The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-07
I Wo Loo boys walked wearing out

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= WO little boys walked YEARLY out
along First South street yesterday
and cast side glances at the heavily
laden street cars whirling past. Their
kIickerbOckers were frayed and ragged
and holes were in their stockings. Their
faces were eager. and their eyes bright
Electric cars dashed by, bearing other
children in big crowds. These children
were unanimously happy. The sounds OF
their joy were waited to the small pair
on the sidewalk. Shrieks of anticipatiO
from little girls in starched white skirts
and cries Of delight from youngsters n
Buster Brown suits smOte the ears OF
these two, and made them feel like
pariahs
The children on the cars cIung to the
garments of guardian parents or clutched
in their sweating palms the dimes which
were TO pass them into the gates OF VOL
deTland The pair on the sidewalk were
dlmeless.
And the pair on the sidewalk were
anxious. Along with the thrills that
chased up and down their short spinal
columns thrills that had been coming and
going ever since the announcement of the
fair in the big posters that leaped almost
to panfulness when they caught the first
glimpse OF the flutterlng banners blocks
ahead. along with these feelings of an
tieipation came the thought OF what lay
ahead.
These two had not the price of admis-
sion. Were you ever Lhere2 DID you ever
walk and watch the other children ride
along with that know that you had 10
pit your young wits against those of
lot of burly men?
Plan to Secure Admission.
These two were planning. and they
knew they had work ahead The man
agement had placed extra guards @esltf-
day morning, and so these little boys hau
not only the saber bearing ca llrymen OF
the national guard and the blue coated
policemen to contend against but along
with them a drove of others.
But wonderland lay behind the hleh
fences. over the top of the lofty barrier
they caught occasional glimpses. OF the
waving flags. Through cracks they got
uerVe-Tacking bits of what was gong on
inside And all the time to their ears
came the drone of the barkers III the
midway and the sound of the band music
They had reached the grounds now.
Through the gates filed the long INES
of whte-sBirted little girls aud boys N
leather caps and buttOned leggings. They
walked through the turnstiles. CllnglnB 10
the last moment to their fathers hands
The jagged pair watched, ana 70 them
came some way the knowledge that they
were of the prOetariat. They got one OF
those blows that come with the knoWI-
edge of class distinction, when the one
VINO realizes is on the under side
But they had no time 10 speculate.
Tbey must act AS has been stated. the
management put on extra guards. lneS
might as well have done without that
trouble. The fence was long 1neIe
were holes. And places there were "heIe
timber limbs might scale il. Five min
utes after they had tasted wistfuness
at the gate, the two dimeless ones nad
squrmed over the pahngs and hao
sprinted beyond the reach OF painting
saber-lad guards.
And then these two tasted the joys OIL
Wonderland.
They had no fathers along. from whom
TO beg nickes for red pop OF necessity
cream" Nor did they see all on the
Midway But what of these forbidden
pleasures? What they did get was the
sWpcter for being stolen. And of the
other sights they tasted in fulness.
Children in Throngs.
Children flocked TO The State fair yes
terdav. Thousands OF them came. They
poured into the gates from early morn
ing until after the long strings or mean
descent lights began 10 glow, and the
bankers of the Midway TO call Hurry,
hurry" beneath the flare Of gasoline
torches They journeyed from all four
corners of Utah.
II was the biggest day of the fair. And
il was the day that gave more 10 its
Visitors than any other. For these Wis
itors looked on a world OF new things.
Wonders met them everywhere. Their
senses of pleasure found plenty on which
10 feast. They had not been jaded by
contact with the world. And so thew
wandered TO and fro among new and
beautiful things. They tasted pleasure
until the very smell OF the dusty tram
pied grass will come back TO them oc-
casionally in after years and bring with
il happy memories.
In the morning the young visitors were
on hand in numbers. They crowded al
the gates with their dimes in their fists.
At noon the ground was sDrinkl with
them and they filed through the build
ings i'm a constant string. And when the
afternoon sun grew hottest, Just before
il began to slant away toward the west
they were massed verywhere-whlte-
froclted little girls boys in new suits;
babies in pink and pretty laces. And
among the crowds, brushing against
these the wise-faced, ragged-garbed
children of the street sought and found
their fun.
Biggest Day Of Fair.
I'm point of numbers it was the biggest
day OF the fair The attractions were
unusually good The big grand stand
was crowded all the afternoon, not so