Show K THE OPENING r ogden oden the queen last list night erected greeted abbott the jacen and the reunion was an event thai that will long be remembered it was witnessed by the wealth beauty and fashion of utah tt taft ft and by kv leading citizens from the eur sur JW territories to ri rt eay say that it was magnificent ia Is bat but to state a grand fact plainly there was al neither hitch barnor jar nor unpleasant nees and from the moment the crowd surged in through the opened doors till the last spectator bad left 6 the building there waa was nothing to in r the joyousness joyous nesi ot of the occa py r eion sion letus let us hope that the opening nights success may be the foretaste of a long career of prosperity the opera bouse house now being in a sense public property there remains but to hold up to public gratitude the men to whom the public are indebted for it eccles dark clark J 31 and 11 8 browning are citizens whom the community had bad gladly seen upon the platform last evening to receive the appreciation which is their due mr whitaker the tle architect has made his reputation at a birgle stroke these are men in whom ogden has a con scions pride not lesE lessened ened by the fact that they were also her tons at a time that looked iee leas promising than the present pree ent they have grown with her I 1 growth and their prosperity is but a pa t of here all honor to them and may their days of success and happiness be many in the land I 1 of he the bewitching lady to whose I 1 lot at fell the proud duty of opening the house no more need bs said than that I 1 abe she fulfilled evry every expectation but as for bowes and phillips it would be leas than just to omit to eay say hat that their exertions to please ond and accommodate the public were superhuman omnipresent and in every instance ine tanco courteous they convinced all who met them that they were gentlemen who thoroughly understood their business bua inesz well the curtain has fallen brou prou proudly adly on the first performance may like I 1 lock ack attend it every time I 1 |