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Show liistho celedhates its 70th bjrthday Rock Island Board Chairman Chair-man PulU Throttle for Special Tain Commemo- . rating First Run to Joliet SCORES OF CITIES CELEBRATE EVENT Annirersaiy Run. Carries Illinois Il-linois Woman Who Was . Passenger on First Train Out of the Windy City CHICAGO. Oct. 1 (Br A. P.) A sns-els sns-els I train rolled out of the Laftalle tnwt elation this morning Just sey-ijr sey-ijr year after the "flret run" te Juliet, III, on the Chicago. Rock Island Pacific railroad. At the throttle ni C'harlea Harden, chairman of the board of directors of the Hock Inland. The reenactment of the flret run from Chicago to Juliet waa part at Um rall-road rall-road eompnny'e celebration of seventy yeare' service. The principal parte of the ohaervance took place In Chicago and Joliet. but the anniversary wae aleo commemorated In apeclal cere M,uni-e in icnn-i or ciiiea and namleta slnng the Rock laland'a 1000 miles of rnllTheinierlcan flea; waa hung from the homes of Rnrk Island employes em-ployes throughout the West. U. P. OFFICIALS ON TRAIN. Aboard th. train waa President J. E. Gorman of the Rock Island, other offl. clala of the road, Including the directors, direc-tors, offlclala of the tTnlon Pacific, and Mrs. W. W. Stevens of Hubbard Woorta, III., who waa a paaaenger on that flrat mi" " th tint Unk ' ,h y,t,nl At Joliet. on the courthouse lawn, near the railroad elation, the officials were to take part In the dedication of a boulder monument to the late Sam-uel Sam-uel Benedict Reed, civil engineer, who surveyed the Rock laland'a original line which was the flret to resch and bridge the Mississippi river. The monument was furnished by the Union Pacific, which Mr. Reed served as superintendent superinten-dent of construction. MEMORIAL TREKS .PLANTID. In eenrea of eltlea throughout the ' Weat and Middle Weet. tree plantings I were to take place In the honor of deceased de-ceased employes of the roed. The rere-monlaa rere-monlaa were to be In charge of local oommltteea and were to be exactly the same whether In memory of former preeldent or section hsnd of the road. History of the Rock Island the hla-tory hla-tory of railroads of the preaence and vanishing of Indiana, buffaloee, atage coaches and unpeopled prairies, the coming of transcontinental rallroada, and teeming lnduatrlal and ssrlrultiiraL communities, th gigantic engineering worka of bridging and tunneling, were to be recounted by the speakers at the raiioua exeroleea. After th. return to Chicago of th. official party a luncheon for pensioned employes who served th. road fifty yeare or mora waa to be held and bronsa medala presented to them. Similar Simi-lar medala were to be given to fifty, year employee atlll In the eervlce. In the evening meetlnga were to be held In varloua rltlea and towns along the Rock Island llnea and from Chicago Chi-cago a radio program waa to be broadcast broad-cast to the road'a employes. |