The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1909-10-07
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RAILROAD NEWS
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Several fireman have taken the
examination for promotion.
Reports say that Logan is to
have several new "hogs heads"
Mr.. Carl Graham has resigned
from Section 40 and gone to work
on the new pike.
Mr.. j. G. Grigsby, of the shops,
was in Starr township Monday,
visiting some old time friends,
Mr.. Phil Schorr, of the shops,
is moving back to Columbus to
work at the Fulton Market, his
old position.
No. 237 train from Straitsville
was laid up at Webb Summit on
Thursday evening with a decd
engine, and an engine was sent
out from Logan to bring her in.
A fireman that was blamed for
always looking out of the window
and waving at the girls, says that
fireman has plenty to do to for.
get to wave, that it is the "head
shack" that does most of the wav-
ing.
At 1 80 o'clock Tuesday after
noon, as was noised about In Rail-
road circles, that l.. Il N. uno-
train came south to Logan on the
Hooking Valley, and large crowd
greeted the strange machine at the
depot. 1t much resembles a large
interurban coach with a locomo-
tive engine inside the front end of
1t, the smoke stack pro;rading from
the roof. 1t is constructed of
steel, and the steam motor power
occupies about one fourth the
coach to the front and the baggage
and passenger departments, the
remaining portion. The seats are
the very latest wicker and are
styled up in fine shape. This par
ticular uno.train was numbered
5000 and was made at the South
Louisville Shops of L. & N. rail-
road, in December 1907. The
Hooking Valley officials were try
ing out the machine on the regu-
lar Marion run to Logan and re-
turn in the afternoon. The uno-
train is said to make 70 miles an
hour, and the smOothness of it's
running, Tuesday, would indicate
that the train is success. The
following Hooking Valley officials
accompanied the train to Logan:
Supt. T. M. Connors, W. NJ
Michaels, Lawrence Engler, VIM.
Deeds and d. j. Devilbus. The
train was manned by an L. & N
crew and piloted by Pat Clancy, a
Hooking Valley engineer. The
train was in charge of Conductor
Ed Scanlon. ". said that the
Hooking Vallereno ompany is figur-
ing on putting on a few of these
trains on for some of the short
runs on their line. They. are of
novel and unusual construction
and yet very handsome and prac.
tical.
Another legal shot was taken at
the great Pierpont Morgan rail-
! DAD and coal properties in Ohio
Saturday afternoon when Thomas
O. Crossen, prosecutor of Perry
county, filed in the common pleas
court of that county an custer suit
against the Toledo & Ohio Central
railroad company. The style of
the case is "The State of Ohio ex
rel Thomas o, Crossen, Prosecu-
ting Attorney of Perry County vs
the Toledo d Ohio Central Rail
way Company, in Quo Warranto."
1t is an custer suit and is In fact
a subsidiary to the big suit insti-
tuted by the state under the ad-
ministration of former Attorney
General Wade H. Ellis against a
of railroads, this one
among them, and the coal opera
ting companies. This action seeks
the appointment of trustee and
the winding up of it's affairs.
1t is stated in the petition that !
the T. q o. c. is a railroad corpora
tion operating a line running from
Toledo to Gauley Bridge, and that
In violation of law it has placed
itself under the control of the
Hooking Valley railroad by selling
to 1t a majority of it's capital stock,
That in 1901 the company en-
dorsed the bonds of Kanawha Il
Hooking Coal and Coke company
to the extent of So. 500, 900, this
being part of plan by which 1t
was to assist in the control of the
price of coal.
Itis also alleged that in 1902 it
endorsed the bonds of the Cont
MENTAL Coal company to the
amount of $2,7O0, 900 and that in
1905 when the Sunday Creek Coal
was oganized to take
over these properties, this road
with Hooking Valley secured con-
troll of the coal properties by TAX
ing the entire stock. 1T is also
charged that in 1898 it traded the
d Michigan to the Hook.
ing Valley for the GAINESVILLE d
Western. and that the Sunday