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Show BABY GIRL BORN ON IJEWJIAILROAD i SALT LAKE. Aug. 26 The Incom inji WeKtern I'ac.fic passenger train which arrived In this city shortly after af-ter g o'clock this morning, carried the first baby born on the new Gould railroad. rail-road. The little one first paw the light one mile eust of Knolls station, about 100 miles west of Salt Lake, at 6.04 this morning. It is a girl, the daughter cf Mr. and Mrs C. H. Clarke of Wendover. Mr. Clarke is agent for the Western Pacific at Wendover, and had made all arrangements to bring I MrB Clarke la to St. -Mark's hospital in this city for her accouchement, but ; the fates hastened the event and the flrnt girl was born on the new Western West-ern Pacific railroad will be named Helen Gould Clarke In honor of the sister of George Gould, head of the system. There was no doctor on the train, but fortunately Mrs Carol. ne Gchm, an obstenrlclan from Sacramento, boarded the train at the California , capital en route tor Jeannette, Pa, to j visit her son. i.irs Gehm officiated at the birth aud wrapped the tiny mite of humanity in a shawl which, she claimed, she was inspired to carry with her on the train. "I debated with myself whether I ehoulr bring this little hlanket.' said Mr6. Ghm, "but the good Lord told me to bring It, and I see now why," and she showed the little girl snugly wrapped in the shawl and sleeping peacefully. The mother is doing well, and the father, who has been with the Western West-ern Pacific for five years, feels that the event is one in ht-nor of the new line, aa we.ll as for his family. |