Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-31
PRIEST. HARTMAN
VISITS SALT LAKE
Trip Is Regarded as Significant
Despite Gcntlcmans An.
pouncemcnt
HIS STAY HERE VERY BRIEF
Believes lie WIN Take Up Matters
Al Present 10 Conflict With
Western Llocs,

H. H. Hartman 10 yiNtor In Salt
Lake this afternoon, His special train
Of seven cars pulled IN 10 tho Oregon
Short Line dopo, at l9,55 o'clock II
passed Ogden without stopping at lg,Og
o'clock and made q rapid run to Salt
Lake
Mr. Hartman viii moi remain lona
In the city Ne stated his proposed Vie.
u TO be about 100 hours long" when
seen a. Tho depot and his train Ia or.
dored TO be ready for departure at $3.50
o'clock.
Tho party Nae met AZ Green River by
VIM u, Bancroft vlre president Of the
oregon Short Line road, and he ~ IN
charge Of the local entertainment nj.
vision SupL n W. lllllikcr rode The
cab into salt Lake and took personal
charge OF Tho train ana iis movements
IN the ylrl, Dan + spencer, assistant
general pnspcngtr agent met the party
Al the train with two automobiles, and
escorted lhcm 10 the OREGON Short Line
oi1crs, after which the program lnclu1.
Cd nm organ recital In the Tabernacle
ana an automobile ride about the oliy,
w the baggage ear VI the special a
large Mercedes automobiles was carried
AL ready 10 roll out for action ON the
sIreoF, but II wash not called for
MR. HARTMAN APPEARS.
Tho program originally Included n
"a IL. al Al
Of the late arrival the party lunchod on
the train between Salt Lake and ogden
They were stu N tho diner when the
train pulled IN, but soon Mr. Hartman
emerged, hatleHs and IN u lipht SUMMER
suit, after a report had been taken In
TO him regarding the trains Tor los An.
COLES over the San Pedro route.
Looks like a cyclone had struck
this town." he remarked to Mr., Bun-
croft an he glanced over ~ tho wreck
Of the old roundhouso, which IN now be-
INK demolished
No MORE EQUITABLE.
what do YOU think Of the Equitable
trouble PM IN the interviewing re-
porter and ia NsWcr came quick
enough ~ have already said all I
am going 10 on that subject"
Qucelioncd as to the significance of
his visit he reiterated that Il was
purely Tor pleasure, ana that with his
family he Was golng through Yellow
stone park after leaving Salt Lake and
then on 10 Japan lie did no, conloma
plate q trip TO Los Angeles and had
no concern with the freight rates or
other controversies, which would be
settled by tho heads of the proper Dc.
pnrtmcnls, Hts coming, too, h. de-.
clafcd, 10 be not fraught with any sig,
| nlionnco 70 the west as he was merely
| passing through ON u pleasure trip,
with him IN j, krpttechnitl, mperln.
| tendont Of maintenance and operation
Of the Hartman roads,
MS VAST INTERESTS,
Mr., Hartman IA president ot the Ora.
gon short Line, the Union Pacific,
the Southern Pacific, the oregon Rail.
road q Navigation company and IN
heavily interested In the Salt Lake 4
Nan Pedro road, Despite the announce.
mcni that the trip IN Tor pleasure only,
II r. generally believed that MI Harrl-
man VIII take up the matters AZ present
IN CONFLICT between the San Pedro and
other Hartman roads In California,
ana that q solution ~ their problems
viii soon be announced.