Show UTAH BOYS TRIP u He Runs Against an Old Resident in Chicago I SALT LAKE THE COMING PLACE All the East Have Their Eyes Upon Us and Will Pour In Their Honey Very Soon t j Provo Dec 22 18S9 Correspondence of THE HEIULD It would be a difficult matter to express the emotions experienced by a poor homespun boy from Utah who has never seen anything beyond the range of the glorious protectors we have in the shape and contour of tbo mountains beautiful beau-tiful o all but us The first morning after leaving Utah I awoke to find the sun coming com-ing apparently out of tho ground with no sign of a tree hill or mountain and houses even at this late day in very distant relations rela-tions with each other and cities still more so While spinning over the plains under the swift impetus of the safe old railroad the Union Pacific of which our own Utah Central is a relative a whirl of emotions passed over me in contrasting THE OLD riOXEEU DATS B hon it required from eight to twelve Greeks to cover tho distance that now only I Requires four days of ever delightful changes of scenery the traveler dreading the cloak of night to shut off the beautiful panorama stretching out in all directions In the old days our fathers and mothers were glad when night fell to allow them the wellmerited repose of a weary days tramp In those days the only people seen for weeks at a time were the red men of dime novel fame and the buffalos which furnished food and fuel Now although far distant from each other the face of the settler is seen and the ever changing companionship com-panionship of the passengers on the train causes no feeling of loneliness to exist There was one thing I noticed a decided absence of this was the beautiful checkerboard checker-board that is presented to view by any one bin Utah taking trip on the hillside and gazing on the brilliant spectacle presented by the light colored grain fields forming the white squares to the darkorhued lu cern fields the dark squares this will be observed at almost any part of the year Lucern is something that is entirely unknown un-known anywhere east of Utah that is in my travels I found the farmers deeply interested in the experiment of giving giv-ing it a trial and I think we are about to have a boom in lucern seed as well as in real estate In Omaha I found the people bewailing the fact that Mr Nat Brigham having come to realize that Jf UTAH IS THE BEST PLACE to live in had concluded to make it his r tenme Omaha is a big city and I think I uaa arrived at the stage of manhood and I will not grow any more at least not till I Srlt Lake city is up to and even past it I think many who have been helping Omaha will now turn their attention to Utah I noticed that her wideawake citizens citi-zens realized that she was now contributing contribut-ing to our boom and consequently feel a little blue One and all spoke of Salt Lake as being the next and only permanent boom Chicago was my next stopping place Of this what can I say Who has not heard of Chicagos immensities of her immorals of her black and gloomy buildings of her bustling and busy people all intent after the dollar and at present the Worlds Fair in 1692 So much has been said of her broad and high buildings some as high as sixteen stones even the Auditorium has t ehegr of lay almost everyone beinj I the largest building in the world Our temple and tabernacle could be put in it i I and still have room for the assembly hall Adelina Patti had the honor of being the first one to open there with one of her concerts on the Sth inst The only thing I might say of Chicago is that even they I can stop in their rush to notice a man from Utah and all realize that this is the next I place for THE GUST PROGRESS to place his next footsteps as ho did from New York to Chicago now to Salt Lake city and with a foot that will extend from Ogden to Provo and in width only prevented pre-vented by the mountains on either side I found an old Utah man in the person of Dr R Greer a 49er of Salt Lake and his 9yfcBh J H Greer late of Payson They Wooth have a earning interest in Utah and f they find any one from Utah the next < order comes Bring your grip up to the house They are doing well in Chicago and this is all that prevents their coming to Utah and main making it their home Lyon Healy the music manufacturers and dealers are deeply interested in Utah and paid the people of Utah a compliment that would make the constituents of the Liberal party open their eyes to the merits of the Mormons They think the Mormons Mor-mons are the most honest people they have any dealings with and would always trust them in preference to any other class of people They think the prospects for honest hon-est arc better with the Mormons Mor-mons than the socalled Liberals Of course every one in Chicago feels confident 1 con-fident of securing THE WORLDS FAIR and certainly deserve commendation for the extreme and lavish expenditure time and means It 11 thought that Chicago has the support ii i all the country west of AVashiufcty lJ C I did not think could make mj choice of a borne in Chicago in preference to our beautiful city of Provo on any pretext unless it is the bustle and rush of business even which I thought must be very wearing on life The atmosphere atmos-phere is very dense holding the smoke and soot in a black cloud which rarely leaves and gives the buildings a very grimy appearance ap-pearance and causes ones white shirt to very soon assume an appearance of its urgent ur-gent necessity for the washtub consequently conse-quently laundries Chinamen and saloons are on the boom Well so much for Chicago Chi-cago My next visit was made to Hi NIAGARA FALLS i Before arriving there I had an experience with one of those fellows that every true American even a woman feels a sort of aversion to this was custom house officer a fellow who can rifle and examine your valise bundles etc l < before you go on British foiL This fellow we met just as we were crossing into Canada I happened to bo in a doze when ho made his advtnt in our car but this didnt matter Hoom raenctd going through my valise when I awoke aud soon resented his lamilliarity but i found he had a right to do so found the falls a very cold and disagreeable disa-greeable place at this time of the year i It has been said that New York is a great city Yes I think it is especially inasmuch inas-much t si never saw anything like ships large bodies of water or one half the number num-ber of Italians that are characteristic of New York The crowded and blockaded I condition of the streets the bustle the jam the rushing of people hither and thitner the dodging and necessity for it looking out for teams are a new experience experi-ence to me as were the open signs of immorality immo-rality that were everywhere present es pecially in the lower class of people I found very few people who cured much about the practice of polygamy It was really our very creditable habit of being united that alarmed them and polygamy was only a place to take hold of in their efforts to over turn that system of unity i v found New York people very sanguine l success in the appointment of the Vybrlds fair in Ib93 to their city howe r I dont think they show the same energy as the Chicagoans but perhaps their assurance as-surance of success is the reason for their apathy I found much ignorance in the great enlightened cities as to their knowledge of our position geographically our institutions or our status in civilize i 1 tion One incident in particular worthy T of mention is a few of the questions propounded pro-pounded by a captain of a steamship relative rela-tive to our great Salt Lake Howdeep is a it necessary to dig on the shores to again find sand or earth On finding the shores and bottom were as other similar bodies of water he next wondered what was the source of the extreme salty condition of the water This manifest ignorance from a ship captain seemed incredible but this is only a sample of many other strange ques tions I found the utmost courtesy and welcome given me by all with whom I met TRAIAwoce NDUSTRIALIST |