The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-07-20
NARROW GAUGE R. RS.
A Practical Demonstration OF
Their Utility and Success.
Tilden, Hendricks, the Hard
Times and Lager Beer in
Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 8.IS76.

as regards the capacity and sur
roundings of the Louisville, Har-
rods Greek and Westford Marrow
Gauge Railroad. On the morning
of the 4th l rode on an Excursion
Train from Louisville to a station
known as Sand Hill. They had
attached to the engine seven cars,
two of which were regular passen-
ger coaches carrying each sixty -four
passengers, and the other five were
ordinary flats fixed with comforta-
BILE seats for passengers and carry
ing each forty persons, the whole
train carrying nearly three hundred
and fifty passengers. This 1 saw
for myself, and am fully convinced
that for all the purposes of three
fourths or at least one half OF the
railroads in the United States the
narrow gauge would be ample.
From the contractor who built the
road, and who has since used it ex-
tensively for freight purposes, l
learned that the freight cars are in
every way as convenient as those of
the broad gauge. On the flats they
allow him to load fifteen thousand
pounds to the car. This is what is
known as dead weight, he being en-
gagged in quarying rock for city
purposes. The box cars for other
freight and stock, of course being
smaller than those Of broad gauge,
carry less, but still they are equal
to any demand you may have in
your part of the country. From
a brakeman who stood near me on
the train learned they have never
had car 10 run off tine track.
That the passengers are always
transported safely and comfortably
to their seyeral destinations and
they have never had an accident. The
road is not to my mind first-class
and yet they make fifteen or twenty
miles an hour with perfect impuni
ty, which would make it about an
hours run from Pulaski to Law
renceburg. l learned from a relia-
bic gentleman that their gross re
ceipts from passengers on the 4th
of July amounted to eight hundred
dollars and that the expenses for
the day were only fifty dollars, leav-
ing a clear profit of seven hundred
and fifty dollars in one day for car
rying passengers alone over about
twelve miles of narrow gauge rail
road. Suppose they were to do
that every day in the year! why ii
would aggregate to two hundred
and seventy three thousand seven
hundred and fifty dollars of clear
proht and just suppose the road
was thirty times as long and they
had twenty times as much rolling
stock, what. could they not doi i
is just perfect nonsense to say thai
a narrow gauge railroad is a hum
bug. If any of your merchants
who may happen to come to Louis
vile will step to the river side jus
in rear of the Gait House, they will
find the depot of this company anC
upon inquiry will find that all
have stated is true. 1 write this
because l thought 1 could detec
while on the road in Giles county
feeling with the people along the lin,
that a narrow gaugage road would
be a failure. But they are not fail
ures. TheIe are a good many il
actual existence whenever fount
they are a perfect success, and /
you can get your road completed il
the next twelve months 1 believ,
you will not only thank the projec
tors, but will rise up and call then
blessed.
The whole town here is ablaz
with enthusiasm for Tilden ant
Hendricks and great confidence /
expressed that they will carry tn
f. day in November, and it is eaTnestl
hoped that the great work of clean
ing out the Augean stable will CON
| mence on or about the 4th day c
> next March. The idea prevails her
that any change will be for the bet
ter, and that a change of partie
has been rendered an absolut
7 necessity by the theiving extrav;
, giant course of the present admir-
: istration.
The times here are said to be til
hardest ever known, and thoug
= money is very abundant with MOI
t led men and Banking institutions "
e business is at a perfect stand sti
as compared with former times an
the poor are as poor as "Job's turk
hen, and with no prospect f
u brighter things until the election
n over. The city is dull in the wa
It of amusements and nothing seen
to be active but the Beer trad
The eternal guzzling of lager BY 8
nationalities without regard to Sc
age or condition seems to be q fe
ture of the ninteenth century in s
, American cities. The Beer Ga
> dens are favorite resorts each day
q the week, especially Sunday, f,
} idlers and men of leisure. Th,
O throw themselves around on col
. Portable seats in the pleasant shaC
groves, with which the gardens ,
ie abound, and call for beer and list,
.e TO most excellent music for hou
I at a time, which is, you no dou
r. think, far better than drinkil
- tangle-fOot in some hole-in-the-ws
> and winding up in a bloody re
with the perspiration oozing fro
x every pore and streaming from c
N cry corner ofyour clothing. I he
i Just seen the great Texas cati
king drive by. They say he ow
seven hundred and fifty thousal
- head of cattle alone, and yet do
not have enough milk from
ie thousands to flavor his coffee, b