Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-07-18 | Page 30 | A Little Journey to the Home of Beefsteak Harrison

yA y A LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE HOME OF BEEFSTEAK HARRISON k If torr a man write a a. better batter book preach a better sermon or make a a. better mouse trap than his neighbor though he build his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door The authorship of these lines variously van vari accredited to Elbert Hubbard Ralph Waldo Emerson and others may bo be always In dispute but the simple simple sim sim- plc force Coree of their homel homely logic will not be bc denied At In Utah Ulah count county fifty fifty- four tour miles south of or Salt Lake City lives Beefsteak Harrison He runs a 0 small hotel and his name is in known In ever every home In the tho stale state Mentioned In NewYork New NewYork York New Orleans or San Francisco itis it itIs Is 18 sure to bring brinK a smile of pleasant recollection lo to those who believe thatto that thatto to eat cat Is la to live 11 The Harrison house houle is Just a modest country hotel not differing greatly In looks from front the g general run run of country countr hotels except for absolute cleanliness everywhere apparent The name Be been dignified dignified dig dig- from a nickname me to a a. compliment compliment ment Harrison Is proud of It H and should be Tike Like he has proven that the man may bring honor to the office For more than forty years B Beefsteak ef t Harrison nan has built ju Just t a little b better than his neighbor And it has hall paid Paid In mone money and paid In the pride that must mURt come from a reputation such as his Have you eaten a Harrison steak steak n and nd Did you OU come back for another steak havo b en the tho stock greetings to strangers In for many years ears now no Just one meat dish Is served In the Harrison house house beefsteak beefsteak and Just one ono kind of fish Utah fish Utah lal lake 6 black bass balls Harrison personally selects and superIntends superIntends super super- Intends the tho cooking of ever every steak served on hl his bis table The same fisherman fisherman fisherman fisher fisher- man has supplied hin hi him with black bass base for Cor the past vast fifteen years ears This fisherman fisherman fisher fisher- man knows the quality demanded Beefsteak Harrison Is an artist Some days a ft book bool will be bo written around his life lite That book will make a name for the author and a fortune for the tho publisher Incidentally It will furnish several hours of ot human Interest Interest Inter Inter- est eat reading Had Beefsteak Harrisons Harrison's talent ran to stakes instead of steaks he would be a a. gigantic figure In the en engineering en- en world orId Instead of or the greatest living beefsteak chef chat for tor he Is blessed with that infinite capacity for taking pains which distinguishes all genius To him the selection and ane proper preparation of good 00 1 beefsteak mean what the nicety nicely of detail in light shadow meant to Whistler or the tho minute mi ml- ml- ml I nute perfection of ot an astronomical calculation calculation calculation cal cal- to Galileo Be lit fit here hero said that Beefsteak Harrison In his profession profession sion slon Is th same consummate artist lh the world credits the above named gentlemen gentlemen gen gen- en- en with having havin boon been in their cho chosen en work You probably gather from Crom tho the foregoing foregoing fore tore going Jolna that culinary achievement ement Is the ladder on which Beefsteak Harrison has hiss climbed d to fame You are rl right ht George Georgo Harrison as all his hili parents christened ll him loft left Manchester Eng Eng- land In 1856 with the Martin and TJ T ler Jer company of ot emigrants west west- ward ward yard bound Privations Indian warfare warfare war war- fare and nd desertions by faint hearted members had reduced their number to less than souls BOUts before tho the promised land of Utah or or Des ret aa it was wal n then n called caned was reached With their earthly all in a a. handcart the parents of Harrison started acro across the great American desert from Iowa City less Jets than miles west welt of ot this thin s starting arting point the entire handcart party varty were tl facing starvation Harrison in n not l yet in ln his hla teens decided that his family could make better botter progress progress ress without the burden of or J Ills his s. s keep and ran away avay to find a home a band of or roving ro Sioux Indians For m more moe e than a year he traveled with this hand band until one day the Indians rode into the Iho trading post at Fort Laramie Wyo and then and there he decided for tor and his own people Working In the settlers settler's store storo nt t Fort for tor a 0 few months he at attached attached at- at himself to the commissary sent west with supplies for or the army array of or Albert Sidney Johnston at Fort Bridger He arrived there to find rind the officers' officers mess without a a. second cool cook He accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac the nomination and In six sia months was chief cook to the officers' officers moss mess and accompanied the army on It Its march west to old Camp Floyd just Jus across Utah lake from Tiring Thing of the tho monotony of ot army life he started the tho hotel which ho runs run today It may be Inherent knack or 01 the indian In in- In dian life lICe and cooking or of buffalo steaks steak over o an open fire that makes his hili steaks Just a n. little b better Most frost likely It Is because Harrison believes that Ills Hit reputation depends on art the cooking o each cach individual meal meat At an any rate the path to his door Is 18 a beaten track Tho The OREM ORE INTERURBAN line Tine juat II completed south couth of ot Provo Prove will begin begir operation of or twenty dally daily passenger trains between Salt Lake City and on Sunday a July 18 Most Utah people have eaten en ens cn ol ot of Beefsteak Harrisons Harrison's steaks Many ol of them motor down every Sunday or ZoTo Zo so To tho those of or you not fortunate enough to own a motor car or who prefer the quicker cleaner and more scenic electric electric elec elite wa way or to the visitor who appreciates elates the tho good things thing of life lite a Bund Sunday Y or week neck da day trip to will re repa repay repay re- re pa pay you The Tho electric makes It ac o- o Just t two o hours from the tho time of de departure de e. e at Salt Lake will wilt put you ifa ts front of the Harrison house houge over a 3 route of ot wonderful scene scenery through the garden valleys of ot Utah Lehl Amerl American n Fork Pleasant Grove and Provo Pro Ire ar are pass passed en en route Each Sunday Sunda during the summer an excursion rate of round trip tin is to adults adult with half haJt fares for tOI children The trains leaving Salt Lake Lako City depot at Third South and F First t West est streets at 7 LiO 30 so or 1180 1150 O a R. R in n. will put you OU in Springville Just juet two hours later and In time for a dinner din din- nor ner that you 1 0 will remember The ride the tho scenery and the tha Wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- Harrison hospitality will wilt ro repay y you Adv ou Ad Adv l' l