| Show EN BOTJTE t XQTES ON THE WAY TO THE MIDWINTER MID-WINTER FAIR jOn j jj j On the Land and on the Sea Kellys Chase in Poeatello Dull in the XortljTrest Tlie Fnir San Francises Dec 7There are very many readers of The Herald who I would like to visit the Midwinter fair but who object to paying the present I railroad rate of 4 cents per mile Some of them will come even if the present rate be maintained while others will stay at home unless it shall be materially mater-ially reduced Nearly all these people I I regard the Southern Pacific as the only feasible route and believe that it has what the poet calls the dead mortal cinch on travel between Utah and California Cali-fornia They therefore expect either to pay high transportation charges or stay away from the fair But the Union Pacific accords Utah people a competing line to San Francisco Francis-co and it can carry passengers there as cheaply as it can to Chicago and it made the roundtrip rate to the Columbian Colum-bian exposition 3675 The reasonable presumption is that the railroad quit the game winner Therefore It seems probable that it will make a reduced rate from Omaha to San Francisco and that Utah must share in the benefits of that concession This route lies over the Oregon Short Line to Portland Ore and thence by steamer The railroad end is much like all others and as the girl declares herself in the song not so very good and not so very bad The trainmen are courteous though the time is rather slow But I found the ocean trip most delightful The briny billows were on their good behavior and not at all disposed dis-posed to be fresh The person possessed of haughty spirit and who is a holy terror at home by profession will be greatly benefit ted by taking a steamer trip It will improve him to learn how to be insolent inso-lent in a polite manner though it maybe may-be necessary to break his neck in the teaching of the art Uncle Noah seems I to have been the only skipper who did not view his passengers with suspicion from the time they went on board Commodore Barratt is hereby excepted excep-ted Milt has to have passengers who know how to sail the boat for him Once the purser hands you your ticket tick-et you are expected to keep it red hot yanking it from your pocket at the demand de-mand of every member of the crew Maybe they want to know whether or not the purser understands his business busi-ness You are assigned a certain numbered num-bered chair at table which insures its being reserved for you But when the sea is very rough you may be willing to yield that chair to your worst enemy ene-my Once you have learned to show I your ticket the steenth time as patiently pa-tiently as you would your tongue to the doctor the hazing process seems to be ended You are then regarded asa as-a man and brother and treated accordingly accord-ingly The foregoing does not apply to the passenger who happens to be a woman as no man has the courage to try to boss her away from home At home she may be the willing slave but when she travels masculinity either flees at her approach oil cunningly obeys her while the smile which he receives re-ceives for his servility is not one of gratitude but of triumph The building of the Oregon Short Line has brought about many and great improvements in the valleys of the Snake Boise Payette and Weiser though the Utonian does not need to go away from home in order to find lands just as fruitful In his case the enchantment en-chantment of those fields is all due to distance and they do seem to be along a-long distance from anywhere The embers of the burning trail left by your councilmanic fireproofers last spring are yet smouldering there The story of Kellys hot chase after the fading train is the admiration of every Pocatello kid and it does not take second place even with Sheridans ride Portland now has a population of 60000 and has put on decidedly metropolitan metro-politan airs In spite of her disadvantages disad-vantages mainly due to hee near proximity of Seattle and Tacoma her citizens have evinced their faith in her future by building long rows of brick business blocks from four to nine stories high Though few of them are empty business is said to be very dull Although her entire population including suburbs is only 75000 her business area seems to be about three times as extensive as that of Salt Lake and yet Salt Lake merchants say I that business with them is overdone Certain it is that in no other city of its population are there fewer business houses than in Salt Lake I There is no doubt but business of all kinds is very dull in the Pacific northwest north-west and the best advice to give to the dissatisfied Salt Laker who con emplates removing there is dont you go Tommy dont go Many people now there would gladly leave if they could but the question of where to go would then have to be considered I Many have already come to San Francisco Fran-cisco but wages are always low here and employment for a white man hard to find The foregoing information informa-tion I derived from residents of Portland Port-land and is doubtless true 1 The advance guard of the great army of fair fakers is now here and has intrenched itself at every sraiigical point as a preliminary to the campaign cam-paign having for its object the raping of the purse of the jay Only people who were at Chicago last summer can guess at the din which will be raised when the rest of de gang gets here Some day I may tell the readers of The Herald what new schemes of robbery rob-bery these bandits have invented as they may be displayed at the fairPF PF |
