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Show FRETTY TRIBUTE PI TO SALT LAKE CITY Boomer of Lincoln Highway Says Nice Things About the. Capital. Salt Lake City and some of its interesting inter-esting attractions are featured in a book recently issued, entitled, "Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway. High-way. " The book was written by Effie Price Gladding, who made a trip across the continent over the Lincoln highway. She describes much of the pretty scenery scen-ery along the way and recounts some interesting experiences. With reference to Salt Lake, she says, in part: I was charmed with Salt Lake Citv. It has a beautiful situation, high and picturesque. Its streets are very wide, and this gives a certain cer-tain stateliness and air of hospitality hospital-ity to the town. It is laid out on a generous scale. Many of the residence resi-dence streets have green stretches of flower-adorned park running through the center. The open lawns of the homelike homes, the broad streets, the residences of stone and brick, the masses of pink rambler roses climbing over them, all make a charming impression upon one. Then there are delightful excursions excur-sions into the canyons of the great mountains near the city. We took such an excursion by electric car Hue, fourteen miles up into Emigration Emigra-tion canyon. This is the old trail along which the Mormons came iu 1847. At the end of the line is a delightful hotel, the Pinecr.-st Inn. Had there been time we would have taken many more canyon trips. The. Utah is a -beautiful hotel, with every modern equipment. A great .beehive, the Mormon emblem, glows with light at ni"ht on top of the building. Of course wo saw the Mormon Tabernacle and walked about its splendid ground?. I was particularly interested in the "sea gull monument,," designed hy Brig-ham Brig-ham Young's grnudson and erected in memory of the sen gulls that snved the' crops the first year of Mormon pettlemeut by coming in flocks and eating the locusts that threatened to destroy everything green. We enjoyed the fine view from the State university buildings on the "bench" high above the town. |