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Show Roller Skating Craze Is Once More Coming to Be Recognized. HAS BEEN SLEEPING FOR PAST TWENTY YEARS Rink, According to Rumor, Will Soon Re in Operation In This City. That fashion and fads arc ns fickle as fortune Is evidenced by the rise and fall of the prices of many articles of commerce com-merce and of merit when there Is seemingly seem-ingly no reason for thc chango. An example ex-ample of this kind that Inures lo a profit In this Instance Is found In a largo number num-ber of roller skates belonging to the Globe Machinery company on South West Temple street. An nrray of 150 pairs of theso devices, which a year ago would havo been classed as ancient, are being subjected to the process of having been taken from dust, rust and mould, the accumulation ac-cumulation of fully twenty years of ln- activity. Aro Ancient No Longer. " Thoy arc ancient no longer. They havo been resurrected by a fad which Itself has long been mourned as obsolete. Instead In-stead of being back numbers these skats are now In the swim, or more accurately speaking, they will be on the roll. About a year ago in Boston, which sustains sus-tains the same relation to fads that Paris does to fashion,- some one got out a pair of skates which had been looked upon for many ycar3 as heirlooms. This student stu-dent of archaeology In tho course of his Investigations put on tho slmtes and finally fin-ally discovered after taking several falls that when properly propelled they were not only a means' of transportation, but that they produced a pleasant sensation. Ho then called In other scientific men of Beandom and after a series of discussions and experiments tho craze of a former generation was revived. Fad Eolls Across Country. What was aesthetic for Boston was considered con-sidered ethics by Its neighbors, and the fnd began to roll to the South and West. That la. It spread, and at the same time stayed, for recently In Boston a rink of great magnitude was constructed which cost fully 3100.000. The llttlo wheels continued to roll until recently they began to work at Denver. It Is from that point thnt emissaries have como to Salt Lake to delve Into thc old warehouses and storerooms to find the curious little vehicles of former times with which to meet the demands of that city. May Open Rink HeTC. The Denver men are also looking for nn opportunity to enlighten Salt Lako people In the same kind of historical lesson, and rumor has It that a roller skating rink will soon be In operation here. Rumor Ru-mor Is more rollablc in dealing with fads than it Is with business, so that the return re-turn of the skates to Salt Lake Is a strong probability. New Skates Are Beauties. While the old fjtyle of skates are being pressed into service to meet the demand that refuses to be oatlsfied, the manufacturers manu-facturers are busying themselves In producing pro-ducing a new and superior product. The new skates are Improved after the manner man-ner of the evolution of the bicycle. The wooden and paper wheels aro being .replaced .re-placed with steel ones, and they are sup-piled sup-piled with ball bearings which reduces friction and adds to the speed until it is something- terrifllc. Will Be Leader in Sports. No one. of course, can tell when the fad will leave again, but while it lasts it will be a lender in sports and ' amusements until It becomes too common, when it will bo replaced by archery, croquet, tennis ten-nis or probably domlnos. The starting and Btopplng of fads are as mysterious as the starting and the stopping of the wind. |