The San Francisco call., 1897-07-27
TOURISTS TENT
TN THE VALLEY
The Tide of Eastern Travel
to the Yosemite Is
Still Flowing,
Heavy Shipments Of Fruit to
the East-Trains Massed
at Sacramento.
The Southern Pacific Receives Words
of Praise From Pastor of
Salem, Mass.

The tide of tourist travel to the Yosem-
lite Valley is still as strong as ever. The
ticket office in the Grand Hotel is crowded
with applicants, and as many passengers
as can be cared for are booked daily.
Since the rush began many tourists have
been turned away because OF the limited
accomm odations. There has been no sut-
fering or discomfort in the valley. so far
as can be ascertained. Some of the tour
lists were obliged to sleep in tents, but they
understood that nothing better than tents
could be offered when they purchased
their tickets. Many tourists went in by
the Wawoda route.
The railroads are yet doing fine busi-
ness in sending Eastern tourists home.
The big return rush will not open until
about the second day of August. The
Eastern people. or very many of them,
are prolonging their soiourn in Califor-
MIA, and many will not leave until August
9-the last day of grace for the return OF
the low rate.
The heavy passenger traffic did not Sc
riously interfere with the shipments Of
fruit. The orchard products which were
forwarded on the European special dur.
ing the greatest rush OF incoming pas
senger trains arrived in London in good
form. In fact this fruit reached its desti-
nation in better condition than an earlier
consignment.
Much activity prevails at present in
hauling fruit eastward. The trains are
massed at Sacramento and forwarded
from that point. The shipments show a
marked increase over similar traffic OF
last season.
Rev. James L. Hill, DID,, Salem, Mass.
of Ell
Endeavor, has written as follows to the
passenger department of the Southern
Pacific:
Pastors along the line of the Southern
Pacific Company bear heartiest testimony
to the fact that no other railway ever
treated them and their families with SO
much generosity. They also show that
the company has been or would have
been a better friend to their communities
than these communities have been TO
themselves, and cite repeated instances.
Even railroad can be greatly remuneT-
ative only as it gives people what they
want and turns the handle of things to-
ward them. To make money itself it
must enable others to make money. If q
railroad can anticipate O great public
need and develop it and shape it IN a bill
ity Is proved which ought to be rewarded.
1t is requited in every other department
of life
1.-The Southern Pacific has obviously been
a great factor in the deveio pment of this
great occidental, paradisal State. Christian
Endeavor young people rejoice in the vast
amount OF employment which, in hard
times, this railroad has been enabled to
give to great army of men, and they
wish prosperity to the Southern Pacific so
that In this crisis in the industrial world,
it may develop new lines and give wages
to a greater mum ber Of employees.
''In all the annals of the church, no such
an amount of money was ever paid down
by young people to attend a religious con-
vention as has just been done in Califor-
MIA. Our reception has been royal, our
welcome oceanic, our happiness complete.
What each of US has received by way OF
inspiration and instruction, is TO be multi
piled bv 40 900, as that was the numb of
pilgrims in California. The East and West
are now bound together as never before,
and the chief tie is effected by the
Southern Pacific"