The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-02-05
INTERPRETATIONS.
echoes Of the Rush and Roar of
Railroad Travel and Traffic
Notes.
BESIDE THE RAILWAY TRACK.

BESIDE THE RAILWAY TRACK.
In its straight, iron pathway the long train was
rushing,
With its noise, and its smoke, and its great hui
man load,
And saw there wild rose, in beauty twas blash-
Fresh and sweet by the side of the hot, dusty
road.
Unframed were its branches, INTENDED il -four
ished;
No eve watched its opening or Inourned its decay:
But its leaves by the soft dews Of heaven
And il opened its buds in the warm light Of day.
l asked why 1t grew there where none priced its
For Of thousands who passed none had leisure to
stay,
And the answer came sweeily al do but my duty,
j was told to grow here by the side Of the way"
There those on iife's pathway whose spirits are
willing
TodwelI Where the busy crowd passes them by,
But the dew from above on their leaves is distill-
And they bloom meath the smile of the all-seeing
eye.
They are loved by the few-like the rose they re.
When tempted from duty's safe pathway TO stray,
We, too, have place and a mission assigned US,
Though il be but TO grow by the side of the way.
Exchange.
A new time table for the X. & I. rail-
May is in course Of preparation.
Pacific engine No. sos, Engineer Nc,
Guire, Fireman Edwards, is in the shop for
repairs.
Lew Thomas, an old-time conductor on
the X. d T. and Pacific, now running
train on the Texas & St. Louis road, left
yesterday for Tyler, Texas, after a pleasant
visit to friends in this city.
There was but one arrival at the hos
pital yesterday. ID. Rea, fireman from
Parsons, had his right foot caught between
the rail and turn table, badly decorating
the foot and rendering the amputa-
ton of two toes necessary.
-Exactness may sometimes be carried
to excess. We fancy ii was so in a recent
case, where a discOnsolate widower wrote to
announce the death of his wife, thus "Her
wearied spirit sank to rest at twenty min
utes to three-ra;lroad time"
CONTRACTS are reported let for a sect ion
of the Boonville, ST. Louis IL Southern road
from Versailles, Mo-, south to Climax
Springs, in Camden county, and il is stat
ed that the road will he extended to Spring
field. Mo-, and probably to Sabine Pass,
Texas.
Vice President Hoxie, who has been
wintering at Galveston, has recovered his
health, and after taking a trip over the
Gulf, Colorado & SAINTS Fe road with Gen
eral Manager Sealy, will return to St Louis
and resume the duties of his position.
1t is stated that H. j. Jewett is a d.
rector of twenty companies Samuel Sloan
OF twenty-three; Jay Gould of twenty-four;
George B. Roberts of twenty-six; Augustus
Schell of twenty-eight; Sidney Dillon of
thirty-six, and Frederick / Ames of thirty
two.
The narrow.gauge train for Warsaw,
Friday evening, lett car of wood on the
track, short distance from the town, in
tending to pick it up on the return trip
next day. The car was moved during
the night by some one and left near a curve.
When the train for Sedalia yesterday
came around this curve, coils
sion took place, and the engine was stripped
OF its cow-catcher. This was the extent of
the damage.
On Friday morning at the Missouri
Pacific depot, James II. Irwin, brakeman,
while attempting to uncouple cars was
caught by the brake-beam and knocked
down in such position that his arm was
run over by the car, and he was also inter-
pally injured. He was Immediately taken
to Joplin, where his widowed mother lives.
He received every attention possible, but
he breathed his last on the day following
the accident. Young Irwin, was we'll
known, highly respected, and an only son.
Lamar Democrat.
~~-