Arizona republican., 1904-09-24
What Has Been Accomplish. ed in the Way of Travelling
A GREAT CROWD HANDLED
Interesting Information Regarding Transportation Of Knights TempIar Over Northern Pacife-Comparison With Lewis and CIark's Trip.

St. Paul. Sept. 2s.-Assistant General Passenger Agent A. B. Smith of the Northern Pacific railroad today made an interesting statement regarding the remarkable showing in tTansporta- ton of Knights Templar 10 the Pacific coast and pointing out its application to the coming Lewis and Clark exposi- tiOn 10 be held in Portland. Oregon
 MT Smith said. The Northern Pa cific railway has just completed data covering the westbound movement of nineteen special trains with Z5o1 Knights Templar en route to san Francisco, showing a record waich Ls phenomenal These trains have been moved over this great trans-contiuen- tai line and delivered at Portland. Or , egOn, without an accident Of aEy Efud and on time The greater part Of the party of Sir Knights went through Yellowstone park and the president or the company advises that ST perfectly were the schedules arranged and car ried out that not a single party met a minutes delay while in that nation al domain set aside for the enjoyment and benefit Of the people
 l This train movement equals the | handling of one train of ten coaches | over .OO0 miles or track and it's de- ! livery at it's destination on time and
 this was accomplished without any de- l lay to the hundreds of trains moving
 on regular schedule over the system l Prom the eventful trip Of Lewis and | Clark in 1903 to that Of today is but a step in evolution. but the many l changes in this western country have
 been almost unthinkable- The people of the Great Northern with an uu- | bounded faith which is justified. will
 by the Lewis and Clark exposition to
 be held in Portland in I905 make these changes in the settlement and develop
 ment of this country more compreh-u-
 sive. Alive to the importance or cdu-
 eating the east to our rapid proEreSs and growing influence in national af-
 fairs, this exposition has been organ
 ized to show to the world what one hundred years west Of the Missizsspp.
 river has done. The railways WIu
 make low rates and every possible fa-
 cility will be afforded to the people to study Washington and Oregon and the
 intermediate country traversed a hun
 dred years ago by those hardy pion-
 eers, Lewis and Clark
 "The Pacific northwest Of today is
 little understood by most Of us nor are it's growth and possibilities comp-e- , hended. Thousands of acres Of arabic
 land, great forests. vast mines Of good
 coal and the best seaports of the world are ready for the future upbuildius g
 of a great empire. Congress should
 convene early in the fall of 1s05 on a
 special train. with every representative
 of that body, for tour Of the great
 west, going out by southern lines. . spending enough time in the west Co ? see and understand its value. and re- turn home over the northern lines via i. St. Paul and Chicago. with a broader t grasp of the entire country and a more n | catholic idea of what can and should be done to develop this western empire Q which is to be the home of unborn uail- . lions of their countrymsn-