The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-14

o'clock. General Superintendent E.
buckingham of the Oregon Short Line
mad met his chief at Green River and
was the first man off the train. Vice
President Bancroft showed I'D very
soon from his office, accompanied bv
General Freight Agent Reeves ana
several other local officials of the Ore
soh snort Line. 1t was nearly fifteen
minutes before Hartman made his an
pearance and in the meantime. Stubbs
hruttschnitt, Calvin and J. Ross Clark.
Vlce-president of the Salt Lake route.
appeared from their several private
cars scattered about the yards and at
1;Z0 O'Clock Hartman appeared. He
had just finished dinner and after
shaking hands with the members of the
party he led the way around the front
of his train and with Vice-President
Bancroft started in to inspect the new
yards. Down across the piles of dirt.
through the gate of the wooden fence
and into the new freight depot he went.
He lodged into a refrigerator car and
out again to see the condition of the
produce within, and covered every foot
OF the new building upstairs and down
. fine building" was his comment
when he finished
}. Ross Clark, vice-president of the
Gan Pedro; +. A. Wann, traffic man
aSer of that road, and General Manag-
er Wells had come in a special car to
meet Hartman here yesterday after
noon. Vice-President Clark reports a
large construction crew finishing up
work on the repairing and strengthen
ing of the Meadow Valley wash dis
trict of the San Pedro.
Looked at SaItair Depot.
After a significant stroll through the
4
air Beach company, the party took a
car for town. Mr.. Hartman was
squeezed in on the outside of a seat
with wash woman. Half way UP
town the woman got out and an old
man attempted to get in. Hartman
got up and helped him. The party left
the car at Main and Second South
streets and walked to the general Of
tlces of the Oregon Short Line in the
News building. The conference was
immediately called and lasted until af-
ter O'Clock last night. Then Harri-
man went to his car. had dinner and
at $3.50 o'clock the train was pulled ont
TO Saltair. Hartman spent an hour 60
ing over the pavilion and watching the
dancers and other crowds at the resort
Inc train was pulled out onto an arm
of the for the night and here Har-
riman and party slept.
II seems more than probable that
Hartman has secured control of Salt
air and the railroad to the beach, in
spite of his refusal to commit himself
on the subject last night. If such is
the case it is certain that the resort will
De enlarged and the road thereto
electrified
Hartman did not want to discuss
labor questions nor railroading. Ask
ed finally for some sort of a voluntary
statement, he answered quickly, Il
don't believe l could pick my way
across that mud in high-heeled slip
pers as nicely az that girl has DONE"
as his glance wandered to a girl cross
ing a muddy place in the Oregon Short
Line yards.
I'm out on both pleasure and bust
ness" he said. Don't know when I'll
return to the east. I'll be ready for
any court actions they may have start
ed when 1 get back" That was prac-
tically all he mad to say.
HaTriman's two sons are with him
and their tutor and a doctor The boys
are healthy looking youngsters. Yes
terday they went automobile riding
over the city.