The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-09
WRITES STORIES
Of RAILROAD MEN
New Kind of War COrreSpOn-
dent in Field for Unique
Magazine.
TELLS THRILLING TALES
gibson WlLLETS GATHERING
WESTERN DATA.
TELLS THRILLING TALES

Tor the first time in the history of rail-
reading a national magazine is sending a
correspondent over the railroads of the
country to gather the individual stories
OF the achievements of railroad men. The
Railroad Mans Magazine. published by
Frank A. Munsey. owner of Munsey' s
Magazine and many other periodicals, is
sending ellison WiIlets, a New York
author. having twenty years experience
as a magazine correspondent. on a
unique Around the West -FOUR over the
Hartman lines.
Mr.. Willets, who has for many years
made a speciality of handling industrial
subjects from the human side, for maya
zines. is making Salt Lake principal
stop in his novel story-gathering trip He
is at the Knutsford.
81 have already covered the Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific" said Mr.. Will
lets, land later I'll go over the Oregon
Short Line. AS the Herald this morning
announces that Hartman has effected an
Atlantic-Pacific Gulf to Lake system by
securing control of the Illinois Central
and the Baltimore 81 Ohio. 1 suppose
shall cover those lines, too.
New Kind of Correspondent.
I'm creating the Railroad Mans Maya
zine. Frank Munsey created also a new
kind of war correspondent. Mr. Munsey
believes that the 100000 solCierS of the
rail on the 220,O00 miles of railway in this
country constitute an army so important
tilat it should have a CORES pondent at
tached the same as the United States
army in the field. Hence my duty in Salt
Lake is to see the railroad men and get
their Individual stories of adventure and
experience.
six years ago Mr. Munsey conceived
the idea Of the Railroad Mans Magazine
IT is not technical in character in any
sense, but is full of the human interest
FOR the public as well as for railroad ers.
To get at first hand the actual, living rO-
nance and drama of throttle and train.
CT track and trail, Mr.. MunSey sent me
across the continent to get acquainted
with railroad men, to live as they live
and to write Of their lie from inside their
skin.
Will Tell of Cutoff.
Take the Lucin cutoff for example.
che Hartman lines advertise it in con-
nectiOn with tourist travel to Salt Lake
City Thousands of travellers, therefore.
cross the cutoff on their way to or from
this city. They find it a wonderful en-
Gineering feat and they want to know all
about it. The story of it's building is as
dramatic as anything I'm railroading, and
i mean to write that story for our rail-
read magazine.
Then there are the snOwsheds of Cali
fornia- have just come from living five
days IN the SnedS with the SheQrnen.
Thousands of tourists pass through the
sheds on their way to Salt Lake City, re-
curing only two hours to pass through.
How little they know Of what it means
to live a whole year in those sheds The
travelling public will be amazed at the
story of the railroads battles with fire
and snow and avalanche in the sheds.
have just sent the story TO Mr.. Munsey
for publication.
Tells of Bandit Hunters.
Then there are the bandit hunters at
Cheyenne. The public has learned in the
last few years that hold-ups and robbel-
ieS on the Union Pacific have ceased en-
ti-ely. Why? The public does not know.
1t is due to the band of bandit hunters,
o mounted police, organized by the Union
Pacific The band is made up of some
fifteen Of the most expert plainsmen and
criminal hunters in the west. They have
their own tram. are always on duty and
have the finest horses money can buy,
horses that can go hundred miles a
day in pursuit of bandits. The story of
their adventures is, more thrilling than
any melodrama Of the imagination. ard
I'm writing their complete history for
the Railroad Mans Magazine
Mr. Munsey was not content with
making successes of the Mursey Maya
zine and the Argosy, not content with
owning the Washington Times and the
Boston Journal. He wanted other puhli-
cations upon which to concentrate his
energies. So in The last year he has is
sued four new magdzines-the All-Story.
The Scrap Book, Woman and the Railroad
Mans Magazine. The combined circula-
ton of these periodicals is now over p
C00O00. 1 believe, and Mr.. Munsey, him
self. the Hartman OF the magazine world,
is one Of the twenty-five men in America
who are making a net income each of
100000 a year exclusively from manu-
featuring.
Il have not seen q finer city than Salt
Lake anywhere IN the west. The wide
streets. their cleanliness, the splendid
shops, tee number of churches and costly
public buildings, the evidence everywhere
OF progress and prosperity-all this is
mighty interesting to travellers from the
east. The story of Salt Lakes railroad
connections will doubtless interest tens. Of
thousands all over the country.