The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-27
HAS No USE FOR
SALTA|R BEACH
Ogden Paper Scores the Man
agement for Way Resort
Is Run.
DECLARES CARS ARE
RAMSHACKLE AFFAIRS
Gives Illustration of What PeO-
pie Have to Put Up With
Going to Beach.

That Saltair Beach has fallen into
disreputc among people OF Utah is seen
in the comment of the press regarding
this resort on the great salt sea of Utah.
The ramshackle cars that are run over
the railroad to Saltair arc calculated to
give every visitor, whether native or
tourist, the horrors. Then at the resort
the way il is kept up makes Salt
Iaker blush whenever he takes visl"
tor there Here is what the Ogden Ex"
aminer has to say about Saltair Beach
and SaItair railway The story speaks
for itself. Saws the Examiner:
out ut the southern end OF Broadway,
in Denver, is q little street railway.
known 10 tourists all over the country
as the Cherryyn line, II is about n mile
long and extends from the terminus OF
the Broadway line up a hill TO the little
suburb Of Cherryyn, The equipment con-
ssts Of one dilapidated car. drawn by an
antiquated horse. After the car reaches
the top OF the grade, the horse having
been unhitched trots around to the rear
of tho car where 1t climbs upon the
platform and the start is made down the
hill This line has become famous. Post
card pictures OF the car, showing the
horse on the rear platform, have been
mailed broadcast over the country, and n
ride on the Chcrrylyn horsccar is one OF
the experiences that every tourist seeks
when he visits Denver. Necessarily the
car is permitted 10 become more disrcp-
utable and the horse nlscmpt time
passes otherwise the novelty OF the little
car linc would disappear and no one
would care to dig up 90 cents for the
privilege OF riding up the mile longN hill.
The Cherrylvn line has been gold mine
for It's owners and the capital actually
invested wouldn't buy Il flrst-class pop
corn stand
Saltair Beach Line.
Running from Salt Lake City out TO
Saltair beach is also a car line. The |
engines do not crawl upon the back |
platform of the rear coaches when the |
return trip is made, but otherwise the |
equipment Is about up to the standard OF
the Cherrylyn line In Denver Whether |
II be the intention of the owners of this |
streak OF rust TO permit the equipment |
OF the road 10 fall into state OF an
tiqui,y that Will bring about desire in
every tourist To- ride upon the worst |
equipped road in the United States, or
whether ii be case OF pure cussedness
and downright lack of enterprise, has as
Yet not been fully determined.
AS an illustration OF what people are |
obliged TO put UP with when they visit |
Saltair. yesterdays experience of a young |
lady from Ogden might be cited. The
dress, AS she stepped from the train a |
splinter from the frayed planking of the
promenade flew UP and ripped place
several inches long in her garment. That
was bad enough but to add insult to
injury as she boarded a car for the re-
turn trip n protruding nail in n seat tore |
bad rent in her skirt. Such happen
inSs of common occurrence. The cars |
are absolutely the worst old ramshaclSle |
affairs that ever ran ON four or eight |
wheels. barring The Cherrylyn line. and
why the people OF Salt Lake City indif-
ferently put up with such acconlmoda-
tions is beyond our comprehension.
Tourists Want to See Lake.
Every tourist that crosses the continent
desires TO see the Great Salt lake. After
a trip over the SaItair road II is quite
likely they will tell their friends. when
they return home, that the best place TO
see the great inland sea is from the
Lucin cutoff. The view from a train
crossing the cutoff is magnificent and II
is to be hoped that the time will arrive
when Ogden's population will support
resort at Promontory point with an hour
Ia f,-ol, r.