Show TOURIST TRAFFIC UP UP TO LAST YEAR Great Increase in i Number of Visitors Going to toi Yellowstone i J DUE TO NEW o. o S. S L. L BRANCH Wesley Austin Says Organ Recitals Recitals Recitals Re Re- Are Amot Among g Zions Zion's f t 1 1 First Features 4 U f-U- Hotel men of ot Salt SaIl Lak Lake LakY say aay Y that the Increase In business ss in the thelast thelast j. j t. t last lost three weeks bids fair tall to bring r their total receipts up lip to last summers summer's summers summer's summers summer's sum sum- mers mer's figure although h they do not noti j i believe that totals for fOI this year will quite quire equal tho those e for tor 1907 Tho The feature fen fea ture of the tourist t travel for tor Salt Lake this season has hns been tho the great In Increase Increase increase In- In crease In ill the number of tourists for ford d Yellowstone Park who strike Salt Snit Lake for a few days as a's either cither going or coming coining This is Js due to the opening i I and increasing popularity of thet tho the t li southern gateway to tho the park reached I by the new nev branch of ot tho the Oregon Short Line TIle The number of Yellowstone visitors r who stop oft off at Salt Lake Lako would on L first thought Indicate that travel to Yellowstone had Increased d to a wonderful wonderful wone won won- e extent this year eor but the difference dif dlf- ference Is caused b by tho fact that more than third one-third of or the park visitors this year are aro entering b by the southern route instead of taking the northern wa way war This brings Salt Sail Lake I in casy easy r reach of 35 per cent of or the visitors and it ft Is estimated that nine rIme out often often of ot otten ten ten who go to the national park by this tills route Include Salt Lake In their theil trips 4 A FIn Fa TIou Ono One of the favorite ways of taking In the tile park this year car Is to como come by byway byway wa way of the tho Union Pacific to Green riv rh er and then take lake the short cut to lIo Here lIere the tourists are arc picked picked pick pick- ed up b by the tho Yellowstone special from SnIt Sat Lake Inke during the night and they reach the park entrance carl early in the tho morning A large proportion of visitors visitors tors tons taking this route return direct 10 io Salt Lake on the Oregon Short Line and after aUer a few days here they re return return return re- re turn East over the D Denver n er Rio Grande Grando stopping at the places of in interest interest In- In It terest In Colorado This route i Js a favorite one for the I large personally conducted excursions run nun by th the Northwestern and the Union Pacific companies jointly Several l of these excursions that have been through Salt Lake recently have havo Included more than members rs and their special trains trains' have been run as extra sections over o the Denver Rio Grande C W. 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C Eagon manager of or the Cull Cullen n. n sal said yesterday e that in as much as th the tho hotel was reopened one year ear ago this week after being practically rebuilt nb- nb comparisons could be made with f last year The Tile register shows a full share o of local bU business s. s however anti and th the tho new Cullen Culle 1 has retained its popularity pop pop- with Utah Idaho and Colorado people since it has been remodeled U A larger proportion ot o guests at nt the Cullen Cohen are tr from near-by near states than f i 1 other large hotel in Salt Lake Loke l The he and Wilson apparently g gei tile the greatest number of or traveling melt although many man tourists stop at these tieso 1 c. c The Kenyon also gets mary many guests from Idaho through the Influence of Treasurer Harry Utley Ut- Ut lay Icy who wilo has hns a host of or friends throughout through through- out southern Idaho The Kenyon Is just completing some worth of improvements that Include paintIng painting paint paint- ing and redecorating new flew tile il ors and refurnished hed buffet and new elevator elevator elevator eleva eleva- tor machinery S Business BUt at the Knutsford ford has hns be been n increasing steadily during the last three weeks and anti tho the many reservations reservations reserva reserva- Hons that have been made in advance ance indicate a full house for weeks to I come The register of the shows tho ho most mOlt cosmopolitan lI list t of oC any of or the local hotels Here every overy portion of the countr country Is represented every even da day anti and curious signatures from the principal cities o of Europe are arc to tobe tobe be he s en on almost every page of the register t C Organ Orlan n Recitals Arc Attraction Tile The dall dally daily organ recitals at the lie tabernacle have proved a welcome lea fea r. r ture for ture-for for tor tourists said Wes Yes Austin clerk at the 1 t Ill Pit venture to 10 sav say that four out of ot fi the tourists in- in J l quire ire about tho the recitals as ns soon as ns the they and amI nearly all of or them are nrc oft off for the temple square a a. few minutes before noon to attend the re re- re cital Expressions of the visitors In Indicate Indicate In- In that these recitals are one of ot the most Interesting features of the city and the change from twice a week to dally daily has b been en welcomed b by visitors without number The Seeing Salt Lake company compan has been Je n doing a rushing business th this season Beason the new new automobiles proving extremely popular The hilly nature of the city is a h handicap however for far fari forthe i l the local rubberneck wagons will 1 carry only 16 passengers pas comfortably as no compared with the passenger 36 oars curs of the same annie power In use In Eastern East East- r em ern cities e loul Tourists as a a. rule rul-c do 10 not take kindly kind kind- 1 ly to tho the steam train service to to SaIlI Saltair Saltair Salt Salt- I air and there are arc many expressions i of or i wonderment that an up to date y I electric service has not been af at- forded |