The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-12
NO ORDERS To STOP
rs WHY sOUTHERN's PALM LINZ
TIED PASSED PINELAND.
RETURN FOR VANDERBlLTS
WAS UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM
DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT.

Agent at PineIand Had Requested
Train be stopped at PineInnd and
Had Been Told to Flag Her-COn-
ductOr and Engineer Were Not
Notified So Failed to obey Signal.
NanderbiIts Wired Superinten-
dent and He Ordered Engine ana
Club Chr to Make Run Back from
HardeeviIIe other Cars Left
Waiting on Track an Hour, but
Passengers Made no Kick.
How Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt in
duced the Southern's Palm Limited
the fast tourist flyer from New York
to St. Augustine, to break it's journey
and run back from Hardeeville some
twenty-five miles to Pineland to take
her aboard, was made public yester-
day.
The fact that Mrs. Vanderbilt and
two companions had reached Savan-
nah the day before after having per-
formed such feat, unique in rail-
reading, was stated in yesterdays
Morning News. 1t was learned that
Mrs. Vanderbilt, contemplating a trip
to Savannah on the Palm Limited,
which does not ordinarily stop at
Pineland, had requested the agent at
that place to arrange for the train to
stop.
Didn't Mind the Flags.
The agent took the matter up"
with the division Superintendent at
Columbia and was instructed to flag
the train. He concluded that If he did
so the train would stop, and that
everything would be all right. 1t
seems, however, that no orders were
given either the engineer or the con-
ductor to stop at Pineland, and fur
Their, though they saw the agents sig
nal ii was only seen when the train
was so near the station that it would
have been impossible to stop.
Under these conditions the train
crew paid no further attention to the
signal and knew nothing of it until
reaching Vaudeville. AS soon as the
train flew by the Vanderbilt party,
through the agent, got busy with the
superintendent office in Columbia,
and made such representations to that
office that when the train reached
Hardeeville orders were found direct
ing the conductor to cut loose the club
car and engine and make the run back
to Pineland for the would-be paSsen-
gers.
Part of Train sidetracked.
This was done, five coaches of pas
sengers being left at Vaudeville I'M
til the club car and engine should get
back. This took about an hour Some
of the passengers were inquisitive as
to the trouble, but made no kick when
they were told that nothing was
wrong, but that it was necessary that
the engine and one car make the trip
back a short distance.
The chartering of the steamer Louise
for the trip to May river because Mrs.
Vanderbilt thought a naphtha launch
too small has already been mentioned
The Louise returned about midnight
that night having made the trip with
out mishap. She has finished unload
ing her cargo, a work that had been
stopped to allow her to make the trip,
and left on her regular run.
Mrs. Vanderbilt had planned to re-
turn to Savannah yesterday and to take
the Seaboard Air Line to Garnett
where she is to join her friends, but
changed her mind and will not return
until to-day. She may again make the
trip on the Louise, which will land her
passengers in time to allow them to
take Seaboard Air Line train No. so,
on which Mrs. Vanderbilt has reserved
space.