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Show YOUNGSTERS 1X15 TO 500 BABY Await Sunday and Chance to Visit Princess Alice's Offspring. Thirty thousand children of Salt Lake, tile real owners of Princess Alice and her baby prince, and an equal number of adults, await, with ill-concealed anxiety, the arrival of Sunday, the day set apart for the presentation to the public of the only baby elephant ever born in Utah. The children of Salt Lake city and county, two years ago, put all their penny, nickel and dime savings Into a fund, for the purpose of buying Princess Alice, then owned by the Sells-FIoto circus. cir-cus. The pachyderm was presented to the city of Salt Lake as an addition to the menagerie at Liberty park. It was the children, though, that brought to pass the purchasing of Princess Alice. To this big female elephant In the present week has been born the only baby pachyderm having an even chance to grow to maturity. Since the birth of the mastodonic infant promises have been made the kiddles that their right to view their big elephant at an early date, and, that, too, without the imposing of a fee of any sort, would be respected, and plans for an official reception next Sunday Sun-day have been carried out with these promises in mind. Children and grownups grown-ups alike have been keyed up with expectation ex-pectation and anticipation for the coming treat, and any plan seeking to deprive them of this rare treat will be universally frowned upon and strongly condemned. The condemnation will, undoubtedly, be especially severe should the rights of the kiddies be set a6ide for the commercializing commercial-izing of the first appearance of the children's chil-dren's new pet. History, as it relates to elephants born in captivity, records that the last baby of Princess Alice, preceding the one now occupying the royal chambers at Liberty park, died while being carried about the country on a moneymaklng tour. This was Princess Miracle, whose life was blotted out by pneumonia and rheumatism rheuma-tism contracted on a circus Junket- The little pachyderm was being given everv possible care, and was provided with every known expedient as a safeguard against catching cold. But none of these availed. Princess Alice's exploits over the "impossible" being brought to naught through the commercializing of the baby she had presented the world. But there Is to be no chance taken with the new prince, at least not before he has become properly acclimated and the possibility of his catching cold has ho en removed. He is to be given his first airing next Sunday, and there exists no doubt that Liberty park will on that day entertain the biggest gathering that has ever conaxegated within Its bounds on a single occasion. That everybody may get a good, unhampered un-hampered view of Princess Alice's baby. Trainer "Em" Sdilder has about completed complet-ed a corral within tho big enclosure to contain mother and baby, and between this Illustrious pair and the crowd there will be nothing more than wire netting to obstruct the view. Sunday, therefore, promises to be a great day at liberty park. Yesterday little Prince Miracle took life again. He had a few visitors, but he j paid no attention to these. His dav was divided between nursing at the maternal fount and sleeping. He has added an average of three pounds per day to his avoirdupois and is getting handsomer with age. |