The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-19
NEWS OF RAILROADS
Tore Down a Pole.

Where there is will there is way" was the slogan of the local Louisville and Nashville people when over in the North and South yards in North Montgomery yesterday they ex- emplified both the 'wilI' and the way" -
 On the ground that several of the new tracks are to be built in the North Montgomery yards stood num- Der of poles belonging to the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Bell Telephone Company. Some time ago the local officials of the Louisville and Nashville notified the Southern conf~ panies that the poles. would have to be <emoved as new tracks would De punt where they stood. The Telephone Com pany it seems, complied with the re- quest and had it's poles moved where they would not interfere with the plans of the railroad. The Western Union, however, failed to remove heavy pole that stood right in the center of one of the proposed new tracks. Requests did not seem to have any effect and Saturday morning warning was sent the Western Union by the Louisville and Nashville ofn- cials that if the pole was not removeo the railroad company would take sum mary action. By Saturday night no move had been made by the Telegraph Company, and yesterday morning the Louisville and Nashville people. got busy and went into the game. SIX ol the heaviest gondolas in the yards were hooked up to yard engine and started backward at a pretty good clip down the track in the center of which stood the big pole of the Telegraph Compa- ny. When the bumper on the end or the first big gondola got Into close touch with the big telegraph pole there was sharp sound of spIintering wooo. And 1t was not caused by pieces of the coal car sailing through the arr eith- CT.
 There was a tremendous weight be- hind this first coal car.e Five more heavy gondolas were pushing It up against the pole and they In turn were being pushed by a locomotive that had a good head of steam on. The eonse- duence was that when the immoV- able force met the irresistible force something happened very sudden. A big telegraph pole in many different sections was littering a good portion of the real estate in the vicinity rom which a big telegraph pole had form erly proudly reared its lofty head.
 It was a case of uneasy lies the head that sports the crown. The pole was unfit to be used as pole any longer, but the track was very clear ana the heavy string of gondolos sere- lneIy rolled a few feet further, ana stopped with the consciousness or duty we'll performed.
 l When the pole went down net work of wires which depended on II for support came tumbling down with
 the splintered fragments of the pole
 which was having the ornate carving
 done on its anatomy. Of course thls dshoel" was transferred to the gener- | af ofaces of the Western Union on Bibh land coosa streets. and the general of flee force of Western Union hnemen were hurried at once to the South and
 North yards of the Louisville ana Nashville where the work of splicne wries and strengthening out the tangle Iresultant from the collision" with the lIocal cars was begun, and by last nighi thugs in an electrical sense were IL pretty fair shape
 Tine buflding of the tracks in tho lsouth and North yards will now proceed luninterruptedly.