The people of Sugar House ward cele-
brated the national day of Independ-
ence yesterday, July 4, with a great
parade, the reading of the Declaration
of Independence and other exercises.
Among the speakers were the vener-
able President of the Church, Wilford
Woodruff. During the course of his re-
marks he mentioned that when he was
about seven years old and living with
his family in the state of Connecticut,
a British fleet bombarded the coast.
One day his father placed him on the
top of a barn where he could distinctly
hear the boom of the cannon of the
bombarding fleet. At the time, for-
eign opinion of the United States navy
was that it was about worthless, but
this did not prevent it from obtaining
some of the most brilliant achieve-
ments of naval warfare. That was a
lesson to the world then—a lesson that
has been repeated at Manila and Santi-
ago, never again to be forgotten.
HEARD THE BRITISH GUNS.
The people of Sugar House ward celebrated the national day of Independence yesterday, , with a great
parade, the reading of the Declaration
of Independence and other exercises.
Among the speakers were the venerable President of the Church, Wilford
Woodruff. During the course of his remarks he mentioned that when he was
about seven years old and living with
his family in the state of Connecticut,
a British fleet bombarded the coast.
One day his father placed him on the
top of a barn where he could distinctly
hear the boom of the cannon of the
bombarding fleet. At the time, foreign opinion of the United States navy
was that it was about worthless, but
this did not prevent it from obtaining
some of the most brilliant achievements of naval warfare. That was a
lesson to the world then—a lesson that
has been repeated at Manila and Santiago, never again to be forgotten.
