Weekly journal-miner., 1918-10-09
b|G CROWD SEES COLLECTION OF
 WAR TROPHIES
LIBERTY LOAN AIN STOPS HERE TWO HOURS ON WAY NORTHWARD AS GATHERING INS PECT $ BATTLE MACHINERY.
(From Fridays Dailv0

| gave the residents of the city, close up view of some of the specimens of the modern weapons which are now being used on the battlefields in Europe, shree cars of the train carry ing cannon and trophies of all sorts from the big conflict. Accompany ing this interesting and educational exhibit was a corps of speakers, sing CTS and musicians, and during the two hours which the train stopped here, the big crowd was entertained by band music, solos and short talks by men who have been in the thick of the battle and could exhibit empty sleeves, etc, as visual evidence that they had been targets for the bullets and shells which came from the di- rection of the front lines of the Teu tonic armies.
 About 1000 persons greeted the special when it arrived at the Santa Fe station. The train contained be- sides the three cars carrying the bat tie trophies two Pullmans which were occupied by the speakers and attend ants. The train came here from Phoe- nix and proceeded northward at 2:3O. It was run primarily for the purpose of awakening interest in the present liberty loan. the battle implements being brought along to show the citi zcns samples of the equipment which is being purchased with the funds which they were loaning to Uncle Sam. Two of the exhibition cars were open flat cars upon which had been loaded a collection of field guns, trench mortars, depth bombs, floating mines. and many other sorts of less known though equally deadly war equipment. One car contained three Austrian 47 field guns which had been originally loaned to the Huns and later captured by the British. The official in charge of the train told the crowd that the guns were on the verge of becoming obsolete, having been manufactured in 1882 and being of the old-time slow-fire sort which modern guns had endeed well-nigh useless. Another car contained a fine collection of smaller relics, the list including machine guns, gas masks, Hun clubs used to finish off wounded Allied troopers found on the battlefields, razors to use in cut ting the throats of English, French and Aperican captivcs, and nearly every other brand of diabolical in strument which Teutonic "kultur" has been able to devise for killing and torturing the enemy. Three Lewis machine guns attracted much interest as the big crowd filed through the cars, and a specimen of the noted French gun commonly known as the "75S" received lot of admiration.
 The personnel of the party in charge of the train included wound ed soldiers from many of the Allied armies which are lined up against the common enemy of civilization, An zacs. Scotch, Canadians. British and Yanks being there to tell of their ex- periences in France and Belgium. While none of the boys were polish ed orators. all of them got their brief messages over in remarkably good fashion and all elicited much applause from the big crowd. Two or three of the boys had been invalided back be- cause they had been gaSsed. while others mad lost their arms. Two ot the youngsters were still nursing raw wounds as the result of being perforated by Hun rifle bullets, and a giant New Zealandcr took off his belt and showed the gathering hole which had been punched through it by a big German who had attempt ed to bayonet the man who wore 1t. However. the Anzac was glad to re- mark that the bayonet wound hadn't been very serious and that the fool ish Hun who had attempted to kill him had himself been sent down to the place where all Huns belong.
 Rev. A. B. Simpkins of Salt Lake City delivered a somewhat lengthy address in which he called attention 10 the vital necessity of subscribing to the present loan in order that the Americans might be enabled to fol- low ID the victories which they have won du.ing the past few weeks.
 Through the courtesy of General Manager w. \. Drake of the s F. r. IS ?. Railroad, the train was allowed to stop tor about 20 minutes at Fort Wh;pple while the invalid soldiers were given an opportunity to inspect the display of relics and minglc with the boys who had come from lover there"
 The train was in charge of Arthur N Free. district attorney of Santa Clara county, California, and at the points along the line where the stop of the special was not limited to such short period, Mr. Fee delivered speeches. which according to reports. were being received with the greatest