The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-12-17

A sight for the traveller who visits this
city is the Pavilion at Salt Air Beach or
the great Lake. This wonderful building
is testimony to Utah capital. The ar
chitecture is after the Moorish style anC
the general effect is beautiful. 1000
couples dancing at one time is frequent
sight. The dancing floor is covered with
a dome shaped roof constructed after the
far-famed Tabernacle. The bathing at
this resort is said to be the most exhila-
rating and healthful in the world. Sc
dense is the brine that heavy winds
scarcely ruff1e it. swimmers cannot sink
and fish cannot live in 1t.
Their schools are their pride. 1t is
their ambition to have them of the high
est standard. The merit of their schools
was recognized at the st. Louis xposition
in 1914, when the common schools OF Salt
Lake City received a gold medal, the
second highest award, and the High
school a silver medal. The schools are
required to maintain libraries and these
libraries and fine school buildings are on
the same progressive line as are their
advanced ideas of education.
1t was time now to buy the papers. and
as woman stood on corner with the
evening edition we patrOniZed her. She
asked which we would have, The Des-
eret Journal or the Salt Lake Herald.
When she was asked which we should
take, she glanced at us and said, "Slnce
you are Geatiles you had better take the
Deserat Journal"
Having been asked by man from
Mississippi, after learning we were from
Maine, if We were really Yankees, ano
having been called Gringoes in Mexico, L
felt quite ex llted at being called Gen
tile, but it is really the name given to
nom Mormon. | have often wondered If
the editor of the Deserat Journal is still
living, for in his paper he made the most
daring accusations against the Mormons,
showing the feeling which exists be-
tween the Mormons and Gentlles.
The streets were full of people and had
the appearance of a large crowd that had
come for some special occasion. A dis
tinctlvely western mining town is Salt
Lake City. 1t had an atmosphere differ
ent from that of any other western city
we were in, and it was easy to recognize
the tourist. The men whom l took to be
Mormons looked melancholy and the wo-
men reconciled. When | remarked how
sad the men looked, you have OF course
anticipated the answer received, which
was: ''They are probably the men who
were allowed plural wives. - When the
Unit-d States said there should be no
more polygamy in America, the people
met in solemn worship and renounced
what they considered one of their strong
est religious beliefs and promised to
thereafter do their utmost to keep with
in the law; but the older men who had
plural wives were allowed to MAINTAIN
their homes undisturbed.
GJust to be polite, am going to call the
hotel where we stayed frst-class. 1t
said on the folder it was. The situation
at that time was three hotels, whichever
one you went to you wished you mad
gone to the other, but we were comfort
able and enjoyed looking down from the
balcony on the crowd that gathered IN
the office in the evening. When west
ern play is given at the moving PIC
lures we often see this scene reproduced
on the screen.
Now when you 60 to the Pacific coast
it will be the most natural thing to stop
off, either going or coming, IN Salt Lake
City. You will have the pleasure OF
staying in new $4,000, 900 hotel, the
Utah, opened last year. You will nave
the trip across the lake, and DO not let
the snow sheds deter, for there has been
a cut off. And if l have interested you
just little, go and see for yourselves
how much more interesting 1t IS than
find it possible to tell you.