Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-29
Bird Cities on Islands of Great Salt Lake i:

LIVELY sense Of beauty Is one
~ cf the FIRST evidences that per-
n son is rising above his bread and
butter state and beginning to
live in thc broader world of kinshlp
With nature and natures creations
For communities the rule stnl holds
and It is not until an awakening public
scntlmept speaks for the protection OF
such natural advantages for the enjoy
ment OF recreation as are found near
community that It can be classed as
beyond It's pioneer state.
Near salt Lake there is much Of nat
ural beauty that goes begging for rec
ignition. so busy has the city boon es-
tablishng itself and its people learning
to do The work before them rather than
find The pleasures OF rest that abound.
What is out In Great salt lake to love
and TO enjoy is "a secret locked in the
breast of Few adventurous poets and
artists of whom Alfred Lambourne nat
urally takes rank as leader What Inn
preston the great salt waves lfting
their heavy heads over stanabury
reefs ana the beautiful White Rock
bay lying serene through every storm,
made upon the veteran Utah artist has
been recorded both on canvas and in
prose, ana is expected soon to be avail
able from the printers.
SAILING ON THE LAKE.
But what Salt Lakers can practically
make Of the lake, as a place OF recrea-
ton, Is still 70 be determined This
year new steam launch caters to trat-
fic seeking an hours ride westward
from Saltair, and an occasional launch
trip has been successful in reaching
White Rock bay for a pleasant lunch
con. And here it should be said that
the little sailing yacht, yawl rugged
of a. o, Trcganza, seems pioneer IN a
field that could stand many Gompetl- |
tors. Sailing on the lake has been mag
nifed in its list of terrors because Of |
the fact that iandsmen, who seek the
Garth In storm. instead Of seamcn
who head away from lee shores. have
had most Of the navigating 10 do. and
the lighting of bad weather
PORTS IN A STORM.
There is hardly position on the
lake from which a speedy run to cover
cannot be made 1t storm threatens.
While the great waves pitch their wind
combed heads north OF Stansbury In
tho deep lake channel. there is always |.
absolute safety IN 15-mlnute run evenII
Under reefed canvas, to the Anteloy. |
hrcakwater for great reef runs saiuth
from this island, and while theS .,
sometimes dash 60 and 10 feeE Sion -,
striking 1t, they have no fetsoo 20 thn
eastward and as the island ,,sa,s hraat,s
the northwest wind theIY IS ref,,ye her,
for every brand of baa ,,soths, WIZ
the pioneers In sailir "''
a. J.. 80 - ZIG the lake have to
w - 70 'velUonFs the natural fear OF
'e'''''''eli nom sEwhat is strange to them
l'u unNno~Pr and then small craft
scted to be one OF the regu-
49, 49, z. lions dottIng the horizon
atrd from the pavilion
~ ANCIENT INHABITANTS.
sat was the writer's privilege TO be
one OF company which this spring
made four attempts to cross the lake,
armed with kodaks, to secure photo
graphs of the birds that make their !
homes there, and are known nowhere
else In the west, inland sea birds that
perhaps have chung to their island
rookeries since the days Lake Bonne-
Vile made feeding grounds many miles
farther away TO the eaUt and west.
on each trip great storms arose. but !
on none was there any more discom-
fort or danger than comes from an |
choring behind a protecting reef and |
watching the waves roll past out in |
the channel. Some OF the results OF the