The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-02
What the Binocle Showed
BY JOHNNIE BURKE.

Yesterday II comes into my head through
the ginlet hole that's there for the pur-
pose Of letting in an idea once in a
while that it'd be mighty fine young
stunt to study the islands of the Great
Salt Lake at my ease. from the pavilion
at Saltair. The way / figures it is that
| IL get glass | can sit down and watch
the seagulls gull and the buffaloes buff
file without ever having to move.
| So / meets up with a Teller that's in
the opera glass business. and / says how
much will it cost for to look through the
best glasses he's got a whole day. He
says it'll cost 81. I thinks that's pretty
| steep rubbering. but when he gives his
word that l can see the feathers on a
cranes les eight miles away with the
particular peepstones he's goir/ to stake
me to. | takes 'em. He calls EN- binoc-
ulars. but since then I've got some dope
that says they're binocle- The funny part
| about these specs is that they're night
hawks-see better with EN- at night than
in daylight.
I confess that felt little foolish with
the searchlights slung from my shoulders.
and I can't help think all the time that
ought to have one of them dinky caps
that tourists and things wear SOS they
can be identified without using brass tags.
But me and binocle sails in. After the
dip / holds the lamps on Garfield, the
salt works. Antelope islands and other
places plenty. profuse. Oh. sure. you
could see fine and ditsy. Then the seem
| cry gets pretty monotonous, and caches
| the binocs with the sport that runs the
check joint, and then I'm sure sick and
tired from ongwee.
| But this feeling don't last long. for
who does see coming In on the half past
eight train but FitzGibbon. FitzGibboh
| he's lined up maybe to go to the bike
| /. 1--WE got the only genuine generators
of the darkness. and when 1t jars loose
on the famous sunset scene and all ma
ture takes her last highball, me and you
| will them
night"
Pretty soon 1t gets plenty dark and
we glaums with our eyes all the things
| where there's light, and then l says let's
| try il on the lake.
So we takes an advanced position on
that little porch business at the west end
of the pavilion and turns our visual bat
| terv on.
~Phwat's thin things we have there!
Sure, We don't name t say that We can
see in tn dark?' And there was the
image .of O'Sullivan standing behind us
! | don't answer right away. but pulls
out n book and puts down a lot of fig
ureS.
..What'd you get?" asks F'itzGibbon. in
terested beyond expression. for he's next
six, double three, mark" says I. You
try it." COW.
F'itzGibbon, lost 1t.
AN We young lads say that ye have
glasses there that ye can see inty tn
night with? An it's meself that CAM
behave it," says O'Sullivan.
I'VE don't know" says l, looking pro.
| found and scratching my pate, but the
governments paying $500 pair for these
binoculars and ! reckon the government,
wants to find out what's going on a.
night as well as when the rays Is bright
| est"
well. I'm ID" says O'Sullivan. IAN
phwat d. we think ye'er dom, anyway!
Were trying to take some gastronom
ical observations" says |.
| ISy this time we has about fifty people
standing around, all with the elastic II
their neck 40
| Judas" exclaims FitZGibbon. rs that a
crane or a pelican that's pickin' hole
in her egg, can't get the shadow out:
Where, where?" asks young buck
who 1 afterwards learns is from Illinoi.
and is on his way to teach 'em how t
mine In the Klondike. How far away
I'VE can't tell exactly" says /; may
be It's five miles. maybe five miles ant
twenty-five yards. He's in the SHADOW
he says"
by gum" says the Klondiker, "nevei
hearn tell O. such a thing; but tel
YOU. Uncle Sam amt going to let the