Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29
LANDSCAPE is BEAuTIFuL.

Ing Americans from going 10 Europe
until they had seen their own coun-
try first
LANDSCAPE is BEAUTIFUL.
Before pursuing our Journey further
let us pause 10 drink In the nectar
and ambrosia OF the landscape. II is
a day In June, the air Is fresh ard
balmy and so free from smoke that
nothing but the snow-capped noun
tains In the distance impede the
vision. II was in the 1905 that a new
smoke consumer was invented by
Joseph A. Silver, that actually did
consume the smoke, and an ordinance
was promptly passed making its use
obligatory--so that while the quantity
OF bltuminous coal In factories, in
mills, in public buildings, In hotels
and stores and other great establish
ments IS thousand fold greater than
formerly the air is now so clear and
clean as when the eyes OF the pioneers
OF ~ first sighted their new found
home. The smelter smoke problem
so vexatious alike 10 farmer and
smelter man In early days has also
been solved, partially by the removal
OF some OF the smelters and partially
by new process of arresting and
utilizing the sulphur as a fertilizer,
discovered by Mr.. Charles A. Whitney
before he became president of tho
Smokeless Smelter trust. II will be
observed that the city takes I'm all tho
Intervening distance as far TO the
south as Murray. that thriving suburb
having been annexed To the city In
1910 by a practically unanimous vote
OF it's Inhabitants under the leadership
OF its enterprisIng mayor, Hon, John
p. Cahoon.
A CITY OF TREES,
The foliage Of the city has been
very greatly beautitied In RENT years;
many Of the poplars which in early
days We're the characteristic shade
tree having been supplanted by other
and more outrageous and harder
varieties such as maple and birch, box
elder and horse chestnut. This i'm
provement, as we'll as scores of others,
all so apparent and so gratifying to
the senses of the old resident as he
gazes out upon the splendid panorama
which lies sparkling before him and
which have so enhanced the general
beauty and symmetry OF the city, was
brought about under the intelligent d.
rection of the board of city commits
sIoners who now govern the city, de-
voting their entire time to the munich
pal business and entirely doing away
with tho mayor and common eoun-
ell II was towards the close OF the
year 1906 that Mr.. Frank Il. stephens,
now attorney general OF the Onlteo
States, made his celebrated speech at
banquet OF the Salt Lake city CONNER
clal club I'm which he advocated what
was then known as the Galveston idea
I'm municipal government, and succeed
ed In so stirring the public mind that
the idea was adopted as soon there
after as the machinery Of the legisla-
ture could put Il into effect with Col.
Il. A. Wall as chairman Of the board
But let us make q closer Inspection
OF our surroundings. Do you note the
forests OF trees I'm the delta and on the
sides OF the Grand Arroyo with their
walks and grasses, their shady hooks
and bosky dells everywhere This is
hut tho entrance to the Pinchot park,
SO named in honor OF Clifford Pinchot,
chief forester Of the United states,
who furnished the trees. and II begins
at the intersection Of the old canyon
road with Second avenue, extending Tor
seven miles up the Grand Arroya. rms
Is said 10 be one OF the most beautiful
tiful woman--half nature. half art In
the Immediate foreground Is the Grand
Esplanade which spans the entrance to
the park, connecting Fourth avenue on
the east with the apltol grounds on
the west. This esplanade or viaduct Is
wide enough to accommodate two lines
OF electric cars, an automobile drive
way. a carriage driveway and spael-
Gus walk for pedestrians. and Is con-
structed entirely OF steel and concrete
rivalling I'm magniflcence the once fam-
Gus Brooklyn bridge.
REAL ESTATE VS., POETRY.
Jumping again into obr perfected
motor cars we are whirled along
Eleventh avenue TO Popperton Place.
the fashionable residence district where
Judge Colborn and the other Million
aires reside. The judge has retired
upon his income from the sale
OF lots which ne steadfastly kept off
the market until the ground was
worth $1,000 rod He also maintained
to the last his iron clad resolution of
permitting no residence to be erected In
Popperton costing less than $4,000
The Judge still writes poetry merely
as q pastlme but II Is said his verses
lack the snap and vim that character
ICED those earlier efforts when he used
TO roast the rich residents for wanting
10 live round the postofiice and de-
clared that time seemed to pound but
little upon their adamant,
We next come to Fort Douglas,
grown into a brigade post and en-
larged to include ali the country be-
tween the old reservation and Parley's
canyon. This splendid enlargement
was accomplished through the persist
ent efforts Of the Commercial club ably
seconded and carried TO fruition by
United States Senator Richard w
Young, who was accorded the unusual
distinction of naming its first COM
mandant He named Brigadier General
Frank Hines (son RI former superinten-
dent Of waterworks), who fought side
by side with the senator in the Utah
battery In the Philippines in the Span
ish war OF 1898. That splendid mo-
nolith on the site OF the old soldiers
cemetery is the monument 10 the men,
DRY of General p. Edward Connor
erected by public subscription as a