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Show fl With the formal opening Friday night of the B new Union Station for the Gould lines here, Salt H Lake is given one of the handsomest, finest and H most modern and completely equipped union pas- H senger depots of its sizein the country, and with H its opening promises that have long been made M this city by the officials of the Western Gould B lines are splendidly fulfilled. H Service over the Western Pacific was inaugu- H rated yesterday and trains are now entering and M leaving the yards in the new station on West Third fl South street. It would be difficult to imagine a H' Ctpjrlght bj Undtrvittd & Undtrwttd, AT. T, Hj SATTIR KAHN H Leader of the Persian revolution and who was j wounded in the engagements oi a few days f ago in the streets of Teheran, when three K nundred of his men were taken prison- B ers by the government troops. ' structure of its size with more architectural beauty, beau-ty, and with better facilities for the comfort and convenience of the traveling public than the new station. Its exterior appearance is already too familiar to Salt Lakers to warrant an extensive ex-tensive description of the building at this time, and it will suffice to say that the interior corresponds cor-responds in beauty to the exterior. The building is four hundred and seventeen feet by ninety-eight ninety-eight feet, and centers on West Third South street. The Interior of the waiting room is done in an adaption of a classic style of architecture with a color scheme of brownish red and gray for the walls and a deeper brown for the ceiling. The arrangement of the package, express and parcel rooms, the men's sr oking room, the women's retiring retir-ing room, restai ant and other quarters is ideal and in the second story of the main structure the operating offices of the Denver & Rio Grande, Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific are located. As each end of the building the company has parked a plot of ground five hundred feet long and this has been beautified by a competent landscape land-scape artist. The opening of the new station does away with the last wooden shack of a depot in use by the two big systems running into Salt Lake, and the city benefits accordingly. The first train over the Western Pacific from San Francisco, carrying carry-ing newspaper men and state and railway officials, offi-cials, arrived from San Francisco Friday morning and the train was run in at the new depot. The party was royally entertained by the Salt Lake Press Club, the Commercial Club and other or ganizations, and left for San Francisco this morning. morn-ing. With the opening of the Western Pacific and the completion of the new depot, Irving A. Benton, Ben-ton, general agent of the passenger department of the Rio Grande system, becomes general agent here for the passenger department of the Western West-ern Pacific, his combined duties giving him greatly great-ly increased responsibilities and one of the finest positions in the passenger traffic end of the western west-ern railroad business. Colonel Benton is one of the best known and most beloved railroaders in the inter-mountain country. |