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Show CITIZEN THE TTUa Stesfe? makes me sort THIS atmosphere You know, the way you feel when you want to do something or other, and you dont know just what it is? Well, the other night I found the cure. Took the car and rolled down to the Denver and Rio Grande depot to watch the train crew get one of the night trains ready for its run. Queer sort of thing, but I stayed there for an hour or more watching the loading of the baggage, and the tapping of the wheels, .and the washing of the windows. Dark, and the lights in the train shed just enough to heighten the shadows. There was something restful and intensely absorbing about the whole thing that was fascinating. I get a kick, too, out of standing atop the Fourth South viaduct and watching the roundhouse crews Railroad yards always working. have been a weakness of mine, and especially at night I find romance there. These monsters of steel with tiieir single eyes and their grunts. And all going somewhere !. Thats the thing that appeals to me most of all, I guess. Perhaps its just an idiosyncrasy of mine. And yet, 1 had company so apparently the bustle of the rail yards is somewhat of a haven at that. 6 Lisle Smith, former Utah University athlete, successful insurance man, and president of the U mens club, is getting ready for the sports season. Lisle divides his time during collegiate sports seasons between his business and the business of telling the yarns through the microphone. And I stop to observe that pleats in mens trousers are apparently litre to stay for at least another season. The average Salt Lake man is paying much more attention to his wardrobe than he did a few years ago, and the difference is apparent in a much better dressed class of men on the streets. 9 Perhaps the men will be interested to know that costume jewelry is coming back into rapid favor with the fairer sex. This decree offers men a loophole for inexpensive and appropriate gift giving. 0 3 The Temple Block Hotel is rising in a hurry. Im right interested in that building. If it develops as the builders intend it to do, it is going to be the first first class hotel erected on the lee side of town for two de- - Toroiog the Pages Sprightly Cars At that, the South Temple district in that direction is., showing rapid strides. cades. - Bicycle Road Race A Daring Trip Verne McCullough, attorney, and former mem- wrestling promoter ber of the state legislature, has blossomed forth with a new sedan in colors far from quiet. It is the most conspicuous car on four wheels that I have ever seen, but even so, it isnt half bad. Rather disappointing to the critics who said the talkies were doomed, is the general optimism of all of Salt Lakes theatre managers over the increased favor for the productions. Ralph Parlette, of national fame for his University of Hard Knocks was an interested spectator at Syncopation and exhibited no violent dislike for the film. Scientists say that the people on Mars have six legs apiece. Just think of having to buy shoes for a family of flappers! six-legg- ed The new $1 bill has the picture of George Washington on it and the $1,000 bill bears that of Chase. Its a good bet Washington will get the most publicity out of it. A school girl caught a mistake Chief Justice Taft made in administering oath to President Hoover, showing how careful we have to be now that we have the radio. And we are going to be a whole lot care-fullabout making mistakes when television gets common. er Mexican soldiers must be all poli- ticians. At least they have the right political idea. As soon as their army gets licked they join the bandwagon. Heres a page from The Citizen of just 21 years ago, which among other things is proof of the speed with which the world moves. Anyone doubting the increased power of Motordom in Salt Lake, should station himself along the paths that lead to the Country Club any hour of the afternoon or evening and see the streams of sprightly cars that line those thoroughfares. It is not the way that is traveled by the second raters, either. Nothing like that. Machines the peers of which no metropolitan center boast, are in evidence at every turn and the speed limit stands in constant peril of being badly fractured whenever one of these high powered rollers carrying its burden of beauty comes down the trail. And the magazine speaks of the Stoddard-Dayto- n new and the Queen and others, most of which are long since forgotten. Pope-Hartfor- d, Wandamere, the Salt Palace, Lagoon and Saltair prepared for their openings, with a bicycle road race to Lagoon the days principle diversion. Both Wandamere and the Salt Palace have given way, the Salt Palace fire leaving the site to a ball park and now a tourist camp and Wandamere fading out until what remained of it was razed for modem municipal golf course. About all that remains of the latter resort is a wood bridge over the Wandamere lake from which players watch the caddies try to retrieve their golf balls. 1 And another chronicle in motoring is written back in 1907 when The Citizen states that one of the most sensational trips ever attempted by Utah motorists was probably that of Keith Clarke and his trusted chauffeur, Harry Karr, who tried to reach Green River, Utah. It took ten hours for the car to reach Thistle, where the motorists ended the first day of the journey. The pair got as far as Colton the next day and then started home, taking another two days to get back. And the stories of this trip are . still resounding about the garages and being commented upon as one of the wonders of motordom. . |