The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24
SALTAIR BOULEVARD
Scheme to Extend First South
Street to the Lake,
THE ELECTRIC CARS MAY GO.
Carriage and Twenty-Five Minutes
By Street Car.

"Ill wager you a cigar, II you step into
my buggy, III have you at Saltair in one
hour and thirty minutes" said Matthew
White, as he stood on First South street
with his team headed toward Saltair.
The HERALD reporter was dazed at Mr..
Whites facility at overcoming distances,
and that gentleman took the pains to point
out a little mist on the Great Salt Lake
that appeared but afew miles away. There
is my house, he said, land it is
l can lie in my bed at night ana while
hear tie breakers roll beneath my windows
l can look down First South street and
count the electric lights, and almost hear
the buzz OF the electric WIRES"
How far is Saftair from the city,"
THE nearest Joint at which the lake APP
proaches the city is Saltair; an 4 the dist
ance thirteen miles. | live there and find
that | can make as good time III my
carriage as on the cars. BY the present
roads [ make it in an hour and forty
minutes
FAINT glimr ses of the future break in on
the present and one can almost see the
HORIZON of the salt sea shore broken with
sumptuous architectural effects. Elaborate
hoels in Moorish and Gothic, rivaling in
splendor The Ponce de Leon Of ST. Angus
tine, with their hal s and galleries, ball
rooms AMI botanical courts, blossoming
with every variety OF tropical
flowers, bubbling with fountains and
frightened with the destinations OF
beautiful women and beau idea
men, luxuriating amid the splendors of a
charmed life on a sea where the toll OF
swimming is taken away and the lnvlgorat
ing tonic of salt bath blooms the skin
brightens the complexion, stimulates hope
engenders affection, re-creates and recre
ates. rushes the blood of purpose through
the heart, dashes away lethargy, douches
the head clear from spiriting fancles, exhil
crates, exalts, magnities Here the toll oil
swimming is taken away and the bathers
sit upon the bosom of the sea, chatting anC
lounging in the lap OF the breakers.
When the Great Salt lake will pu
on the gay colors of summer resort i
will be there that the carriages that g
coursing up and down the boulevards will
be directed.
In the plan for boulevards in this city tn,
Great Salt lake has been lost sight of
while the penitentiary has doomed up as al
attractive place. A great boulevard to thu
Great Salt lake should be in the near future
and it may be said sis now" Matthew
White in few days will ask the commits
| sioners to appropriate sum OF money t.
make a suitable drive to the lake, he agree
| ing to contribute literally,
What. would be grander than to exten'
First South street to the lake and the cleo
trio street Car lines with it /. 1t would be
drive that led somewhere and with pun
pose to it. Boulevards are the driveway
that connect interesting points. Salt LAX
city and Great Salt lake will then be united
! Where is the lake s'' asks the tourist.
You point down Saltair boulevard an
| TNrrx ~ far i1nc1
How can get to the lake!'-
'"Take the Saltair boulevard electric ca
and in few minutes you are there"
People standing on Main street can loo
down the drive to the lake and see the pre-
cession of wheeled equipages vending thei
way back and forth.
"What grand drive, what grand bat
and what splendid dinner we had at tn
Hotel de Antelopei" and other kindred eA
pressions will be impulsively spoken by tn
enraptured tourist.
The Saltair boulevard should have fou
rows of trees, so that it can be used durin
the heat of the day, as well as in the ever
ing. In the centre of the street there shout
be two electric street car tracks, and thes
separated from the two drives by rows c
trees. Two more rows of shade tree
should be planted on the ou
side of the drives. What a magnificen
improvement this would be. The electri
cars ought to make the run of thirtee
miles in twenty-five minutes. Along tn
shore other lines running to GARFIELD
Buffalo parkandother resorts would max
all the points on the lake easily accessible
to Salt Lake.
Whether the bathing at Saltair will eve
equal that of Garfield remains to be seel
Mr.. Arnold claims that there is whit
sand beach hard enough to drive a WACO
over it, and that it is smooth enough for
race course, and that the water washt
these shores as at Garfield. Time will tie
the rival merits to the different resort
. What is needed now is a good drive wa
to the lake. The lake whio
now appears so distant would
brought near The hundreds of Peep
who have their own carriages and wi
now are forced to take the cars. could the
drive out and back, coupling the e.
joyment of bath with that of drive {
the boulevard.
When visitors desire to see the lake, ye
can drive them il your private conve
ances, instead of shipping them with Il
|, common herd. And how it would add
the appearance of the city and contribu
to its value as summer resort. The thi
teen mile boulevard with its electric ligh
; at night, with the archways of refreshi1
shade by day, would be such drive
would make Chicago's Michigan aven
appear very commonplace. If the Peep
: will but meet nature half way, this ci
t will become the most popular watering 1
sort in the west, if not in the who
country.
I: There is certainly money in the scher
l for the street car lines, and it is wond
that they are not already reaching out.
would mean several hundred thousand d.
" lars increased earnings.
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