Show I SALT LAKE A INI IN I 1881 AND ND NOW NOVI I cI do not know of any other city in tho the history of thc the United States St that has made e the same mme substantial improvement im pro provement in the tho same length of time as has iUIS Salt Lake City In my more than I thirty visits to this city I J have seen seen it grow v from n a village e in 1331 ISSI to one ODe of the best est and most progressive c cities in inthe in tb the tho county country The speaker was G George or II Murray and when presse pressed for further information inform tion tiou said Mit I I ba have baC C been coming coining to Salt Lake City it once or more a year ear for the la last t hH nt years My Iy first visit was in as the manager of The Tho Devils Devil's Auction A company when Charley Charlcy Yale I was the thc treasurer of tb the tho company Later Charley Chancy got cot ot hol hold 1 of the com com cori I pan pany nu and for years has lias been running it as The Thc Everlasting Devils Devil s 's Auction but hut that is not what 1 was going come to to talk about i H I I can remember my fir first t v visit lit here very cr distinctly The town looked looke to melike me melike like an aji o overgrown village villace There was not a paved pae sidewalk in in the city then I much less loss a paved street Street cars cand cand's Yes s sir a few of them with Hh mules lIes as as the motor power incer As AsI I remember it there wore were t two o or buildings three stories high hith one ono of which was the old Walker lintel hotel with Major Maior Erb as That was a 3 great groat hotel in those thoc Ian davs and the average aver averS age Salt Laker thought that the town was going Fomo then thea Along Iong about two years later I came hark bark with another company company but there there- did not seem to tobe tobo tobo bo be ninny improvements There was no sewer serer tem no better car service antI and andas as 35 for a I st street reEt li light ht well you vou remember remember re reo member r them if you vou lived h b heie ie Jo jl in in those days a little tittle t gas gns s light at the intersection tion of the street corners rs in tl the hm business district and for a block or two tuo in the residence districts Since those days davs I T have been beJ maling visits about olce once or twice a n. year vear and n.-J n. C Cf every f n time that I have come corne I have noticed e some improvements im mi- but it is in the last h ton ten n years that I have havo noticed tho the greatest u Where berc there ther used to be a mule ear lar system of transit you have today one of the finest street streetcar car in tho the country countr where you formerly had no sidewalks except those of nature an and a afew a afew few board walks walk in the business district dis us- today you AOU have hac miles rind and miles of fine cement s sidewalks where you ou had nothing a 1 few years yew ago iu in the thc way Wa of pavement I find several ral mile of the finest street paving in the conn comm try today where you ou had but hilt a poor I and aril int inadequate water service ice twenty I years ears ago I 1 find that today you vou have n. n r water Iter system that is equal to that of ot any city twice its size in the country I Where here three three- twenty years cars ago ato a story building was as considered a big hit buir building inc I find today that with two story eleven buildings Hearing com completion comple pI tion the thc city is asking for more mor till and that it wants them co so ba bad that it will ill illet get et them If I T live Jive for fOl another twenty years I rIo do not expect to see seo c a building I hi iu n the business district of Salt Lake of less than five fie stories and some sonic of ot I them will vill go io a as high as fiS fifteen stories storie I ITh This Th This s city is il bound to grow crow nothing noth lug ing can cau keep it down clown unless it is iN its own people T I always feel foel at home borne in your ciU cit always s fell feel that I J Tim nm welcome wel come there is is is' is something about your I western hospitality that cannot be I equalled anywhere else in th the tho world worM The Tho present visit of Mr lr Murphy to I this city is in a advance ance of I The Ret Red Mill company n which conies to the thc Salt Lake theater February ohman 1 t. 2 2 and 3 3 |