The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-09-04
A TEN MINUTE TRIP
QUICK PASSAGE FROM NEW YORK
TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Latest Device in the Moving Picture
Line Is Remarkably Realistic
Seems Like Actual Travel
BY Railroad.

by hailroau.
As you are passing with the throug
along this busy city shopping street
you hear presently a sound unexpeCt-
ed there, that of locomotive bell.
rung with the slow dehveration with
which the fireman pulls the bell rope
Just as the engine IS about to start.
AS you approach a little nearer you
hear somebody shout "All aboardl
and a moment later you come upon a
little crowd Of people halted and
looking ia at a store whose entire
front on the ground floor has been re-
moved Looking in with the rest you
End yourself viewing the late
wrinkle In the moving picture bust
ness.
The ceiling IS supported, apparently,
by iron trusses, giving a semblance
of the appearance of the trussed roof
train shed of a railroad station.
Backed mp in this train shed you see
TIE ends of two railroad passenger
ears.
You hear the bell clang again. com
ing. as it seems. from the locomotive
up ahead and hear once more the
shout "All aboard and then you buy
ticket at a ticket office on one side
and drop IT into the ticket takers box
and pass on inside the platform rail
ing and over 30 one of the cars and
step up IT'S steps and so on within
the car itself
There you find It rather smaller
than You had expected but IL is very
carlke for all that, a regular railroad
car, with its aisle and its seats and
windows on either side.
The passengers all aboard. that is
to say when the car is pretty well
filed up, which Is train time on this
road the lecturer or guide walks down
the long aisle TO the front end of the
car, and then If of the two cars you
have chosen the one for San Fran
cisco, you will hear him beginning
Ladies and Gentlemen: This is the
Overland Limited Special bound for
San Francisco. where we shall view
the wonderful ruins of that splendid
city devastated by earthquake and
Gre All aboard"
Thereupcn You hear the engine bell
clang and feel ana hear the car wheels
turn and rumble under yop and feel
The motion of the car as it starts on
It's Journey You feel the humping
/ lnd rolling motion Of the car rolling
Al hg the rails and rocking as it
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Then the lights in the car 90 out
and the shutters at the forward end
)f the car fly back, and the first
hing you know you find yourself look.
ing at scenes in the streets OF the
burned area of San Francisco, with
men and horses and wagons passing
% and 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 rocking 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,
ss from a car rounding curve.
SO Il continues for ten minutes, the
length of the show, and then the pic.
lures 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 alleyway that you
now discover leading to the side OF
The station, and between it and the
sidewall Of the store I'm which the sta
tlon is built and so on out again TO
the street
out there, Just back yourself you
are likely, before passing on. TO pause
for a moment to look at the bunch OF
people standing on the Sidewalk In
front. as you had stood a few minutes
before looking IN al the railroad sta
tion and at the ends Of the cars
standing there looking in al the rail
road station and at the ends of the
cars standing there with their tail
lights brightly burning and listening
90 the changing OF the engine bell and
20 the can aboard and meditaung
as they looked and listened. as you
had done on whether they hadn't bet
Ter blow in a dime and take that triT
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