Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-08
v|RC|N|ANs DELAYED IN
REACHING SAN FRANCISCO
Accident to Engine Causes Five-Hour
Loss, Which 1t Is Impossible
to Make Up.
THIS is BIG DAY ON PROGRAM
Governor and Party Stay on Train
for Good Nights Rest, While Blues
Go to Hotel and Get First Real
Bath Since Leaving Richmond.

RENO. NEW. July 7.-When the Vir-
Sinians awoke on this. the fifth day
OF their journey to California, they
found they had covered only 100 miles
during the night The big oil-burn-
ing locomotive had lost it's wick" or
met with sone other accident. and
before another could be brought out
and swung to the head OF the long steel
TAIN. five hours had been lost The
fastest schedule possible had already
been arranged for the special, and 1t
not only became apparent that no time
could be made up. but also that. inste1d
or arriving at San Francisco at 8
VIII be at least o'clock OF the morn
ing Of July S. Virginia Day at the
exposition.
Then came a debate as to whether
the party should retire tonight on the
train and get good nights rest, with
the cars parked in the railroad yards
at Oakland or detrain and go to their
hotels. Everybody in the Governors
party appeared to favor an early hour
for retiring. so as TO be able to get up
fresh and at bright and early hour
on Virginia Day.
Major f. w. Bowlcs. commanding
the Blues Battalion, however, said
that his boys would get UP great
deal freshcr' il they got to their
hotel and got the first real bath since
leaving Richmond, the only kind on
the road being TO get up in the night
and in birthday clothes sneak under
the spout Of A railroad tank and pull
tho lever. This wise counsel prevailed,
and orders were accordingly issued for
the San Francisco hotels TO draw on
the Pacihc Ocean for reinforced sup
ply OF washing water" for the Vir-
gnians at o'clock IN the morning,
and two soap factories requested to
nj
TO help the sons OF the Old Dominion
/, get rid of "A fve-day accumulation Of
cinders and a!kali dust, the latter hay-
ing taken the place of the former nuis-
ance when the oil-burning locomotives
took the place of the coal-burning type
in use in the East.
Northern tourists in the South
should not complain that il is the
only section OF the country where there
are intolerable railroad delays On
several occasions the Nirginians have
met with delays through poor or run
down equipment, and EIobe-trotters
encountered the ground have been
forced to TESS up and admit that
when they complained in the South
of what they had charged to be it's
Exclusively bad train SERVICE" that
they were only fooling" and that the
West, more especially the Far West,
was A much worse offender in this
The VirCinians to-day found history
in the West decidedly conflicting. Yes
terday evening At Salt Lake City Jo-
seph Perry. one OF the most promi
nent and richest members of the Nor
mon Church, in an impassioned address
within the shadow of the sacred
temple OF Zion City. barred to all but
few OF the faithful, declared to what
he termed the fair-minded men of the
! Old Dominion" that when Brigham
Young reached the present site of Salt
Lake City, he raised his hands toward
heaven and shouted. This is the place"
declaration more recently adopted
! by the present Chamber of Commerce
as the slogan of Sal; Lake City But
as the Nirginians' special was bowling
| along to-day. many miles west Of Salt
Lake City. the vivacious and intensely
polite little French dining car con-
| ductor ran in and breathlessly shouted,
| Dis is zee place"
II proved to be Reno. New. Members
Of the Virginia party are divided in
| their sentiments as TO whether Mr.
Perry or the dining car conductor is
right. Mr.. Perry incidentally Is the
son OF Virginia parents who emigrated
TO Utah from Tazewell County during
the early days of Zion City and en-
braced Mormonism. His wife is a
daughter OF Joseph F. Smith. the
present head of the Mormon Church.
He is proud of his Virginia ancestry
and aba ndoned an important business
trip yesterday in order to meet Gov
ernor Stuart and the Blues