Show Tourists Tell Difficulty With Side Sid Trip Tickets Revelations that Salt SaIt Lake City is losing potential tourist busness business business busi bus ness because of the nuisance and difficulties of travelers in obtaining obtaining obtaining obtain obtain- ing side trip railroad privileges from Ogden wc were e made Friday as the result of a Salt Lake T Telegram legra survey The charge made by travelers Is that they the should b be able to purchase I tickets direct to Sa Salt t Lake City that on round trip tickets fr from eastern eastern east cast em ern points and western Salt Lake City should be Included in their original tickets Few understand the free side trip privileges offered by the railroads And even If exi explained ex ex- i by fellow travelers the In Inconvenience inconvenience In- In convenience and nuisance prevents their transferring at Ogden i While passengers passenger leaving San Francisco via the Southern Pacific for the east cast on first class fares are entitled to a free side from Ogden according to rap railroad road officials officials oft oft- those interviewed at Ogden and Salt Lake City b by a Telegram representative disclosed that they found lound It almost Impossible to get the side trip One Mans Man Experience It was just by chance that I was able to come down to Salt Lake City on a free side trip after arriving in Ogden via the Southern Pacific en route east said D. D W W. Headlee Plain City Ohio automobile dealer who arrived here Wednesday If Jl officials at my hotel hadn't In Informed Informed In- In formed me of a side aide trip to Salt Lake City I would no doubt have been forced to pay an extra 3 Pullman Pullman Pull Pull- man fare in addition to 75 cents for fora a side trip ticket he saidI said I 1 have heard a great deal about Salt Lal Lake e City and would have gladly paid an additional fare to come comer here he said I uI think railroad railroad rail raU- road officials should make it as easy easy as possible for passengers passengers' who are entitled to sled trips to Salt Lake Cit City Here is what Miss Lorraine Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son Colorado school chool teacher had to ta say about obtaining ining side trip tickets tick tick- eta ets from Ogden to Salt Sal Lake City w when en traveling here from San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco deco en route east I I I boarded a train in San Fran Fran- Fran Fran- cisco en rol route te to Denver via the Union Pacific system torn Ogden While en route to Ogden I decided th that t I would like to make malte a side trip to your beautiful city When I asked the conductor if It Iwas I was eligible for tor a free side trip to Salt Lake City he couldn't tell ten mo mc a single thing about trains going to Salt Lake City After asking a few que questions he told me to find out at Ogden DurIng During Dur Dur- ing kg the ride to Ogden I met a man who wa wa in Ii the railroad business and he advised me about the side trip If I h had d not been eager cager to togo togo togo go to Salt Lake City I would have been like many others not aware of ol conditions and missed seeing seeing seel see see- l ing i one of ot the mo most t delightful cities clUes In the country Miss Johnson Informed The informed The T e Telegram Telegram Tele Telegram I gram that she purchased a round roundtrip roundtrip roundtrip trip ticket from Denver Denyer via the Union Pacific to San Francisco transferring at Ogden at Ogden Meanwhile railroad officials of ot both lines Jines have announced that side trip tickets are arc available for the tho mere asking They sa say the railroad Is glad to give its passengers passenger who whoso so desire a free side trip from Ogden to Salt Lake City when when the the passengers are arc tra traveling either cither eastbound or westbound westbound westbound west west- bound via the Union South Pacific ern cm Pacific T Tells of oi Difficulties On the other hand travelers who taU fall t to request est a side trip to Salt Lake City Informed The Telegram representative at Ogden that they did not know we WB could make mak a free side trip to Salt Lake City It uIt appears t to tome me TOC said James E. E Estes a tourist who was traveling from Chicago via the thc Union Pacific to San Francisco transferring to the Southern Pacific at Ogden for forthe forthe the remainder ot the journey that railroad and Pullman shouldn't keep free side trips to Salt Lake City a secret Sure I got gotto to your magnificent city but it was a task Cooperation at the ticket window In Chicago would have made It simple to get down here 4 In UIn my opinion railroad make no attempt to to give advice on free side trips Maybe they are instructed instructed instructed in in- not notto to so travelers will travelers-will will buy tickets there therefore ore increasing railroad railroad rail- rail road oad revenues revenue l Despite what railroad officials say ay they could at least sell tickets direct to Salt SaIt Lake City Instead when you buy your ticket they say the IB train goes to Ogden and not notS S Salt alt lt Lake City If it is a free side aide trip rip the tourist should be so informed in- in I formed ormed and given the side trip tiek ticket t when he he- purchases hi his ticket |