Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-30
IN HOLY HORROR.
A sunday Train Disturbing the People
OF south Berkshire

There has never been fiercer social
conflict in the community than the one
Row disturbing the towns of South
Berkshire. The troublesome topic Is
the running of Sunday trains on the
HOusatonic railroad. Lee, which is
among the more sober towns of Berk-
shire, has manifested more opposition
TO il than any other, and, besides the
sermons on the subject from all the
pulpits there on Sunday, protest has
been drawn up and circulated, which
has received the signatures of about
seventy prominent men, including
nearly all the merchants, manufacture
ers and Others. The paper recites at
some length the "regret" and "alarm"
with which the new Sunday passenger
train is viewed, and declares that, in
the judgment of the remonstrants, the
public good does not demand it. The
document will be sent to the railroad
officials in day or two. The train, and
the action of the citizens in regard to
il, are lively themes in Lee lust
now, and one prominent man spoke of
it as a breach of law not 10 be tolerated,
and asserted that the engineer and
traiBmen should be arrested on the
next trip. He says that thus early
several from there talk of going to Pitts
field Sundays for an hour or two to get
drunk, and then return by the milk
train; or, worse, what is to prevent
forty or fifty Bridgeport, Conn.,, roughs
from invading Lee some quiet Sunday,
and for four hours making the villagea
perfect pandemOnium" Some OF the
more conservative look upon it as a
matter of business upon the part of the
railroad company, which has to send
the Sunday milk train north as Especial
on Saturdays, and claim that, by send
ing it up Sunday morning, the expe nse
is no greater, and it is a convenience
besides. Said one Lee man: 81 know
several of these TemOnstrants who are
stockholders in the Housatonic and
StOckbridge and Pittsfield roads. If the
Sunday train proves to be profitable,
will they decline dividends Oh account
of it"' AT Stockbridge the new train
is not considered an invasion of private
rights or Sabbath sanctity, but rather as
convenience TO the travelingpublic, es-
pecially to New York gentlemen whose
families are in Berkshire, aud where
they come up for q Sunday, returning
Monday morning, if they can not leave
New York Saturday at S o'clock l.. NJ,
as they have been obliged to do hereto
fore. StOckbridge has no special Objec-
ton to the Sunday train. Great Bar
ringtOn folks have little feeling on the
subject, but il is not so marked as at
Lee. When the first Sunday train
went south, several farmers declined to
send their milk over the road that day;
but, in time, the prejudice wore away.
The farmers began to patroniZe 1t, and
none of them refuse to take the money
received for milk sent to New York
over the Housatonic road on Sunday.
Sheffield folks are about evenly divided
on the subject. Rev. Fields Hermauce
of the Methodist church is quite out
spoken in opposition TO it, and so are
some others; but, generally speaking,
Sheffield has found the Sunday milk
train so much q source of profit that
its farmers will care little about it. The
opponents, however, are so determined
that they may seek the law to restrain
the running of the train.-BoStOn Her.
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