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Show RECORD CROWDS ATTEND M. I. A. JUBUE IEET Parade Largest In History Of Tha Inter-Mountain Wast Bait Lake City. The eyes of many thousands of people In Utah and the surrounding atates, reaching aa fat north as Canada, and as far aouth as Ariiona and Mexico, are now turned towarda Salt Lake City, and many have attended the great Mutual Improvement Im-provement Conference and Jubilee held from June 6th to June 10th. The Jubilee brought to Salt Lake City one of the greatest gatherings of young people ever assembled in the inter-mountain country. Representatives Repre-sentatives gathered from Idaho, Wyoming, Wy-oming, Ariiona, Nevada, Oregon. Colorado, Col-orado, and Canada, took part In this great celebration. It was fifty years ago, on the 10th of June. 1875, in the Thirteenth ward, In Salt Lake City, that the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association Associa-tion waa organised, by Junius F. Wells, under the direction of President Presi-dent Brlgham Young. A few years previous to that a Young Women Organisation had been started, which afterwards became the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. These organizations together. now have over 100,000 members. It waa tha annual June Conference of these great associations that occasioned the Jubilee celebration of this Fiftieth Anniversary. Over 25,000 guests In Salt Lake In addition to the local citizens cit-izens witnessed aome of the features of the occasion. Starts With Reception A reception for all the delegates was given In honor of the First Presidency Presiden-cy of the church. It was necessary to utilize three large buildings for this reception. It was carried on simultaneously sim-ultaneously In the magniflclent church office building, this being the first function of this kind ever held In the building, the Deseret Gymnasium Gym-nasium and the Odeon Hall, were used us-ed In addition. Over three thousand people were at the reception. During the three days very Important Import-ant general and departmental meetings meet-ings were conducted in which vital mutual improvement problems were discussed. This organization was under the direction ot expert leaders and afforded an unusual opportunity for Mutual Improvement workers. One feature of the Jubilee was a grand pageant "The Torch of Inspiration" Inspir-ation" given In the great Tabernacle. For this special occasion a great cy-clorama, cy-clorama, or stage draping was used for the first time extending across the entire end of this historic building, build-ing, affording a stage setting and back-ground for the pageant The principal feature on the stage was a Greek Temple, around which was depicted de-picted the development of Mutual lm provement Work Past, Present, and Future. The cyclorama Is necessarily necessar-ily of great dimensions, consisting of a complete set of beautiful velour curtains, which will form a valuable and permanent equipment for such similar events as iray be, In the future, fu-ture, presented In the tabernacle. Over seven hundred people took part in the pageant Ahcve the stag. was Mounted a great torch, significant tf the theme treated. Music Contest Another special feature of the Jubilee Ju-bilee was a Grand Concert in the Tabernacle, Tab-ernacle, which brought together the winners of the M. I A. Contests the quartettes, the male choruses, the ladles choruses, and the bands. These presented their winning numbers. There was also an ensemble including includ-ing 22 contesting male choruses, and one of 42 contesting ladies choruses; and a great ensemble of 16 brass bands, which rendered special numbers. num-bers. On Wednesday, June 10th, at 11 o'clock started from tbe head of Main street, the greatest parade ever produced pro-duced In the Inter-mountain States. More than ten thousand people reported re-ported for participation In this great event. It consisted of fourteen divisions, divi-sions, under the direction of former Governor Charles R. Mabey, as Grand Marshall, with one hundred selected aides. The procession marched down Main street to 7th South, thence back on Main street to 2nd South; thence East to State street; thence north to South Temple, and then passed the Reviewing Stand In front of the Church Office building. This great event was called the "The Parade of che Banners," for there were hundreds hun-dreds of beautiful banners carried In more than one hundred units of parade, by representatives of over S73 associations, having a total membership mem-bership of more than 100,000. At the head of these banners a magnificent banna- of silk end gold, perhaps the finest banner ever seen in this locality local-ity is carried. In the various divisions divi-sions were eleven specially prepared floats, representing the studies am activities of the association Religion History, Science. Music. Literature Recreation, Fathers-and-sons Outing Mothers and-Daughters Dav and three pageant floats-Past Present and future. |