The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-18
STOP THE TOURISTS.
Train Loads OF Worlds Fair People
Passing Through Utah.
Some Suggestions as to How These TraV-
elers Night Be Induced to Visit
Salt Lake City.

The advantages which the Salt Lake
merchants, hotel and shop people had an
ticlpated, from the Worlds fair travel is
being diverted to other cities. while Salt
Lakers stand idly by, sucking their
thumbs.
Solid trainIoads of passengers are hauled
through this city every day, and their
limited tickets will not permit them to
stop off even a day.
This state of things has attracted the
attention of the real estate men, but so
far they have taken no definite action to
arrest the tide of travel and remedy this
injustice to Salt Lake city.
The chamber of commerce is the COM
mercial body to look after such matters,
and should call halt on the railroads.
AS high as five hundred tourists have
been passing through Utah over both
roads. on their way to the World s
fair, every cay. If these could
by some arrangement be induced to
stop over but one day they would spend
on an average in hoTel fares, livery
charges and shopping money SO each, or
in all, So, 900.
Should the chamber of commerce, the
Business Mems association and the Real
Estate exchange combine and appoint
committees to await on the passenger
agents-of the various railroads they GER
tainly could patch up plan by which
the great bulk of tourists could be
induced to break their long and tedious
journey across the continent at Salt Lake
city.
The Pullman company, as well as the
railroads, Is interested In forcing the pas
sengers to make continuous passages, as
it saves them breaking their sleepers.
The most effective way Ofcorralling this
trade would be to employ man TO work
the Southern Pacific trains between here
and San Francisco, another on the Oregon
Short Line and still another between here
and Denver, the latter to catch the tour
lists on their return. A man could
also do good work on the
Union Pacific between Ogden and
Omaha. Four men OF entertaining adj
dress could be secured at So. a day, the
railroads furnishing the transportation.
The hotels alone could well afford to con-
tribute $40 day for such purpose, but
inasmuch as all the merchants will share
the profit to a certain extent, there is no
reason why they should not also
be asked to contribute. With
these four travelling agents working
all the trains coming to this city from
both the west and east, better and more
effective work could be done than at the
Worlds fair. When at Chicago the tour
4Sb lll1Hu 10 % u1ANg WIN a multiplicity OF
attractions, that any Salt Lake literature
placed in his hands would make
little impression on his otherwise
occupied mind. II the same
printed matter were handed him on the
train when he has long, tedious days of
travel without any rival attractions to
engage his mind it would command his
attention The city's travelling agents
could easily engage his attention and ex-
cite his interest in our city.
Pictures of SalUair, Garfield beach, the
great tabernacle and temple and descrip-
tons of this quaint city's various re-
sources could not but arouse the curiosity
of the most Indifferent.