Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-27

Decrease compared with last year.,l1G,iE5
Brcvitics.
The Cumberland boom l. III the
exact situation of Davy Crockett's calf
there's no telling the luck it may
have"
The article. lin the Coai REGIONS
was written by an Allegany boy, now
in college.
1t has Just come out that the editor
of the Homecoming star was at dinner
in Cumberland year or two ago when
Patti passed through and he refused to
leave the table to see the divine djrd,
saying-''we wouldn't miss a Queen
CITY hotel dinner to see Il whole glee
club full of tenors, appearances. palo
altos and sapolios."
Railroad improvements at Nit. Savage.
In most respects the new station
house of the Cumberland and Penn
sylvania railroad at Frostburg Is Il
prototype of that at Mt. Savage. The
NlIltiftlttS q 'IttttSIolltit W al NlOIlH
of environment and need.
The latter edtice is a Queen Anne
frame structure. ~ by n feet. with a
slate roof projecting ovcra broad plat
form all round. The gables are sharp
and pretty, the front one bearing the
monogram, "A. ID. 1891
The interior throughout is finished
with North Carolina pine. hard oiled.
Heavy crown moudings at top Of walls
and corresponding adornments else
where afford general effect altogether
pleasing to the critical eye.
The waiting-room is furnished with
perforated setteeS. ladies' closet, chairs
and other conveniences and comforts.
The central room contains the rail
road and telegraph Offices, and Il large
corner is rallied off for the postotfice,
Harry f. kenah, postmaster. as well
as deputy agent. Then there are the
solid oak telegraph desk, with its
drawers. closets, etc. and other APP
propriate furniture.
The north west apartment is the phi
yate Office Of c. +. Rainsford. the
atfabe agent. Here also are oak desks,
easy chairs and other memorabilia of a
liberal company's partiallty for its
faithful employees.
The building Is supplied with hot
aud cold water IL public and private
telephone service and lighted by
electricity.
The freight building stands across
the roadway corrugated iron edifice
20 by - feet, containing wareroom,
storeoom and supervisors office. and
thanked at north end by an iron-cover-
ed freight platform - feet long and
II wide.
Not the least of the railroad improve
ments here is the new round-ho
covering over a half-acre Of ground. |
1t is about three-ouarter circle, with |
convex circumference of 80 feet.
Built of brick on broad. deep-laid |
foundation. it is substantial, durable |
structure. The roof is felt. plastered
with iron cement. and supported
underneath by single centra! row of
a by S-inch columns-one between
each stall These support the massive
iron framework with which the roof is
FThi,.t,, -li,rbt
dows on the periphery side and
twenty-four l5-light windows on the
concave side afford ample light
There are - stalls, each capable of
sheltering the largest locomotives the
company has. Under the superin-
tendence of Patrick Farrell, the com
pany's veteran iron-horse liyeryman,
the round-house is model of neat
ness.
The interior of the concave is
occupied by 6O-foot turntable, so
nicely adjusted and balanced that a
child may easily reverse the heaviest
locomotive.
In the blacksmith and boiler division
of the machine shop is the new boiler
of the last of 6 big locomotives the
company is building. The massive
skeleton is in the next division
apparently an acre of bright. clean
machinery. There is also No. Is ION
tile docks" undergoing renewal. This !
building is built Of massive stone 100
by ,25 feet, and the present equipment |
comprises the latest aud best ma
chinery.
On the way to the car shop the eX-
plorer passes the artesian well. IL bore !
POO feet deep, yielding $4,000 gallons
of soft water daily. 1t amply supplies
the shops aud two immense locomotive !
tanks.
The car shop, 100 by - feet. , stories
and pattern lofi Cars are constructed .
and repaired here. \ coat gond0la, the /.
fifth Of ten to be built by the company, /
WAS nearly completed. Its capacity is /
10000 pounds. Built with all the IN. |
C. B. standards, il is equal in all re- F..
spccts to any car of its class. t4asSen.
ger coach No. 9 is undergoing re- /
Building, which, when completed, will .
make il praCticallv new rolling /