The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-05
TOLD BY RAILROAD MEN.
GOOD Stories Picked Up at Conven
ton of Train Conductors.
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UaQu, q conductor on the LIMOS Central.
1--WE never saw or heard Of such thing as
= woman tramp, but lately, within the past
two wears, the percentage Of females among
trarnps has been steadily increasing, and
now we meet with one almost every month.
They are not as daring as men IN jumping
ON and off trains but we find them hanging
all over a freight car, on the trucks, or
clingipg to the truss-rods by hands aud
feet like a sloth; in fact, IN good msny
dangerous places that a male tramp would
never think of getting in. I suppose this
increase in women tramps may be at
rributed to the way they are occupying all
the positions formerly held by men alone.
and they don't propose to let even the
tramu's profession go by without entering
Is ranks"
al have been on the Baltimore aud Ohio
n the capacity of engineer and conductor
or twenty-six years. said G. Ii, Bailey of
2arkersburg, W. Va, and as you see have
OF q scratch to show for it. Every engi-
eer running on the road believes more or
VS. in dreams and peculiar signs. had an
lzineer under me that would never 20 out
Nen warned in a dream that there was
6nger ahead. OF the dozen or more times
tls be stopped at home only one accident
oclrred, and that was trivial. prevailed
up1 him to give up this superetitious
belly, aud on the third night out, after be
hadeen warned in three. dreams, we met
within awful catastrophe, in which several
persls were killed and many wounded.
The egineer was among those killed, and I
have ever forgiven myself, nor will until
l die psuade another man from auy belief.n
ION stormy night in October, three
years 90" said ]. R. Beesling, 81 was in
mortal var that the bridges, of which there
are god many on that branch, would be
washed way by the swollen rivers. Fortu-
nately y passed nearly all of them safely,
but justas we drew near the last bridge l
happenedto be crossing from one car to
another ad noticed a strange, weird-look-
ing blue lint dancing up and down in front
of the tral don't know what possessed
me to do il but rang the bell and brought
the train D a stop. The engineer, brake.
man and then set out to discover the
cause of tn light, but it had entirely dis
appeared An not a trace of ii was left We
went down ne track as far as the bridge,
and found hat it had been completely
washed awy by the stream, which was
swollen, onl a few timbers remaining to
bear evidene that bridge had once
spanned thestream. We were kept there
for over tw days, until another bridge
could be but; and although the other
tralnmen lauh at me for 1t, / earnestly be-
by divine rovidence to save US from an
awful faten
Bridal coples give me more trouble
than spoilers DRINKS, or the other things
which the gelsrRl public think make con-
ductor's life Miserable" said q. e. Suydam,
now yardnHster on the Delware, Iacka-
wana and Western railroad at Elmira, N.
Y. u havb been a conductor, and l say TO
you, never make bridal trip on the cars if
you can ielp it. You cannot conceal the
fact. Tie more you try, the less you sue
coed. Its laughable sight to see a man
with bis lrm around a girl on a train, but
they do l. A mans arm seems to creep
naturall in that direction. When you ask
for theirtickets both of them look at you as If
you vert an intruder. Then, as a rule, they
never kiow where their tickets are. He
thinks sh,has them, and she knows that she
saw him put them away, but she cannot
tell whert When they do fad them they
usually dlop them on the floor as they hand
them to y0u. Confusion ensues No matter
how old acouple may he nor how often they
have tried matrimony before, they are a
mark as soon as they get on train. / was
married before | went TO railroading, and
l never expect to have TO go through the
ordeal again, but if do, I'll take to the
woods for my trip"
The Canadian Pacific was represented by,
among others, H. A. Washburn, one Of the
youngest and most neatly attired "punchersn
IN the assernblage. He wore a very peculiar
watch chain. made from part Uf the horns
OF moose, to which is attached this story:
About two years ago the train in charge of
Mr.. Washburn pulled up near North Bay to
XIII few minutes time. About the time
the train started large moose was discov-
efeo standing near the track about 100
yards away. At the approach Of the train
the animal became frantic, and when the en-
glneer blew the whistle, instead of running
away, 1t made a dash for the engine headD
downward. TWAS too late then to stop the
lraln, and the engineer, fearing that an ac-
cldent might happen to the train, put on a
Iu!l head OF steam. The engine struck the
moose and lifted it about thirty feet in the
ar, and it dropped on the hind platform of
the second coach, breaking glass and caus-
ing quite oommotion. Neither the blow
nor the fall killed the animal and while
struggling to free itself 1t fell between the
cars The horns were torn from the scalp,
ana, after the excitement subsidized and the
passengers were pacihed, Washburn got
Ene horns aud has them now in his room.
When was running freight train on
the 'Nypano, several years ags,n said John
Fukerson Of the Pennsylvania line, ~ used
TO have good deal of trouble at a little sta
uon up In Northeast Ohio. I always ex-
pected to get out of that place behind time
no matter what time l got in there. If
struck the town during the night, for it
always took the crew half an hour or more
10 get the whole train out of the place. The
trouble was caused by a number of boys
VINO made practice of pulling as many
coupling pins as possible while the train was
standing. OF course, when the engine
pulled out, only the cars which were coupled
TO 1t would follow. Then the engine would
nack up and all the pins be put in
pace. While the brakemen were doing
TINS the boys would pull seme more further
anead, and so they kept US starting and back
lng up again sometimes for a whole hour.
one night the engineer concluded to try an
experiment on the raseals. He pushed the
tTalh slowly back few feet, 30 as to slacken
al an the couplings, and then suddenly threw
Iue levor wide open. The train was light
que ana leaped forward Ikea deer One of
IN! .he poys had just pulled pin and grabbed
one Drake rod to jump from between the
cars when the train started. He was thrown
nearly 100 feet. and one leg and one arm
W we're broken, but 1t stopped pulling pins at
snaO station. The father of the boys had
nad a claim against the company, which
was rejected, aud this was his method Of
getting even"
Moonshiners give us some lively times
On our runs" said B. N. Roller, passenger
conductor on the Louisville and Nashville,
whose home is at Louisville, KY. 81 am on
Shst Is known as the Knoxville branch,
from Louisville to Knoxville, and the
amount Of white whisky that is consumed