The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-15
SAVANNAH GA, WEDNESDAY. MAY Is. 1895.

chimes blew an unfortunate cOlOred fire.
man into the roseate hereafter. He knows
every man. woman and child on the road,
and you begin TO wonder 81 ne is i'm train
ING for the general superintendency. Then.
toe, be begins TO introduce the SLANG of
the rail into his everyday talk and you
can hear him call Out 10 friend in the
stLlie voice he uses and which can gem
eraily De heard as FAR as the factory whis-
Tie; Get of ont the switch. Jimmy the
ola man Is coming down the main iron
His school books are filed with pictures
OF fearfully made engines and illustra-
ions Of wonderful escapes from collisions.
presently you hnd he has taken the record
pages OF the family Bible for an engine
name book and you are at a loss whether
70 use q trunk strap on him or buy him
a new book for his list. for YOU cannot
help but be interested in 10 If YOU look
II over. He shows the observation and
memory powers Of "a Sherlock Holmes. he
knows every engine on the road by its
bells.
Poor lads Of the present generation the
names have mostly been stripped of and
me numbers that take their places have
niue 10 suggest or attract. and what
DOCK list of mere numbers would make
10 be sure. Even the color and ornament
are gone-a matter for which the fire.
men are grateful for no doubt; for the
work Of Keeping In condition the mass Of
color ana ornament previously described
was largely their dutV-and the dingV
black OF the modern machines seems by
their very appearance to shut out the pos
sinlhty OF romance and herOism that
seemed TO hover about the old machines
On the Boston and Albany railroad there
were among other engines named after
nearly every state and terriotry i'm the
union as well as after the principal places
OF the road. This conservative old COM
pany showed its conservatism in the very
naming Of its engines, there being very
few Of the picturesque appelatiOns Of the
other roads Some particularly fitting
\
switch engine on a dOWn-east road. the
"Atalanta," Pegasus" Eclipse" Are
turus, OF the Consolidated road. and
Pony" of the River road. now the Bos,
ton and Maine. one switch engine of the
Boston and Albany had the name of the
Alert" and another on the Southern road
was named the Taurus" favorite
naming was after the officers of the road,
as the whistler" &c Twitchell" and
"Chapin," Of the Boston and Albany. and
the Willis Phelps of the old Athol line
and the ID. l.. Harris of the River road
Here is a sample page of an engine list OF
1850 just as it stands, the names being
placed in the order in which they We're
seen:
Parker Wilbraham, ATLANTA, Amazon.
Rhode Island, Maryland. Baltic, Column
bus, Mariposa, South Carolina, Dukes,
Barnes. Richmond. ShaWmut, @. +. Spaul-
ding Cuba. w. =. Green, Active, Hero,
| c. TWitcheu
An old relic of the former days was
until recently at least in the round-house
of the New Haven road. Dingy and dust
covered, with rust on brass and steel and
the once gay red of stack and wheels a
dull and unattractive hue, " seemed a
pathetic reminder of it's former days of
glory when an engine was regarded as
more than q mere machine and the prac-
ticability of the modern times had not
robbed the engineers of the halo of glory
and herOism which to the juvenile mind
at least always appeared to surround the
/ men who ran on the road.