Show THEY TOOK CABINJS DE wxt IJ AGENT ILANGS POOR GUESS ON TWO CUSTOMERS Quoted Them Steerage Rates to Paris But They Wanted the Very Best He Had and They Got I Two flannclshirted slouchhatted roughlydressed strangers walked into the Union Pacific ticket office yesterday morning and asked City Ticket Agent George Lang to quote them rates to Paris Now George Is n pat master In the art of studying human nature He knows what a man is the minute his eyes rest on him The appearance of the strangers was sufficient for Mr Lang so without asking what sort of accommodations they wanted he began dealing out figures on steerage pas saw sawBut my very dear friend said one of themen with a strong French accent ac-cent we dont want to go in the steerage steer-age Get us the very best accommodations accommoda-tions you can George looked at the speaker out of the corner of his eye and rather pityingly pity-ingly said something about cabine deluxe de-luxe Ze very ting said the stranger with much vivacity and the agent looked about for a clean place on the floor In which to have a fit Can I fix you up he said well I guess to work e Sit down till I get the wires It took just an hour and a half for Lang to reserve cabines de luxe on La Bretagne of the Campagnle Generale Transatlantique line When news came that accommodations accommoda-tions had been secured both travelers dug into their pockets at the same time Then one touched the other on the shoulder and with the sang froid of a man inviting a friend to have a drink said Let me pay for zis As he spoke he pulled out a roll of bills that would have gagged a bovine He calmly skinned off a trifle of SOO and received his tickets in return The amount included the price of a Pullman Pull-man stateroom from Ogden to New York City I The strangers were John D Leantier and Dominique L Desdier mining experts ex-perts of Paris who have been looking over some properties in Choluteco Honduras They were on their way home by easy stages but when they reached Salt Lake they were met by a cable message calling them to Paris at once They leave this morning for New York and sail for Marseilles Wednesday dayAgent Agent Lang was the victim of some goodnatured joshing over his error of Judgment but he points with pride to the promptness with which he rose to through the situation and booked his customers |