The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-19
RAILROADS, CANDIDATES, GRUB
WORMS AND HOOkWORMS.
(By Eugene Ray

OBy Eugene Ray
Railroads is my text. have just
come IN on one. | came in today
on the Cannon Ball" which runs
between Madill and Ar5more, and,
believe. between Ardmore and Ma,
dill.
This Frisco Cannon Ball fairly
flies. 1t leaves Madill at 2:l5 when
it does not leave at a later date
1t don't stop at all the towns along
the line. 1t slows up at Simpson
but don't stop. 1t doesn't stop at
both Durwood and Provence. If
it stops at Durwood, it don't stop
at Provence, and if it stops at Prov.
cuce it don't stop at Durwood. Or It
may be that it stops at one of them
one day and at the other the next
day. 1t stops a mile east of DurwoOd
so the conductor and engineer can
decide which town they will stop at.
with that matter settled, the Can
non Ban lights out for Ardmore.
She hits the Rock Island track out
there ana she tries to make that
railroad ashamed of itself-ashame
that its track is so smooth.
That part of the Frisco out there
believes in running 1t is obsessed
with the idea that running is its
business. 1t is not particular about
where it runs. when it runs or how
it runs-its business is to run. 1t
runs just as well or a little better
off the track than it does ON the
track. ! was out there once when
the engineer. being in a great hurry
left the track with his train and
fairly flew lie woul3 have made
record run if he hadn't come to the
Washita river at a place where there
was no ford. Right across a field we
went and out into a prairie section
surrounded by a row of trees on the
banks of the Washita The engineer
was running recklessy now, but see
ing there was no ford down there,
he slowed up
I'll tell you what is going to hap
pen on that railroad-or off of it,
Some Of these days, that engineer is
going to fly the track and pull into
Ardmure ahead of time and lose mis-
job.
would not hurt the feelings of
the Frisco. | am sure it is doing the
best it can. The Frisco System is a
great system, but Oklahoma has
been administering heavy doses OF
purgatiye to the railroads or the
state and this Ardmore-Hugo branch
Is what was worked" out of the
Friscos system.
l am glad that the foregoing is out
of my system.
i have another exhibit to make. It
comes from one of my old news
paper articles But | do not think
am the author of it. l found it.
think. and used it, and | use it
again. II runs something like this
Railroad wrecks have been both
frequent and deadly of late on the
other roads, but on the yellow dog
the dinky cars cling to the two
streaks of rust called the tracks as
if ii were magnetized and there is
no chance of a collision unless a
terrapin should run into the rear
end of one Of the trains
The cars are fastened together
with twine and garters, pieces OF
shirts and overalls. etc, torn from
the clothing of the trainmen.
The two non-mail carrying trains /.
(called fast trains because people I.
nearly starve to death between sta
tions) stoill come so near in making
connection with the Southern at .
Moorehead that YOU can see the /.
smoke of the Southern trains leave .
the station.
The lamps on the passenger /
trains are about as bright as light .
ming bugs in a fog and the cars /
themselves were OLD in 1S49 when
the |. c. bought them secondhand
from some eastern road
There is nothing good about the