The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-31
THE CHICAGO LIMITED.
1t Met With Ovations and is a Gratifying
Success.

CHICAGO, May 25.-I Special correspond
ence to The HERALD. The magnificent
Chicago Limited train, inaugurated by the
Rio Grande Western, has just completed
its initial run, reaching it's destination a
little behind schedule time owing to the
soft condition OF the road-bed at point
along the recently flooded districts.
A host of newspaper reporters and sew
eral railroad officials were at the depot to
welcome the arrival of the party occupy
ing General Dodge's private car.
AS General Passenger Agent Bennett re-
marked last Sunday evening. when the
train pulled out of the Salt Lake depot,
this Is UTAH TRAIN"
and 1t has meant from beginning to end q
great deal for Utah.
1t is little wonder that the nine coaches,
constituting, with the leviathan ten
wheeler engine, the Chicago Limited on
its conspicuous first run should be crowded
with passengers in every part. And there
will be even less occasion for wonder if
this new service shall succeed in
capturing very large portion
OF all the east bound passenger traffic
from California, Utah and Colorado. For
luis
new schedule, passengers can take in all
the gorgeous scenery through Utah and
colorado without sacrificing an hour of
time, compared with the heretofore fast
est service over the desert and plain.
How truly this is realized may be deter
mined from the schedule of the new Chi
cago Limited, which makes an absolute
REDUCTION OF TwENTY-FoUR HOURS
in the running time between Ogden and
Chicago. How impossible it would have
seemed short time ago, for this distance
to have been covered in the remarkable
time of sixty hours; taking in the princ1-
pal intervening cities and nearly all of the
Incompatible scenery of the Rockies. What
makes the service of the new fast train
doubly enjoyable, is the fact that most
OF those superb panoramas of nature which
have long since given the Rio Grande the
undisputed title of ''the Scenic Routen-
the picturesque and verdaut valleys. the
cascaded caflons and snow-capped peaks
is passed through during daylight, and the
otherwise Indifferent traveller is inyolun-
tarily filled with delight and enthusiasm
and instead of wearying for the time to
pass and destination to be reached he finds
constant diversion OF pleasant surprises
at every turn, watches darkness enshroud
the matchless beauties of nature with a
feeling of regret that night comes at all.
When the fact becomes generally known
that one can leave Salt Lake at the CON
venient hour of 9:25 in the morning by this
delightful route, and take timely break
fast In Chicago on the morning of the third
day, there will be no more narrowing
thoughts of what novels are most effect
lively calculated to produce daytime wake
fitness and there will be an end of feeling
porters for pillow beds for day service.
THE CHICAGO LIMITED
is made up at Ogden. 1t left that city last
Sunday evening on its first run at S:15.
At Salt Lake it took on General Dodge's
private car ''A'' and goodly number of
passengers. Car ga" was handsomely
provided with conveniences and means of
entertainment for the press representatives
and railroad officials.
1t is complimentary deservedly SO to the
enterprising officials who inaugurated the
Chicago limited service that the time
schedule was adhered to so closely that
scarcely a minute of disparity was en-
countered between the printed and actual
running time until the flooded districts
were reached.
AT nearly every town along the line
crodws of people throDged the platforms,
and the personnel of car cap was aug
mented by fresh contingent of newspa-
per men. General Passenger Agent Ben
HS'S' 1aHI 0oherdl manager u.
Z. Smith and the general passen-
ger agent of the Colorado Midland
Mr.. G. s. Lee, devoted themselves heroic
ally to the entertainment and comforts of
the press representatives from start to
finish, and in this delightful Ito the press
representstives) labor they were efficiently
assisted by the other officials.
AT GRAND JUNCTION
the train passed onto the rails OF the Colo
RADIO Midland, and Mr. @. S. Lee at once
became the thigh mogur' of the party.
The Midland, besides giving the travelling
public the appreciable advantage of a
standard gauge through the awfully pic
turesque mountain submits, and a more
direct and speedy connection with the At
lantic slope of the Rockies, sacrifices
nothing of the grandeur of seen
cry which the Denver & Rio Grande
traverses, but rather does it af
ford wider variety of scene
and more magnificent panorama.
The reception at places along the line
amounted to ovatlons, which expressed
not alone welcome and good cheer for the
railroad officials and newspaper contingent
but manifested an enthusiastic apnreciaN
ton Of the unprecedented service which
the Chicago Limited had commenced.
1T MEANS MUCH FOR UTAH
and Colorado, independent Of the conyen-
fence afforded through tourists; and il
means much for the roads and their inter
ests Every convenience inaugurated for
the benefit of the travelling public rebounds
ten-fold to the profit and benefit of the en-
terprising projectors. The Santa re road
was connected with at Leadville. where
also, much to the regret of the party. the
interchangeable Mr.. Bennett was aide
tracked Tor Denver, as were also Mr..
Welby, MIR. Babcock and others.
The ride through Kansas over the Santa
F'e was revelation to the passen-
gers. 1t traverses the most desir-
able and inviting portions of the