The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-09
RALEIGH TO RICHMOND
THE CAPITALS MINGLE TOGETH-
ERIN A DAYS PLEASURE,
The Great TabernacIe Excursion, Two
Big Trains, With Thousand
on Eoard. +

HI tuG VI cANO5oioho
| there has been none that eclipsed the trip
of the Tabernacle Sunday School to Rich
| mond and return yesterday. 1t was one
| of the swifest, smoothest and most de-
| lightful trips that was ever run. 1t was
! not really like an excursion. 1t was more
| like a mammoth moving of people on
limited railway flyers. The day was abb
! souteIy perfect for travelling, no dust,
not beam of scorching sunshine. The
! day was Swallowed as tho great veil
had been spread under the sky to protect
! all beneath it from the heat of the sun
/ and yet not a shower sufficient to retard
a single movement of the thousands of
! people-men and mothers, lads and las
! sizes. boys and girls, who went hither from
/ Raleigh to Richmond and return. The
occasion furnished another opportunity
for the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday
f, School to Iengthen its hist of delightful
annual outings and there was not single
detail lacking.
If the successful management of MAN.
moth railway excursions is amy criterion
/ then Mr. n. B. Broughton, Mr.. X. ii.
! Bradley. Mr.. J. NJ. Broughton, Mr.. Jacob
s. Allen, Mr.. Jos. III. Weathers and Capt.
J. j. Bernard are capable of managing a
great Trunk Line Railroad, and | have
little doubt but that they are.
Yesterdays excursion pulled out from
the Union depot yesterday morning in
two sections, the first leaving at exactly
Clio o'clock, the other at exactly 6:30
Two splendid Southern trains stood under
the shed with high locomotives, each
seemingly anxious to get in the lead. The
first section pulled out and at its first stop
which was Selma, the crowd was so great
that an extra coach had to be put on,
making six coaches loaded with passen-
gers. The second section stopped at all
the intermediate points between Raleigh
and Wilson and as it pulled out from Will
son it had another six full coaches. The
engines of each train and train crew were
then blended over the smooth Atlantic
Coast Line towards the City on the
James" At exactly Ills o'clock the
first section pulled into the Union Depot
at Richmond Just fifteen minutes after
wards the second section unloaded its five
hundred happy sight and pleasure seekers
at the same depot. 1t was a charming
trip, no one of the great crowd seemed
weary or jaded. In little groups they
began at once taking in the beauti-
full historic city on the James, visiting
friends, visiting points Of interest, seeing
men ON business, ETC., for six and a half
hours. 1t had been arranged that one
section of the train should remain until
tomorrow, the other returning tonight
and that those who desired to stay over
| another day might do So
The crowd divided just about in halves,
one half returning and the other remain
ing. The returning section left Richmond
at exactly o'clock and it was a happy,
jolly party on board. 1t moved smoothly
and almost noiselessly, but from the sta
, ton quickening its pace as it left the city
behind until it was clipping miles at the
, rate of nearly forty an hour. Lum
| Weathers, an old Raleigh boy, now one
! of the Coast Lines best engineers, was
at the throttle. Under the touch of his
/ mechanical genius the splendid locomo-
| tive glided alsng with its load of precious
| freight without a jostle or scarcely mo-
! ments pause until we ran into Rocky
! Mount, making the trip, 123 miles, with
| five hundred passengers aboard, in just
three hours. A moment at Rocky Mount
/ and then into Wilson. Thence to Selma,
| where locomotives were changed, Capt.
Luther Lloyd, of the Southern, taking the
throttle from there to Raleigh. The same
smooth, swift running characterized
| the trip from Selma to Raleigh, the
train rolling into Union depot at exactly
IL o'clock p. M, the whole trip from
Richmond having been made-one hun
| dred and eighty-three miles, in precisely
| five hours, an average of nearly thirty
| eight miles an hour, including stops at
every station between Wilson and Raj
| eigh. Everybody enjoyed the trip. They
| enjoyed the stay in Richmond. Many old
| acquaintance were renewed to the de-
| light of both Tar Heels and Virginians.
This writer and those with him became
the guests of Mrs. Myers, who many
| years ago was Miss McRary, one of
| Sahsbury's most charming bellies, who,
| aided by her talented and beautiful
daughter, Miss Kate Myers, and her
other clever and hospitable children,
| crowded a weeks pleasure into our six
| spare hours. 1t was all a splendid trip,
and one that will be pleasantly remem-
! bered by all those in attendance.
A FINE LECTURE TONIGHT.