The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-26
A VISITORS VIEWS.
The Progress that is Marked
in Salt Lake.
The Newspapers - The Dull
Times.

The Newspapers - The Dull
Times.
Editors Herald:
After a lengthy sbsen"e from
your beautiful city, I am tempted
to offer you a few jottings of my o.
servations since my recent return.
was certainly filed with regret
while witnessing the devastations
that had been committed In orchard
and garden by these myri4ds OF
pestiferous caterpillars which have
for some time been preSinp, like a
loathsOme plague, upon not only
trees and plants, but all kinds OF
vegetation, reminding enc of the
ancient sore plaques OF the Egyp.
tians, or those more mo5ern ones Of
the early days Of Utah, the grass
hoOpers. Of late years the latter
seem to have given US the cold
shoulder. BY the way, not to be 100
sure about that, | will state that
day or two ago, while upon the
bench easI OF this city, in the neigh
bOrhoOd OF the Sugarhouse Ward,
l saw Urge numbers of
the hopperS. They msY have
been but transient Locus g, proc
ably passing through the coun~
try looking for good loc4o
ton. l trust they viii go where
they can get quarter section each.
The same wish stands good for the
caterp liars, and as they ale now as
Stunning other winged forms of life,
let US hope that their reign is over
here forever, and tbat we VIII soon
be abie to sing: . ,ifda 1851
iEh Observation-Disclosures Ere d i 1asurnih3 29i-l
Fin8 erdsubIesfats cfa9a eIaseh spFEy ."s a
Fas Gieantfe istridesla6a 1AogE res e e
Fis}ble on every hand f1theafect IN
Of magnitic cent 'ed Hces In All bsrts
| Of this city; also the exednstVe facil
kiies that have been iTtroduced by
tie comp letf6 . . Fits gas and water
works, wff4cl4 have Iaafed inestim>
able cOmtOrts and conveniences TO
Observation-Disclosures and lively flower
gardens arctic. BE feen on eve ry
hangs Each i,lldLllYidVal SEEM beat
| on frTiQg 10 out we bis rnei9abor i'm
the dispsay Ct artistic e taste ipa the
arrangement f ll9 ss3Ii5roupgings.
The choices and ceparesty varieties Of
sse s,ih a5Hts Ga z'g # i
hreaIly . Jemarkahle 10 note
Fthe great lnterasf that is taken
I TIE cultlgatIqn OF I'll that is ,beSdti!
ful, and stranger, trayeIip g thr Ugh
The CITY and observing the content
ment that seems TO pervsde both
mansion and cottage, would suppose
that the people are pretty coinfoi Is
able and-happy. Generally speaking
such is the case, but here are huns
dreds OF men who have to live by
the exercise OF their muscular
powers e and have to 'iearn their
bread by,the sweat OF theif br0ws,"
and hence they have 10 depead, to a
kgreat exbents ppon. the, enterprise of
ecapitalsts for. the necessary employ
ment. At present such enterprises
are tardy and sluggish ia. being inr
laugurafed, conse quent1y every, day
we can hear the remark -.tdpll
,tinaes.S 1--WE are, doing, very aittle1'
etc. The brewer; the baker, the
butcher the tailor ARE crying "duii
times.1 The merchant the banker,
I the a br0ksr, r the sbotelfkeerer, the
/ cook ,apa, the walters the blsck-
smith, the, barb: r. the drummfg,
] the bu1pmers all Ccateh the Eefrain,
s'dull times So dull times. = y es, sir,
this seemgfo be the universal
theme at, present. A day or tive
ago partner in leading building
and contracting firm of this5 city ass
d suredf your correspondent that at
thiGftiA last yeaIs3hey had fifty
mem employ ed, white att present
Fthey have 1only ten:al Most d of The
brick hIaksrs complain Of having
but few oFdefs. % One of: the !eQi7
tors,of a leading paperIinformedl me
la feWsdayS ago thai t;eyery thing is
very dull, "ybut as.editOrs generally
are overWorke iaindividuals, | GQl-
cludsd that the old; 1adage is still
J true, that "All werk and no play
1 makes Jack a dull boy. and 0ice
UefS0 @ Houkdieoon make an editor
capatt 41seftH4far- tf
Speaking ,otthe press OF Salt Lake
| City land The rapid ADVANCEMENT
| that it has made during the last der
cade Intellectually, it is truly re-
Fishing TO the observer, WHO has
i kept pace with ifs ptogr. IS. Even
( fhe T7fbu4ts. that was born CT AMI
tfm3sIty and Graded in yindictiye7
fl1iess, as It grew into more mature
'ftears. threw off much Gifts animns
ard falsifying film, and while quiv-
srjng under the soruiinizing eye Of
I re&sEn and truth. assumed a mildet
sJ1fe, and although its editors still
are Occasionally tempted to dip
their pens in faIsehoo1's Shiny ink,
their attitude is more in accord
| whh-the position that is. required