The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-14

tary parade on the first of the month,
ended on the fifth with a banquee in
the city park cafe, at which Mon.
Ludwig Schaffer der Burgermeister
presided.
Jim Thompson and friend" was
the way we Went on the register at
Pups: not that Jim wanted to star his
own signature, but in order that he
might bear the burden of reading all
the circulars sent TO our rooms, and
receiving the good father of the town,
who always waits upon wealthy
Americans and asks a little aid for
the poor. regardless of the visitors re-
ligion. When we were transferred to
the revolving switch board in the cen
ter of the great lobby, it read, ''Her-
rem Jim Thompson" and when it ap-
peared on local letters and circulars
sent It was "Wellborn Herren Jim
Thompson" sometimes Il was MY
Lord. the well born Herren." But Jim
had been so much among titled people
in Europe, and so often read their
ads for heiresseS, that these little
mistakes were no more to him than
SO many pfennigs.
A Thousand Drinkers in Line.
On the morning of the 10th of May,
when we went down TO the Brunn to
drink. thousand people were stand
ing in line.
"Remirds me of the days when We
used to line up at the postoffice in
Thonpsonville," said Jim, his mind
going back to the big days of Colo
RADIO. when he was mayor and silver
was a dollar ten.
1t was a great show; men and
women from everywhere, with every
disease that can possibly be charged
to the liver, stomach or gall. Even
j.
baths. and get well, or think they do,
which is the same thing. There were
men whose skin and eyes were yellow;
and others green as olives; German
dudes who walked like pacing grey
hounds; fat young Germans, who
seemed to walking on eggs, and old
equity Germans, who did not walk at
all but shuffied.
There are big bony Britains IN
knickerbockers, and elderly English
men whose love of plaids is largely
responsible for the daily rains that
come to this otherwise delightful re-
zion. There are modest Americans,
with their pretty wives and daughters
and other Americans who talk loudly
III the Hobbies and cafes; Tyrolese, In
green hats trimmed with feathers,
and Polish Jews with hlttle cork
screw curls hanging down by their
ears. such as we see in Jerusalem.
Then there are a few stray French
men walking alone, and once-but not
more than once-in while Partisan
lady. and you know her by the charm
ing cut of her skirt and the way she
holds 1T up, and the beautiful dream
of a petticoat the act discloses- There
are Austrian soldiers in long coats
and officers in pale blue uniforms
spurred and cinched like the corset
NC, ,e.y.c Of T7r.a nee
In a solid mass the crowd of cup
bearers moves up and down in the
great colonade, keepi ng time with
their feet or hands or heads to the
strains of the band, which begins to
play at 6:45 in the morning.
By o'clock the springs are de-
serted, and the multitude has dis
distributed itself among the many res
faurants and cafes in the canon. An
hour LATER having breakfasted lightly
on toast and such coffee as can be /
had in Carlsbad, largrhash, the great |
army of healthy looking invalids, lose
themselves in the hills.
Carlsbad Hospitality.
The men are most polite to each |
other and always take off their hats |
as they meet and pass. The employees
In the hotels do this, from the man
ager down. Indeed all these people
are S1mcst piresome with their polite
ness. A table-girl who serves you at
a wayside cafe today will rush out
20 the middle OF the street tomorrow
aud say good morning and ask you
how you feel He is honestly en-
to make it pleasant, and is
making it unpleasant
fer you. IL you speak English, she
argues that you may be a lord, or,
what to her and for her is better still,
pn Americas9, grand, rich and awful,
srd she is proud TO show the propri-
etor CT manager that she knows you.