Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-03
WAS A BIC DAY
FOR THE LADIES
CaIders Park Management Gives
Them a Great Treat,
AMUSEMENT WAS ALL FREE
Resort Crowded All Day and Rapid
Transit Severely Taxed 10
Haul the People.

il was ladies' day at Calder's Park
yesterday and as consequence there
was many O. married man that ate at "a
restaurant during the course of the day
TO eventually retire TO hIs desolate DOM
lc.le 20 await the return OF his better
half
By ten o'clock In the morning the ml-
grafton ON the part OF the fair sex bee
gan towards The shady dells OF the MIN
creek resort They came On shoals
and batalli0ns, each one loaded down
with chubby little duplicates Of pater
fam.los and lunch baskets galore
Taken altogether It was an inspiring
sight tan girls small mothers, Titan
hUed damsols and giddy young things
good nlturadIy scrambled Tor a seat ON
the cars while there was nary a man
TO mar the outing
This state OF affairs was directly at
trIbutcl to the fact that everything
was free 0u Ladies' day including the
street car IT'D. to the park AS "a C0nse-
queuce the CORNERS from First South
down 90 Seventh South We're the trysf-
Iug places Cor beWitching millinery
creations the llyeiong day Every car
on the Rapid Transit system that
could Doe spared was pressed into ser-
vice with the result that the residents
along the line uf transit We're RECALLED
throughout the day with q continuous
procession OF carloads of sweet famiu-
unity clad ln gala apparel Taken oil
in al 10 Is estimated that there were
some 5000 ladies and seven men at
Calders Park yesterday afternoon I'm
the evening things became better adj
iusted with the male population aug
meuted until the ratio stood in the
ueiEhb0rhOod OF 100 10 one In favor Of
the fair sex.
Not only were the cars patronizel TO
their limit, but the ladies came ln sec-
lions from Murray ON the south to Da-
Wis county ON the north zoo every con-
ceIyJbIe pattern OF vehicle. Upon ar
irving 40 their destination. one and all
proceeded Go indulge ln ladyIIke diss.-
patton 60 the t0p of their bent With
alr0t stragetC movements worthy Of
Dewey they captured the fleet of row
boats and pr0ceededto explore the lake
with am its attendant peuinsulas, Is
lands and sthmus During the process
two ot the mariners became so en-
Unused with the scenery that instead OF
stepping into the boat they both IN
dulggd DO involuntary headers In the
tide The one strong man down there
shudleral, bat they just gathered up
their skirts and walked Co dry land,
Competition for a seat I'm the vaude-
willie theater was az am times very keen
the numerous little subtertuges in
duIged iu by the ever waiting crowd
being at an times very amusing This
effort ON the part of the impatient la
dies was duplicated az the merry
g0-rlund. which was worked 20 It's ca-
pacity the liyelong day In that Adam
less Eden
The fun really commenced. however.
at $3.50 %. m. when AN concerned under
took 90 stampede for home I'm order 20
attend 90 the wants OF the neglected
breadwiuner. Without due regard for
the attire OF thclr sisters the tr.quers
scrambled for places in the cars for all
the world as though they were at a
bargain counter During the process
some very unk.ud things are said 90
have been spoken in the heat or the
chase. babies screamed and refused 90
De- comf0rted while the ever-pauent
conductors. under the press Of sweet
femlninity. had To- ride ON the draw
heads on their way up town.
1857 midnight there were over 800 be-
lated ladies sim yaliautly striving for
transportation to- their respective
domlcles with the result that they were
am ultimately hauled back 20 town at
the hour when graveyards and police
men yaWn.
Superintendent Weber stated that
Yesterday was the biggest day that Cali
ders Park had ever witnessed. Upon
being asked 20 furnish an estimate as
90 the number of people who visited
that resort Yesterday be stated that De
had no hesitauCy iu saying that there
must have been fully 5000 people pres
emit during the day