Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-07-29 | Page 11 | Survivor of L. D. S. Cape Horn Trip 94 Years Ago Flies to Coast

Contrasts Plane Cruise With Sailing Ship Voyage I 44 n J k J. J J i Jf 4 f 5 f r i iy y c C M A AM 4 r 4 d I I A x 4 f f K F e i w W W AS LONE SURVIVOR OF PIONEER SHIP SKIP ARRIVED FOR FLIGHT TO COAST Mrs 1 Elizabeth Bird Howell Rowell greeted by great-granddaughter great Sandra Jean Langton Survivor o 0 f L. L D. D S. S Cape Horn Trip Trap 94 Years Ago Flies to Coast Time turned backward Monday Elizabeth Bird for year old Howell of Preston Idaho only survivor survivor survivor sur sur- of a brave band of L. L D. D S. S pioneers who dared perilous Cape Horn in the pioneer ship Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn Mrs Howell who made ade the historic his his- historic New York to San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco ocean voyage 94 years ago when she was five weeks old flew to San Francisco from Salt SaIt Lake City Monday to take part in cere cere- t monies honoring the the- b band nd of which J JIt she was a member It was her first airplane ride At At San Francisco she will be honored along with the memory of other members of the pioneer party A bronze plaque will be placed Wednesday at the rite file of the ships ship's landing at Broadway and Battery street streel and will be dedicated at rites Sunday in charge of Mrs Florence M. M Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitz Fitz- gerald president of the San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco chapter of Daughters of Utah Pioneers Mrs Howell made the trip in inthe inthe inthe the Brooklyn with foster parents She lived at San Francisco then Yerba Buena until she was 14 when she came to Utah and joined her father Edmund Fuller Bird who had come here overland With members of her family Mrs Howell came to Salt Lake City by automobile to board a United Air Lines plane She apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap was enjoying the trip but she did not converse with reporters re- re porters Meeting her at the airport were 10 grandchildren The one coming farthest was Mrs Willard Langton Langton Langton Lang- Lang ton of St. St Louis Among the group greeting her was a great grand daughter Sandra Jean Langton six old daughter of Mr and Mrs Langton Accompanying Mrs Howell on the trip are her brother Fred J. J Bird 83 of Preston a daughter daugh daugh- ter Mrs Amelia Crockett of Preston Preston Preston Pres Pres- ton and her oldest son Henry Howell of Preston After a long search for a survivor survivor survivor sur sur- of the Brooklyn party Mrs Howell was discovered by the Franklin county Idaho chapter chapler of Daughters s of of Utah Pioneers