| Show IN MEMORIAM COLUMBUS those who think salt lake city unequal to such an occasion as fitly observing discovery day should have seen the magnificent procession of children this morning it is question able if anywhere in the land as great a turnout proportionately livis has occurred and nd quite certain that nowhere do the children better understand what all the parade and display signalize it is noteworthy that we gave president harrison Harr the finest reception of this thin kind he received as lie ise himself admitted but today we fairly capped the climax in homely phraseology we just fairly spread ourselves 1 1 and that hat too in conot of a man who has bb been in the great beyond a dozen doxen genera eions past pant four hundred years yean ago tomorrow christopher Colum columbus embarked disembarked die dis from the santa maria on the eastern bore of sao san salvador the most easterly island in the bahama group f ft the southeastern coast of florida we celebrate the occasion on because he set riot sall sail from palos on friday discovered land on friday began his big return voyage on Fri friday clay and reached palos again on friday march 15 1498 this seeming to be the explorers explorer as red letter day and its belog being no ao close to the real time of discovery determined us to fix the celebration accordingly thus thud allowing for the day as well as the date there way may be those who do not understand dere der tand stand why it is that tome places observed the ot of this month instead of the present date this is because of the change made in the calendar by pope gregory XIII in 1682 1582 he aund it necessary to arbitrarily dispose of ten days in order to make the worlds chronology coherent that is to make time and its measurement from the beginning correspond tha calendar is in not perfect yet but it is practically so s and it is a splendid exemplification of the great learning and profound judgment of the priestly expunging the ten tea days day placed the equinox in its proper post tion in the year and the seasons being thus adjusted were made to correspond with the years and parts thereof but it made the change spoken of a difference of ten days it is like setting back the hands of a clock the time itself goes on but the mes measurement sure of ef it does not and in celebrating the of october as aa it was before the revision we have to wait ten days and thus fill fl 11 up the gap which gregory made for our it is a great day and columbus was a sclest man both deserve all the honors which a grateful people are now bestowing |
