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Show TROOPS WILL GIVE MILITARY PMT Spectacle to Be Presented Next Friday Night at Bonneville Park. Details have about been completed for one of the most spectacular military pageants ever seen in Salt Lake, to be produced at Bonneville park on the night of Friday, September 4, by soldiers sol-diers from the various regiments at Fort Douglas. The affair is being staged for the benefit of the tobacco fund for the Utah field artillery and the Twentieth, Forty-second and Forty-third infantries, now stationed at Fort Douglas. A military mil-itary attraction is promised for the night that it is believed will pack the ball park to its capacity. Arrangements are being made so that automobile owners may attend in their machines and a section of the grounds will be set aside for their use. The pageant is the outgrowth of a movement inaugurated among the women at Fort Douglas by Mrs. Lu-cretia Lu-cretia Eddie Cotchett, wife' of Captain Walter V. Cotchett of the Third war prison barracks company, to raise funds to provide tobacco and other necessities necessi-ties for the soldiers of the fort, who go to the battle front in Europe, where the expense of tobacco is so high as to be practically prohibitive for the enlisted en-listed man. The idea met with favor among officers offi-cers and men and all of the military organizations at the post have given assurance of their co-operation and aid in staging the features of the big pageant. The affair will be held at night, starting start-ing at 7:59 with the firing of an aerial salute, and many spectacular features have been provided which will thrill the onlookers. Several companies of soldiers and a detachment from the Utah artillery will be required to produce the pageant, wdiich will include feats by the infantry, such as Butts's manual performed to tho rhythm of music, close order drill exercises ex-ercises to music aiid bayonet drill to music. There will also be exhibitions of w'all scaling in attacks, night alarms, signal corps field work, bayonet charges and an actual sham battle in wdiich the soldiers sol-diers will go through all the exciting evolutions of an actual battle. The soldiers will be shown encamped on the field in shelter tents when an alarm is sounded and the call is given to battle. The tents will be struck, the companies will form and there will be a charge with the firing of blank ammunition ammu-nition to simulate an actual conflict. After the battle the "dead" and "wounded" will be cleared from the field, just as in actual warfare, by the hospital corps and ambulance men. A demonstration of signaling by rockets, rock-ets, ground illuminations with magnesium magne-sium shells, prism effects by the use of bombs will also be features" of the performance. |