The Deseret News from Salt Lake City, Utah • 7

may lal laj THE DESERET NEWS celebration oly CLA BRATION YESTERDAY 4 aaiaal wai ilelle celebration of the corletlo completion of rh pacific rall Eail railroad road eam came dann ofT in this elfy elit 1 yesterday besterda the JA weather was we splendid eidl id and all classes of citizens seemed tobe to he in earne earnesd spik sPir sn participating jin rin the proceedings dings As ovy noon drew near 0 heu heh edi emi thelast the hast Tast ast railrall conaw th an he andaud anac lines mat mut matthe a the people deemo seea seed to be op the he tiptoe lo 10 athe the promised signal aly tele telegraphic telegraph 3 grahgrab 77 rom ram a in the co commatee com mm atee mUtee ap arl pointed by oun lilloll cli cil to thi ahtty ity at promontory summit ap at a abo two nilnii minutes autes past 12 ity its time the ther promised signal came national flag was un furnes furieS in various places esthe the brass and ia maros maHnS ands bands stationed al advantage ou 0 II 11 cees CIEs points 0 i ants struck rop lop ivy alvy airs aniaxi and du 0 artillery were fired from th the ib 0 4 city hall rail and on arsenal ba WWI givingwarning to the citizens in every direction that the grea great vork was ta 1 tile the principal business ary replaces rp laces eeecee stores and manufactories manu factories were closed led sed and work suspended for the rest of the beday he da day I 1 in about an hours houns time the citizens began to assemble in the New Tabernacle acieacle at two there I 1 fa wae big ewegen six sis and sa seven ve na thousand present on the stand were his excellency governor durkee hons alotis A smith lih joh jthn taylor wm win hooper and jno bernhisel also gen A clacia clarke bp bpi Edward Hunter and the 00 committee amit of arrangements aldermen richardea RichardBichard gA gAH raleigh and gen BT eurton burton the assembly was called to order and captain Crox alUs brass band played hall columbia hon ellaselias smith was elected dent of the meeting A musser esq secretary watt and i evans reporters and col littletittle chaplain arter after prayer by the chaplain the following gentlegentie gentlemen nien were re appointed a a committee to draft re resolutions expressive of the sense bense of the meeting on the completion of the pacific railroad gen for ron this territory tr atory col godbe hon conj I 1 am post 7 master and col JC little major Ds huntingdon marcial banal band bandl played ayed 1 mill may 11 I 1 his excellency governor du durke rk I 1 was hs then introduced to the assembly handmade And made the following remarks mr president ladies and gen gentlemen I 1 ainaid happy to meet so large a gather lingjing ing on this interesting occasion I 1 am not ifft yet rested recited from the fatigue of a lo 10 longiong Jour joun diey ana and buuhuu buthut illy pr prepared toad to a dress you but the occasionis so glorio glorious 8 ana and ind fullfuli of interest that I 1 feel it a privilege 16 to say a few words we meet to celbceib celebrate rate Tate a great event in connection with the history progress and development of the united states of america the fathers ofthe republic were pa par pai i biotic and progressive they established allberol all bil a liberal beral and free government afree for enterprise energy and progress i and we have availed ourselves to some extent of the high privilege bequeathed to US usta we hive reason to be thankful to the i great author of our being for the lot that has been cast for us we meet to celebrate the emp completion mp cletion 1 of the pacific railroad I 1 it truly is I 1 truly truty a glorious occasion jamaal I 1 am a firm irm ellever believer in the principles of free trade among the people of the wholeworld they seem to eradicate bild clid prejudices ra to enlighten in the mind and to up the intellect A people shut up in a lef let ley country isolated from their fellows are dedi as maere to 0 when ills vils the they mingle with ea eachenchch 0 ther then tuel their views change evange and they beco become me aware ofbf the fait fact that thao allali men belong to one great dand family and favl havehava ono one one bno universal father audand and when this we are ready to take every man by thehandband and call him brother regardless bf arid nationality some adnie are re of the opinion on i iy ay i iiii frit irai laai i that trade and commerce bring vice and sin but it is my belief that they tend to ocial docial and intellectual culture com marceia mercemer celaceia 14 really a civilizing agent for what did god make the oo 00 oban 7 and variety of climate it was por for frethe the tho elevation of man and tant him for fox his glorious destiny we are here hero to celebrate the tho laying of the la strail connecting the atlantic Atlar itic with the the men who have havo persevered in advancing and completing this gigantic work aree areen titled title to great praise prate there is another class cass who should rot apt be forgotten the men who pione pioneered pred the way here when there thene th ere ene were dangers and hardships to overcome i chave great faith im thefuture I 1 believe as a nation wo we cannot go hack- ward war backward duo no matter what may be thetha themo motives 04 0 men we bhail ahall dyance ih ili intelligence li gence refinement rp knowledge and happiness which is great ultimatum of human existence I 1 here herehera we wearer are comparatively speaking iq in a wilderness but in 14 a few jew cears years cities will spring up on every handand the rocky mountains wiilwill teem with a population ofmillions who will look back on this day and call the pioneers andaudnd the projectors and builders of thetha taetac pacific i ic railroad blessed 1 we live in an interesting period of the worlds history we are setting a great agrest example we have a free government and free institutions and their influence is felt not only in the united states but throughout the world the struggle through which the republic has hag just passed shows that we are capable of self government and that the rights of all men must be respect ed I 1 would like to go into the details of the vast results that will follow the completion of this great work but I 1 am not prepared to no do so I 1 know that the subject is full of importance to us and coming generations generation soi sit mr Chair manI am grateful grate fulfor for nor the opportunity port unity to express a few hasty remarks on this memorable occasion I 1 hope ho others are prepared to elaborate to le the fullest this interesting subject brass band played Bail eail allwayailway way nied lied medley hon john taylor being introduced made the following speech in meeting together to celebrate an occasion Olon hion like the present we are 1 acting in unison with millions of our fellow men who today to day and at this hour houry are engaged in commemorating commemoration comme 9 oneff one of the greatest events in american history the enterprise which has just been completed comp eted is i one of the most magnificent and important of itskind that has ever been accomplished by man on the earth eurth whether we refer to the magnitude of the work the rapidity of its progress and consummation or the results accruing it is a work which in interests not only the denizens of utah but the citizens of the united states and of all 1 spanninghigbig as it ft does a continent uniting the pacific and atlantic ocean opening up direct communication between europe and asia and controlling the trade coin merce and travel of their nations when we reflect upon the events that have transpired in regard to the progress of science during the last thirty or forty years an and then witness esk ese its culmination in the completion of this great greab enterprise we see something edad abou about it tb that at we can scarcely nind find words to express our sentiments or give vent thour to our admiration I 1 can very well remember the time WR when en there was no such thing as a railroad in existence I 1 rode on the first that vai wai was ever made soon after it its completion ion that was between manchestormanchester and liverpool england now they spread like a network over england france germany andall europe permeate every available place in the uni ni 1 ted states and this is the last grand link in the mighty chain chalm I 1 can remember the timetima very distinctly ly when there was no such thing as ams gas gaslight light and when en thep the people dople had to plod I 1 0 along the streets at night by the dim 1 ra light of a lamp amp I 1 can remember the 0 time when the there re were no such suell things as steamboat steamboats il id existence when the ocean had to be traversed exclusively by sailingsalling vessels and when boats had to IQ be rowed along the rivers against the stream or drawn by horses now our leviathans levi athans traverse the ocean with its ragingraking waves at pleasure while thousands of magnificent palaces float on the bosoms of our rivers and distribute their ar gosian cargoes to every part of the land allail allot of you remember the time when aheiahel there Ihei 6 were adno no telegraphs in operation and when the ideaof conveying rt th ought from an and from one contin ent to another by the aid of electricity instantaneously won would have been considered magic superhuman and beyond the reach of human intellect enterprise and ingenuity yet these things have all been accomplished plis hed in our day in former times timea if aman wanted hisportrait painting he had to searchfor an artist of talent in order to get a pretty fair specimen dfof his own fage face or figure and had to sit eit for chourp hours now it can be accomplished in one on instant oc oftime by th the scienceof photography and the various phases it has jias assumed making the lights light of the sun develop human countenance or figure or landscapes of different ties with infallible accuracy AU alt these things seem to have beenheen brought into action in a very shorttime the great changes that have transpired in our day are wonderful to reflect upon and exhibit a great development in arts and science the expansion of the tho burnan mind in the march of intellect and point to the development of yet greater con quests oyer olec of theearth A few years agoa number of us left what hat wasi wash was then called the united states and came out here into the wilderness we came with oxen and for years it took from three to io bix six months to have intelligence conveyed co from the states here for it was brought by ox teams it was not thought then by the inhabitants of the eastern states that any a suehsuch ch thing as asa a railroad or telegraph line would ever pass through this dem dev late barren and I 1 was going joing to say go godforsaken god forsaken region it is true trub that as we campalong came along here some 0 us of the be practice practicability tica ability of the thing an and sometime after when we were wore organized in a political capacity we sent a petition to congress representing to them the feasibility of a railroad and requested their attention to iti I 1 believe it is 13 13 in the pro gramme that that tha petition shall be read over in your hear ing today to day applause the citizens ok 0 utah have always been interested in anything that would ten tend i to human improvement 0 to the development of the arts and sciences the it extension of trade and commercecommeree the shortening of space or anything calculated to benefit humanity consequently as they charged us you know with being prophets we began to prophesy about a railroad being bulitbuilt through these mountains but pany many of pf us could scarcely believe our own predel eions in relation to it or that they would so soon be realized As time rolled on this project began to gain influence over the minds of meli mels and they began to reason about abou tit it to write about it and to speak about I 1 it by and ancl bli bir by it got into congress and ana finally In allyaaliya a bill it was passed for making a railroad across this vast continent somesomo time ago a telegraph line was made mader that tha was capable of uniting eng- land and the united states ad aud as we had found an el dorado herm here in the yest westi westa vest where great nuggets of gold an and silver were found in every direction direct lonn iori the idea iden began to crawl into mens minds that it might be possible to unite the eastern and western portions 9 of this continent with an iron chain and to marry the atlantic and pacific oceans at first it seemed like a dream drean but aut now the thing is 10 accomplished the last ast rail is jaida thelast spike dr driven ivenived applause I 1 think I 1 am rl right I 1 in stating this our committee informs inform sk me that they have haye got the ahe information that the last tie is laid the last rail put in its place and the fhe last hpike driven applause anaver An and dver very emblematically coming from the lazylacy land of gold and silver they have brought a silver mounted tie and bound it together with a spike of gold applause emblematical of the wealth allali that at this railroad would introduce uce for as his excellency the gover nor has very properly said everything that tends to facilitate the intercourse inter course couise of man with man has a tendency to promote the wealth happiness and of the nations andof the world the tile construction of this road has been a work of immenselabor many of you whom I 1 see here know about it you and I 1 have been thereand helped to do it we have taken the spade and shovel the pick plow and crowbar we have tolled and delved into the ground riven the rocks asunder torn tom down the mountains levelled bevelled level led the valleys eysays andmade a pathway for the iron horse orse 11 applause IL 1 feel proud of he the position that we occupy in relation tto 0 this matter they talk sometimes in Pennsylva pennsylvania nial about that state being the keystone of the united states it issaidsald saidy by some that utah holds the keys 0 of this continent but in relation to this railroad we may very properly call utah the keystone it is certainly cirta the grand centre ali applause the intrepid and energetic tors of this magnificent enterprise east and west have been with each other in ascending the rugged paths which lead to our mountain home the great struggle with each hasbeen to reach salt lake valley first congress after deliberating upon it has decided that at or near ogden in utah must be the junction here is placed the great keystone key stone uniting and perfecting the grand arch ar lh which spans apang the continent the magnates division have met and placed the last tietle laid thelast rail tail and driven the last spike in utah thereby completing the grandest engineering and mechanical achievement of the nineteenth century now the iran horse from the ath atlantic anticantle leaving the east can traverse unobstructed the greab greats western plains dash through our mountain gorges defy the rugged heights height sor of the tho sierra nevada andA and lave ave nostrils in the pe waters of the broad pacific I 1 am not dispo disposed ed to enter at till thia time into la disquisition on tho the great benefits that wiliwill accrue to trade and commerce and the increased intercourse thab that will reopened be opened up not only between one part af theunited states and another but between far off western and eastern nations but I 1 will say that I 1 am proud to eee that america hastaken a step which is foremost among the nations of the earth in accomplishing comp lishing one of the most gigantic gigantic enterprises that everwas entered upon by man applause I 1 am proud to say notwithstanding the howling and faultfinding fault finding thab that we have heard lately from washington and other parts to the contrary that the railroad is a good one that ahat it has been wellweil constructed that great wisdom intelligence foresight and engineering talent have been displayed in its bonAt construction ruction and in speaking today to day with hon uon hooper who has just passed over it he tellstelis me that three fourths of the road from omaha to this city is the best road he ever traveled on applause and not only so but tha that it is the best equipped road and that the facilities for traveling in comfort are eqbalequal or better than any he has met with in any part art of the united states stated I 1 tike take great pleasure in saying this because of some boirie scurrilous reports I 1 have read in the newspapers and I 1 wish here to enter my protest against these things and to testify to their falsity I 1 have not traveled over the whole of the road myself buti but I 1 know it so far as we are concerned anit in it I 1 take from the head of echo right down through i the weber the roughest part on the whole line I 1 do know myself fromfroin personal observation that there never was a better grade laid in any country in the world applause 1 have heard the same ame statement made by hundreds of others who have passed along it it 13 impossible for any one to make a better or more even road than that through the rough canlon carlon of echo and the still rougher roughed canon of weber I 1 wish to speak a little further on this sub subject act because I 1 am now speaking of th things ings that I 1 know knowland kno wand dand wand whichhave co comeme under myray personal observation I 1 know that the bridges built on this road by shar sharp young and by myself for I 1 have built some seven or eight contain as good mason masonry ry ahyou as you can find doniny onins on any ans railroad and I 1 know they are not slightly put up I 1 have been called upon time after time when the foundations were being laid and the ground was not considered sufficiently solid to tear them up again and have them faldfaid laid deeper until they were considered sufficiently strong and permanent on low grounds I 1 have been instructed to place in brush and rock to strengthen the grade and great greab pains have been taken to embank the rivers with rock to protect the grade largejarge canals have alsoaiso been cut to convey the waters of the mountain streams to the rivers whereby they might be more easily controlled oled it may be said however if that is the case what is the reason that some qa these bridges on the weber are giving way I 1 would remark that these are simply temporary bridges they were placed there only until more permanent structures could be erected in their position some may say was not this an unnecessary outlay certainly not it was requisite that these lorjust such structures should be placed there whereon to buildhulid the permanent es they were required to steady their work and place the permanent bridges in position I 1 do not profess to be an engineer but I 1 do profess to understand der stand this and I 1 say if the company have been de delayedayed in accomplishing all they desired desire 1 1 I think when the magnitude of the work that has been aen accomplished and the short time I 1 in which it has been done isconsidered.