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Show ! TRAINS ON TIME. One of the papers has a wit who finds rich humor in nearly ev-erything. ev-erything. Even the late arrival of trains is turned into a joke as follows: "When informed by the station master that the :4o train was ' 'pretty much on time,' I took a walk and made it easily at 10:15." H) Up to the time E. H. Harriman became the directing mind m Tjnion Pacific and Southern Pacific, trains1 regularly were marked up on time and invariably were from half an hour to five hours late. 1 The old Central Pacific, from Ogden to San Francisco, seldom had a 1 train on time. The snow sheds were on fire or under snow, a bridge was washed out along the Iiumboldt, or, going west, the Union Pa-dfic Pa-dfic failed to connect on time. When Harriman took charge all lhat irregularity was changed and passenger and mail trains began . to arrive as though there was something to the old story that the H ; -Government inflicted n fine whenever a mail, train was late. |