Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-10-17
RAILROAD|NG ON
y THE INCREASE
Business is Picking Up on Both
Lines Here.
THERE is MUCH WORK
AND FEW ARE IDLE

and There Is No Talk of Hard
Times-Big Increase IN Traffic at
This Point-Pay Day on Both
Roads and All Are Made Happy.
Notwithstanding the TACT that ev-
eryone you meet holds UP his or her
hands ana yells 'hard times" all e
the country, with Martinsburg in the
lead and trying to see if she can't
make more noise in this line than
any other city or town in the state,
and citing the railroads as instances
illustrating the decrease In business
in that particular line of industry.
The railroads operating in and out
OF Martinsburg are doing a business
that comes very near the amount
done before the much talked of panic.
Both the Cumberland Valley and
the Baltimore and Ohio roads are
making a good showing, and have
beer doing so for some weeks past,
according to reports from railroad
employees and evidence shown in the
local Offices. This Ices not necessar-
lily mean that the country is enjoying
any vast amount of prosperity, but 1t
brands the idea that the people can
live, as a fake, among the railroad
men at least.
Business on the Baltimore and Ohio
has nearly doubied yer the mount
done a few months g There are
but few men who are not making
good time. The extra list is swollen
to a large number and 1t is not so
hard to find employment any more.
More Improvement work has been
done than was expected, from the out
look of conditions in the beginning OF
the season. Many new buildings have
been erected, and the working of sec
ton crews AMI floating gangs, but a
few days at a time, has been discon-
tlnued.
After the decrease in business on
the railroads last winter, the number
OF cars delivered to he Cumberland
Valley railroad, on a rough figure,
amounted to from forty to n hun
bred. Since then things have been
increasing, until now the number OF
cars runs from 200 to 800 per day,
and still increasing.
The number of men, who have been
taken back into the employment or
the railroad companies west OF Mar
tinsburg amount to some thousands,
on the Wheeling division OF the Balti-
more and Ohio this fact has been
noted in particular.
AT different times during the past
summer ticket agents and travelling
passenger agents have been inter-
viewed, and a point was made TO in
ouire into the conditions OF the pas
senger business, not only in Martins
burg, but all over the middle west. 1t
was learned that at nc time has the
business III luis pdiblSuloi ucP"i
fallen off to any alarming extent, in
fact as much business Was done as
in any of the former eight years. All
excursion trains in and out OF Mar
tinsburg seeT.ed to be well crowded.
In fact, passenger traffic is going at
full swing, and there is nothing, and
-oz-o- ho1 baan q " tfhtn0 tn Indicate
a decrease in this department.
Railroad men have become too busy
to talk about hard times, and it is
hoped that business will continue on
its upward climb until it reaches its
old standing in all departments. Rates
suit everyone and the presidential
election is forgotten.
Modern Train Orders.
When things became sleepy along
the line last night, and telegraph OPP
orators were rolling up their coats
for pillars, two lightning singers, one
froca the western end of the state and
another from an Office near Martins
burg, flashed a couple of what might
be considered modern train orders
over the wire illustrating the fact
that they have time to think about
the coming election. The first one
was as follows:
To All voters:-Election special
wv. ]. Bryan" will run extra Lincoln,
Neb. to Washington. D. c. and will
meet William Taft at Cincinnati, and
have right over all other candidates
to the White House. Signed.
It was answered promptly in this
form, showing that the question is
not all onesided;
To All Concerned:-Electfon special
William Taft" will run extra ahead
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