Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-02
RAILRAOD ROUGHs
That Run n Little Funnel Of q
Road in Arkansaw.

An eccentric and rather rough char
acter, known as Diamond Joe, built
and runs the narrow gauge railroad
from Malvern junction to Hot Springs,
Ark. 1t is the best equipped narrow
gauge railroad in the United States,
and is managed in the most indepen :
dent kind of a way. 1t is about thirty
miles long, and runs through a very
rough sort Of a country, which no one
would care to travel over by private
conveyance if it could be avoided.
1t is said that Diamond Joe has never
prorated with other railroads, but
charges full local rates, has never
issued q free pass to a living soul
and that he ven pays his own way
and makes his own family do the same
SO that everybody may know that
there is no deadhead business and
that his road shall fetch every avail
able dollar. It is also reported by
people who havesbeen to Hot Springs
that he has placed members Of his
family in all the desirable positions
and Offices on the road. This may ac-
count for the border warfare style Of
the conductors who occasionally per-
NIT passengers to ride over that very
exclusive and high toned line. Dia-
mond Joe is rich, or supposed to be,
and is a power in the State. He is a
law unto himself and to a good many
Others. The press of the State has
~coveredhim in Aattery sixteen ply deep
and very few.of the papers Of Arkan-
saw ever dare to criticise anything
done by this Southwestern Jim Fisk
or any Of his miuions. In late mum
Der of the Hot Springs Evening Star,
hoeuwer, date Aug. 18th, we find the
following gentle and respectful remon-
STRANGE
We regret very much to record an
other outrage that is said to have
been perpetrated on the railroad out
from this place. Mrs. L. Bloom, of
New Orleans, mother-in-law to L..
Goodman, Of this place, started for
home the other day, and was taken to
the depot by Mr.. Goodman, and the
tickets shown to Mr.. Conger, who
said they were all right. The train
started and the conductor came
along and examined her ticket and
said it was not good, and put her off
in the broiling sun at Lawrence Sta
tion. She is a very large woman and
It must have been a great hardship for
her to be so treated. We regret to
mention anything prejudicisl to any
enterprise in OIL about the city, but we
feel that these occurrences will work
great harm, We again call the atten-
tion of the railroad authorities to
these gross abuses, and hope that a
speedy and etfectual remedy will be
applied. 1t has gone abroad that
passengers are put off at the end of a
pistol, and such reports will not con-
tribute much to III prosperity,
This is ofa piece with the outrage
upon Mr.. Gallina of this city, who
was not long since put off the train
while it was running ten miles an
hour, by a rufian conductor with a
pistol in his hand, who after this
exploit called upon the unarmed pas
sengers to know if any of them had
anything to say about it; of course
they had not under the circumstances.
People who go to Hot Springs
after this had better walk or be fright
peert about handlin' their weapons"
as Horace Greedy used to say when
writing about an imaginary state of
affairs at the South. This matter be-
ing rather on the outskirts of our
jurisdiction or province we commend
it to the attention Of the unterrifed
press of Arkansaw.