Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-16
5O-YEAR OLD TIME
TABLETOP GALLERY
SURVIVOR OF PURSUERS OF AN
DREW RAIDERS, CONDUCTOR
ON OLD STATE ROAD, PRE-
SCENTS 1T TO COMMISSION.

A yellowed Western and Atlantic rail
way time table fifty years old was added
to the now famous picture gallery CT
the state railroad commission yesterday
by the gift of F. Alec Crawford. who was
a conductor on the trains the table tells
Of. and who is now one of three Survivors
of those who pursued the Andrews RAID
ers.
Mr.. Crawford is custodian and manager
of the Battle of Atlanta cyclorama al
Grant park. 1t is he who tells the visitors
there of the points depicted in the tremen-
dops picture they see around them
Saturday morning he called upon CHAIR
man McLendon of the railroad commits
sion and unwrapped the time-worn frame
and glass of the carefully preserved old
relic of early railway days in Georgia. In
few minutes his possession aroused the
lively interest of Commissioners
Hillyer and, Hill, whom Chair
man McLendoni called in. They
could not have been more enthrall-
ed had the object they were studying been
a stone tablet craven with the commits
sion's future under the ole Brown adj
ministration.
The valuable addition to the gallery will
hang henceforth on the walls of the conf
missions office in the capitol, showing
Mr.. Crawfords name as the donor. The
relic tells of the time. when Major Camp
bell Wallace, grandfather of Secretary
Campbell Wallace of the commission was
an officer of the road, and when its At
lanta- Chattanooga schedule was nine
hours! The time table was issued ''t1
take effect August ~, 1859, and was is
sued on the authority of'"John w. Lew
is superintendent"
This antedates by more than ten years
the commissions greatest prize heretofore
AN Atlantic and Gulf freight and passen-
ger schedule dated February l 1870.
If the time table itself has a history, so
has also Mr.. Crawford. the man who ran
as conductor under it and who donates
1t to the state for Mr.. Crawford was one
Of the party that pursued and helped to
capture the Andrews Raiders-the boldesr
party that the federal forces ever turned
loose in the south during the civil war.
At the time that Andrews and his raid
ers seized the old General in Mariatta
and started their fight north with it, Mr..
Crawford was on q side track in that
town, holding his train while the "Gener-
ais" southbound passenger under Con-
ductor Fuller stood on the main lines. AT
that moment bedlam broke loose.
Some Yankees have got the 'Generai!'
were the shouts
The details of that thrilling day are
known to history Conductor Fuller, first
afoot and then on a hand car. flew away
in pursuit, picking up the Texas" nine
miles north of Marietta. And before the
Texas running backward, had gotten
good Roadway, the Pennsylvania" Craw-
ford's engine, with Crawford aboard. hove
in sight following 1t. j. F. Renard, Craw-
ford's engineer, had necessarily lost some
time in getting rid of his own cars and
getting his locomotive on the main line
past the headless passenger train.
Mr.. Crawford told the commissioners
the details of that chase, Saturday morn
ing. His story went well with the prize
he had presented for the gallery"
According to Mr.. Crawford, there are
only three survivors of the historic party
of pursuit-Pete Bracken, last heard OF as
feeble old gentleman in Macon, who
was the Texas" engineer Henry Haney,
now assistant chief of the Atlanta fire de-
partment, who was Bracken's fireman.
and Mr. Crawford himself.