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Show ' WELtfo EWI Llfo CROWD BATTLES TO HEAR THE ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT IN HISTORIC HIS-TORIC TABERNACLE. Cheering Crowds Pay Respects to Chief Executive When He Comes to Answer Objector to the Peace Treaty. Salt Lake City. President Woodrow Wilson was Die honored guest of Utah on September 23. when he made two addresses, one at Ogden and the other in the celebrated tabernacle at Salt Lake. The president made but a brief talk at Ogden, following a drive through the city, when the presidential party was cheered lo the echo by admiring ad-miring L'tahns. Arriving at Salt Lake City at 4:30, the president and Mrs. Wilson, followed fol-lowed by the other members of the party, rode through the business section sec-tion to the acclaim of one of the largest larg-est crowds ever assembled in the capital.' capi-tal.' From the moment the atttos bearing bear-ing the distinguished visitors left the station until the president had sought his room at the hotel, he was given a continuous ovation. When the president reached the tabernacle tab-ernacle for the purpose of setting forth his arguments for the speedy ratification ratifica-tion of uie peace treaty, the building was filled to overflowing, many more people being unable to secure an entrance en-trance than those who were fortunate enough to crowd into the tabernacle. The crowds were so great that many women fainted. Only the early coiners coin-ers w ere able to secure admission. The presidential special train left the Oregon Short Line raillroatl depot at JO o'clock that night for Cheyenne, Wyo., the next stopping place of the torn-. President Woodrow Wils-on is the fifth president of the United States to pay Stilt Lake an officiiil visit. The first president to visit the state was President l.'lysses S. Grant. Later came President Benjamin Harrison, President Presi-dent Theodore Itoosevelt. President William Howard Taft, and President Wilson. On all occasions, according to Andrew .lenstm, church historian af the L. I). S. church, the presidents received wonderful ovations. While in Salt Lake, President Wilson Wil-son was guarded thoroughly. Fifteen hundred detectives, policemen, - Boy Scouts, menders of the state militia, deputy sheriffs :and secret: service men assisted in keeping order during the parade. At might in the tabernacle the grounds were patrolled by the Salt Lake police, 'members of the sheriff's office and itle state militia. |