Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-15
BY Tonight All will Have Left Salt
Lake for the Coast
ovEE 1900 VISITED HERE.
splendid work on the Par, of the hio
Grsnde Western Operating Depart
ment Ia Handling Big crowds.

leaguers. without a single accident, IT
goes without saying some of the trains
did not keep schedule time but for
single track road Il was great feat.
BY tomorrow morning migrating in
terrogation points wearing the red ana
white badges viii be an unknown guam
tity In Salt Lake, and the average pc
destran win not run the risk of be-
Ing shot by the thousands OF cameras
and kodaks, which for the past three
days have been raking the city fore
and aft.
The Epworth leaguers have come and
gone. the hotel men and restaurant
proprietors have banked the rake of In
cident to the last few days ana the rail-
road men are breathing the regulation
number OF inhalations per minute once
more.
WORK ON WESTERN.
The lay member has not the remotest
idea Of what an invasion Of the proper
lions just handled means TO a single
track railroad. one slip. or lapse Of
memory upon the part Of the train dis
patcher in charge OF the huge move
ment and big headlines in the press
would have chronicled disaster, The
Rio Grande Western is not the New
York Central with four tracks, conse-
quently II Is only possible for one man
to work al one time In the dispateher's
office directing the movement Of trains.
Under the pressure incident to the
heavy travel Chief Dispatcher Sloan
has rapidly been accommodating gray
hairs. The operating department de-
serves all the credit and glory that is
us just due for the feat From General
superintendent A. t. Welby down 10
the man with the shovel at the back of
the cab, one and all have worked unre.
mittingly and tlrelessly.
HEAVIEST WORK OVER.
The heaviest work was over by last
night when the yards Of the Western
| were crowded 10 their limit with sleep
ers of every build and design known to
railroad men. The yards bore the ap-
| pearance of a huge Kaleidoscope.
AS far as could be seen were sleep
ers and day coaches on all sides.
Among the companies represented could
be seen the distinguishing colors of the
| New York Central g. Hudson River
Rock Island Burlington. Chicago q
Northwestern, Pennsylvania. West
Shore, Lehigh Valley. Chicago & Alton.
Chicago Milwaukee a. st. Paul. Boston
a. Albany, Union Pacific Denver a Rio
Grande, 81, Louis & San Francisco, At
Gibson Topeka a Santa Fe, Canadian
Pacific, Missouri Pacific. Great West
cru Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago &
81, Louis, and the Erie.
or Pullmans their name was legion
There were empire deckers with their
oval shaped stained glass windows. and
0ld-tlme sleepers with small square
windows out OF which possibly pas
sengers have viewed stampedlng herds
OF bunalo in the wilds of Wyoming
years ago.
In and out Of these cars, like q hive
OF bees, swarmed nll sorts and condl-
lions OF humanity. the majori-
" OF them already bearing
unmistakable signs OF having been on
long Journey. I'm and out and round
about, like the famous Jackdaw OF
Rheims went Uncle George Ruther-
FORD, the veteran ear cleaner. with his
corps or assistants trailing behind
them pieces of long hose attached TO
the air compressor. and the way they
shot that atmosphere and ozone into
the plush cushions and draperies of
the Pullmans was sight only equalled
by the vortex OF dust and banana peel
that went ahead Of that energetic noz-
Zle.
1900 VISITORS.
The car cleaners had no sinecure
down az the yards yesterday and In
days TO come when they are pensioned
of and sit on the front porch with their
grandchildren on their knees they will
speak with bated breath OF the historic
Invasion OF effete fasteners in July.
1901 AS II is conservatlvely estimated
that there have been close upon n 600
people pass through this city during
the past few days II can readily be seen
that there was some work TO be done.
Were the trainmen tired? Well lust
ask them. Some OF them have hardly
had moments sleep for three days.
WORK FOR ALL.
Not only have the railroad hands
been working but the presence OF wish
tors In the city has been felt all alons
the line. The gentleman who does the
'spiel' on the Seeing Salt Lake car
Is so hoarae this afternoon that h.
has serious misgiylngs that an attack
of tonsolitis is In store for him. Even
the genial clerks az the hotels in this
city have developed signs Of crossness
the Inevitable token In self-respect-
ing hotel clerk Of a speedy collapse
by Saturday night the stereotyped re-
Spouse of full up" WAS 10 he heard In
every hOstelry In town. There was
not a bed to be had for love or money
while the individuals who had secured
O wcak.kneed cot wherein 60 stretch
HIS weary limbs In the sample room
became so swelled up that he jeopar.
dised his set Of shirt studs.
At one time last evening II began Il
look as though there would be a famine
in the land. The loot OF the Leagueis
had extended 90 such proportions
that the succulent steak was
practically non est in the aver.
age eating house Indicative OF IN,
rush on the commlssariat department
the Kenyon dining room served n
meals yesterday. and only the limta
tons OF the seating capacity prevente,
1900 visitors from being waited on. 4
big food supply had been laid IN In an
iicipation Of the siege by the variou
hotels and restaurants. but az tn
smaller concerns the supply OF came,
goods had to be drawn on early In tn
evening with the result that pork an,
beans and sardlnes became special or
ucrs.
Thousands % visitors slept In IN
! cars on Saturday and last night
large number OF the tourists stayed Il
their CO. throughout the day after
preliminary ramble around the town
, Down IN the yards they produces
camp stools and sat IN the shade o
the cars on the main line. This pro
cceding was not without its portion q
excitement for ever and anon the warn
ing whistle 81 a locomotive would her
! sld the arrival Of another special int