The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-01-13
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THE efforts to induce the man
agement of the Duluth q Iron
Range to have the evening train
reach here an hour or so earlier, II
not more, should meet with the
cooperation and approval OF every
citizen having the welfare of Ely at
heart.
In a thousand and one ways has
the lateness of the evening train
schedule been a factor towards the
detriment of social organizations,
lodges and civic meetings, amuse-
ments and every thing else that
goes to make up the colningling OF
people in a social and neighborly
manner This may sound strange
but it is the bare and uncom-
Portable truth, all must admit.
Associations have been started,
lodges organized, entertainments
furnished and all have existed
along on the verge OF nervous
prostration simply because people
had to go to the depot to see the
train come in or because they stood
in the postofhce and waited for the
distribution of the evening mail.
Nine clock is the accepted hour
for opening lodges. Opera house
entertainments cannot begin until
after nine o'clock Entertainments
at the High School are held back to
allow the stragglers to arrive with
out annoying those already assem-
bled. Dancers are handicapped in
the early evening by late arrivals.
Public meetings are adjourned for
want of a quorum because people
must first go to the train or get the
mail. About the time for the
opening of lodge or the opening of
meetings, the majority find it is too
late to stay, and 60 home.
The evening passenger train has
been the cause of all this.
The citizens have gotten into a
rut which only the earlier arrival
of the train or the closing of the
postoffice will get them out of
Some have become so addicted to
the habit that every time they hear
train whistle, they make a rush
for the'depot or the postoffice.
Visitors to lodge meetings have
often remarked on the excellent
membership and have wondered
why none of these excellent mem
bers attend lodge. The explanat-
ion is easy. Nine o'clock is too
late to begin meetings of any kind
Nine o clock is about the time good
members go to bed. All lodges
and meetings should be through by
nine o'clock. The conditions here
are worse than in any town on the
line.
So imbued with the train and
mail getting habit has Ely become
that providing the train was six
hours late and the mail was distri-
buted, the same crowd would be
waiting at the postoffice. Children,
of an age that should prohibit them
being out after dark are Johnny
on the spot at the depot and post
Office at train time. And yet
mothers wonder why their Willies
and Maggies go wrong. The train
is the cause of it all. And what is
more. There does not seem to be
any reasonable excuse for the late
ness. The passenger department
of the Duluth & Iron Range admits
that the time between here and
Duluth could de shortened an hour
and a half easy and with a little
extra effort the train could be got
ten in here nearly two hours earlier.
1t is to be hoped the officials of the
road will pay some attention to the
petition of the people at this end.
Winton, Section Thirty, Tower
Soudan and Ely will all be heard
from in this reward and the 5000
or more people at this end of the
line should have some consider
alton shown them.
A Duluth minister in Sundov,c