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Show THE RAILWAY WORLD. The Utah Central k Fort Douelas Road Now Completed Northeast Thirty Miles to Park City. 1 -1 irr v '""'' .i ' ,' . T, J. MACKINTOSH GETS A LIFT. He is Made General Freight and Passenger Agent Summer Excursions-Other Excursions-Other Eailway Notes, The Utah Central road has now been completed to Park City. Tho first regular reg-ular train will probably bo. put on next Thursday. An excursion party will go to Park City some time during the week. Mr. Mnckliitonh' rromotlon. . Old residents of Salt Eake City -will take pride iu the promotion of a Utah boy, Mr. T. J. Slackiutosh, to the important im-portant position of general freight and i passenger agent jol a strictly Utah railway, rail-way, the Utah Central & Fort Douglas. Tho railroad experience of Mr. Mackintosh Mackin-tosh covers a period of nearly eighteen ycaas, beginning August 2nd, 1872, when he served in the capacity of junior clerk at Ogden station on the old Utah Central Cen-tral railroad, tho i pioneer lino of this territory.. At the expiration of three months he was appointed to the responsible respon-sible position of cashier of the station. On May 7th of tho following year Mr. Mackintosh was appointed agent of tho terminus of tho Utah Southern, then at Lehi, Utah county, aud acted as terminal ter-minal agent until, tlio line was completed com-pleted to York. In the fall of 1875 he was made chief clerk of tho general freight and passenger ollicc at Salt Lake. In 1379 aud W80 henyas' general "agent Salt Lake staliou.j 'during the absence ab-sence of the late Francis Cohe iu Europe. Thereafter ' Mr. Mackintosh Mackin-tosh resumed the position of chief clerk, which office ho held ntil Dec 1st, 1889, when he assumed the chief clerkship of the general freight and passenger office of tho Union Pacific. His eighteen years of railroading have brought hiin the widest and most valuable experience, exper-ience, for while agent at Salt Lake station sta-tion his duties included those of traiu-dispateher, traiu-dispateher, having entire control of movement of all trains between Ogden and Juab, a distance'of 142 miles, and as chief clerk of the general freight and passeuger office of the Utah Central his duties embraced those, of cashier and freight and ticket auditor. His career coers dl the practical workings of a railroad and renders him admirably . fitted for the new position to which he has been called. As general freight and passenger passen-ger agent of tho Utah Ceutral & Fort Douglas railroad he will have the best wishes of his hundreds of old friends, together with those of Salt Lake people generally, which latter realize the immediate im-mediate and lasting benefits arising from such direct connection with Park City, the most important mining center in tho territory. Cheap Traveling. The Union Pacific on April 12th will put into effect a rateof $31.50 first-class limited to tho Missouri, river, SoO.50 to Chicago and $30.0.i to St. Louis. All Union Pacific trains are running on regular schedule. Summer Excursions. The Union Pacific and other roads running into Utah will run ''home seekers'" seek-ers'" excursions to the territory this summer. One faro for the round trip will be made. Tho west bound excursion excur-sion will leave the Missouri river points on tho following dates: April 22. May 20, September 9 aud 28, October 14. |
