The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27

would nave reached Greensboro the
same evening
Mr.. SimmS brought ont on cross
examination that trains were usually
late at Christmas time.
Wilson folks.
Mr.. S. c.. Wells, of Wilson, knew
four young ladies of Wilson attend
ing the Greensboro Normal. Before
connection was broken it was very
uncertain. When the Coast Line was
on time it made connection. 1t was
often late. Then they would take
early morning train from Wilson and
connect at Goldsboro, with only two
minutes there.
Mr.. ID. A. Bats, o. Elm City door
keeper of last Senate. Before connec-
ton was broken he could rarely ever
make it. The conditions at Selma
then were bad, no fire in the waiting
room, no light that he could remem~
Der. Would the travel be increased
by the reStorati n u: the connection:
Judge Brown excluded any opinion
on this subject.
As to his own experience, witness
said he himself would have come that
way several times and did not, be-
cause there was no connection. The
Judge allowed a question whether the
connection would be a convenience to
the travelling public of that section
Witness said he thought it would.
Mr. w. NJ. Carter, of Wilson, said
he had to get up at five o'clock
TO connect at Goldsboro getting no
chance for breakfast to Greensboro.
Or he could go to Selma, ana wait
there. Was travelling with a party re-
Gently, from Norfolk. Ladies and gen
tlemen, who were going to Raleigh
heard they could not make connec-
ton via Weldon, ana wanted The
conductor to change tickets. lie ould
not do so and they went to Goldsboro.
If the connection had been there they
could have reached Raleigh by $40
or thereabout. AS it was they could
not get there till 11:45 at NIGHT. Be
fore connection was broken MS family
had missed it.
Mr.. Douglass asked if those folks
could not have come directly here by
the Seaboard. Mr.. Carter said the
ticket agent had told them they
would make the connection.
Mr.. d. J. Swindell of Rocky Mount,
A locomotive engineer on the Coast
Line from Nashville to Rocky Mount.
Leaves Rocky Mount at and returns
at 1910. Waits at Rocky Mount two
hours for No. 40 going north. Engine
on Springhope branch is a small one.
The track from Rocky Mount to Sell
ma was good, with heavy rail. On
the Nashville branch light rail is
used. With his engine, with two pas
senger coaches and baggage coach, he
could make the run from Rocky
Mount to Selma in an hour and a
half. not quite 20 miles an hour. With
out delay. he could make 80 miles an
hour. No. 80 carried from to ten
coaches. 1t leaves Rocky Mount at
1870, and is scheduled to reach selma
at ESQ. He could make that run in
that time with his train. He could
run as fast and as safely on the main
line, even safer 1t would take cords
and a little over for the round trip
from Rocky Mount to Selma and re-
turn. They are allowed two pintS to
the hundred miles of engine oil, and
one pint of cylinder oil. lie is paid
$3.50 a day and SOC. an hour over II
hours. About six men constitute the
crew on his train When NO. 40 was
late it endangered his Richmond con
nection He had once left 10 chT
Mount, one day last week, before the
arrival of No. 40, the train from Sell
ma to Rocky Mount.
1t was now one o'clock, and court
took a recess till three o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr.. Swindell took the stand again
when court reconvened at 3 o'clock.
and Mr.. Davis rosS-examined the
witness, who said that his train could
RIM thirty miles an hour with safety
on a clear track, but it might be
made at fifty miles an hour. In
making the distance from Rocky
Mount to Selma in an hour and TWEEN
ty minutes, he estimated at not more
than forty miles an hour. If he had
to meet another train at South ROCKY
Mount at 1:05, of course he could not
leave South Rocky Mount until 100.
If it should meet No. 48 at Elm city.
he would have to hustle to make the
siding in five minutes. Would lose
three or four minutes by beng
| obliged to slow up going through
Wilson. At Contentnea he would lose
two minutes. At Lucama another
| two minutes would be lost. At Ken
| ~ three minutes would be lost. AT
! Micro would pass No. 40, five minutes
| lost Would meet PIP there also.
That is the truck train. If all these
| trains were right at their places, he
could make the trip in an hour ana
| twenty minutes. Altogether twenty
| seven and one-half minutes would De
taken off from the running time or one
hour and twenty minutes. witness
said it would take one hour and TWEEN
| ty minutes outside of delays, but in
Guiding the stops and local work OF
| the train. He was figuring on d run
of forty miles from South Rocky
| Mount. There was no turn tao-e al
Selma to reverse his train, ana SO ne
would have to run to Smitnheld ana
reverse. That would take about
twenty minutes. Smitheld is four and
one-half miles to five miles. would
have to get water, too, and take on
more wood. Would not get back to
| Rocky Mount in time to make ms
run to Spring Hope. 1t would be toe
much to tackle every day. The com
1 pany keeps no wood at all along the
! track of the main line from ROCKY
| Mount to Selma.
on redirect examination by MI
Woodland. Mr.. Swindell said that L
there was enough siding for two train!
| at Micro, and they were both there
he could pass in the same time
would take him to pass one train.
he got to Selma on time at 2:20, n
could be ready to start back at 2:34
putting him back in Rocky Mount a
3.54 in time to leave for Springhop'
at the usual time. For the last si'
months he had left Rocky Mount TO
Springhope all the way from on time
| to two hours late.
Judge Brown asked Mr.. SWlndel
if he could run his train daily be
tween the hours of 1880 and
O'Clock. He said he could not, an'
do his other work.