The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03

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Utah is rapidly becoming world
famous as an ideal spot for the man
who is seeking rest and recreation.
Utah and her resorts are becoming
known from Maine to California and
their fame extends beyond the seas.
For city of $4,000 inhabitants Salt
Lake is prolific in the matter of health
and pleasure resorts. Beneath the azure
skies that dome this intermOuntain
region man feels that work and the
pursuit Of the Almighty dollar are not
the only pleasures to be obtained on
this mundane sphere. Accordingly he
has searched out the choicest spots of
this fair state and built places where
he can, in the contemplation of his sur
roundings, forget that he is the slave
to habit and live for the present little
rocking the future and forgetting The
past.
After business hours he throws OF
duh care and HES to one Of the resorts
in which the neighborhood of Salt Lake
City abounds.
There is hardly a tourist that comes
TO Salt Lake City who does not visit
Beautiful Saltair'' to carry away with
him memories of vivid sunsets and the
dreamy delights Of a dip in the briny
waters of the Inland sea.
The fame Of SaItair has been pub
iished broadcast to the nations The
well known picture of that Moorish
structure cOnfronts the traveller from
the Beehive state bs the cities of the
east and even across the seas in one
or two Of the smoking rooms Of the
leading hotels in grimy London.
Saltair was erected by local enter
prise in 1888 at the cost of $350,000,
and from that g!me to this the resort
has borne the reputation of being the
largest resort pavilion under a single
roof in the world.
Saltair beach, one of Americas larg-
est resorts, is built over the waters Of
the WOTld-famed Great Salt lake, 1000
feet from the shore. The mammoth
structure, of Moorish design, the main
Dimensions of which are 335x1. 115 feet
rests III stately grandeur solidly upon
$500 i0-inch piling. towering 100 feet
from the surface of the water.
Out at Saltair there is every facility
for enjoyment. More than 500 dressing
rooms branch out on wings from the
main building and there are bathing
suits for everybody, no matter what his
size may be A plunge in the Salt lake
win at once eXhilarate, eiectrify and
rejuvenate the batheT. Take dip
first thing upon arriving IT the resort
and feel like a giant refreshed and
ready to consume everything that the
courteous walters in the restaurant at
tached TO the mammoth place of
amusement may place before you-and
more. The refreshment- pavilion, that
occupies the first floor of the resort, is
a mastodonIc affair, embracing an area
of l50X250 feet.
From p. IN. until the last train
leaves the bee n for Salt Lake City the
orchestra in the big dance pavilion on
the floor above discOUTSeS sweet music.
This huge temple Of TerpsiCnOre. furn-
ished With u perfect floor, has an area
of the same number of feet as that of
the refTeShment floor below, and IS
built to accommodate 500 couples,
who, with judiciOus steering on big
days, manage to dance beneath the
huge arched roof that is SUI ported by
massive steel Orders. \ splendid
orchestra comprised of the best must
cal talent to be obtained in this, the
most musical city of the intermOuu-
tain region, furnishes music for all and
the privilege of dancing is as free as
the Zephyrs that come waiting off the
lake Every day except sunday can
the visi1or indulge in dancing % his
hearts content while on the Sabbath
the orchestra is at its post TO furnish
a sacred concert for the benefit of the
bread winner who cannot avail himself
of recreation during the working days
of the week.
Al night. after the sun has gone
down. the resort takes upon itself new
beauties in light and shadows 1900 in
candescent and forty arc lights throw
ing their RAYS UDon the waters and
dazzling the eye Of the behOlder with
their iuadiating IustTe.
The scenery bordering upon the lake
is very fine. Where the vista is not
obstrU ted b. the grand mountains
which rise ont Of the waters to form
island5 the eye traVerses an cXpanSe
Of water that only terminates upon the
sky lne. When the visitor has had
his fl of the beauties of nature and
returns to this mundane sphere once
more ne Hnds plenty at Saltair to at
tract his attention and otherwise lose
his sorrOWS and business cares in the
many amusement devices that are To
be encountered on every hand for the
delight Of ole and young alike.
Lagoon.
Among the most prominent of the
fresh water resorts adjacent to SAT-
Lake City must be ranked the Lagoon,
which is situated at the foot Of the
towering mountains that flank the
pretty little Davis county seat OF Far
mingtOn. When this resort was Tor
n,aIly opened up in 1896 by Simon BAN
berger in connection with his railroad
there were those who predicted IhaL
the enterprise would fall flat as regards
The general public from the fact that.
they argued. the park was too far out of
town to attract the average picnicker-
The prophesy, however, proved to be