The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-20
SOME INTERESTING
RAILROAD YARNS
How the Passenger Agents
Fooled the New York
Halter.
THE RUSH FOR THE
BROKEN CIRCUS PEOPLE
When You Change Your Watch
and When You Leave
1t Alone.

These hot and cold days remind me OF
the time John DAILY and l blew into New
York out oil season" said Harry Rhein,
general passenger agent of the Big -Four
road, chatting In the New York Central
Offices in Chicago, referring TO the hard
days when he Travelled a beat in Indiana
as district passenger agent for the Lake
Erie & Western.
How They Fooled the Halter.
1T was the latter part of September
and 1t was so warm In Cincinnati We
had not discarded our straw hats. We
received telegram 10 meet our boss
In New York quickly, and boarded
train without much preparation. Every
thing was bollny until we got to Gotham.
where we etruck an autumnal blizzard
The thermometer dropped To 20 or 90, and
as we walked out OF Grand Central sta
tion our straw hats became conspicuous
came an attraction. and by the way pco-
pie rubbered at us / don't think there had
been straw hat worn in New York that
summer.
Not q Hard Problem.
There WAS no problem facing US; 1t
was just question OF getting into tho
hat store and exchanging our hcadSear
for something that would be more salts
factory to the natives of the Island Tho
clerk in the store, near the citation, GYi-
IDENTIFY suspected we had escaped from
some piece OF timber and got the marks
on all his hats as quickly as possible.
We bought two black derbies at What we
considered a 100 per cent increase.
Paralyzed the Halter.
Where shall | deliyer the old hats9'
asked the affable shopkeepcr.
Send them both to II. j. Rhcin, Pal
ace hotel, San Francisco. l replied, with
out CULVER.
NV God man. the express thcro
Will cost me more than you paid for the
hats he OWclsimed.
Well. at that l guess you VIII have
We walked out We never sent a trncer
to San Francisco to locate the old
straWs'
Agents Fell Down.
a circus had gone to the wall down In
Missouri and agents of q half-dozen rail-
roads had rushed to the scene to corral
the show people going back TO their
homes BY q coincidence. travelling pas
senger representatives OF the TOUR 81
Louis-Chicngo roadS-EaStern llilnols'
Illinois Central Wabash and Alton
were I'm the same sleeper coming into st.
Louis over the Iron Mountain route that
night They were comparing notes as TO
hov. many of the show trowd each agent
lad secured for his road, when the con-
ductor came in and tipped 1t off that
there was a passenger In the car ahead
who was going from St Louis TO chicago
and was undecided as TO which line 70
use. The representatives. OF the four st.
Louis-Chlcago lines made 4 rush for the
victim
Advantages of the Routes.
'"Wo have fine service and our trains
take you into Chicago along the famous
lake front. a seven-mile ride with the
beautiful water of Lake Michigan on one
side and magnificent residences of mil
lionaircs on the other, you can beat H.
I'VE give YOU an easy ride and land
you In La Sale street station, the only
station on tho elevated loop There
nothing to 1t. We set the pace for tho
noiS's representative.
I'VE give YOU frequent trains and put
you in Dearborn station at the head or
a clean, quiet street In the heart OF the
city," quoth the Wabash man,
I'VE offer you lot OF trains, View OF
the drainage canal, and glance at the
Chicago river put in the Alton agent
Lost Out in Night
All the evidence being In, the tired
agents went to bed, Next morning en-
their prospective passenger, but there was
no trace OF him, '-Oh, that man you TEL
lows were talking to last night the
conductor said. We'll. after you left he
got a telegram that his daughter was
sick and he got OF at the first station and
took train back home
No Change of Time.
On only one railroad operating out of
Chicago for a distance Of 1000 miles ie 1t
unnecessary for trainmen or passengers
to change their watches an hour one way
or another The line which requires no
tinkcring with watches is the illinois
Central between Chicago and New Or
leans the entire route, 922 miles. being In
the same latitude. Going from Chicago
To New York, If confusion be obViated,
your watch must be set an hour ahead at
Buffalo or other place on the dividing
line and going west from Chicago you
VIII be an hour ahead OF time unless you
shift your watch one hour back couple
of hundred miles west Of the Missouri
river This changing Of time has become
such habit with travellers that they
usually lose sight OF the astronomical
reason and conductors on the Illinois
Central have during the present winter
extracted considerable amusement out of
the question This season travel to New
Orleans and Cuba from the North has
been unusually heavy, and thousands
have gone south for the first time Many
OF these people have travelled extensively
cast and west from Chicago and. forget
ting the location OF the Illinois Central,
continually ask conductors regarding the
point whore time * to be changed. Being
told there is no change, they then begin
to figure out the reason.
The fact that there IS no change In time
between Chicago and New Orleans grent-
ly facilitates the operation of this road,
as conductors, engine men, trainmen, dis
natcbers and others are not bothered with
ATTITUDES and dual dlals. 1t also enables
the company TO publish an intelligtble
folder time card