traps set sot sotby by the seeker of fun and amusement The pocketbook with the string at attached attached attached is pulled away as you grasp for tor It the hot liot coin oln placed on the sidewalk the tha th candy made of cotton pasteboard or even red pepper these and I hundreds of ot other little tricks are used to fool the unsuspecting Most everybody took the jokes good I and had as much keen enjoy enjoyment ment merit as did the perpetrators of oC the pranks It is a day set aside by mutual consent for hilariousness s and foolish jokes and the general public is disposed to make the best of It in the knowledge that each and every member of ot mankind is to tho the same pranks and that many of them are made to bear the brunt of harmless jokes If you want to remind Chief of ot Police PoliceS S M lou Barlow of April prU 1 I 1910 ten years hence ask him if he saw the new daa da pled gray horses at fire tire headquarters The chief was the first victim of April Fool customs in Salt Lake yesterday The joke was at tIle expense of the police de do department department and to the mirth of the fire tire department Rumors began to pour Into the he chiefs office that the fire tire department had installed the Inuit finest team of grays that ever pulled apparatus to a fire Chief Barlow loves horses He lIe dropped I an absorbing study of the habits of the latest type typo of ot and started for fire headquarters with rapid stride At Atthe Atthe Atthe the steamer entrance he grasped the Iron guard chain and strained his eyes eres to see sea seethe seethe the now new horses Why they are the same horses as have been here for Cor years he ha said cling clinging ing lug to the iron guard chain and trying to get a closer loser look at them Then with a cry the chief leaped Into the i air r and with difficulty released rele ed his hands from the iron Iran chain Firemen from Chief W V H Glore Glare down to the newest ladder boy burst into laughter With the theiron theIron theiron iron chain members of ot the fire tire head headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters chew had hod connected an electric current They shocked scores of Inquisitive Inquisitive tive persons yesterday Another prank of the fire fighters tighten at atthe atthe atthe the headquarters station statton was a j j to the sidewalk with a soldered I tail nail Such as look downward for tor their I fortune made various attempts to pick pickup pickup pickup up the coin and rose sheepishly amid laughter of members of the fire and po police polIce police lice departments Two proprietors of ot pawn shops In Commercial street stooped to pick up the nickle nickIe without success and a bank hank clerk is credited with ap approaching approaching approaching the nickle with a nail puller That April Fools Day was well observed at the university was shown from the fact that at the close of the day all of oC the buildings were given an extra airing The principal feature of the day was the distribution of an unlimited amount of Butyric acid which gives the odor char characteristic characteristic characteristic to rancid butter During the warm part of the afternoon the odor was wasso wasso wasso so noisome that some of ot the professors were compelled to dismiss their classes |
