The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-18
AGENTS
GAPTURE THE CITY
TPainlOad of Railroad Men See
Salt Lake.
SOME NOTABLE VISITORS
LOCAL RAIEROADERS PROVIDE
LIVELY ENTERTAINMENT.

salt Lake was turned over temper
arily yesterday 90 crowd Of $50 local
freight agents and their wives. Who
swarmed at the tabernacle, dipped in
The lake. took in the Salt Palace. wan
dered the streets and did all things
worth doing between the hours of noon
and midnight
The agents arrived about noons Ow-
ing to their delayed departure from
Glenwood Springs. which Brought them
20 Grand Junction after midnight, IL
was, of course. impossible for the RIO
Grdude Western 60 get them IN here
at the hour appointed, a. IN. CCuse-
que1tiy the breakfast at the Kenyon
and cullen hotels and the trolley ride to
Fort Douglas were cut out of. the plans
for the day. Messrs. Alley and Hender-
son of the local committee met the
train, which consists Of fifteen Pullman
parlor cars. and which is usually run
in three sections, and the agents were
hurried up town as soon as possible,
50 as to reach the tabernacle at noon.
0h'ganiSt Mcclellan. assisted by Pro
IessUr Goddard. rendered a recital for
dheir benefit, lasting one hour The
visitors then walked around the temple
grounds and viewed other points of in
0erest returning to the hotels for lunch.
Afternoon at the Lake
AT 2:l5 the whole party left for Salt
air, and while it was explicitly under
stood that the salt Palace was to be
the rendezvous in the evening, the.
were a good many who were enchanted
with the pavilion and spent the greater
pant Of the evening on Americas dead
sea- Everybody went ip bathing. The
genial president of the ascension,
Thomas Adams. insisted on diving into
the water from the TOP of the merry
Eo-round. but was sidetraCked from
his notion by Billy Hartman Rid.
whose advice was considered very
timely. The water was warm enough,
but 90 was feared there was not q suf-
hcient quantity at the point designated
10 quite cover the president, had he
made his terrible leap There were be
tween 400 and 500 batherS up to in the
evening, which was taken as a pretty
1dIr Indication that the salt water was
bit. A hundred or more southern
girls. from Louisiana, North and South
Carolina, Georgia and other states.
were IN the party They declared
the dancing floor just toe lovely for
anything and the few local people who
Aappened to be present entertained
similar opinion Of the young women.
Among the BOtabIas Of the party were
resident II. =. Adams, who has been
an the employ of the Missouri Pacific
IWenty-SeVen years. who halls from St.
Louis, VINO Us an all-round good fellow,
and who is accompanied by his wife.
T. IL Anderson of Oma no, the secre-
rary Of the association, and a veteran
Burlington man, was also here Vice
President Bumpus of Nashville. Tenn.
was much in evidence, and Treasurer
Newton. who comes from Fort Wayne,
Ind, was seen once OF. twice.
The eXCursiOnists were accompanied
from Denver by the entertainment
committee of that city, consisting of
II. j. Day. joint agent for the Denver
& Rio Grande. Missouri Pacific and
Rock Island. Charles W. LOouis of
the Burlington. Thomas &. Scott of the
Union PaeihC. ". G.. Glenn of the Santa
Fe. d. j.. Mills of the Western Rail-
way Weighing association and r. =.
Hin. Commissioner of the Colorado Car
Service bureau. These dignitaries were
not going to see anything left undOne
that might add to the welcome Of the
delegates To- the convention at their
town. So they put on an extra car and
made the side trip to salt Lake. They
will remain and watch over the party
until it reaches Denver again over the
Union Pacific. II. p. Eager. manag ger
of the Tennessee car service, whose
headquarters are at Chattanooga, was
also alOuE wi-l the agents.
Agents Out of Luck.
The unha-Iiest man in the crowd
was w. ii. Calvert local agent for the
Peoria & St Louis road at East St
Louis. he received a dispatch just
after his arrival. stating that the com
Dany's freight houses had burned
down. and ordering MIN home at once
Another member Of the party who
met with misfortune was G.. O.. Walker
of the Southern Railway at Evansville
whose baby became frightened at the
water at GleuWOOd Springs, a nervous
Mt resulting After this Nj. Wa .ker.
who is accompt nIed by his wife. was
afraid 20 take the child near water.
and thu Parents were compelled to
forego their trip 10 SaItair.
Otherwise there was nothing to put
a damper on the 1Ollity of the crowd OK
So -H
a large number of the visiting freight
agents attended the opera at the Salt
Palace last night, and az midnight their
special Grain uulled-out fer ogden, to
connect with the east-bOund Union Pa
csc which road viii carry them back
TO Denver.