Show c I I Plans Rapidly Reaching beaching Completion for Golden holden Spike C Celebration W l-W t i Ceremony to Mark Fiftieth Anniversary Linking East fast With West I II rIO PIONEERS ff f. f Will LL PA II lrA PATE J IN BIG fI Great Success Expected at Exercises Commemorating ing Historic Event Preparations are going forward orward rapIdly rapidly rap rap- Idly for Cor tho the celebration on May lay 10 lOot of the tho fiftieth anniversary of or tho the driving of oC the th last spike which connected the Union Pacific and Central Pacific P railroads In J 1869 1969 President Wood Woodrow row Wilson and antI Director General Walker I D D. nines limes have hem been Invited to be he present pres pres- ent Th Idea has gained In favor since the celebration was waft first proposed proposed pro pro- posed and there Is ht every ry Indication that It will be a big success An attempt may be made macJe to show In pageantry tho progress of or the tho countr country since Rince the two roads were wel connected connect No Xo more Interesting comparison can be made according to veteran railroad men than that of or the tho engines and cars of oC that time with those of oC today Man Many of oC the 1110 engines hero H p wood I burning and only three or 01 four cords I of or wood could be carried can on the engine I tender tt The huge like funnel smokestacks smokestacks smoke smoke- stacks were equipped with screens to keep down the tho sparks The average a average I speed was thirty miles an hour In i days It took three days and ami I. I nights to travel tra on tho the train from Salt Lake L' to the tho Missouri river Now the trip is 18 made In thirty six hours I The rhe cars were coupled together with I Iron pins and veteran brakemen were recognized as such by the number of fingers they had hatI lost Handbrakes wore were tho the only ones In use Today aUtomatic automatic au nu- aU- aU couplers and es have havo reduced to UC life and limb Pioneer residents of the tho state te who ho were IP present at the ceremonies which marked th the completion of ot tho the great artery of ot trade trUe which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have re refreshed ro- ro their memories of oC the event and many Interesting and ancl amusing In Incidents incidents In- In are arc being recalled Ono One veteran railway man has stated that us as the two roads came together considerable rivalry existed between en the two vo construction construction construction con con- crews ws as ns to U which would build the HIP greatest realest number of ot miles males 8 of oC road rOld within A It specified time One of ot th the roads enlisted a fl large number of r Chinese and antI Japanese and the lash Irish laborers on the other road vowed owed the they would give battle to the tho Orientals when the two roads loads came carne together Luckily Governor Leland Stanford of ot Call California Cornia had the forethought fore fore- forethought thought to bring four tour companies of ot Infantry with him thus preventing all hostilities Another pioneer resident resident ha has recalled re- re recalled re T- call called tI that there was much quaffing of oC champagne In one of or the private cars following the spike driving tIrl ceremonies cero cero- monies wh when n the two trains pulled apart It was waI In to an auspicious moment mom non nt The first ground for or the Pacific railroad was broken at Sacramento Cal and Omaha Neb on January Januar S S. S 1863 Then the race be- be tweet the th Union Pacific and Central Pacific to co cover the this greatest mileage I of or construction The rail rail ells of ot the two lines met mci nt at Promontory point on the J Borth shore west of ot Ogden on May Mav 10 1569 1 I I Each company compan had four locomotives nn on the hr ground Four companies of or I the Twenty first IT U. U I S S. Infantry were wert present with Colonel Cogswell CoIA In int command Tim The point of or junction function was t exactly 1085 1055 4 5 miles from Omaha and 60 In miles lit east cant of ot Sacramento The day dav of ot the celebration was did Salutes won were fired Circe from the tho I city hall halt and Arsenal hill hili The principal business s houses house were I Ind cloe I and antI there was a large attends attend attend- attendance once ant nt tit the ceremony s I Stanford stood with n R siler sll- sll II or er 11 maul on th the south side of or thin th I I track and Dr Durant on th the north 1 t At a given signal they drove th the eolden home Superintendent hat had the th wires of the West Vest Western Vestern ern frn Union Telegraph ph compan company PO so 11 attached nt- nt t- t I s 1 t to announce the tho blows ns as they fell rI Two hundred and twenty t w nl y guns Iun were werf Clr fired d from the batteries at San Francisco upon Instant receipt t lpt of If he the signals The golden st r spike spiken was n nn made of or twenty three twenty dollar K gold 1010 goldI I. I pieces and wa was 14 worth S 60 tin On In it I was wall engraved The last t spike Max Mav Ia I God continue c the HIP unity of the country as these railroads unite the two tWI great gra ocean nM of the tho world Omitting a brief Introduction Governor to io em or Stanford's H speech on this occasion occasion occa occa- sion slon was nH as a follows This line oCI of oC I rails connecting the Atlantic and Pa Pa- Pacific cHIC and affording to commerce anew a anew new transit will prove pro wo we trust the thc speedy forerunner of or Increased ties tics The Pacific railroad will as s soon Continued on page S S. S o 0 I i j I I t I l I I I I I I i 1 1 I I i I PIONEERS WILL Continued from flom pa page go o I. I as commerce shall hall begin beg to fully real roal- Iz Izo Us lis advantages al demonstrate the the necessity nece of or such Improvements on i I railroading so flU as HI to render practicable the transportation of or freight ht at much less rates than are aro possible under any system which has thus far tar been adopted I The dl day Is not far Car distant when three tracks will wll be found necessary to accommodate tho the commerce and travel tra which seek a transit across this continent Freight n will Ili thus move only one 1 way on each coach track and at rates rato of or orI speed that will answer the demands l lor of cheapness find and time Cars and engines ron rn- Kines ines will be bo lI light ht or Heavy accord according InS InS' InSI to the speed required and the weight ht to be transported I j In conclusion I will add that we wei I i 1 hope to do do ultimately what Is now impossible on lon long lines lInes transport transport I II coarse heavy and cheap products for Cor all distances at living rates to the tr dt On behalf of ot tho the Union Pacific rallI railroad rail rall- road General Dodge responded Gentlemen the great Benton proposed proposed pro pro- posed that some somo day n a giant statue lor of Columbus be bo erected on tho the highest I peak of or the Rocky mountains pointing westward denoting this as the tho great route acro across s the tho continent You have made that prophecy toda today a n. fact This Is ls the wa way to India One of or the tho speakers speake was th the tho Hon John Taylor Talor During the course of or his address s he said ald I can vel very well remember the time when there thero was no such thing as a railroad in exist exist- once ence I 1 ro redo rodo on the first that was over o mado made as fiS soon as aR It was com com- It was between Manchester and Liverpool England I can remember ber the time limo when there then was no gaslight gas gas- gaslight light no steamboats and no telegraphs telegraphs tele tele- graphs Among Arnon the Salt Sail Lake citizens who Were ere present at the driving of the spike f and who will participate participate pate pale In tho celebration are aIe 1 1 T V. W Last East Twenty third South street Edward It K PArr Parry Vl Wll- lam AV W Turner John r. 11 Keddington I and Robert Miller |