The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19
CROWDS FLOCK|NG IN
Two Thousand Visitors Reached the
City Last Night.
MANY THOUSAND TODAY
HOTELS WERE FULL AND PEG
PIE TURNED AWAY.
Oregon Short Line Brought In Fiji
teen Hundred Last Night-Streets
Were Crowded During the Even
ing-People From Every Point In
the State.

The crowds which have come in from
all over the state, from Denver, Butte
and surrounding cities, have swamped
the hotels. Some of them refused to re-
ceive guests during the day. and 9TH
ers received them only for last night.
| Never before, perhaps, has such a
mass of humanity poured into Salt
Lake. People have come from every
direction.
You may have a room tonight" said
the clerk at the Kenyon to two ladies',
but you must give it up by O'Clock
tomorrow morning. Tney took the
room, for they were tired and weary
of tramping about.
The Walker and the Cullen refused
early during the day to receive more
guests. Though there were many
names on their registers, they were
persons who had telegraphed, tele-
phoned or written for rooms some days
in advance. Strangers were told that
every room was taken. The White
House mas very few rooms left, and
they are being held for old patrons of
the place.
There is a jam and turmoil at the
Kenyon. Beds have been placed in
every conceivable place. The ladies'
parlor on the second floor has ten beds,
and it is expected that twenty persons
Will occupy them. Sample rooms of
the drummers have been converted into
bed rooms. All through the halls and
in many hooks and corners sample
tables have been placed. At the Knuts-
ford there was still room, but not very
much of it. No one had been turned
away.
Last Nights Arrivals.
1t may readily be understood how
crowded the hotels are when it is real
lied that the Short Line alone brought
in 800 persons from the north, and 100
from southern points last evening. How
many the Rio Grande brought in is
unknown, but the number will I'M
doubleday reach 500 or 600. and this is
but the vanguard of the crowds.
Crowds that thronged about the
streets last night blocked every cross
ing and sidewalk about Second South
and Main streets. Throngs paraded up
and down Main street, looking in the
windows and crowding stores that were
open. When the Ephraim band parad-
ed up Main street early during the
evening. country persons stood in
droVes to watch il.
To these country people this occa-
sion is one long to be remembered. 1t
will shine forth in future years as the
commencement of an epoch in their
lives. They have brought their wives
and wives sisters, their cousins and
aunts and the babies with them. Coun-
try merchants have come to buy goods.
as well as to see the great sight of the
return of the volunteers. That ac-
counts for the fact that the commercial
men are so anxious to secure rooms at
the hotels. They expect to do as much
business as they would on several trips
about the state.
Thousands Coming.
But the crowd has hardly started to
come yet, if information from the rail-
roads is correct. Thousands and thou
sands will pour in upon those now here.
until during this afternoon Main street
viii look like a section of Broadway,
with country airs replacing the smart
ness of New York.
No one seems to know what is to
become of them, where they will sleep
tonight. Every hotel viii undoubtedly
be crowded by early afternoon, so that
no more guests can be received. Most
of the private hotels and boarding
houses are already full. Yesterday at
least sixty persons were sent to these
places from the Walker House Other
hotels have been hunting rooms in
lodging and boarding houses, and plac-
ing old patrons VINO failed to give no
tice of their coming.