Show id i'd 3 I I I I I I IH r H S i f i I r acl war warDy Dy SAM SADi JR t l I 3 t i 3 Id I'd i I I I p I I I oI d The turn of the century Sound found Park City's younger set carrying on the happy SOcial swIrl that has become the traditional traditional heritage or of the gay gap Refreshing memories of Joyful days and nights or of some 40 years pears ago or so arc mementos ot of the times times-a. dance program an Invitation to a party a Score Club New Year received Card through brother brothel Lee of The Record from Jerome Rome Paxton one ot of the I camps camp's stalwart citizens since early days and still carrying on In our youth Rome was a gay young I blade He was ever to be depended upon I to do his full share and happily In Inactivity whatever activity was at hand He loved life Ure and fun Uke the rho rest of us But I never have e we known him ns as boy or I Oman man to overstep the bounds of dignified and gentlemanly conduct We do not recall whether nY as early as 1902 tome ome had gone Bono Into the bank where he remained a faithful for so many years but at any rate he was then treasurer of the rho Park City Social Club Fra Frank A. A A Shields was president president dent Wendel Cunningham oleo president president dent Abe Abo Lubeck secretary Other members Willi W f a m Swift A 7 alis George Quinn we had a nickname for him but I cant can't spell It t Jakie Jake and we cant can't remember ever calling him Jakle Jakie William Dill OKeefe John JohnJack JohnJack Jack Tracy Levi WOOds and Marshall Bishop Pearson You are cordially Invited reads the printed InVitation on which we lips find these names to a surprise party to be given at the tho home of Marshall Pearson on Monday evening February 3 1902 by the Park City Social Club Please reply That wasa good party too We were there Tho Pearson home was at the point of tho rho dugway on an Ontario Ridge James W. W Jim Pearson father or of the family was a aIger Iger and a fine lne charac- charac ter The daughters or of the family beloved by all who knew them were Mayme who became the wife or of Joseph Chart Chart- Chartrand Chartrand rand long a Union Pacific on the Park City run and Jean who be- be became became came Mrs Ben Hampton widowed soon by a tragic a accident at the Silver SUver King mill Marshall was ono one of our favorite friends Ho He loved to sing was a mem- mem member member ber with us of the Episcopal church choir In the days or of the Rev Bert Foster when Rhen wo wore cassocks and surplices On less formal occasions he would join In for a little close harmony on Sweet Adeline or The Banks of the Wabash Wa- Wa Wabash bash at the slightest provocation Carl and Roy Scott were members of tho rho choir too Roy was taU tall Carl was short and SOmetimes while we were donning our our- gowns In fn the vestry room just before time to march Into the Church wed we'd switch Carls Carl's cassock for Boys Roys Not a very ery nice thing to do do was It but It seemed fun fus for for- boys In those I days Marshall favored a pipe and Seal or of North carolina tobacco when the rest of us were Indulging In Fontellas a good cent flue cigar he owned the fast fast- fastest fastest est sled bobsled in town and how lie he could drive It Doing sixty or better on the tail taB end or of the bobs when the snow pack ed track was good with a load or of wildly I yelling boys bops and girls scared stiff stitt half haIr the time hitting the bump at the rho old Crescent tramway crossing on Wood side avenue and straightening out at the curve for away straight a on down the street was ass an experience not to be for for- gotten And was the lad for I to keep er on the track Ir ff anyone could Ed Kelly Walker was good too or of him at a later date daft Remember one night when Gay Newcombe New New- Newcombe combe sister of Mrs Frank Goist Geist was was' I tossed oft In a spill just below the bump cra cracked ed her head against one or of the rho tramway towers and I was knocked cold But everything ev considered and motes mores I Ithe the wonder accidents were few Our last memory of Marshall Is of I drinking a toast with him at the old Kenyon hotel bat bar barIn In Salt Lake after arter he I had suffered a rather serious accident I working In or somewhere I Included also In the souvenir from Rome Is a neat little time old dance Record Union Label Print with miniature red pencil at- at The occasion was a Grand Ball forthe for the Benefit of the Park City School Athletic Asso Tuesday evening April 28 28 1903 In Maple Hall Rome for we assume the was his own had quite a busy bUST too Perhaps tho rho names or of the dances dAnce In those days and ond the names of his part part- partners partners ners as written In a will recall to you some tam laz steps and faces Grand March and Waltz Mary Kearns Two Step Susie Busts Clegg Waltz Mrs Armstrong W. W W V. perhaps Pearl Reynolds French Minuet Ho Hope e Pickle Waltz Molly Anderson National Quadrille Ruby Two step Tessie Lambert Lamberti Mascot Lulu Iton ton Waltz Ladles Ladies Choice Ruby Oh Two Step Eva Lambert Waverly sat out nut that one Plain Quadrille H. H I Grossman Crossman Schottische Lizzie Watson Waltz Brenen Two Step May MayI Hedges COlumbia out also French I Minuet May Two Tao Step Quad Quad- Bertha Getsch Waltz Rome was wasI I tired Extras Sadie Gibbons Florence FlorenceI I Smith Ruby and Romeo f Rub was her Jast Iasi name Stanley Rome stems seems to have n B. a favorite And on the back or of the arc the rho names ot of the Committees In charge Executive and floor loor Jack Thomson E. E Freeman Reception Dir Mr J. J Hanse Haase Miss boss Grace Stillman Miss Mart a Laving Laning Miss NelUe Goodrich Goo 1 Bain Doorkeepers Prot Prof C. C A A. Blocher Jerry Harrington What a flood or of memories or of high school days those Iii iri tan unclose Good old Jerry B We tiYo hadn't thought or of him for years husky flery- flery but lovable withal And Clarence Blocher superintendent of schools In those days A I rather ther force force- forceful rul ful character In many ways weak In some other attributes he Cloud left Park City under a Its It's a good Boca story but perhaps a co ro roin In which It Is just ns well to let Jet the tha dead past bury Its dead More anon |