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One of Salt Lake City's early electric streetcars, ca. 1895. Uniformed men are]. E. Peacock and Rudolph Evans. USHS collections.
Three Days in May: Life and Manners in Salt Lake City, 1895 BY DEAN L.MAY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8,1895, WAS A WARM AND SUNNY DAY. The
temperature was in the 70s, despite earlier predictions of showers. It was also the day 99 of 107 delegates to the Utah Constitutional Convention gathered to sign the handwritten document in the recently completed City and County Building. This was a triumphant moment, the culmination of forty-six years of strife and tension and sixty-six days of discussions, committee meetings, debates, and political wrangling. Indeed the delegates were so weary by Monday, May 6, that they had become impatient with the slow pace of Joseph Smith, the scribe. Dr. May is professor of history at the University of Utah.