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Show ritrr-1, t: - 'i (!.tr-;rc.:3 "H-.-.;r.:-:r - Lcl?." rLs c:.:t l-i'cf tl.3 river ii r. tr I :r, citcil'r 3 T a cc-i'cratle xllztance rlczj.ths cHz cf tl.3. vra-tr vra-tr r,-f " i ti.3 shrubs end trees Ecrcca tha j :lnt from iha nc-K .t roadway. The' river takes a wide sweep to tie west at this point, and as a recnlt, the water ia shallow on the east sid3, growirj gradually deeper as the opposite tank 13 approached. There i3 tat on.e chstacle, but one drawback, to this otherwise other-wise ideal spot. While the bed of the river for a lare part of the distance across is hard, clean sand, near the center, of .the stream are several holes, from ten 'to sixteen feet in depth. The cur rent over these holes is swift and treacherous. J . By a comparatively small expenditure, the city could fill these death traps, and build a wing-dam part way over thevriver, thus deflecting the deadly currents to the opposite shore, eliminating all the natural .risks that bathers and swimmers now take. ' It would not cost a great sum to keep a watchr man at this point, whose duty for five months in the year it would be to patrol a short beat there, to be on hand to give aid to a swimmer who became ill, who was caught by an unexpected current, or who had gone beyond his depth. The boys and youths of the city would hail this step with delight, and would surely make the most of such an opportunity,' opportuni-ty,' if it were given them to bathe free of cost and under such protection. Such a thing would be a boon to the poorer class, particularly of the western part of the city. Bait Lake is emerging from knee-breeches, and is trying to get into long trousers. Here is a good opportunity for energetic Councilmen to show that they have the interests of the younger Salt Lakers at heart.. , Two lives, such as those which were lost on Monday Mon-day because of a lack of such an institution, are worth more to the bereaved family and to-Salt Lake City, than the cost of ten such free swimming pools as could be established in the Jordan river. Vhy N?t Vrovltz Svfcinins lacei? " "Oh, tha old awimmlh' hole! where the creek so still and "'deep j--- - "": - .-' -:- . Looked ilka a baby river-that was laying half asleep." , . Riley. It is as natural for boys to go swimming in sum-met sum-met as it is for a frog to leap 'into a puddle at the approach of an intruder. The attention of the public pub-lic hat. been most forcibly called to the neglect of the municipality in providing a swimming place for boys and young men, in a most shocking manner by the tragic death on Monday of Jonathan Riley and his son. The boy was unable to swim. In his natural na-tural effort to seek relief from the heat he went into in-to the Jordan river. He went into a "chuck hole" in the 'treacherous river bottom and his father plunged after, him, to save him. Both were drowned. ; - , Hardly a summer passes but some person is drowned while bathing in the Jordan river. There are dozens of cities in the country of the size of Salt Lake or larger, that have provided for the natural instincts of boyhood to seek the water, bv settine aside lakes, ponds and certain parts of rivers, for, boys, and men who desired to 'swim, unhampered un-hampered by clothing of any kind. It Js time that Salt Lake should consider some such step, for boys will be boys, and they will go swimming, regardless of the dangers they incur in so doing.f " Swimming is forbidden in the Jordan river, yet it is not possible to walk a mile on the banks of that ttream in a midsuumer afternoon without seeing boys and men by the dozens, swimming and sporting sport-ing rn the; water or on the banks; arrayed only in nature's na-ture's garb. "'. By the expenditure of a few hundreds of dollars dol-lars the pity tonld popularize, legalize and render safe this recreation for those who would enjoy going go-ing back ;to nature and following primitive and natural na-tural instincts. "At the point where Tenth West and Tenth South streets would oe, in the Jordan river, is a favorite fa-vorite rendezvous for boys of all ages. This is a I |