Show St. St Marys Mary's Church Notes Comments n continue The May t Devotions continue on Fridays Fridays Friday's Fri ft days day's at pm p.m. They will be conducted con can ducted by Father Francis MacNamara of Lourdes Church until Friday May 29 29 In Inclusive In In- elusive Father Cullen will return to Park City on Saturday May 30 from California Along the way he has encountered en en en- countered several people who formerly dwelt In Utah as at Fair Oaks some miles north of Sacramento Mather Field I Is only a short distance away there Garvin t DeJonghe of ot Park City Is la stationed sta sta- tinned so a visit was made to see him there In Sacramento are arc some to be seen later Fairfield near to Oak Oakland land was WM visited but unfortunately Mr and Mrs James OHara O'Hara were not at home It sure eure would have been a 1 great pleasure to have met them again The entente cordiale with former citizens of our wee city must be upheld Its Us productive productive productive pro pro- of at mutual good giving hopes of happier days to come In Park City and affording an opportunity of sharing the joy of at seeing the newly found prosperity of at In new abodes In strange states Some day a return of these exiles may grace the scene of ot old haunts again Mr Albert Carter of Daly City just out of San Francisco was more than happy to hear of his old place personally I Reading the travels of Dr Johnson and Boswell Doswell the famous writers In England England Eng Eng- land of other days one is struck by the many impressions therein recorded as M these authors made much ado about a journey of a hundred miles or so so by carriage or chaise In those horse and buggy days The Lexicographer the Pompous Dr Johnson revisits his native birthplace In n the points out to his most moat faithful Diarist Boswell the old scenes of his childhood where be he played truant from school where he helped his father to sell books book t In the former r bookstall by the marketplace market marketplace It place where his father earned the dally 1 bread Johnson relates how once he re refused re- re fused to obey his father lather and years later I returned to Lichfield where bare headed he stood In pelting rain for an hour In i penance for tor his earlier delinquency He loved long words of ot sonorous stretch I named by later critics as 88 English such as we find In his literary works Many forms forme of speech of origin Goldsmith the stuttering stutterIng stutter- stutter Ing Irish poet hit It t off art pertinently in Ii lib his quip Sir Sir he said to Johnson were you to write a n tale of sardines you would have them talk like whales The E I. I I modern trend Initiated by quiller Couch I and other authors has been towards a amore amore amore more Saxon form of language which Is rf stronger more crisp and more forceful in style They would substitute such wherever possible in place of at the longer t. t I Latin forms forma of and this l I movement has been strengthened by basic English that has also come in I There the essential vocabulary Is racy II of at the soil avoiding the foreign derivations so frequent In our tongue seeing that nearly words In English have come down from French and Latin Sunday last May 10 30 10 a visit was made made I I to St St. Patricks Patrick's Seminary where students from tram Salt Bait Lake City and Ogden are studying for the priesthood The grounds and buildings are magnificently laid out spacious lawns beautifully kept surround the college A swimming pool 1 f 3 j of ample size provides the a I splendid outlet for beneficial pastime Twelve miles away stands St St. Josephs Joseph's I I. I a venerable seat of learning filled to capacity but plans are ale on their way to increase this building to a a. much t greater extent A stroll down the corridors eo 80 so long and wide of at these academic halls where i f Cicero Virgil and Horace are heard dally t I j 1 In and out of at lecture rooms recalled my my myown own collegian course of long ago when I I r. r hopes were young and aspirations soar soar- ll I ing log high to renew the face of the earth Prometheus heus unbound hurling titanic ih I blows against evil ways that good might E abound and now fallen In the sere and I IJ yellow leaf leat of bf age Cicero had written of I the consolations of the hoary headed I ira swain tottering to the end of life lite and I now co so little le has been changed yet vet hone hODe 1 i. i I 1 recall St St. Pauls Paul's advice etO- etO to his beloved disciple Keep the deposit of faith wisely and well I 1 found no representatives of Park City In elt either er senior or junior seminary I down here hereby by Menlo Park but pray th that t one day It may have Its Ita quota In both majestic piles learning the wisdom or the ancients In n the classical literature of ot Greece and Rome and sapping spirituality spirit spirit- I of the early fathers of ot our church of St. St Augustine St. St Ambrose and the Alexandrian academy of the Fifth cen cen- tury For the Catholic church Is not of at yesterday I 1 I Ever since arriving In the state o of I Utah I have had a great desire to see ue the Donnor Pass scene of at a dreadful I tragedy away back in 1847 As recorded by DeVoto and other authors the Don Don- I Reed nor emigrants had sought an easier road to California via Salt Lake than by the usual route of Fort Hall and Washington Way The Salt Bait Lake late flats and misfortunes including a probable murder murdel held them up so 80 long that It U was late October when the party reached the lake named Donnor ever since Just at the foot of the then dreadful moun moun- thin tain pass burled in snow to a depth of i thirty five feet unable to make it It they camped on the sward award above the lakes lake's edge in rough shelters roofed rooted with tree branches There they endured Intense I hunger this area being devoid of game i I and animals of any kind that might I have afforded sustenance to the starving people Above them towered the Alpine j I slope slop of over seven thousand feet teet in in height mantled to so deep in winters winter's I f particular heavy snow that year A few I individuals on made home snowshoes attempted attempted atI at- at I tempted to scale the heights of this barrier to safety and relief for the i others but had to turn back or died In In Inthe I the attempt I thought of all this In I crossing Creasing Donnor Pass I tried to picture these pioneers helplessly gazing aloft at i the mighty mountain then bereft of the winding road of today traversed I by au au- au i in such auch a short space apace of ot time Ume I and tried to Imagine their hunger which drove them to such auch extreme 1 measures in order arder to survive The scene is la cent In Itself the view from the summit Is la superb but through It all there haunted me the story atory of the famine endured by the survivors I could not I dismiss Jt J lightly Like King Charles Charle's head forever plaguing the character In III David Copperfield the Don Donnor nor tale trailed me all the way up and down this historic pass pau It fixed tiled Itself In my mind a at as the old man of the sea aea perched Immovably on the shoulders of the Sailor In the oriental table fable iOn I IOn On a run out to San Ban an Mateo to visit Mr and Mrs loin Kopp formerly of Park City I was agreeably surprised to learn that of ot Los LeI Angeles Angele hold bold an aa annual reunion on the second Sunda Sunday In I June Have a day out together renew- renew 1 ling log ing acquaintances With on one one anther another an and andI I discuss latest news from the alma mater I In Vallejo theres there's another such gatherIng gathering gather- gather Ing of the clans In Oregon likewise and finally in San Ban Mateo on the first Sun Bun Sunday Sunday day in September where over eighty exiles met last year From Fair Field FJeld Sacramento Napa Naps and Oakland they all come to the public park the rendezvous of all these former residents of our city I 1 may add that Its It's amazing to how many of our folks comes weekly the I little Park Record which is s read faith falth- i fully Thus they keep In n touch with I home The cynosure of those absentees I The mine l merger was a bit of most moat Important news to them They now hope to hear of great doings of work being in the Ithe mines and a chance to live given to the Inhabitants The Baby Baby- DabY 1 i I l Ionian captivity holding abroad so many citizens may now come to an end pas pos I peace and plenty may restore the I I household goods goads to tom m many ny an empty home Metals must rise in price to I ensure activity but h w this may may come to pass pasa we know not The future holds holeta our hopes and fears fear I In Oakland I met Vince Mrs Mra and family They intend going back to Park any anyone one of ot these days its it's good i news to hear of at such theres there's so BO much joy joy in to returning I I We regret to hear of at the passing of I Lynn Price In San Francisco To his I relatives and grid friends we tender sinI I our sin sin- cere sympathy on their sad loss I j jIt's and Its It's typical weather dull overcast for a few days singe then sunny Viand and sharp on another Pleasant In a way but we did hear that snow fell feU In Park City this week It still keeps its Ita loyalty to the white fleeces |