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Show 1CMIESE OF SSET : LAKE CELEBRATE Quoueless and clothed in American fashion, the 600 and more Chinese in Salt Lake City demonstrated last night in favor of the republic of China. Chi-na. Manchus took to cover and Caucasians Cau-casians walked while a parade containing con-taining ail the available taxlcabs and two .American bands was cpnductetl through the business streets to the Oriental quarter. Remembrance of a safe and sane ' Fourth of July rankled deep in the mind of the American small boy asvhe ? stopped, looked at the blazing rockets rock-ets and listened to the din of exploding ex-ploding firecrackers. A part of the program In the evening was a banquet ban-quet given by the Young China association as-sociation at which a number of city officials were guests. Tho night's icvelry wound up with the dismantling of the jobs house in Plum alley, where for decades the de-out de-out Chihaman has propitiated tho evil spirits with Jinsel money and courted favor with the good deities by means of burning odorous sticks and revolving prayer wheels. Joss had no friends. The costly I hangings were torn asunder and the Image of the god was subjected to all manner of indignities without a word of protest from any quarter, although some of tho older Chinese kept their fingers crossed. "Now me Christian all the same as you," announced the reformers when the temple had been made to resemble resem-ble an Amorlcan domicile in house-cleaning house-cleaning season. |