The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-13

the work of keeping up the lawns and
the flowers and the lot is done by hired
help. -
There was no condition that those
who entered should be subscribers of
The Herald. All were welcome, wheth-
er they took the paper or not. The APP
preparation was merely a donation to-
ward improving the city.
The Judges Task.
The thanks of The Herald and of the
competitors as well are due the boards
of awards. Those who comprised the
committees were painstaking to the last
degree. No entry was overlooked, but
all were visited and carefully inspected.
The awards were made on the point
system, so that the decisions were as
nearly fair and impartial as ii was pos
sible TO make them. In not few in
stances the markings, when the casting
up came to be done, brought out a tie.
1t will be noted that in some cases
prizes have been diveded: that is the
result of the fact that the totals of
points were the same in these Instances.
The contest was first announced on
the morning following Arbor day, April
10. Two weeks later the prizes were
announced. At first it was the opinion
of the management that entries should
close on July 1. but the late season
caused a change in this order and the
time for entry was extended one
month, or to Aug. /.
Visits to some os the householders
who were successful in the competition
are related below. The expression is
unanimous that the contest has aroused
no small amount of interest. and it is
self-evident that it has been productive
of a great deal of good.
District No. I.
The prize front yard of the Gibson
family at 953 Second avenue is the
work largely of the daughter of the
house, Miss Gibson. whose care has
been rewarded with the finest front
yard in the contest. The yard is most
ly taken up with lawn, and islabout five
rods wide by three deep. Roses in guam
titles are at either side, and great
masses of goldenglow give color to the
place. The yard has been under cult
walton for eighteen years. and has al
ways been one of the show places of
the neighborhood. The back yard as
we'll has always been a picture, but the
removal of some trees by the grade
work of the present year has made it
| imDracticable to do much with it,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Kimball of III
Seventh avenue have secured prize
| for the second time in The Herald
yard contests. Their grounds are seven
years old and the very first to be Gull
tivated in the neighborhood. 81 have
no doubt" said Mrs. Kimball, about
the efficiency of this method OF getting
people to have. presentable yards. Not
alone those who enter the contests, but
| those who live near them try to make
their places attractive. We have always
taken pride in our garden, and know
that our place has helped to make the
neighbors who come here later take
more pains with their places"
A perfect little picture of good taste
in front and back yard alike is the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Harrison
at 70 S street. The place is laid out
mostly in lawn. but a profusion of
vines, we'll kept and trimmed, adds
beauty, and rows of poisoning plants
| give the touch of color. Cement, walks
bordered by shrubbery In the back yard
make it especially attractive. The place
shows the results of some six years.
cultivation. and during all that time it
has been a speaking example to the
neighborhood.
| Another place which has been many
| years under cultivation is that OF Mr..
and Mrs. James Maxwell at 1126 Fourth
avenue. II was the first garden planted
in that part of the city. the house hav-
ing been built twenty-eight years ago.
The front yard. which won the fourth
prize. is tiny place about twenty-five
| feet by forty-five. A lawn covers the
place. and creeping vines adorn the
house. Climbing roses make the place
a bower in their season. Here. too. is
a case where the beauty of the place