The daily sentinel., 1904-03-07
George j. Gould in City.

The very particular event in secu
lar affairs in this city Sunday. wa
the expected arrival of Geo. ]. Goult
and party.
Information that his special woult
arrive from the west at three o'clocl
was telephoned by President E. NJ
Slocomb, of the Chamber of Cnmmerc,
to the board of directors of that bod,
and number of prominent citizens
inviting them to be present at the
} station to meet Mr.. Gould. There
was very general response to this by
the citizens who are members of the
Chamber and besides there was large
gathering of people. who had been
apprised of the coming of the distin.
guished railroad official and financier
The train did not reach this city
until about 4.25. 1t pulled in with
two engines and five cars. There was
a pilot engine of the Rio GrandeWest-
ern and engine No 264 of the Texas
Pacific road which has pulled Mr.
Gould S special all around his trip.
Mr.. Gould was in one of the rear
cars when the train pulled into the
station and here the people congregat-
ed. AS soon as he stepped off the cars
he was greeted by Samuel G. McMul-
lin. who acted as spokesman of the
party. He was at once presented with
fine box of apples, which Lad been
selected for him in the morning He
was appreciative of this gift and at
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began to MUNICH from it, After quite
number of gentlemen had been pre-
sented to him. and also to Mr. T. JEFF
frey president of the road, Mr. Gould
invited the party into the car.
When about a dozen citizens had
coaches. fitted as an observation car,
Mr.. McMullin addressed Mr.. Gould.
as representative of the Chamber of
Commerce. He said in part that the
people were very anxious that a depot
should be built here in Grand juno
tion and also that measures should be
taken to insure emmigration
Mr.. Gould responded that he re-
mem bered quite we'll that we needed
new depot and that the reason that
one had not been built so far was that
they had hesitated on account of lab
or troubles and the financial condition
of the country. He said further that
they could have erected depot but
when one was commenced he desired
the CITY to secure one which would
be a credit architecturally to the CITY
and to the road. He turned to Mr..
Jeffrey as he was speaking and asked
him if there were not blue prints in
existence of the proposed station and
whether they had not been shown to
him. MIR. Jeffiey replied that they
had and that Mr.. Gould had scanned
them.
J. S. Carnahan, George Smith and
L. N. Bunting spoke very shortly about
matters affecting this city. to which
Mr.. Gould most pleasantly responded
that they should have his considera-
tion.
Mr.. Gould is one of the most ap-
proachable and affable men in exist
ence. He looks very much as he did
was dressed in neglipe fashion and
seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the
trip.
After the delegation was dismissed.
in company with Mr.. Jeffrey he hur-
riedly payed visit to the shops, re-
naming there quite some time
The train remained in the city alto
gether about an hour. 1t left here
pulled by double header. Gus Olseu
was on the Rio Grande engine and
looked as if he would do all in his
power to safely pilot the special train
and its list of distinguished guests
over the part of the road to which he
was assigned as pilot. Harry Coates
was up ON the TIP. Engine.
The Gould special train, which
started from New York on Feb. IL.
was made up of three private cars and
baggage car. To this train, at Ogden
was added the special car Denver
of j. A. Edison, manager of 1he Rio
Grande system. he will escort the par
ty over the lines.
In addition to Mr.. Gould. the east
ern party consists of bis two sons, ].
and Kingdom Gould; E. I. Jerffey.
president of the Denver and Rio
Grande; l.. S. Thorne. vice president
and general manager of the Texas and
Pacific; Leroy Trice, vice president
and general manager of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern; George
Kramer. vice president of the Colorado
Midland railroad and of the Utah Flu.