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Show Salt Lake Mourns Death of Harriman P.lark and white- fall in mournful folds in front of every Oregon Short Line and ITnlon Pacific, office and .station in Salt ImUo. while tho chief lies dead. It is not a forced display for a hated tyrant, but the mute tdsn of. mourning for a Ki-eat friend that today hangs somber bv cvorv door, window and desk that the genius of Harriman made possible. Draped In black, the ofilces of tho Utah LlKht and Hallway company show that here. loo. was fell the guiding1 touch of his creailve hand. Doth headquarters were dark and silent, the doom were locked, no work was done. Tho fellow-workers of the greatest railroad organizer tho world has ever known remained In their homes. In Hlleni respect for the great mind, heart and soul of Harriman. Today at 1:30 p. m, in this city, when that loved piece of wasted clay is carried car-ried ' to lis grave in tho solid rock not a wheel will move on the Harriman system, sys-tem, renching from ocean to ocean across tho continent that he laced with steel. In Ctah every train will stop, In .Salt Lake not a street car will move. While tho body of Edward II. Harriman goes to the grave the pulse of his country will stop for one minute. Then all will go on as before. He would have It go on. for so he planned it before be-fore his death. The work of a million hands will go forward along tho Hucb his brain traced out, |