Show VETERAN SEES VICKSBURG SIEGE IN INI I FIREWORKS DISPLAY ON ENSIGN PEAK I Gayest of ot th the week eek was wa last nights street scene xene The crowds that promenaded ed up and down both sides of ot Main Islam and anda across a the pavement seemed to have taken on in more pleasurable earnest that spirit of and amusement amu ment that makes for the right sort of ot a holi bolt holiday holida day da night street throng One almost wondered when then and where they ate for tor as all 4 waned into the afternoon with ith the anticipation of ot the downtown streets clearing up a little the seemed but to increase and as a dusk settled down the lights bla blud blaHd ed forth their welcomes from the building fronts and like a great canopy of ot radiance unrolling th the electric stream streamers tream ers rn s that spanned panned Main broke into color and nd the nights carnival of fun tun was on Sidewalks were packed to curbing and the overflow took the street str et Standing on the base of ot the monument under unde r Brigham welcoming palm Main stretched d off to the southward a white path clean cut and glistening from the encircling darkness The streets electric canopy turned night into day playing strange trans lights and shadows over those who moved d beneath As the evening came carne within hailing die dis distance tance of the tM night and the cars began dig dis discharging charging cha ng the veterans and their families who had been guests of ot the Salt Palace management at the bicycle races from the gates of ot the tabernacle grounds poured PO in a steady dusky stream the people who had crowded the As Assembly Assembly Hall ball and the tabernacle for the evenings concerts and campfires then the first great groat white bomb of at the fireworks I Ion On Ensign peak went heavenward An Another Another other ther and another followed a rocket sprang Into life Ute here and a great fiery tailed candle there until unU it seemed as though the white lacy lac clouds that hov boy hovered ered over looking black In their dark garb were the special targets of the pyrotechnical attack As the great comet like shells wheeled up and up and turn turnIng turning Ing broke into the splendor the picture teemed seemed complete for high the sheltering peaks gleamed the moon struggling through the heavy heaY clouds that floated across its face while below the valley stretched away on either hand from frum the great white way on its center Thousands climbed to Capitol hill hili and the park and grounds about the capitol site showed bl black Ck in the moonlight with their throngs Over along the high ledge ledee of ot City Creek canyon they strolled while higher and with more beauty and gran grandeur grandeur grandeur deur mounted the glowing balls from the guns gune on Ensign The spectacle recalled many a Ii war ar time incident It has hall made me inc think of the days we lay back of the city of Vicksburg on the hills hUls watching through the long nights as our gunboats in the river b below low the city flung their great shells bih Into the air where pole pois poising ing InS a moment they descended swiftly bursting fifty feet teet above the earth to the terror of ot the besieged was the remark that came from one old fellow tellow at Main and First South as he gazed at the bom born bombardment bOmbardment from Ensign peak We would shell the city olty all day and at night the tha boats in the river below would take up the th Job and we would lay lar behind our guns and watch the display he continued jd For days datil it was WS the same story and when in the end the city sur surrendered surrendered surrendered rendered we found where the th inhabitants had bad dug homes In the sides of at the great hills I J went through one place dug into the side of at a hill bill for protection against the shells from our guns that had five fhe rooms and almost all aU the con conveniences conveniences of an ordinary house And so Si it went Some reminded of this some of that until as midnight came carne the theold theold theold old men and the young gradually slipped away into the night away from the trudging and h heat at of the day the excite excitement excitement ment mont of the night the swishing of the furling flan flags fla above them the glare of myriad lights to waiting wailing beds where wh re some Borne In quiet slumber lay at rest for the morrow and others gave ave way to dreams of ot other days day more fanciful in coloring and tone than all their waking hours could give walk under what flags they will follow tollow where they would |