Show SALT LAKE SHOWS TO The Old and the Young Join in Perpetuating His Memory MASS OF WAVING FLAGS Patriotic Addresses Songs and Toasts Show Their Reverence Salt Lake City yesterday honored the tha memory of Abraham Lincoln in a l manner mannor which gave unmistakable evidence evi ovi- ovi dence that his life and deeds left an impress which hIts has been un b by bythe bytho the tho forty tort years ear which havo o passed since he hl sacrificed his lire lira on the alter of ot liLa hL country The day was generally general general- Iy ly observed as one of ot rest and nd ovi- ovi dences of the esteem In which tho great martyr Is held were plentiful Hag flag that floated front from the breeze e every pIcture picture pic pie ture over every portrait tho thousands of copies of ot his Gettysburg address be bespoke bespoke be- be spoke the warm the reverent devo devotion evo- evo tion which people of every oven creed very color and very vory nation bears for tor tho the hero of other days danl Thursday every public school In the city had appropriate exercises Not Oot only ill iii this city but in every cry village and hamlet throughout tho the state the rising generation was WIlS taught to ro ro- yore vere the memory an and honor the name of Lincoln Salt SaiL Lako Lake yesterday ay unfurled her banners to the air all and from ever every street could bo be e seen en the nags lags waving And iid there was not a man maa a 0 women woman c a child nor a stranger from foreign land who did not know what It meant Utah signally honored him when It I mado made his birthday a state stute holiday The Ther r reverential feeling which prompted that act burned as brightly In tho hearts of ot the tho of ot the states tate at Washington when tho they made mado tho the da day a special holiday It was an act of love but came as UI a gentle reproof re reproof re- re proof to the few tew states which have havo not made mado his birthday a a. holiday Aside o for the acts of state and nation there was In evidence tho the universal spirit of or re respect respect respect re- re to him 1 whose atmosphere still hovers ov over r the land and who whose e In Influence In- In fluence Is everywhere felt and l ledged In front trout of oe many theaters and places of business In Salt Lake yesterday yesterday yester yester- day portraits of Lincoln were dis die played In many of the display windows windows win win- dows dews his picture was surrounded by wreathes of flowers Newspapers published pub pub- his hiD portrait and gave ev- ev e descriptive articles treating of ot his life lite Ms iS character and anti the stirring stirring stir stir- ring events of ot the period in which ho he lived And last lad night addresses patriotic pat pat- songs arid and rover reverential were given Iven throughout hout the city No city in the Union It Is sate safe to say bay ex exceeded exceeded ex- ex Salt Lake In the honor shown to the tho memory of ot Abraham Lincoln |