| Show Ii SALT LAKE CITY U i I CENTER OF VAST d 1 TOURIST TRAVEL j r r Visitors Swarm Here and Rail Railroads Railroads Railroads roads Are Taxed to toI I Move Traffic i CITY BEING ADVERTISED AS NEVER HERETOFORE SOME OF THE FAVORITE SPOTS 1 VISITED BY TRAVELERS I II I v v I How Hew How many 8 visitors ri will win b en et entertained etI if I In Salt Lake City this thu thuI I I summer I Last summer people signed tn the register at the tM bureau of ot in information n nI I y formation at the temple block bIck This I yr year no count ha hi I yet beun been made but the estimate MUm te to Ia i that more than o will have signed the regis register ter before the summer 1 Is K over are that the Denver Vt RIo Grande Orande is now noi handling about i 1 people per day through Salt t Lake City and about two thirds of oft i t thia number come from the ea eaM t J j The Th Oregon Short Line LIn is handling t j nearly as ag many l Seeing Salt Lake cars and au U d handled an average of more than strangers stranger per day during last week and this average 1 ie I expected will keep up from tram now 4 00 S S 4 This hIs summer Salt kit Lake City will be advertised advert am a never before This sum uin mar m 01 t Suit SIt Lake City wilt will w l entertain re I strangers than ever before in it Ita his history p tory ap All AR the calculation of the railroad I ar are are being n The tourist travel through here her 1 I le breaking all aU records and ands s j 1 the tame fame me of Utah and her queen city will wiD to all points of the country i With al ail the attI in the west i 4 this year the Elks com in Los Loll Angeles Angelee Ang the Ala ex cx exposition I position at Seattle the Yellowstone park t I I enger travel waa neer nes er before so j large and there are few travelers to any of o those thoe places that do not going f I or coming coining pa paa through this city and andIn ando 1 o i In pawing passing spend some BOrne time here mar marvelling marIt marI I veiling velling at the beauties they aee ee and th the It enterprise of the th city as az attested by the he I new buildings They The visit the Great Greatt t Salt lake Jake and the Mormon temple the k tabernacle other places place of interest and j i every ovy comment that is made every II f i thought that is expressed sed is all aU favor faTor favorable J Jf 1 r i able to Salt Lake City It means that t a many of ot these visitors will wilt later return 1 4 to this city to make their homes Many Jolany f J i of them In through become im t and make property Investment i f IE If to lea a big season seaBOn for Salt Lake City 1 i Railroad Offices Rushed i i I i I This is the busy season at the railroad offices es Passenger agents a ticket and clerk are rushed i from morning to tonight tonight toS S night Actual figure regarding the travel are not yet obtainable but it is I estimated by th the r men of the I various lines linea in this city that during dining last ast astr r I tv week eek the railroads railroad brought into this thia city not nat less ess than an average of 1800 stran strangers strangers l gers each day Most Moat of the travelers from the east visit Salt Lake City en route west probably of the visitors strike Salt Lake City on their way home hOlDe from the coast They come comei i from e here from New York and J Boston and Philadelphia from Chicago I from St Louis Loula and Kansas City from fromI I Louisville and Memphis and New Or Orleans Orleans Ori i leans from every nook and corner of the east and middle west and they are areS S i all enthusiastic They The all say that their it trips would Mould not have been complete without having visited the city of oC Salt aIt Lake LakeI I There are two attractions In Salt Lake LakeS S i City that have become ao so famous that I no w tourist ever thinks of missing them themI I f they are ace the Great Salt lake and the thel l Mormon temple The first questions J asked d by strangers on arriving in this F J city are Where Is the temple and andS S How do you let get et to the lake j The first place of Interest usually vis visited visIted is 18 the square in the heart beart r t I of the city elty known as the Temple i I block and every day the same ques questions I f tIon are asked and answered the same I comment comments are made the same wonder wonderment wonderment 4 ment meat expressed by hundreds hundred of visitors i I Bureau of Information I L More than visitors are every rt I year ear entertained here and thousands thou ands of ot I strangers inscribe their names name upon the t F register ter kept at the building occupied b by the bureau of information The reg 1 I bOk book has bas been signed by visitor f t from states state and seven Beven for foreign I eign countries In one day Last year yearS S 1 over 0 names name m were WM sI signed and while lie I Si f t no count has yet been made thi year It Itis Iti j i t I is estimated that more moie than peo pee people I I pie will have written their names before t I I the summer IB Ii i over I The bureau of Information while de designed ti J L I t P signed primarily to disseminate litera literature II j ture tur favorable to the church chuNh I i ha has proved a great creat boon Tor or tourists tourist Here the strangers are cordially cordial I wel wet welcomed welcomed corned into a large comfortably v bly fur furnished I fished room They The form parties partiN and at regular intervals are taken through the 1 beautiful parked and shaded grounds ground and through the buildings Everything concerning the buildings is explained questions question regarding the Mormon church are freely asked and answered litera literature literature ture is distributed liberally It is rather amusing for tor Salt Lake people to mingle with the parties of tourists in the temple grounds these the e days listening to their comments and questions que They The admire the tabernacle and the temple they take kodak view views they see and marvel and they carry away with them impression and information Information information mation that could never be obtained by reading columns column of or descriptive matter regarding all these thea th things Noonday Organ Recitals The noon organ recitals at the taller taber tabernacle nacle will always be an attraction for forthe forthe forthe the tourists The famous organ which contains contain over oo pipes ranging in I I length from front of or an inch to t feet teet capable of thousands upon thousands of tonal varieties i Is one thing that every ever tourist t url t wants to see An at attendance attendance at t one of the organ recitals which h are given every day for the ben benefit of f strangers within the gates of the city I ill is an event never forgotten Usually from the temple the tiN tourists tourist patronize the Seeing SMog Salt Lake tour touring tourIng tourIng ing cars ars and automobiles the manage management management management ment for which said that the company entertained an average of ot more than people per day during last week The trip rip either by car or by auto includes most of or the points of interest In the city The wide streets the parked boulevards the old homes of or adobe the many fine residences reside the public schools and hoe hoa pi tain and churches the big buildings of Dr the city are seen Alt All of these th are an ar ex cx explained explained interestingly by a conductor of the car and visitors are bound to be edified Milled and instructed and Impressed Impre eed with the greatness of Salt Lake to be interested in its history and entertained And then the lake Great Salt lake Jake famous over the world as great Dead sea Each Bach day many strangers are entertained at the lake where the principal delight is bathing Th The The wa water water water ter is seven leven times heavier with salt It than the water In any ocean Influx Is Increasing These are the attractions that occupy the attention of alt all tourists tourist in Salt Lake There are other attractions that are in inviting inViting to the many who are not making merely a passing call Within fifty miles mile of the city are numerous moun mean mountain mountain tain taut resorts and places place of interest which make most delightful side trips tripe I Salt Lake welcomes the visitors she wants want to show them the progress she be behas has made Since the days daS of the old wagon trail into Salt Lake made by the Mormon pioneers the city has grown to a population of and aDd It Is I esti estimated estimated estimated mated that persons are added every year Thousands Thousand of ot visitors are coming comin and the number Is ie expected to Increase rather than diminish as the time approaches for the annual reunion of the tilt Grand Army Arm next month Prep Preparations Preparations Preparations for this big event are rapidly under way wa Altogether this season will probably be the biggest on record for fr forthe forthe the number of visitor in Salt Lake City |
