The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-06-16
ADMIRALS TRAIN
MAKES PARK TRIP
People From M an j
Places and Walks Of
Life are Passengers

The "Admirals' train passed thru
Blackfoot Monday night at / o'clock
enroute to the Yellowstone park. It
returned empty on Tuesday evening,
the long line of Pullmans telling the
story of an annual pilgrimage.
The "Adrimals' train" is made up
at Salt Lake City to carry employees
to the Yellowstone park for service
in the hotels for the season which
lasts from about June 20 to Septem-
Der 20. They are employed by the
dining car department of the Oregon
Short Line at Ogden and the date is
set for them to be at Salt Lake or
points north of there for the trip in.
"The Admirals" consist of cooks,
walters, office help, laundry people
and all others needed to operate
hotels and tent houses among the
high peaks. The crowd is made up
largely of hotel help from Southern
California, the winter season being
the peak period there and the sum-
mer the dull season. They 60 to the
Yellowstone for three months and
then return to the land of sunshine
for the rest of the year.
There are also among them, many
school teachers from everywhere, as
we'll as young men and women of
delicate health, who need to get out
in natures restorative and sleep in
tents where they can work for the
summer. Stenographers and other
office helpers from the hot cities of
the east and south, make engage
ments for the park season and by
means of the QUESTIONABLE system of
enlistment they are placed in the SER
vice where they can do the things
they are adept at.
1t is jolly company, the "Ad-
mirals' train Nearly all young
folks, of good character, coming
from everywhere and looking for ad-
venture and experience as well as for
new acquaintances, they not only
meet vast throng of workers like
themselves, but they meet, see or
serve travellers from all over the
world. 1t is great period in the
life of young persons who have not
been out very much, this three
of service in the wonderland
of America, where they have hours
of leisure to visit among themselves
and to some extent among the travel
ers and to get out and enjoy the
beauties Of the park.
Youth owns the earth and enjoys
all that's in it. When these young
people come together it is company
of dare-devils and advanturers to
some extent, and each one feeling
that he, or she, owns the earth and
all that's with it, steps aboard the
train like an admiral on his flagship,
hence the name ''The Admirals'
train"
' The train reaches Yellowstone in
the morning, be design, for there is
no hotel there to accommodate them.
But there is caravan of big
'yellowbirds" ready to take on loads
of twenty or thirty each and whirl
them away thru the fine scenery to
the great hotels within the park, and
there they are assigned their tasks
and their hours of work and leasure.
Do you want to be an admiral next
uJne? Save this address and use it
some time next winter. Dining Car
Oregon Short Line,
Ogden, Utah. That will put you on
their list to receive QUESTIONABLE.
and then If your service is good
enough and great enough to deserve
It, you might get treated with as fine
as Admiral Farragut
1T the battle Of Mobile when his flag
ship was sinking, riddled with can
lon balls from the confederate guns.
The decks were under water and the
vessel was settling rapidly when a
great cry arase, "Save the admiral"
Men were climbing up the masts and
Farragut ran to the foot Of the lad
Ter. A sailor beat him to 1t by a |
second, but seein ghis chief he step
bed aside and said, AFTER you
a M
AS the admiral climbed up the lad
ler the water rose after him, or
'ather the vessel sank as fast as the |
admiral climbed, and the sailors |
read never got above water, but his |
asst act was the act Of a man, and
his last words were so fitting they |
will go ringing down the centuries,