Show IT WAS UTAH DAY off AT THE FAIR AIRI grand reception held in festival hall THE LIBERTY BELL DEDICATED choir assists in the ceremonies Cerera onles ad dresses by gov west and the presidents dents of tho church d t I 1 WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS CHICAGO sept 9 special U utah tali contributed her share towards enterA entertaining pining the 1 worlds fair visitors and pot got tier quota of advert advertising isina out of the great cengr contreas 8 of nations by celebrating the tile anniversary of her enabling act in ili festival 11 hall today tho the affair was not particularly particular lv well wound up tip and no pro gramme of exercises had bad been announced in advance but curiosity to see the mormon choir and to see the mormon leaders drew or people to together zether to these an interesting two hours were given and if they did not carry away with them enough facts about utah to fill a volume it was because they did not have their ears 0 open The choir was on hand wi with t it ila radclifft Rad dc cliffo arn afe and rid daynes at the great organ mr chambers presided and opened the proceedings with a speech about the glories of utah and her people then the tile choir rendered the star spangled banner mr chambers successively introduced mrs richards governor west president woodruff and president george Q cannon all of whom made felicitous addresses which were gre greatly atly a applauded pp I 1 added the governor was specially happy in his remarks he ile paid a glowing tribute to the enterprise of chicago and drew a graceful parallel b between e tween columbus and the tile eaarl early utah pioneers one of whom he aid d had lad survived and was on the pla platform tl 0 today he ile traced the growth of culture in utah and then came to the choir which he lie eaid said had come in a special train of pullmans and carried off a prize in the worlds competition ho though it was not the tile first prize said t tho gov governor einor we are satisfied with it at this tills there was a prolonged outburst of applause president woodruff spoke of the pioneers in a five minutes address and was also heartily applauded prof organ solo shook tho the building weilia as usual got an uproarious ro recall president cannon made mado a ringing forcible speech on religious f freedom ai and d the motives that took the mormon pioneers to utah lie ile was very attentively listened to as ho lie drew a picture of what the mormons had wrought in utah and of the tile future outlook of the ter territory to r 3 mrs irs P F B hamilton II milton next gave an organ solo it 0 easton then sang 0 0 my aly father announced as a typical mormon hymn with fine effect As an encore he lie gave annie lauric the proceedings proceedings closed with alie hallelujah by y the chol choir r all the till utah contingent contine ent was on hand and awoke the echoes every time the territory tile Dio pioneers or the tile choir was mentioned on the tile stage besides governor west and mr chambers were Pival presidents dente woodruff and cannon I 1 fon Jo john hiir T caine W E II elias morris hon ilon solomon thatcher a dozen ladies including tie Mes damba richards gilmer and bullock mr folland col sells commissioner godfrey and 0 others the re the celebrated fred douglass w was as also shown on to the platform and slid he led the applause vociferously the U utah tali festivities began last night with a reception to governor west and presidents Woo woodruff drug cannon and smith at the utah building the place was thronged wi with t h notables and refreshments fresh ments were served 1 ty y a dozen of salt lakes fair daughters all arrayed in white there was plenty of music and sociability unlimited mr weihe mr krouse 31 mrs Pug gley mrs woodrow and mrs Allis allisen cin taking part the reception lasted till midnight and was attended by all the utah people in chi CIA cago I 1 an offer has bits just been ri received Ived bv by the choir to sing in tho the carnegie carneal 1 music hall new now york also in washington boston I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 t L 41 4 1 and phi philadelphia lad e 1 ehla the proposal 1 comes come from th tho noted t e bureau manager major pond unfortunately engagements here and in omaha have prevented its ac cep tance CHICAGO sept 9 by associated press this was a one of the red letter days at the fair the weather was perfect the sky clear with a bracing breeze to begin with it was grand army day ayan and the e veterans had t the e rig I 1 of way ay thousands of them were present on n their wa way I 1 from rom the na national tio nal encampment at indianapolis in a and among others the tile new commander in chief adams and halt a dozen post commanders ol 01 all the states in addition to thie this it was california day utah day civil en engineers igl n aers day transportation day jay to ded dedicate C t ethe the new I 1 liberty bell and the transfer of the columbus I 1 caravels from spain to the united states california kept open house in honor of the anniversary of her admission into the union giving away a train load of fruit utah with its magnificent mormon choir of voices assisted at the dedication of the liberty bell along with the grand army men and thousands of school children who strewed flowers and set ite its great metal sides resounding with a stroke for each state and territory governor west and the utah commissioners had their hands full receiving guests who called at the territory 0 building during the day it had uen been decided by the commission to give a reception to tile general public instead of having in a parade in view of the fact that several other parades biad been planned the pretty little building was waa decorated extensively extensive iv and here in the main parlor governor west and his staff and the commissioners received citizens of utah and the public the tabernacle c choir it air rendered music during the reception during the past week governor west has been arousing sentiment among the peo people and they h have been coming to the pre fair ir in in vast numbers in all this rush utah has tent its full sharo share of visitors and today to day they invaded their state bu building ilUng shook hands with their governor and yie viewed wed the beauties of tho tile exposition ear the a exercises which hud bad been pro pared in honor of tile day were carried out in festival liall hall that building being better adapted to hold the tile crowds than tho state building governor west mado made an address hi ili which he praised the tile exposition management for what it had prepared for tile people of the world and complimented his own people for having come so far to do honor to themselves and the tile fair presidents woodruff cann Canno nand onland smith tile heads of the tile mormon ormon church made speeches it if attended with tho expectation of nearing hearing the mormon faith expounded they were dial dit appointed P O 0 i n beds teds as the great exponents of 3 were full of other subjects relating to what they had seen since sinco their arrival in chicago |