Show I ENTHUSIASM OF UJ AH Cheering Crowds Greeted the President Upon Arrival in m Salt Lake REAL WESTERN WELCOME WILD DEMONSTRATIONS DURING RIDE TO FORT DOUGLAS Long Loog lines Unell of humanity stretching from the Denver Rio Grande depot at West Vest Second South street to Main street and andon andon andon on up South Temple street to Fort Doug las stood tood in trembling expectancy waiting wafting the coming of President Taft yesterday esterday afternoon At the depot a great concourse con concourse course of pf f people taxed the police and sol soldiery soldiery soldiery diery to their utmost to hold them off art the open space where the presidential train was to come in Excitement was at fever pitch Every whistle of a locomotive locomotive locomotive tive was taken to indicate the approach of the train long before it was due and loud demonstrations followed each such slight incentive When the special train bearing the governor and his staff and a number of prominent citizens citizen who went to Helper to meet Mr Taft pulled Into th tb the depot there was an overwhelming rush of people to the tracks and the police were powerless to keep them back Every frock coat and high hat that ap appeared appeared appeared on board the first train was greeted with cheers so great was the tense tenae expectancy Before the presidential train had whistled in the south yards the police pollee poll had again cleared the tracks and succeeded in establishing proper restriction restriction restriction tion lines Scene at the Station As the train rolled slowly into the depot depota a hush overspread the throng and only the sharp harp commands of the officers of the soldiery ry which h stood in stiff silent lines within the roped off space of the street were to be heard When the last car of the splendidly equipped train came to a astop astop astop stop and the people saw a dozen or so high officials on the rear platform such sucha a R wild prolonged cheer broke out as to drown even the screeching of the locomotive locomotive tive whistles in the yards This racket was trebled when the President who had hadnot hadnot hadnot not yet come from his car ear showed his face at the rear door a wreath of smiles and stepped out Some idea of the size of the President both as to height as B well as weight was to be gathered as he stood towering a full head above such men m n as Senator Reed Smoot Governor William Spry and Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Borah of Idaho who had mounted the platform as the train stopped President Greets Pinchot Taft surveyed the crowd with a fied fled expression for tor all aU the twinkles that wrinkled his eyes and the corners cornera of his mouth The first person he recognized was Gifford Pinchot chief forester who arrived from Los Angeles several Beveral hours previous His Hill face broke into a silent laugh and he reached eagerly forward to welcome the man in a manner so profuse as B to be significant The plans of the police for guarding Taft and keeping the crowds from too close an approach were carried out with without without without out a Jerk ro rope e lined the gut gutters gutters t from the depot for or several hundred yards yard east on both sides of the street and ana anano no one but the High school cadets the National Guard the mounted police and I I the mounted soldiers from the fort were wert within the line These formed magnificent ma magnificent I cent lines through which the President and his party passed pa ed on foot for tor yards where the autos stood waiting Many Mam i feet deep the people craned their necks and fought to get nearer the rope for a beter view Luckily the great size of the President Pre served well to distinguish him I from the numerous other dignitaries wit wh i were dressed in an identical manner manlier with j him One Touching Incident As the President entered the auto a lit tle tie old woman in black fairly wild with i I pleasurable excitement thrust aside a I great burly police pollee officer and drew so S 0 close to the President Pre as to attract his personal attention God bless bJes ye e Mr I Taft she he called out In crackled trem bling voice and burst buret into tears The great man stood up lifted his hat and returned the greeting with a seriousness that showed something of his inner spirit The next moment he was whisked away to the head of the line and the march to Fort Douglas through four miles of banked humanity began Tafts progress up Second South street was WB marked with a long Ions ripple of cheer chear cheering ing which traveled along the eager wait waitIng ing lines with a speed corresponding to that of the autos Every window in e ePI every ery building along the street was packed with people As the procession turned north on Main street the most demonstrative ovation of the entire affair burst from the black masses of people who thronged this busy bUB intersection From Second i South to South Temple streets a crowd I rivalling that of the GAR G A R H parade and strangely enough more iv wildly wild tIre the had gathered Along South Temple street for a mile or more it w was as the same Clear on to the fort citizens had gathered in intermittent groups so that the Pres Presidents PresIdents Presidents progress over ove the entire distance from the depot to the fort was through one line of loyal American At the Fort FortAs FortAs FortAs As the line of autos reached the fort the parade grounds and all aU roads leading leadin into the military reserve re erve were dotted black with people who had gathered for hours before A far larger concourse than had gathered at any an other point was assembled as assembled assembled along the main street entering Fort Douglas when th the car bearing the President and others stopped in front of Colonel Scotts residence As Taft proceeded proceed d up from the depot the crowds fell in behind all aU the way making an irregular parade of pedestrian and vehicles stretched the entire length of Second South street on the west I Hundreds of ot school children were at the I depot when Taft came in By the score excited little urchins dodged between the I legs of the police officers on to the very steps of the Pullman where they the were in intercepted intercepted Intercepted by b the secret service men who with surprising rapidity formed a cordon II about the rear platform I |