The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-25

The open season for tourists has ar
rived Every train that puffs into Salt
Lake from the east or the west brings
with il 8 load Of enthusiastic sightseers.
Thoroughly armed with the regulation
kodak and suit cases, Mr.. Tourist rushes
from the tram having in tow Mrs. Tour
lst and as many Of the coming generation
OF Tourists as could be wedged past the
depot guards on half rate tickets. Salt
Lake has a quota of tourists the year
round that is numerically below only that
of Washington and San Francisco, but
when the vacation season opens and the
savings of long winter months have been
taken from the bank or the private
vault, then the rush to Salt Lake begins.
They come in rwOs, in threes and in any
other combination of numbers that can
be thought of. Associations arrive in a
body. Clubs on excursions take advan-
tage of summer rates to get away from
their home surroundings. And they all
come to Salt Lake.
Joy for Hotel Men.
The urbane hotel keeper. he of the per-
ennial smile and the large bill, simply
family, mother, son. husband, aunt and
cousins. rush into his hotel and spread
their names Upon his register. The
tourist season is one of joy-and profit
for the hotel man. And from all reports
the annUal supply has not been decreased.
Salt Lake hotels are filled to their ca
pacity nearly all the time by those that
feel that the future would be barren IN
less at least one glimpse had been had
OF the place where Brigham Young and
his several domestic appendages lived
in peace and harmony or one dive be
taken into the famous Salt lake. One
any doubt as to the accuracy of the re-
ports concerning the bTiny prOpensities
of the lake.
There is one thing that is as closely
connected
tourist wings are to an angel. That is
post cards. The easiest way TO determine
whether Salt Lake Is obtaining its usual
number of visitors is to inquire at the
places where post cards are sold. From
merely pleasant diversion and a cheap
way of letting your enviOus friends know
that you are seeing the country, the post
card has become one of the command
ments of the sightseer. The first in the
life of the tourist is of course, Never
admit that your home town hasn't some
thing just as good. The second is
statistician endeavored to determine how
far the post cards purchased during the
summer months would stretch if placed
end to end. He had satisfied himself that
q line could be drawn twice around the
world, a bow knot tied whose ends would
reach from Shanghai to Kalamazoo
Mich, and then unable to dispose OF the
surplus length he gave the task up in dis
gust.
Post Card Mania.
The postal cards are being sold in large
quantities again this year. but the curio
dealers do not like this new fad of the
tourists The experience in Salt Lake
IS that the post card vogue has made I'M
profitable the stock of other curioS with
whic hthe stores are stocked. No longer
does the traveller from Bow Junction, n.
V care TO spend SO to buy remem-
brances for the folks at home He sim
ply buys a dozen oE two post cards, a
sufficient quantity of stamps and his task
is done. Then, with a clear neart he
Tushts to his train and is Whirled on his
way to some other famous point where he
can repeat his sight seeing" AS one
dealer put IL yesterday. There are too
many who come to Salt Lake with a clean
shirt waist and a two-dollar bill and
don't change either during their stay"
The absence Of the tourist guide is one
thing that takes from the picturesque
ness of the summer tourist The guide
is mark or stamp as indelible as the
pure food label of the government In
Europe the guide and the tourist are
looked upon as twin evils that must be
borne on account of the revenue that can
and is extracted from the latter. In
America the native" must trust 10 his
natural faculties to separate the chaff
from the wheat-the tourist from the cas-
ual visitor. But in place of the official
guide and the Baedeckers, America has
furnished the sightseeing car with its
lusty-lunged 'demonstrator" with his
never-ending. Here on the right you see
the justly -err-uptharata-"
Salt Sea and Temple.
Whether the Great Salt lake or the fact
that Salt Lake Is the capital of Mormon
ism is the greatest attraction for the
tourists is a hard matter to Judge be-
cause both of these features are present
and every tourist takes advantage to see
both. In reality they are separated be-
cause Salt lake and Salt Lake City are
several miles apart, but the average tour
list doesn't knew it until he arrives
MANY a traveller in domains unknown has
strained his or her eyes looking out of
the train window as it pulled into the sta
ton trying to catch sight of the lake.
But in a few years it will become gen.
orally known that the great lake is on
an island surrounded by an amusement
company fifteen miles from the temple
But that fact will not deter those that
wish to float upon its surface from COM
ing thousc nds of miles TO do so.
The tourist arrives early, He registers
at his hotel and then immediately gets
into action. BY the time he has reached
Salt Lake all the home mannerisms that
marked his progress at first are worn off.