Show OLD fOLKS MADE HAPry 1 Annual Outing of the Aged Most Enjoyable HUNDREDS WENT TO LAGOON I I Big CrowdWent on the 10 Otelock I Train and Spent the Day Delightfully Delight-fully Every Effort Made to Give l tho Guests of the Occasion All tho Pleasure Possible Entertaining I I Programme Carried Out at the R6 I I sort Weather Was Ideal for the I r Outing I has i many tlmcc been said during the past quarter of a century thai each i annual outing of the old fo ks of this city Increased Interest and was more enjoyable than Us predecessors oar o-ar as yesterdays entertainment went the saying was veritably a true one On but one occasion within the twen tysix years hnt these ouiircrs have J > ecn given has the weather ooon anything I any-thing but pleasant Yesterday was an ideal day for the excursion or the old folks The ride was a pleasant one and the temperature at Lagoon was all that could be desired A few of the old people whose Im pallence could not be restrllned went pntenee out on the 9 oclock train but at 10 there Were fourteen cars on the Salt Lake Ogden track and these i were crowded to the limit A eco ni section lmi followed and then at 1 another train wag run which stopped 1 Bountiful Centervlllc and Farmington and other places en route and picked up such oC the residents of Davis county as desired de-sired to go along The hearts of the old folks were stirred by the demonstrations received en route All along the track were hundreds is of people who waved flags handkerchiefs and fo 13In greeting I Time Old Folks choir composed of Mrs Evan Arthur Mrs Sadie Benedict Bene-dict Mrs Lizzie Thomas Edward I Mrs con Lyon Mrs Jphn Kelly Miss Pye R5isirt I J3flflEDLrjby FOMTITI FJY m I L T Miss Mabel Cooper Miss Alice Bills Mrs Sllverwood and Messrs W 11 Foster Fos-ter Sl JI Pierce Thomas Butler Horace Hor-ace Ensign XI Leyland Joseph Morgan Duncxn McAllis gun James Daynes D1 nc lc1 ter and B Bcezley with his violin visited route and rendered ited each car en 1oute lcnderccl sweet music Auld Lang Sync bringing bring-ing tears to the eyes of many of the aged passengers WELL TAKEN CARE OF There was a big corps of attendants and it was hut a few minutes ere the 500 people who went out nt 10 oclock were seated In the pavilion to which they were welcomed by l the strains of the orchestrion America by the choir and the audience au-dience was the first number on the programme and after that cum a prayer by Samuel W Richards Mrs pryer received ippliuse for Julia Sllverwood racclel CO her rendition of Dear Heart Wiro Growing Old and the tenor solo of Henry Gardner Cousin Jcdediah accompanied ac-companied by the choir tickled the aged In the audience and brought smiles to time faces of the moro youthful Refreshments were then served i the lunchroom where for 1 hour or more the visitors chatted over old times and compared tho present outing with Chose that had been had in the long ago agoThe afternoon exercises were also very pleasant The pavilion was packed but the atmosphere was so cool as to make that fact almost unobservablu and enjoyment reigned supreme C R Savage was as usual the master mas-ter of ceremonies and the choir again did good service Ezra T Clark of Farmington welcomed wel-comed the old ones to Davis county In a short speech when Heber S Gcddard gave Hard > Times Come Again No More tho audience joining in the chorus Judge Kinney who succeeded Lazarus Laz-arus H Reed as Chief Justice of Utah on August 21 1S5I and who Is now again a resident of this city after along a-long absence compared the present with the past and congratulated the I people dn the progress they had mndp I He complimented the promoters and I managers of the old folks entertainments entertain-ments and spoke feelingly of the ro sped that is due to the aged I I Gamin1 Thro the Rye by Mrs LIz I zlc Thomas Edward was thoroughly I i enjoyed by the old folks and this was followed by a short address by Apostle I I Brlgham Young Who was vary complimentary com-plimentary to Judge Kinney whom her I r had first met forty years or more ago I He heartily congratulated the veterans J I on the big turnout and said It did his heart good to see the pleasure and gooc I happiness on every countenance i Apostle Lyman also made n few remarks I re-marks in the same strain I I President Angus M Cannon greeted the assemblage lie rojolccd ho said to be present OI such an occasion and I Invoked dlvlno blessing on the men who I had conceived the Idea I George Margetts gave one of his inImitable I In-Imitable comic songs THE HOST OF THE OCCASION I Elder Simon Bamberger tho real I host of the occasion was called for iJIC said he had never lived with a more hospitable people than he had found I horo and WC1O he ten times a millionaire L million-aire he would go nowhjgrc else He was 4 proud of tho fact that ho was In n position posi-tion where he could give some pleasure to thC aged Eli H > Pierce recited The Oak and the Vine and William H Foster sang Bring Hack the Old Folks Gen Robert T Burton and President Joseph F Smith also spoke the former for-mer In behalf of Bishop Preston who wan absent Both thanked Mr Bam I berger for his generous offering I LotIn Fair of Ogden followed briefly I when various gifts wore distributed I Tin oldest man on the grounds was i I William Jarvis of Salt Lake 93 years of age and ho was given a suitable prize Mrs H Jacobsen the oldest I woman on thc grounds horn In iSO was given a plcklo Jar Henry Bell the oldest man In Bountiful received an aumchalr and Evan Jenkins of Farm I inglon was similarly honored Aunt Jane tho oldest colored woman prtjs emit got n dross pallcrn About twenty I other presents were also given among them shoes to the three women over 70 who had on the most aged pair of shoes I I Harriet Eddeno of Salt Lake aged 71 I danced a cakewalk with H C Barrel I and won a prize Mrs Sarah Houlet gave a ladys hornpipe In a very nimble nim-ble way Mrs Powell who had been a widow 44 years was also remembered I A second spread was hadlater In then day the-n d the return trip was made ac 1 720 A Few Glimpses I I was Bishop Winders first visit to Lagoon He insisted that he had gone to take caro of Bishop Burton while some one said that the latter had attended at-tended In order that Bishop Winder J mlght not feed all his popcorn to the bears S 01 I Simon Bamberger was everywhere and Mrs Bamberger was among the most Interested of the workers a S S I Passenger Agent lo arty was one of tho busiest of men for thenllrc dayS day-S S 5 I Matron Whipplo had twenty of her charges from the county inllrmary under un-der tho outing her wing and all seemed to enjoy o a S I The grounds were nicely sprinkled and the Lagoon employees acted as I though they had nothing else to do but lo look after the comfort of tho aged guests S S a Oh > C Its f beauty remarked fr8 Ezra T Clark of Farmington as she smoothed out the folds In her dress 11 made It forty years ago and It has never been changed since Pity the young folks should be so careless nowadays nowa-days S a o Sloveplpo hats of the vintage of 1547 were very much In evidence One old fellow said he never wore hlssave on Old Folk days and when one of his children got married a o ii The members oftthe committee a usual were energetic and left nothing undone to add to the comfort of their guests |