The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-10
ARMY ALL TN CAMP
Last Christian Endeavor
Trains Deposit Their
Delegates in Oakland.
REMARKABLE RAILROAD WORK
General Manager Of the Southern
Pacific Tells How the Hosts
We're Handled -Today's
Programme.

We're Handled -Today's
Programme.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 1S97.-With
the arrival Of the last Christian Endeav-
or trains at Oakland, this afternoon,
there was completed one of the most re-
markable movements perhaps ever ac-
complished on a single track railroad, as
difficult TO operate as that of the Central
Pacific. Nearly $4,000 people were trans
ferred from Ogden to San Francisco, a
distance of 500 miles, with but compara-
lively slight delay and without solitary
accident to mar the progress of the
Christian host
General Manager Kruttschnitt, of the
Southern Pacific Company, has furnish
ed the following details of how the
Christian Endeayor traffic was handled
The movement of excursionists was first
felt July l. when the regular overland
trains delivered by the Union Pacific and
Rio Grande Western at Ogden were run
in several sections. They carried the ad-
vance guard of the movement, the main
army of which reached the Central Pa
cific lines on the evening OF July 4, pour
ing through in an almost uninterrupted
stream until the evening of July s, in
Guiding regular trains there were moved
out of Ogden from the first to the eighth,
"a trains, of which flfty-nine were spe-
cials or sections of the regular trains;
total number of cars moved was S3S. or
an average of nearly twelve cars per
train; the total number of passengers,
%, 800, or 80 per train
The distance from Ogden to San Fran
cisco is SS3 miles. Over the first part of
the railroad the trains had to be lifted
a total height of 9,339 feet or nearly two
miles vertically and within a distance of
Ill miles having to be dropped down a
mountain grade with a vertical fall of
1900 feet or nearly a mile and half.
The question of obtaining sufficient water
for the locomotives gave the officials more
concern than any other question. When it
is considered that almost the entire dis
tance across Utah and Nevada the coun-
try is practically desert, the difficulty
will be better understood. Many of the
water stations are supplied by gravity
| lines from springs in the mountains; extra
watchmen were detailed to go to the
heads of these lines to prevent leaves,
chips or distractions of any character
| from getting into the pipes. At all sta
| tions where the water was procured from
streams, springs or wells, extra bumpers
| were put on with instructions to keep the
| pumps going night and day. At some sta
tions where the supply obtained from
| springs and wells was short, water cars
moved from other parts of the line, were
| stationed to increase the supply the
water being hauled from such stations
up and down the line where the supply
| was ample.
| The most serious problem, after that of
watering the locomotives, was that OF
| feeding the people, but the railroad off,
| Gals arranged with citizens at Terrace,
| Eiko, Carlin, Humboldt, Battle. Noun
| tain, Wadsworth, Truckee, Summit, Blue
| Canon and Auburn to furnish lunches
| outside of the regular eating houses. The
| company's forces were detailed to erect
| long counters or tables in the open air
at which the meals could be dispensed.
| Up to a time within ten days of the
! fourth of July it was thought that the
| regular locomotives on the Central Pa
! cific would be able to handle all of the
| trains offered but as the fourth ap-
preached and reports were received from
| the east of the magnitude of the move
ment, it was determined to prepare for a
movement larger than the company was
warranted in expecting from any of the
| reports received
| The arrangements were so perfectly
made that there would have been no diff
\ Guilty in handling fifty per cent more
| trains than the company received.
| 1t was at first intended to keep the
| trains thirty minutes in time apart, but
! in reviewing the plans offered by the Off
cersSto move these trains the time limit
| was everruled and a space limit sub
| stituted. An order was issued blocking
| the Central Pacific road absolutely al
| operator clearing his semaphore signal
! to allow train to pass his office until
| telegraph station west of him that the
| last train in advance had passed him and
| left the track clear.
The. entire traffic was handled without
! the slightest accident.
| Today'S programme
| Early prayer meetings, First Baptist
First Congregational, Star King African
| byterian, West Side Christ, Westminster
| Presbyterian Third Congrega tional and
Grace Methodist Churches of this city
1 and the First Congregational Church OF
/ Oakland, Mechanics Pavilion.
$3.50 A. M.-Praise service, devotional ex-
ercises, address and singing, symposium
| by State Secretaries. singing.
! Practical suggestions from trustees OF
/ the United Society of Christian Endeavor
and Presidents Clark's address.
1
| stration on Van Ness avenue at noon. -
| Woodward S Pavilion-9:30 A. NJ, praise
! services, devotional exercises, address
singing, address, singing, Symposium BY
State presidents. Practical suggestions
/ from the trustees of the United Society
| of Christian Endeavor and General Secre-
| tary Baer.
Adjournment for the open air demon
stration on Van Ness avenue.
Open air meetings on Van Ness avenue
| at noon. Four speakers platforms.
| Recreation and sightseeing during the
| afternoon. Complimentary band concert
| at music stand in Golden Park at two
| o'clock.
State receptions and rallies in the even
| quarters.
State convention of the California
Society of Christian Endeavor at the
Mechanics pavilion in the evening at
| 7:3O
SHOT HIS PEII.nW TINKER.