The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-10
THE POLICE MUpDIg.
SEEN AND HEARD.

We are to have q new kind OF conference
In Salt Lake. This time it is to be con-
vocation of the grand old Liberal party,
admission strictly by ticket. We fancy it
will be lonesome kind of gathering, the
ghosts of former braves of the party are
apt to be more numerous than the re-
tainers. Think of the contrast between
this assemhlage and the first Liberal city
conventions held in the walker opera
house just before the election of February,
1890. Colonel Merritt presided; c. w.
Bennett was delegate; Colonel Sells made
a grand nominating speech and forgot the
name Of his nominee when he came 10 it
McCallum-that name, remorse lied the
shouts and murmurs G. S. Varian lowered
as central figure; Van Horne was one of
its enthusiastic workers, and many more
there were, great and small. to whom toasts
must be drunk In silence. 1t will be the
same old charge, butnot, alb, not the six
hundred. ne
rs this the hottest weather you have in
Salt Lake," asked stranger of HERALD
chronicler. about So" was the reply,
'.and we old timers think it pretty hot, but
there is comfort and refreshment in the
thought that the moment one gets in the
cool shade of these glorious trees a de-
lightful atmospheric change occurs, brac-
ing the pedestrian for the next stretch OF
the scorching sun. Then, too, the moment
old Sol hides himself behind those snow
capped mountains we begin to think Of 8
blanket for the night. We are more than
ic{S Cd xr-ifh oil 1oro Cotf al r..
grand place to live in. We may not get as
much corn here as one could wish. as the
hot season is too short butcher blessings
amply make up for that"
The Fourth found thousands seeking
pleasure in every direction. Where indeed
can city bound people ind so many alur-
ing spots for days outing as right here,
and with every facility, too, of easy ac-
cessi Our parks, the lake, the cafions
all were filled with celebrators
of the glorious Fourth. Flags were
flying, windows full Of the red. white and
blue, ears were crowded and stables empty.
II seemed rs If all the world had gone
pieasurinR. Over four thousand souls at
the lake and all wanting dive Think of
the sandwiches and lemonade that briny
water gave that host an appetite for fair
young girls demanding beef or ham in hot
July, when the sweet pea will usually suf-
fee.
Have you ever noticed how few Italians
there are in Salt Lake, While all other
nations are well represented, except per-
haps the Irish, there Is but a sprinkling lof
the Italian fruit vender. With fruit. so
abundant one would think 1t would be
otherwise. Ia other cities OF this size, they
fairly take that trade completely, and it
seems decidedly odd to see Americans
handling the iuclous commodity. On ques-
tioning an unusually bright Italian, on
Main street, he said there were great num-
bers Of his countrymen here, but they did
not appesr as conspicuous as at other
places, perhaps for tue reason that they
were engaged Ia raiIroEding, rather than
the fruit business wages being more GER
tain than profit on fruit.
ibid one ever see such dirty sidewalks
as Salt Lake has. There WAS never, no
never, 80 much tobacco juice on any walks
in any city in the world" a dainty little
maiden was heard to ask, as she stepped
disguised along the street. '.Are the men
here like the sea-9ulls that but chew the
grasshopper only to spit it out: If they
don't like tobacco well enough to swallow
it, why do they use it! | would recon-
mend gum, for it is so much sweeter and
cleaner and then we could wear our pretty
white dresses without fear of soiling them ="
A passer by saw in the market last week
an unusually large supply of hard shell
crabs. lying piled high in a bed of ice, look
ing cool, and deiiciously tempting, the very
sight Of them giving IN idea of the ocean,