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Show Strangers Discuss Queer X Names in Salt Lake BY KENNETH C. KERR. "So you're from Salt Lako. huh?" quoth the stout man In the smoker ns tho Overland Over-land Limited bowled over tho Dale creek fill. "Yes." I replied rather guardedly. ' "Mighty funny place," said ho, as ho removed re-moved a very dirty meerschaum from his mouth and blew the smoke towards the rest of the passengers in tho stuffy compartment. com-partment. "Oh, I dpn't know." I replied, "It's a mighty nico place; thero is plenty going, on and In business it is growing moro important every year."- By this tlmo the rest of the smokers wero Interested In the conversation and it was not long beforo they wero all butting in. "Yes, it is a queer town." put in tho St. Louis cigar drummer. "Just imagine a hotel with a name liko Kuutsford." "Well." I replied, "what is tho matter with It? It Is as line a hotel and as well managed as any In tho wholo country." "Yes, that Is true," tho cigar drummer replied. "I was only thinking of the queer name." "That's nothing," drawled tho New York extract man, "Just think of a grocery gro-cery store that goes by tho name pf Z. C. M, I." "Didn't you sell them?" I ventured. "If you did you may have noticed they wero 1 rated AAA111." , I "Quite true, quito true," replied the extract ex-tract salesman, "It Is rated the highest; but I was" only referring to the name." I "Speaking of Salt Lako names." softly spoke the slckly-looklng man In the cor- j ner of the compartment, "that city of yours has got a lot of them. The last time I was there I 9aw two signs and one of them read. 'Rush tho Plumber.' and down on State street was another which vas 'Pyper and Leaker, Plumbers.' Plumb-ers.' " Everybody laughed at this, and tho fat man, who had started tho bombardment and was glad to see it pass off In a friendly friend-ly manner, remarked that he had noticed many appropriate signs in Salt Lako which were almost as good as "Yroka Bakery." which has made northern Cali fornia famous. "Why," ho said, "when I fvas thoro a man by the name of Warm-bath Warm-bath ran a barber shop and every person passing the place took It for a bath house, when there wero no hatha In connection. Ho was a lino barber and did lots of business on account of his name, which is still the, trade-mark." By this tlmo the drift of tho conversation conver-sation could be plainly traced, and as It was up to me, I went on to explain that all these names were not so queer after all, tr-.it Salt Lako was noted for appropriate appro-priate and unusual signs over various places and that some of these had been spoken of tlmo and again. "For Instance, thor Is Sweet tho candy manufacturer; Lynch tho ico man; Slaughter the butcher; butch-er; Tom Homer, who writes abstracts on homos; Burns. Keen and Standfast, who aro barbers; Colo and Xailor. blacksmiths and horseshoers; Walker, shoe store; Sliver's Sli-ver's fountlry; Snmmy Potts, the tripo dresser; Henry Shlngloton the builder; Georgo Felt the building paper merchant; Reuben Miller the Hour man; Mrs. But-terworth But-terworth and Mr. Applequlst tho green grocers: Beers tho saloon man; Bible tho railroad man; Bob Brazier at tho light works: Foreman Brewster at the big brewery; Buckie tho tailor; By water the flro chief; Rice tho grocer; Lynch tho chief of police; Cannon in the iron works; Georgo W. Carpentor the carpenter; tho Happy Hour dental parlor; John Cooke tho cook; Bert Carr tho railroad man; Frank Carr the Wells-Fargo express man; then there is Bill" But ono by one tho fat man, the cigar drummer, the extract salesman and tho slckly-looklng fellow had loft for the diner and I had the smoker to myself. And lighting a two-bit Carolina which HI Dunn had handed mo before tho train left Rawlins I sat and smoked, thinking mcanwhllo that by even quoting tho city directory ono pan rid oneself of bores. |