The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-21
DAY BY DAY
ON The PRIVATE
CAR RALPH KING"
Facts About FORMULATING
Residence of Great Eastern
Newspaper League Party.
HAPPY HOME ON WHEELS
Coming Tower the Scene of Many
Festive Gatherings - Daily
Life On Car Not a Stereo-
typed Existence.

Inc private car, Ralph King" in
which the representatives OF the Great
Eastern Newspaper league travel, is one
of the most comfortable and delightful
homes on wheels imaginable.
1t is spacious, luxurious and elegant.
1t has large private room for the use
of the general manager, and beautiful
" upholstered sections for the mem
bers Of his staff. The center section of
the car is at once a drawing room, re-
ception room, dining room and council
room, in which the members OF the
league meet in daily conference and
discuss themes suggested by their ever
expanding tour. The chef and porter
have the front of the car to themselves,
and here the daily mysteries OF the
cuisine are enacted, and if the proof
of the pudding is in the eating, the
pudding" as prepared by Chef Rob-
ert c. Young fer the palatable discus
sion of the journalistic epicures is the
best proof in the world that the man
ager is solicitous for the bodily well
fare of his staff. for no matter how ex-
cellent the hotels may be where the
league occasionally sojourns for a week,
the members are always glad to re-
turn to their happy home on the Ralph
KIM"
The observation room at the rear of
the car is the point of vantage to which
all the members move when the car is
en- route during the day. 1t is a spa
cious compartment, with luxurious easy
chairs, manufactured for and presented
to the Great Eastern Newspaper league
by the Northwestern Grass Irvine
company of St. Paul, the most extern
sive concern in its particular line in
the. world.
When 1t is recalled that nearly 1900
miles of varying scenery have been
surveyed from this observation reem
as the car speeded across and up and
down diagonally over the continent, a
faint idea may perhaps be gained of
the impressions formed from actual
vision through the plate glass windows
of the coming tower of the Ralph
King" as one of the members of the
party. has facetiously designated the
observation room. 1t has been the
scene of many festive gatherings since
the tour commenced, for it is here the
numerous reception committees who
have greeted the league members en-
tered the car and babe the seribes vel
come to their several municipalities.
\ ~.
is not a stereotyped existence by any
means, although there are certain fixed
events, as the racing men say, that
do not vary much from day to day.
The car porter awakens the slumber-
ing occupants of the car at every
morning, and breakfast is served at s
O'Clock. The menu is prepared to
please every one and the service is
exceptionally good in every detail. If
the car is still en- route after break
fast the general manager, with his
stenographer, plunges into the accumu-
lation of mail. and their time is usu-
ally occupied from after breakfast TO
luncheon in reading and answering the
numerous letters. many of which are
from special committees in far-dis-
tant cities, requesting the Great East
ern Newspaper league to visit them and
look over their resources.
While the general manager and his
secretary are going over the morning
mail, the writer's are celebrating their
notes or writing their stories there
from, while the artist, locked in his
mysterious darkroom, develops the
made at the last city Wis
tied.
People who imagine that the tour
of the league representatives is a pleas
ure junket would be rapidly undeceived
if they could enter the car during work.
ing hours, which are all the daylight
hours, when the car is moving. Masses
of manuscript, piles of photographs and
baskets full of mail matter are but part
Of the material constantly being util-
lied.
Luncheon is served at 1890, and be-
ing dispatched, work is resumed as the
mile-posts flash by the rapidly-moving
train Occasionally, if one of the party
has the time to devote to it, the speed
record is taken, and it shows some
remarkable contrasts. Fifty and sixty
miles an hour are ordinary, everyday
performances for the limited trains to
which the Ralph King" is often at
tached, and even as high as eighty-fiye
miles an hour has been made on the
present tour.
MANY visitors Gonna RI fba 90, ~.
ever stops are made. In Ell Reno. Ok
lahoma, one Sunday morning, a score
or more OF dashing southwestern bellies
took possession of the car and told the
perambulating scribes they must ac-
cept invitations TO a picnic in a neigh
boring grove or have the car lombard
ed. The newspaper men surrendered
at discretion, spent delightful day
near the murmuring brooks, wander
ing with charming escorts in the svI-
van glades. There was a merry dinner
On the lawn and when the scribes re-
turned 10 their happy home on
wheels the day was voted a complete
success
At Guthrie the citizens came down
and decorated the exterior of the
Ralph King" with corn and oats and
wheat and it was carried for many
days, a pleasing and a potent tribute
10 Oklahoma's agricultural ascend
aney. and then the wealth, beauty and
fashion of Oklahoma's capital city cane
TO the car one beautiful day and were
photographed in ali their native love-
illness, with a background of pleased.
though less attractive scribes, by way
of contrast
And these phOtographs-and others
as Weil-now form a part and portion
OF the special interior decorations of
the Ralph King'-a daily reminder
that this world is a grand and GOOD
place for folks to live in
And there is just this disagreeabIe
feature in connection with a home on
meet TO-DAY: we EXCHANGE