The record-union., 1897-07-07
RECEIVING THE VISITORS.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVCRERS by
THOUSANDS YESTERDAY.
Local Members and Others Greet
and Supply Them With Fruits
and Flowers.

The number of Christian Endeavor
visitors arriving is so great, and the de-
rnand for fruits and flowers so pressing
that more are wanted for to-day. Surely
Sacramento will prove equal to the
emergency.
At regular intervals through the day
yesterday long trains pulled into the
railroad depot loaded to the guards with
people from the North, the South and
the East, bound for the great Christian
T,ndeavor Convention of '97 at San
Francisco, and incidentally to see the
sights and beauties of the Golden State.
The State delegations began to arrive
early in the morning and though the
rush was greater than ever before, the
Southern Pacific Company was equal to
the emergency, landing every train in
Sacramento without accident and on
time 1t is estimated that the company
over its single line of road, which passes
over two mountain ranges, both of
which are over 1000 feet in hight
brought over 600O persons into Sacra-
mento and without any delay forwarded
them to San Francisco Many of the
visitors appreciated the situation and
were loud in their praises of the excel
| lent service rendered.
| The local Endeavor committees were
out in force to greet each incoming del
egation, but their number was only as
a drop in the bucket compared With the
crush of humanity which gathered at
| the depot to greet each delegation. Hun
dreds of citizens We're on hand looking
| for faces dear to them, and many hum
dreds more were out merely to look into
/ Of Vxhn
among the rocky slopes of Maine or in
sunny Georgia, and exchange with them
word or hand clasp and welcome
them to California.
The local committees did their work
well, and stuck to the text. Large con-
sgnments of fruits and flowers rolled
| into the depot, and these were distri-
buted to the Fasteners with lavish
hands.
Each delegation was received with
rcusing cheers, and in most instances
responded gallantly. Even outsiders did
their best to make the visitors under
stand that California is hospitable and
that Sacramento is of California
Even when the trains were pulling out,
and hurried 'Godspeeds' had been ut
tered, the local Endeavorers, whenever
possible grouped themselves, and their
parting weled up from q thousand
throats. God Be With You Till We
Meet Again.
The Connecticut contingent was the
first to arrive, and though it got here be-
fore O'Clock the New Englanders met
with a hearty reception.
| Maine and Kansas delegations arrived
ar hour later with over 500 persons
| aboard, and at / O'Clock p. M the Yer
mont delegation came in with the same
engine that brought them from St.
| Louis
| 1t was 2 o'clock p. M when the first
Iowa train pulled in with it's 800 people,
and an hour and a half later the Ne
braska contingent arrived.
At 3:45 o'clock-thirty minutes after
| tie Nebraskans arrived-the regular
| train, No. 4, came in, hauling a few
En6eavorers and several hundred other
persons who had taken advantage of the
cut rates to visit the State.
| 1t was 450 o'clock p. M when the
first section of the train carrying the
Ohio delegation, and a number of car
! loads of Endeavorers from Kentucky
arrived, and the second section of the
Iowa train stopped at the depot at 9:10
p. m.
/ The third section of the Ohio train ar
! rived at $50, arriving before the Iowa
! train had pulled out, and as soon as the
latter had started for the Bay the crowd
surged and thronged around the people
fl ON the old Buckeye" State.
Michigan men and women arrived at
! 10:10 O'Clock o. m., their train being fol-
lowed at 1890 by another carrying por-
tions of the Indiana and Kentucky dele
cations and a number unassigned from
other States, and up to midnight the
lowest estimate put upon the number
of arrivals was over 6.0OO.
The first Winconsin train arrived
shortly after O'Clock this morning and
the members of the local committees
were even at that hour on hand to offer
d welcome to the Wolverines.
1t has been impossible for the officials
of the railroad company TO issue an ac-
curate itinerary of the trains more than
six hours in advance owing to the great
/ rumber of delegations that have been
poured into ogden by the several roads
centering there, but last night it was
given out that trains to arrive this
morning were as follows:
Second section of the Michigan train,
$3.50 a. m.
| Second section OF the Wisconsin traIn'
| $50 a. m.
New York Central train, about 8
| a. m.
There are some fifty-two trains in all,
| and up to this morning-say by >
/ o'clock-about ten will have passed
here.
There are still ten trains that had
not left Salt Lake up to midnight last
night. Most of the others will reach
| Sacramento during to-day and tonight,
! to about the number of thirty.
The handling of such mass of trains
! is a herculean task for a single-tracki
road. but the Southern Pacific officials
and trafnmen are meeting with wonder
! full success
| Hotel Arrivals.
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