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Show ITOURISTS INT TO LEE GOAST I Thousands Held in San Fran-i Fran-i cisco for Lack of Accommodations Accom-modations on Trains ' That CO, 000 people In San Francisco arc fighting foi: reservation on east-bound east-bound trains, is the stalonient made today at the depot master's offices at tho union depot. Easterners who have spent the winter on the west const are reported to bo clamoring for reservations. An extra section of S. P. train No. 2 was recently put into operation but cannot begin to handle the overflow, it was stated A record was established In Ogdcn Monday when 4 SO passcner cars, express ex-press cars and sleepers passed (through the local yards between midnight mid-night Sunday and Monday nt 9 30 lAn average of 30 passengers was on ;cach car. making approximately 13,600 people passing through this city on that day. The majority of this traffic was to the east, It was stated. The second section of train No. 2, which was recently put into operation to accommodate overflow traffic, had fifteen cars on this day and carried approximately -150 passengers. Four extra cars on Southern Pacific Paci-fic trains from the west and on trains arriving over the Salt Lake Route from Los Angeles hn'e been added to the normal equipment, It Is said. Local railroad men say that traffic Is unprecedented this spring, records for heavy traffic for other years bc Ing loft far to the rear of present conditions. j Reports from San Francisco are that all reservations on train No. 2, both sections, have been reserved until un-til after June 15, with prospects that many will wait even longer for reservations. |