The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17
OLD.TINE CONDUCTORS
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although he resides at SAT Laurel avenue
ST. Paul. Conductor Travis is married
and has one son.
Conductor Horn began railroading away
back in 1868, running out Of Chicago or
the Northwestern road. IE August 1879,
Conductor Horn came to Minnesota and
entered the service of the Northern Pa
cific, running freight for three years, and
has had a passenger train ever since
During his whole term OF service Con-
ductor Horn has never received a>scratch
nor lost passC nger by accident. In 1879
one of his brakemen lost his life by rail-
ing under the train, west OF Mandan.
Conductor Horn is now running from St
Paul to Fargo on the Northern Pacific.
THOMAS A. SEARLES.
On May 10, 1862 Thomas A. Searles en-
tered the service Of the Chicago & North
Western Railway company as brakeman.
He served three years in this capacity,
and was then promoted to freight con-
ductor. Within six years he was again
promoted to be passenger conductor, and
was five years in this service. Conductor
Searlcs then resigned his position to cast
his luck, with hundreds of others who
moved west, IN Dakota territory. This
was in the spring of 1883. He engaged in
in the Jim River valley. In two years
he sold out and entered service with the
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley
Railroad company, serving five years as
passenger conductor and one year as train
master. In the spring of 1891 he left this
company, and in October of the same
year entered the service of the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad
as conductor. He has been with the Oma-
ha ever since, with the exception of one
year spent in the South for his health.
During this year he ran a passenger train
between Macon and Brunswick, Ca, on
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
railway.
ENGINEER HUXLEY.
Although not a railway conductor Mr.
Huxley, being an old Minnesota train
man, deserves recognition in this space
devoted TO the conductors of the state
n Ut. charles, Mimi, correspondent has
this TO say of one of Mr.. HuxIeys old
time fast runs:
In these days of flyers, when the speed
OF engines is q general topic Of converse
ton among railroad officials, it is inter-
esting to read this clipping from the
Scientific American of the issue of July
2, 1858:
A locomotive dispatched from La Porte
to Chicago for a physician to attend
Robert DoXtader, president of the road.
who died at that place of apoplexy, ran
the distance and back in one hour and
forty minutes. The distance Of fifty
eight miles each way, making a speed of
ll6 miles in 100 minutes. This is fully up
to, If not superior, to the speed daily at
tanned on the English Great Western,
between Paddington and London
This time was made on a section of the
Lake Shore, and the officials Of that road
take pride in pointing out that the road
had, as far back as 1853, engines that
would reel off the miles at the rate Of So. 6
miles an hour The particular run men
toned was made by an inside connected
engine with four siX-foot driving wheels;
cylinders, 13X20 inches; a wood burner
carrying about 100 pounds of steam al
though, as there were no steam gauges
Used on the road, it could not be definitely
stated what her pressure was. The engine
was built at. Manchester, n. H and was.
run by Engineer William Huxley The
run was made In exactly two hours. OF
which twenty minutes were used in turn
ing the engine, switching the coach and
waiting foT the doctor. The depot was
at Van Buren, street, as 1t is now, and the
turntable located at Twelfth street
The trick was laid with Trails, but
was IN very bad shape; so bad that Mr.
poXtades had shortly before issued or
ders fog he work trains to work Sun
days alsn, beginning on the following
Sunday
The ats ye extract was taken from the
November, SO, number of Locomotive En-
ginecriEg
EnsiHcer William Huxley, above men
toned, Is a male, hearty man, now in his
seventeen Year, and he and his wife are
living al l'lainview, Mimi, where he owns
a fine = sidence. They have but two
Children, Mrs Lyman Scholes wife of
division Z, eight agent of the Great North
western, st Omaha, and Fred Huxley a
sent Of medicine at the University of
JEAShesOt2
Mr. Huxley began. his railroad career
IL 81, Oh the Michigan Southern, working
there uM ii GO or Ga. From there he
went South as an engineer for the United
States government suntif 1866, when he
obtained a position with the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company, In whose
employ he has continued until the pres
ent being now the Oldest engineer in
n:ng between PlainView and Eyota for
the last twenty-One years.
Mr.. Huxley has had some exciting ex-
periences other than that Of the first
Fun. In testing the new drawbridge at
WinOna, in 1870, the entire train, includ-
ing the tender, went into the river, leav-
ing only the engine standing on the tres
tie.
Again, IN April, 1890. Engine No. 10,
which lie was running at the time, ex-
plcded at Viola, Mr.. Huxley escaping seri-
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