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Show BOULEVARD NOW BUBBLELIKE GONE SALT LAKE, May 4. Although tho sum of $5,000 had been pledged to assist as-sist in building the Saltalr automobile driveway between this city and Saltalr, Salt-alr, and assurance of securing the en-tiro en-tiro nmount of 25,000 was in sight, the proposition to build the boulovard was this morning called off The decision de-cision td proceed no further with the plans was made at a meeting of tho full automobile committee of twenty members, which took place al 11 o'clock this morning at the Saltalr office of-fice on First South streeL It was understood un-derstood by the committee that the Saltalr Railroad company, which was to complete the boulevard upon the receipt of 5,000 to be ralspd by the committee, agreed to a parking place for the automobiles near the resort, and this morning, when the definite assurance as to the parking place and Its location was sought from the management man-agement of the resort, the committee was Informed that the place selected for parking the automobiles was on the east aide of the trestle, COO feet east of the planking where the trains stop for the detraining of passengers. Tho autoniiblle committee decided that tho distance was too far for motorists mo-torists to walk to get to the resort, and decided to call all arrangements off, at least for the present. Messrs. Langford and Nelson, representing repre-senting Saltalr, urged that it would be Impossible to construct a parking place for autoniOL.ies closer to the pavilion pa-vilion than the place selected, upon the ground that any attempt to build a roadway through the laue would bo futile on account of the water, which would inevitable wash out any road which might be constructed through It. The inattor will b taken up later, whon certain engineering pioblcms connected with the project shall bo satisfactorily adjusted -- nn |