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Show Twenty Thousand Salt Lakers Visit the Pleasure Places Seeking Comfort. DEDICATE BANDSTAND AT LIBERTY PARK Big Crowds at Lagoon, Saltan1, Salt Palace and Up the Canyons. With tho thermometer at S3 and a hot snn .boating on the asphalt pavements, thousands of Salt Lakers hurried to tho resorts Sunday to sock coolness and comfort. During tho aftornoon and ovoning 20,000 persons wero at Lagoon, La-goon, Liberty park, Saltair and Salt Pnlaco, besides thousands who, early iu tho (lay, sought tho canyou retreats for family picnics. Tt was tho biggest big-gest Sundaj' outing of tho year. Probably Iho largest crowd of tho day was at Liberty park, whero Jleld's band played a apodal programme, dedicating tho handsome new bandstand, band-stand, ft was estimated that 7000 peoplo wero in the park during the concert and the crowd included Mayor Thompson and ma 113' of tho members of hjs administration nnd tho City Council. Coun-cil. Thoro were no formal ceremonies of dedication exeopt the excellent music mu-sic of Professor Held and his forty musicia ns. The new bandstand was completed Saturday evoning after a strenuous day, but appearances did not betray this fact when tho crowds gathered Sunday afternoon. Park Kcopor Henry l Heath had cleaned np all tho debris, and, except for the fresh paint, the stand might havo been finished weeks ago to all appearances'. Tho green sward in front of tho stand was covered with people who roclined on tho grass and' enjoyed the concert. The seats where tho old stand stood had not been changed, hut they, too, wore filled and the roadways road-ways were thronged with vehicles and automobiles. Not in a long time has such a good programme been enjoyed by so many. Handsome Now Bandstand. Tho stand is a structure of attractive attrac-tive architectural design, rising lo a height of thirty feet, with a platform, 20x30 foot, extending to the northeast. The band occupied this platform. Tho structuro, which is used for tho storage stor-age of seats and instruments, acts as a souuding board and lent a. resonanco to the instruments thnt is not usually found in the opon air. Tho programme brought thousands who have not boon to Liberty park before this season. The' found tho park in tho best physical condition it nas oven boon and everywhere the testimony tes-timony of the careful work of jMr. Jloath and his forces was found. The strict discipline maintained mado it a desirablo place for families, for (he pohco havo been merciless with hoodlums hood-lums and mashers that in other seasons were permitted to have sway, but now do not seek the park. Tho policy of the administration to make the park thoroughly thor-oughly desirable for families has been the cause of the improvements and discipline. dis-cipline. Tho new bandstand, which is an architectural featuro of tho landscape, land-scape, cost $3500, and was the subject of enthusiastic eommont by visitors. Lagoon's Big Crowd. Lagoon had a crowd of over J000 Sunda3", which spent tho afternoon and evening in thorough enjoyment. Lagoon La-goon has a new bandstand and Professor Pro-fessor Willard Youngdalo's orchestra, augmented to seventeen pieces, gave a concert. The crowd found abundant amusements to entertain it and liber-nlly liber-nlly patronized them. It was tho largest larg-est day of the jear in tho cafe. At. Saltair there woro over H000 on the maiu pavilion, where they listened to an excellent concert by the Fort Douglas Military band. As Micro was no dancing the crowd devotod its attention at-tention to the many amusements. Several Sev-eral hundred went in bathing and pro-nouncod pro-nouncod the water just a triflo finer than the fino air. Salt Palace had its usual big crowd, particularly in tho evening. |