The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-08
NDtS OF KIDS
REVEL IN LAGOON'S
MANY ACITONS
Outing of City School Children an immense Success-So
Many One Couldn't Count EN-.

lime condition. where all is contentment
and self-satisfaction, known as youth, and
where the grlhOOd was passing into mai
denhood. But best of all was the sight
presented by the gleeful, tiny little infant
who swung between heaven and earth,
two provinces limited on the upper side
by the horizontal beams of the bowery
and on the lower side by the soft and
yielding earth. There, suspended in mid
air, these scores of babies cooedA and
chuckled and crowed and rubbed n1plas-
ses candy into their dainty little froeks-
assisted by their mothers who rubbed il
in all the more by trying to rub it out
and lost their wee little shoes and cried
because they couldn't reach them, for
they were so very, very far away on the
black, black ground below
And then. when it grew cold and dark
and damp and dismal and dreary and the
baby wanted to get out of the swing,
mamma came and took II out and cud-
died it and snuggled it and had ever SO
confidential conversation with IT, and
then baby went to sleep, as all good bah
les do. and then it came time to go home
and to bed.
Reaping the Harvest.
1t was a profitable day for the attrac-
lions. The shooting gallery was YER
liable reproduction of the time when
President Roosevelt went UP San Juan
hill and the bullets rained about him so
thickly that he could not eat more than
half of them. Inc Wntel Oh IOTIuilep WnSlt
one gets something for nothing, one is
told and the knife rack and the skating
rink and the dancing pavilion ana the
shoot the chutes and the boating and the
what s-its-name that takes one seven dl-
rections of the compass in an automOblle
car. and the candy man, and the soda Wa
ter man, and the ice cream man, and the
peanut man-how busy they all were
And all of this was aside from the great
events of the day, the sports on the field,
Z diamond
where were determined and finally de-
cided the most momentouS disputes IN
athletology that have been witnessed
since the time of Julius Caesar and be-
fore.
The Railroad and the Management.
How in the world are you going to
get all those children out there and PACK
without breaking their neckS? was the
question: put to the management OF the
Salt Lake & ogden railroad.
If we were not prepared to care Tor
our traffic We would not accept IL. was
the reply. we are pr9pareo 10 ha 1aIt
Is 600 persons and we will guarantee that
every one of them comes back from La
COON safe in body and greatly improved
in heart and mind.
And the railroad company did 1t.
More than 800 children were carried on
each of the earlier trains; hundreds were
carried on the afternoon trains There
was never a slip. never a mlshap. Inc
children played in the cars 10 their hearts
content and tore their clothes and had to
run to their mothers to have them pinned
up. and Daised a deuce of a racket but
not a one played on the platforms while
the trains were in motion and not one
there was among all the thousands who
did not take without ANY back talk
the kindly word of caution uttered by the
alert train operatives.
Couldn't Keep Count.
Manager J. B. Bean of the Lagoon re-
sort was asked about the number of chill
dren and grown persons who had passed
through the gates. ''Well, I'll tell you.
my friend. frankly that l don't know, nor
does any of the gatekeepers know. We
counted up to $500 and then we quit.
The little rats and mice ran around us
and through and between us like sprites
and fairies, and we concluded to lock up
our registers in deposit vault and let it
go at that. ] think. though. that per-
haps there were here altogether between
5000 and 5000 souls
d. II. Christensen, superintendent Of
schools. naturally was the most ticlSIed
man on the grounds. why. it's a sue
cess, a success beyond our expectations.
See what we have here in spite of the
beastly weather" he said THE commit
tees and the teachers have done their
duty and more. The children are enjoy
ing themselves. Did you ever see a hap
pier crOwd?'