Above: The controversial coffee server tray featuring the Brigham Young Monument, part of the silver service presented to the battleship U t a h . Utah State Historical Society collections.
Silver Service for the Battleship Utah; A Naval Tradition under Governor Spry BY M I C H A E L S. E L D R E D G E
June 2, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt rose to the podium before a capacity crowd in the Mormon Tabernacle where an estimated fifteen thousand Utahns had gathered. His speech was the climax of a momentous clay that had begun earlier in the J Q A R L Y IN T H E AFTERNOON OF
Mr. Eldredge is a law student at Brigham Young University.
