The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
SHOWN FROM A RAILROAD CAR.
a Trip 10 san Francisco the Latest wrinkle
Uf tho Moving Picture Business.

n Trip TO san Francisco the Latest Wfinhle
Of tho Moving Picture Business.
As you are passing with the throng along
this busy city shopping street you hear
presently a sound unexpected there, that OF
a locomotive bell, rung with the slow de-
Id ration with which the fireman pulls the
hell rope just as the engine "a about TO start
As you approach a little nearer you hear
somebody shout -All aboardl' anda moment
later you come upon a little crowd Of people
halted and looking in at q store whose entire
front on the ground floor has beer removed.
Looking in with the rest you find yourself
viewing the latest wrinkle In the moving
picture business.
The ceiling is supported, apparently, by
iron ~trusses, giving a semblance OF the APP
pearance Of the trussed roof train she'd OF a
railroad station. Backed up In this train
shed you see the ends of two railroad pas
senger oars.
You hear the bell clang again, coming, as
it seems, from the locomotive up ahead and
hear once more the shout sAll aboardl'
and then you buy a ticket at q ticket Office
on one side and drop it into the ticket takers
box and pass on inside the platform railing
and over to one OF the cars and step up its
steps and so on within the car itself.
There you find it to be rather smaller
than you had expected; but It is very car
like for all that, a regular railroad car,
with its aisle and its seats and windows on
either side.
The passengers all aboard, that Ia to say
when the car is pretty we'll filed up, which
Is train time on this road the lecturer or
guide walks down the long aisle to the
{r0nt and ~ the oar np1 than N IF fha two
cars you nave chosen the one for San Fran
cisco, you will hear hin beginning:
r. Ladies' and gentlemen: This IL the
Overland Limited Special, bound for San
Francisco, where we shall view the wonder
full ruins Of that splendid city devastated by
earthquake and fire. All aboard"
Tnereupon you hear the engine bell clang
and feel and hear the car wheels turn and
rumble under you and feel the motion of
the car as it starts on its journey. You feel
the humping and rolling motion Of the car
rolling along the rails and rocking as it
rounds the curves-all very realistic.
Then the lights in the car go out and the
shutters at the forward end OF the chr fly
back, and the first thing you know you find
yourself looking at scenes in the streets OF
the burned area OF San Francisco. with men
and horses and wagons passing TO n fro
amid the ruins.
The guide describes the scenes as they
pass, or as you seem to come upon them
for sometimes, when the car has that rock
Ing motion on, the pictures no longer seem
to be passing the car, but you seem to be
picking up the scenes. bringing them into
view, as from a car rounding a curve.
so IL continues for ten minutes, the length
Of the show, and then the pictures stop,
and the lights in the car reappear. and then
you hear the guide saying: This way.
please, out at the front door, and you
make your way there with the rest Of the
passengers and step down from the forward
end Of the car into an alleyvay that you
now discover leading along the side OF the
railroad station, and between it and the
side wall Of the store in which the station
is built, and 30 on out again to the street.
Out there, just back yourself, you are
likely, before passing, on, to pause for a
standing on the sidewalk In front, as you
had stood a few minutes before, looking
in at the railroad station and. at the ends
Of the cars standing there with their tall
lights brightly burning. and listening to
the changing Of the engine bell and to the
aAll aboard and meditatlng. as they
looked and listened, as you had done, on
whether they hadn't better blow in a dime
and take that trip to San Francisco.