The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03
City UnOrganized.

1t is an acknowledged fact among
| transportation men and hotel operators
| that Salt Lake is not organized TO get
| tourist trade. Colorado Springs, Dem
yer, and other towns in the Rockies are
| continually advertising what they have
to offer in the way of scenic advan.
| tages Salt Lake makes no such bid
for popularity with the travelling pub
| lie.
Salt Lakers arc inclined to think that
because they have the tabernacle, the
temple and Great Salt Lake they don t
have to advertise They have these
things, but they have many more, is
the contention. The folder Of the Pas.
senger association, offering several at
tractive trips, demonstrates this point.
The tourist, too, looks up the things
that Utahns see as commonplace with
new eyes When he crosses the Utah
line from either the east or west he
thinks. 81 am in Utah now, and what
he sees makes an impression as some
thing he has seen in Utah HIS I'm"
pressions Of Utah therefore must neceS-
sarily be gained by what he sees. II
he sees only the usual wonders that is
his impression. II he sees the state as
one Of prosperous homes, farms, mines
and business houses that is another i'm
preston It is the sort that would IN
or possibly TO invest here.
II is possible, too, for the tourist 10
make q circuit OF the western states
and never cross the Utah line. There
are many counter attractions. There is
rhc Grand canyon on the south, the
Canadian Rockies on the north, the
Glacier National park, the Northern Pa
cific entrance to Yellowstone. In fact,
there arc four direct and combined
routes around Salt Lake on the north,
and as many on the south.
Must Divert Tourist.
The business Of Utahns should be TO
divert all business possible to the Mid
land route. Salt Lake has every ad
vantage as far as rates, trains service,
hotel facilities and scenic attractions
60. 1t is matter of advertising them.
a brief history of the tourist traffic
shows an interesting development Of
the "See America First idea Only
confined almost solely to a few So
called watering places" in the east
or middle west. Prominent among these
were Saratoga, n Y, and Waukesha,
Wis.
AS late as 1895 there were only two
standard sleepers running daily be-
tween Chicago and the Pacific coast.
Today it would be impossible to name
the number Of solid trains operating
daily between Chicago and the coast
without an exhaustive investigation of
railway schedules.
The western tourist business was
started by conventions. Coast towns
secured few of the larger conventions
The Christian Endeavor meeting at Los
Angeles in 1897 was one Of these. One
road sent out 200 special sleepers from
Chicago in one night on this excursion.
Thereafter, for some time, rates were
confined TO such gatherings.
There is also a noticeable increase
in European travel in the United States |
The Weather classes from across the
Atlantic are coming TO realize that the |
Indian doesn't stand ready with a |
scalping knife to get travellers who |
venture farther west than Buffalo. They |
are learning that there are many of |
the wonders Of the world to be seen,
in absolute comfort, in the western |
half of America. There were eight |
Europeans in the first party that went |
this year.
In glancing through q handsome
booklet on Yellowstone park, issued by
one Of the big roads running out of !
Chicago. the writer failed to find even |
a mention Of Salt Lake City outside of |
the time tables. which showed that the |
tourist started from Salt Lake City for
Yellowstone. Why shouldn I such
booklet starting the tourist in Salt Lake.
be Salt Lake Yellowstone booklet7
This has been suggested by more than
ore passenger man. II would add TO |
the attractiveness Of the booklet and |
suggest sights here that the traveller |
OUGHT 10 see.
Only few days ago request came