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Show TEN THOUSAND FROM OUTSIDE OCDEN SEE PARADE In summing up the material benefits bene-fits that may accrue to the business interests of Ogden, through the pioneer pio-neer celebration yesterday, it may be conservatively estimated that the city held, during the major portion of the day, 10,000 visitors. Of these, It is said that the Ogden. Logan & Idaho carried between 4000 and 5000 people into the city from the north, about 800 from Ogden valley and several hundred from the Plain City districts; the Bamberger railroad brought approximately ap-proximately 1000 from Salt Lake and intermediate points, and the Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line. Southern Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande Western brought several hundreds from points on their lines in Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Utah, Idaho and Nevada. To these were added many hundreds who came to the city in automobiles, buggies, bug-gies, horseback or by other means of travel. As a member of the Daughters of the Pioneers Btated last night. "The number of visitors simply surpassed all expectations.'1 It was estimated that 25,000 people viewed the pageant in the morning, and 15,000. the baby carriage parade in the evening, while the crowd that viewed the fireworks display numbered at least 10,000. During the morning parade, people were massed on the sidewalks and on the streets for a distance of more than three miles, in such large numbers num-bers that it was almost Impossible, by the arrangements previously de-Used, de-Used, to keep them from crowding into the parade line of march. This condition was also true early in the evening on Washington avenue, between be-tween Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth streets and at Lester park later. The local refreshment parlors, hotels, ho-tels, cafes and concessionaries profited prof-ited much by the presence of the people peo-ple downtown In even,' respect, the celebration was declared a huge success. It was announced today, that the Fashion Show committee had purchased pur-chased the fireworks that were not exploded last night, about $200 worth, and arrangements were made with C. W. Paradice, representative of the Western Fireworks company of Denver Den-ver to prepare a display which will exceed last night's in brilliance and variety |