Show SPRY HAS HIGH PRAISE fOR UTAH Executive Tells About Biggest Biggest Big Big- gest Battleship and His Trip East The battleship Utah leads now iu in size and equipment even t if the United Unite States Stales government o has lias ordered ot others hi bigger cr to soon take the honor from iu us said Cloy by 00 William Spry pl as ho showed up smiling at hi his desk today for the fin diet time in iii Ulo The governors governor's s 's party lart arrived ed on the Los Los An Angeles limited l early carl this morning after a a. delay of nearly bearly half day a-day due to the storms In Jn the part were Governor Go and lr l Mrs Spry Miss js lice Alice ice Spry who ho christened the bi big I fighting ma machine and Master James W. W Spry Senator soil ami Mrs Henry c. c nr Gardner Judge and md Mrs Irl S. S W. W Stewart John C. C Sharp and wife Miss Ii s w Mrs H We We h had d a 3 most hIe trip said the governor vernor to the newspapermen newspaper newspapermen men this morning fleming t There Thero was as no an unpleasant feature of the whole holl trip that I can recall We Wo were er everywhere treated with the greatest consideration and hospitality and enjoyed d every minute min mm- nb ute of the time Senators Smoot t 1 Sutherland and Mrs Joseph Iron Howell and dau daughter met us at Philadelphia t Congressman Cou ressman Howell was unable to come conic havin haying having met suet with a pp peculiar uliar accident acci acci dent cleat that mornin morning He lie had been treated for some trouble with his lip and when the tho sur surgeon on dres etl it that morning mornin he cut an artery which bled so that Mr Howell lowell was forced to r remain main in Wash Wash- ington He Ho i is all right no now though On On the mornin morning of our arrival at Philadelphia we were met by Lieuten Lieuten- Lieutenant ant Commander Pearson a Utah itah boy hov and Frank Pierce of Salt Salt- Lake C City Cily t- t now assistant secretary of the the- interi interior r. r Commander Pearson had bad arranged a dinner for that evening at which there wore were ere present a number of his naval friends and others from New York Romance Breaks In Just Just before the dinn dinner r Commander Pearson authorized me to announce his hisen en engagement a ement to a Mist Miss Norris a II very charming barmin young voun lady lad who lives lues on Riverside drive drin New York The dinner dinner din din- ner was a deli delightful function and we had a great reat deal of pleasure in meeting with the naval officers present t Nothing could have been more successful suc than the tho launching and aud t st st. enin ening of the vessel veasel The officials of the New York Ship Building company said that they had bad never seen a 3 more successful successful suc sue event of tho Iho kind There were many Utah people pr present sont many of I whom could not hip giving w way Y to their emotions as the great reat ship passed smoothly from his ways wars into the water Tho The fact that Utah had gained this reeo recognition among her sister states went deep dep into the hearts of the and tears of joy could be seen on OE many faces We Wo went to New Mw York for the following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing day and spent Ch Christmas there meeting many mans from Utah including Mr and Mrs E Easton Eston ston Harry Edwards Ben Mrs rf Shaw and daughter and many students and others other Real Keal Down East cast Storm From New Kew York we went to Ho Boston and I visited relatives at Winthrop Mass l Talk about storms they really reany have e them in New En England land We caught th the tho worst of if it there The Tho fences were torn out of the bi big cement sea wall paving was r ripped up and the e fronts s of houses near the the- sea smashed h i in in ob by t the b force of the gale ale It was almost C Coming Coniing hack back to the battleship Utah you can better hetter understand its ize size as did we wo after visiting the South Carolina now the largest ship in the tho navy It has bait tons ton's displacement while the Utah has ton tons It is of the tho most modern equipment with the latest submarine submarine sub sub- marine appliances inch fourteen guns ns where the largest previously were twelve inches and its engines can burn oil as well as coal coat The Utah was vas built in record time Its keel ted was laid March Maceli 15 1909 Its weight at the launching was was was' I to tons and this without the heavy machinery The river was liable t to th freeze at any time so the builders did their best The company building the thc ship tIred fired the date date- of the tho launching and nobody el else o had hind anything to do with it Did Not See Taft We We visited R. 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A Ba Ballinger er secretary secre e tan tary of the interior and I want to say th that t it did me mo a a. great deal of good to see seo the interest which the tho secretary and his assistant Frank rank Pierce took in n the affairs of this state stale The object of our visit sit was to make mako some inquiry regarding regarding regard regard- in ing lands landi withdrawn in too the southern part the state slate because of supposed oil deposits We 4 were assured that the withdrawal was only temporary au and for purposes of i investigation n The depart depart- ment wants to co operate with the thie state in rl development of its lands and aud will not handicap us in iu an any Way a If hf the lands land are better for agricultural agi a purposes than for mineral they will b bo shortly released re re- re leased for settlement and mid can ca'n can be taken up under tinder the Carey ey act We re failed to s see o the president durin during during dur dur- in ing the whole trip Ho lie was was was' attending the wedding of his niece in New York and did lid not return to the white house while we ice were there then That was the only disappointment of the trip |