OCR Text |
Show WHERE THE REPORT STARTED. Wo huvo no desire lo prolong the discussion of the designs on the battle ship "Utah's" silver service. But in order to show that the agitation began in Now York and was based upon representations rep-resentations made there we reproduce Iho following from the December 1 Uh issue of the Now York Times, a paper uot given lo sensationalism, uoi1 likely to report a thing that did not happen. Tho battleship Utah, lo which tho pooplc poo-plc of Utah uro noon to present a silver service, will not receive the service an originally designed If tho Women's He-punllcnii He-punllcnii club of this city can prevent it. The club, at a meeting In the Waldorf-Astoria Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, look Vigorous exception excep-tion to the portrait of Hrigliam Young, Utah's first governor, which adorns the silver plate, and even the knives and forks. Tho exception was not billed on iho Mormon lender's inulll-marrhiges. but upon lila altitude, towurd federal officials while he was (ho territory's executive. A young woman who Is a member of the club upoko brlelly of her girlhood In Ciah and of he'r actual kiiowlcdce of as-.erilons as-.erilons Mho made to tho effect Hint Hrlgham Young had driven federal officials offi-cials from tho territory and had kept others thorc In constant fear for their lives'. For these acts she urged that a commltlco bo named lo draw tip protests against the portrait of Mrlghant Young on the hattloHhlp silver service. Tho club agreed, and si committee wart mimed by Mrs. William CummlitgH Storey, the president, pres-ident, lo write to President Taft. When questioned afterward tho young woman from Utah, .who refused lo give her name, said l hat sho made no objection objec-tion lo some symbol, such as a picture of the Mormon temple, representing the early Mormon colonists and their efforts lo redeem the desert. The silver service for the Ptah is now Ivlng made by the Gorham company of this city. To which wc may add tho following, received from New York under date of .December 10th, signed by Mrs. 11. S. Owen: John O'liara C'osgravc, editor of livery-body's. livery-body's. Hhj- Brown, art editor of TCvcry-body'H TCvcry-body'H and myself, aro prepared lo make affidavit i ha I Codman. designer of tho Corham Manufacturing company, having hav-ing chargo of the Ptah's silver service, told us that tho Brlgham Young design wan In their factory; that unless withdrawn with-drawn by the committee, from which the order came. II would shortly be engraved on tli" large coffee salver. Tho Woman's Republican club and tho Manhattan Chapter. Chap-ter. DaughlerB of the American Revolution. Revolu-tion. 'urn pledged to back thin protest. Iocal newspaper accounts arc somewhat distorted. It appears, lllerefore, that Ihero is or has been a difference of opinion between be-tween Mr. Codman and Mr. Pearsall as to this detail; and in the final decision de-cision wc I rust that Mr. Pearsall of this city may have the final say, and may bo able to confine the engraving to the lines that he indicated in his recent letter to The Tribune. |