The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-09

: HE public loves to be treated-and
that was Auerbach day at salt

HE public loves to be treated-sud
that was AUerbach day at salt
air It was treated TO free ride
TO the lake, was treated to the spec
tacle of thousands of men. women and
children risl1ing life and limb TO be
treated; it was treated to the sight OF
women overcome by exhaustion and
trampled under foot. and to the
spectacle of youths showing how hard
their trips 10 the bar had gone with
them.
There were no deaths at the lake nor
were there any train Wrecks=and
that's the best that can be said And
pretty good. too, when one considers
that 10000 persons hocked to the resort
on this day Of treats-Auerbach day
Records We're broken by the beach
resort and in breaking records bones
were broken There were accidents
scores of them, some funny. some seri-
Gus, all Of them due to the influence Of
the mind of the mob One man had
his back broken. a boy had his Lee
broken. dozens of women tainted one
was tramDled down and is now in "a
precariOus condition. Hundreds had
narrow escapes from one Of these fates-
Bones and records aside, II was a
great day
Crowds Forced to Wait.
OF course it's no sinecure to handle
10000 persons with the Saltair equip
ment-and the management pleads
guilty. The crowd itself is the most
extenuating circumstance Then there
was a balky Oregon Short Line engine.
IT simply wouldn't pull 900 persons
out on one of the early afternoon
trains. So that put the kibosh on the
forty-hVe minute service.
II seems unnecessary TO relate THAI
the train service from this point on was
.erratic' IN view Of the fact that Is
OOO persons who waited, waited, waited
and then stood. stood stood are we'll
acquainted with the situation
From early afternoon until 10 D. m.
they thrOnged the train Now il might
appear that one could exercise Selec-
ton in the choice of seats. as
there were sixteen cars to a train Well
possibly one could but no more. Be
fore the returning train was at a
standstin all seats would be filed
ChivaIry Is Evident.
Then the mob would rush. And here
salt Lake must dOff its hat 20 the
chivalry of its men, With scarcely an
exception the fair sex was awarded the
platform to stand or sit on while the
sterner sex climbed aIoft and perched
on top Of the coaches a la brakey. or
clambered underneath a la hobo.
80 even II there was d Jam the men
recognized the privileges of the other
sex and did not force on the fair ones
the indignHy of riding the beams or car
tops Of course there were men who
occupied seats. but this is not TO Their
discredit. as they were wedged in too
tightly to do aught but keep still. They
could not talk. for their tickets were
held between their teeth. So they sat.
simply sat
Babies?-weH a few-thousands. They
ranged all the way from the eeny weenv
bits of things that raised a deafenfnE
din once the frets got in their work M
TO the real big ones Of two or three who
kept sixteen deputy sheriffs and few
thousand mothers busy keeping them
from getting lost
Climb Through Windows.
It was not an unusual sight to see wo-
men lifted through, car windows. and
and theirs, dive out of the open sash and
pull through baby or two 10 seat OF
babes are unfortunate in having their
faCultS Of retention but slightly developed.
member the experience all their lives
Just because ones little and cant talk
much isn't any excuse for using them as
Many an infant looked the words as it
was See-Sawed through the crowd in ad-
vance of the gTOwn-ups- The public re-
membered its manners enough TO saw
Excuse me- every time Erown-up was
stepped on. but stepping on and sQueez-
ing and SQuashing infants became TOO
common thing for apology last evening
But talking about features that made
Auerbach day great: In the first place
the record of attendance for SaItair was
smashed into small pieces At midnight
the Management stated that 1852 tickets
had been collected at the gates In ad-
ditiOn there were about 400 orphans from
whom tickets were not taken. Another
addition is the smaller children who were
passed in, and still another the hundreds
who were simply forced through the gates
without tickets. All in all, over 10000
persons passed through the gates. The
Auerbach store had . 900 tickets to dis
tribute and every one was given away.
Now, the question Of how many refused