| Show Scots Reunited Here HereBy I By Accident dAfter Alter 30 Year Separation That the world is a small place after atter all was again demonstrated yesterday when two brawny Scotsmen met purely by accident for the first time lime If two thirty years And the strange thing about It Is that neither knew the other tat at t sight The Incident was a search for It a cut of the lags flags of the United States and Great Britain Intertwined for use on the souvenir program of the St. St Davids David's day Welsh banquet at the Hotel Utah next Saturday evening The Hotel Utah found Itself minus the proper decoration for forthe forthe the occasion and John Doyle an was sent to the Caxton Printing company compan in the Hooper building to borrow the necessary de- de sign Here he was confronted with Thomas Sprunt and by th the brogue quickly discovered In Sprunt not Sprunt-not not a but Welshman a brawny Scot like I hissel It turned out that they had hadI I been boys together In Perth Scotland Scot Scot- I land having worked side by side inthe In Inthe the Jackson printing establishment owned by Thomas Macgregor In InJune InJune June 1887 Doyle took Sprunt to Liverpool England where he secured the latter employment coming from Perth to Glasgow by train and from Glasgow to Liverpool by boat In about a week after arriving In Liverpool Liverpool Liver Liver- pool the two separated Doyle going to Carnarvon North Wales and subsequently sub sub- landing In South Africa where hI he remained for fOI upwards of fifteen years and found himself In l Salt Lake CIt City four years ago rl I Sprunt meanwhile worked In many prominent cities of England Liver I pool Manchester Birmingham and andi i and London has been a resident of I this city for Cor the past eleven years The meeting of the two clans can I better he be Imagined than told In cold print and the might have been celebrated with a great deal I more than the Interchange of mutual reminiscences had It not been that I the state of Utah Is now dry l Iloth oth are going to further celebrate I at the St St. Davids David's day banquet and I some time later fd the Salt al alaE aE Lake Scottish Scot Scot- tish club will give a real Scottish I welcome to the two cronies or of the late eighties |
