Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-01-24
A New Trair. 10 Southern California.

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Chicago and Los Angeles shook hands
last week for the first time. The formal
Introduction was made by me Northwest.
ern, the Union Pacific and the san Pedro
rah%ay companies, and now the two cities
ana warm friends. Heretofore the two
nave oeen separated by deserts and Death
alley and the Devils Playground but now
an opening through these obstacles has
been made, and IT Is for the first time pos
sible TO look westward from the city on
Lake Michigan aDdse ii the far end of
the steel ribbons the sparkling blue waters
OF the Pcaihc ocean.
The first transcontinental train over this
new route from salt Lake to Los Angeles,
the Los Angeles Limited left Chicago at
ten o'clock at night on Sunday. Dec. IL,
and reached Los Angeles Wednesday after
noon. The distance of more than 2, 500
miles which had always before. by the
roundabout Frisco route, required eighty
six hours, on four days and three nights,
was made by this new tram in sixty eight
hours.
"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
Union Pacific from Omaha to Salt Lake
ana over Senator Clark's new line from
Salt Lake TO Los Angeles is as straight
a line between the east and the west as
VIII ever be known across America.
IL Is not great many years ago-not
So long ago, In fact, that IL does not still
stand prominently in the memories of the
grandfathers OF America-when n trip from
sea TO sea meant making faces at tedious
months of hardship. wild animlis treach-
erous rivers, sharp rocks, thirst starya-
ton and death itself.
Today II IL possible to step into a pal
ace on wheels in Chicago any evening of
the year. to see farms and railway sta
lions and mountain ranges Dash by with
klnetoscopic fashion: to eat three meals
from an excellent menu Of oysters and
Strawberries and turkey and wines: and.
on the third afternoon. to stand in the
balmy atmosphere of Los Angeles, Cal.
ifornia
These nine trains are new from engine
TO observation car. Darkness is cast out
by means of brilliant electric lights which
make coy every berth in the sleepers At
the rear end of each train is a new stvle
combination buffet, library and observa-
ton car. In one corner is a bulletin board
upon which, twice or three times each dav.
posted bulletin of the latest tele-
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.
Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Minneapolis. st.
Paul, Kansas City, Cleveland. Omaha.
Denver. Des Moines and Norfolk. made
the trip on the new train in it's initial
run. with +. l.. Lomax. general passcn-
ger agent, and Adolph Darov-. advertis-
ing agent Of the Union Pacific Railroad
and ether railroad officials as hosts: it NAV
be imagined that it was always fair wealth
or from the Mississippi to the Pacific and
return.
The first three days of that Maiden trim
OF tins superior train of cars, we're spent
IN getting to southern California. The
next four were delightfully."- and graph.
really written upon thirty-four minds by
means OF side trips out from Los Angeles,
and then there were three NOR, in com.
ing home
Grades have been reduced until the
train rolls along so smoothly that il 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 prorortionate-
ly a. 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, a Christmas tree was
illuminated on board the train, and on
Christmas night formal banquet in the
dinIEg car, with all present CARRIED in tux
edo. became the novel feature of the day
AMI, Christmas, the guests of the rail.
roads declared, next to being spent at
home. was pleasantest on board the Los
Angeles Limited. y. A. HUSE.