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Show E H. HARRIMAN ENJOYING THE BEST OF HEALTH Head of the Great Harriman System of Railroads Arrives From the Coast and Talks Freely With a Representative of This Paper Says Ogden Will Receive Its Full Share of Improvement Work. r y s i - last night and this afternoon, with Superintendent Whitney, left with tne Harriman special for, the oast on its arrival from tho capital city. I Back From Salt Lake. ! The Harriman special Irom Salt Lake returned: to Ogden at 1:45 this afternoon, tho distinguished visitors j to the capital city cutting out much of the elaborate progTam arranged lor i Mr. Harriman by tho denizens of tho j capital. After the special had been ' thoroughly inspected by local em- ! pioyes. the train proceeded east on a j fast schedule with a light-or-way over all trains between Ogden ana Omaha. . Harriman In Salt Lake. Salt Lake City. March 2'J E. 11. I Harriman arrived hero today on his , ; special train, en route to Now York, j and spent several hours in this city j 1 as the guest of the Commercial club, i at whose rooms an informal reception : w as held. Mr. .Harriman wa3 Joined here by General Manager Mohler ot I tho Union Pacific. In a brief address at the Commercial Commer-cial club, Mr. Harriman said that, in traveling across the continent, he haa observed the growth of a more popular popu-lar sentiment towards railway corpor- i atlons. From here Mr. Harriman and party will go to Denver. ' President E. II, Harriman and a party of personal friends and prominent prom-inent railroad . officials arrived from the west on a special train over tho Southern Pacific at 9:15 this morning and a few minutes later tho special left for Salt Lake where the visitors remained a short time before- returning return-ing to Ogden en route to New York City over the Union Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern and New York Central roads. A few minutes after the special rolled roll-ed into the Ogden depot from the west, President Harriman emerged from his private car ensconced in a heavy overcoat buttoned from his chlu to his ankles and a moment later he grasped Depot Master Shields by the hand. Inquired If this was the best weather j Utah could serve at this season of the I year and asked if the newspaper men were on hand to apply tho inquisitorial art for the benefit of the public. Mr. Harriman was active. In splendid humor and evidenced a greatly improved improv-ed condition over that noticeable during dur-ing his last visit to Ogden several months ago. His color was good, his eyes sparkling and' be was talkative, pleasant, genial and almost humorous at times Repl)lng to queries submitted, tho small, delicate-appearing, and yet all powerful railroad magnate, said: "My general health during the present pres-ent trip through the Southwest and on the coast has improved wonderfully and I am feeling better physically thau for a long time. I have been largely free from exacting cares and have mot with a kindly and cordial reception everywhere we have stopped. I am not in the Invalid class In any souse of the term and now fel equal to anything which may arise In connection with our railroad Interests. In such a. condition. con-dition. I am not Ukely to retire from active railroad sorvlco for a long time to come. "We are going down to Salt Lake as the result, of a promise I made last year to visit that city on my next trip west, but wc will only remain there two or three hours, as I am anxious to return to New York as early as possible. pos-sible. "From a railroad point of lew, I found ever thing in admirable shape on the coast, and really no changes of an Important nature In railroad management man-agement are contemplated at this time. Business is being handled satisfactorily sat-isfactorily on all lines in the transcontinental trans-continental system and traffic will increase in-crease from this time on and there are no reasons for radical changes any-t any-t where at present. "No, there Is no Important new work mapped out in the -West at present, but Improvements and enlargements already approved will be carried to completion without unnecessary unneces-sary delay during this year and that In Itself will keep every department depart-ment pretty well engaged Ogden has bfen trcatel fairly generous In every way and will gei its proportion of the large appropriations already made for such improvements a. are necessary or requisite. "We traveled alonsr from Sparks yesterday so as to reach the cut-ort in daylight thU morning, as 1 was anxious to crops the lake at a tlmo when I could inspect conditions there. Everything Is In good shape thero una no trouble of a serious nature is even apprehended by those In authcilty." Hero the llttie big man glanced casually cas-ually at the great viaduct across Twenty-fourth street, over toe big yards, at the large machine snop plaut i.nd around the band?o:ne Union depot, de-pot, and then he wandered across the piatform. shook hands with several lecal railroad olllcials, two big OgJu lollcemen and stepped on board ins private car, while the tralu pulled out for the south. Accompanying Mr. Harriman In his car were Dr. Dixon and his wile. Mrs. Goek'l and two daughters, .Miss liar-riinan liar-riinan and a retinue of servants. Among the railroad officials who armed ar-med on the Harriman special were General Manager Calvin of the Southern South-ern Pacific; General Manager Man-croft. Man-croft. General Superintendent Davis nnd Chief Engineer Ash ton of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line; Superintendent Man-ton. Man-ton. Resident Engineer Fitzgerald and Master Mecnanlc Malone of Ogden. General Manager Mohler of the Union Un-ion Pacific road arrived from Omana |