January 15, 2026
TOURIST DAY AT UNION DEPOT.
Station Crowded Yesterday With
People En Route to California.
It was society day at the Union depot yesterday. It was no special invitation affair, but one of the incidents of this season of the year. It is not often during the year that such an array of fine jewels, costly furs and fur lined overcoats are seen at the Union depot. It made the farmer boys stand back and take notice.
The occasion for so much display yesterday was the fact that it was one of the big days of travel from the East to the Pacific coast, or to California resorts. The travel from the East to California is so heavy the California Limited on the Santa Fe yesterday was run in two sections. During the short wait at the Union depot many of the passengers left the sleepers and took a turn or two through the Union depot.
It was a prosperous looking crowd of tourists in the way to the warmth of the California climate. One fellow, with trousers desolately bagged at the knees, with frayed edges, sweeping the rusty uppers of his shoes, followed the tourists from one end of the depot to the other with his mouth open in perfect wonderment.
"The diamond that woman is wearing reminds me of the first electric headlight I ever saw," he said to a companion. "Ain't it a dandy?"
Labels: California, railroad, Union depot
