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Show VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS Beauties of Salt Lake Its Climate and Resources Great Attractions Wide Streets Impress the Stranger Beautiful Beau-tiful Homes Dot the City Catholic ! Institutions Are Noticed Great Progress Prog-ress in That Line. Editor Intermountain Catholic: Dear Sir: Salt: Lake City is the offspring of the desert and the sky. The wild nature of her summer breezes, the spaciousness spa-ciousness of her settlements, the silent grandeur that encircle and envelopes her life, even the life of a city, are the inherited characteristics of the child' of the desert, of th dry sand and dusty sagebrushes, the blistering sun and scorching winds that wel-. coined the hardy, determined old pioneers of a half century ago. On the other hand, the wealth of foliage, fol-iage, the profusion of flowers, the clear voice or running crystal waters, the cool night breezes. th. days' dancing atmosphere and the soft refractions of the eve are the inherited charms that adorn ;i daughter of the sky. And so stands your beautiful, city ever celebrating the happy union brought abou by the coaxing hands of industry that stood minister min-ister at the nuptials. Xo wonder that I saw your streets full of strangers, who in contrast with tho pleasure seeking frequenters of eastern summer resorts re-sorts walked leisurely your wide streets, or strolled carelessly through your parks and pleasure grounds and lived the easy life of an almost luxurious summer sum-mer climate. There was not the disorderly appearance appear-ance of the rushing summer crowds, nervous ami pressing to kill the hours with artificial manufactured manufac-tured man invented excitements. Your scenes of pleasure are so varied, so numerous, so spacious that ycur thousands of visitors reach them with comfort and rest in them with ease. Pleasures are not resorted to with the feverish baste of a business bus-iness transaction, but every one can if he will put on an .appearance of a large income and little, ej re, , And withal it is not the deadliest of Mohaiinn'edau 'laziness and Oriental paralysis. You have an up- to-date, progressive population. On all sides there I are evidences of labor, marks of improvements. You are awake, industrious, thriving. The extensive exten-sive work on your streets, ihe great improvement in your transit lines, the rapid construction of immense im-mense business blocks is only paralleled by the building of comfortable homes in every part of your beautiful city. You erect not with the careless care-less haste of the frontiersman who stops to snatch from nature its (dosed treasures, and steal away j when glutted with the booty, nor do you stingily huddle your homes into by-streets with the calculating calcu-lating parsimoniousiiess of poverty in large cities. Your entire people build . with home instincts and with the erenerosity of prosperity. Capital is not, timid, judging from your steady growth, and in !' some instances the heavy outlay that betokens hope j for the future and yet T have not noticed the ill- j advised f reakishness of a senseless boom. Your I growth- is natural, healthy, your development nor- mal. You gather strength in the manner of an athlete ath-lete but do not put avoirdupois that you might be exhiibted bloated for attraction in the great circus of a freak business world. Your pioneer days, tho days when communities thrive with the nervous activity ac-tivity of infancy bent simply on feeding muscle and brawn, has now been replaced by the period when the triumphs are those of thought when thff calculations of judgment work and higher ideah attract and move. It behooves you. then, to be united. The old and the new should .coalesce, th old recognizing that a new era has opened for your great city, and that the march of modern progress will force new avenues open when the old are stub-' bornly barred; the new generation recognizing the stern labors of the past and giving credit where it-is it-is ""due. Your -city can scarcely be retarded in its progress by ancient oppositions, but it will more faster if all adopt a single motto, if intentions harmonize, har-monize, and there be a fair field and no favor. I was very much pleased as a Catholic to note, the condition of Catholics and the Catholic church in the community.. Catholics were at peace with all. were respected by all. and were as prosperous , any in your midst. I learned that the consideration they had always shown for others and the charitable char-itable interpretation they were prepared to put on the motives of others had won for them the esteem of many who were at variance. This I learned was due in great measure to the spirit of justice and fairmindedness and to the good common sense of their bishop and his assistants who gave them th example. I was also pleased at the high percentage of progress represented by the Catholic as a citizen. You. I learn, are but a handful and your energy coupled with your generosity has planted monuments monu-ments in your city which will endure and proclaim your charitable munificence. Hospital, academies, orphanage, Miners home, cathedral, are worthy nt Catholic communities four fold your number. Your cathedral, which I bear will soon be open for services, serv-ices, should be an object of honest pride for every Catholic in your city, and every one should be willing will-ing to make a sacrifice in view of its speedy completion, com-pletion, that your bishop who has labored among you so faithfully and in some instances so heroically heroical-ly should enjoy it as a crowning reward to his many labors. I have been so thoroughly impressed with your city, with the happy combination of natural beauty and beautiful invention that I shall return to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of your people. Your A VISITOR. " The writer is a distinguished Ereneh traveler who has visited the great cities of the world. Ed. t |
