Salt Lake Herald | 1907-02-10 | Page 26 | Public Service Plant

PUBLIC SERVICE PLANT View of th main power plant of the Salt LaKe Public Service om pany under construction at Third West and First South I il t s 1 J Jt Ji S r ra rS a t S g 4 t i rr jr jrr t t i r d j S j jR jS jr f R S r TERRIFIC DIN ACCOMPANIED DY VILE ODORS tIll USHER USE IN TilE THE CHINESE NEW YEA tEAR At the tha break ot of dawn tomorrow morn morning Ins ing the din ha that arIses from froni Chinatown will be accompanied b by a combination ot of the yn vilest t most moat obnoxious sm smells that ever assailed human nostrils from Crom burn burnIUS lug IUS punk and Chinese perfumed Incense hoarded carefully all year for tills this grand festive advent or of tile the Chi Chin n nose sl New Year The torn tom toms will wUl be e beaten the cym cymbals bals wIll clash and abo above all aH the tho foulest odors that can bo be produced will be waft wafted wafted ed aloft until the good gods are appeased and the tue evil gods are driven out In order that no bad luck shan shall come to the Ce the coming year The length of the Chinese New Year depends upon tile the amount ot of prosperity enjoyed b by tile the natives naties of the flowery kingdom during the year just past It usually lasts about sixteen da days s This year however the Inhabitants of Salt Lake will observe but six days das in feasting Fortune has Ilas not smiled on the worshipers of Confucius of late Last spring the San Francisco Chinatown was as destroyed ed by the earthquake and of Celestials perIshed In the ruins Just now the Chinese who are arc at home In the land of their are arc In the throes or of a famine Therefore it Js is with a saddened heart that the hea enborn children of tile the gods approach their annual feast cast of thanksgiving and rejoicing I IToda Toda Today an all good Salt Lake art are scurrying about paying their honest debt for a Chinaman that begins the Ne New Yea I owing It a cent can never be gathered to Ills his fath fathers rs when he dies but must wan wand wander d der r forever through the seas of disgrace that are th the haunts of oC the Chinese damned after aCter leavIng the ter estial Tomorrow all will b arra cd in the finest ot of oriental sIlks An All tile the dudes of Plum ane alley wm will be resplendent In immaculate new kimonos Tomorrow night the feasting wm will begin Edible birds nests fish wing souP boneless fish fried chop sue suey sweet fruits candles candies sort soft shell she nuts and an all another other Chinese delicacies with rice wines fruit wines and Kwong Sul Sui wines Fire crackers and Chinese explosives will wUl form a prominent part In the oh ob servance of the festive occasion The boise of the discharge or of the fire crackers Is believed to be abhorrent to an all evil spirits who endeavor to Intrude them themselves themselves selves Into the joyous feast The sacred part of the observance of the New Year will be held In the Chinese joss house on Plum alley I