| Show TELEPHONES v I IFOR FOR THE TR r Novel Scheme Sch me Proposed For Forthe the Overland Limited t MaRE MURE UTAH ADVERTISING 4 z K pIO io GRANDE GRAND G ANDE PLANS TO ST 14 i 4 Hello HenD Is 18 th the This W IB b the Wanderer j want wanti t order er erd r a caviar sandwich a dIb bh of ot York ice cream a quart bottle q I eer er and aDd a three toothpicks toothpick How soon will ill they be ready Five minutes All Ail right Ill be in there h ht I five mc m mutes utes Goodbye This is Ia the conversation which wilh uth th variations as aa to the he bill of far is 15 s to be overheard nY as the Overland Limited whirls long on its way across Utah and the other states it traverses in its it swift tour be between between tween Iween Chicago Ind And San Francisco Francl co if it the ih railroad officials carry cairy out the con eon contemplated plan for a telephone t service on the Overland The officials official of o 0 tM th Northwestern Union Pacific and aDd Southern Pacific have under consider consideration I tion tation a proposition to equip this train as U no train in the world has haa ever be e belore lore fore been equip d At the meeting t c Important railroad officials in Salt It Ita t Lal e a few tew weeks ago go o it was decided de I Ito I to no expense e in the theof of the fast tut through Ugh trains making ma the Overland Limited UM th pet as fine a atrain i train as a any any in the world This scheme MMe i is a re n suIt of ot the determination reached I at that meeting The Th proposition Originated ted with a I suggestion that a telephone ue on Q placed on fl the train as it was waiting In n Ii the station in Chicago before belore starting cut rut rutI cutI I 1 was urged in favor of t the te e plan that passengers pas nger frequently hurry to catch atch atc the train and find after th they y have boarded the ear car that they have for forgotten forgotten forgotten gotten something of or importance By DJ Bythe the aid of ot a telephone connected connect d with the regular city system they could ar at arI I range lange conveniently the naJ details al of or their business which had hd been neg nee neglected neglected while they mj might m ht not dare to leave the train to go to a depot tele tale telephone telephone phone A simple device was wan suggested for connecting the train vita the Ole city telephone system At A the officials om began to consider this plan it grew When the Duke of at f York took his recent trip on th Canadian Pacific across the continent his hi train was equipped with telephones in every f efY ear ar go so that there eIe was instant 1 aJat com coni communication with every part pert of the train The suggestion was as then made Overland b be thus equipped A telephone would be placed in every 1 Compartment of ot the compartment cars end md in lii i l one end of each open sleeper This it was said Id in favor of ot the plan would do away with many annoying waits for tor the porter A man could re ft remain main mein ro in in n his AW seat neat in a compartment and ud udby by merely me turning around order a cj ci c car cigar gar sar ar a meal a book hook or newspaper or oran an anything thing else el e obtainable on the tra traIt It If the th plan Is 18 adopted it Is believed that it will be carried still further r y connection being made with the local telephone systems at each important stop Thus a man Who was waa wasi i or ring ing through Ogden for tor example could without leaving having the train call up p friends n Ogden or Salt Lake or could transact business a over ova the tele tale telephone telephone phone c to local I l advices no DO deals decision ion has been reached but it ta is said the chances are in favor of the tie adoption ad p pion lion ion u c t the plan In some BOrne form |
