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Show o I THE PENNY ARCADE. A town is metropolitan in proportion to the number of low-priced amusements amuse-ments It supports. Already Salt Lake is putting on metropolitan airs. Long ago the town outgrow its knee pants and Is now noisy with long trousers. In the business district one can not throw a potato without breaking the glass windows of a modest-priced j show house. Ever since Mr. Gourloy, established tlio popular-priced amusement amuse-ment and made it successful, the field has been growing. For the past few nights strollers on Main street have noticed a new electric sign abovo the pavement. Salt Lake ha3 many pretty designs in electric signs, but tho most attractive attract-ive mado Its appearance over .the Daft block a few evenings ago. When you go up Main street tonight look for a cluster of pale green globes fornjlng the words, "Penny Arcade." If you have some loose change. In your jeans and tho dear girl on your arm needs cheering up, don't pass up the green lights, but stop and follow the crowd. You will find yourself in a room whoso depth suggests the name "arcade". Tho admission is free and is worth something, oven if you don't ffal like playing tho entire game. Every inch of the walls, every inch of the ceiling, is tastefully decorated tho color scheme appealing in nttract-ivc nttract-ivc tints to the eye, while countless fairy lights, slning through opalescent globes, turn tho place into an Aladdin palace. You don't know whether you're in little old Salt Lake, or In tho mystic realms of tho story-books. Running down the length of tho room on either side, are picture and phonograph machines. ma-chines. Beforo going down tho line it Is necessary to turn your dimes and nickels Into pennies. Tho pretty lady cashier will give you tho proper chango in coppers. Each machine, whether picture or phonograph, has Ii3 subject announced on a neat card. You mako your selection, drop the Penny in tho slot, turn tho handle, and the machine does tho work. In the picture machines, of which there nro both moving and stationary pictures, pic-tures, there are viows from all over tho world and tho varied actions of lire as It is strenuously lived. Tho phonograph pho-nograph machines give band and concert con-cert selections and all tho late popular popu-lar songs of tho day. Every week a completo chango will bo mado of pictures pic-tures and phonograph selections. Other Oth-er machines aro for testing lung power, pow-er, strength and weight. One unique icaturo is a souvenir posta' device "y which tourists may obtain local views of the city. A penny dropped nto tho slot of any machine plates tho instrument at your service. Special attention is paid to tho amusement of ladles and children. Nothing of-, of-, m i elther m Pictures or songs 'il be permitted to offend tho eye or ear. Messrs. Castro Dros. and Caldwell, ino local managers, are confident that oait Lake will generously support uiolr novelty amusement parlor. |