| Show I I I I PIONEERS SEE FIRST TRAIN I Theodore Roosevelt in his speech in Cheyenne today said that pioneer days are arc over He should have been one of the party of news newspapermen newspapermen newspapermen that made the first trip over the Western Vestern Pacific railroad the early part of this week and he would have seen a great stretch of country where new trails are being blazed and the pioneer is emerging from mining camp and timber belt bolt to stare in wonderment at the locomotive and Pullman car When the Western Pacific special train arrived at Hayward Hayword far farup farup farup up in the Sierra Nevada mountains the men women and children of an au entire town were there to bid a welcome and in that happy group were grown up men and women who had never seen a railroad an engine or a car Old men looked on with amazement for Jor they too were viewing for the first time this strange yet welcome intrusion intrusion intrusion ion from the outside world There were wore pioneers in that group from Johnstown J who wh had gone into the mountains soon after the gold excitement ex excitement excitement in 1849 and had remained locked in the tho hills until the tho roar of tho the train and the echoing of the locomotive whistle called them back to a glimpse at civilization Theirs has bas been a Rip Van I Winkle sleep and suddenly they have opened o ened their eyes oyes to a new p world v Nothing on all that trip through a new country so impressed the tho newspaper men as the meeting with the people of Johnstown who had i driven seven miles across a country of deep canyons and most pic plc pIcturesque j 1 wildwood to witness the event of their lives j fI jIn f fIn I In that section of country the people are pioneering today as they I Idid did fifty years ago and they have bave been happy and contented seem seemingly seemingly 1 indifferent to the uproar of the metropolis beyond the mountains I They have led the simple life so long that they would shrink from the lure huc of a city finding added comfort in their homes by reason of I I having seen the struggle for existence which modern progress in inflicts in inflicts I un I |
