Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-24

Arriving at Shady Run. after a trip full
of trials and difficulties, we were well
coined again by the merry passengers,
and few short interviews were obtained
from them.
PASSENGERS INTERVIEWED.
Professor Thomas Price, the we'll l-known
assayer appointed by the United States
Government, and who is an old resident of
San Francisco, was on the train on his
way to attend the Convention of the
United States Mint Commissioners, which
convenes in Philadelphia, in February.
Mr.. Price was quite jovisl, and said;
while our situation at present is not
the most desirable, yet the railroad peo-
pie have done everything within human
possibility to contribute to our comfort,
as far as the surrounding circumstances
will permit. Most of US do not know
how hard it has been for the company
to get provisions here, and as long as
we have plenty we have not consid-
cred the difficulties which have had to
be overcome to get it here. 1, for my
self, know that it has had to be packed
on the backs of men through fearful
snowdrifts, for distance of from four to
to six miles, aud yet we have plenty and
of the best assortment. Even turkey and
chicken and canned fruits of all kinds
have been supplied u.s."
MANAGER cooNEY TALKS.
S. P. Cooney. manager of the Boston
Howard Athep@um Company, upon being
asked as to the physical condition of his
company and other passengers, replied:
We're all in the best of health, and en-
deavoring in our own way to put in the
time to the best advantage, and think we
have succeeded. So far, of couse, l admit
that am little anxious to get out of here,
but what is the use of we folks attempting
to push the snow, as long as we are from
Boston and have all the baked beans on
board that we can eat, including brown
bread and such like delicacies? OF course
you reporters know what the latter means.
To make long story short, the railroad
company has used such strenuous endeav-
ors to free US, that they command our
highest admiration"
NO FAULT TO FIND.
]. P. Smith, San Francisco merchant; /;
D. A. Posner, representing Sidenberger &
Co., of New York; T. S. McInerny, of j. J.
Obner & Co, San Francisco and a number
of others expressed themselves in about the
same manner as did Mr.. Cooney and Mr..
Price.
All the passengers who were spoken to
were loud in their praise of Allen Towle,
the big-hearted pioneer of Towle's Station,
who knows himself what it is to be showed
in
When the train was first blockaded at
Shady Run and provisions were scarce, Mr..
ToHle, on his own account, started out ten
men on snow-shoes, supplying each from
his own house with twenty-five pounds of
provisions for the passengers.
This act the passengers will never forget.
He has also shown your correspondents
every consideration, furnishing them with
the best meals and sleeping accommoda-
tions, and at the same time refusing 10 ac-
cept any consideration for his hospitality.
THE ROTARY.
Just before your reporters had reached
Shady Run the rotary plow, backed by
half a dozen engines, was met standing
still in an immense cut.
One engine was off the track, but was
quickly replaced, and rapid progress was
being made toward Towles when we left.
Despite the warnings Of many who were
familiar with the rapidity with which the
snow drifts between Shady Run and Blue
Canyon, your correspondents and the oper-
ator, eager that the REcosD- UNION should
again be in the lead as it was yesterday,
started out east from Shady Run, at their
imminent peril. leaving all other news
paper men in the rear. The RECORD.
UNION is
NOW THE ONLY PAPER
Represented as far up as Blue Canyon, and
the copies of the paper given to the psssen-
gers both at Shady Run and Blue Canyon
were the first newspapers that had arrived
BLUE tue plochaue ueSan, anu were eagerly
grasped by the imprisoned travellers.
When the supply had gratuitously been
distributed, frequent offers of a dollar a
copy were made for the papers, while fifty
cents was offered for San Francisco jour
nails, but none could be found.
The passengers were all loud in their
praise of the enterprise of the RECORD
UEIoN. which had given the hungry read
ers the first news of the world for ten days.
AT TIE RISK OF THEIR LIVES
Your correspondents had proceeded but
half mile from Shady Run when they
saw BY dark and angry cloud and noted