The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10
EN- ROUTE.
NOTES ON THE WAY TO THE MID
WINTER FAIR.
ON the Land ana ON the sea-KeIIy's
Chase in PocatelIo-DuIi in the
Northyyest-The Fair.

San Francisco, Dec There are
very many readers of The Herald who
would like to visit the Midwinter fair,
but who object to paying the present
railroad rate of 4 cents per mile. Some
of them will come, even if the present
rate be maintained, while others will
stay at home unless it shall be mater.
tally reduced. Nearly all these people
regard the Southern Pacific as the only
feasible route and believe that it has
what the poet calls the dead mortal
cinch on travel between Utah and Cali
fornia. They therefore expect either
to pay high transportation charges or
stay away from the fair.
But the Union Pacific accords Utah
people a competing line to San Francis
co and it can carry passengers there
as cheaply as it can to Chicago, and it
made the round-trip rate to the Column
ban exposition S36.75. The reasonable
presumption is that the railroad quit
the game winner. Therefore 1t seems
probable that it will make a reduced
rate from Omaha to San Francisco and
that Utah must share in the benefits
of that concession.
This route lies over the Oregon Short
Line to Portland, Ore, and thence by
steamer The railroad end is much
like all others. and, as the girl declares
herself in the song. not so very good
and not so very bad. The trainmen are
courteous though the time is rather
slow. But l found the ocean trip most
delightful The briny pillows were on
their good behavior and not at all dis
posed to be fresh.
The person possessed of naughty
spirit and who is a holy terror at home
Nv y r
ted by taking a steamer trip. 1t will
improve him to learn how to be inso-
lent in polite manner, though it may
be necessary to break his neck in the
teaching of the art. Uncle Noah seems
to have been the only skipper who did
not view his passengers with suspicion
from the time they went on board.
ted Milt has to have passengers who
know how to sail the boat for him).
Once the purser hands you your tick
ct YOU are expected to keep it red hot
yanking it from your pocket at the de-
mand of every member of the crew.
Maybe they want to know whether or
not the purser understands his bust
ness. You are assigned d certain num-
bered chair at table, which insures it's
being reserved for you. But when the
sea is very rough you may be willing
to yield that chair to your worst enc
my. Once you have learned to show
your ticket the steenth time as pa
tiently as you would your tongue to
the doctor, the haZing process seems to
be ended. You are then regarded as
man and brother and treated accord
ingly- The foregoing does not apply
to the passenger who happens to be a
woman, as no man has the courage to
try to boss her away from home At
home she may be the willing slave, but
w, csI0 f,-oxr lie oil
fees at her approach or cunningly
obeys her, while the smile which he re-
| ceiveS for his servility is not one of
gratitude but of triumph.
The building of the Oregon Short
Line has brought about many and
great Improvements in the valleys of
the Snake. Boise. Payette and Weiser,
though the Utonian does not need to &c
away from home in order to find lands
/ just as fruitful. In his case the en-
chantment of those fields is all due to
distance, and they do seem to be a
long distance from anywhere. The
embers of the burning trail left by
your councilmanic -proofers last
spring are yet smouldering there. The
story of Kelly's hot chase after the
fading train is the admiration of every
Pocatello kid, and it does not take
second place even with Sheridan's ride
Portland now has population OF
$4,000 and has put on decidedly metro
politan airs. In spite of her disad-
vantages, mainly due to nee near
proximity of Seattle and Tacoma her
citizens have eyinced their faith in
her future by building long rows OF
brick business blocks from four to
nine stories high. Though few of them
are empty, business is said to be very
dull. Although her entire population
including suburbs, is only $4,000, her
! business area seems to be about three
times as extensive as that of Salt Lake
and yet Salt Lake merchants say
that business with them is oVerdone
Certain it is that in no other city OF
its population are there fewer business
houses than in Salt Lake.
| There is no doubt but business of al
kinds is very dull in the Pacific north.
west, and the best advice to give tc
the dissatisfied Salt Laker who con.
emplates removing there Is don't yor
go, Tommy, don't 60" Many people
now there would gladly leave if they
icould, but the question of where to Ct
would then have to be considered
Many have already come to San Fran
cisco, but wages are always low here
and employment, for a white man
hard to find. The foregoing informa
ton I derived from residents of Port
land and is doubtless true.