Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-04-02
RAILROAD NOMENCLATURE:

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9 RAILROAD MENclATuRE.
The Title Does Not Always Show whore !
the Road Begins and Ends.
1t might be supposed that railroads !
which bear usually geographical
names would show by their, titles
what points they connect, but there
are many exceptions in this respect
and some of them are surprising.
The st. Louis and San Francisco
railroad, for instance, might be sup
posed to run from St. Louis to San
Francisco. Actually it runs 327 miles
west of st. Louis. The Minneapolis
and st. Louis railroad would appear
to run from Minneapolis to St. Louis
It actually runs from Minneapolis to
Angus, La, about half way to st.
Louis. The Omaha and St. Louis
railroad does not run from Omaha
to st. Louis, but from Omaha to Pat
tonsburg, Mo. St. Louis is 267 miles
farther east. The Toledo, St: Louis
and: Kansas City railroad, or Clover
Leaf, as it is more generally called,
runs from Toledo to St. Louis, which
is the western terminus of the road.
Kansas City is 1926 miles away. The
Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad
does not run from Peoria to Toledo,
but from the Indiana state line to
!; Warsaw, Ills.
The New York, Chicago and St.
Louis railroad, or Nickel Plate, as
it is universally called, does not run
from New York to Chicago and St.
Louis. 1t runs from Buffalo to Chi
cago, and a passenger on it coming
cast and landing at Buffalo would be
over 400 miles from New York, while
a passenger upon it going west and
landing at Chicago would be 300
miles from St. Louis. The Philadel~
~phia and Erie railroad runs from
Sunbury, Pa, to Erie. The Pennsyl.
vania, Poughkeepsie and Boston rail-
road is 96 miles long, from Stating
ton, Pa, to Campbell Hall, on the
Ontario and Western. The Fort
Worth and Denver City railroad is
wholly in Texas, does not touch Den-
yer city and does not run into Colo
RADIO.
| These peculiarities in railroad
nomenclature are supplemented by
another. All the coal carrying roads
running latitudinally in the eastern
states have as part of their title the
words land Western. Here are
some of them: Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western; the New York,
Lake Erie and. Western; the New
York, Ontario and Western; the Lake
Erie and Western; the Norfolk and
Western; the New York, Susquehan-
M and Western; the Pittsburg and
Western. The quantity of coal trans
ported by these railroads collectively
amounts to more than so, 600, 900 tons
a vear.-Nev Tc:k G>=
DANGERS OF PEARL GATHERING.
Tho Ground Sharks Have a Tonilness For
the Flesh of Divers.
The islands of Cabagua and Mar
garita were the principal seats of
the pearl fishery, which was also
carried Oh extensively in the gulf Of
Paria itself, on the coast of Cumana.
The deep water fshery-that is to
say, the fishery in about 10 fathoms
is conducted now pretty much as
it was in Columbus time. Men accus-
toned from their infancy to an am
phibious sort of life and trained to
be expert divers are engaged at the
work and go down naked into the sea
in order to pick up the marvellous
pearl breeders which lie at the bot
tom. In Ceylon the pearl fishers go
out in company in their boats. Each
boat carries 20 men, of whom ten
are rowers and ten are divers. The
divers go down to a depth of from
four to ten fathoms. To assist them
in their descent they use large
stone of red granite, having the
smaller end bored so as to admit a
rope which is rove through it.
When about to dive, the diver
seizes this rope with the toes of his
right foot and with the left foot Sc
cures a network bag for his oysters.
He then takes hold of another rope
with his hands and is let down from
the boat to his diving ground, the
stone helping to sink him. When at
the bottom, he casts himself loose
from the stone, picks up his oysters,
and when ready to return jerks the
rope by which he was let down, and
he is then hauled up, leaving the
stone to be recovered by it's own
rope.
The chief danger the divers have
to encounter after the preliminary
difficulties attendant upon diving
and working at 50 great a depth
have been got over is from ground
sharks. The divers in the Persian
J. gulf resort to magic and to religious
entertainments in the hope of guard.
ing against these horrible creatures,
but as an additional and more effect.
, i've precaution they are armed with
q short stick, pointed at either end,