The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-02-12
ENGINE ETCHINGS.
Notes of Railways and Railway
Men Sense and Sentiment
Miscellaneous Melange.

| 40 watch the trains vith their loads of freight
| Flying quickly past and away.
| How he envied the life OF the brakeman
| As he sat on the flying car
And thought the joys of such life
! Beat schOOl-boy's lot by far
| Then when he had older grown
| And commenced the battle of life
| He chose by means of thei iron rail
| To earn ms bread in the strife;
| How in the years OF a brakeman's life
The danger, cold, Seet, and rain,
He had endured tn rough the dreary night
On the ton y. the hyiag traih.
, How pro- d he was Whel they gave HIM
Charge OF his first great long freight train,
| And came 80 near TO having
An enlargement of the brain
vi troubles he bad his snare
| With broke, rails and wrecks;
| But had not been called upon.
To pIss in his priceless checks.
And he thought with smile of the dark-eye.a
\ maid
Who boarded his train one day,
Aud ere her deStinatisn was reached
Had Stolen his heart away.
For that very young lad was waiting now,
| Along WITH thee pair OF boys,
10 greet him ON his Tetd"n from the trip
With kiss and a rush from their toys.
As his thoughts swept on 10 that cheerful scene,
| Regardless OF snow or Seet-
| y chug!! HIS train was stuck in the snow,
And no hing on board 10 eat.
DIES Mo'SE>, Jan. Il, 1854.
The train from the south last night
was one hour late.
| -Trainmaster Hartman was in from
Moberly yesterday, and returned last eve
uing.
! Thomas Pickston. in charge of the tin
department of the K. & T. road, has T.
signed.
There was but one arrival at the hos
pital yesterday. John Orange a lahore
from Vinita, while engaged in cutting
shlms to put under ties, made a mislick
with his axe and amputated the big toe Of
his right foot.
Will Let's, for some time employed as
machinist in the Pacific shops, having
been compelled to resign MS position on
account oil i'll health, has opened a neat
little cigar, TOBACCO and confectionery
stand in the old Sedalia house, corner of
Third and Engineer streets.
Engine No. $50, Pat Daugherty, en-
gineer, has been doing the local work from
Sedalia Holden for more than a year,
and in that time has never been in the re-
pair shops nor failed to pull her trai1,
sometimes as many as twenty-five cars, up
the steepest hills on that rough run.
"A creditable rumOr reaches US that
| the engineers have located the Emporis
| from Pleasa 1ton to the state line and that
| the contracts have been lei for the grading
also that the eng are locating the
road east from the state line in the direc-
ton of Walnut.-Walnut Journal.
Freight train No. 81, Conductor Chas
Place, which has been running to Holden
and doubling back as No. SO, making the
round trip six times a week, will begin
running through to State Line kansas
City, t. morrow, the round trip occupying
two days. Engines 229 and $50 are on this
run.
| "A new time card goes into effect on the
! Pacific and h. u L. roads to-day. On this
card, all trains will run through to Han
nibal. For some time past freight trains
| have been running only AZ far as MOberly.
| The shortening of the. run resulted In seven
| engines and sseven crews, sggregating
thirty-6v nen, being sent TO Texas. These
employees will now be returned to the h.
| Il L. and most of them will make their
residence in this city.
-RairsaG'ng has been brought 10 a fine
! art on the Kansas Central The train pulled
out from Miltonvale the other day and
| lett the CONDUCTOR. But that efficient o.
| ticer knew the road and quietly walked on,
Overtaking the train about eight miles Up
the track. And now the company s con-
graduating itself that the conductor did
not pull out trst.-Kansas City Times.
-A1telopeS must be getting thick on the
western plains. Twice within a fortnight
IL has been announced that trains have
b, n stopped on the Union Pacific railroad
BY herds of anteloOes. Formerly, herds of
bufaloes stopped trains on that road, but
since the virtual extinction o. those ami
mails there have cen no such stoppages,
until now, except Oy COW boys and snow
drifts.
RAILROAD SALE.
Since the final result of the railroad
grade, right OF way, survey, ETC., sale has
been decided, passing into the hands of
Keith " Perry, We are no longer obligated
to withhold the news from our readers.
Mr.. J. d. Scott has sold his grades for 800
600, and the railroad commit &c If Apple
ton City and Rich Hill can dispose of Mr..
Fox to the highest BIDDER This is an act
ual gift to Keith u Perrv's railroad alli-
a lce of S60,00O. Our readers will remem-
be that the prophecy OF he Western En-
ierpTise has come true.
1t is definitely decided now that the ST.
Louis, Emporia " Western railroad will
be, and We suggest to our contemporaries
that they look back over their files and
see what their Judgment amounted TO.
We are glad that Mr.. Scott has done
we'll, having made money, but as to those
who have given the right of way, paid for
the survey and other things we can only
say-"didn't them colored troops fight no.
| bly," Some can See wonders, and we hope
for the realization of their ondest dreams:
but the great glory or advantage to Rich
Hill iii this transaction, is only the sub
stance OF things hoped fOr.-Rich Hill
Western Enterprise.