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Show iiiii-SEE-maH-wi-iFfiwi- MAMMOTH HISTORICAL -PAGEANT III S.LJURJS BACK TIME 90 YEARS Group of Pioneers Participates in Colorful March Unfolding Story of Utah From Entrance Into Valley It was more than a parade. It waa history lesson such as no textbook, classroom lecture lec-ture or blackboard could Impart In so short a time. It was the turning back of time 80 years, as real and accu- rite as anytning couia d It was the faithful recounting la pageantry of what a groat atata haa aeeompliahed la the apaa at a lit ottmo. That wu the Cowed . Wagon Day parade of 1837. Borne ftO.OOO peraoni lined, fire and six deep. Salt Lake City's famed wide streets to watch a procession Saturday that followed a oourso one taken by oxcarts, freight wagons wag-ons and pony express riders. . Greatest tet If a vote could have bean 'taken, thsr probably would have been unanimity of opinion that this, fourth edition of th high point In Covered Wagon Days was th greatest great-est yet staged. - Promptly at 8:30 a. m. bomb signaled sig-naled th start of th pared and th police escort that headed th long line of march swung from Bast South Temple Into Main street Behind It oam th motor-drawn artillery of the Utah national guard and the first bugl and drum corps, that of th Sons of th American Legion. From then on until 10:40 a. m. th procession moved rapidly to unfold the story of Utah from th days when even th pioneers still wer to enter th valley of Great Salt lake. Fittingly, th handful of these same pioneers rod elos to th head of the parade, eomfortahl in larg buses that followed th first drum corps and th locomotive of the Forty and Eight, American Legion Le-gion organisation. Entries depicting th early days of Utah and modern times war alternated al-ternated as the parade moved on. There was the Catholio church float with a robed and hooded figure fig-ure depleting Father Escslsnt. Original Wagon After It came an original covered wagon In which James E. Malta made several trips between Utah and the Missouri river. The guards trudging on either sids wer grandsons grand-sons of th pioneer. Another float was that of the Union Pacific railroad, bearing a replica of the U. P. locomotive that met th Central Pacific "iron horse at the historical linking of the rails at Promontory Point Maurine McKenxie, queen of the celebration, rode on a colorfully decorated float with her two attendants, at-tendants, Miss Kay Robblns and Miss Frankle Young. Painted Indians dressed In skins ICenttnuvd on Pam Two) (Column Elsnt) 60,000 WITNESS FIESTA PARADE (Cootlaued freee Pas Ontl and with feathers adorning their heads, pioneers clad in fringed buckskin and carrying: old flintlock rifles, clowns, youngsters on bicycles, bi-cycles, old stagecoaches, buggies and scantily clad bathing beauties all were In the line of march. Sidewalks Crowded Not a single office building win-dow win-dow on Main street was without a spectator, and the- aidewalka were clogged with what was believed the largest crowd ever to turn out for a parade here. Thousands sought the coolness of Liberty park to watch the procM-sion'from procM-sion'from the lawn and in the shade of trees. But those who preferred to bake up their stations In the business district were not made uncomfortable, un-comfortable, for the weather man cooperated and few complaints about the heat were heard. On the reviewing atand at Second South and Main atreeta were Governor Gov-ernor Henry H. Blood, Brigadier General Walter C Sweeney, commandant com-mandant of Fort Douglaa; City Commissioner William Murdoch, Chief of Police Harry L. Finch, official of-ficial of Covered Wagon Days, Inc., and some' 60 other guests. a OumpeeJMsni Oeee Judging of the acores of entries in the parade was difficult and competition com-petition was close. The following winners were announced: Floats For beauty, Z. C. M. I, first; A. W. Pulley company, American Amer-ican Fork, second; Deseret News, third. For originality, Denver Rio Grande Western railroad, first; Sears-Roebuck company, aecond; W. T. Grant company, third. Bands Park City high school, first; Uintah high school, aecond; American Fork, third. Bugle corps Magna, first; Ogden Standard-Examiner, second; Richfield Rich-field girls, third. Comedy and novelty The Weary Four, Magna. |