The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-26

bs.shs aud early w.:cliSs s.s smoke
evidently s'Jim" was firing up. He has
tened to the superintendent with the new:
and askest what time tire train would
"About q o'clock. IL ri. sos.~,'' the otR-
be a little later but yos, may as veil he on
hoard by Q tn make sire."
Shortly after ? O'clock b train va.
Of the style Of 10 year. ago or more. q TEN
der containR some wood, and one OF the
GLASS in the windows. a bench r,snuing
lenQtllwise ON each side, and boxes Of old
iron on and under the bssnche. 70 give the
There were n numhrr Of p~assenRcrs. and
when all wa. ready and the conductor had
engine hell had begun tn ring one
e. the p".s:smss5~ Il; %sSrh1nt In ia
tn write some letters and Jumped OFT and
went iack tn his Office. tn write them. The
ling and bell-rinviug. and began To dash
furiously across the country at the rate. of
seven or eight miles am hour. IL had NOT
the engine stopped and the firrman and
trainmen went into the woais with am AK
wool were made about once an hour
throughout the journey: Al the first sta
tion, which was reached mt about II
to write his letters came ~gallopinr up
on ~ mule, which he gave in charge OF "a
whcn noon arrived the. train was stop
ped and the engineer. fireman. conductor.
and the two or three other men employed
track and ~placidly proceeded to- cook and
eat their dinner. This occupied nearly AN
hour, and everything went slowly but well
till = o'clock when u little stream was
reached, crossed by am old wooden bridge.
Herr. the engine was stopped over the
middle of the stream. and the. fiS,nnan got
OIL and without any hesitation removed
all his clothes. The New Workers. imagined
that he was about tn take "a bath. hat he
was strictly i'm the performance of his du-
ty. He lowered himself to the he'd of the
shallow stream with n pail in his hand
tank of the engine. which they proceeded
to I'LL with water from the brook, hand
ing up pail after pail and pouring IL in.
noon, however, that the most interesting
part of the journey was reached. The
cause. and stood still for some time. Thc
New Yorker AT length got ont To see What
WAS the matter. He found that a. short
missing; IL the train had gone two rods
farther IL would have rum oil without tine
,cmStss. shanc: ,.f getting hack again,
i'm Honduras. The engineer had AIKEN
"a crow bar and walked back past the rear
cup of the car, aud was feeling about
with the bar for n loose rail. Presently
he found one to suit and pricd IL up, and
hc and the other men carried u ahead
s"sa SIpH'Nh ~" es
that was missing. Then the train went
ahead, leaving. of course. one rail missing
i'm the track. On making Inquiries the
New Yorker learned that some years he
fore somebody stole one of the rails and
il had never been replaced because there
were no extra rails i'm the country. so
every time the train reached hat point
the engineer had to stop and replace the
missing rail with one that the train had
already gone over.
Everything connected with the road
was managed on this principles. and no
considerable repairs had been made since
il was built, more than IA quarter of IA
century ago. Tho same engine and the
same ear hal been i'm operation all that
time. The road was constructed 10y an
English company under a contract with
the government. and the principal and
interest of the debt now amount up into
so many millions that the whole country
is hardly worth enough tn pay il.
The train reached it's destination al =
o'clock i'm the evening. having averaged
about three and u half miles am hour i'm
the. twelve hours consumed In the jour
nsy; and the New Yorker who made tho
trip is emphatic i'm advising all other
Americans who visit Spanish Honduras
tn stick to the mules il time is of any
value to them.