Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-10
NUMBER "a.

/ SeOu OI tuat great Oul1ulHS Wu0n Ae q
nothing but q net work of steel, i
looked like great spiders web. Nol
a brick or a stone except the founda,
ton was laid. Now it was a grand
sight to look at. With its trains back
ed in under the big sheds, with the
sign up at each gate saying the hour
and minute when each train would
leave and for what place.
Aud as we loitered all through the
lower floor we saw hundreds OF folks
sitting around in the seats, for his or
their train to move out. Some groups
were eating their lunch and such a
moving mass of people. After We had
sat and rested we took the elevator
and rode up to the dome where we
stood and looked way down upon the
hurrying crowd below. Such a living
mass of mass of people! / don't think
| ever saw finer work aud handsomer
painting or finer carved work than
were in those iron beams that looked
| like great cables reaching from one
side of the dome way up and over to
the opposite side. Such rich paintings,
and such costly guiding I never saw
before in any part of the world. None
who visit St. Louis should fail to go 10
the Union Station. After spending
hours looking at the rich paintings
and carvings We reluctantly took the
down elevator. When we reached the
ground floor we felt as though we had
been up nearer heaven. But we
breathed the free. fresh air ouce more
of the earth.
After seeing the Station we walked
around among the great repair shops,
and as Charley is often sent to those
shops to help repair the shovel. he
was we'll acquainted with many of the
workmen. So we did not have to ask
for admissions. And such sights as we
saw with those great engines running,
doing all sorts of repairing. | saw at
one place the driving wheels of loco
motive in a great lathe, the wheels
turning slow, and an automatic ma
chine taking ribbon of iron off the
wheels just as nice and smooth as if it
had been a piece of wood. Every
wheel was exactly of size. 1t was
wonderful to see how every thing was
done.
As we passed from one place to an
other we saw men managing all sorts
of machinery. saw one man bore
holes through great plates of iror.
The drill seemed to cut hole through.
the iron as easy as if it had been q
soft piece of wood. We saw passenger
coaches slung up with great derricks
having new timbers put in the under
sides of the cars. As stood and look
ed at the different kinds of work the
thought came to me, '.it is all in
knowing how. Yes, it is all in know
ing how. and saw men that looked
as If they had been through the war.
with scars on them. One man work
ing at forge with but one eye left;
hot cinder had flown in his eye and
burned it entirely out. The question
to me, ''wby do not those men draw
pension?" They certainly ought to
have one. / think all such trades
should BE provided for in case of ac-
cidents. After we had seen all We
wished we took car and went home
to dim er.
Then we hitched up the horse ard
wagon and drove out in the country
toward the Meramec river along The
Kings highway among the great gar
dens and vineyards. But was told by
fruit growers, ''we can't begin 10 raise
such delicious apples up here as you
can among the iron hills in your coun-
try" 1t is admitted on all sides that
Southeast Missouri could beat the world
for delicious fruit of all sorts. They
said sits the iron in the SOIL y
As we drove down to the river we
saw good many boats being repaired
and being built. As we sat and watch
ed them, it did not seem to be SO very
difficult job to build boat as one
would suppose, and as we looked at
the passing steam boats going up the
river. we saw lots of sail boats and
row boats. As soon as a big steam
boat had passed, row or sail would
start right out behind the big boat and
ride in its wake, and such up and
down motion as they rise and fall on
the crest of the waves. I think 1t
would have made me sea sick. / dent
think should have liked 1t very much.
But then its all in getting used to a
thing. The old woman said 1t did "not
hurt eels TO be skinned alive for they
were used to it. Yes, it's all being
used to thing. i. z. K.
Secretary Francls' Tears.
Il is instructive to observe how very