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Show SAW SALT LAKE WHEN . JT WAS A VILLAGE L. II. Slocutn, who is entertaining "the pioneers and the later generations of Salt ' Lakers at Saltair tliis week as a wisard, first eame to this fit; tbirty-iour years ero- 'I was a mere boy." ha said today when describing how the city looked at that time, "aud I said to uncle, who had brought me out from the SUi. 'Why is this ealled Tha City of Salt Lake!" It was merely . a cl-ister of houses, aud It struck ma as extremely ex-tremely ludicrous that it should be called a 'city.' being iut from New York, It seamed inconsistent with the truth to term It anything any-thing bu, a siuali Tiilate. ".but I Seu ec3nTuid myself to the new 1 i:r.-or.diG(f,-anc nude many friends during the aneeMUinj yea:s while I worked as a jc.wbr", ,a sHowmaa.and as an electrician. The biiildiuf now known as tha Kenyoa was iha called tie Wasatch. I wired it for elec- . iri- insulators ad received $ia aday for the " '"'V have ofo: thought it strange that I ( never came back but once since lea Ting thirty years ssj, but this shows how man a oourae is directed by circumstances. I hare traveled trav-eled around the glob ainee then, aad frequently fre-quently recaleld the people that I knew here in those days. Now noue can be found, and I walk the streets as utter a stranger as I would in Cairo, Egypt, except for business ae- quaintancea made during later years throughout through-out the Korthwest.'? ... - - . v ... 1 ' |