Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-09-24 | Page 1 | Under Flying Colors Pike's Peak Centennial Observance Starts Off

IMffi FLYING COLORS PIKE'S PERK CENTENNIAL 1 OBSERVANCE STARTS Off COLORADO SPUING S, Colo., Sept. 24. Witl the city gay i"u the buff and whito of revolutionary period, tho national na-tional colors floating from almost every building and the strains of martial music mu-sic resounding through the streets from early morning, tho Piko Centennial celebration, cel-ebration, commemorating the discovery of Pike's peak by the man whose name it bears, opened here today. The chief feature of the day, and the chief military display of the "week, waa the parade of infantry, cavalry and aril!!0 ar-il!!0 ri! followed by members of th G. A. n.. Colorado National Guard, Spanish war veterans, high school cadets ca-dets .and other local military organizations. organiza-tions. Cowboys and Indians held the conspicuous con-spicuous positions in the parade, the column being fully two miles in length and requiring an hour to past the reviewing re-viewing stand, where 'Vice-Presjdcnt Fairbanks, officially reviewed the parade. pa-rade. Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks' Fair-banks' and Mrs. Fairbanks arrived in the city from the Last at S o'clock and were escorted to the Antlers hotel by Thomas F. Walsh of Colorado and Washington, whore guests they arc to be during the entire week. The spuito for the week opened this afternoon iu the first game of polo on the grounds of tho Cheyenno Mountain Country club. The principal indoor feature of today's to-day's programme was the holding of patriotic eaefeises ?t the Grand opera: hoHse beginning at 2:30 this afternoon, under the auspices of the Daughters of American Involution, and the National Na-tional Socictj' of Colonial Dames of America. The official reception to Yiee-I'resi- dent Fairbanks and the visitiDg urili- i lary officers, at whiffi the honors will be done by Gov. Jesse F. McDonald and local citizens, will be held at the Antlers Ant-lers parlors beginning at 0 p. iu.,' and and tho ballroom of the hotel will be the scene of a military ball beginning at io u'ciock ; - The address of Vice-President Fairbanks, Fair-banks, which is the chief feature of the iudoTTr programme for the week, will be delivered at the. Grand opera-house opera-house tomorrow morning at JO o'clock.