Show Dinosaur Bones 25 2 5 Million Years Ye rs old Attract Thousands of Salt S lt Lakers Salt Lake Tribune Utah's now famous famous D Dinosaur I caravan ended its 2 mile 0 journey I when wIlen at the he pace or ora of a silent cortege cortege cor cor- tege it moved through the traffic- traffic halted streets of Salt Lake shortly after 2 o'clock schedule time Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- September 17 I The caravan car of of- twenty somewhat shaky-looking shaky wagons c covered dust laden with hay b bags gs provisions provisions provisions provis provis- ions and the bone cages cages drew out thousands of or interested ested spectators It was as promised the most picturesque pic pic- and authentic spectacle of its kind ever on view In the west And as such it went down caly in memory in these Ulese- and other words and on an the history recording film fUm of or the movies In a few weeks the world wilbe will wil willbe be he apprised in fn feature articles pictures pic plc- tures tin and in motion pictures of two things One that Utah staged a 3 dinosaur ca carvan canan rvan journey unlike anything else in the world and that the University of Utah is today the proud possessor of or the biggest most p priceless collection of or dinosaur bones of any state school in this or any other country in the worM world The sin singular ular transport service held up stood the gaff and did the work For miles over roans at times none too good and at other times all to the bad over sagebrush plateaus and down steep canyon grades the raising dust-raising string of ot country wagons made their way way averaging averaging twenty-five twenty miles a ad aday aday d day y rain or shine hot or cold There was one leader Uncle John Kay a silent but genial man manof manof manof of the western leader type and under under under un un- un- un der him tint were drivers ers all 1111 of ot Vernal i imen men of ot the tho country whose own own 1 bones upon arrival here lucre were weary a-weary we a-we weary a-weary ry of the world and who at their camp behind the John It R. R Park building were stretched upon upon the comforting grass The parade un featured by band bandor or ostentatious display wa was more like a funeral funeral funeral-a a procession of or hallowed bones than bones than an any homecoming The pace after nine day on the changing roads was I slow the hors horses s were tired the themen themen e emen men were almost sunk But as as they ther neared the city plugging plugging plug plug- ging their way up State street from fron their noonday camp at Twenty first South street where they weighed in their pounds of bones at Bamberger's coal yards ads and ate their lunch their spirits rose Ahead of them them they could see the poplar trees of Salt Lake City the clean dean white dome of of I the capitol the spires of the city and COUl county ty build ing jug the distant horizon of various clubs and angles marking the business business business busi busi- ness section of the town There she is said said Uncle John and those behind him not too tired gave ave out spontaneous solos of their jo joy The rhe last forty miles of the trip were the easiest lorry forty miles and grateful bodies responded to the rolling smooth rhythm o of the wagon wheels heels upon the p pavement vem nt encountered near the mouth of or Provo canyon canon As the caravan yesterday neared South and State streets streets- ten minutes ahead of oC schedule schedule- the group was met by ly a platoon of or mounted police and escorted past the city and county count building where Mayor laor who had welcomed the caravan caravan at the point of the mountain Tuesday greeted them again shook hands with Uncle John and reiterated his best wishes to the he gang Nothing But ut Silent Crates The wagon train wheeled widely to the west at Third South street and after passing motion picture photographers at the rain Main street corner silently and slowly marched through the business district to th the Hotel Utah corner f There was little save the external external exter exter- nal nal elements of the picturesque to satisfy the curious onlookers who in man many cases probably expected I to see something alive with the silent t crates crates Respecting this great lack Jesse Burke Bure earlier in the day had satisfied satisfied satisfied sat sat- the universal need Pounding Pounding- vigorously on the crate ensconced behind his Ills seat seat he lie startled the with his cries Back there v Git back down in that there cage And the for the moment moment moment mo- mo ment tak taken n in got back back farther er than the monsters ever will Bones one repeated a very darK darn youngster to his liis older informant Bones Bones dat dat size La Lay off mister mister- Who Vho aird roll 1011 em en But bones they were and bones hones they are deader arc deader than seven doornails doornails door door- nails naUs and unlike the bones in the hymn its it's doubtful Il if it they'll ever rise again If they did some did some of the university's university's sity's five tremendous monsters would stand fifteen to twenty feet high and from the tip Up of or their vegetarian vegetarian vegetarian etarian snouts to the whip of their tail tall would be one hundred even feet teet U at Dusk Yes sir called caned back Stephen At Skinner extraordinary ext soup bones bones that that's what they are And good big too Reaching the university grounds ground shortly before dusk the wagons drew up before fore a a. small building which during the war wal period had been a school for tor automobile me me- On the steps of ot the Park memorial memorial memo memo- rial hall haU President Thomas c congratulated congratulated Uncle John Kay on the success of the trip and on the care aTe exercised in handling what the president declared h he believed to tobe tobe tobe be very fine material materia 1 The he work will be begun begun begun be be- gun as soon as possible and completed com completed com com- om- om this winter or next spring if such speed can be ur Jr Earl Douglass the Carnegie paleontologist paleontologist paleontologist loaned by Director Stewart Stewart Stew Stew- Stewart art of oC the Carnegie museum to the university for tor the year which now has ended probably will assist in ill inthe inthe the assembling Professor Frederick J. J Pac Pack who for seven years ears Jias has advocated the states state's obtaining some of or the bones walled up In her own Uintah mountain mountain moun moun- t tain in has seen by now his wishes fulfilled more full fully cheaply t and than he expected He Ho will wUl begin his year ear s soon on and in the east ast and in hi England tell the world of Utah's Utah won wonders not the least of which will include this particular collection acUl adjudged by those who wio know to be the finest 0 of f fIts Its type In IIi existence n 0 |