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Show SrSRST ELECTRIC TRAIN DEPARTS Sixty Ogdenitcs Make the Initial Journey by Trolley From This City to Brig-ham Simon Bamberger One of the Most Pleased Guests New Road is an Important Connection. V At l.::n this afternoon about s'.xfy Ogden people left this city to make the Initial trip over the electric inter urban car line to Hrlgham City. Those in the party were cevnty and city officials, of-ficials, directors and officers of the Rapid Trnnslt company, business men and wives and newspaper rcprcscnta-thes. rcprcscnta-thes. Three new cars weie used In carrying car-rying I he guests and It was expected by Manager .Joseph Bailey that the ru:i would be made In about one hour, the dlstar.ro. being 22 miles. The party will be welcnmed to Brlgham City by the officers of the municipality, who will' .entertain the Ogden people as special gir-ts of the occasion. It will be Lite In the evening even-ing before I he special retinas. The trip today is the first electric train to be operated over the new line and it marks an Important epoch In the commercial progress of this f section of country, as it will bo the niranu of linking more lirmly the me-tropolis me-tropolis of Box Elder county and Ogden. Og-den. President Simon Bamberger, of the Salt Lake & 0den Railway company, 1 operating an electric lnterurban line between OgJcn and Suit Lake City w.s with the party aid he claims the d'.Ftlnctlon of being the first person to ride all the way from Salt Lake to Brlgh.nm City on an electric car. He came from Salt Lake to 0g4cn on an elect rie car of his company and Irom his depot on Lincoln avenue r-.nd Twenty-fifth street be rode to Brichnm on m electric car of the Ogden Ri'ptd Transit company. Mr. Fiambergi r i.s proud of the distinction and he does not hiiltaic to say that the making of the connecting link between bis road and that ef the Ogden Og-den company is the beginning of a more rapid growth if tho "count iv from Salt Lake north. . ' |