The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-30
SALT LAKE A PARADISE
That Is the Report of Returning
Excursionists.
A GREAT SALT PALACE
A Novel Attraction With an Immense
Variety of Attractions-Plenty of
Pretty Girls An Incident
on Street Car.

The last train load of excursionists
who went to Salt Lake on the 10Th
returned yesterday. According to the
reports brought up from there by the
enthusiastic visitors Salt Lake is a
paradise, sure enough. Everybody re-
turned home thoroughly in love with
the sanity city and its hundreds of
attractions.
1T is a pity that we cannot have
some of those trees and flowers" is the
way many put it.
Indeed it is delightful place" say
Others, and 1T is to be hoped the rail-
road will continue to give these 10
day excursions" suggest others.
The salt palace is not completed but
was near enough to completion to give
one an idea of what it is to be. 1t is
novel structure, and the variety OF
attractions is simply immense" 1t
is a worlds fair on a reduced scale.
The bathing season al the beach and
Saltair will close on the list, but the
other attractions at these famous re-
sorts will be continued until late in
the fall. Excursion trains will make
frequent runs out there.
Several of the excursionists remain
ed beyond the Today limit and will
SpGllu Lie 1tAl lWO WEEKS III SdIl LAKE.
salt Lake is a beautiful place and
it's attractions are grand and novel;"
said one of the visitors yesterday. 1T
is the peer of all western inland cities
in point of beauty. While Salt Lake
is thriving and, at times. busy city,
still the people down there frankly
admit that if il were not for the sum
mer excursions which bring in thou
sands of visitors with money to spend
uynn1I hn aching void in the
necessary revenues.
They are out for the stuff down
there" he continued" While the citi-
zens generally are a very sociable and
kindly people, yet they regard the tour
list in the light of business PROPOSE
ton and generally succeed in getting
what they plan for. If you have not
the money you don't cut much ice
down that way You are supposed
to have the cash and let loose of it as
fast as you can.
II went into a fruit stall the other
day and bought watermelon. When
the clerk said that the price of the
melon was 10 cents | expressed Won
der and volunteered the information
that where l came from a melon of
the size of the one l purchased would
command 81.
"'Ain't you from Tintic?' asked the
clerk.
"'No, I'm from Butte I replied.
"As / stepped out of the door onto
the pavement with the big melon I'M
der my arm, I heard the proprietor
say something to the clerk that would
look out of place in print. They had
missed their guess on me.
Talk about girls! Well, don't men
ton it. Say, the ~omens clubs of
Salt Lake last summer. you remem-
Der, went to the authorities with a
protest against the free and easy ac-
tions of the young men who rode in
from the lake on dark cars with
girls. They kicked because the boys
Rugged the girls. I never heard the
girls kick. Coming in from Saltalr the
other evening l sat along side of a
young man whose girl sat in the next
seat back. They carried on a broth
erly and sisterly Irritation Before We
reached town it was quite dark and
the observation car was not lighted
The first thing | knew that girl sit
ting behind me had her arms around
my neck and was kissing me on the
cheek ] didn't carry my grievance to
the city authorities. But you ought to
have seen that pretty little girl when
we got into town, where the arc lights
gave me away.
salt Lake is all right, and I'm go
ing there again."