The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-21
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS
FOUR COUNTIES UNITE IN AN
EXCURSION TO SALTAIR.
Largest Attendance In the History
of the Misrepresentation of
the Battle of Manila a Great Sue
cess-Railway Notes.

Yesterday the Young Mems and
Young Ladies Mutual Improvement
! associations of Salt Lake Utah, Weber
and Davis counties had joint excur-
! sion to Saltair and the attendance of
the young people and their friends was
something enormous. Large delega-
| tons came in from the outside counties
early in the afternoon, so that by .
o'clock the great resort was fairly well
| crowded. Then the evening trains
carried out thousands of city people
and by s o'clock the enormous pavilion
and the annexes thereto were a living
| mass of humanity, young and old, all
/ in the best of good humor and just
in the mood to thoroughly enjoy them
1 selves. The crowd was so great all
afternoon and evening that the very
/ extensive bathing accommodations
were altogether inadequate to the de-
mands and at intervals the manage
ment had to stop the sale of bathing
tickets, every room being occupied and
long line of people waiting for their
turn.
The water was in excellent condition
and it was great fun to watch the
; bathers as they fioated. dived and
swan in the invigorating brine.
NO LIQUOR SOLD.
One feature of the day was that no
Intoxicating liquor was sold, the bar
and its appendages were closed during
the entire day. but everybody enjoyed
themselves thoroughly in a rational
and common sense way and it is to the
credit of the associations that they
discountenenced the use of intoxicat-
ing liquors in the practical way which
they did.
BATTLE OF MANILA.
One of the attractions at the beach
was the representation of the battle of
Manila by Professor Cook of Denver,
which was given in the evening be-
tween and 10 O'Clock. 1t was one of
ever given in Salt Lake. The scene of
action was the sheet Of water on the
south side of the railroad tracks be-
tween the track and the bathing rooms.
In it were anchored six or eight vessels
gaily decked, with flags, representing
the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor The
Notifications and the town of Manila
were also represented by a suitable
structure. When the proper time ar
rived the American feet under Ad-
miral Dewey sailed into the harbor
and opened fire on the enemy which re-
piled vigorously as did also the guns
from the Notifications. A perfect
fusilade was kept up for awhile as one
by one the Spanish ships caught fire
and burnt and blazed amid explosion
after explosion until finally all were
blown up and disappeared, and the
Qualifications were partly destroyed
The scene was very animated and the
vaI--colored rockets and fire produced
quite a fine effect. This speciality is
to be repeated nightly for a week and
will prove a drawing card.
After the battle people began to
think of getting home and train load
after train load was dispatched in
rapid succession UP to midnight Cen
eral Passenger Agent Clayton had his
ARRANGEMENTS perfected so that there
was no unnecessary delays and no
bitches anywhere.
Excursion Agent Meakin was in his
glory. attending to everybody and
everything and was congratulating
himself on the enormous attendance,
which was probably the largest in the
history of Saltair.
A young lady handed Mr.. Meakin the
following acrostic written in praise of
Saltair:
Saltair. Utah's famous resort
And great conducer of health:
Long may the ripping waves on your
beach
Tel! that happiness is the purest wealth |
Angels of peace hover round you
In darkness your splendor doth shine
Radiant with joy ard with gladness we
ali so,