The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-31
RAIL AND cROs5TIE.

The Griffin Nelcs saws: The Geor gia
Midland aud Gulf railroad have taken of
tnelr passenger train between Griffin and
McDonough, on account Of the small pas
Eenger traffic between the two points. The
Train will hereafter spend the night a. Grit
m, and the schedule will remain the same
his went into effect last night, and the
people on the upper end of the road will
hereafter ride on the freight trains
The following story is told by B. W. We'd
Ger. locomotive engineer now In st. Louis:
When the Kansas Pacific was first opened
the Indians were very hostile, and there
was constant fear that they would wreck
the trains. That they did not is due to
their ignorance of the iron horse and of
the best msthods Of destroying IT, One of
my tiremen had an experience with the
Cheyennes that he will never forget He
was on the road near Fort Wallace when he
saw that the Indians had cut the telegraph
wire and knew that he might look out for
squalls. They were never satisfied with
SIMPLY cutting the wire, but chopped il
Into inch pieces with their tomahawks
to erectually stop the mysterious messages.
AS the train came near 0 large patch of
sunf1owers, which grew on both sides Of the
track, over 100 Indians rose up, stretched a
strong rope across the track, braced them
selves and prepared to receive the shock of
the locomotive. As was afterward learned
ohey had taken rawhide strips, braided them
together. and, with force of fifty at each
end OF the rope. thought they would be able
ID stop the train. The instant the locomo-
tive struck the rope the air was full of In
dams. They were thrown in all directions
Some were jarked clear across the train, and
m re than dozen were killed or seriously
injured. This was the last attempt made
Tor years to stop the trains"
The Railway Age has this to say about
air ships VS.. railways: The last and present
generations have been SO prolific in pro-
ducing scientific and mechanical revolu-
lions that an incredulous age is becoming
credulOus, and probability has become a
synonym for possibility. This is evidenced
by the large area OF. space which the daily
papers are giving up to speculative articles
regarding the mount Carmel air ship" a
model Of which is now in promising con-
dltion at the exposition building In Chicago.
Whether the promises will ever be fulfilled
or not is problematic, but then. so is
the cir ship. The inflated character
OF : this aerated vessel and of the
capital stock Of the company mere $50, =
DOC, OO0-indicate beyond peradventnre that
one or the other will go up, but whether the
ship or the company is matter of painful
uncertainty. The pathetic cry OF the in
ventor and promoter that the railways
looked down upon him and did all they
could to hamper his efforts through pro-
fessional jealousy may be changed to a
taunt OF triumph when he looks down
upon the railways from his private
supermundane train flying over the first
and only genuine air line in existence
It must be confessed that the local rail-
way men are at least curious regarding
the Mount Carmel air ship, although
hope deferred has made them some
what skeptical There is a tantalizing
fascination In dreaming of something which
will deliver them from the self-assumed
power of granger legislators and the ex-
uberant follies Of an ephemeral farmers
alliance, so that the inventor Of the air ship
is In error when he cries against railway
prejudices. Railway managers are really
prepared to hail him as their Moses, if his
air ship will run on scheduled time and
demonstrate that roadbeds. bridges, ties,
rails, switches, crossings and many other
annoying and forever failing characterised cs
OF mundane railways are uuneoessarv