Potosi journal., 1906-01-17
4 New Train to Southern California.

~. IRAN to Southern California,
,ast Itucago and Los Angeles shook hand.
;nss ;ntsek week for the first time. The formal
n.,. oItss'!on ~ was made by Inc Northwest
-s1 III, .ne Onlon Pacific and the San Pedro
and companies, and now the two cities
nave been separated by deserts and Death
sahey and the Devils Playground. but now
an opening through these obstacles ha.
peen made, and it IL for the first time nnS'
Giote 60 iook westward from the city on
lake Michlgan andse at the far end Of
~ ,i, I.eeu r'nbons the sparkling blue waters
Ihe first transcontinentaj train ,,ar a..
new route from Salt Lake to Los Angeles
: .ne los Angeles Limited, left CHICAGO at
! zen o'clock at night on Sunday, Dec. II
ana reached Los Angeles Wednesday after,
noon The distance of more than soo
miles which had always before, by the
.ouiuaoout Frisco route, required eighty
: siA hGurs. or four days and three nights
was made by this new train in sixty-eicht
hours 'A s'A's -eishs
"A straight line is the shortest distance
between two points, and the new Los
Angeles Limited train, over the North
western from Chicago to Omaha, over the
thilon Pacific from Omaha to Salt Lake.
ahu over Senator Clark's new line from
Salt Lake to Los Angeles, is as straight
line between the east and the west as
VIII ever be known across America
1, Is not a great many years ago-not
so iong ago, IN fact, that it does not still
stand prominently in the memories of the
grand1athers OF America-when trip from
sea TO sea meant making faces at tedious
months OF hardship, wild animals, treach-
erous rivers, sharp rocks, thirst. starya-
ton and death itself.
Iooay It is possible to step into a pal
ace on wheels in Chicago any evening of
the year, to see farms and railway sta-
tlons and mountain ranges uash by with
klnetoscopic fashion; to eat three meals
from an excellent menu of oysters and
strawberries and turkey and vines: and md
on. the third afternoon, to stand in the
ifornia.
These nine trains are new from engine
to observation car. Darkness is cast out
by means of brilliant electric lights which
make cozy every berth in the sleepers At
the rear end of each train is new style
combination buffet, library and obserya-
ton car. In one corner is bulletin board
! upon which, twice or three times each dav.
Is posted bulletin of the latest teIe.
graph news from all parts of the world.
the Union Pacific having adopted this
unique scheme some months ago. The
tram is sister to the overland limited,
excepting that it cuts the wind at more
rapid gait.
1t was in such luxury that the thirty.
tour newspaper men from all parts of the
country, including New York, Chicago,
Glnclnnatl, Pittsburg, Minneapolis. st.
Paul, Kansas City, Cleveland Omaha,
Denver, Des Moines and Norfolk, made
the trip on the new train in its initial
run, with E. l.. Lomax general passen-
ger agent, and Adolph Darow, advertis-
ing agent of the Union Pacific Railroad.
and ether railroad officials as hosts; it NAV
be imagined that it was always fair wealth.
er from the Mississippi to the Pacific and
return.
The first three days of that Maiden trip
OF this superior train of cars, were spent
IN getting to southern California. The
next four were delightfully."- and graph.
ically written upon thirty-four minds by
means of side trips out from Los Angeles,
and then there were three more in com.
ing home.
Grades have been reduced until the
train rolls along so smoothly that it is
hard to catch the clicks of the rails in
trying to count them. And where curves
have seemed imminent the builders of
this road have paid many millions to bore
through the solid rocks, thus clinging 10
the straight line theory with admirable
foreslghtedness. The outlay in this con-
struction has been tremendous, but the
result has chopped off eighteen hours from
Salt Lake to the sea. and proportionate-
ly as much in bringing fresh California
fruits to the middle west and in taking
Nebraska products to the coast either for
consumption there or for shipment to the
orient
Returning home. Christmas tree was
illuminated on board the train. and on
Christmas night formal banquet IN the
dinlEg car, with all present garbed in tux
edo. became the novel feature of the day.
And, Christmas, the guests of the rail-
roads declared next to being spent at
home. was pleasantest on hoard the Los
Angeles Limited. n. A. HuSE.