Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-08-12 | Page 3 | Famous Old Relic is Seen in G. A. R. Parade

I FAMOUS OLD HELICJ IS SEEN IN" Or. A. R. PARADE Among the feature."; of the big parade Wcdnesdav morning was the appearance of 0110 of tho battle flags? of Company t,. Third California infantry, carried by an old veteran of the company. The relic Is especially inlorestlng. It being 0110 ol the lings of tbo command of Gonoral P. ICdward Connor, founder of Fort Douglas. Doug-las. PI ml lug that a son of the old general lived In the city, a number of the veterans vet-erans hunted him up ami passed several hours relating reminiscences of the past and recalling many incidents of their campaigns under command of tho old general. r P. ICdward Connor camp. Sons of veterans-, ennu- In for especial notice Wcdnesdav Wcd-nesdav from their appearance In tho countermarch of the parade. They were preceded by their drum corps of twenty-live twenty-live pieces, and gathered about the big regimental flag of Fort Douglas which thev carried In the procenslon. The delo-gallon delo-gallon was led by Captain V. lid ward Connor of the camp and Commnnder-ln-Cblef Edgar Allen of the national organization, organ-ization, who Ih visiting the clly for the tlrst lime In ihe history of the order of Sons of Veterans.