The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-30

{ , The drawing OF prizes WiI Dee g
( > held this evening at S O'Clock il
> the saucer LTaeE at the salt Pale .
/ = ace. No admission vii Doe charged p
= either TO the resort grounds on the
! = track. The drawing was post
{ = pOned until this evening Jo permit =
+ > of every stub to an tickets sold e
/ . being collected and placed ln the
/ = wheel from which the lucky num-
I > bers are % be drawn by Mayor 9
1 = Norris. All the stubs could not be .
> collected to permit of the Drawing
, taking place last night at Saitair. =
4 = = . . . 4 = . > . . . . = . = . =
THE NUMBER of tickets taken in at
the gates at SaItair yesterday
was 14S1-. 1t was the largest
crowd by about 5000 persons that ever
/ visited the resort
1t was Real Estate day. That was
the occasion. Tt was the outing Of the
/ Real Estate Mems association. People
( from all over the state helped 10 tuaka
/ it the signal success which il proved
/ 20 be-
The attendance was not the only
/ record which was broken. Two others
/ were eCipsed before S o'clock They
were the number of people who went
/ ia bathing and the greatest number OF
men. women and children who ever
went out TO the resort upon single
I train.
1t is estimated that at midnigh5
/ close on TO $500 persons had enjoyed "a
I bath in Great salt Lake. The crowd
( alighting from the train from Salt Lake
I City which arrived at the pavilion
/ about o'clock deposited 1905 Real Es-
tate association coupons iu the boxes a.
3 the gates. That number does not i'm
clude passes. other tickets and chill
dren from whom no fares were eNacted.
I 1t was thought no less than 1000 per-
/ sons went out on that train
Start With First Train.
The crowd began To gather al Salt
air with the arrival of the first rTFlH-
which took out about 500 persons. The
other morning trains were not so heaf-
( lily crowded. averaging about 400 each.
The majority OF the morning CROWD
were women and children They weu-
T ont TO enjoy the diversified pleasures
and amusemeuts of the resort.
The early hours of the afternoon saw
better crowded trains, the seventh ono
out carrying about 100 persons i-
was a more representative crowd. con-
tanning many men who had been UNI
able TO get out earlier ln the day
+ From 3 o'clock ON until 10 o'clock az
night each train. loaded to the guards
on the platforms. brought ont bust
ness men, their wives and older mem
bers Of the families.
Up TO 4 O'Clock in the afternoon the
. crowd was not sufficiently large %
make the resort OveTCTOWded. but from
that hour the jam was something never
before seen at Saltair. And the pToba-
bilities are that iU viii be many months
before its equal viii be witnessed.
The previous record attendance I'm
the history of the resort. aside from
hs lea nt u- n
tic record was kept, was l2,l01 one day
last year This record was ecllUsed
yesterday by nearly 5000
Packs the Entire Resort.
Tt was a crowd that extended all over
the resort Tt started at the gates.
widening north and south along the
two piers leading 10 the bath houses
filled the main floor of the pavilion 10
Overlooking, and crowded the dancing
floor upstairs
Tt was such crowd that many per-
sons who wanted room i'm which To-
move about COmfOrta bly, were COM
PEELED to take 10 the water. Even then
many Of them were compelled to stand
around and wait for bathing suits, SO
great was the demand
Several times during the afternoon
there was not bathing suit iu the
bath houses, every one being lu use
There were instances where people gave
a bonus to bathers TO come out Of the
water and give up their suits
Previous to yesterday il was stated
at the lake that the largest number o.
bathers I'm one day was about 2,394
The number yesterday was close
around $500. 1t would have been sew
eral hundred more than that if the
company mad had the suits TO accom-
mOdate the crowds al the fushes.
Drawing is Postponed.
The real estate men expressed them
selves last evening as being more than
delighted with their outing. It was
complete success as they viewed H..
There was but one drawback. which
resulted in regrets Tt was the In
ability of the association to hold the
drawing last night. as had been count
ed upon. That proposed feature of the
day had to be abandoned because the
committee having the sale of tickets
in charge was unable 10 get an the
coupons out to the lake last evening.
Explaining the matter a member o.
the association said
1T was impossible to hold the draw
ing this evening and be fair 10 every
one who helped us make the day the
success which it was. You must re-
member tickets were sold In almost
every city in Utah. i cannot tell how
many were disposed of I'm Logan, Og-
den, Park City, Eureka and Provo, IN
say nothing of the smaller towns with
in a hundred miles radius Of salt Lake
City
1T was found impossible to get the
stubs Of every ticket sold OuC TO the
lake. 1t is those stubs which are To be
placed i'm the wheel from which Mayor
Morris is TO make the drawings on
Thursday night a the saucer track.
Every stub left out OF the wheel would
be depriving just that many people OF
a chance for one of the prizes
while it is true a few people were
disappointed at the drawing nor taking
place this evening, when the circum
stances were explained to them they
felt satisfied.
No Accidents During Day
Not an accident was reported To tie
police in Salt Lake OF the authorities
at the lake. A child on two got lost i1
the crowd during the afternoon and
evening, but anxious parent and heart
broken child were soon united through
the services of megaphones, the loss
OF the child being proclaimed by stout
Iunged real estate men.
The street ear company did not have
much trouble handling the crowds go
ing % and from the trains during the
afternoon and early part of the even
ing- There was no noticeable crush
during those hours. The strain did not
come until toward midnight. when each
train pulling in from The lake deposited
its thousands eff uen, women and enii-
dren at the depot