The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-04

eastern crest OF the Sierras that lie burned
in the sun just west OF the town had
slipped from its moorings and plunged
down on this Insignificant little cluster
of stone and wood
Between o'clock this morning and the
rising OF the sun on Independence Day
over 100 railroad cars from the two car
dinal points of the railroad compass East
and West Will have backed into Reno.
dumped their suffering freight, and pulled
out 10 freer space or desert for all the
world like big BIZ Edwards snow carts
backing onto wharf over East River
10 unload
The first train over the mountains
from the Coast gets in before daylight
Is as strong as the electrics over the
gamblers hives, and in the three extra
cars that Il hauled on the TAN of the
line there were $50 red-eyed sports who
had sat up all night through the smoky
snowsheds because there was not a berth
TO be had for Raisulrs ransom. Hardly
had these folk lost themselves in the
drifting crowd Of panhandlers, hoboes.
and common buns, which had clustered
the streets all night before another long
train of day coaches from San Francisco
which had daliied at Sacramento. An
burn, Dutch Flat, and all the mountain
towns up TO the summit 10 pick m the
local bloods. snorted up 10 the station
discharged its freight. and straightaway
switched back 10 the mountain track
again. bound for another load.
Special from Seattle.
The first special train arrived At q
o'clock from Seattle. It had come over
the Oregon Short Line. through ogden
because Of the sheer press of traffic on
the Western end of the Southern Pacific
Nine dusty Pullmans were in line hehind
the heavy engine and one dining-car
Sports. these Seattle fellows. and tbev
didn't care who knew II, The first arti-
cles Of luggage that came out Of the
combined smoker and baggare car were
the three surviving cases of champagne
that had defied extinction on the desert
and right up to the special rooms In the
various hotels were reserved and walfing
went the champagne.
Fourteen cars on a special train pulled
in from Ogden at few minutes after II
O'Clock. They were filled with Mormons
venerable elders. with boards hanging
over their expansive shirt bosoms. made
no bones Of showing that they had come
to Reno to see a fight. and not 10 nrosa-
lyte among the gamblers. If there was =
Mormon preacher on the train. he kant
his identity hidden among his kin. for
there has been only one preacher die
tinguishable as such, visible on The
streets Of Reno in the last two davs.
and, as Reno puts it. he was "panned
proper"
AS fas1 as the specials came in tbev
were ehoo-chooed up the track TO ba ya-
tered and stocked with gas. then slinned
over on a siding, where they viii stav
until the great exodus begins on the
night after the fight Lucky members Of
these special parties VIII sleep and dine
on ihelr trains, and they can put a GEN
lie hnger to the nose any time man
asks them how they like life in Reno.
San Francisco Party In.
The "MiIlIonaires' speciar' from San
Francisco. which is to be the clasxias+
traln OF uhe lot, outside of the New Yorl,
special, slipped down the grade from, tbs
West at noon to-day. The train was
made up Of seven Pullman seeuers ana
buffet and baggage car. Rosy runor has
it that there is not man who was
aboard that cannot sign his check for
like a,ssnillion, and they are for
the most part members Of the Bohemian
and Union League clubs of San Fran
cisco. They were 200 strong. and strong
also for a white mans victory to-mor-
row. Each OF them wore in the Iapel of
his coat big white button. inscribed.
Good luck to Tex Rickard, the gamest
sport on earth"
As the special cars and special trains
began 10 pile up from East and West
this afternoon, the traffic managers he
gan to spread them out along the man
Sparks, the end OF the railroad division
three miles. and some shucks OF town
Itself. began to draw long strings of |
Pullmans before noon. There Is a trolley |
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Popular Excursion, BaItIriore & Ohio
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