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Show KRUTTSCHNin HEBE, SEES SUBMMY HD IS PLEASED Accompanied by E. K. Calvin, vice resident of the Southern Pacific COm-;m. COm-;m. Bald William Hood, chief -ni-neer, Juiins Kruttschnltt arrived on board a special train at 6:45 o VIocV; last evening He was also accompanied accom-panied to Ogden from Sparks bj Superintendent Su-perintendent T K Rowlands of the Salt Lake division Without making his usual visit to Salt Lake the Har-riman Har-riman official departed at 9 O'clock this morning over the Union Paclft' for ( ihicagO It has been almost n year since Mr Kruttschnltt v. as in Ogdn lor more than a few minutes' stay, ami his Interest In-terest centered on tins occasion In the improvements which have been ' m;u in the Harrlman property her luring tlte past twelve months. The fne-cnr special had scarcely cease. I moving after pulling Into the passen ger vards When Mr Kruttschnltt and (( lilei Engineer llooil were down ami out of the private car and off across the trac ks I "It Is a source of great satisfaction I to mo to find these improvement completed.'' said th Southern Pacific head, referring to th concrete sub j way umbrella passenger sheds and covered platform all of w hich ha". B been finished sinc he last visited Ogden. Og-den. "It must have b?en a kind Providence which kept women and children from being killed before we built this subway My blood ran cold when I used to wa;cii them troop across those tracks with all those trains moving about "What about the Rurlev-Snllne cutoff?' cut-off?' cjuostioned Mr. K mttschnitf ,n reply to the same interrogation irom one of the reporters present. "That road was largely started on public opinion, and I cannot say when it wll! per be completed, Public sentiment thought the road ouht to be built, so the Oregon Short Line started it It is about thirty miles rooi Promontory Promon-tory Point up to the old line of the (Vntral Pacific. On one side there is a beautiful desert mountain and on the other a Fait sea. so we never could see just why that road should be built." The Southern Pacific chairman was absolutely devoid of any Information or, at least, so he said eonorniiK the rumored taking over of the ac tive management of the Oregon Short Lir.e railroad by the I'nion Pacific General conditions on the Pacific coast he said, were satisfactory, although al-though the Southern Pacific could do a much larger business than It is doing at present |