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Show BEST OF NEW CARS FOR OGDEN STREETS According to Nick LcGrand, the genial representative of the St Louis Car company, who was entertained at tbe Weber club last evening by Manager Man-ager Bailey, of tho Ogden Rapid ran-sit ran-sit company and Charles Barton of the Ovden Savings bank. Ogden is to have tho finest new street cars that money can buy. "The cars Mr- Bailey has purchased for the local interurban service," said Mr. LeGrande. "are I he equal of anything any-thing this side of Kansas City and will cost lu the neighborhood of 7. 500 each.. Three of them are passenger-smoker combination cars with toilets, toi-lets, push buttons, air and emergency hand brakes, headlights, steel bottoms, bot-toms, Pullman coach roof, etc., and will accommodate forty-eight people with seats. These coaches are forty six feet long, over eight feet wide and are fitted with big six-foot platforms plat-forms The exteriors are In Pullman green, while the Interiors will be finished fin-ished in quarter-sawed oak." "In addition to these coaches, the Rapid Transit company had purchased two city cars, a combination passenger passeng-er and baggage car and a $7.00 electric elec-tric locomotive built especially for the local freight traffic. Mr. Bailey has used rare good Judgment In selecting the very best rolling stock obtainable. The people of Ogden will surely be delighted with the accommodations I'rovlded for them." Mr. LcGrand will conclude his visit to the city tomorrow. |