The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-12
InsoIent Employees Greet Native
and Stranger at the
Bathrooms.
NO PRIVACY Whatever,
NO KEYS TO DOORS
Patrons Subject to Insult for
Lack of Proper Police
Protection.

Patrons of the bathrooms at Saltair
arc loud In their complaints Of the
way that portion Of the resort is run,
not managed Insolent employees meet
the resident as we'll as the stranger
who go there to bathe. There Is no
privacy; the locks to many OF tho doors
are broken or Will not lock, and In few
instances can one get key to q bath
room when a suit Is secured at the
depot where the suits are handed out.
A key can be had Of An attendant. but
many of the bathrooms have no keys
at all. 1t is an outrage and shame
that such condition Of affairs exists.
but 1t does exist, and should be
remedied. and that at once, or people
Will cease to patronize 1t.
Practically Barred.
Women and children who go alone
TO the beach are practically barred
from going into the water for the rea-
son that the rooms where they pre-
pare for the bath are liable to be In
vaded at any time, or on their return
from the water to the room they are
likely to find some one else occupying
1t.
The management should provide keys
for the rooms already existing, and
what is more 1T ought to see that these
keys Will open and lock the doors.
Mirrors should be put In all the rooms,
burnt out electric lights should be re-
placed promptly. and other similar i'm
provements which would add to the
comfort OF the patrons should be made
at once,
Too frequently 1t happens that a
bather Is sent almost to the end OF the
pier, only to discover after his weary
trudge that the lock on his door Is
broken, or that the key does not work,
or that Some one else has the room.
Finally the seeker for an invigoratinG
bath gets a key that will fit. and pre-
pares to don his swimming suit. To
his surprise he discovers that the suit
Is torn. that the strings on the trousers
are missing, or that the suit is too large
or too small.
1t is getting on toward evening. On
the platform the employees are running
along their gocarts. A heavily-loaded
one has just passed and under It's
weight the one-inch platform boards
have cracked and here and there given
way completely. The hole has not
been repaired. Our bather steps into IL
and badly skins his shin or otherwise
Injuries himself.
Lights Burned Out.
After his bath he returns to his room.
The electric light In it has burned out
and he must undresS and dress in the
dark. The shower is an old dilapidated
affair, and does not throw its spray
well, Or It Is even possible that the
shower water has run out Indeed, such
IS a more or less common occurrence
on big days.
To use the small towels supplied the
bath seeker is a genuine task. In the
first place 1t is hard to find a clean
spot on the towels. They should be
sent TO the laundry oESeaer and not be
used time after without receiving any
other cleansing that a mere soaking OF
perhaps a rinsing in cold water.
OF privacy there Is not an overamount
IS this department at the resort I'M
provements on this score. especially.
should not only be appreciated by the
resort patrons, but is an absolute ne
| cessity.
The bathing department of Saltair
! needs policing. 1T needs civil attendants
it needs them now and 1t needs them
bad