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Show I E E, CALVIN FAVORS THE GOLDEN I SPIKE CELEBRATION AND WILL II RECOMMEND RAILROAD AID Relics of the Old Days Will Be Brought to Ogden for Exhibit During the Rejoicing Head of Union Pacific Favors Ogden as the Place for Holding the Commemorative Ceremonies. r Frying that the (inickn Spike eel- L m 1-raMon on May lmh. b h. 11 i" moderate plan. E. E. Calvin, president. B o( tho Union Pacific and federal mrn-I mrn-I ; -r of the Union Pacific system, hi piomisod all support possible to the Hi . .or.:, v in n h- conferred this H vith .Mayor Browning and the mem- hers of the railroad i.miniH i r-, in ih H Weber club rooms. Mr. Calvin arrived in Ogden last In t vening in company with n number of i officials of the Oregon Short Line. j avinc i omr to Odcn for the special I purpose Of taking up with the coromit-j coromit-j iee the plan for the celebration nnd to Irani at first hand what had been done While tho maitT was. still in ten! l I U 1lvc form as 10 ihe general plans, after Hihe conference with Mr. Falvin it was proposed to 50 ahead with a celebra-1 celebra-1 ion that fittingly conimemor.it'- i, ibe historic event. Mr. Calvin mad" IB aQ open statement to the member3 of jH the railroad committee, and to the members of the Weber club who h.J l gathered In the reception room where . ihe meeting was held. I) Mayor Browning, who is generil m 1 bairman of the celebration committee, commit-tee, Warren Ll Wattls, chairman of ih finance committee, D. S. Spencer, chairman of the railroad committee, and the other member! oi the tail-H tail-H road committee, ll. L. Dell and W. H. Ohevers, met Mr Calvin at the club H and held a conferpnee at 10 30 this H morning. After considering the pUn:-vvhlch pUn:-vvhlch have been so far formed, an nn nouncement was made b Mr Wattle H 1 bat Mr. Calvin had come to ti-rjen ou" M of Interest in 'he Golden Spike cel. bratlon, thai the railroad official n heartily in favor of the celebration to commemorate the event that occurred In 139 when the First transcontinental railroad system whs Inaueurafed an 1 a spike of gold driven mto the binding tie. Mr. Calvin's Statement. Mr. WattiB stated that Mr Calvin would explain to the meeting his own opinions of the matter. Mr. Calvin said "It is impossible for me to say at this moment what can be done in thr way of a eelrbraMon and how far the railroad company may in th matter. mat-ter. Before I could tell jtirt. what WS can do I must take the matter up with the corporation officials of tho Union Pacific and w-lth the railroad administration. admin-istration. "We really want to find out wh;n we can do to help you In this cplebra tion, and I assure you I will do all I can lndl Idually. But the property is In the hands of the government. Which is a fact that makes it difficult for us to do as we would like to do. "'But I will say that 1 am going to propose to the corporation officials of the I'n Ion Pacific and also to thos of the Soutbern Pacific liberal action, and 1 will also take It up with the railroad administration "This is an event that we canno' afford to pass up pnliiply, but 1 ure that in making our plans you kcyp within the bounds of moderation. It I is not feasible at this time to put on a cotebration such as was planned a couple of yean ago, but we should not pprmit this historic event to go un-obsprvpd un-obsprvpd altogether. 'The railroads have some historic ihinsa thai were connected with the joining of the railroad-; which have been preserved, nnd wo shall be glad to send them out to you." During the conference with the mni-mlttee, mni-mlttee, Mr. Calvin asked if the celebration cele-bration included a feature of an BOI to be ghen at Promontory, where the spike was drhen When Informed I that it was proposed to hold ihe vvl celebration in Ogden, he approved Following the meetin:, Mr ( 'n ' . i n ' was shown over (gden and surround-1 ings b H. Whitney, general man ager of the Utah Idaho Central, fqi mr of ihe Union Pacific. Mr. Calvin Cal-vin announced that his visit In 1 '-don '-don would end this afternoon. The railroad officials who accompani 1, him here went 10 Salt Lake last nlul I 00 |
