The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-12

Ideal weather ana 9 great, gcoC ldale
marked the field day al Saitair yes
terday.
Field day at salaaj1,." The term
sounds rather funny. even 20 resi-
dent OF Salt Lake. but ii wouic soul0
gt:Ea runnaer 10 ao eastern university
exhleGe II ne had any notion Of what
sort Of d place. Seltair is To him, feid
day means az much or more than conn
mencemenr. ana H. spende infinlteiy
more time and exer:iou in preparing
for II. ami his time at college is colslo-
cred well spen, if ne sncceeos Al
scratching through with just the batg
margin sufficient 70 get his degree anu
can break Of tie a record Wheh he'lu
day arrives by putting fne shoc
throwing the hammer but half an incn
farther than anyone has been aple 10
before or to raise the high jump or
lower a running time ever so little. bul
here it is dierent. where moro tliile
and attention is given TO STUDY imam W
cultiYating a wonderful CROWN Oh nam
and TO the art of parting 1t IN the liilu-
die to such a nicetS that not one nan
more rests on one side than the otheQ'
and where more training is not gwen
to muscles than to the mind. TO pc
sure athletics ale all right 1t not per
mitted to absorb the college students
attention to the exclusion of everything
else, and they are INDUCED In by the
students of the University OF Ofah TO a
limited extent, hut the people of TINS
section, somehow or other, don seem
to have the same opinion of the cham
pion high kicker that they do of good
orator. 1t may be because we haven
come to il yet and that some day we
will be as bad as the rest, but at ali
events, the day hasn't come yet when
the athletic feats of the student creates
the same enthusiasm as was manifested
at last Wednesdays commencement.
Hence it was that when, a year ago.
the university students undertook to
get up a big field day and went to a
considerable outlay Of expense and
trouble in preparation for ii, the affair
fell a long way short of reimbursing the
treasury Of the athletic association to
the extent of the outlay. That expert
ence was sufficiently disastrous to set
tie university field day, for a time at
least, so far as athletics were con-
cerned, and as a consequence, when the
close of school days came around this
year it was decided not to repeat ii, but
to give an outing at Saltair instead.
And so it was that a Field day at
Saltair'' became possible. That the
diversion from the old college custom
was fully as much appreciated as
DAY in the field would have been, was
atteSted by the throngs Of people who
went to the resort and cheeTfully gave
up their money. whereas they declined
to invest in last years field sports. OF
course there were no exhibitions OF
strength or agility Except in the latter
line ON the dancing Tioor) but no one APP
peared to miss the athletics except the
students themselves and a few of their
friends, perhaps, and the feelings of
these were appeased by the knowledge
of the fact that the gate receipts. which
the Athletic association received be-
cause of the event being given under
its AUSPICES. would more than make up
the deficit in the treasury created by
last years failure.
1t was q. very jolly day. made the
more enjoyable by the sublime weather
Of The afternoon, which was neither
too warm nor too cold, but Just right
TO make dancing a pleasure or tete-
a-tete comfortable, and so while some
tripped over the magnificent floor of the
great pavilion to the time OF excellent
music others walked and talked or sat
and dreamed the afternoon away in the
very ecStacy of idleness. and While not
many cared to ATTEMPT the water,
great many bathed for hours in the
glorious sunshine.
It was by far the biggest day. in
point Of attendance. that Saltair has
had since the season opened. Fully
$500 people went out sometime during
the day. a, great many going in the
morning with their lunches and staying
all day, but twas not till the afternoon
that the great majority commenced to
wend their way to the Rio Grande
Western depot to take the train. The
AIS train carried fully 500 people, and
each subsequent outgoing train was
even more heavily loaded. The crowd
was composed very largely of course
of students. relatives and friends, but a
great many having no such direct con-
nection, Joined the throng and partici-
pafed in the event for the sake of col
lege memories. this being a substitute
for tin1e-honored college day.
The programme of the afternoon was
simply the regular one provided by the
SaitaiT management. but in the evening
an especial dancing programme, pre-
pared by the general committee of the
Athletic association, was carried out
It commenced at o'clock. after the
last train out had reached the beach
and then it was that the real event of
the day commenced. Society had been
we'll represented in the afternoon. but
e. turned out to a much greater extent
in the evening and the last train de-
posted at Saltair a perfect army of
beauty and fashion. When as evening
came ON and it became necessary to
light the lamps. the usual illumination
was augmented and the scene was one
brilliant to see.
The reso. was virtually turned over
20 student management, and merri-
ment ran riot until the last note from
the orchestra had ceased and the
gong's discerdant clang notified the
students and their friends that their
field day at Saltair" was over and
that if they did not wish to spend a
night in The open air, they must get
aboard the train in a jiffy.
There waS no decoration ATTEMPTED
further than suspepdfng the university
colors from the center Of the top OF
the pavilion, but nearly everyone wore
the red and white in honor of the occa-
sion which, even If there were no ath-
letics. was about as enjoyable field
day as could well be imagined
The committee having the affair in
charge were Messrs. Joseph Cannon,
chairman: Milton Bennion, Arthur
Mitchell, H l. Nelson, r. L. McGhie
Shady Stringer. Theodore Nystrom:
Misses Mae Taylor, Kate Thomas.
Nora Cannon. Edyth Ellerbeck, Rose
Goldenberg and Lavon Pierce