The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-14
SPECIAL TRAIN
BOOSTERS RETURN
ENTHUSIASTIC REPORTS GIVEN
BY ALL ON BOISE VISIT-TRIP
COMPLETE SUCCESS

BY ALL ON BOISE VISIT-TRIP
COMPLETE SUCCESS
Returning with reports of a mos
successful trip and best of timesoi1
Boise the North Idaho Special
rolled into Moscow at $3.50 Sunda,
night with its cargo of northern Ida
no and Moscow people, university
undergraduates, University Pep band
and Coach Thomas Kelley's triumph
ant football men, The lateness o1
the train was caused by an accident
near Ash between Umatilla and Wa
Hula, when defective rail or de
fective wheel caused the train te
jump putting the baggage car rear
trucks off the track and the from
trucks of the engines tender
The accident happened shortly be-
fore IL o'clock Sunday morning and
caused delay of three hours. Nc
one was hurt and as the train was
travelling at Q moderate rate OF speed
there was no jar. Passengers failed
to realize that the tender and baggage
car had been derailed until word OF
the accident was circulated around
the crowd.
A Pleasant Diversion
AS no one was hurt the passengers
regarded the accident as one of the
unique experiences OF the trip. Un-
dergraduates and Moscow towns
people walked up to the head Of the
train to watch the trainmen. put the
wheels back on the track. The stop
gave number of the undergraduates
q chance to stroll around the hills
.and down to the Snake river. It is
hof fhn Ey
A. Klippel, travelling passenger agent
in charge of the train, were the only
ones that the accident bothered.
At Boise upon the arrival Of the
train on schedule time there Thurs
day noon a crowd estimated at from
1900 to 1000 were at the railroad sta
ton to greet their northern idaho
friends. A parade was formed imme-
sdiately, headed by the University Pep
band, and almost the entire train
crowd marched through the Boise
streets waving to the crowds on the
sidewalks. The parade wound up at
the Chamber Of Commerce where all
the visitors registered. Thereafter,
or from Thursday noon to Saturday
at midnight, the Capital city belong
ed to the visitors and the under
graduates.
Boise College Town
Boise looked like a college town
and acted like one. Everywhere were
the Idaho colors of silver and gold
The big game, which came out SO sue
cessful1y, and the other Armistice
Day attractions brought crowds OF
visitors from all over southern Idaho
until it was estimated that 35 900
people were in Boise on Friday.
The members of the northern Idaho
delegation were accorded the finest
of treatment and every passenger re-
turned to Moscow with enthusiastic
reports OF Boise and Boise people.
The trip was so successful that a
special train each year promises to
be one of the features OF the annual
Armistice Day game at Boise.
Following is the story of the spec
ial's arrival in Boise as it appeared
in The Statesman:
Greeted by a crowd of 1900 at the +
Oregon Short Line station Thursday
at 1:45 the northern Idaho and Mos
COW visitors, University of Idaho un-
dergraduates, Coach Kelley's varsity
football squad and the University
Pep band, 131 strong, were given a
royal reception as they stepped from
the eight-coach North Idaho" or
Friendship Special" Boise people
and high school students jammed the
station platform to be the first to
shake hands with their northern Ida
ho friends.
COrdiality Strikes Home
Bosses welcome was indeed cor
dial one and the visitors were tnthu-
siastic in their praises of the recep-
o;< Tv,or nod ofoI "
after the arrival Of the train a parade
oep band. The line OF march was
north on Tenth street to Main, east
IN Main to Seventh street, north to
Idaho street and to the Chamber of
Commerce where all the visitors reg
stored. An informal reception was
leld at the Chamber of Commerce X
rooms.
Coach Kelley allowed his football !
nen to parade up Main street but they !
we're soon picked up in automobiles
ind taken to their headquarters at !
he Owyhee hotel The entire per- {
Ionnel of the special train was not {
n the parade as several Of the uni
versity undergraduates on the train {
re from Boise and they were rushed r
If to their homes as soon as the r
rain arrived.
Stop Made at Nampa 4
At Nampa party including Robert
}. Jones, secretary Of state, L. F.
PARSONS, executive secretary ~ the ii
and acting chief deputy in {
ernal revenue collector, and Harry '
/. Lawson met the train. 4 short o
top was made there giving he pass \
ngers an opportunity to get Oft the 2
rain and the pep band chance to {
sound-off" on several sna2py pieces. I
At 3 o'clock Moscow visitors were
AIKEN around the city in automobiles n
n a sight seeing tour while the un /
assembled at he high +
chool and later in Columbia park t
or what is termed in the vernacular c
I the college and high school stu tt
ent as "pep rally" "
Gay with the colors Of the rival b
ootball teams, yellow and white for
be University of Idaho and brown "
nd orange for the University Of Wy b
ming, the Chamber of Commerce +
resented gala appearance Thurs ?
ay evening when the two teams and Fl