Show TOURIST BUSINESS ATTENTION Commercial Club Governors Fail Fall to Act Upon It as Expected OTHER TOPICS CROWD IT Railroads Will Be Asked to Drop Stopover Privileges Privileges Privileges Here Contrary to expectation the matter matter matter mat mat- ter of tho the proposed fund to be bo collected collected col col- at the rate of 1 SI a 0 month from merchants and others In the city for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of ot maintaining agents Inthe in inthe inthe the East In an effort to attract tourist tra trade o to Salt Lake Lako and amid provide e for such trade trado remaining more mora than the customary two or three hours failed to como come up at the tho meeting of tho the board of or governors o of or the Commercial Com Com- mercial club held Tuesday afternoon Stress of or business failed to provide e time for other than a lengthy discussion discussion discussion discus discus- sion regarding the proposed new clubhouse dub club house of or the institution A number of or prominent business businessmen businessmen men on Monday and amid Tuesday tool took occasion occasion occasion oc oc- oc- oc casion to express C their unqualified approval approval ap up- of the scheme and In connection with the subject a 0 well known hotel hotelman hotelman hotelman man yesterday brought up the subJect subject sub sub- of the stop over privileges allowed tourists arriving at Salt Lake Lale via the tho Denver Rio Grande lIn lines Every EvelY Everyday day from 3 l to lO G ci i cars of tourists Pullmans Pullmans Pull Pull- mans are arc set et out on a a. f side track neur near the depot and for three or Ot four tour hours their passengers como coma up town and do Salt Lake Lal These people go o to the thc hotels and get their malls mails take ce a n. on a n. sight seeing car and then back to the depot and awa away Notwithstanding Notwithstanding Not Not- withstanding the time efforts made from front time to time tinie h by n tho time Commercial clubs and other bodies to have ha it stopped tho ho evil Jl still continues Rather o Ha One Many Ian local busness men would rather see one visitor como come to the ell city and und stay three da cla days s 's s than titan CO GO sta stay over for three hours and go O awa away again with no idea ItJen whatever er of tho the city and at best a very ely poor opinion When hen the matter has in the past been brou brought ht to tho the attention of the of the road they have pleaded the fact that in order to so chan change c the timo time table of the time road as to cut out the stopover of oC three hours at Dt Salt Lake It would be necessary to re rearrange rearrange rearrange re- re arrange connections over the entire system m. and that such a 0 change would b be felt Celt b by other roads clear r back to Massachusetts In bringing the matter to their attention the time question has naturally arisen wh why not have ha this three hour stopover at Colorado Springs S or at Denver Itself And the answer has hns Invariably been the same Now ow comes the proposal that Ogden Ogdena a distance In iii time of one hour away bo be made the city where the stopover privileges are arc allowed and put Salt SaIL L Lake ke in lii the same samo position as the othel cities touched by the road Cut out the three hours stopover er sa say local business business busi busi- usi- usi ness men memi and anti compel those wishing to se seo Salt Lake to take at least a a. day daj dayto to see It Jt One hotel man said It n is ig a a. fact about the tho great majority of or tourists visiting the city staying on only I a fow fet hours on account of time the stopover al allowed al- al Ilo ct lowed lr tho time Denver Rio Hlo Grande I They eon com up town tow l to get their mailand man mall malland I an and sometimes w we ve ask them about it it H. as to wh why wimy the they do not take 0 a lay day clayo 0 o- o two to see sec Salt Lake The answer is also 0 the tho same sanie We Pc Intended to hut but the time passenger agent told 1 us c wc cl l ld l d a hour three stopover cr here and that that wa all nn we would need The Time truth of their statements is shown i by Iw bythe the time fact that they have their mall mali addres addressed e to thom thorn here anti and tl sometimes sometimes some some- me- me times Limes It keeps Jeeps coming for days as a's after the they have left town Tuttle Scheme Good One Ono Another local business man consulted con con- suited gave it as his that the scheme as us outlined originally by W. W G. G Tuttle was wa one of oC the best that has ever como come before the Salt SaH Lake pub lie lic Let Le us take taid he the number number num num- ber her of tourists annually I visiting visit visit- II- II In lug ing Salt Lake City This number of or registrations were made at the time Bureau of Information alone during I Ithe the year ear of ot 1 1907 07 and there will wm probably probably probably ably be more this year yeam Time Tho num number r does not include those failing falling to register l will wm run Into the time thousands thousands thou thou- sands nor tho those e vi visitors calling alother at al other points Joints of or attractions and amid failing foIlIng to visit the Temple Grounds at nt all Two hundred thousand is therefore a tl cr very conservative conser estimate of the number of fC people who lio annually visit Salt Lake Now ow place the time average a length of their theli- sta stay ut at one ono da day This too is conservative cOnSel as the great majority get out the tho tamo day after aCter a t sta stay of about i three Ul hours hour Now figure the amount of ur money monc left In the city b by these theo people peo pee plc at 5 i a head and you have hit total of a u. year spent in Salt Lake o by visitors I This is Js of or course courso probably l high a as the time great majority of those thoc people remaining In Iii the tho city only emily a few ew hours would spend less than Jl I 1 I If it thc they spent anything at all But suppose this sta stay could bo In Increased Increased increased In- In creased on an average of from from one day to three days and that remaining three full rull da days s 's the amount each man maim would spend be tl figured at 10 what Is the time re result a 0 year ar solid t profit to the business clement element of or Salt Lake Lako Make tako these figures ju just t as conservative con con- as you ou will In Iii m iii my opinion lie tho scheme is s well worth while Comparative tables are ame now non un under er preparation showing tho importance of or ortho time the income possible to tu derive from this source as ns compared to the lie In Incomes Incomes incomes In- In comes from Utah's mines and from the mines mIne of the entire country In which Salt Lake people ate are Interested st l and amid b by which the tho city Ity is I benefited |