Show HANDLING THE TRAFfIC Interesting Scenes In the Rio Grande Yards ALL KINDS OF CARS ARRIVE Pullmans of Latest and Oldest Designs De-signs Sidetracks Filled With i Them Twentyone Specials Added Yesterday Some Very Elegant TrainsCars Stocked Iced and I Cleaned HereThe Excellent Work i of Railroad Staff in Taking Care of Great Volume of Traffic > i Some railroading us noticed at the I Bio Grande Western suitlon ypsterday S To a railroad man U was ubont as interesting in-teresting and active a scene as could to desired Overnight the yard had received re-ceived dozens of trains and to these I twentyone long trains were added yesterday j I terday and last night The empty freight cars had been shunted to North Salt Lake and the yard tracks were I taken up by Pullman and other equipment equip-ment As far as the eye could reach I a train of sleepers could be Been Dotted j Dot-ted here and there was the bright yellow yel-low of the Burlington the poppy color of the Northwestern the red oC the Pennsyhania the blue of the old Baltimore Bal-timore Ohio and the everchanging hues of the Pullman cars denoting years of servke Here was the Olympia Olym-pia for Instance which was shown at tho Worlds fair as the model Pullman 1 Pull-man car there was the Corsair which S was probably used Just after the war Next to an elegan empire deck oval colored windowed broadvestibuled car from the Hmitel runs was a sleeper sleep-er with little squar windows and the plush and the frills which one remembers remem-bers on the first overland trip They came from all parts of the country and their porters met In the yards and formed an anny the Pullman darkS dark-S brigade S Of course It was impossible to findS find-S out when certain sections would arrive but barring the inevitable chaos InS In-S this rcsptftt the Immense volume of t traffic Was handled well The Rio Grande Westerns general passenger olllce and city ticket olllce were open all day Mr Helirz was alno on hand at the office and at the station His assistants were likewise stationed at the station and everything possible was done to move things along briskly At 4 p m a Tribune man counted 163 foreign cars In the yard and then decided de-cided to get the true count from the car accountant at some future day I Then at 515 p in trains came in all 5 In a bunch five solid sections oC Ep I worth Leaguers fiftyfour cars and I the Park City and Sanpete trains TRACKS FILLED WiTH CARS The last two trains had to stop at the icehouse to let off their passengers as the tracks near the station were filled The regular No5 pulled out at C20 for Ogden but the four other sections were at once sidetracked to allow the occupants to come up town All together there were twentyone sections of westbound Epworth League trains yesterday and last night and today the traffic continues Onc Idlngrom ThIrd toSlxth South was solidly filled with cars It was S next to the main track and when the Bun got low a cooling shadow was thrown along the main track The occupants oc-cupants of the cars got their campstools camp-stools and planted them In this cool I shadow when along came the first of the 5io 1 p m trains There was a S scampering of men and women and they had to wait half an hour before they could leave their cars again asS as-S the trains kept rushing by S STOCKED CARS HERE S Superintendent Baker cf the Pullman service was busy with his men looking after the car stocks Thousands of pieces of linen had to be sent to the laundry and the commlssary had to be S looked after One swell diningcar of a seemingly wealthy train from the Pennsylvania road ordered 100 worth of meats and provisions from one SaltS Salt-S Lake firm All the cars had to be stocked Butcher carts grocery wag ons vans ice cream wagons buses buggies hacks and transfers added to the busy scene and the street cars did not have half enough cars to care for S the crowd which was augmented by an unusual local traffic on the Western West-ern and to Saltair CARCLEANERS BUSY And Uncle George Rutherford the veteran carcleaner and his lively force made a record during the afternoon after-noon They shot compressed air Into S plush squirted water on the outside S of cars swept dusted and washed Then the tanks had to be filled with fresh water the washstand tanks and the drinkingwater tanks two in each end of a car The icehouse was popu lar and dozens of tons of Ice were hauled to the cars To avoid accidents no switching was done In the yards except that which was absolutely I necessary The main track the Y and the west freight track were kept I clear all the time to allow trains passage but all the other tracks S were given to the Pullman cars City r policemen and Rio Grande Western agents patrolled the station and grounds to prevent thieving and any trouble Extra men were put on to S help In the baggageroom ticket office and at the roundhouse Agent C R Aley was personally on the ground all day looking after the station and its wQrk ROUNDHOUSE WAS EMPTY The roundhouse was practically S empty and so were the tracks for local l extra cars all being In service One special train was pulled in by 703 one of the big freight engines This train had fourteen cars All In all it wati a mighty busy scene and the way the Immense volume of 5 traffic as ban lied reflects credit upon S General Superintendent Wclby and the men of the operating department gen erally J Mr Wclby Is i at Grand Junc UonjAnd Mr Miller is at Helper both engaged in pushing the trains on TRAINMEN ARE TIRED S And the trainmen arc tired Some of the boys have been sitting In the cab shoveling coal punching tickets or looking after the hind end for forty eight hours but they aro loyally itself and when their road has scooped the big business they are willing to work extra shift One of them was asked If he was going back to Grand Junc tion and he replied Yes if there are any more Christians coming |