The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-11
TOURISTS WILL
PASS THIS WAY
Salt Lake the Mecca for Travellers
East and West.
SAN PEDR0'S GOOD WORK
PASSENGER AGENTS HAVE A
ROYAL TIME IN CITY.

T HE California delegation to the Trav-
! ehhs passenger Agents convention
visited Salt Lake yesterday Their
] impressions of the city were pleasant
There are one or TWO things. said jay
/ ". Adams, president of the Tral cling
/ Passenger Agents association. THAT /
would like TO say a word about ana par
/ ticularly because ] do not believe the inn
/ portance of one of them has become APP
/ parent to your business men ana citizens
here, The new Salt Lake route is as new
! 10 the most OF our members as il is 10
] the travelling public in general and We
an came this way from San Francisco ana
Los Angeles to see the new road We are
/ surprised We are ready 10 admit thar
/ the new road takes the cake of all new
roads IN the country. for il has more
/ pleasing surprises in store for the tourist
/ VINO goes over its rails for the first time
thdn almost any road l ever saw. New
roads are usually rough and rugged. High
/ spots predominant and the low spots are
/ Impressive IN more ways than one. BOr-
fOWed equipment usually comes into use
I at the outset, because car builders never
/ get contracts delivered ON time. This is
( what we expected TO find Ia q greater or
/ less degree. But TO our delightful sur
= prise we found a rOadbed as solid a. Il
/ rock and as level as a floor; an equipment
/ that makes "a whole lot OF as take Off
our mats III admiration. and last. but per-
/ maps first III importauce-f0r We are on
4 pleasure trip, you knOW-a dining car
service that is revelation. The service
/ there is simply perfect; that's all [ can
say about it, Conductor Anderson. who is
one or the best Of the Salt Lakes dining
/ car managers, shOwered as with cOuFtes-
! les. served bowl after bowl of fruit punch
/ 70 our ladies, loaded us all uD on lemon
AIDE and other delicious refreshing beVer-
ages and made our Journey across the hot
sands one long delightful dream.
This Means Business.
But that's not the important thing
your business men want to know, al
/ though il is one of them. The other and
greater one Is this: This new road is
going to become of more immediate adj
! vantage 10 Salt Lake City than 10 Los
Angeles or any other point, and Tor good
I business reasons.
Heretofore the bulk Of the transcontin-
entail tourist trade has gone via the Rio
Gfande and connections, via Ogden to the
coast and hundreds of thousands of tollr-
lists IN years past have gone within q
lew miles OF your beautiful city and new
er nave seen 1t. / understand thar about
the first Of October, through car ar
rangement will be made between the new
salt Lake route and the Union Pacific.
ana It's eastern connections, by which q
large percentage of its traffic will be
c0rralled and the tourists sent through
salt Lake City with reasOnabl stODs here.
This means that hOme-seekers will have
opportunity 10 see your superb valley
and city; real estate men here will have
opportunity TO interest them in lands and
homes business men viii be able 10 lay
before them the advantages afforded III
mercantile ines-in fact, Salt Lake Citt
will have the first chance at the west
bound tourist crop and ought To be able
TO gather some of the fruits.
Mines Attract Many Visitors.
Your mines are attracting wide at
tentiOn- Eastern capitalists are awaken
ing 10 the opportunities offered in Titan
and Southern Nevada and if the opinions
or mining engineers and experts in Los
Angeles and San Francisco 20 for any
thlng. there viii be an influx OF eastern
mining men here this winter that will
give a stimulus 10 the entire districts re-
ferred to. The members of the party
who are with me today are the men
who Will sell the tickets and route the
people who are 10 comprise Il great per
centage of the west bound tourists this
faH and winter. They have had their
eyes opened to the marvellous progress
OF salt Lake City and the valley and
are going away 50 well pleased that they
viii never be able TO say sOOd enough
things about the hOsptabe and thrifty
people who are fortunate enough 10 have
cast their lots with YOU"
Have a Good Time in Zion.
Mr.. Adams sentiment found echo on an
sides during yesterday g visit of the Cali
Tornla delegation When evening came
they were all tired. for il had been =
DAY OF steady sightseeing, but they
Weren too weary to say all sorts of nice
things about the city.
The treatment your people have given
US, said ". q. Rouse lis beyond any
thlng we ever got or saw, ana we are
accustomed TO such affairs. our money
has been useless. And we have been
entertained and taken sightseeing until
were all OF Us tired out"
The first thing that impressed the party
was the fact that their car instead Of
being sidetracked in the Yards was taken
right up to the depot. Then they board
ed a street car and got a second impress
sion. The conductor took fares right
through until he came to the California
crowd. He refused to collect from them
At the Kenyon they could not buy din
ing room tickets when they tried Man
aSer Don Porter and his clerks would
not sell the cards The visitors were
A Seeing Salt Lake City car took them
about the town and Mr. Adams during
the tour made a brief speech. thanking
the local committee for their hospitality
and saying nice things about the CITY
a SaItalr beach train carried them 10
the resort where they found open house
and no chance TO pay even rent Tor
bathing suit incidentally some of the
party so enjoyed the swim that the train
was held for some time to allow them
to get to dry land and into their raimcnt.
Special Organ Recital.
In the late afternoon John J. McCIeI-
Ian gave special organ recital TO which
large audience listened. Then for the
special benefit of the California visitors
he gave a second private recital which
was intensely enjoyed. Cards were sent
TO the car inviting the members OF the
party and the ladies TO visit the vari-
GUS clubs Of the city. But most OF them
were tired out by evening and ready 10
retire.
Kenneth Kerr travelling passenger
agent of the Salt Lake route Joined
the party here and goes on with them 10
the convention.