Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-25
SPIKE AND RAIL.

General Manager Bancroft Is In Ida
do on business.
Traffic Manager Schumacher OF the
Short Line Is In Idaho on business,
Acting Auditor McNitt Of the Short
Line has gone to Omaha and Chicago
on business trip,
The Burlington will advertise the
scenic attractions of Utah and Colorado
the coming season.
General Agent W. II. Donnell Of the
Midland has recovered from his threat
ened sickness. and Is able TO be at his
desk again.
7. w. Lee, general passenger agent
OF the Delaware, Lackawana a. West
ern road IN New York Is In town on u
business trip. WHuH
II denied, vigorously OF course. that
George Could, or the Standard Oil
people have anything to do with the
san Pedro road.
Travelling Passenger Agent Rid Of
the Rio Grande Is en- route from Grand
Junction IN charge Of special train
carrying soldiers en- route to the Phil
ippines,
President Simon Bamberger OF the
salt Lake e. ogden road win remain
IN New York for the ensuing two
months and gossip hinges the future Of
his road upon that trip.
Bicycles win no longer be tolerated In
the Railways Of the Short Line Offices
They must be placed In the cellar
where people will not be continually
stumbling over them,
An engine dltched and four cars
smashed, was the result Of two trains
. trying the old game Of endeavorlng to
. pass on the same track near Wieser
} Fortunately no one was hurt
. Grading on the Laramie, Hahns Peak
n Pacific road has been completed for
7 twenty three miles south OF Laramie
|, and surveys have been made beyond
Steamboat Springs In Routt county
Colo .e,l
/ "A belt line FOR Salt Lake city has
been mooted at various times. and the
matter has been now brought up again,
with hopes that something may be done
because Of the prospective growth Of
this city.
Governor Orman of Colorado will par
tlcipate In the conference OF state eN-
ecutiyes called by Governor Van Zandt
Of Minnesota on the railroad combine,
II he can escape long enough from the
cares OF state In Colorado.
A son was born 60 the wife OF Alfred
@. Vanderbilt last night, In New York.
which puts an end to all the disgusting
speculatons as to the sex OF the child
that has biirdened the yellow Journals
OF New York for some time past.
Governor Van zandt Of minnesota
has made up his mind 10 fight the great
combination OF railways represented by
the Northern Securities company, and
VIII call special meeting OF the legis-
latiTe about February l, with that end
In view
The Rio Grande will sell round trip
tickets between this city and Ogden on
Thanksgiving day, at 81 for the round
trip. There Will also be a 81 round trip
rate from Salt Lake to 'rintic. special
train leaving this CO.. ut q. M, on
Thanksgiving day.
As was expected, the action Of the
Missouri Pacific In making one fare for
browse la this city next August, has
forced the other roads TO follow suit,
and the result win be an immense ira
vel this way. How the crowds are to
be taken care Of remains TO be seen
The heaviest attendance will of course
be from west OF the Missouri river
The plan has been revived for the
building of a road from eastern Oregon
through the Siskiou country to Eureka
on the coast, thus making connections
for short and direct route to all Of
eastern Oregon, washington and Ida
no, Montana and British Columbia. 1t
would make another route to Portland
and Seattle and connect with all the
continental roads Of the north towards
the Atlantic.