Show t. t GEANT TELLS STORY STOR Y OF OE PIONEERS' PIONEERS ARRIVAL WAGON FIESTA FIEST A COMBINES FUN WITH HISTORY Thousands of Attend Colorful Ceremonies By JOHN U. U TERRELL Thursday the second day of the Utah Covered Wagons Days celebration brought brou ht a series of important events some serious some SOIne offered merely for the entertainment of thousands of city residents and town out visitors The duty of honoring carl early day pioneers was not neglected impressive impressive im im- ceremonies being held in three places And neither was vas the fun forgotten The Tho days day's program will close in the evening at the state fair grounds where the second second second sec sec- ond rodeo competition will be bo staged Out of Emigration canyon early Thursday morning the covered wagons rolled in a picturesque reenactment reenactment re- re enactment o of a scene which took place on the same ground and nd on n the same dl day 89 years years years' ago Then covered wagons brought the first Mormon pioneers into the tho valley md and that morning weary trail people looked down upon a gre great t desert basin empty and untracked This Thursday morning in commemorating commemorating commemorating com com- the arrival of ot Brigham Young Toung which occurred on July 24 1847 the wagon drivers looked down upon a blooming valley holding hold hold- lug ing ng a city larger and more modern than even cven the most optimistic pioneers pioneer's pioneers pioneer's pioneers pio pio- neer's ever dreamed it would be pe Rodeo and Fireworks Utah's Covered Wagon Days got into full swing at the tho state C fairgrounds fairgrounds fairgrounds fair fair- grounds last night when the fIrst firs rodeo contest was was was' held followed by a fireworks display That was fun and sport Today more serious notes were struck and the first was the ceremony at the mouth of Emigration canyon from which point the great Mormon leader Jeader and empire builder first saw the end of the trail he and his people had bad blazed into the west It Jt was Mexican 1 territory then The event is best described in a letter letter letter let let- ter written b by President Wilford Woodruff to the covered wagon days officials in 1888 Woodruff I was ill and unable to attend the ceremony Ho wrote My dear friends Forty one Forty one years ago I passed through Emigration canyon with President Brigham Young He Ho was taken sick on East Canyon creek and I made a bed for him hint in my carriage We Ye were upon the bench where we had a fair view of the tho valley before us I turned the side of the v vehicle hicle to the west so that he lie could obtain a fair tair view of the valley President Young arose nrose from his bed and took a a. survey of the him for several min mm- utes Ho then said to me Drive on down into the Ithe valley this is our abiding place I have seen it before in vision In this valley will be Continued on Page Two Column Five PAGEANT TELLS ARRIVAL AL STORY Continued from Page Pace One OD built the city cHy of ot saints saints' and nd the temple of ot our God The 1936 drivers of oC the wagons followed the Ute old emigrant trail their heir predecessors had brok broken n i I and DS as as' Brigham Young ordered drove rove on down into the valley They followed Broadway to the corner of State street and there encamped to o pay homage to another pioneer who will bo be long remembered It was on the northeast corner of this intersection that William Carter did the first irrigating in inthe inthe inthe the valley vaHey But even more significant cant vas the first irrigating done by an Saxon Sax n on the American continent In observance of this the pioneers of ot 1936 corralled their wagons and looked back into the years to July 23 1847 when William Carter had stopped his team there turned the waters of City creek onto the hard sun baked desert and plowed the thi furrow which was the tho beginning o othe of oC the great agricultural empire While the Wagon Days Day celebration was officially launched at noon Wednesday Thursday wa was the first full day of events and they followed each other swiftly Impressive were the ceremonies at the unveiling of ot the C. C R R. Savage memorial fountain at Main am and South Temple streets This monument monument ment honors the founder of old folks' folks da day and presiding was hi his daughter Mrs Nan Savage Rich Rich- ardson Old folks folls were guests o ohonor of honor honor- in this event e and later were taken to a special performance atthe a athe at atthe the Capitol theater Cowboys Cowboy and Indians At high noon the call of cowboy and Indian was heard again in Main street as the rodeo contestants passed In their second parade parades In fact Main street was a scene cene o of continual Covered Wagon Days ac ac- Visiting drum and fife corps corp paraded and played for the entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- of the holiday crowds Th The day was scheduled to close with the rodeo contest at the fairgrounds The main Covered Wagon Days Day parade will be held Friday mornIng mornIng mornIng morn morn- Ing and Friday evening the stadium stadium stadium sta sta- of the University of Utah wi willbe wilt will be the scene scene- of at the Utah Cavalcade In which hundreds of singers dancers dancers dancers ers and musicians will depict Utah's Utah history in colorful pageantry Star Sta of the program will be John Charles Charle Thomas famed baritone of th the Metropolitan opera in New York City Cily Watching the festivities Thursday and Friday Will viiu be one ono man wh who was alive in Salt Lake City in July 1847 He is Joseph S. S Horne Home last las surviving man of the 1847 pioneers He came from his hi home in Richfield Richfield Rich field several days ago There ar are eight women seven in Utah ant antone and andone andone one one in Idaho who also can loo look back 89 years Some of ot them will wil willbe be bo to i present r sent to to turn b time to a amore imore more stirring and d dangerous era even as they ride in ah an an automobile and gaze upon the wonders which were unknown when the west wa was young Friday will win be a holiday for th the city's workers It is expected that tha they will fill Main street with thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of visitors from rom many states state when the main parade of the celebration cele- cele bration passes Friday morning I It Itis Itis is estimated the parade will be five miles long and take more than tw two hours to pass |