The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-23
TELLS OF fine
TRIP TO HOME IN
GOLDEN WEST
MISS CLARA MOULTON, NOW A
RESIDENT OF PASADENA, CAL.
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CONTINUED From Last Weekly


late to make connections with our
train, were transferred to the Salt
Lake depot where we were told to go
to the Hotel Utah where the consoli-
dated railroad offices were; here we
waited about 20 minutes at the infor-
nation desk and were told what
trains were running, which carried
standard and which one tourist sleep
ers, then we waited about half hour
at the other desk trying to get man
to sell us berth. Well at last a
very nice, elderly gentleman waited on
us; he advised US to take a tourist
sleeper which would leave about noon
the next day which would give US sew
eral hours at Salt Lake City. We
then engaged a room at this hotel,
which by the way is a new hotel and a
very beautiful one, costing something
over two million dollars; every room
is an outside room. We then went
for ride on the rubberneck wagon.
We saw the tomb Of Brigham Young,
also the house where his first wife and
his 18th one lived, by the way the
later is three or four story red
brick house and is A.ow used for the
headquarters of the Utah Red Cross.
Also saw the oldest house in Salt
Lake City which is an adobe house
built in the sos; took a ride on
millionaire row, where so many of the
rich guys live who have made their
money in copper and other minerals,
the houses were all very beautiful of
marble, granite and many costly
stones there were scarcely any frame
houses in Salt Lake; they have such
wonderful quarries near and so much
white marble, ETC., | suppose it is, or
nh alA
perhaps more so, as there was not a
tree there when these early pioneers
came. The streets are the incest
exer expect to see. must be over so
feet wide; the curbing on every street
is wider, should Judge, than the
paving on Bridge street at home; once
every "a hours every street is flushed
so you see they are very clean: the
paving is asphalt. Everything is
numbered from Temple Square and
every block is square, but their
blocks are as long as three blocks at
home. The driver took us up a very
high hill where we got splendid view
OF the city, facing US was the new
Capitol building, which was built in
record time for public building, in
"a months; from here we could also
catch a glimpse of Fort Douglas and
many other public buildings. If
anything had gone wrong with the
steering gear of that machine as we
made. the turn on that hill, well, you
would not be worrying yourself
through this letter; the road ends
rather abruptly here and one would
land several hundred feet below in a
ravine.
They have built several large apart
ment houses there recently, one which
we saw had rs apartments in; every
room has an outside window, with
heating. cooking and lighting all done
by electricity, that sounded good to
me; think of the dirt and work one
would escape. l think there are go
or "a wards in the city; every ward
mas It's own Mormon church also its
elder to look after it; there are many
beautiful churches there. the Episco-
pal church is a large and very ex-
pensive church. also the Congrega-
tional; there are also several protest
ant hospitals, in fact 65 per cent of
the population Of Salt Lake CITY are
not Mormons, of course in the state
Mormons run much larger than that.
We saw the titheing house where all
good Mormons pay their tithes; they
say 1T is not compulsory. but I am
from Missouri. / believe all the
property in the city is owned and
controlled by the Mormons. We saw
the Beehive house. which is the offic-
ial residence of the president of the
Mormon church; it is in the shape of
beehive as its name suggests. The
Lion house which adjoins the Bee
nlve house was formerly the private
home of Brigham Young but is now
nCa6 ha Loft ~
versity. We drove through one
drive of Liberty Park, which is right
in the city and contains over 200
acres; here they claim to have the
only baby elephant born in captivity,
may. be so, / did not dispute their
word; part of the party got out and
walked over to see it; not your hum
bic servants; it was altogether too hot
for any extra exertion on our part:
we sat in the shade and ate ice cream
cones; saw the elephant near enough
for me when we drove in. The park
has many beautiful flowers and
shrubs in and everything that is us
uaIly seen in park.
There are many nice stores and we
thought we would go in one or two
in the morning but did not have time.
That night we started out to Salt
Lake. Well we got there but a lit
tie late. When / went to buy nv
ticket there was a man ahead of me
who wanted folks to know he had a
$40 bill and it took the girl so long to
make change that the train had start
ed before ! could get my ticket, so
we had to wait IS minutes for the
next one which got us out there rath-
er late. However, we walked around
a bit. The pavilion was remarkable
on account Of its Moorish structure
and the huge proportions; outside of
the pavilion were different booths; I
think there was every gambling game
that was ever invented right there in
the open where you could spend all
the money you wanted to; we passed
them by and took the safe thing, a
popcorn ball. The wind seemed to