Show OCTOGENARIAN I 11 1 GAlT CAlT APT P. P G G. IER who v conducted f first care car to sleeper from Pittsburgh Chicago celebrates birthday ber here i jt e rd t t s1 is rr y tV t r nr k y w ti x c 0 IT T Is a long lone time since the first sleeping sleep sleep- In ing car CRr was sent on Its wa way west from Pittsburgh to Chicago o over o the tho theold theold old Pittsburgh Fort hurt Ya Wayno no Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- ca cago o railroad d. now a n. part of the tho Penns Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- s sylvania l fI system stem so eo long that almost three generations have havo passed stage x I II I Yesterday In Salt Lake tho the conductor I tor of or that car celebrated his eighty eighty- I first birthday anniversary and ho he Is la still hale hearty henrt and as ns full tull of ot pep and ginger gingeras as ns on the da day that he left lett that smoky city for tor the city by the lake and when ho he walked through tho the I da day coaches conches of or the train soliciting patronage for tor his palace car clr car I Berths Berth c nail Roomy Great days das those said Capt F. F G G. Palmer at M his home at at 36 i Quince street last evening Our palace on wheels then thon differs very materially from tho modern car of or today Then we wo cut out tho the car r In tho the mornIng morning morn- morn Ing Ins when we wo arrived at Crestline 0 O. O and tho the passengers were moved mo Into tho the da day coaches conches The night train the theone theono theono ono one that left Pittsburgh In the mornIng morn- morn morning Ing Ins would pick us up at and I would then make the trip through the tho train and ask passengers pas pas- OnseTS whether or not thc they would prefer a n. sleeper to tho dl day coach The car ran through from to Chicago Chi Chi- cago And that old sleeper was built with staterooms lIko a steamboat There was tho the double berth below and then two single lo berths above and you OU were shut In by a slid sliding Ins Ins- door Just lIko iko you jou ou would bo be on a vessel But Dut It was comfort luxurious comfort I might sa say as compared to the ordinary ordinary nar nary dl day coach o of that time But Dut the job didn't suit Bult me mo so I quit and went back t ack to my work as a contractor Did nhI Construction Work Good luck apparently was with me for I secured a I. I contract to build bull the St. St Claire branch of tho the Canada Southern South South- ern then I tackled the bridges es on the double track of the Great Western Vestern now the Grand Trunk between Glenco and Detroit and also furnished tho the piling pil 1111 lug ing for the Uto docks at Detroit and Port Huron After Arter this I rebuilt tho the docks n nt at t Port Stanley Stanle Canada and afterward afterward after after- ward built bunt the view Lake an and line a suburban line out of ot Cleveland It was as In en endeavoring to sell tho bonds of ot the lino line in England that caused us to go so broke our agent hypothecating the bonds and forgetting to make I good to us Then when things s looked dark and gloomy gloom my old friend Steve Stoc Dorsey Dorsc then United States senator from Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas hansas secured a a. contract to construct a no railroad l from a point 1600 miles up the tho Amazon river In Brazil and then up tho the river 2000 miles from Para Parl Result I went to Brazil to begIn begin begin be be- gin tho the work 0 O r starting point was wasat wasat at it Fort San Antoine a point where the high and low stages of tho the river rl varied 70 feet teet almost as much as do tho the tides In o the tho Bay of ot Biscay In Tropic Well I surveyed tho the lino It rains c Cr c every try day In that country and would rain more J if there thoro wore moro more days As fast att as wo we would cut a C Croad road through the dense denso timber and undergrowth it would seem to take only one ono night for tor forIt fort It t to grow crow up again so after more moro than thana a year there thero wo did just like liko the French company that preceded us abandoned tho the work principally bec because be- be cause causo c uso we ran out of or money 4 It was pioneering In tho the tropics It was an experience of a lifetime and andr andI I r I have never nover regretted tho the experience In n later years cars others went in and tho the lino which we ne had Chad tried to I build and opened up a magnificent tropical Topical region Not only th that t. t but tho tiro I lIno ino now connects with the Cerro dePasco do de Pasco road rond built bunt b by a n Salt Sail Laker Laker Laker-A. A. A I W. W who nho ran his lino over tho the Andes range tho the highest railroad In Inthe inthe inthe the world Im a a. pioneer of Salt Lake ko Hero for many years E Expect to be for tor more Expect to pass m my re remaining re- re years of or lifo life in this most beautiful valley valley- alle in the tho world for I Iam Iam am nm content and happy happ |