The San Francisco call., 1910-08-21
right ON Time
THE W.P. TRAIN
Service BEGINS
First Cross Continent Passenger
Coaches Pull Out From
Salt Lake City
Traffic Manager Lomax Makes
Graceful Response to Pres
entatiOn by His Guests
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


ELko, Nev.. Aug. 20.-Besides the
warm summer sun finging early arrows
down over the wasatch nobody much
got up to witness the Western Pacific
begin its regular cross continent pas
senger service.
y Passenger Traffic Manager Lomax
has hobby it runs against what he
calls loafng around stations, wherefore
the special though it had ZOO miles
OF c!ear track ahead of it, found its feet
on the dot of a. m. no matter who
might have yielded to the allurements
OF pressure loving Salt Lake and so
missed connections with the schedule
lnoeeo most of the party were still
buried deep in the berth and stateroom
comforts Of the special when it rolled
away from the new Salt Lake city de-
pot, from which overnight the last
trace Of the builders had been removed.
SUMPTI0US RAILWAY HOUSING
Ihere is no finer railway housing in
all the far west than this same depot.
II looks all of the $750,00O one is told
il cost
overnight the party had grown in
Importance and equipment by the COM
ing OF railroad officials and newspaper
even
east. In charge of Major s. K Hooper
general passenger agent of the Denvry
and Rio Grande, is a party of Colorado
neWspapermen and railroad officials
Ihey joined the party at Salt Lake city
ana spent part of Friday afternoon in
inspecting the new Denver and Rio
eIranoe and western Pacific depot and
terminal facilities Their cars were ar
tached to the special during Friday
night The party will accompany the
speclal to San Francisco and will return
at its leisure.
DISTINGUISHED PAsSENCEpS
Those in the party are: Major X
Hooper. general passenger agent Den-
yer and Rio Grande; c. L. Stone. pass
enger traffic manager, Missouri Pacific.
ralIWay; A s. Andrews, Pueblo Chief
tan, William Scully, Colorado Springs
erald-Telegraph; Frank C. Farrar.
Rocky Mountain News; ]. C. HilHard.
Denver Republican; Frank L. Webster
Denver Post. The Salt Lake newspener
fraternity is represented by Kenneth
Z. Kerr. president of the Salt Lake
Press club and railroad editor of the
Sat Lake Tribune; Arthur Brown.
Salt Lake Herald Republican; W. r
sloan salt Lake Telegram; j. W. HYDE.
Deseret Evening News. Homer Carr
represents the Chicago Tribune on the
trip. having come west with the Den
yer aggregation.
Besides the newspapermen. 6 V
Doran, assistant general freight agent
Of the Western Pacific and the Denver
and Rio Grande and Salt Lake. H
Twining, district superintendent of the
Fuliman company, and c. r. Erwin
PRESIDENT of Lord & Thomas. Chicago
joined the party at Salt Lake CITY.
Among the distinguished accessions
to the party is c. r. Erwin, head of
the great advertising agency of Lord
Thomas, Chicago. Erwin is on the
special merely as sightseer, having
come all the way from Chicago to
make the first run over the new road
as the guest of his old personal friend.
Lomax.
CONGRESSMAN KAHN
And then there is Julius Kahn. of
Whom train wag says, TT is better
TO De born Kahn than to be born rich"
JULIUS Is new come from helping the
western governors in council assem-
oled TO decide how conservation should
De spelled and pronounced and from
swimming with them in what is left of
that geological .and scientific puzzle.
the ancient lake of Bonneville, or. as
some sticklers would have It. La Hon
tan. incidentally Kahn has just been
slipping over a good one for the Pan
ANA Pacific exposition in the shape of
an Endorsement by the governors that
promises to ripen in due course into
legislative resolutions from healthy
bunch OF western states
In due time the special glided over
the billiard table levels of the mar
velous salt beds that are to make the
University of Utah the richest institu-
ton of the kind in the world, provided
the federal supreme court sees the mat
ter the university's way, and then word
went from coach to coach that there
would be something worth witnessing
in the new steel club car up ahead
before long. Coatless. vestless cap
less they gathered, and the camera
man got ready.
CALIFoRNIANs START SOMETHING
The host of all these festivities was
lured in and. unsuspectingly enough.
waited for somebody to start some
thing. The newspaper contingent. led
by the Californians. started it, The
train just then halted, and they woke
the sleeping desert with this chorus:
Has anybody here seen Lomaxs
L-O-M-A-Xi
Has Anybody here seen Lomaxf
Lomax with the new railroad.
Sure, and his hair is thin
Ard he wears grin
And the S. P. he will skin!
Has anybody here seen Lomaxi
Lomax, the P. 7. N.
Now, Lomax is a modest mild man
nered man. He was covered with con-
fusion and vet amused Colonel George