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Show SPRY IS HOME 1 FROM IE im Executive and Party Hae (if turned From Attending )i (lie Launching. M S1XGS THE PRAISE OF M BIG. FIGHTIXG MACIIIjJj Details His Trip, Which wfl Extended to Bostou and Masf4$ saclnisetts Points. jfe After a delay of eighteen hours aw account of tho severe storms In tS east, Governor Spry and party returnj to the cltv early Wcdm'-sd-T inorniSjJI from attending the chrlien ng of battleship Ulan at Camden, N. J., Dig) comber 2-t. At- The governor was husy at his offl Wednesday, but found plenty of timoiG'-sing timoiG'-sing the praises of the newest and larffr esl battleship In the United State, navft, Hon with the christening was as perfaiSi; as could be. and was warm in His pmUP of the treatment accorded the offlclL.' Utah delgnlleu at that event. $il The I tab party wns Joined In Plil!hv delphin by a delegation of I tali peopj from Washington and also a Inrge nuiu! her of T'tnlniB who arc sojourning jlsl New York, so thai the slate wnn vr represented at th. ccirmonv bit- Hov.-oil Un.al)lc to Attend. jg Senators Smoot and Sutherland njie Arra. Joseph Howell were among ffcj Washington delegation. Congre5mfc Howel! was unoble lo attend on nrcoufoj of a peculiar accident which befell hi ii; the morning the parly left WashlngtiJ for Philadelphia. He had Vcn takfi rf ireaunent 'for 50111c Up ntfertlon it,' when the physician calk d to treat S5 prior m Mr. Howell's departure ho m eldentally cut an artery, wbl h blcrl Pf profusely that he was unable to inn"; the trip. Upon the arvlvnl of the partv at Phil delphla the memhers were met by Lid tenant Commander Pearson, a UtaJ and Fronk Pierce of Salt Lake rty, w L assistant secretary of tho Interior. Col 5r mnnder Pearson gave a dinner In hot of the governor on the evening of r arrival, nt which he authorized Govern I Spry lo announce Ids engagement ta- E .Mis Norrls of New York. h ?c Governor Spry iJuted that the offlck of the New ;Vork Shipbuilding comp ,w doelared the ' launching to be thc nit ft successful one ever held. jjjjj; Makos Visit to Boston. From PhlliuJ.lphla thc governor ai Jr his party went to New York and spls jt' Christmas with Utah peopl--. From N J! York, they went to Boston and thc gd V cmor visited relatives in WJuthrop, Mat jj. From there they went to Woshlngti v" and thence returned home. J; While In Washington. Governor Sr v called upon Secretary of thei Inter h Bnlllnger to make inquiry as to lati ? withdrawn from tho southern partj: y the state on account of supposed oil i y' posits. Thc secretary assured Hie i v crnor that .the lands were only ta t porarlly withdrawn, pending JnvestJj J? tlon. If they prove to be more vnlnsuKT for farming than for th- mineral or 5; they will lie released and thrown 09 r to entry under the Carey act. a L? Owing to the fact that President Ti R was In New York attending tho wcddl i' Of his niece, tho Utah part failed-: 5. ace the nation's chief executive. Merely Coincidence. i. '"As to the Idea wide 1 prevailed?! some extent throughout the cast U0 Senator Smoot or the prr-Ident ofJR Mormon church, or any one else frK Utah, had anything lo do witli fisHJ the date of the christening, or even uitK? any suggestions In that matter, theraj!! absolutely nothing to it." said the gm ernor Wednesday. "The Put that K dale happened lo fall 011 the nnnlvorwLj of Joseph Smith's birth was n ally a 'mn, , Incidence. The shipbuilding conipany.'wjj the date for the launching nnd was aloCj, responsible for that. It chose- the i-arllfivc-posslblo data for fear of tbr river freijt Ing and necessitating a postponcmentl'fc the launching mull spring and thert dolaj'lng further work on the vrwel. 'i "It would have pleased thc I'tah dt legation le-gation better if tho launching had bj p. held at a later date and not ro close Mt the holidays, as many more could hi ki attended tha launching from this start "I am positive that Senator SnV SI made no reference hi his speech on tl 1 occasion to thc fact that the rhrlsb ,Tu Ing came on Jotcph Sr,lm i bSrthii k anniversary.' ? |