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Show MINERS' UNION DAY CELEBR.ATEU AT LAGOON MONDAY. . - o 'ikfr - ;fM-"''' ind yi cjv : . S I IClV, k V Vv k, ft j I X' Ii - , t fcic ' i ; -wrtp- r f , ii ' r , vl "t . ' ' ri 1 urn 1 m mm Minim i i iiyiii,iiiiiiMiintirTyitrftitniMlBUJJJ' (Courtesy of the Salt Lake Herald.) HE second annual outing of the Miner's unoins of Utah was held Monday at Lagoon, whe re nearly 2,000 minors and their families, from all ff over the state assembled. The visitors a rived in special trains over the Kio Grande and Oregon Short Line railroads. The mines in all the ffX principal camps" were closed down to enable the employes to celebrate Miners' day in a fitting manner. The railroads sent three special trains to Park City Sunday night to bring down the union men from that place. There were nine cars from Bingham and four from West Jordan. The Eureka delegation came in on the regular morning train, due in Salt Lake at 10 o'clock. f All the heavily loaded trains arrived in the city at about the same time. The excursionists were met at the depots by reception committees of the Utah Federation of Labor, who greeted the visitors cordially and extended to them the freedom of the city. The forenoon was delightfully spent in marching through the broad, level, pictureesque thoroughfares of Salt Lake a luxury for the miners compared with the rough, barren hills of the camps and in listening to addresses of welcome by local talent in the Feeration of Labor hall at State and Fourth South streets. In the afternoon the crowd went out to Lagoon. Hourly trains on the SaJt Lake & Ogden railway carried the throngs that rode to and from the park until late last night. Fully 2,000 rersons passed through the gates at the resort. The people there amused themsel?s in various ways. The children patronized the merry-go-round and the miniature railway, while the older folks howled, danced and rowed on the .lagoon. The latter presented a pleasing picture, many rowboats gliding back and forth slowly over the water, while a little power launch steamed rapidly in and out among them. At a late hour the excursionists returned to Salt Lake and thence to thov -'-.rious camp homes, being well pleased wiih the day. and its ights.,ajid attractions. - , ... - The above cut is a group of ofiicers of the Miners' unions, taken at the Lagoon. Iieading from left to right: Top row Louis Iloberti. recording record-ing secretary of the mercur local; Con Gallagher, treasurer of tlic Valley Snieltermen's local; Axel Steele, deputy sheriff, visitor; O. 21.. Carpenter of Tellurido, state organized, W. F. M.; Kobert Works, vice president of the Stockton local; J. Munsey, Western Federation of Labor, of Salt Lake; A. W. Charter, president of the Utah State Miners' union and secretary of the West Jordan Smeltermen's local; E. G. Locke, financial secretary of the Bingham local; Frank Erickson, president of the Bingham local. Bottom row E. J. Seybold, vice president of the Eureka local; J. T. Lavey, chairman of the reception committee of the State Federation of Labor; Charles Facey, president of the West Jordan SmelterrAen's local; Nicholas Combs, financial secretary of the Eureka local. r i |