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Show HVE TCA5NS FOR THE OLD PEOPLE Over 1,400 Excursionists Departed For Lagoon Today, of Whom More Than 1,000 Were Old Folks Great Day For Ag-e'd First Train Will Return at 6:15 This Afternoon. ber county female. The woman who has had the greatest great-est numler of children. The father of the largest num-ber of children. The oldest man who crossed the j plains In a hnnd-cart company. , The oldest woman who crossed the plains In a hand-cart company. The oldest Mexican war veteran. The oldest wifo of a Mexican war veteran. The oldest irrigator (tho one en- I gaged the greatest number of years lu j Irrigating). . The oldest colored man. Oldest colored woman. Oldest English man. Oldest English woman. Oldest American man. j I Oldest American woman. Oldest Scotch man. Oldest Scotch woman. Oldest Irish man. ' Oldest Irish wmnn. j Oldest Welch man. . ; Oldest Welch woman, Oldest Swed.sb ninn. Oldest Swedish woman, j Oldest Norwegian man. ! Oldest Norwegian woman. Oldest Danish man. Oldest Dinlsh woman. Oldest Italian man. Oldest Italian woman. Oldest German man. Oldest German woman. Oldest Holland man. Oldest Holland woman. Oldest French niHn. Oldest French woman. Today helonged to the old folks of Weber county and they spent It at Iagoon. Over one thousand men and women, who have passed the seventieth sev-entieth mile-stone In life, left Ogden this morning for the resort on the Bamberger lineR south of this city. They were accompanied by two hundred hun-dred ami sixty persons whose duty It Is to see that even the feeblest of their guests enjoy the day's outing. The outing was g.ven under the auspices aus-pices of the Weber County Old Folks committee consisting of twelve members, mem-bers, appointed by the presidencies of the Weber. North Weber and Ogden slakes. It consists of the bishop of each of the ten city wards and Lynne. Bishop D. H. Ensign is chairman of the committee and Counsellor John V. Bluth. of the North Weber stake presidency, is secretary. This committee com-mittee met recently and appointed various subcommittees and with their aid the big affair was carried out with a success perhaps unequalled In the history of the day. The committee began the work of gathering together their guests aboit S o'clock this morning. Cabs, carriages, car-riages, automobiles and the street cars were used to bring the old folks to the Bamberger depot. The first train-load train-load of people left for tne Lagoon at 9:13. In all there were five trains use,i to convey the aged pick-nickers to the park. Each section consisted of five coaches and they were all comfortably com-fortably filled, the committee being careful to see lhat there was no crowding. An entire express car was reserved reserv-ed for the conveyance of the viands. There was certainly no lack of food. either, of lhat wholesome variety which many of the old pioneers still crave, or of the more modern type of delicacies which even the pioneers are not loath to eat as a dessert. Nichols' band went ahng to furnish fur-nish music and thero were many old-time old-time airs played that brought tears to the eyes of tho excursionists. Not tears of grief, but -just reminiscent tears, not altogether unpleasant to eyes lhat have long been dry. i Altogether there were one thous-j thous-j and and eight old people entertain-I entertain-I ed. Eight hundred and thirty of these were between the ages of 70 and 80. One hundred and seventy were over SO years old and eight were mor than 90 years of age. Those are the ages as the cold statistician sta-tistician would count them, but today the dial of time was turned back by the hand of memory. All the aged were again young. In reminiscence they retraced their steps backward over the by-gone road to youth; back to the pioneer days of Weber county when, with the vlgur of youth, they fought with the adversities of rugced nature and triumphed. The fur rows of age changed to the ripples of laughter or the courses of tears as they lived again those hard yet Joyful days. Some of them In memory pulled the hand carts over the long trails, lived on the roots of a desert soil, thirsted for water, battled up the steeps of the mountains all to build for themselves a new home. Age is lost In theee recollections. Tt Is forgotten as the picture changes and the dark shades are lighted by the wonderful progress or civilization civiliza-tion which their eyes have witnessed. i ne nwuKcmns or a asaa sou. me blooming of orchards, tho golden blush of the irrigated fields and the geni-like geni-like building of cities and IIlnces all In their life time. Age may build I tombs and destrcy nations, but It fall-I fall-I ed utterly to touch the hearts of the Weber county folks at the I-agonn today to-day They were all young and they enjoyed all the features of amusement at the park, whether or not they really real-ly participated In them. Besides the committee and their guests a great many of the friends, the chlldreu and relatives of the old folks a1f- were there. It !s certain that at least l.O) people left this citv for the park this morning. The return trin was made late this afternoon. The first returning train wl'l leave the Lagoon at 5:30 and the succeeding trains will follow at Inter-vals Inter-vals of about th.rty minutes. All of the guests will be returned to their homes by the committee and will he the wards of the committee until they are safely under their own rvofs. During the day the following program pro-gram was rendered: Music by the band. Prayer. Male Quartette Orson Griffin. Wm. , Purdie, Wm. Pickett and Gerard Klomp. Remarks. Solo M th. A. pv. C. Smith. Recitation Mrs. Ann Browning. Comic Sone Matthew Gait. Selection by the band. I Recltotlcn Matthew Gait. Awarding of prizes for the follow-1 Inrr. iThose whi arc on the grounds): j O'dcst man. Oldest woman. Oldest couple married lonrest Earliest Pioneer man. Fnrlieat Pleneer woman. O'dopt member G' A. R. Oldest wife of a member of the G. A. R. Oldest continuous resident of We-Ler We-Ler county - male. Oldest continuous resident of We- |