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Show AT T II E SEAT0F WAIL The City Railroad En;eg ia Picket Duty end Acquits Itself of Bom Thrilling Kuiieuveri. TBS TB1FSIT LAIS VEIiT LOW. The ''War Correspondents" and a Troop of Duputias Watch tb MovsmenU 'fill Eurly Morning. Manoeuvers on the part of the Salt Lake City railroad tiiat began at midnight mid-night gave to the horizon of war a somewhat some-what threateuing aspect. Immediately at the close of the run the company began be-gan the mobilization of its men and roiling stock on the strip in dUpute aud when the coup was completed the track extending from Main to West Temple on Second South was occupied by twenty-one cars with a total crew of about ufty. A rumor spread rapidly that hostilities hostil-ities were to be reopened and a large crowd of spectators began to gather.The atmosphere was crisp almost cold but the loungers were content to shiver so long as there was a prospect of war. About 1 o'clock Superintendent Head drove up in his horso aud buggy and cast bis eye hastily up and down the line. The pickets w ere all ou duty aud underneath the balcony in front of the Johnson Remington building lurked a number .of men from whose bosom a atar occasionally Mashed. It was surmised sur-mised that they were "specials" from some department but they held their own counsel while the loungers took care of theirs. Then arrived Mr. Arnold Ar-nold who invoiced the situation hastily and then withdrew while his animal pawed the earth in front of Walker Itros. Occasionally a policeman in the patrol of bis beat passed down the thoroughfare, looked inquiringly at the train of cars that were plying from east to west along the line of dispute and wondered at the tactics of mudern war. Sherill' Hurt peered around the corner, cor-ner, glanced at the spectacle that changed with the glare and ebb of the electric bulb and satisfying himself that there was scarcely auy danger of bloodshed blood-shed moved back towards his tent. In the meantime the conductors and motor-men motor-men were having a picnic. Trollies swished to and fro in a bright trail of electricity and headlights alternated according to the policy of the next move. "The man across the way" raised his window aud a spectre-ltke figure leaned forth to see what ou earth w as taking place. These protective manoeuvers were rotting dome money. There were at least titty men in charge of the cars who were drawing extra pay for an extra shift while the troop of "specials" were not standing iu the shadow of the awning awn-ing for their health. These movements that began shortly after 11 o'clock when the rolling atock in times of peace should have been speeding over its iron trail to the round house were kept up until morning, one by one the spectators withdrawing and leaving the field to the army that waited patiently for tbe tattoo aud the close of tfco shut. |