The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-11-06
A PRETTY TRAIN.
The Initial Passenger Train Of
the T S. & N. Road, a
Beauty.
L6ADING CITIZENS HB0HRD
The Shreveport Board of Trade
Entertain the Visitors From
This City.

AS pretty a train as ever pulled
out of the union depot here, left
for Shreveport yesterday morninI,
over the rail of the T., S & N road,
with So representative business and
professional men Of the city.
The train consisted Off coaches
and combination car-coach and
baggage car and the three were
painted a maroon red, with letter.
ngs of gold. The locomotive was
ten wheeler and was able to snatch
the cars over the rails at much
greater speed than was permissible
owing to the newness of the track.
Conductor Crouch in a new regu,
lation uniform, appeared to see the
train through and had as his en-
gjneer, ]. 7. COrbett,
The officials of the road present
were: President Geo. W. Fouke,
and his clerk, Charlie Staiti; Gen.
eral Manager, j. j. Kress; General
Superintendent, Ben Collins; Audi
t5r aud Pdymaster, D, Gaines;
and the other clerks in the general
office.
Ninety-tve representative citi
zens Of our city were soon in the
cars, when the all-aboard was given
aud the train backed out of the
yard for its main track at exac ly
8:30 o'clock.
Nothing happed tomdr the p cas-
ure of the trip and when title
sta lion called Lane was reachet,
the crowd was told that the train
would be held for a short time, an
8 he coaches were soon deserted, for
store house near the track whic
had out a sign of cheese ano
crackers, and the merchant had
big run of trade for a time. The
rack proved to be in good fix with
he exception of 5 miles, which has
not been tamped yet, and the
train made good speed until this
track was reached when slow time
was made.
During stops on the road al
various stations, invited guest were.
taken on and when Shreveport was
reached.it was found that 1913 CUES
of the road we're aboard, when the
union station at Shreveport was
reached at 1:20 O'Clock,
The Board of Trade had a com
mittee present, who invited the
crowd to be their guests, and form
my the visitors from this city into
three squads, marched them to the
three leading hotels of the city
where they'wer dined sumptuously
and each one given a cigar After
dinner the PeXarkan ans were given
a ride over the electric street car
line, and were landed back at the
union depot, where they were soon
seated in the cozy COACHES whrIing
homeward, at which place they ar
rived at $3.50 at night
During the journey homewlrd
a vote Of thanks was given TO the
officers of the road and also to the
Board of Trade of Shreveport tor
The nice treatment received.
The country through which tile
7. S. & N. road runs, is not a new
country, but the plowman has been
tilIing the soil for many years, and
many mills have sprung up in the
past years TO cut the giant pines,
and what the mills have not done
to the forests in decimatiug the
trees, the tie makers have finished,
thus making it easy for the hus-
bandman to clear of a patch TO
plant his seed upon With coudi.
tions thus, the new road runs
through a country already bIos-
soming like the rose, settled up with
a thrifty people who will see tina,
the road will have plenty Of busis
ness to do Ia hauling the fruits Of
their industry to market
On the trip back home Il was de
cided that Secretary G A Hays, Of
the Texarkana Board Of Trade, be-
ing the best looking man on board
should set 'em up when this city
was reached, and the vote was a
unanimous one Mr. Hays in ac-
lknowledgiug the compliment, said
liz was a physical impossiDiity for
him to comply as reXarkana was a
closed city, and then again he was
not addicted to lushing, but he hid
| in his Office some good cubanos and
each and every one could walk up
any time and get smoke out OF
his box,