Show : A "w j! W f ' t y Jfc V Jekr ‘ £ £ : "fr ajSliH'’” t i Jr 3 Band Rides Horses in Early Day Yule Parade As Utahns Celebrate x W Ji fy I f&c££5L? 1 £ ' y—j wrtWrfc -- fe js V W ! ft f Aw I K t It Christmas 1850! Salt Lake was a mere village then the total population was not more than 500 and crude homes ol bluish gray adobe dotted the pioneer community Saints still was struggling The little group of Latter-da- y against the unfriendly vironment found In the far western mountain valley Pesplte the hardships Christmas day 1850 was a hrppy day in Salt Lake The homes though rough provided shelter there a comfortable plenty of plain wholesome food wagon trains brought a few "fancy" goods to be bought for Christmas presents and the settlers were thankful for Cakes Rag Dolls Sleds Featured Christmas 1890 4 r ' V l: i "h ' U' OS 1 rr 14' UTAHN PICTURES CHRISTMAS Mothers had been busy for the past italL week preparing special cakes and December of that year saw plenty and lisof snow but it was not severely cold other delicacies big brothers "beauand sleds ters creating making The town's only newspaper of that tiful” rag dolla from acraps of cloth The home may have been lacking In Yuletide decorations The time records that heavy snows feU on and most of the fathers had made heating and ventilating arrangements did not lend themselves readily to December 17 and again on December trips to the mountain! with bob strings of colored paper festoons of evergreens or strategically placed It was mistletoe In fact the home was called a "tent" And it was more 22 but Christmas day was bright and sleighs to get a pine tree True the covering was canvas and not bufChristmas in 1880 nearly a tepee or wlcklyp clear Although Salt Lake merchants had falo or deer hid But the framework” Weather Beautiful Sky Clear done a "rushing’’ business for more of long slender The only newspaper account of than 15 days It was nothing like the was merely a bundle these contained in Christmas day is present year's turnover Children of poles curiously fastened together at brief but illuminating lines: “The 41 years ago didn’t expect to receive one end and spread apart at the other weather was beautiful: sky clear numberless mechanical toys games which formed a ring on the ground cloudless atmosphere mild still The and colorful books as tha average 12 feet across people were happy cheered by the child of today does but were satis- possibly pleasant strains of the brass band fied With a new pair of mittens a Heat— not too much was needed which paraded the streets on horse- home-mad- e eled or ome auch arti- save on rare occasions in that southback serenading at the governor's cle that would be looked upon with ern Nevada climate —came from a and various houses producing smiles disappointment today of joy and gladness through the city" On Christmas of that year all Salt tin" camp stove which was light While a troubled world pondered The advertisements of the mer- Lake turned out to attend yuletidc enough to be readily portable and over the Irish Land league In Great chants prior to Christmas of that year festival in the old Salt Lake thea- efficient to do the plain enough Britain difficulties in Crimea and probably are most enlightening as to ter The day before Christmas chilwhat the people were buying for dren gathered in the theater to take cooking and baking required A stove- the Transvaal in South Africa while gifts and what they paid for them part in games end dances Later in pipe carried the smoke from the the French laid preparations for the As a matter of fact money was the evening the older people danced wood or brush fire above the heads Panama canal and James H Garfield pretty scarce and barter and ex- there on e floor placed upon the tops of the occupants of the tent It was was ready to assume the presidency "Billy the Kid” was rampant in New change were of necessity in vogue of seats In the dresa circle and joined allowed to escape as it would through Mexico and Salt Lake citizens of 1880 The merchants seemed to have not to the stage floor set prices charging what they thought their stockings by the opening at the top where the sat down to a Christmas meal with Children the satisfaction of a year well paid their customers could pay “At prices the fireplacehung and went to bed deter- tent poles were tied together to suit the times" appeared in most mined to The passing year brought prosperawake until Santa Claus In such a home the stay pioneer leader ity to the people of a frontier town advertisements came Just as they do now end perW Woodruff one of the leading lived and great hope for the future Stocks Christmas day always will but they soon went and colonizer John Bennlon merchants advertised that he had the haps Christmas morning they with his family In 1870 It waa where were reported lively in New York memories to to sleep mines were family groups following goods for sale: opened in Utah and were up bright and early to inspect they celebrated Christmas There in Bingham being a rich strike was reported and Offers Kaisins Shovels Nalls as they sit their presents friends baby on a cot and in the Wlnnamuck mine "Raisins figs dye stuffs clocks Ideal gifts of the season were: A was a the around of and Trade Increase yule log See Merchants blazing shovels hoes pitchforks house trim- Included roast fowls deer meat elk boys family girls ranging Merchant reported 100 per cent in Here are some interesting And from this mings Boston leather boots and shoes meat roast beef mutton or pork and up to their tcena looking glasses Boston nails German (Continued on Pen Steven) tent rudely furnished with the bare creases In their holiday trade and Utah scenes and the town belles were rejoicing over personaliglass teas cutlery etc etc necessities and precious few of the gifts of "A general assortment of stationery opera glasses fans lace and ties the Adams Maud Top of were civilization and best comforts largely silk ties wristlets and monogrammed Including the largest variety of school books ever brought into this handkerchiefs directed the none too simple tempo- napkins and famous actress a native of A 25 cent Increase in the cradle valley blank books such as blotters ral and spiritual affairs of the colo- businessper Salt Lake as she appeared was Journals ledgers memorandums paand the reported during nists of a wide region more or less per Ink pencils etc" year 2500 sewing machines were mar- several Panaca on years ago and a view centering keted Four hundred thousand galAppended to the advertisement was Harden Bennion aon of John Ben- lons of beer were brewed this note: “If our friends will please and street as it looked Main locally of nlon afterward became secretary of 3270 call at Mr Baybas' house in the Thircarriages wagons and sleighs on Christmas 1861 immeIs of com now Utah state and its the were sold The Utah Central railroad teenth werd First South street we missloner of agriculture He was hauled 125364 tons of freight will take pleasure in exhibiting them during below it is an old of Incidents some the to asked recall the year compared with 101201 tons diately good articles which if they wish to to of life the and reconstruct picture in 1879 Christmas in I860! buy we will sell ss cheap as we can drawing of Fort Utah in It was a somewhat different set of In 1870 among those called on colo- Pants sold at $5 a pair and town the afford" winter of 1810 The nization work And for the husband anxious to de- conditions that existed in Salt Lake dandles could buy the latest fashion light his wife with a bit of finery just 71 years ago but Christmas was The Indinns of the region were none In cutaway suits for $20 The town old pony express coach proOne day all the men fathers were rejoicing over the immiMrs A Smith "late of St Louis" Christmas just the same Nationally too friendly advertised "a superior assortment of and throughout the world conditions were away in the hills after wood nent Installation of a telephone and vided for transportation velvet silk satin and straw bonnets were similar to those at present except an Interpreter named Gibson electric light system and a notorious and a variety of millinery and fancy In the old newspaper files of the A big Indian came into one of the chicken thief was sent to Jail until Utahns making Christmas goods two lots south of Elder J period we read that Great Salt Lake dwellings made himself comfortable the snow melted in prerailroad days At In the east one of the severest win- trips Taylor’s house in the Fourteenth City as It was known then “passed there and refused to budge The distracted housewife ran to ters in years was reported but the the bottom of the page is a ward " the day quietly" December 25 1880 Children's toys were not mentioned occurred on Tuesday and we read fur- her neighbor who happened to be weather was so mild in Salt Lake that a group of noted In the “ads” of that year but the skill ther “No rowdyism nor unusual dem Mrs Bennion ccording to The Tribune "the butch- picture of of the settlers in fashioning things onstrationa of a belligerent character I'll soon get him out" said that ers are very uneasy on account of the Utah women taken in the with their own hands was such that such as we have seen on such occa lady and she seized a broom with- damp weather Unless It freeze hard little Salt Lakers were not disap- sions waa apparent Thla indicates out which housekeeping even In a soon thousands of dollars worth of ’60s left to right Fliza R pointed when they trotted to the fire- that if there were any rowdlea about tent would be Impossible Thumps meat will be spoiled" Snow Hannah T King and side on Christmas morning to see they are not very anxious to show off from the broom handle on the InPlana New Year1! Edition suitwhat Santa Claus had brought Social parties were held in every Elizabeth Howard dian's back caused him to change his The Tribune was planning to issue able hall In the city in the evening mind about staying and Mrs BenNew Year’s edition which "will be no to of At the time tin nion returned to the vicinity of her the pres going largest ever printed in the Rocky the famed Walker house pleasant circumstances had transpired tent mountains” a mammoth publication The menu included Westphalia ham and it is believed that none occurred Suddenly a cry came from of 100 columns in twelve pages Also pressed tongue with jelly turkey to mar the festivltiea of the occa- Gibson and warning looking up from her member of The Tribune staff re- gelatin chicken mangnnnlse sion" SERVED JAIL TEltSI work she saw the Indian aiming a joiced at Major G S Erb’s gift of a cutlets Arkansas quail onantelope toast the musket at her She dashed inside An editorial concerning the Christmas dinner from the cuisine of calves brains auffed young pig "No said: ballroom of the etiquette lent and Gibson after a short strug gentleman will ever obtrude hi pres- gle disarmed the Indian But It was ence upon anv respectable company close call while he is affected by the distilla White neighbors also could cause Santa Clans baa quite a history tions of wheat and baric or alarm Ploche 18 St Nicholas waa the first Santa of the L Inconvenience Brigham Young president Clans and he waa a native of the D S church and lieber C Kimball miles away was in its heyday as a and a pretty rough Asia and their families and a few city of Fatara in Iycla neigh mining camp Minor born during the Third cenbois had a celebration in a new spot Homicide there were many The first Christmas spent in Salt tury He was an abbot and later school house Just completed by Mr and when they ran out of Jurors in prayed shook hands and Joined an archbishop of the metropolitan the camp they sent to Panaca for Lake valley by the pioneers of around a sagebrush fire Some Kimball church of Myra 1847 lacked most of the comfort The Emperor The stores which advertised in the some wept for Joy the children played Diocletian persecuted detach- considered necessities todnv Intourtnred and there wns a sense of peace of 1880 specialized in Mr Bennion recalls that Of federal troops was about that ment and imprisoned the beloved saint newspapers deed many persons scarcely had "Father shot some rabbits and sugar coffee raisins and spices at The history of St Nicholas did four to ten times what we pay time returning east from California enough to eat that day many wcie that day our dinner waa boiled not end with hla death for hla prices furnace-heutea mile or two away d and there wore no for them today One store had an They camped and a little bread I never rabbit relict wera preserved with honor advertisement and colonists hastened to hide But according to houses "Stationery their the at Myra nntli the eleventh century tea tar salt aaving lumber had a happier Christmas" work horses in the brush those who later recalled It there and vinegar when his remains were taken to buttons" showing a the never was a happier Christmas! Another pioneer Mrs Rebecca surprising con Rightly or wrongly they feared Italy Iandlng at Bart the treaa-ote- e trast In Its commodities One of the young girls of that troopers might appropriate the anl Rlter recalled how they lived In of RL Miholas were drpoe-Ite- d mnis A typical Christmas dinner among the old log and adobe fort the day wrote: "I remember our first in the Chnrrb of St Stephen The Indians too appeared resent Christmas in the valley We all families In that date the first winter Her little baby slept Mure that time many of Ills ful of the white of as the worked sometimes buffalo meat because bison usual The men gathon a cradle mado of sagebrush and presence have celrbrsted St Mr s were still plentiful In Wyoming and troops and assembled In numbers at ered sagebrush and some even a buffalo robe She later wrote day on December I on the plains The repast also Includ the little Mormon village A conflict plowed for though It had snowed "The winter was cold Christmas Tha Dutch called him San Nichoed mince pies white potatoes Bplce threatened but better counsel must the ground was still soft Christ-mcame and the children were hunls aa and the Americana called him rnke dried fruits and have prevailed for not ling came of came on Saturday We celeI had brought a peck of gry Santa Claus but hla formal name Those who were fortunate preservesto it ana after a week or two the troops brated on the Sabbnth -' and across the plains and hid it all wheat gnthenough b St Nicholas le all the hUtoilea have a little sugar sometime Indulged went on their way unmeksted and ered around the flagpole in the under a pile of wood I thought I rrpoit center of the old foit We sang would cook a handful of the wheat (Continued on P tmmolcsting Elsvtn) ON DESERT SIXTY YEARS AGO WirPY Mi ’ Outlook Bright At Yule Dinner Fifty Years Ago brings IT Christmas of 1860 Quiet One Records Show SANTA CLAUS HISTORY SAYS d well-to-d- ho-ls- u rt- stuffed turkey with cranberries sweet and mashed potatoes peas plum pudding and apple pie After the meal the paper reported that "champagne bottles popped" and the staff drank a hearty toast to the host for the baby Then I thought how we would need wheat for seed In the spring so I left It alone But one cold night soon Bfter our last eornmeal was gone and then I knew the struggle had come Fortunately a neighbor gave us some more eornmeal and we mnnaged to live through the winter" Food was scarce many were barefoot and there were no store full of toys but Christmas was celebrated unselfishly and with good cheer Whatever one had all shared and children were taught to appreciate any little gift It was with buoyant hearts that the few hundred pioneers In Salt Lake a thousand miles from civilization observed their first nnd to many their happiest Christmas fi h - c-‘V - |