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Show LOS ANGELES TRAIN ARRIVES. Opening of the Salt Lake Route a Complete Success. From Thursday's Salt Lake Herald. WHEN the Los Angeles train rolled into the Oregon Short Line depot de-pot in this city at 10:30 yesterday morning the opening of passenger traffic traf-fic on the Salt Lake route was complete. com-plete. Already word had arrived that the Salt Lake train had reached Los Angeles but forty minutes behind schedule time, and so the experimental trips had proved a success in both directions. di-rections. The incoming train did not arrive till 10:30, four hours lat. and the uncertainty un-certainty of the time of arrival kept many away who were anxious to welcome wel-come the first regular train. Even as it was a crowd of enthusiastic citizens were on the platform when the train j arrived. When the blowing of the ; , whistles of the Utah Light & Railway ; j plant on Fourth West street announced the arrival of the train the enthusiasm broke forth. The engine was given a hearty cheer and the engineer responded re-sponded with a good imitation of the crowing of a rooster. When the passengers pas-sengers poured forth to greet friends and relatives awaiting them on the platform or hurried forth to get a first glimpse of Zion a lively picture was presented. The enthusiasm was not dampened- even by the falling rain or the lowering clouds. Why the Train Was Late. It was estimated that there were almost al-most 300 persons aboard the train. Some had been dropped en route so that the cars were not so badly crowded crowd-ed as when the train pulled out from Los Angeles. The train was made up j of ten coaches, two more than the scheduled train and to this fact is charged the loss of time. Added to this j was the time lost in responding to the greetings of the crowds at all stations along the line, especially in California. The storm was also responsible in part for the delay, most of which was caused by a slight injury to the track at Lund. The tourists who arrived In this city on this train scattered to all the roads running east from here. One tourist sleeper was switched to the Rio Grande for the Burlington route ind left in the afternoon for Denver. Two sleepers sleep-ers went to the Union Pacific going east. A good number of persons stopped over in Salt Lake to get acquainted ac-quainted with this city. On the platform as the train rolled into Salt Lake were Kenneth C. Kerr, Superintendent II. S. Twining, C. O. Whittemore, Douglas "White and Wil- i bur F. Brock. The last named are two newspaper men from Los Angeles. These officials and writers put forth' every effort on the trip in to make everything pleasant for the passengers. . Mr. Brock on'the Trip. j Speaking of the trip Mr. Brock, who 5 is the special correspondent of the Los Angeles Times and a man who has traveled much In the west, said: "The ride up from Los Angeles on the first through train was the easiest piece of pathfindlng I ever attempted. "So far as the running of the train, i comfort of the coaches and smoothness' of roadbed la concerned the passengers would not know, but', what,' they were aboard one, of the regular' trains of an I oactorn road. And the dining car urv- ic?, which is owned and operated by the Clark line, is excellent. The first morning out from Los Angeles the single sin-gle dining car attached to the train served breakfast to seventy persons. It was the first run for the crew and the men had just been assembled. But there was not a bitch in the service and there was abundance of everything on the bill of fare. Throughout the entire journey of thirty-nine hours the passengers pas-sengers of the day coaches, of the tourist tour-ist sand of the sleepers and the patrols j of the dining car received just as good I treatment and were made as comfortable comfort-able as they could have been on any road in America. "The delay was caused by some trouble at a switch. After the passenger train had been stalled for hal fan horn a fieisjht train pulled up with power rniH materials to nut tin- passenger right, and the obstacle to prnsrress was overcome. over-come. Mor a time it jjave the officials some concern lest tie- success of th" trial trip be rr.arreil. As it was. the time made was better than that which is possible pos-sible on any of the other roads, connecting- with Los Angeles. This shows what is possible in the making of time cHnld between the i wo cities. High Tariff for Corporations. "I did not know how ions: we mipht be hung up. 1 had dispatches to file which must be in the office before 1'-o'cloek. 1'-o'cloek. so when the train war. stopped I asked the horseman of the party what it would cost me for a messenger to I, und. four miles away. One man volunteered vol-unteered to go for $!."'. and I engaged him. Then the train conductor said: "f want to notify headquarters that 1 may need some help here, and I will send a telegram with yours." It was arnaz-in: arnaz-in: how the value of that trip advanced when the horseman discovered that' the railroad needed something done. Straightway Straight-way the man who had offered to make the" ride for came up on his price to 35.00. and did not appear anxious to ride for that sum. Me quietly remarked that lie had a corner on all the horses in the locality, and it appeared that he intended to levy a tariff of all the traffic traf-fic would bear. Il was about the best illustration I have ever seen that it always costs a railroad more than it costs anyone elsje to get work performed, per-formed, especially in an emergency. Road Has Many Charms. "As to cost of construction, to the ordinary or-dinary traveler the San Pedro, Ios An-geles"& An-geles"& Salt Lake railroad does not appear ap-pear to be so expensive as the other lines from the foot of the Rockies west lo the Pacific ocean. It seems to-fid-low easy and natural grades. II traverses the deserts, which at all times of the year are full of mysteries. Its mountain landscapes' are so different from those of the other western lines taht there is something of interest in every mile to the continent-trotter who has been wheeled over the other lines so often that he dreads the journey. T: . r, on miles of tringtiiar em but: k ; . r . dykes which have hi i-n huh! , . the roadbed show the pr-e:l , , ,, , ... -have been taken against -! i ,- t : . i : , , 1 .4 floors, and are .,n a.uran-'e t--.- t .. ' ' , line between Salt Lake i'j!:, .., . ' f Pacific ocean will always - : . , that trains may he depend- I -.: I eon e very near to the S' h-., : : , j.. . I out for them." |