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Show I Twenty-Four floors of loise for Yoath. Families for the Most Part Spant tho Fourth Out of Town. II 'Absence of Formal Celebration, Does I 3Mot Dampen. Ardor of Younger I Element. I HI7HEN Youn& America awoko this I ? morning, bruised and battered, Y l powder burned and sore If not I maimed and permanently crlp- I pled, ho was firmly convinced, both in- I divldually and collectively, that he liad I a splendid time on tho Fourth of July. I I He knew It because he bore on his per- I eon the marles of the fray, and no vet- I eran of a half dozen wars is prouder L o his wounds than is the small boy col- I obrator on tho morning after the j Fourth. ' Salt Lake City did not celebrate the Nation's natal day this year in the pood old-fashioned way, with marching, per- I spiring hosts, in crowded streets with flying banners and patriotic speeches by aspiring politicians but It did cele- i brate with noise and about the usual j number of casualties. "Old fogies," i .sometimes yclept prominent citizens, have come to imagine in these latter j days, that some of the noise and the i loss of life and limb can be evaded by j cutting out the old-time celebration, but I! vigorous youth comes to the front and , saves the day for "independence" and a proper recognition of the services of the country's patriots, who bled and , died that we might do likewise on the ! Fourth of July. The salute of a hun- drcd guns at sunrise and the fusilade of I powder and anvils In the roar of the old blacksmith shop may no more be just i the thing, but the ingenuity of this in- j vention age has produced hundreds of devices more noisy and deadly and I their use Is begun with vim on the evening before and continue without cessation until the morning after. I Twenty-Four Hours of Noise. The celebration In Salt Lake began early Sunday night, and from that time on the citizens who walked on the street or rode in a street car could easily Imagine that he was In the midst of a regular Port Arthur bombardment. The pleasing diversion of covering the car trades with dynamite cartridges and watching the wild-eyed maneuvers of flip TlflSSPnirprK ivhrn thr c-ira nrt-mn II along was a favorite one, but there were : others, covering the entire gamut of j noise-producing instruments from the , firecracker to the small cannon placed j upon the sidewalk and fired In the very ears of the timid passerby. But It was all sport and it all "went" on the Fourth of July, and many of those who engaged in It were boys of advanced years. During the morning hours of yesterday, yester-day, incoming trains brought mahy celebratory cel-ebratory from outside towns, so that before be-fore noon the streets were well filled with a holiday crowd. Business houses, except those where meals, drinks and other fireworks are dispensed, were all dosed. Very little bunting was to be .seen on the streets, but most buildings were adorned with one or more flags. Resorts Get the Crowds. In tho afternoon the resorts caught the crowds. The horse races at Cnl-der's Cnl-der's attracted those ut ail sportlly inclined, in-clined, except a select number who . know a good thing when they hear of It and went to witness the ball game played by the Elks' club and Commercial Commer-cial club teams in Walker's field. Many thousands more went to the more staid resorts, Saltalr and Lagoon, to enjoy the bathing and boating, the cool lake breeze and tho refreshing shade, with picnic accompaniment, while those craving extreme rest, and almost absolute abso-lute reilef from the pistol's crack, tho roll of musketry and the boom of cannon, can-non, were scattered among the various canyon retreats, where nature Is kind and only occasionally ventures the small boy with the dynamite cane, iargest in Ite History. At Lagoon the crowd was said to be the largest that has ever visited that I resort on any occasion, tnero having been almost 6000 on the grounds at 5 p. m. The day was spent there in a quiet way, the atttendance having been composed largely of family parties. The only special event In honor of the day was a fine display of ilreworlcs In the evening. Calder's also had fireworks in the evening, and the attendance both afternoon after-noon and evening was very large. The perfect July day made the bathing at Saltalr Ideal and many hundreds took advantage of it, while many moro enjoyed en-joyed the dancing in the big pavilion, where a double orchestra was provided for the occasion. And Liberty park was by no means neglected. Scores of families took their luncheons to the delightful de-lightful spot, found rest In the grateful grate-ful shade and listened to the music of the band, while the children made full use of the amusements provided for them. The large crowd of last night was of course at the Salt Palace, where a special bill of bicycle races was on and the vaudeville attractions wero more complete than usual. Evening- Reinforces Crowd. The great attendance of celebrators at the resorts left the city almost de- sorted during the afternoon, when the Fourth of July noises in the business district dwindled down to something like Intermittent skirmish-firing between be-tween battles. In the evening the streets were again filled with morry-makers morry-makers and tho din became something terrible, the danger of accidents increasing increas-ing with the growing recklessness of that proportion of tho celebrators that was Imbibing llrc-water as well as playing play-ing with llro and manipulating deadly weapons. |