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Show IN RE THAT OGDEN BANQUET. The Observer for Polly Pry apparently attended attend-ed the sumptuous function given for the delegates to the National Irrigation congress. At all events he has the following- rather unkind and extremely vivid description of it: The little city of Ogden, Utah, has made a new record. It did it with a "ball, banquet" and smoker," which was given in honor of the delegates dele-gates to the National Irrigation congress for $5 pe The ball was weird and wondrous, the banquet ban-quet was a rich crimson orgle, and the smoker was the sky limit, participated in by a howling mob, led by the village jagsters. In the first place, the ball room was never meant to accommodate 500, not to mention 2,000, and it was a fight for life from soda to hock, and there wasn't one who tried to dance who didn't wear a fireman-save-my-child expression. But I'm talking too fast. Before the dance there was a grand march, and it was the grandest march human beings ever saw. It took till 10 o'clock to start the game, because be-cause Senator Clark of Montana, who was the supposed host, had forgotten all about the affair and did not arrive until. that hour. Behind him in the march came Governor Sparks of Nevada in a gray Hem, Shem & Jacob (trade-mark) sack suit, and a red necktie, rather a striking contrast to the Immaculate make-up of the senator from the north. Then followed a motley mob, and It was not supposed to be a fancy dress affair. There were grizzled cow-punchers cow-punchers jmd Illiterate" United States' Senators, there were Mormon elders vith long coats and dlnkpy ties; there were costumes that would make one of Joulln's Indians look like a parson. The banquet room Was filled with men, women and children, many of whqm were paralyzed, for Moet & Chandon make" a -good -wine and a bjtif 'wine, and they' gave' ?1000 worth" of the inferior product to the revellers. ,. The smoker on anothe'r floor looked like San-guenetti's San-guenetti's on a good night, and after the doors were closed at a wee hour in the morning, the wid open town profited much through the inclinations in-clinations of the young bloods from Salt Lake and the Junction City. |