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Show MARTIAL HOST ACCLAIMED BY CHEERING THRONGS kg 3 & SIX THOUSAND TROOPS MARCH CITY STREETS THESE BOYS,- members of the famous Twentieth infantry, drew forth much applause along the line of march yesterday. Their perfect marching caused much favorable comment; below, infantrymen of the Forty-second regiment passing down Main street ; insert, the Forty-third regiment colors and guard. I Xa J S?- lift TH V i y A 1 ' I I . Ai C: i SiMwn.iiiirwnn.il miB WMm (jkifr Greatest Parade in Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Country History Passes in Review. Six thousand soldiers, being trained at Fort Douglas for service in the trenches on the French front, tilled the people of Salt Lake with patriotic fervor yesterday morning when they marched through the heart of the city in what was the greatest and most impressive military parade ever witnessed in Utah. Salt Xiake turned out in force, and many people from various parts of the state came to the capital city to see and cheer the soldiers who are prepar- j ing to battle for American rights and ! liberties. ! It is, estimated that not less than 30,000 persons turned out along the line of march to view the parade, which was more .than a mile and a half in length. When the head of the column started from the Cathedral of the Madeleine, in Fast South Temple street over the course of the official "line of march, the tail of the column was still on the side of the hill at Federal Heights. The soldiers moved rapidly, but it took fifty minutes for the column to pass before be-fore the reviewing stand. The marchers included the three regiments of infantry at Fort Douglas, the Utah artillery, four regimental bands, the Held transportation wagons of the regular forces, the hospital detachments de-tachments of each regiment, supplv , companies, machine nn companies, officers of-ficers and staffs. The parade moved promptly at 10 o-clock from the start inc point at, the cathedral, but it was alter noon before the last of the column got back to Fort Douplas. Are Given Refreshments. On the route back to the post after the parade the soldiers stopped once or twice on First South street. These 'rests'' were the signal for residents along the way to get busy. Many of them took advantage of the opportunity to give the soldiers watr anil food, fruit and the like which they happened to have on hand. At the Bryant school man v of the S'.-bool children were out w'ith their lunches and shared them with the soldiers, sol-diers, insisting that the men help them eat them. People of the city began gathering along the sidewalks on the line of march lone before the hour set for the parade, and by the time the column started to march the street? on both sides from Federal Heights to Main. (Continued ou Page Three.) r f. SIX THOUSAND TROOPS WHICH CITY STREETS (Continued from Page One.) down Main to Fifth ISouth, and on State to First South were packed. All traffic was barred from the line of march by the police department, which kept a force of men at work to keep the streets well cleared of people. Hundreds of people, seeking points of vantage from wdiich to see the great column of soldiers, filled the windows of business blocks, hotels, and even crowded the firo escapes. Kvervwhere flags and bunting were in evidence, and most of the employees of business houses were iu front of tbeir stores with large American flags, which they waved vigorously as the soldiers passed. A Tinge of Sadness. There was considerably more demonstration demon-stration on the part of the throng of people at the parade yesterday than is ordinarily seen, though there was a tige of sadness about it, everyoue seeming seem-ing to realize while they were clapping and shouting in approval of the excellent excel-lent apnearance and demeanor of the soldiers that many of the men in khaki, bein cheered by their townsmen then, would never return from Europe to receive re-ceive the cheers of victory. The parade was held by Colonel Alfred Al-fred Hasbrouck, Twentieth infantry, commandant of the post at Fort Douglas, Doug-las, in honor of the One-hundred-aud-forty-fifth regiment (Utah) field artillery, artil-lery, and as a sort of farewell demonstration demon-stration for the soldiers of this organization organi-zation who expect to leave within a few days for their training camp at Linda Vista, L'al. The demonstration was also of an educational nature, designed to "ive the neonle .of Salt Lake and the state of Utah a visual demonstration of wlat is being done in this city in the way of preparing soldiers to carry the American flag of freedom victoriously forward on the battlefields of France. It was a fitting feature of the great military demonstration that Captain Henri Bloeh of the French army and a I veteran of the trenches rode at the head of the military parade yesterday morning with Colonel Hasbrouck, post commander. The French officer, in his blue-gray uniform with gold braid, was a striking figure. Is Formally Reviewed. The great parade was formally reviewed re-viewed by the military officers, state and city officials from the balcony of the yemloh hotel, as the column moved up Ktate street. ' Colonel Hasbrouck and his staff and Captain Bloch of the F'rench army rode at the head of the parade until the bead of the column had passed down Main street and back up to the Semlob hotel, when they dropped out of line and took .their positions in the reviewing stand. In the official- reviewing line at the front of the balcony were Governor Bamberger of Utah, ' Speaker John F. Toltou of the house of representatives of the Utah legislature, Mayor W. Mont Ferry of Salt Lake, Colonel Hasbrouck, post, commander nt Fort Douglas; Captain Cap-tain Bloch, Captain K. M. Norton, post adjutant; Major W. G. Williams, adjutant ad-jutant general of the Utah . National Guard, Major H. M. II. Lund, federal disbursing officer for the Uta.h guard; Captain ,1. D. Watson, recruiting officer for the regular army in Salt Lake; Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Edwin Guthrie, in charge of the local navy recruiting station; Captain A. M. ftobbins, in charge of the local marine corps 'recruiting station; judges of the supreme court of Utaft. district judges of Salt Lake county, members of the city commission, state officials, ladies la-dies of Fort Douglas, and wives of civil officials. The reviewing stand was elaborately I decorated with flags and bunting, and the hotel supplied comfortable chairs for all occupying the stand. March at Salute. All of the troops, as they passed the reviewing stand, marched past at salute, with eyes turned toward the reviewing officer, Colonel Hasbrouck. The three regiments of infantry and one of artillery formed in rough column at Federal Heights and proceeded to the Cathedral of the Madeleine, which was the starting point of the line of march. When the head reached the cathedral the tail of the column was still on Federal Heights. Promptly at 10 o'clock Colonel Hasbrouck Has-brouck gave the command to march, and the column moved off, headed by a platoon of police. Directly behind the police rodo Colonel Hasbrouck, post commander; Captain Bloch, and the colonel 's staff. Then came the Twentieth infantrv uaun ;u lmh ncau or ine J wentiet h regiment, regi-ment, which was under command of Lieutenant Colonel W. P. Jackson. Colonel Colo-nel Jackson and his staff rode directlv at the head of the regiment. The three battalions of the regiment were followed by the machine gun company, with its men and mules, and the hospital detachment, detach-ment, with its ambulance, litters and field men. The regiments were formed in massed column of platoons, with three squads of eight men each to the platoon and four platoons to the company. The Forty-third infantry, headed bv Colonel William "R. Dashiell. commanding; command-ing; Major L. B. Simonds and staff officers, of-ficers, and the Forty-third regiment hand, followed in the line of march. The Forty-se.-ond infantrv was headed by Major Patrick Mullay, commanding, his staff and the Forty-second rc"iment baud. The Utah Contingent. The field artillery, under command of Colonel oung, followed, escorted by the preceding regiments. Colonel Young was accompanied by his staff, and the ar- lilleiy was preceded bv the artillery band. Owing to the fact that the regiment regi-ment is not equipped -with guns and horses most of the artillerymen marched on foot in the same formation as the infantry companies, but the one bntterv which is provided with guns and horse's brought, up the rear of the regiment The appearance of the artillery r'ot-i-ment on the street was the signal for the crowd, which had been good about remaining on the sidewalks up to that time, to burst over and pour into the center of the street, with cheers and waving ot flags. The police had considerable con-siderable difficulty in clearinir the streets for the marching artillery" rci'i-ment. rci'i-ment. so eager were the people 'to Jet "close to the Utah soldiers."' The reception re-ception to the Utah men was rousine; i every respect. Following the artillery came the transportation wagons, mules and men or the post regiments. Sixty covered armv combat. rations and supply n aeons, moving four abreast, made a striking appearance on the street. As the last of (lie column filed past ne re lowinir stand Governor Bhnr. turned to Colonel Hashmnek and assured the post commander that noth- ing so 'imposing and impressive in a military demonstration had ever been witnessed before in Utah, and complimented compli-mented the colonel and all the officers of the various organizations upon the splendid showing made bv their men. |
