The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-28
Chickens Come Home
Farmer Gets His Due
Railroad Plans Colonist
Trains with Victrola Con-
certs and Lounging Cars
DE LUKE TRAVEL
AT LOW FARE
Union Pacific to Run Excur-
sion Trains to San Fran
cisco in Three DAYS

Omaha, Neb., Aug. 28.-"Chickens
Come Home to Roost." That trite
old saying has come true in the case
of the farmers and the railroads at
last. The farmer was the real cause
of the railroad. If it had not been
for him and his products there would
not have been any railroads, and so.
finally, the farmers value has been
officially recognized by the Union
Southern Pacific System.
The great bulk of coloniSt travel
every year is made up of farmers or
farmers sons and daughters going to
the New West to seek out homes for
themselves. In the past-at least
until last spring-they travelled on
colonist tickets that were good in the
ordinary tourist cars, and in the tour
ist cars they stayed while on the trip.
Now Gerrit Fort, passenger traffic
manager of the Union Pacific Rail-
road company has announced that the
colonist trains that will be run from
Omaha to San Francisco, and other
Western points, September 16, II and
18, and October Is, IA, 1 5 and 16, will
be trains de luxe-in fact they are to
be officially known as Colonist Trains
de Luxe-and will be practically the
equal of many limited trains. The
unique features of these trains will be
Victor and Victrola concerts, loung-
ing car, popular priced diner. and
comfortable tourist sleepers.. All this
for the homeseeker-the real colon
list. who represents far mroe money to
the railroad than does the casual
tourist.
The Victrola concerts-there are to
be three of them day, in order that
all may have an opportunity to hear
will be given in the lounging car.
lob fn q
loungi1g cars of limited trains-will
be one Of the new, comfortable, high
backed seat coaches used by the road,
and will be open during the day and
evening; but no travellers are to be
allowed to use it over night, as the
train is solid through tourist sleep.
ing car train. The records for the
ones, and will include songs, instru-
metal music, humorous monologueS
and dialect sketches.
In the diner, the menu will be so
arranged that a full dinner may be
had as low as so cents, or, if the
meals, they may supplement them
with hot coffee or tea at 10 cents.
half grape fruit for the same amount.
or similar articles at correspondinglyi
low prices.
The schedule of the Colonist Trains
de Luxe will enable the traveller to
leave Omaha at 5 p. M, and be in
Sacramento at $40 a. m; Oakland at
$50 a. M; and San Francisco at ITO
a. m. on the third day. Or, If ne Il
routed to Los Angeles via the Salt
Lake route, his car will be transferred
at Ogden and he will be whipped
down to Salt Lake and thence to his
destination; arriving there at 2:30 p.
M, on the third day. Or, if he de-
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thence enjoy the daylight ride, via the,
Coast line 'of the Southern Pacific to
Los Angeles, arriving there at 11:45
p. m, third day. Portland, Tacoma
and Seattle passengers will be chang
ed at Green River, and they also Will
arrive at Portland at 12:45 p. m. of
the third day; arriving Tacoma and
Seattle in the evening, same day. This
time is eight hours ahead of the fast
est time now made by trains carrying
the colonist business, and whips the
travellers across the country on prac-'
tically limited train schedule.
There's nothing too good for our
colonist," said Mr.. Fort, today. eve
have been told that the innovations
we propose on these trains are i'm
possible at the low fares granted. But
we know better. The high speed
maintained, the comfortable tourist
sleeping cars used, the lounging car
and all our other new features viii
attract to us just the people we want
the men and women with some cap
ital that want to find a place in which
to build new homes. We will take
them to this new country and takc
them there comfortably, so that they
will arrive in a frame of mind com
patible with the object of their. jour
ney and not tired out and rumpled, so
that they are ready to climb on the
first train to the East"