The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-04
SOME FEW DABS AT
SIDE INCIDENTS

Although it was Salt Lake day, there
were plenty of evidences of the fact
that conference is at hand. The crowds
at the fair were for the most part city
people, but through them were many
who had come from the smaller towns
of the state and from the country. This
was particularly noticeable at the race
track and among the livestock pens.
Blue coated policemen were so thick
about the grounds that some one of in
quisitive mind asked a desk sergeant
whom he CHANGED to know why this
was. Said the questiOner:
Il tn rught the national guard were
going 10 patrol the grounds and keep
order?"
Not on your life" said the officer
Those kids are part of the exhibits"
And when the questioner turned away
the man with the brass buttons re-
marked; Il guess that ought to hold
him for a while"
They tried a checking turnstile on the
crowd leaving the grounds yesterday
afternoon. but gave it up. While it
worked ii was worth the watching.
The crowd jammed behind it-men
and women and children. and each
member more in a hurry than the 9th
ers. Now, any one who has ever gone
through a turnstile has been at once
impressed with the idea that haste is
the last thing necessary. 1t brings
trouble. 1t did yesterday afternoon. to
more than one perspiring matron and
maiden.
They stood by the turfing spokes.
making short leaps toward the spaces
as they passed, finding. at each leap,
that the space was already filed Oc-
casionally two of them got jammed in
the same small triangle, and on such
occasions the gate as rule had to stop
and disgOrge one. In the end it would
seem that they would have learned pa
thence, but they did not and the man
agement. in despair, finally ordered the
gate beside the tuFnstile opened
The pass gate was installed yester-
day, and although men had to stop as
they had the day before and sign their
names as they entered, the crowd of
bona fide ticket buyers wasn't dis
turbed by the fact. And this was
doubtless q source of relief to more
than one weary person who had paid
down his hard-earned silver for u bit
of pasteboard.
Here and there among the crowds
one could pick them out almost any
dences of the Utah Of former days.
Old, gray-haired women. with dark
colored sunbonnets and dresses of a
style forty years back. and white
bearded men. whose heads were bowed,
walked among the others. The faces
of the women were wrinkled and the
backs of the mems hands were bent
and brown. They had come to the
valley when ii was a waste of sage
brush. and yesterday they saw the
autos and high-seated traps bearing
young people out to take a look al
fruits and vegetables which came from
its garden spots.
Members OF troop A. National Guard
'of Utah. patrolled the grounds on police
duty. They were clad in dress uni
form, with their sabres and side arms.
Occasionally the sight of a cavalryman
trying to sit down on a pile of boards
and at the same time stow. away ms
saber where il wouldn't trip him.
brought jov TO civilians But as rule
the entanglements didn't henpen, and
the appearance of the soldiers was
properly military
Catalogues win be out today and
those who visit tho art exhibit and
other exhibits viii have an opportunity
to cain good idea Of what they are
seeing.
Despite the crowded condition OF
buildings and grounds in the afternoon
and evening. there was nnt a single in
stance Of disturbance noted. The ma
tio1al guardsmen and policemen, by
their united efforts. discouraged any
hoisterous conduct even If the visitors
were so diseosed. The 80 y. m. rule
against juveniles without parents or
guardians is being enforced.
A 'peaceful eiecunent" was made
yesterday afternoon when a woman
with a little game designed to separate
the unwary from their coin began bust
ness. The woman. with the aid Of four
boosters. was persuading hystanders
to chance their money on certain num-
bers. with the alternative in case they
won of choosing between a chain and
Size. The boosters were the only ones
winning when the game was inter-
rupted.