The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-21

There never was such a day at
! Calder's Park as yesterday and there
! never was an event more mismanaged
in its details than the arrangements
for the people to listen to the address
| of Hon. William ]. Bryan.
/ To begin with il was announced that
Bryan would speak at o'clock, and a
whole Tot of people went down on the
early cars and prepared TO get a good
seat early. They didn't get it, early,
on account of the street cars being a
tribe lame in the legs, which made
their progress slow. but the passengers
were there before those who followed,
| strange as it may seem.
Well, they waited.
Then the motormen and conductors
changed their anecdotes and related
that Mr.. Bryan would speak at 2:3O
and whole lot more people suffered
during the trip.
And they waited.
This sort of thing kept up until all
the people that could be hauled down.
were hauled, and then Bryan spoke.
But it was long wait for the crowd.
They tried all sorts of things, for the
relief of ennui. Some of them rode in
boats on the lake and others patron
lied the beer saloon and soda fountain
and the sandwich counter, thereby in
creasing the revenue of the place. while
others ate free sandwiches at the bar
becue and thereby decreased it.
The management of the grand stand
then displayed a degree of perspicuity
worthy Of being chronicled. He opened
that famous resort and sold about 800
or 400 tickets to the people who wanted
to hear Bryan, announcing that the
silver apostle was going 10 address the
crowd from the judges stand across
the track. After the matter of selling
tickets had gone on for an hour, and
the stand was so full that people had
to enter it edgewise, the announcement
was made that Bryan would address
the people from stand in the grove
on the east side of the park There
was nothing said about refunding the
money for the sale of seats. and the
people meekly left their hard, sunny
seats to indulge in mad rush for the
grove.
It's a good thing for the mana cement
that Salt Lake people are peaceable.
Had that occurred in Joplin, Mo-.
the enraged mob would have torn up
ihe grand stand and ate the manager,
clothes and all.
But they didn't. They just took the
matter as an occurrence to be expected,
and walked and ran to get the best
places in the grove.
Bryan didn't arrive on the scene of
action until several minutes after 8,
when he appeared in a carriage, ac-
companied by Judge Powers and
Frank B. Stephens The reporters,
who had been waiting for him, formed
with the party, and by doing a sort of
hying-wedge-h ollow-square act the
stand from where Bryan was to speak
was reached, and amid a tremendous
cheering and applauding he reached
the platform, where a special sheriff
was stationed with four chairs and a
pitcher of water. There were no con-
veniences for the members of the
press; the management evidently be- \
lieving that reporters go to such places
and listen to addresses on important
topics and then write them up from
memory. AS matter of fact there no
cenvenieuces for anybody. except the
management of the park. 1t is believed,
however. that after dozen or so years
of practice they win come TO the con-
clusion that some improvements ought
to be made, in addition to those which
facilitate the taking of tickets.
BRYAN HAS A HARD TIME.
Bryan had hard time of it getting
from his carriage to the stand. The
first obstacle encountered was that of
the form of buxom woman, aged
somewhere in the forties, who greeted