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Show A SUNDAY OUT OF TOWN. Thooiands of Vejagars Perk tha Water. r tha (.rest l.aka. The heat came very near depopulating depopulat-ing Zion for at least a brief period yesterday. yes-terday. 'Tho man who whiffed the wavo from the tropics got a labor movement move-ment on himself for a moment and taking tak-ing tho first conveyance whether it was the plcbean street car or the aristocratic aristo-cratic landau was soon at one of the various places w here there were fewer l'ics and less sweat. Before noon the price of more than a thousand tickets to the lake was slumbering iu tho money drawer of the ticket seller's office and when the afternoon trains began to steam through the stilling heat it seemed as if nil Salt Lake was chasing chas-ing itself out of town. At 5 o'clock the cashier at this popular resort announced an-nounced that 100 persons had cast themselves in the lap of old Neptune, and it is estimated that no less than HOOcourted his salt favors after thathour. The gateways to the bath rooms were glutted from eariy morn and this suggests sug-gests that, In as much as the public is w illing to put up for it, more extensive accommodations. A single cargo of the kind that w as shipped out of the sweaty metfop ilis yesterday would have yielded yield-ed euoiigli directly antl indirectly to have paid all the expenses of an annex and blockades such as were w itnessed yesterday would have survived only as a reminenre. Iu the absence of adequate ade-quate accommodations the company w as out Several hundreds of dollars. The .operation of the motor line between be-tween the city and Peck's Hot Springs have brought thf.m forward as one of the most populor aud profitable resorts that margin this young city profitable indeed to proprietor and patron aliku. The register out there hhowed that Manager Pratt had catered to over six hundred through the day and how the perspiration did roll from the cuticle of those six hundred bathers. 'The same spectacle might have been witnessed at the Warm Springs over which the Messrs. Harnes it i'.yrne aro presidium with such popular satisfaction. satisfac-tion. Added to these were the attractions at Smoot's park, ('alder's, Liberty park. Parley's canon. City Creek canon, Fort Douglass with its matchless music, and a score of other places that are within easy reach of the man in search of fresh air. Summing up; it is estimated that at least twenty thousand persons conned conn-ed the comforts of an outing during tho day and that twenty thousand people will today testify that no city on the hemisphere offers such relief from warm weather in town. |