Show IN HOTEL CORRIDORS For some time past numbers of foreigners foreign-ers have been passing through Salt Lake bound either to or from the Worlds fair and it has been an exceptional day when the hotel man has riot found at least one or two queer siguatures on his register A large party came in yesterday ahd put UD at the Templeton and Knutsford At the former are Otis Dailauunes Germany E Lowmily Paris W Lodter an eminent emi-nent physician of Munich Theodore Fierz major of the Swiss artillery from Zurich F Beiner of Wien Austria and Dr Wiesinger of the same place At the later are John E Nelson William Costi gan John Morrison and James D Boyd of Glasgow Scotland Herbert P Ham Melbourne and J S Robertson of Sydney Australia John E Nelson registered with his three traveling companions at the Knuts i ford is a member of the town council of I Glasgow He is now travelling through this continent to look into the street rail I way systems of our large cities The franchise of the company that controls the system of his own city will expire on the 6th of next June and the town council coun-cil has decided that it will be more economical eco-nomical to operate the street railways asa as-a corporate business The best system sys-tem Mr Nelson has found is the electric system with the overhead trolley and he means to recommend that to his fellow councilors upon his return He expects that his ideas will meet with great opposition as he says there are several members of the council who have never been outside Glasgow and are old fogies but as his first suggestion will be mcderate be believes be-lieves that a better and more progressive spint will soon be developed and that the people of Glasgow soon thereafter will be able to have rapid transit The oldcountry says Mr Nelson is I fully fifty years behind the times in the I ay of street < transportation Glasgow I has as good a system as will be found in the empire and yet with its 800000 inhabitants I in-habitants it caouot sh wa good transit 1 accommodations an city of even local i importance in the United States I Canada is nearly if not quite on apar with this country in that matter Toronto in fact having the best electric System he has seen Ian Francisco has the best cable line Salt Lakes 1 car lines compare most favorably with I any he has seen The wide dtreets he says are particularly favorable to the placing of poles and therefore the companies I com-panies are not discouraged so much as j they would be i narrow streets should necessitate an economy of space Mr Nelson has been looking into the subject of storage batteries as the means of propelling cars He has found that asa as-a motive power these batteries will prove a success but they are so costly that they will not at present justify a company in using them However Mr Sutro of San Francisco assured him that a means of remedying this defect has been found The people of Glasgow will await the success suc-cess of this experiment Philip V O Van Vechten was showing a curious document In the corridor of tho Templeton last evening It dates back to March and April 1776 and purports to be the Billettiug roll of Captain Samuel Van Vechtens company Colonel Core bus D Wynkoops regiment of the continental con-tinental service raised for the defense of the colony of New York Commencing on the day of their enlistment and ending with tho time they drew provisions including in-cluding haVersacKs and enlisting money Sixty names are upon it with the amount of allowance set opposite in pounds shillings shil-lings and pence I Mr Van Vechten traces his billnge very I far back The first Dutch minister to I set foot upon the soil of America was a I Van Vechten His ancestors took part in the events that mark the history of New York At his home he can show the muster roll of the company at Ticon deroga in July 1776 when Captain Samuel was in command and can also show autograph letters from Washing ton Benedict Arnold and many others One of the characters brought here by last Sundays jail delivery is Etl Maxwell Max-well who is registered at the Walker as from Omaha He is a strapping handsome hand-some man in the prime of life and looks like one who will stand little fooling wheu he is after anyone He took part in the rustler war in Wyoming and distinguished himself and yesterday he rode 100 miles in search of the prisoners I going up in the direction of Alta |