The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-14

| The efforts of Secretary of Agri-
culture Critcnneld, state Veterinary;
| w. C. Norton, of this county; Rep
! resentative e. e. Jones, of SusQue-
hanna, and a number of legislators
and officials who have been work.
ing hard for a State fair bill have
been rewarded by the reporting from
the Appropriation Committee of
bill to start the project going. 1t
provides for an appropriation of
$25 900, which is about one-tenth
of the amount asked for.
= Three years ago a farmer in
Lebanon township, whose buildings
were insured in the Wayne Co.
Farmers Mutual, had barn struck
by. lightning. The loss was not
the basis of full repairs to the
roof, was promptly paid by the COM
pany. The farmer took his money
and made his own repairs, saving
trifle by doing a rather superficial
job, which a neighbor told him
would prove a poor investment in
case of a high wind. The latters
foresight was singularly verified on
Wednesday last, when the tornado
which passed over this section, strip
ped about half of the entire roof
away, involving loss much greater
than the original damage, and
against which there is no insurance.
Following are some additional
facts in connection with the life of
Joshua d. Legg, formerly of Long
Eddy, whose death was noted in
recent issue of the Citizen: He. died
at the Masonic Home in Utica,
where he went through the recon-
mendation of Delaware Lodge of
Callicoon about two years ago. Mr..
Legg was about 70 years of age. In
early years he was a school teach
er in this county, and later engaged
in various other pursuits. For
years he was an assessor in the
town of Fremont and as such was
the leader in long legal fight
against the Erie railroad, which OBJ
jected to the valuation placed upon
it's property in Fremont. Legg IL
nally won the fight for the town.
He was postmaster at Long Eddy
under Cleveland's first administra-
ton. Surviving are wife and one
or two children. In his declining
years Mr.. Legg wrote an interesting
history of the town of Fremont,
but it was never published.
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been queried as to when the first
telegraphic train order was used,
furnishes the following reply, which
will be of special interest to the old
timers who used to journey up the
Hudson to Piermont before they
could take the Erie for Turner's,
Goshen and other points as far west
as Port Jervis. The date given by
the Times, 1916, is two years earlier
than the writer got his first glimpse
of the great Erie enterprise, when
the cut for the track was being made
at Narrowsburg. The Times says:
The telegraph was first used for
handling trains by the Erie Rail
road, and the first train order was
issued in 1S46 at Turner, n. Y, a
station on that railway. The New
York & Erie Railroad, whose east
ern terminal at that time was at
Piermont, n. Y, on the Hudson
River, had a telegraph wire running
into several of it's most important
stations which was known as the
Ezra Cornell line" This tele-
graph line was built on a highway
paralleling the Erie Railroad, and
as a matter of convenience the rail-
road company's agents attended to
the commercial telegraph business.
One day Charles Minot, then general
superintendent of the New York &
Erie Railroad, was going west on
train No. /, which was scheduled
to meet train No. 2, east-bound, at
Turner, N. Y. After waiting nearly
an hour at Turner for train No. Q,
Mr.. Minot stepped into the tele-
graph office and requested the oper-
ator to call up Goshen, N. Y, and
ask the operator if train No. had
passed there. On receiving a neg
ative reply, Mr.. Minot sent the fol-
lowing telegram to the Erie Rail-
road agent at Goshen: Hold all
trains bound east until arrive
there on train No. l. Do you un-
derstand? Answer" In few
minutes a reply was, received from
the agent at Goshen, saying: 81 un-
derstand l am to hold all east
bound trains at Goshen until you
arrive here on train No. /, and will
40 So" Mr.. Minot then wrote out
an order to the conductor and en-
gineer of train No. at Turner as
follows: Run to Goshen regardless
of train No. q" signed Charles
Minot, general superintendent. The
engineer of train No. refused to
do it until Mr.. Minot said he would
I ride on the engine with him. The