Show t IT rr IS TS AX AN AMUSEMENT TOWN X S Salt Sait Lake Is the thc best town In the country countr said a practical manager In the theatrical field to u a rePresentative representative of The Republican one ay last week when he paused in Sn this city on his way East People here gito to entertainments of various kinds more mote generally than In an any other oilier city The Iho comment was called out b by a ast st sight of the crowds that go to to the tho clo do r rices es to Saltair to Lagoon and to and the other parks It is noted i inthe the winter winter season pason ason lI by the generous generous generous gen- gen erous attendance at the thc theatres Tho The people like like- t to go to places of ot amusement amuse amuse- ment meat ment and entertainment rhe They spend pend penda a good deal of f money mone that wn way Very likely the they take tace a a. good deal of or pleasure pleas picas ure uro from flom the custom It Is noted note too ui that t the entire family Is found In these pleasure resorts resort In Gorman German and French cities tho the workman takes his wife Ite and children o o the concerts at atthe tho the parks or 01 to tin the pla play The same Mme Is true irue of men In better fortune In most S of ot the continental countries It Ii is true of or the German clement in our American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican cities and It is In Salt Lake The women an and sit with th the head of ot the family about little tables drInking drinking light beverages e hing ething eating luncheons lunch lunch- eons cons listening to music later wander about the place If that exercise exer exer- cise be possible and In an informal heartily enjoy them them- wa way seem seeni to lo vcr very ery heart y selves Another fact is Ig observable observablE In n Salt Sal Lake That Is thY the the generl generality If Lf t the dancing dancIn habit Nearly Nearl I every even ever everone one dances The They dance wherever where el they the go if I there thero be accommodations f for It Il The bl big pavilion at Saltair la Is f fairly Irl filled with wih a circling crowd crowll of llan dancers daners er every ever evening The same Is true truo of or al all allS S the other places where dancing floors have lve been provided And Salt Sai Lake p pl There ar arc probably more more I g good oll- oll voices fairly trained d hero here her than thanIn thanin in manY an any other city of like Jo population to tobe tobe tobe be found an anywhere here r Much credit Is ls probably due to such men as Mr Ir Evan E Stephens who have devoted them themselves to lo the training of choirs Rut nut it Is In Inthe Inthe Inthe the habit and tendency ten ency of o the people Much ruch attention is I given the theatre AmI And this does docs not refer refel solely to the pale pail paid attendance on the I performances at at atthe the playhouses houses There Is scarcely a n ward In tho the city cUy which does loes not give Its dramatic performance In the course courte of the winter season Some times the attempt Is so ambitious as to claim claimS S tho stage of a big theatre and ani fill fl the house with auditors There are man many right good actors actor among the themen themen themen men and the women who tae lake part In InS S these affairs affair And AmI it Is known that Salt Sal Lake people produce plays plays This then i is the situation Salt Lake people give ghe rather rathor more moru than the a average average aver er- er age allotment of time and muno money to the enjoyment thc they can get from froni places of ot amusement amusement Always of or S course cours this is Innocent amusement There Is no vicious quality In it I. I The characteristic must be accounted for in largo argo larco measure by by tho the fundamental habit and teaching of ot the first settlers seters of Salt Lake Those people oven In their journey across the plains found time on man many evenings for miniature miniature minia minla- ture pla plays s 's for dancing that relieved the weariness of ot the day for music both vocal and instrumental Old John S Lindsay now gathered to his rest says In his book of ot reminiscences that the the theatre tro was one ono of the first places es established established es- es in Salt Sal Lake Lale Long before there was a n house for II It I the people had hall organized a company compan with wih a a. star and a comedian and a n heavy and a alight a alight n light and all al the other factors of a band of players and they gave e a the hc best plays then known to lu the stage Lady of Lyons Lyons' was as presented resented l here when the town was wa In it Its It InCan infancy y The theatre was encouraged by the leaders headers of 01 th the tho Dancing was made mullo a part patt i of i tho I recognized co social life It I Imay may seem strange to the East Easterner but tho the presence of a adjoinIng adjoining adjoin adjoin- ing the meeting house was a fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental feature of or the local population I So 5 that over every form of amusement which could coul bo be permitted by prudent and orderly el elders ers has Jias been an organic I element In the tile life lre o of or th this Is people people S Those Thos not of the parent establishment establish establish- 5 ment who ho have havo come later hater follow folo a and adopt the habit abit The he street cars ears are h- h loaded till ti midnight taking home the themen ther r f. f men and women and children who have Im been to the tle raes races s or the park or ortt orthe tt p. the beach t But do you ou observe that tho the workmen work work- r c men here l seem em to dress dres their wives and children a little better beller than do clo don n their fellows in other cities They L I ma may spend m more re on the theatre and anti 1 the pleasure resort re Olt than do mechanics elsewhere but tho they spend less IcS In tile the to saloon They he gamble amble a less ICES They may mayS may'S S 'S spend pend more mon money but the they it Il with their own o They distribute the tho pleasure It I bu buys s 's to lo eve every member of or the family ramly not deprive wife S and und children jOy the Joy outing outing-in S I r An And the they have a n little more money mone at the end of or the year than do dc I 1 tho the men who yield less to the local loel I custom and cultivate tho the habit of ot selfish selfish sel sel- fish In individual recreatIons recreation Besides their health Is better beter They The S stay young oung longer Th They are arc certainly certain certain- ly happier Time The old habit planted with sith th the planting of ot th the cl city Is verJ verifying verifying verify verify- ing the wl wisdom dom of the fathers fathers More health more moie happiness antI and more equality of joy 1 Is the tILe result of o a cus custom cus cus- tom torn that more mor than an any other may be he called caled the characteristic of ot Salt It Lake Ikc |