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Show EMBASSADOR IdHJSHU 0NJJSINE8S Is a Member of Executive Committee of Salt LaKe Route. HE ALSO OWNS LOCAL REALTY Sees Big Improvement in City Darin, the Last Four Years. Menard O. Keren, United States m-baesador m-baesador to Austria, member of the executive ex-ecutive board of the Ian yedro, Los Angeles a Salt Lake Ballroad conv and superb land scepe effects. I excellent. Beautiful flower garden, in which roe of all klnda are cultivated, abound throughout the city. - Attended Coronation. "The capital la situated In a valley Mr-rounded Mr-rounded by mountalne from ten to thirty i miles d latent, and the elmeaphse 'to else and delightful. There are vral lrg eetatee, very old. situated In -the city, containing magnificent ground, which ar thrown open to th nubile, on In particular, that of rana Ferdinand, the heir-apparent to the throne of Auetrta-Hungary, Auetrta-Hungary, who reside thr whan h I In town, being especially lam and beautiful. beau-tiful. "Vienna haa a splendid water supply, th gift of th prevent emperor, th water, pur, limpid and crystal, blng carried over a magnlfleent equeduct from the mountalne." Embassador Kerens stopped over In London on hi way home from Auetrla to attend the coronation celebration, which h declared the moat stupendous end impressive im-pressive pageant he ever had witnessed. Born In Ireland. Embassador Keren waa 'horn In Ireland txty-nln year ago and waa brought to thla country whan he waa I months old. HI parent went to Jackson county, Iowa, and young Kerens lived there until the wr between th atate began In 1M1. He waa in charge of transportation with th army of Virginia on th Potomac Poto-mac in General Bank ooramand. and he Sll of th war daya with much wealth reminiscence, when drcutntneee are opportune. In las a he -was placed In charge of t ran port at Ion of the army of the frontier in northwestern Ark ansae ard th Indian Territory. Aftr th war ha eettled In Fort Smith, ran a livery atable and had a etar route contract. He waa a pony express rider through a wild Lnl Indian Infeated country. Later ha became a contractor for the transportation of the .- - ' ii eouthern overland mail. Oocne to the Coast, Thi took him - to Ran Diego In 111. and he lived there until 117. when he went to St. Louis. His career as a capitalist cap-italist began here. He bought Into the St. Louis, Iron Mountain A Southern railroad and waa one of the builder of th Cotton Belt line. With Senator Kl-kln Kl-kln and Henry Oaeaaway Davis be built several West Virginia road, dev-loped coal. coke, oil and lumber properties,' nd later did much of the development work In railroad and a terminal way In and around Lo Angel, and alao helped build the Salt Lake route. Kmbaaeador Kerens has contributed largely to the development of eeveral portion por-tion of th United State. He I director di-rector In many bank and trust com panic pa-nic a, I Intereeted In organised charity and bthr philanthropic enterprise, I on ef th leading Catholic of this conn-try conn-try and a trust ef th Cathollo unrrir-lt, OoL Bicbsrd O. Km. TTnlted State embassador to Aasttls, who Is m Salt Lak vial tor. pan, Interested In many railroads both east and went, pioneer of - ths west, former poo srpraai rider, etTil war Tstsrao, s power to b rookoned wtta la Missouri politics, sad Incidentally a mnltj-mllllonalro, Interested . ia many nterpris, and also la Salt Lak City realty, axrlred la this city today from th aast, and will spend th next faw ays ia making a dayliglit Inspection of th Salt Lak rout sad its branch. Mr. Kersna is aa Intimate frlaod of former United States Senator Thomas bans, and they ar asaoolitid ia srr-eral srr-eral stitet pilsss that look to ths np-bnildinf np-bnildinf of th wsst, ' Sees .soon after his arrival ia Salt Lake City this afternoon, Embassador Kerens ssid: ' "I left my home In St. Lonis 8tur-dsy 8tur-dsy night, and nm on my way weet to look over th Salt Lak route. I had a delightful trip oa the Wabash to Omaha and over the Union Pacific to Salt Lake City. "It ia four year aine I was here last, and must say that I find a tremendous tre-mendous improvement in the eity. The new buildings in Salt Lake City are something that tb people should be proud of. The Keara building, for example, ex-ample, would be considered aa ornament orna-ment In Kew York or tit. Louis. ' "I sm . Interested in real estate ia Salt Lake City myself, and have a special spe-cial desire to see what haa been accomplished ac-complished ia the way of buildisg and other improvements. Wo Mora, Washouts. "It is my intention to spend several day oa the Salt Lake rout. I maa to go over tb maia line aad branch by daylight, and especially do I desire to obeerve the new high line lately constructed through th Meadow valley val-ley wash canyon. I am advised by Senntor Clark asd ths operating omelals of the road that the Salt Lake route will from thla time on have a mora washout trouble. "Thi ia good new to m. Tbe old timer will per bane know that It was through my efforts principally that the Han Pedro. Lo Angeles Salt Lak railroad waa constructed. Ia other words, it was my project. " Several friends from St. Louis wr with me in the porrhaae of Terminal island, in San Pedro harbor, aad ia the construction of the Loo Angelea Terminal Ter-minal railroad, which were the predecessors prede-cessors of the Salt Lake route. "I hav aot only kept my Interests from the beginning in thi protect, hot hsvs continued to insist oa its unbuilding, unbuild-ing, snd still have, my fortune largely in this enterprise." Mr. Kerens wee aaked concerning hta post aa I'nlted Statee embassador to Auetrla. Aue-trla. On any question that might be construed to hare a dlnloi,.lic side he waa Blent. and hv refused absolutetv te take up sttch quee one aa ha aforro-an situation, the reclproettv treaty, oi other of a kindred natur?. He wa. however, high in hie praise of Austrt-t ani particularly parti-cularly of Vienna. Its beautiful capltnl. "You know, of couree." he aald. "th.:t tbe members of the diplomatic corps all over the world .re adtAortened aaau-el alving any intervl-wa. ami I. tl.er-fore. cannot consistently talk ir-out matt-rj that ape Internationally off del. or area ami -official. "I can v. However, that T nm very much pleased with th Auitrtea eptat of Vienna. It waa S.nlehe.1 see or I'M veare ago, and haa a population of !.3t.-. !.3t.-. "Th hoepltatirv. rreeimwmeaa and charm f the Auetm-H'incnrtan oeople re accentuated ev the beaHtv and par-fet par-fet gcod tsste of their environment. 1 think Vlenra I perhaps the moat beautiful beauti-ful cltv in tee world. It le without dmiM one of the most cultured and flejished rllte it he been my anad fortune tr-have tr-have aeen. it park rtm. with lake of pure crxttal water, fuuotalna, sriv . . . ..V. ' |