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Show STATE OFFICIALS PLANTING TREES 1 Gov. Cutler and Others Celebrate Cele-brate Arbor Day in Capitol Capi-tol Grounds ; Mayor Helps ."Clean House." This is Arbor day. It is not the day for. poet with high-flung phrases prais-. prais-. ing spring, but tha One holiday that calls upon all American citizens to- actually work. Plant, plant, plant is the slogan, and the fork, the pick and the shovel are giving Zlon a housecleaning. Eaily this morning Gov. John C. Cutler with the other State officials journeyed to the Capitol grounds, where they used the shovel Industriously for more than an hour. During that time nearly a score of new trees was planted. There was no ceremony. It was as simple as spring planting. The only difference from other days was that everybody was doing the . same thing. - Gov. Cutler placed a horse chestnut tree in the ground. The other officials " and persons planted tres of the following follow-ing varieties: Mrs. John C. Cutler, a white thorn; Attorney-General M. A. Breeden, a white thorn: State Auditor J. A. Edwards, a pink thorn': Superintendent '. of Public Instruction A. C. Nelson, a double flowering crab; Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the State Board of Health, a crab tree; Arthur Parsons, member of the State Board of Agriculture, a crab ' tree; J. G. McDonald, president of the Utah State Fair association, a pink thorn; ' Wlllard Done, . private secretary to the Governor, a crab tree; Alfred Cutler, son of Gov. Cutler, a crab tree: Mrs. Cutler for Mrs. C. S. Tlngey, who was unable to . be present, white thorn; Secretary of State Charles R. Tlngey, a crab tree; I. Goodfellow of New York, -supervising architect ar-chitect for Samuel Newhouse, a white .thorn; F. D. Parker of Denver, a pink thorn; W. H. Dayton, member of the CUte Board of Pharmacy, a crab tree; H. M. Chamberlain, a crab tree; C. Hyde Tlngey, a crab tree; James Chlpman, former State Treasurer, a pink thorn; ' State Treasurer James Christiansen, a white thorn; and H. S. Harper, a crab tree. Of the crowd that planted trees at the Capitol grounds, 11. S. Harper probably . has the greatest record for tree planting. ( He has missed only one year out of six in planting a tree.' In spite of the Jokes made, at the expense ex-pense of State Treasurer James Christiansen Chris-tiansen he insisted on planting his tree with his gloves on. After he had started ' he declared he would not stop. He was out In the gay raiment of spring, gray hat. suit and gloves. Most of the clerks in the stores were grven a half holiday. All the banks . cloaed, the city and county building ' closed its offices and the stock exchange failed to work. Every school and col-' col-' lege in the city gave the students a holiday. holi-day. At the city and county building grounds also tree planting took place, six trees being added. Park Keeper Henry Heath brought' two trees for Mayor Thompson to plant, and with the assistance assist-ance of the Mayor's two sons the trees were planted. The president of the City Council, A. J. Davis, planted one. The - trees were placed In - tne northwestern part of the grounds.' Each of the County Commissioners J. E. Clinton, J. B. Cos-griff Cos-griff and John Mackay planted a tree In the south side of the grounds. According to provisions made by the Mayor at the request of the Civic Improvement Im-provement league, citizens are allowed to- - day only to dump rubbish from yards Into the streets. The postofllce departments depart-ments were closed, only one mall deliv- ' ery was made, that was this morning. A large crowd of students gathered at i the UniYersity of Utah to carry out the ' spirit of i the day by repairing' fences and planting a number of trees upon the campus. |