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Show I, i . i i 1 i . , i t '"I " i ' ' ' i ' I, i i", i i I " i i ',' ' ".. ' ' ' ' " ' ' " ' ' ;.LUj uJl: L,t k- City Botifal Begins to Grov 7ii!i Tlcny Liclis of Spatle end lice; H:ny Trees Arc Set in Place to GlcCCsn Hearts of Coming Race. : newspaper men, with the able assist- '. ance of Gov. Cutler and members of his staff, planted the trees m such, a manner man-ner that the gardener wanted them to -quit their Jobs and Join him In beautifying beauti-fying the capltol grounds. ' ' j Trees Planted by Ladies. . -; ' ' "What about the ladies?" asked some one, "don't they get a chance to .. plant a tree?" A hurry order was given, six more trees were secured, six more holes dug and six Huntington I elms planted by the , following ladies: Mrs. E. H. Calllster, Mrs. Fred Price. ; Mrs. A. P. Kesler, Mrs. George Austin. Miss Lillian Phllps and Miss Emma Austin. '- ' - j As Mrs. Fred Price was planting her , tree someone remarked that she ap-' peared to do that kind of work as well as did her husband. Mrs. Price promptly prompt-ly replied that she guessed that she did about as much of that kind of work as '. he did. - . ;. Bemaxk on Spelling. : ' 'What kind of a tree is this?" asked State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tlon A. C. Nelson as he was planting his tree. He was informed that it was a weeping cut leaf birch. "Well," re- marked Mr. Nelson, "if that tree grows and they will only use the branches in the schools of the State, business men won't have their present complaint about bad spelling." Shortly after daybreak this' morning men, women ami children could be seen at work, in different parts of the city engaged in the work of cleaning up yards, fixing up fences, digging holes for the planting of trees and fixing gardens gar-dens for ; the reception of flower ' or garden seeds.'. ? . In many Instances two or more members mem-bers of the family could be . seen at work, either together or in different parts of the lot. ' , - By 8 o'clock hundreds of others had Joined the ranks of the early ones, and all were busy. Nor was the number diminished as the day advanced. If one' man got through, early with his cleaning Up, his place was filled by his r.et-door neighbor. neigh-bor. 1 , - . . One man remarked to another this morning: . ' 1 "Say, this seems to be catching. I saw Jones at It early this morning. Before Be-fore he goCthrough you started, and now I think I'll take a hand on my own lot. I don't know who'll catch the fever before I get through." , Children Are Active. In the work, of cleaning up and planting plant-ing the children took no small part As one passed along the streets . he could see children at work on every side. If they did not ' have a .lot of their own that they could work In, they went to help some other child. Last year the children of the public schools planted 6000 trees, 7000 shrubs,' cleaned more than 4000 yards and dug about 4000 flower-beds. It is expected that this record will -be -far surpassed today. Arbor Day- Exercises. Capltol hill and the campus of the University of Utah we r both the scene ttfAfhcr-daTr-acnvlty this morning, ' At the University of Utah the male members of the institution met on the campuB at 8 o'clock this morning and, under the direction of Prof. D. A. Allen, took up the work of beautifying the grounds in the following order: . First Plant new trees and replace dead ones. Second Clean up. weeds and rubbish about the campus. Third Dig out the water ditches. Fourth Clean out the drain ditches around the buildings. Fifth Remove . furniture crates, boxes, barrels and the like to the furnace. fur-nace. Sixth Dig two trenches on the athletic ath-letic grounds to bury pipes that run along both sides of the football field. Lunch for the Hungry. . There was more than one blistered hand and aching back long before the lunch hour was announced. When the boys did strike the lunch, which had been prepared and served by the girls w. the"chool under the direction of Miss Wheeler of the domestic science department, they declared that they were well paid for what they had done i!iy0th.,nf of the transformation which they had worked on the grounds Great Interest Manifested. . nearly double the number of trees heretofore planted on the State Capltol grounds on Arbor day were planted this morning. Former Gov. eber M. Wells who has been present at every Arbor day planting on the grounds, remarked that ho had never seen the same 1 amount of earnest enthusiasm on any former day. ' v Promptly at 10:30 Gov. Cutler, Assistant Assist-ant Postmaster Kesler and a representative represen-tative of THE TELEGRAM entered the grounds. Officials in Attendance. Within a few minutes the following State and Government officials were present: Secretary or State C. S. Tin-gey, Tin-gey, State Superintendent of Schools A, C. Nelson, Auditor J. A. Edwards At. torney-General M. A. Breeden, Food Inspector John Peterson, United States Marshal William Spry. United States Register E. D. R. Thompson, Game Warden John Sharp, Collector E. H. Calllster. Statistician Fred W. Price Adjt-Gen. Naylor, W. J. Lynch, John DeGray Dixon. H. M. Hayes, W D Candland. and W. H. Thaln of the State Land board; former Gov. Wells. Postmaster Post-master Thomas, who was once Territorial Territo-rial Governor; N. P. Nelson. A. C. Matherson and a number of ladles. A few minutes, later Secretary c S Tlrigey announced that all was ready and the first trees would be planted in the Governor's row. The three trees selected . for the row were cut leaf birches. Gov. Cutler Cut-ler and the . two ex-Governors commenced com-menced the work of planting 'at the same time. Gov. Cutler was the first to finish his work, former Gov. Wells second, sec-ond, and former Gov. Thomas last'. Other Trees Planted. , r. Leaving Governor's row the following follow-ing members of the party quickly planted the following trees: CVS. Tln-gcy, Tln-gcy, ash; M. A. Breeden, ash; J. A. Edwards, Ed-wards, ash. The following In the order given planted a cut leaf birch: Assistant Assist-ant Postmaster Kesler, A. C. Nelson, Thomas Hull, E. D. R. Thompson, Fred Prlce.'E. H. Calllster, John Sharp, William Wil-liam Spry, John Peterson, John De-Gray De-Gray Dixon, H. W. Hayes, W. H. Thaln, W. D. Candland and George Austin. , Hit by Newspaper Men. j , But two more trees were left to plant both mountain ash. Secretary of State Tingey insisted that these be planted by the representatives of THE TELEGRAM, TELE-GRAM, Tribune and News. - The three |