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Show WELCOME TO THE ELKS. The Elks are very welcome to Salt Lake. They may toss their antlers on all the streets, may browse on every hedge, may make of every lawn a stalk. The whole city has adopted the Arab saying for them: "Enter; all we have is yours." The keys of the city are hung upon your antlers; the best that the city possesses is not too good for you. Th3 sunbeams for a week are to be yours; it has been arranged that they shall put on unwonted splendor; splen-dor; that they shall weave a halo over the valley and transfigure with a glory celestial the mountains moun-tains east and west. I The breezes have been subordinated to your use; one is to come down from the mountain tops every morning to fan your faces with a breath that has been cooled by the snows; the other is to steal in every evening from off the lake to cure the languor of the heated day. If you are like our local Elks, the breeze from the lake will greet you as you start out; the one from the hills will bring cooling to your feverish brows as you are being carried home. Whether sufficient modern accommodations will be prepared for you will depend somewhat upon your numbers; but the nights are always beautiful here in summer, and there are shady places enough to turn aside the sunlight for those who sleep in the afternoons; our nights, indeed, are all like that espiral one in which we are told "the floor of heaven was thick inlaid with pantinps of blight gold," where "lovers' tongues sound silver sweet"; such nights as those when Dido stood upon the wild sea's bank and with a willow wand did wa-e her love to come again to Carthage. Wo do not know whether this range will sup-pi sup-pi you all with ample grazing, but keep in mind Ith.it the first irrigation ever attempted by the Caucasian Cau-casian race on this continent was inaugurated here; that there is a controversy still going on among the farmers outside the city whether it is bo t to irrigate some soils at stated intervals or to keep them soaked full of moisture all the time. While you remain, the latter idea will be the adopted one if you desire it. If in practicing it oh temporarily return to the wild state, the police ar. instructed to be blind, and his Honor, the M- or, has promised that when you fall by the ", if he cannot help you up he will lie down 1 de you. fhe lake is open to you for bathing; the hot BPings can be utilized as a retort for you if you di ire to eliminate from, your systems the base n tal picked up in less favored states. B 'ou ought to have a pretty good time; every- B tli nig js enlisted to raako your visit a Joy to you. The big organ in the Tabernacle is waiting to give you a thunderous welcome, and then to beguile you with such melody as the morning stars were attuned at-tuned to singing on that first morning of the world. The choir will sing as it never has before, and if things become too exciting for you, there arc half a dozen gentlemen standing ready to make you speeches which will put you to sleep. In serious vein, you are most welcome, and we all would fain make your visit so agreeable that when you in future think of Salt Lake and her people you will be constrained to say: "Those were white days that we spent in Zion." We all welcome you, and all hope that your visit will be pleasant and that good angels will watch over you while here and as you return home. |