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Show J42 Elephant who turned back; insisting that view was sufficient to satisfy their penchantfor adventure. Many a wagon was decorated with the query: Have you saw the elephant? There remains, however, another explanation. This one preferred by most authorities, or so Is a Whale Of a Tale @ Continued From J-40 it seems. At a time whencircus parades > grief and laughterat his predicament, fled hastily from the theater, with the conductor in close pursuit waving the wreckage of his fiddle and performing various cuts and thrustsin theair. The curtain fell on the shambles. No more play, no more forelegs. Pit, boxes, and gallery rushed from the theater shrieking between every breath: Have you seen the elephant? That, it is said, is how the phrase came to becomeassociated with the bizarre and improba- ble In the years '49 and '50 it was not unusual to hear the phrase: the elephant’s tracks,or the elePhant’s tail uttered by those first featured elephants, a farmer hearing of such an event, loaded his wagon with vegeta- bles for market in town. He had Alice Kasai Collection/U tah State Hi Membersof Utah Japanese community welcome Masashi Goto to Salt Lake. never seen an elephant and very muchwishedto. On his way, he encountered the circus parade led by the The grb omen oned beast farmerwasthrilled, but his horses terrified. Bolting, they overturned the wagon and ruined the vegetable harvest. Dreams OfPilot Shattered In Uintas “But I don’t give a hang,” he said, “for I have seen the elephant!”” The samecan be said for the gold rush of '49: Wasit worth the trials, tribulations and _hardship? . Or wasit enoughjust to have seen the elephant? By Harold Schindler ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Masashi Goto was 32 and bursting with pride as he eased his biplanein for a landingat the Salt Lake Municipal Airport. He was on the early legs of a flight that would carry him across the United States, then across Europe to Asia andfinally to the islands of Japan. It was a beautiful morning — July 4, 1929 — and as Goto BCX COYT Ta aoe CHARLIE CHOW aa0 THE CUISINE OF, CHINA 23 Great Years! hds been passed down for generations right here in Salt Lake City. * Fabric * Notions * Lace «x SOB eMCCR etyametdiete Syahiteaat 561-8855 Cem ceeCe beletemcrete eel p of Utah to MASASHI GOTO TROLLEY SQUARE Japanese Aviator in his flight over America, Europe and Asia Airplane RYOFU-Co Crashed 3,000 feet South East of this spot 575-6700 Riverdale, Pleasant Grove, passage of time, only a small granite monument on the Wolf Creek summit road (Utah Highway 35) and the junction to Soapstone Basin and Hanna, stands as mutetestimony to the tragedy. This monumenterected by Colo MeiAmeLae13 PEMecuKe Meta MeyMTCCe Now with 11 to Serve You CPPoe de- eeeee COTMA * Styrofoam x * Beads © Jewelry Findings * vet) biplane Cell-ra(ellow Cel) UST Melo} ofthe spirit of ancient Supplies « * Wood * Shelves * Paint x ciety his Upgrading Access: But that is about to change. The U.S. Forest Service is upgrading access to the area, and included in the plan is relocation of the monumentcloserto the state highway and with an automobile turnout. The monumenthasfared well these three-score years considering its location in a heavily wooded, butscarcely convenient spotto be noticed. It reads: ReeleeeemLd * Ribbon * Trims * * Silk Flowers * Wedding ETThg — stroyed and the intrepid aviator dead in the high Uintas. His adventure long-forgotten with the for veelUd late him and shakehis hand. Before the day was done, Masashi Goto’s dream would be shattered Thanks Utah Simpson 675 E. Simpson Ave. rolled the craft to a stop and switched off the ignition, he could take satifaction in his achievementthusfar. In his flying-suit pocket he carried letters to family and a small folded American flag. Whenthis flight was over, Masashi Goto would be the most famous Japaneseflier in the world. It was a dream he savored since he and his friend in Los Angeles, Takeo Watanabe, had saved enough moneyto build the airplane they designed; this samelittle biplane which served him so well thusfar. If Goto had any premonition otherwise, he did not show it as members of the Japanese community in Salt Lake City gathered at the airport to congratu- OF GOODTASTE Locally Owned and Operated CaM ENC 3275 So. 1950 W. orical Society the Japanese Association 1896 - 1929 July 4th, 1929 Gotohadflown from Los Angeles to Oakland and on July 3 eaten Moan aieA [ took off from that point io Reno, Nev., presumablyto refuel. His custom-made biplane was poweredbya five-cylinder Pratt & Whitneyair-cooled radial en@ See DREAMS,J-43 |