The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-28
TIE NEWS In OGDEN.
Doings Of a Day in the Jane
ton City.
THE POLITICAL POT is BOILING.
Real Estate Transfers-The Buffalo Farm
Incorporated ExcursioniSts
are Received.
TIE SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,
Ne. 1868 WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OGDEN. July IS.

OGDEN, July IS.
Paper hotels and opera houses are of no
practical benefit.
The band didn'tgo down to the train yes
tsrday morning to meet and escort the
excursiOaists up town, as on formor similar
occasions.
The streets are to be sprinkled day and
night for week So our Colorado visitors
will not be forced to take their peck OF
dirtn all at once.
Half Of ]. C. Jones' buffalo herd will be
shipped to Ogden and be here by the time
of the arrival of the Missouri river eXcur-
sion the latter part OF August.
Hanlon. the oarsman. has sold his famous
shell Eleanor to the Ogden rowing club.
He has purchased property here and IN
tends to open up a business about the lst OF
September.
There is not vacant house for rent in
the city. Every available room IN the
private residences has been given up to
strangers from abroad, who are being well
entertained.
What's the matter with the carriage com
mitteei Why did they not have large
number Of conveYances at the depot 10
take the eXcursiOnists up town! Are Jhey'
too, getting tired of rustlingl
The dedication of the elegant new Fourth
ward meeting-ho will take place to-day.
A number of the church diguitaries are
expected TO be present and doubtless the
building will be crowded with worshlpperS
w. A. Bates, H H. Henderson, Newton
E7arr, A. H. Nelson and G. Duchenean ap-
piled to the city council for franchise Tor
street railway, the same to run from
Washington avenue up and into Ogden
canon. The application was referred TO
the committee on streets
ID hack from his
"trip in behalf of the great Bear river canal
construction enterprise, an enterprise the
like of which it would be difficult to find IN
these ''vaileys of the mountains DIR. A
Roche saws that the work is being prose
euted with most astonishing alacrity.
The grounds in front of the new depot,
facing Wall avenue, are being graded. A
broad stone walk will lead from the street
10 the main entrance. The ground Will be
seeded down and planted with trees and
shrubbery, and an iron fence will be built
in front. 1t will be an attractive place
when finished.
By the city council, at its last meeting
Friday night, the city attorney was IN
structed to enforce the ordinance relating
TO providing outside fire escapes on hotels.
The same official was also instructed TO
plant u suit against ex-cOunclllor John A
Bowie, to recover the value of certain real
II is understood that a real estate ex-
ehange is to be organized Immediately. the
dealers now realize that if they would do
any business they must work together and
not at cross purposes. This exchange VIII
be in active operation within month,
after which the cry of no sales Will not be
heard every time one enters real estate
effice.
The police do not appear to take any
interest in the curfew law. 1t never has
been rigidly enforced, although at first,
when the bell rang at 9 the little boys and
girls commenced to scamper towards home.
OF late, however, they pay no more atGen-
ton to the ringing of the curIeW bell than
60 the guardians of the night and there are
generally as many children of tender ago
oil the streets at 10 pm. as at 3.
lift is desirable that people shall come to
Ogden and stay long enough to look
around and investigate our resources and
familiarize themselves with the advantages
of the place for business and the invest
uent of capital in various productive enter
prises, 1t behOOves all who are interested to
at once set about preparing means to house
and feed them properly. Talking about
building hotel won't build it, that costs
money. But unless Ogden provides a
large, first-closs hotel and that soon, it will
be folly to expect any large number OF
people to come and remain over for any
length of time.
A free lecture will be given at the Pres
byterlan church tonight, by L. T. Denny,
t6e old-time circus clown preacher. His
style is as follows: Some perhaps birds
and maybees explained. The fruits Of folly
In the paradise of fools. The wise fool
The fool that thinks he is wise, and the
fool that will not be wise. And where
wisdom comes in. Schools, institutions of
learning One that some people know
nothing about The graduates of that
school. Where you viii find them and see
them daily, and what they are doing
Fishing Bats that are used and how fish
bite, Catching fish without any bait. All
explained by one of the has-been fools.