The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-29
a SOUTHERN RAILWAY CAR.
Il Tells Its own History in n Straight
forward Way.


What am I? Every bone and sinew in
me is southern. My iron frame was ex-
tracted from the bowels Of the earth in
Alabama. All is pure southern iron. cast
and wrought into shape elsewhere. Ny
wooden frame, flooring. ceiling. weather
boarding and roofing are all Georgia pine;
my dress consists Of a paint, mostly red
ochre. mined near Gainesville. Ga. The
oil with which II is mixed, is called by
commercial courtesy, boiled lindseed OIL
but is in fact cotton seed oil pure and sim
pie, boiled together with a liberal allow
ance of Georgia rosin and Georgia rosin
oil, to which a homeopathic dose OF Geor-
gia spirits of turpentine is added.
But my pride and my glory is the pine
coat of varnish i wear. II is southern
throughout, except the make, IL hides and
CLOSES over what little there may be in
my anatomy that is not southern.
This. varnish is oxidized cotton seed oil
/ am proud to say that 1t was Georgia
cotton seed, manufactured into crude oil
in Savannah. II Is true this oil sold for a
song, but the varnish is quite expensive,
so expensive in fact, that cheap rosin oil
made in Savannah had to be added large
ly. The pine gloss In the varnish is pro
duced from water white rosin, fresh from
Georgias virgin pine forest. To reduce
the cost of this expensive varnish, GeOr-
gia spirits of turpentine We're only spar
ingly used
Every part of my anatomy has ioated at
one time or another in a crude state, II is
true, on Savannah's deep water harbor.
Every part Of me has figured in Savan-
nahs $15O,OO0.0O0 a year commerce, and
every part and particle is the product Of
southern soil and southern industry.
Who brought mo into existence? Who
skillfully worked all the raw material?
Well, that is the bar sinister of my es-
cutcheon. 1t was Delaware or Pennsyl-
Vania man.
al a large profit and on usurious terms,
to a southern railroad, and / have ever
since basked In the sunshine of my
beloved south. / nave had my ups and
downs. especially one day. when / crashed
down an embankment I thought my end
had come, as my whole frame was shat
tered and torn asunder
Every part and particle that was
well appointed hospital. Here |
was fixed UP again. but in much
stronger and more substantial manner.
Every wooden part was new and careful
ly selected, admirably dressed and put to-
gether in an excellent workmanlike man
ner.
My constitution. when l was first built
was not strong, as / was only built for a
car trust sale, but my Savannah friends
iXed me up for long career of useful
ness.
MY. iron frame was as good as ever my
wooden frame Is very substantial, my
dress is still of southern origin, although
the paint cost several times more than
II was worth.
My tender nurses. the railroad people In
Savannah, insisted on using only the pur-
est of pure linseed oil, of the best north
ern brand. Well, they got the purest of
pure cotton seed osl at linseed oil prices.
A little more cheap rosn and cheap rosin
oil than usual was added in boiling, when
1t became known, that II was for a south
ern order, as that was considered plenty
good for the southern trade. as that trade
would not be able to tell the difference,
anyway.
Every trip my axles are carefully and
tenderly poulticed with waste from south
ern cotton mills, shipped north for a mar
ket and bought there by a southern rail-
road. This thoroughly southern waste
is strongly impregnated With a car grease,
which consists of rosn oil made In Sa-
vannah, Maryland oyster-shell lime and
Virginia black oil. This grease is south
ern throughout, except that is manufac-
tured elsewhere and sold at several hun
dred per cent. profit.
oh yes! / am southern, my anatomy
is southern, and my reconstruction is
southern. My paint, my varnish and my
axle grease have only southern ingre-
dents, ii is true, they having been man
ufactured somewhere north or west.
/ have only a common railroad car
sense" yet IL is a wonder TO me IL they
could rebuild me so cleverly and so sub
stantally, why was l not spared the
painful duty of having to acknowledge
a Delaware or Pennsylvania man as my
creator.
Why? oh why? was not built in
Savannah? c. b. Warrand
Savannah, April "a, 1895.