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Show THE LEW SUN. LEH I, UTAH 'Lost Soldier of a l stJZlaase 1,1 i eT;?f" J in Charleston ':ui7 k Great Creole . JfX ?J ; If u ,w- - P: " - . .' I " 'f, i , I 7 - if I ' ' i brei from Oaano's "Beanrgnrd, The Great it," conrtesr Cbarlea Seribuer'a Bona.) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON E ORDERED the firing on Fort Sum ter and thus furnished the spark which set off the mighty conflagration conflagra-tion of the greatest civil war in history. his-tory. But this "kindliest military engagement in history, conducted with the utmost good nature, almost f" tenderness, on both sides a pleas- ant curtain-raiser wnicn gave no the grtmness to follow" was hailed as a ktory and he became the Idol of a new he Confederate States of America. onfedernte congress, In behalf of. the ion, voted him a resolution of thanks, oral assembly of South Carolina, the his great "victory," did the same. CUIUS CUI-US native New Orleans raised funds i golden sword for him. His admirers gomery, Ala., the Confederate capital, o tray him a new horse and present It pon his next visit there. He received in E0 letters of congratulation and the Jpts of five poems written to him. ft was ordered to Richmond to confer tsident Jefferson Davis and his progress its a triumphal procession with cheering nd blaring bands at every railroad ? Wherever he appeared, the crowds si a speech. Arriving in Richmond, he "Btled and shoved and kissed and had to a scarlet, embarrassed face while a f aiden of forty, to whom forty made no snipped a button from his coat." months- later two uniformed mobs I battle near Manassas or Bull Run in The uniformed mob which had sonth, many of them carrying lengths f o lead a Rebel prisoner back to Wash-ent Wash-ent back toward that city In a panic-rout panic-rout atoost unparalleled In history. nned mob which had marched north, f confident of his ability to "whip five fbefore breakfast," experienced onex- utumes in whipping two. But theirs f ictory, anyway, and after that another "za or hero worship. -, swcn they began naming children There was talk nf mnirinw m t fte Confederates States of America. iwp an extra supply of coat buttons me? inlnnorf rry vucm uu BU laSL tare probably Alrpnrtv rnaaen this frenzy was Pierre Gustave iTl?1 eneral In the Confeder- joa say if he WM guch R great her llJl 80 llttle of hIm nwr To mS L fcttat questIon' tura to a new US,,88 3U8t been Pushed by IS JLh " 18 "Beauregard, the St 2 ? iy Hamliton Bass. vh Sm teSkuf mm from o-ruaiT o-ruaiT figures In history" crMM6 teit-boks we came or tV 5 D,y rarely' and tten Into I'7 are d0ne with him-4. him-4. 2 ff ob8cnrIty. even in the LWf8l0Vedan1 Snored as 4 to tir.fl, ha. ihcwj? Ration of his neg-?tS!hffu,t'1 neg-?tS!hffu,t'1 Relieve, and nd th 7 blame) U 01111 of the I'ahads of "WtH-nakew-.il the U ft p,cture8que." Nr S1?11181 ln 1863 when life In tlTu of Pea-time ouuu clan iw . v su Ana tfie e oesperatelv tn if, past. : laa that or S "na a part of were fit. Their hero wa, FVbec.r! Robert Edward ftSlJ ?eJegendary hero. He Hkw S?, " measure OD to rlWDst?n Jeb kore.rrncetoLee. f "5f8art nrLeJ0. 80 Eluded. Uaure VHIere Beauregard Davis and Beauregard early In the war. More than one historian has pointed out how Davis suffered from the delusion that he was a great military strategist and he would brook no Interference In-terference with his strategy of waging a defensive de-fensive war and trying to defend every part of the far-flung empire of the South. In contrast to this attitude was Beauregard's desire for a concentration of the Confederate forces fn the 'vitally Important places and the waging of a smashing offensive war which would decide the issue as quickly as possible. One of the most Interesting "ifs" of the Civil war Is what might have happened If this Creole, reared In the Napoleonic tradition, had been given a free hand from the outset There Is no doubt that he had ln him the makings of a great soldier but he seems always to have just missed success whether because of his own shortcomings or because of circumstances over which he had no control. It Is difficult to say. Beauregard was born on a plantation ln Louisiana Loui-siana Just 115 years ago May 28, 1818 when that state was still more French than American. From the first he had a passion for guns, for horses, for everything military. So when he was sent to school In New York, conducted by the brothers,- Peugnet, two ex-captains of Napoleon, Na-poleon, and listened to their tales of the great campaigns In which they had fought under the Little Corporal, this passion was only intensified. The natural result was an appointment to the United States Military academy at West Point ln 1834. One of his Instructors there was a Eentucklan named Robert Anderson. A little over a quarter of a century later the former student was to order his soldiers to open fire on the fort defended by the former. Instructor but he was not present when the fort was surrendered. sur-rendered. "It would be an nnhonorable thing," he declared, "to be" present at the humiliation of his friend." In 1838 Beauregard was graduated from West Point, second In a class of 45. One of his classmates class-mates was named Irvin McDowell And 23 years iater Irvin McDowell and Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard were to be commanders of the opposing forces when Bull Run creek In Virginia Vir-ginia received its bloody baptism. After graduation Beauregard, a lieutenant ln the engineers corps, first helped In the construction construc-tion of Fort Adams ln Rhode Island. Then he was sent to take charge of an engineering project proj-ect at Baratarla bay. So he came back to his own Creole country. There he met and fell ln love with the lovely Laure Vlllere and when they were married two of the most dlstlngushed families In Louisiana were united. Then came the Mexican war and during that conflict he was twice brevetted for gallant and meritorious service, first as a captain, for his gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, and again as a major for bravery in the battle of Chaultepec He returned to New Orleans as a local hero and was presented with a golden sword. But the years which followed were dull and uneventful ones and Beauregard was rapidly rapid-ly slipping Into obscurity. Then by pulling certain wires he succeeded in getting himself appointed as commandant at West Point This was two days after Lincoln's election in 1SCO and when It seemed certain that Louisiana would secede from the Union. On his way to New York Beauregard stopped off in Washington to explain to his superior officers that should Louisiana withdraw from the Union he must follow his state. The result was that he was superintendent at West Point for only five days, when be was ordered back to Louisiana, Loui-siana, thus establishing a record for briefness In the time which any officer held that post Louisiana seceded and Beauregard, the engineer, engi-neer, who had prepared and presented a comprehensive com-prehensive program for the defense of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi river passage was called to Montgomery for a special meeting with Provisional President Jefferson Davis. "He kissed his wife good by Beauregard after Shiloh and said he would be gone a fortnight. He was gone four years." During those four years he rose to the height of his military ambition and sank to the depths. Within a short time after Manassas he was definitely "in bad" with Davis and thA secretary of war, Benjamin, ne was sent to the Department Depart-ment of the West as second in command to Albert Al-bert Sidney Johnston. At the Battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing a bullet struck down Johnston and the command devolved upon Beauregard. But with certain victory In sight, when he could have' annihilated Grant's army, he ordered the fighting stopped. He retreated to Corinth leaving Grant in possession. After Shiloh the whisperings against Beaure gard began. There began to be doubts as to the greatness of the hero of Sumter and the victor of Manassas. But he did score a victory of sorts In his skillful evacution of Corinth when Halleck might have crushed him. Despite this fact, he was relieved of his command and succeeded suc-ceeded by Gen. Braxton Bragg, one of Davis' "pets." The Illness which had troubled him since the beginning of the war made a long leave of absence ab-sence necessary and after he had somewhat regained re-gained his health he was placed in command at Charleston again. There he successfully re sisted a Federal attack aimed at this "breeding place of secession." In 1864 he was serving un der Lee In resisting the sledge hammer strokes of Grant around Richmond. At Petersburg he beat off an attack which saved Richmond for nine more months. A year later, after Lee had surrendered, there was a dramatic meeting be tween Davis and Beauregard. Davis was pleading plead-ing for a continuance of the war. But Beauregard Beaure-gard and Gen. Joseph Johnston told him plainly that it was no use to struggle longer against the inevitable. So Johnston surrendered to Sherman and the war was over. With only $1.15 in his pocket Beauregard started back to Louisiana. In New Orleans he found himself still a hero to his people. peo-ple. But In the years that followed the hero-worship, hero-worship, even In Louisiana, faded. There was the matter of the Louisiana lottery, the gambling gam-bling scheme which was so bitterly assailed as a menace to the morals and character of the nation. Its directors needed the association of some man whose greatness of name would lend character and dignity to the lottery and cer tify to the fairness of the drawings. Finally they got such names, two of them. One was Gen. Jubal A. Early and the other was Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. "The South was astonished, a little shocked . . . and made apologies for her distinguished sons. . . . But though It apologized for him and tried to forget his association with the octopus, It never really forgave him. It was not the thing for a Civil war general to do." Came the 1390s. The Civil war was becoming a dim memory. Most of the great figures ln it were dead. Only a few lingered on, among them the Great Creole. In his seventy-fifth year the old Illness assailed him. "ne felt as if knives were sticking in his throat; he could feel the pulse of fever behind his eyes. Sometimes, ln the evening, his officers would come to his quarters quar-ters to cheer him up. The fire leaped and roared, and those who liked whisky had a nip or two, and Stuart sang in his great booming voice. . . . Perhaps, as he went op the stairs, the echo of Stuart's song went softly into his. darkened room, perhaps the dar was poignant with the ghosts of men ln weathered gray. And perhaps as he fell asleep, there was the past again, and the days of golden glory, when his name was a banner In the Southern sun. Or perhaps there was nothing . . . only quiet and the ceasing of his heart and the peaceful com ing f the end." e k WtaUrs HmPr CBMa.) WHAT CHICAGO HAS TO EXHIBIT Manifold Attractions of the Exposition City. PrKY.?i bT. Natl' QirrapWo soot.tr. Wahlnton, D. C WNU tfervlc. CHICAGO will be the host this summer to hundreds of thousands thou-sands of Americans who will go to witness the city's spectacle of 1933 the gigantic fair depicting a century of progress. Chicago Is vibrant, an Intense giant gi-ant among cities, dynamic with the Pirit of growing south. Its rt. donts are" confident of Its destiny. The forces or nature and th paths of man, which mold the state of Illinois, center ln Chicago. These national roads of earth, water, and air converge. In a century it has grown from a frontier stockade ln swamp to fourth place amonsr world cities. The traveler away from Chicago is always told about his citv. Chance acquaintances, from Kam- chatka to Tlerra del Fuego, ex-claim: ex-claim: "So you have lived ln Chi-cago Chi-cago without being shot!" and du- mousiy reels his vest to see If it is bullet-Droof. . Chicago is pictured as a wicked. turbulent city, a wilder West than the movies ever staged; yet the percentage of crime Is lower than that of many cities with a more righteous reputation. Its crime and gunmen, while not to be smiled at as playful diversions, are no more representative of the city, or of any other city, than the ejecting of a stray disturber Is the story of a convention's con-vention's deliberations. They are surface growing pains of a lusty young city. Whatever happens ln Chicago has, in newspaper parlance, "news value," and the sensational and bizarre are remembered after the serious and prosaic are forgotten. Chicago lacks the glamour of age ; it has no ancient ruins nor even time-stained buildings. A cross stands where Marquette landed, the first white man to cross the portage between the lake and river ; but that was only 200 years ago. Of those buildings that stood on downtown LaSalle street 87 years ago, only one now remains. Growth In a Century. The white population around Fort Dearborn was massacred on August 15, 1812. In 1833 Chicago was a town covering two and one-half square miles. The first steamboat and the first Sunday school had ar rived the previous year. On March 4, 1837, it had 4,000 inhabitants and was incorporated as a city with ten and one-half square miles. It was wept by fire on October 9, 1871. To day it spreads over 210 square miles, with more than 8,350,000 inhabit ants. Chicago's yesterdays are the boyhood of Its men today. Standing on the portico of the Field Museum of Natural History, one gazes on a pinnacled city stretching into the distance. It rises higher with the weeks. In front is a green park only a few years ago a debris-strewn beach with a rail road on wooden trestles cut by broad driveways, lagoons, and islands, is-lands, and spotted with the ornate structure of the Art institute, Shedd aquarium, Adler planetarium, Buckingham Buck-ingham fountain and the peristyles and pylons of boulevard entrances. On the other side of the museum Is a stadium rivaling those of ancient Greece. Boulevards, over land reclaimed from Lake Michigan to give the city a front yard, stretch to the north and to the south. The Museum of Science and Industry, founded by Julius Rosenwald, occupies the rebuilt re-built Fine Arts building of the World's fair held in 1893, admittedly one of the world's finest pieces of architecture. Miles of broad roads and prom enades skirt the water, with its su perb beaches backed by green parks. which afford facilities for rest and recreation enjoyed by few cities. With more than a hundred parks and playgrounds, more than two hundred public and private golf courses, and miles of forest preserve, pre-serve, all Chicago can enjoy the fresh elr; while the lake, with its usiimitod bathing beaches, boating and yacht clubs, provides unusual aquatic diversion. Some years ago Chicago began to outgrow Itself, and the Chicago plan for a City Beautiful was adopted. New streets have been cut and old ones widened at stupendous cost The Chicago river was unkinked as part of the developing waterway to the gulf. j A distinctive style of architecture, j to which has been glvea the name Twentieth Century American," has developed here. The city restricts the primary height of buildings to 284 feet but towers comprising not more than one-sixth the bulk of the bui'd'ng may soar to the clouds. Bigness Due to Location. On a part of the near North side, where only a generation ago Captain Cap-tain Streeters schooner, stranded on a sand bar, was the only habitation, a Gold Coast district has risen on land which then was lake towering hotels and apartments, factories and warehouses, and. until three years sgo one of the largest commercial com-mercial buildings la the world, the American Furniture Mart Another, the Merchandise Mart, now is larger. A pride in bigness, or even the Dome needs of Chicago, do not produce pro-duce these. The city's central loca-tloa loca-tloa creates them. Chicago has a hotel with 8,000 rooms, and one of the largest Indoor sports stadiums. Convenient location brings a million visitors to national conventions each year. The booster who delights ln "bigger" also adds that it has a ple beian gas tank that could be dropped like a candle snuffer over the 23-story Times building in New York. it is a city of contrasts. Its people peo-ple reflect It, make the throbbing city theirs. Scholars mix ln politics and business men are artists. The city Is the same structural panorama. In the corridors between Chicago and the Indiana line more industry and high-pressure recreation are mixed than In any similar area ln the world steel mills, oil refineries, rail road shops, foundries and factories, with country clubs, two race tracks, and a dozen golf clubs, wooing devotees de-votees to fresh air and sunshine. Under Un-der its pall of smoke, smell of stock yards, and hum of aggressive ma terlallsm, Chicago has art, science, music, education, and other factors which add to the comfort and con tentment of humanity. It is Illinois intensified. Chicago is a musical city. One of Its music schools is among the largest ln America. with more students than any other school of Its kind, the Art in stttute gives Chicago an assured place in art circles, but the fact that it has more sustaining members mem-bers than most similar Institutions shows a city's appreciation of art. Great City for Reading. Chicago reads as it hustles. Tfce American Library association classi fies it among the great reading cities cit-ies of the world. Its public library, revived by a donation from England after the fire, circulates 14,000,000 books a year, though the number on its shelves is smaller than that In the New York city public library or ln the Library of Congress. For completeness ln their special lines and for patronage, students coming far to consult them, Newberry, li brary of humanities; the Orerar Technical and Scientific library ; the Fine Arts library; the Library of i ,i , y if 1' L ft ,fOj. ' V A f t Sally Sez A itrvn rapport's a mot Important thine. To acrobats who stunt upon th wine. Support help ant la all that aeopla do, Homo Inihiatrr naods atronf aopportinjr. LETS PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY Well preserved plant fossils, earliest ear-liest forms of life discovered in America, have been found in tha Colorado canyon. ASK TOUR DRUGGIST FOR APEX CREAM AN INTERMOUNTAIN PRODUCT Utah High School of Beauty Culture W flaar CNfl Mh Uk Uln On, yua Till Suitf Ctftni Pnfiulu bin m Biiriutoi Tn CM IK lun I aflflMlM lilt nlll mitt na kilMuaMt In laa ml at mt ttn. SIS tar ami hit taf tat caailtia wnutliliBWtai. lawtifiti wain iklli in bin tlaa nm ami w m utwpi DUjacstpH. HAVE ADDEES3.. 5g-RAZORBLADES$100 Flu all GtlletU Typo Raiors Mon.y refunded If not aatia'actorr. COOMBS DRUG CO. Salt Lake City, Utah THIS WEEK'S PRIZE STORY Evar daman helna? haa tha ttJI tn ha loyal to aomethinr person, a locality. action, omathina. aiuthinar. Juat aa lon aa he aivee loyally and iticka ta IU lt ni enow loyalty ta our awn Inter. mountain Section by aainr Interraountain Gooda and Producta. It will buck ap on morale when timea are deprcanng. And alware wi are aretlina- etiaa! a better value for our monry. nLUB H. VAN DERVEER. Jackson, Wya. A Chicago Beach In Summer. Architecture and the Post-graduate library of the University of Chicago are among the noted reference 11 brarles of the world. Libraries and schools and, mora than all, the harmony of environ ment have made Chicago an educational educa-tional center of North America. Attendance At-tendance figures and faculty rolls of colleges, or even a world-famed name, do not determine eminence in educational facilities; but, in stud ies made by the Association of American Universities, 28 unirersi ties were given the highest rating, and three are la Illinois North western, Chicago and Illinoi while no other state has more than two. The unendowed university of the streets, where orators always have an audience, and ideas are more often bizarre than sound, flourishes in Chicago. Washington square, fronting the Newberry library, and the artesian springs in Washington park have the largest attendance of these open-air night schools. Some Fine Mustums. "Is there a museum or art gallery?" gal-lery?" Is a sightseer's first question In a new city. Illinois has such institutions in-stitutions to show the passing ages, several of them outstanding in their lines. All of the flowers and birds ! that once graced the sand and marshes which now are Chicago survive In the glass cases of the Academy of Science ln Lincoln park. The State Natural History museum in Springfield goes back eren farther. far-ther. A wall in one of its halls Is faced with stones starting with the Archean age, which the curator says was more than a billion years ago. and rising ln strata to the Pleistocene Pleisto-cene age, less than 1,000,000 years ago. At the side of each stratum are paintings of the contemporary animals which roamed the earth. Two of the finest Egyptian collections col-lections in the world are in Chicago. Field Museum of Natural History, on the lake front, annihilates both time and space. Its frozen Arctic, with polar bears and seals and a path of chilly blue stretching to the midnight sun. 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