The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-18
Capacity Will Be Cvertaxed BY
Enormous Crowds.
COMING BY THOUSANDS
TEIRTY-FIVE TRAINS WILL AR
RIVE TOMORROW.
Several Large Excursion Parties In
Addition to the Multitude of
Celebration Visitors-Nearly Ali
the Hotels Are Full Now-Rail-
roads Prepared to Handle Crowds.

Salt Lake will see the largest crowd
in it's history today and tomorrow.
Even now the hotels are crowded to
overlooking, and it is difficult to see
where the great rush of today and
tomorrow will be housed.
Every hotel except the Knutsford was
crowded to its full capacity last night,
and the rush had hardly begun. In ad-
dition to the Utahns who will come to
honor their volunteers, several excur-
sion parties, for which the hotels have
made contracts, will arrive. The Gin
cinnati Enquirer excursion of 200 will
reach the Kenyon on tomorrow morn
ing. A party of fifty or more German
tourists will reach the Knutsford to-
day. Then there are some 200 persons
expected from Colorado over the Den
yer & Rio Grande and Rio Grande
Western.
Every hotel in the city has received
demands to reserve rooms for persons
who will arrive on Friday and on Sat
urday. But so many persons have al
ready arrived intending to remain until
the celebrations are over that few
rooms can be reserved. AT every hotel
desk there is d pile of kilograms and
letters from old customers, who do not
want to come and wait. But the OLD
customers are not likely TO fare very
well. They will find their places taken
by others who have had the fore
thought to come in advance.
Hundreds of Extra Beds.
Don C. Porter of the Kenyon hotel is
making the greatest preparations to re-
ceive the crowd. He has placed 100
more beds in the house, and doubled
them up in rooms. In some rooms he
has placed as many as four beds, and
each one will have to accommodate two
persons. Magnificent suites in the an
mex have had beds crowded into them
until in some it is difficult to turn. The
parlors of the house will be converted
into bed rooms, and all the sample
rooms have been utilized until they
look like the dormitorieS of a seminary.
Mr.. Porter must make room for 200
persons of the Cincinnati Encuirer'S
Household excursion, as we'll as many
regular customers of the house who
will come TODAY and tomorrow from
Butte, Denver and many other outside
cities.
At the Knutsford the same provisions
are not being made. When the house is
full no more guests Will be received.
But no extra accommodations will be
given.
Hotels Are Full.
The large majority of Utah persons
who come to salt Lake stop at the
Cullen, Walker and the White House.
Each one of them is not only full now,
but ii has received word from many
persons to reserve rooms. Whether or
not thew will be reserved is question
able. Unless persons now occupying
them get out, very few rooms Will be
had.
Still the crowds are coming. TomOr-
row thirty-five passenger trains Kill
arrive. II each train brings but 200
persons who win stop here, the accom-
modationS will be far overcome. There
is little room in the boarding houses
and private hotels, and these places are
not readily found by strangers. Many
of them will find it necessary to go TO
lodging houses and eat at restaurants.
rom the present conditions it would
seem that more than one ardent patriot
of Utah who came to see the volunteers
return will carry the banner" through
the long hours OF : lturday night. the
capacity of boarding houses, hotels and
lodging houses does not give an ade-
quate idea of the crowd, for there are
hundreds of persons who
will remain with relatives and friends
at private houses.
Unless some provision is made by the
volunteer committees for the accom-
mediation of visitors, there will likely
be much inconvenience and annoy
ance.