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Show UTAH HONORS PIONEERS b ' swnwawaajjaaawnn ejanwajej TRIBUTES TO BUILDERS OrSTATE Large Crowd Assembles for Celebration of Holiday at Wandamere. EIGHTY-FIVE HAVE NUMERALS. "1847" Homage to Founders of In-termonntain In-termonntain Empire in Many Cities. The pioneera became weetem. and It U the weat that bu emphaalied tha worth and power af he common mam." Mid Professor Levi Edgar Young, In the Pionr day addreea at tha Waadamara celebration this morning. "Tba weat took man and mada him over. "Th foundation of Utah's development was laid deep and secure. It began with the kingdom of mattemln ail Ita grandeur. It will end In the hlghet of love.' " Caatlnff thetr eyes over a sunbaked valley covered with eage bruh, aalt arses and alkali, tha only sim of green being willows and scrub cottonwoods f rowing along tha banks of what marked ha course of the mountain streams to tha river to tha weat, while atlll farther away gleamed and glistened tha waters of a mysterious lake, 142 men. two women wom-en and one child emerged from tha mouth of Emigration ranyon sixty-four year ago and looked across tha valley of tha Crest Halt lake. "This Is tha place," said Brighsm Young, their leader, aa ha gaaed at the arena which lay before them, and here - they stopped after a weary Journey of more than looa ml lee across plains and , through mountain passes, much of the way through which Lhey had to "blase" their own trait A wonderful change has come over the face of nature since that little band of filoneer entered the valley on the roorn-ng roorn-ng of July U. 1S47. Sage brush and aalt graas and alkali have given way to mag-nirtcent mag-nirtcent business blocks, beautiful homes and bounteous farms, and could ihe pioneer pio-neer leader sea the alley today ha would rea'lae that ha spoke the truth when ha aaid: "Thia la tha place. Some Here to See It. . While there are but a half doaen of that party of hardy pioneers living to-dav. to-dav. there are close to 100 of thoea who arrived within the next few months. For aa soon as the location had been selected, word was sent back to waiting thousands that "tle promised land" had been found and they were to hurry on to thetr ew home. On tha very day that the pioneers entered en-tered the valley a ditch waa plowed from a point on the City Creek canyon at ream and water turned on the parched land. Irrigation Jn the West had commenced. That little stream waa tha beginning of the vaat avstem of Irrigation that now see some of the results ef our pegging away during those early days." In every city and town In Utah, In every part of tha world where there resides re-sides a number of members of tha Mormon Mor-mon church, the pioneers of 147 and their achievements ere being; honored today. to-day. Often Celebrated. - The principal celebration m Salt Lake City la being held at Wandamere. It la fitting that this place waa selected for the celebration, for here for years, during the fifties, sixties and seventies many July 14 celebrations were held by tha pioneers In Calder's grove, aa It waa known then, and later In Calder's park. Today, as they have been for a number of years, tha members of tha fast disappearing disap-pearing pioneers of 1847 are the guests of honor. Several weeks ago the entertainment enter-tainment committee of tha Sons and Daughters of tha Pioneers, aent an Invitation Invi-tation to every man and woman known to be alive who arrived In Utah In 1S47. Eighty-five of the few mora than one hundred responded with tha word that they would be present, and a glance around the park today would Indicate that each had kept hie or her premise. . Pioneers Are Happy. , common man. It took man and made htm over. It created new ideal a U gave him new and weighty problems to solve, and It taught him fundamental laws of democracy. The Utah pioneer In the midst of atl his struggle became petrt-otlc petrt-otlc and nationalistic to tha core. "The pioneers settled In a land where tha material elements had to be loved, but while loving them, they oonquared them and mastered them, mada thera of real worth to the higher self, in Maeterlinck's Maeter-linck's 'Kingdom of Matter. he tetis us that man will rise from a knowledge of matter to the life of the spirit, the In e of the highest Iova. Tha foundation of Utah's development was laid deep and aecure. It began with the kingdom of matter in aU Ita grandeur . It will and la the "highest of love.' " In addition to the address of Professor Young and a short address of welcome by Col. Wlllard Young;, the program consisted of singing by a quartette composed of Mlas Margaret Summerhaya, Mies Irma Pendleton, Alvln Keddlngton and Melvla Peterson, a duet by Oeorge M arret ta and 1 Sid Clawson, singing by a quartette corn-posed corn-posed of Men Van, Mable Bean. Anna i Keddlnston and Delia Wolstenholm, and a duet by Rosa tmlthene sod James Heal diichson. ' Old TIBS rsTorissi As a MnelasJew ts trie first part of the program thoea present aajig "Hard Times Com, Again No Mora." At noon, th, cannon. "eld sow." brought across th, plaina by tha pioneera, thundered out tha national salute of thirteen thir-teen gun.. Then em th, banquet, which waa given In the banquet hall of th, dancing pavilion. Tha afternoon I, being given over to various kind, of porta. Including In-cluding a baseball gams. The committee having th, Wandamere ealebratloa In charge Is composed of Wlllard Wll-lard Young, chairman : B. V. Grant, Elisabeth Elisa-beth R. Wright, Flora B. Horn. Hannah 8. Laplsh, Ha rah Swift. Abble M. Cowley, Mabel T. Davis, Alex Burt. Thomas Dob-eon. Dob-eon. Joeepa p. Smith, Jr., and Nepal Aa-d,raom. Aa-d,raom. Otksr Towns Join. ' It ta sot alone at Wandamere. however, that celebration la held. In practically every city and town m Utah the day la being abserved in a fitting manner. In aom, of the smaller towns pared ea were held, after which a program filling the day waa carried out. In Salt Lake City tha day la being abserved ab-served as a holiday. All of tha beaks and leading bu.1n.ee houeee are closed, tha poatofrice abserved Bunday hours today, to-day, and the only office, in th,. federal building that war, open for busln.es were rvera a large part of the west, without which much of It would still be as It wsa when the pioneers arrived In Utah drsert. The A ret water turned for Irrigation Irriga-tion was by Wllford Woodruff, who planted potatoes Within a day or two otlier streams hsd been turned from the canyon creek and despite the lateneas of the season, crops were planted and some of them at least parrlv matured. As pnrtv sfter party arrived from the long overland Journey, ceblne were built from logs hauled from the nearby eanyone. and soon a little city had risen In th, dessrt. They ThamMlva Wonder. Those who arrived In Belt !.ake City. Orrat Salt I .eke City aa It waa known until the early elttle. during the turn. mr snd fsll of 1M7. and who are alive How. look back In wonderment at the transformation that has taken place. One old gentlemen paaeed the city and county buUnlng Work thl, morning and aaid: 'lt hardly aeema poeslble that In the short spsn of a human Ufa such a wonderful won-derful t-bange could have been mada When I arrived In thia now beautiful ctlv we ramped on that epot for several days until we could get eomswhere to go and build a cabin. There waa no beautiful beau-tiful building there then no lawn, trees nor flowers. There were none of the pretty pret-ty homes thel can be seen on every side today. Instead, all was a deeert with the exception of where the mountain streams ran down ta the Jordan river. City Creak at Ftartk Booth. "fJne branch of Cllv creek ran Just a little to the northwest of our camping around, and through that part of the block now occupied by tha Newhouee hulldlnga. It -was from that creek that we secured eur water for drinking and culinary purpose,, and tlier w watered oar stock. "1 tell you that Salt Ijtke City did not look a very Inviting place then. Rut you aee we bad faith In otrr leader and be aaid that we were at the right plac. "Put I am afraid that had Brother Brilliant told ua that any on of us would live tu see a rlty euch as we aee tswlav. inv Is Mil Ir. him would have been aomewhet eliaken. "A hard time of It? Welt, yea, we had .a hard time of It a hard time getting here, and a hard tlm, rnr manv years after we did get here. More than once we went hungrv. but there waa mighty little eomplatnln. We wer, all toe busy to do much complaining, and then we believed that we hed com, ta the place that was Intended for es. end so we )uet menV the heel of the situation. "Anil I urn e'ad the! I have lived In those of the surveyor, tha land office and tha clertt of tha court. During tha morning- hours tha business section ef tha city waa practically deserted, desert-ed, except for those who ware seeking 'soma pleasure resort, ' and the few who were compelled to work despite the holiday. holi-day. By noon thousands had aought the : nearby cany one and tha resorts, and as tha sftemooa wore en thousands mora followed. In Bmlgratioei Ctayoa. Emigration canyon la a meora for many today, out of a feeling of respect- Many of them are among those who came to I'tah during the fifties and alxtlea. who want to renew old memortee by going oyer the famous old trail that marked the last stag of their journey to I'taa. A ealebratloa will be held thia afternoon near tha head of tha canyon, at which Judge La Orand Toung. a eon of Joseph Young, and a nephew of Brighsm Young, will deliver aa address on "The pioneer TralLM Prom the mouth of tha ran ye a far up In every shady nook and corner campers are to be found today. The mttonwnode. Mill Creek. Parley and City Creek canyons, ss well as Ub- erty and Pioneer parks, have drawn their fulf quota of real and pleasure seekers IOBaTtaJr. with two exhibition of bull fighting, bathing and dancjng. will likely break any past 14th of July celebrations. celebra-tions. At Laaoon preparations have been mada for a record breaking crowd. It will be the last day of the Don Phll-llplnl Phll-llplnl and hla famous band at tha resort. Notes Ia Lacking. A feature of the celebration today was the lack of the usual noise and fireworks that have accompanied the celebration of the day. especially in Halt Iake CHy. With the exception of the salute fired 1 at Wandamere. not a single shot was heard In any part of the city. The mi rarity of the people of the city show that hay are In hearty accord with the safe and sane observance of July 24 aa wall as July " MA2TT 8PEKT HOLIDAY j AW AT FROM THB CITY All of the nearby resorts and canyona were crowded with people yesterday. Both Kaltalr and !eg-on had large crowds while ; the band concert at Liberty park drew several- thousands. On account of Sundar being followed by a holiday, hundreds of disciples of lsaak Walton left yesterday morning foe the canyona for a two-lay trtp. Manv of them era accompanied uy tlielr tarn I Ilea. , Thera were gray haired man, some with forms bent and othera walking erect with a Arm step. There ware aged women, some of whom had walked mora than teoo miles a cross plalne and mountains and passed through all of the hardships Incidental Inci-dental to pioneer Ufa. But they ware happy and tha various committees took It upon themselves to see that they wanted for nothing. They were met at tha gate by members of the committee and with thetr escorts were admitted free. If they did not have a badge they were provided with a white plac of ribbon, , with "4T" printed in gold; they were ea- , eorted to the best seats to listen to tha 1 program; were-given the beat places) at: the head of tha table at the banquet which followed, and were than the gueete of any and every concession In the park for anything they wanted. Even the weather man waa en hla beat behavior for the benefit of tha pioneera. A few white clouds floated ta tha sky with a breeae that cooled off tha air. so that a mora perfect day would be hard to Imagine, Im-agine, flags floated from many bulldlnga, while eoorea of homea atone tha street car track to tha park war decorated with flags, and In several placee children etood In front of their homes waving flags and shouting, aa each oar passed, 'Trturmh far the pioneers!" During the day the ITtah IJght and Railway company will operate a four minute min-ute service to tneariu Program hy Lake. Promptly at 11 o'clock this morning the program of tha day commenced with Col. wlllard Young, a son of Rrlgham Young, acting as master of ceremonies. The pro- Kim waa delivered from the miniature ttleehlp at the east end of tha lake, th r'loneere snd several thousand visitors be ng seated on the shore. Th principal feature of the program waa an address by Prof Edgar Levi Young of the University Uni-versity at Utah. Tribute to Mo&ka. Mr, Yeung paid a tribwle to the old Jesuit and Franciscan monks who In tha seventeenth and eighteenth centuries came through the weat and Into the pree-ent pree-ent confine of t'tah and taught the I'te Indiana the sign of the cross and tha meaning of true Cbrtatlan love. "They were good men." he said: men of Ood. The Institutions that were established la Utah In early days were pointed out. The opening uf the a rat university, the printing of the ftrat newspaper. the founding of the first school system, th establishment of the beat type f America Ameri-ca Institutions west of the Missouri river, were all emphasised. It waa tha rellgtoue, the anrlal. the groat economic life of th pioneera that made them areat. Their dieam waa to establish th liest of American thought and institutions. institu-tions. They were law abiding and ever had thai aw for Anglo-Sax oa law aad order. Professor Young then recited Walt W hi i man s poem. The Pioneera, - appearing ap-pearing elsewhere In thia leeue. Establishing New Oosnmnnlty. The plotieera to ttah." aaid Professor Young, were a community of fixed pur-puee pur-puee Their remoteness from civilisation and their Intense love for and devotion tu reltalon. t heir Identity of tasks and dangers, and the primitive life Imposed , u;on them developed a society of brothet-hood brothet-hood and equality. Always optimistic, 'they had those versatile qualities which 1 make man win in the stem strife of actual life. Devout students of the Bible, thev took for thetr guide la all 'alr actions ac-tions and social Ufa a splendid arete of Christian ethic. "The t):ah pioneera wer a thrifty people. peo-ple. They put forth every effort to ea-tabllsh ea-tabllsh homes, to build roads and cltlea, to ee tablish stage Hnea and mall routes from city to city, from town to town. They planted garden and fields of wheat, and carried with them wherever . they went the Anglo-mon love for law and order. In Ally years th wilderness had been reduced, and Utah took her place among the great states of tha anlen. Machinery, Ma-chinery, steam, electricity, together with the directing fore of a great people. I have mad Utah what aha la today. Message ef the West. Th pioneers broke th restraints of custom and n rod wed new Haes of growth and new InsHtulkms. 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