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Show SOUTHERN PACIFIC PARTY ENTHUSIASTIC g S5 g $ &S RAILWAY MEN SPEAK WELL OF SALT LAKE Top, left to right, Gus H. Vogel, Buffalo; J. A. Blaser, Boston; L. B. Banks, St. Louis; J. S. Rampacher, Pliila- I dclphia; W. H. Steeu, Birmingham; George B. Brown, Boston; L. F. McFarland, Kansas City; H. F. Staake, Pitts- j burg; J. M. Mauden, St. Louis; Thomas Ashton, New York; G. H. Slebert, Cincinnati. Middle, John Kiphaut, Mrs. Kiphaut, Mrs. Anderson, W. F. Anderson, New York. Front, C. L. McFaul and J. Warren Tucker, Jr., Salt Lake. 'I ' " n N l : -, i i ' ' " I li- Agents Predict Exceptionally Exceptional-ly Heavy Travel Westward West-ward This Year. p ALT LAKK ( ' FT V is the ureat-est ureat-est place we have visited on ij the trip. ' ' Thirteen eastern representatives represen-tatives of the Southern Pacific, form iujr the first of the company's educational educa-tional parties to reach here, enthusiastically enthusias-tically announced before leaving yesterday yes-terday afternoon that Salt Lake was the most attractive city from every viewpoint that it had been their pleasure pleas-ure to visit on the transcontinental journey. ! About a month ago the gflneral pas-: sender officials of the Southern Pa-1 ctfic announced that the company had arranged to send its ' passenger repre-j sentatives, in small groups, on a circle; tour of the United States for ednca- j tional purposes. The, object of the plan j was to make the men who come in contact con-tact v.Hh the traveling publie familiar I with the. interesting points and the ho-1 tel fai ilities throughout the country, I 30 that accurate and timely information might be furnished the patrons of its lines. , , In accordance with former information informa-tion ('. L. McKaul, district freight, and passenger agent ot' the Hout hern Pacific, Pa-cific, went to the train yesterday morning morn-ing prepared to handle a party of four or five persons. When thirteen Southern South-ern Pacific men, two of whom were accompanied ac-companied by their wives, lined up on the platform .Mr. McKaul was compelled to make a lightning- change in his plans. Instead of a limousine as a sightseeing conveyance, he chartered one of the big cars of the sichtsooing compauy. Interest Delayed Them. A trip around the town, including n visit to temple square was followed by a bimdieon at the Wilson cafe. Then Mr. McFaul took liis guests to tlic Southern Pacific offices and delivered that part of his "See America First" lecture pertaining to Salt Lake and Utah, adding a few flights of rhetoric for guod measure. He talked so forcefully force-fully and at such length on Salt Lake as a tonrift center that everybody forgot, for-got, to look at the clock until the visitors vis-itors had been due out of town fulsome ful-some thirty minutes. There was move or less dismay, not that the visitors were particularly desirous of leaving Salt Lake, hut because 0. S. Fee, passenger pas-senger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific, had designated that the party was to arrive in San Francisco todav and that he would be on hand to welcome wel-come them. What appeared to be a serious predicament was soon settled, however, when Mr. McFaul announced that a train leaving here at 3:2o instead in-stead of 2:2.i would connect with the proper train at Ogden. Mr. McFaul accompanied the party from here as far as Montello, Xev.. where it will be met by one of the coast representatives of the company and piloted safely to San Francisco. Heavy Travel Predicted. All of the visitors reported that inquiries in-quiries received so far indicate an un-usuallv un-usuallv heavv tourist travel, through the west during 1916. The visitors to the-west last year, it was declared, were the best advertising mediums the western west-ern count rv ever had. Alreaiky they have spread among their friends the story of the interesting points in the west, and those friends are now forming form-ing parties for a tour of this section during the coming summer. "You would be surprised," declared one of the Boston representatives, "to know how many persons in New Kng-land Kng-land are interested in Salt Lake. Of course, about all they know about the citv, unless thev have talked to friends who have been here, is the peculiar part it has played in history. Most of them know little more about Salt Lake than that there is a temple and a tabernacle tab-ernacle of unusual interest, and that is about all thev have expected to see. The folders sent out by the Salt Lake I itv Passenger association have done a great deal to spread information regarding re-garding the city, but now that I have been here I can talk intelligently about manv things that, have not been mentioned men-tioned in any advertising literature." South Is Represented. Probably the heaviest prospective travel through the west during 19 lli was reported by the southern representatives. representa-tives. The south was heavily represented repre-sented among last vcst's visitors to Salt Lake, and their reports have great-Iv great-Iv increased interest in this section. A I read v, it was reported by Mr. Steen ot Birmingham and Mr. Mauden of St. Louis, five big touring parties hnvio been organized for the coming summer, and a long stop nt Salt Lake, is included iu the itinerary of each. .Mr. McFaul. in his talk to the vis-iters, vis-iters, impressed upon them that the majority ma-jority of the tourist agencies were not allowing sufficient time here to see all that is to be seen. He urged that the eastern representatives of the company go on record at every opportunity as favoring a stop of nut less than three davs iu Salt Lake. S'esterdn v 's partv included Mr. and .Mrs. V. F.' Anderson and, Mr. and Mrs. John Kiphaut, New York; George II. Siebert, ('incinnati; Thomas Ashton, New York: J. M. Mauden, St. Louis; H. F. Starke, Pittsburg; L. F. McFarland, McFar-land, Kansas city; John A. Plascr and George H. Brown'. Boston; W. H. Steen, BinninL'hum, Ala.; J. S. Rampachrr, Philadelphia; L. B. Banks, St. Louis; G. H. Yngel. Buffalo. The scond Southern Pacific educational educa-tional partv. composed of representatives representa-tives from the Pacific coast, is scheduled sched-uled to arrive here January .11. anil the third, also composed of 'Pacific, coast men. is due here February 7. |