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Show Great Crowds Greet Ogden SAM Nearly 600 men of Utah and Nevada, members of tho now draft army which is on its way to American Lake, Wash., were given a Jubilant farewell at tho union depot last night by several thousand thou-sand citizens of Ogden city and Weber county. Included in the departing soldiery sol-diery were thlrty-soven men from the city and county. Two cars from Lincoln Lin-coln and Clark counties, Nevada, joined the special train at this point and were taken with tho Utah contingent contin-gent The affair at tho depot was tho greatest demonstration since the boys left for the Spanish-American war, many said, who attended IL A band played patriotic airs, American songs wero sung and hundreds of throats cheered heartily for tho departing men. The Girls' band, under tho leadership lead-ership of E. W. Nichols, was present and furnished popular music, ending with America, which brought everyone every-one in tho dopot to his feet with lively live-ly singing. The girls also sang a song for the boys after they were entrained. It was a parody on Sousa's song "Glorious," "Glo-rious," the words being adapted by Misses Dorothy NIohols and Dona Calvert. Cal-vert. As the young ladles rendered the song first in front of one car its popularity spread and they were required re-quired to sing It for all of the cars with the boys craning their necks from windows win-dows and doors. Scenes of sentiment were not absent from the large crowd, but the "morale was good" as the war front reports come back, relatives and friends keeping keep-ing in good spirits and helping thus to lessen the burden of the departure. The men who arrived in Ogden during the afternoon had already allowed their spirits to assert themselves and wero In a Jolly mood and their feelings feel-ings wero contagious throughout the whole crowd. It was the opinion of nearly every ono who saw the crowd at the depot that Utah was sending men of whom she certainly could be proud. Besides the Girls' band there was a delegation of Junior Guards under the directfon of R. E. Wilson, and these young men displayed themselves to advantage ad-vantage In tho martial throng. The Lady Militants were also out in a body and made several young soldiers blush with pleasurable embarrassment when they responded to the atmosphere of tho occasion and kissed them goodby. Tho boys from Ogden city and Weber We-ber county were given their farewell dinner at a local cafe. Members of the county and city draft boards and several newspaper men were present. It was originally planned to give tho boys a banquet in formal style in honor hon-or of the event but the plan did not materialize. Captain A. J. Mechin, of the staff of the adjutant general in Salt Lake, was in charge of the special train and stated stat-ed last night that the boys were as fine a lot of prospective soldiers as he had ever seen and ho expected them to shape up into soldiers as quickly and successfully as any men in the country. Cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs by the crowd was the final note in the departure, as the long train pulled out for the north. |