The San Francisco call., 1910-08-20
". P. PARTY IN
SALT LAKE IS
BUTTON LADEN
Citizens of the IntermOuntain
Metropolis Converted by
Fair Enthusiasts
Whole City Boosts for Big
Exposition Soon After
Arrival

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 1s.-The in
termountain metropolis may be inter
ested in the Western Pacifc's formal
opening, but it is not excited For one
thing, Salt Lake is having a congress
OF western governors and for another,
II has had the new road served up to
it with its coffee and its tea for many
years. Now it wants to ride on the
new cars and to have them produce
the promised additions to its pros
perity.
Thus it befeu that the newspapermen
were the ministers of hospitality to
the Western Pacific party. greeting
them as the special pulled into the
imposing new combination depot of
the Denver and Rio Grande and West
ern Pacific and entertaining them most
agreeably. All the rest of this hustling
city was otherwise busy.
Early tomorrow Passenger Traffic
Manager LomaN will give the signal
for the beginning of the roads formal
opening. Back over the same route
will 60 an augmented and growing
party. Colorado sends half a dozen,
all ethics press or railroad men. From
nearly every Nevada town on or near
the new line that has a newspaper there
is or viii be a correspondent by the
time the special crosses the California
line
FAIR WHOLE SHOW
Naturally enough, there is much
about the Panama Pacific in this jour
ney. 1t figures in most of the yells
composed, and they are fully rehearsed
by the yOun gsters Of the party. Salt
Lake grins at their slogans and puts
on a Panama Pacific button. The party
is toasted on these decorations wher-
ever il goes. and the public here and
elsewhere appears genuinely and heart
lily interested in CalifOrnia's daring
project.
Possibly tomorrow the people of Salt
Lake generally may exhibit some such
lively concern in the Western Pacific
ceremonies as is shown by the city's
newspa pers and newspapermen. 1t GER
tainiy would If any part of the func-
tion had been arranged to take place
here The road signifies much to
community whose progress depends
wholly on rail transportation. 1t puts
the seat Of that empire which the astute
Mormon leaders envisioned on the main
line and makes it actually and directly
a transcontinental cross road.
CITY'S GROWTH PREDESTINED
BY and by the Salt Lakers viii see
many and greater skyscrapers lifting
above the few built now. and will
rightly credit them to the railroads.
prominently among them the Western
Pacific. Eighty million dollars has
gone already TO back the judgment
which drove the new transcontinental
trail this way. The raising of divi-
dends and interest on that great sum.
as yet hardly begun. must bring to
and through Salt Lake a large and
constant stream Of business from which
II will lawfully take it's toll
It was after l p. m. today when the
special arrived. Nearly every mem
Der Of the Press club Of Salt Lake City
gathered at the new union depot to
welcome the party. Invitations had
been received while the special train
was still in Nevada to a luncheon at
the Commercial club. an organ recital
at the tabernacle, and a trip up Emil
grafton canyon. the historic way by
which the Mormon pioneers came over
the Wasatch range to this fair land.
It was too late for the luncheon. but
through the efforts of the Salt Lake
press representatives a special organ
recital was given shortly after two
o'clock.
TRIP THROUGH CANYON
Following the recital in the taber-
nacle a special car was taken through
the principal business streets and the
residence section. of the city Then a
up Emigration canyon. Kenneth c.
Kerr, railroad editor of the Salt Lake
Tribune and president of the Press
club, acted as escort and the scribes
and the railroad officials were taken
TO an altitude of more than 5000 feet
through one of the most beautiful can
yons in the west. It was through this
canyon that the first Missouri party
passed on its way west and settled
in the great valley of the Salt lake
During the afternoon a special train
from Colorado in charge of Major s. X
Hooper, general passenger agent of the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad. ar
rived in the city and their car was at
fached 10 the special. which will leave
tomorrow morning at o'clock In the
party are Frank Ferar. Rocky Noun
fain News; J. @. Hilliard, Denver Re-
publican; F. l. Webster, Denver Post:
William Sully, Herald Dispatch, Colo
rado Springs; A. S. Andrews, Pueblo
Chieftain.
NEW MEMBERS OF PARTY
From this city the following repre-
sentatives of the Utah papers will
board the special and journey to San
Francisco
W J. Sloan, Salt Lake Telegram:
Kenneth Kerr, Salt Lake Tribune; Ar
thur Brown, Salt Lake Herald -Repub-.
1icans J. w. hyde, Deseret News; Ed
ward Charlton, Rocky Mountain News
of Denver, and Frank Francis, Ogden
Standard.
Late tonight a special train with
newspapermen of Chicago and other
cities will arrive. Their car will ac-
company the special to San Francisco
A yell was adopted by the corre-
spondents this morning. Z. L. Lomax
has been voted the most popular man
on the train and the yell is for the
purpose of boosting him 1t was prac-
decd at a small station near the
Nevada-Utah state line. and several of
the natives thought that a wild man
had secured admission to the palatial
special When the scribes descended
from the train here this morning they
formed a circle and yelled at the top
OF their lungs:
BLoODcURDLING YELL
WOW, Wow. Lomax We. Wei
western Pacific, Panama fair. Cali
frrn{aa Wow-w-w-w-wi"
The Salt Lake newspapermen opened
their arms when they heard the call
and i'm less than three minutes every