| Show I Dinosaur Bones 25 Million Years old I Attract Thousands of Salt Lakers Y r Salt Lake Lale Tribune Utah's now famous Dinosaurs u caravan ended Its mlle mile journey e when at the pace of at a silent cortege cos- cos cor- cor tege it moved through the tr ti halted streets of at Salt Lake alter after 2 o'clock Schedule time Red ed September 17 l The caravan ot of twenty somewhat lookIng shaky wagons covered wI win windust dust laden with hay bay bags provisIons provisions provis- provis Ions and the bone cages drew o t thousands of Interested spectators spectator It was as promised the most plc- plc and authentic spectacle of Its kind ever on view In the wes west And as such it went down n historical cal caly In memory in these and other words and on the history recording recording film ot of the movies 0 In a few rew weeks the world orld wil wi wilbe i ibe be apprised in feature articles pic pick tures and In motion pictures or of two things One that Utah staged a dinosaur carvan journey unlike anything else In the world and that the University or of Utah Is today proud possessor ot of the biggest mOSt priceless Collection of dinosaur bones of at any lU state school In this or f any other country countr in the The singular transport service held up stool stood the gaff and did the work worle For miles over roans at times none too good and at other times all to the bad over o sagebrush plateaus and down steep canyon canon grades the d raising dust strIng of oC Country wagons made their way averaging twenty five rules miles a ada aday da day rain or shine hot bot or cold cola There was one leader Uncle John Kay a silent but genial man manof of the western leader type and under under un- un der him were drivers all or of Vernal ernal men ot of the country whose own bones upon arrival here viere weary a-weary of oC the world and who nt at their camp amp behind the John R. R P Park rk building building- were ere tt tche lr than J comforting grass The parade h by band or ostentatious display was more like a funeral funeral-a Procession I of hallowed than bones any 1 homecoming The pace alter after nine day on the changing roads was slow the hors s were tired the themen themen men were almost sunk But Dut as they neared the city plugging plug plug- ging their way up State street from I their noonday camp at first Twenty South street where they weighed In their pounds of at bones at Bamberger's coal yards ards and ate their lunch their spirits rose Ahead of them they could see the poplar trees ot of Salt Lake Lalee City the clean white dome of the capitol the spires of the city and county building building build build- ing the distant horizon of various clubs lubs and angles marking the business business busi- busi ness section of the town Th There re she is said Uncle John and those behind behin him not too tired I gave out spontaneous solos ot of their joy joyT t I T The lie last forty miles of the trIp I were the easiest forty and grateful bodies responded to the smooth rolling rhythm of the wagon wheels upon the pavement pa encountered near the mouth ot of Provo Pro canyon As the caravan yesterday neared Ninth South and amI State streets streets- ten minutes ahead Of schedule schedule- the group was met by a a. or of mounted police and escorted past the tho city and county building where Mayor who had ha-d welcomed the caravan at th the point ot of the mountaIn Tues Tuesday a greeted them again shook hands with Uncle John Johan and reiterated his best hest wishes to the gang Nothing But Dut SIJ Silent nt Crates The wagon train wheeled widely to o the west at Third South street and aster alter passing motion picture photographers at the Main street corner silently and slowly marched through the business district to the Hotel Utah corner I There was 88 little save the external external exter- exter 1 nal elements of the picturesque to satisfy the curious onlookers who in n many cases probably expected I to see soe something alive with the silent crates I Respecting this great lack Jesse Burke Durke earlier In the dB had t S II the universal need Pounding vigorously on the crate ensconced behind his seat I he be startled d the with his ries I Back Dack there OIt Git back down in that there cage And the for the moment mo- mo ment ent taken In got back farther tarther than than the monsters ever or will r Bones repeated a very dart darn youngster to his older Informant Bones Bones dat at size Ia Lay off orr mis mister mister- erho er- er Who ho aBd roll 1011 em But bones they were and bones they ar deader are deader Ulan than seven doornails door door- nails nails and unlike the bones In the hymn Its It's doubtful dO if they'll theU ever er rise again If they some did of the tty'S itys five tremendous monsters would stand fifteen to twenty feet teet high and from the tip of their vegetarian etarian snouts to the whip of their tall tail would be one hundred even feet teet I Reach U nt at Dusk i Yes sir called back Stephen Atwood Alwood skinner y soup bones bones that's that's what they are And good big too Reaching the university grounds ground I shortly before dusk the tiva ons drew up before a small building which during the war period had I f 1 I Been en a school for tor automobile rne- rne I v I On the steps of the Park memo memo- memo memo-I rat hall President Thomas I Uncle John Kay on the i of the trIp and on the carE in handling what the president declared he believed belie to tope fine pe very materiaL he work worl w wilt ll be 1 beas be- be e- e as soon as possible and com cont- t this winter or next spring it Ir speed can be Lr Jr Douglass the Carnegie paleontologist t i loaned by Director Stew Stew- n. n i of the Carnegie museum to the university for the year which now h. h liar Ss ended probably wih assist in 1 eI assembling Professor Frederick J. J Pack who r even 1 ears has q tat s 's s ping 5 some me of the bones walled up In her own Uintah mona moun- mountain tain has seen h by now his wishes fulfilled more full fully cheaply and complete than he expected He will begin his year soon and in the east and in England tell the world of Utah's wonders not the least of which will Include this particular collection adjudged by br those who know to be the finest or of orI its type In e existence o |
