Show ARl ESS ON SALT lAI lAIS lAI'S S 'S GROWTH TI lI I 1 have hae never seen coca such sueh a 3 wonderful improvement in a cit city in my lifo life as I notice in Salt Lake City said paid Earl Burgess owner of tho the largest number of popular priced attractions in in tho the country cO to n representative of THE TELEGRAM t this morning Mr Burgees Burgess Bur Bur- gees gess rI S arrived cd in Salt Lake Lalee Cit City yesterday yester ester yesterday esterday day afternoon to visit the tho members of his company compan which has been playing at atthe atthe tb the Gr Grand theater It It i is simply astonishing the thc way Salt Lake Like has grown in the tho last fifteen years Fifteen years ago aJo this summer I Iwas Iwas Iwas was here herc with a circus and we wo played for fM three days das It was as a lively li littletown littletown little littletown town then and I have havo al always ays cart carried e pleasant memories of it with me Yesterday Yesterday Yes Yes- afternoon and this morning I Ilme have havo been Deen going oin about the city trying to find some of the landmarks of fifteen n years ago Well I found a few of them out hut so o low lew that if I hn had got Jot off the train without knowing it was was Salt SnIt Lake I never would have re recognized tho place ns as the ono one I visited fifteen years a ago 10 Simply won wonderful is the only way that that I can describe your growth But it is only a 3 logical log growth yours ours is the center of mi miles es in every even direction of one ono of the tho richest countries in tho world worl Tho only reason I can see lee that this city has not not a population of a quarter quarter ter of a a million people at tho present time is that tho the people of the thc rest resl of the country do not know what you have havo to offer here I Mr lr Burgess has lust just come comp from rom Scattie Scat Scat- tl tin tie and Portland where T have havo been visiting two of m mv my companies said Raid he He Ho modestly confessed that during tho the season now now drawing to a close he had had sixteen companies in different parts of tile this country countr and all nil making a little ittle money mone said aid he be with nth a smile Next year I hope bopo to have ha at least twenty companies out at tho 1110 same time and ancI I intend to pay particular attention to the west Mr r. r Bur Burgess declared that hat he ho liked the people of tho west I I like your our western push and go co I like your western optimism WIn Why one I would never neer know to meet you you you- people of oC the west that there had ever cyer been such a thing as a financial panic An And there is one thin thing that I like particularly particularly arty about the people that I T have havo met metin metin metin in this city Every Everyone one of them is talking talking talk talk- ing Salt Lake Cit City and its advantages Now in my opinion that j is is the till only way wa to mako make a n city grow row Get dot together sta stay together and push together At least that is the way I 11 have found it to tobe tobe tobe be in m my business and I believe it holds bolds good in other other things Mr Ir Burgess has bas been in in the show business for a little over twenty five years tars and has traveled over every part of DC the tho United States a number of times He lie stated this morning that he would remain in Salt SnIt Lake City until tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row when he would go o with his hie tomor-I tomor company company com pany to Ogden where they open tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- I Ishall Ishall 1 row night for an indefinite stay shall return to this city somo time next week said s he and expect to spen spend several days looking lookin around before I go east When asked if he intended to invest in Salt Lake Lako realty Mr r Burgess said Well I can cant can't t 8 say y just yet I am nm coming back in a few days and take a aI alook alook I look around |