| Show 2 r BLAZE Of COLOR COLORi i COVERS STREETS i l Gladsome Welcome Wafted toJ toj to J j 0 Veterans From Every t Vantage Point h. r i CITY CITY IN HOLIDAY HOLIDAY ATTIRE Business Me Men und nd Householders HouseholdE Household Household- j. j E ers Decorate Liberally i P With National Colors i r in n the r Thousands o of flags flapping weI wel- wel 1 breal and ami bidding a n gladsome I I- I bold of red rell white anti and I blue bl making attractive U ve otherwise o bleak bak I L L. L walls walli hundreds of Qt portraits of oC Lincoln of or the gallery gallery gal gal- alt al- al Grant Sherman and i. i lery of great rent men whom the they knOW knew t and ond loved during t tle te e wars of or st strife 1 and bloodshed of ot 1119 Civil II war war those to theA the tho I and man many other othor symbols common veterans of tho the Grand Army of or the tho Rei HeI Re- Re I A all nil over or th their lr places have havo taken I I i public welcome wel wel- ve mute speaking a a Salt Lake Laic City thousands of veterans who w come como the will arrive here thin week for National Encampment third Forty-third In the history of ot Salt Lake has hast Never Kover tho the whole city taken on such a gala galai t displays Never Nevor i appearance an as It now tho the entered so o wholeheartedly whole whole- havo people J they P t heartedly into an any project where I 1 mean to show sho such entertainment to tho Grand Arm Army mon men women as during they ha havo o. o never encountered encampments the many mapy years cars since r have been Men held all over the tho United States For weeks the work of of- decorating tho elt city has been In progress but not until the week just closed has tho the work woric been taken up generally In tho the business district flags and bunting predominate with here and there thero tho the portrait of or some somo of or the great heroes of ot those times Umes when the they vero fighting fight fight- ing ng for tor tIle tho preservation of or tho the Union Bleak walls valls nave have been mado attractive h by decorators who have made this work a study and In somo some cases ca all ex excepting ox- ox tho the windows havo have been hidden b by the bright national colors Str street t e In 11 1 For more than a 1 week the streets havo 0 appeared In gala attain with streams of at colored van flags I stretchIng stretch stretch- enhanced by Ing from froni curb to curb flags lying flying from tops of or poles at Intervals Intervals Inter Inter- vals on the main streets of or the city In the thc downtown district Tho Tim streamers stream stream- ore ers Include almost every overy flag laG In the tho I CodA system but not a foreign flag is Js t to b bo be bs s seen sn n flying above the heads of or those who pass on the asphalt as as- hait streets below Some of or tho the lar larger er buildings g waited until tho the last moment before the work of decorating tho the walls was started started- This ThIR wa through fear Coar that rain against Eyo IO o flags anti bunting would woul stainS the tho walls But with tho the rise of oC the Sun Monday morning Salt Sail Lako Lake City will vill back resplendent In red roti white and blue and bid a glorious welcome welcome wel wel- come como to enter her gates Not only have the tho merchants shown i their In decorating their walls but hut storo store windows too bear the tho same happy strain T Thousands of ot dollars have been spent Inthis work especially during luring the last few tew days das and many Interesting window displays havo have been made mado at downtown stores One window for Instance shows a miniature cannon and ond other war scenes that will appeal to tho the veteran of or the long a ago o. o Others havo have bunting In national colors draped o attractively about their merchandise or gaudy paper ornaments are alO conspicuously arrayed amon among objects of oC th the tho commercial business f. f Whitlow Are Besides tho the signs of tho the G. 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R en encampment on- on shown In tho the windows mer- mer Ii havo boan 1 busy U n c t io tho In t rl 0 P thc 1111 tore II In lb the thit same samo colors Long streams of hr F run from post to post and at nt r attractive arrays ot of JUgs JUgs' or other Ina materials a are 11 soon seen i The TIle whole combines a most patriotic scene In all of or tho the decorations the therod therod rod white whito and blue predominates Among tho the residences the tho same samo condition con con- Is Js true Flags have havo been hung hunS from the tho porches and portraits of at the war heroes hung In fn tho the windows Thero There I have been Fourth of or JUl July In Jn Salt Lake Lako when everything seemed scorned to bear a gala appearance appearanceS but nothing I remotely approaching tho the decorative climax arrayed for tho encampment has I yet yot been seen From each coch railroad station uptown veterans will ride under patriotic banners ban ban- ners with the streets-flanked streets with the tho same flamo colors and everywhere tho word welcome stands out prominently among tho the other welcoming signs But Dut not until they get uptown will the vet vet- crans orans and their friends encounter I the thereal real beauty of these decorations |
