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Show 10 SPEND BIS M ON MAJESTIC PARK More Than $100,000 to Be Devoted to Improving Amusement Place. MANY NEW FEATURES Intention Is to Make Resort Re-sort Most Beautiful in the West. By an expenditure of more tfcan $100,-000, $100,-000, Majestic park is to be made into an up-to-date amusement resort, one among the finest in the west. Such is the announcement made by J. E. Lang-ford, Lang-ford, president and general manager of the Majestic Park company. Chief among the improvements will bs a oatator'nim, costing approximately $80,000; a steel arched gateway surmounted sur-mounted by a steel tower 300 feet high, and a big double racing coaster, the two costing about $25,000. About $50,000 has already been expended for a five-acre five-acre tract adjoining the old property and for the improvements incident to the new ball park. The canal along Ninth South street, on the north side of the park, has been filled in and the company has petitioned the city to have the street paved. It is planned to have all the new work completed in time for the opening on May 30, except the ball park, which will be ready for the opening of the baseball season March 30. Unique Steel Gateway. The most noticeable improvement will be the steel gateway and the big tower at the north entrance. The xower will be encircled about twelve feet from the gTound by a band stand, from which concerts will be given. The tower will be the highest structure in Utah and will be lighted by thousands of incandescent incan-descent lights, making it conspicuous from every point in the valley. Just south of the dancing pavilion, said to be the largest in the world, the natatorium will be" built. It will be C70 feet long by 1.0 feet wide, two stories high, with a mezzanine and a roof garden. gar-den. The roof garden will be operated only during the summer, but the other attractions and concessions will be open throughout the year. The big oval swimming pool, " 150 feet long by 75 feet wide, will afford bathing the 'year, around, the water being heated to any desired temperature. The water will be from two and one-half to nine feet deep. All sorts of equipment for aquatic sports will be installed. Many Novel Features. Among other novel features of the natatorium will be the method of laundering laun-dering the bathing suits. The suits will be deposited in a box in the dressing rooms, of which there will be more than 500, and when the lid is closed, the suits will drop into the basement or the building, where they will be gathered gath-ered up. After being laundered, the Buits will be returned to the main floor by means of an elevator. On the mezzanine will be a big gallery for the benefit of the public. On the second floor will be a bowling alley, a biiliard room, a ballroom and gymnasium. Turkish bathrooms, a first-cfass first-cfass restaurant and numerous concessions. conces-sions. The small ballroom, or gymnasium, gym-nasium, will be used to accommodate parties par-ties that are too small to occupv the main dancing pavilion. The roof garden gar-den will be 200 feet long by 90 feet wide and arranged for cabaret entertainment. enter-tainment. Mr. Langford lias it all figured out how he can get visitors to "the park earlv in the afternoon and keep them until early the next morning. Of course, they wiil attend the balTgame. then he has prepared to feed them. After dinner the bicycle races, the roller skating rink, the billiards and bowling will help kill a few hours, and dancing will finish the day's entertainment. To Revive Bike Game. Mr. Langford has already arranged to revive the "bike" game and has engaged a long string of some of the best riders in rhe countrv. With a few minor improvements to "the saucer he asserts that he will be in a position to furnish some of the best "bike" racing ever seen in the city. "'It is just such a resort as Salt Lake has long needed, " ' saul Mr. Langford, "and I am trying to cive the public the best and most varied assortment of amusements that money can provide. If i I hadn't Seared on something of this kind I could never have made the proposition propo-sition I did to the baseball interests. And I am putting up a baseball park that is on a' par with the other attractions. attrac-tions. Special attention has been given to the drainage of the grounds. In caie of a rain at eight, the water will be drained off so the game can be plaved the next day. In fact, a s:eadv down pour throughout the day is about all that will stop the game." "In addition to the big features provided pro-vided there will be the usual minor amusement concessions for the children as well a3 the grownups." |