The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-05
MANAGER CLAYTOh'S REGRETS
CHAGRINED BY OUTCOME OF
NECKLACE CONTEST.
Still Leaves Decision to the Judges,
and They Decline to Act-Neck-
lace at Saltair.

Leda Stromberg has not yet received
the diamond necklace offered by the
Saltair Beach company to the most
popular lady. When she will receive it,
if at all, is problematical. Colonel N.
! w. Clayton. general manager of the
beach resort, said last evening that the
whole matter rested with the judges.
1.-THE necklace is here at the resort,
| he added, land whoever the judges de-
eide is entitled to it will get it,
Two of the judges decline to act, and
the third believes the Stromberg block
of votes should be rejected.
Manager Clayton is chagrined over
the termination of the voting contest.
Against my WILL said he last even
ing. was l persuaded by my associ-
ates to have the popular lady contest.
I can see now that there should have
been some further limitations or reser-
vations to guard against just such an
uproar as has been raised. In an af-
fair like this l know that one mans
, money is as good as another's, but the
depositing of 1000 or 5000 unpunched
tickets by one person at the last mo-
ment does not follow the strict letter of
the simple regulation announced in the
advertisement, which required each
! person to deposit his vote at the gate.
don't know. what will be the outcome.
accordingly by delivering the jeweied
necklace to whom they award it,"
Reputation Suggested.
The Saltair management is not at a
loss for gratuitous advice, as was evil
denced yesterday when Manager Clay
ton received the following letter from a
well known local attorney:
Ny Dear Sir: L am a friend of what /
consider the most complete and popular
summer resort in this country. iSaltair."
and | feel that the action of the people,
or few of those who felt called upon. by
their votes. to insult the thousands of
the diamond necklace as they did, calls
upon you fer but one action. that is to
repudiate the matter and the vote. and
give the necklace or its value to be sold
for some charitable purpose.
1t is an insult to you and your popular
generosity and to the resort, and / be-
lieve 10 other action than resentment is
open for you.
what is right and just to the homes and
pure womanl1ood of this city, as well as
to. the general public spirit that made it
possible for this country to have Saltair.
Suspected Ones Deny.
Persistent rumors are afioat connect
ing the names of two or three young
bloods with the alleged syndicate who
sought to make Leda Stromberg the
winner of the jewels. But each of the
young men to whom suspicion has
pointed denies the allegation and chal-
lenge proof. Joseph Letters Salt Lake
friends discredit the story that he was
the purchaser of the tickets, and think
he has been done an injustice. They
give him credit for more sense.
Certain it is, however. that a young
man brought a valise full of unpunched
tickets and voted them Saturday night
in a wad for Leda Stromberg. 1t has
been asserted that the bearer of this
burden was Albert Budde, the Knuts-
ford runner who was arrested two
weeks ago for theft, but on inquiry it is
known that he left the city before the
contest commenced. For whom the
strange young man was acting cannot
be learned.
Sixteen votes cast for Leda Strom-
berg at the Salt Palace contest last
evening were, under the right reserved,
rejected. Some others were also thrown
out and the money refunded.