The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-27

ply Dear Karl
Y When you come out west and the brake
man calls out salt Lake" grab onto both
sices of the Pullman car, pull your hat
over your eyes and. if necessary. tell the
porter 10 mold you down until the train
4eaNeS-that is, if you are hungry.
Take this as piece of advice from one
that knows. The talk about the flesh pots
OF Egypt and all that fades into insignifi-
canoe compared with the longing of a
Chicagoan for the dinner tables of old
Chicago when he is thrust by an unfeel-
ing railroad train conductor into Salt
Lake City. That is where / am. Bravery
was never my striking characteristic but
will admit am here. Not that l don't
like the place. / do. / am here and l am
going to like IL, but there are many fun
ny things that strike ChicagOan when
he comes to Salt Lake for the first time.
= When / say Chicagoan ! do not mean
the tourist brand. the kind that jumps off
the train, rushes to the nearest curio
store. buys dozen post cards, marks his
name upon them, and mails them home,
and then, after taking a few snap shots
of the picturesque natives" leaves. con-
1idently believing that he has seen the
town. do not mean the person that
comes here with malice aforethought in
1endlng TO remain long as a kind and
beniflcent employer will supply the need
ed coin of the realm You poor benieht-
winds and baseball teams so long that you
90 not know any other city exists unless
You look at the map. so / am going to
tell YOU a few things about Salt Lake
City as l see it.
Points of interest.
!, If | were writing a history | suppose
that | would be expected to start off bv
saying that Salt Lake is situated in the
northeastern part of Utah, in most fer
tlle and productive section of the country
but | am not going to say that. As I see
II. Salt Lake City is two days and two
nights ride from Chicago. | don't know
how long it is from Salt Lake to Chicago
because I've never taxed my powers as a
pedestrian to the limit Salt Lake has
many things of interest as the guides
say. IT has its hotels its Mormon tenn
ple, its saloons and last but not least,
its restaurants.
When you come to Salt Lake City. Karl,
take a piece of advice and bring a dining
car with you or leave your appetite at
home. Do YOU remember when Mary
in "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway"
gave her opinion of New Rochelle by say
ing, There are lots of nice people in New
Rochelle. but they don't eat here?'' Well
that applies to Salt Lake. There are lots
OF nice people here, but they don't eat at
The rcstaUrants-if they do they deserve
10 go TO heaven after death without anv
purgatory intervening.
You are something of an epicure and as
Ik5n2W have sampled the ViandS of many
Places, but If you want to get a few
POINTERS upon cuisine and cash SimDIv
come to Salt Lake. You will learn more
IN less time than by reading four volumes
of George Bernard Shaw. The restaurant
keepers here 90 on the assumption that
every man who eats in Salt Lake is q
millionaire who don't care what he does.
or a tourist who has to eat here. If Rec
tors or the College Inn or DeJunge's ever
wish to increase their profits | would
suggest that they copy a Salt Lake menu
add few French terms. and their for
tunes are made, if the customers do not
rebel.