Show SALTAIR BOULEVARD SALAR Scheme to Extend First South Street to the Lake THE ELECTRIC CARS MAY GOBy GO-By this Route the Lake is But One Hour bUtt b-Utt e and Twentyfive Minutes By Street Car t1 Ill wager you a cigar if you step into my bupgy Ill have you at Saltair in one I hour and thirty minutes said Matthew I White ashe stood on Firt South street I I with his team headed toward Saltair TIE HEHALU reporter was dazed at Mr Whites facility at overcoming distances and that gentleman took the pains to point out a little mist on the Great Salt Lake that appeared but a few miles away There is my house he said and it is right in the center of the street I can Io in my bed at night ana while I hear tie breakersroll beneath my windows I can look l down First South street and count the electric lights and almost hear the buz4 of tho electiio wires How far is SJltair from the city The nearest tolnt at which the lake approaches ap-proaches the city is iSaltair am the distance dist-ance thirteen miles I live there and find that I can make as good time 111 my carriage as on the cars By the present roads I make it in an hour and forty minutes Faint glimrsss of the future break in on the present and one can almost see the horizon of the salt sea shore broken with sumptuous arcniteotural effects Elaborate hotels in Moorish and Gothic rivaling in splendor the Ponce do Leon of St Augustine Augus-tine with their hal s and galleries ball rooms an1 botanical courts blossoming with every variety of tropical flowers bubbling with fountains and brightened with the fascinations D beautUul women and beau ideal men luxuriating amid the splendors of a charmed life on a sea where the toil of swimming is taken away and the invigorat ing tonic of 1 salt hath blooms the skin brightens the complexion stimulates hope engenders affection recreates and recreates recre-ates rushes the blood of purpose through the heart dashes away lethargy douches the head clear from spiriting fancies exhil crates exalts magnifies Here the toil of swimmin taken away and the bathers sit upon the bosom of the sea chatting and lounging in the lap of the breakers Wnen the Great Salt lake will put on the gay colors of a summer resort it wilt be there that the carriages that go coursing up and down the boulevards will be directed In the plan for boulevards in this city the Great Salt lake has been lost sight of while the penitentiary has loomed up as an attractive place A great boulevard to the Great Salt lake should be in the near future and it may bo said is now1 Matthew White in a few days will ask the commissioners commis-sioners to appropriate a sum of money to make a suitable drive to the lake he agreeing agree-ing to contribute liberally What would be grander than extend First South street to the lake and the electric elec-tric street car lines with it J It would be a drive that led somewhere and with a purpose pur-pose to it Boulevards are the driveways that connect interesting points Salt Lake city and Great Salt lake will then be united Where thelake F asks the tourist You point down Sal ir boulevard and say Down thestreet a few miles How canl get to the lake Take the Saltair boulevard electric car and in a few mirrutes you are there People standing on Main street can lookdown look-down the drive to the lake and see the procession pro-cession of wheeled equipages wending their way back and forth What a grand drive what a grand bath and what asplendid dinner we had at the Hotel de AntelopeJ and other kindred ex pressiqns will be Impulsively spoken by the enraptured tourist The Saltair boulevard should have four rows of trees so that it can be used during the heat of the day as well as in the evening even-ing In the centre of the street there should be two electric street car tracks and these separated from ihe two drives by rows of I trees Two more rows of shade trees should be planted on the outside I I out-side of the drives What a magnificent improvement thiswoiild be The electric cars ought to make the run of thirteen miles in twentyfive minutes Along the n mn shore other lines running to Garfielci Buffalo parkjanctother resorts would make all the points onthe lake easily accessible to Salt Lake Whetherthe bathing at Salair will ever equal that of Garfield remains to be seen Mr Arnold claims that there is a white sand beach hard enough to drive a wagon over it and that it is smooth enough for a race course and that the water washes these shores as at Garfield Time will tell the rival merits to the different resorts What is needed now is a good drive way to the lake The lake which now appears so distant would be brought near The hundreds of people who have their own carriages and who now are forced to take the cars could then drive out and back coupling the enjoyment en-joyment a bath with that of a drive on the boulevard When visitors desire to see the lake you can drive them in your private conveyances convey-ances instead of shipping them with the common herd And how it would add to the appearance of the city and contribute to its value as a summer resort The thir i teenmile boulevard with its electric lights at night with the archwaj of refreshing shade by day would be such a drive as would make Chicagos Michigan avenue appear very commonplace I the people will but meet nature half way this city will become the most popular watering resort re-sort in the west if not in the whole country There is certainly money in the scheme for the street car lines and it ia a wonder that they are not already reaching out I would mean several hundred thousand dollars dol-lars inc easedearnin s |