The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1892-01-08
Industrial Notes.


gospel within her walls.
Industrial Notes.
Mr. j. Il. Taggart has undertaken by agree
ment with the Big Stone Gap improvement
Company and the city to put in the sewerage
line on Poplar HILL
The Pullman Company has il its power to
correct great nuisance to travellers at this
point, and thereby earn their favor. 1t is
frequently the case that through passengers
to Louisville, Cincinnati and other points can
not get bcrihs here, even when there may be
ten or twelve empty ones, their sole depend
ence being upon the chance of their not being
all taken by passengers from the Norfolk
Western; these ten or twelve bcrths being re-
served for possible passengers at Shawanee,
Middlesborough or pinevillc. There is thus
shown the curious anomaly of company, that
is out for revenue, refusing $3.50 for bcrths
from this point to, say, Louisville, and holding
the same for probable patrons at Shawanee,
Middlesborough and Pinerlc who pay only 81.
AS the Irishman said: Zone mans money is as
good as another's, and las in this case)
great deal better, toe" when it is 80 against
So, and a customer ready with his money is
made to sit up till MiddIesborough or Pine
Vile, eighty miles farther on, is passed to see
fthe other fellow is going travelling and wants
a berth. The writer recently had this precise
experience when travelling from here to Ken
lucky with five friends from Boston a rea-
sonable regard for the comfort of people in
other places requires that certain, but not an
undue amount of sleeping accommodations be
reserved for them. Four bcrths were reserved
for S;hawanee, when it was the terminus Of the
sleeping car line for the North, and four are
still reserved for it, though sleepers run
through from louisville to Norfolk, and it is
but small station, while Big Stone Gap,
though it has such diversity of large inter
ests which must be looked after by men who
are accustomed to tie best of travelling ac-
commodations, and though it is the terminus
of the South Atlantic K Ohio railroad, which
: turns over its through passengers to the
slcepers on the Louisville e. Nashville, has to
depend upon what may or may not be left
when the the sleepers arrive here from the
Norfolk & Western and has not single berth
reserved for it. Il change is but just, could
easily be made, and should be granted at once.
The Louisville l. Nashville, too, should give
the patrons of its line between Shawanee and
Norton, seventy miles apart, another passenger
train, each way, daily. business man cam
not 30 from Big Stone Gap west, say to Pen
nington's Gap, for instance, twenty miles
away, and transact any business, without re-
naming all night; and travelling man can
make but one place day, as the superIntend-
ent very rarely gives permit to ride on
freight trains, even when telegraphed to for
it. The train which leaves Louisville at s a.
M, arriving at Shawanee at p. M, should
easily, it seems, be run On to Norton arriving
here about 10 or i0:30, if the schedule could
not be shortened; and leave here at $3.50 or a.
M, if better plan could not be devised, reach
4 ing Shawance at 6:lS in time for the morning
train for Louisville and Cincinnati. And the
! Norfolk & Western is so often late chat there
is possibility that through passengers may
be left "a hours in Notion, as was the case one
day last week when those in the sleeper were
carried through attached to night freight
] The schedule, too, is so slow that when the N .
& W. is late, an hour and a half or two hours
have been made up between Norton and Mid
dlesborough. The L. g. N. is so usually even
more than liberal, that this accommodation
should receive early and favorable considera-
ton. This new train would give US the mail
many hours earlier, which is very desirable.
4 Very few houses are for rent in Big Stone
/ Gap. and two of those, the Anstin and the
Harris residences could have been rented
early, bat for their size, being woIarge for the
ordinary family, during these stingest times.
4 Since "Wednesday of last week two car
/ loads Of orc a day are going from here to tho
i Graham furnace, via the L. & N.and N. & w.
: Tbs Rev. hr. Carter, rector Of the Episcopal
church here, has received so much encourage
nent in the way of subscriptions from friends.
that, with the receipt Of $500 or $500 saore, he
viii fee. inclined to begin work on his chapel
very soons aiming TO have i dsap by gsastsr
i Sunday
gonr car iOada ef aila aud anpplias hayn az.