Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-03
WESTERN PACIFIC
DETAILS SETTLED
Traffic and Operating Officials
Conclude Two Days Confer
ence in Salt Lake.
FIRST TRAIN ON AUGUST %
Special Carrying officials and News
paper Men WIN Go Over the
Route Two Days Ahead.

After a conference lasting two DAYS
IN which an opening schedule for the
through San Francisco salt Lake serv-
Ice was finally decided upon. the West
ern Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande
OFFICIALS closed their sessions with a
dinner at tho Louvre cafe last evening.
r. l.. Lomax, passenger traffic man
ager for the Western Pacific. an
nounced that the first train In the
through service would leave salt Lake
city at 1880 pm. Monday. Aug. %. ar
irving I'm san Francisco at ~ O'Clock
noon, on Wednesday. Aug. "a The first
eastbound train will leave san Francis
co az pm, arriving in salt Lake at
o'clock on the morning OF Aug. "a
me train leaving salt Lake for the
west VIII leave this city Is minutes aft
err the arrival OF Denver & Rio Grande
train No. 3, from the east, at li:l5 pm.
me eastbound train from San Fran
cisco VIII connect here with Denver &
Rio Grande train No. s, which leaves
for Denver at $40 am.
ONE TRAIN A DAY
For the present. as announced In
Mondays News. the passenger service
VIII be confined TO one train a day
each way, This is to permit the rail-
road people themselves to become thor
oughly acquainted with the road. and
TO try out the demand for accommoda-
lions. Mr. Lomax said that Just as
soon as the line was broken in" "a new
schedule would be put on. and all de-
mands of the traffic. would be met
THE road viii be content to make or
binary speed to begin WITH" said Mr.
Lomax. But with the low grades of
the Western Pacific, being nowhere as
much as l per cent. with the thor
oughly well built track, with new steel
equipment and new locomotives Of the
latest improved type, therell come n
time when we can make time and we
shall DO so. The train out of Salt Lake
VIII carry a standard and tourist car
from Denver, through cars. In addition
there will be a standard from salt Lake
to San Francisco, with space reserved
here, There viii he no delays through
wiring for space, as the car will be here
every day and the space cards accessi-
Bile at all times. We have figured the
schedule out so that passengers arriv-
ing on the morning and afternoon
trains may have the benent of a stop
over in Salt Lake.
INSPECTION SPECIAL.
prior to inaugurating regular scrv-
ice on the road, special train viii be
run out of san Francisco for salt Lake,
carrying officials and newspaper men,
which VIII arrive in salt Lake Aug 10.
Returning. this special will leave Salt
Lake city Aug 20. carrying officials
ana newspaper men from this city. The
train will tie up at Winucmucca the
first night and at Oroville the second.
TO enable the passengers to see the
scenic beauties OF the road by daylight
After the banquet last evening, the
Denver e. Rio Grande officials In at
tendance at the conference, consisting
Of Horace w Clarke, vice president
and general manager. w. 5. Martin,
assistant general manager, and F. a.
Wadleigh. assistant general passenger
agent, left for Denver.
The Western Pacific officials. consist
ing OF T.. l.. LomaN, passenger traffic
manager, and g. NJ. Levey, general
manager. will leave for san Francisco
this afternoon. MIR. DomaX will ia all
probability return TO Salt Lake before
Aug. %. when through passenger serY-
ice will be inauEuratcd.