The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

4 second yacht for the defence of the
Americas Cup is now assured, as Mr..
Alexander Smith Cochran, a member of
the New York Yacht Club and time
owner of the great schooner yacht West.
ward, placed an order with William
Gardner & Co., of New York, for de-
fender.
In his agreement with Mr.. Gardner,
Mr.. Cochran stipulated that the former
shall design no other yacht for the de-
fence of the Americas Cup, but devote
his entire attention to the one he has
"a liered.
Mr.. Cochran has taken up the task of
building and running the yacht with
out the assistance of any others.
The yacht will, in all probability, be
puilt of bronze, according to Mr.. Gard
er, who says she will be completed !
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it cost enough money 1T was an expert
mental car and, of course they had put
in a good deal of unnecessary work on
it, making changes and rebuilding.
Wore No Uniforms
''I was q years old when l conducted
the first Pullman to Chicago. We wore
no uniforms; L was attired in citizens
clothes. | think | wore badge, but
that was all. l was a clerk in u dry
goods store in Chicago in 1856, and this Is
the way in which l became q Pullman
conductor Mr.. Pullman had an office on
Madison avenue, just west of La Sale
street, and boarded with a family very
ciose TO ms office, and | used to go back
wards and forwards past his office to my
meals, and l had read in the papers that
SlanDlnD a a n
one day l stopped in and made an appi-
| cation to him personally for a place as
conductor. l gave him some references
| and called again and he said the refer
ences were all right and promised me the
place.
THE first few months business was
/ very poor; You see, persons had been in
the habit of sitting up all night in the
straight back seats and they didn't think
much of trying to sleep while travelling.
| Besides that, money was scarce, and not
many people could afford to pay the rates
that were charged for berths. So, after
| had made few trips. it was decided 1t
| didn't pay to employ a Pullman con-
| ductor, and the cars were placed in
charge of the passenger conductors on
| the trains which carried them, and was
| out of job. | soon was made a pas
| senger conductor, however, and when the
sleeping cars began to pay I was given
my old job again.
Last summer the Pullman company
| realized the historical value of Mr.
| Barnes story as the first Pullman con-
ductor, and the president of the Pullman
! company in Chicago wrote him a letter,
| lnclosing some photographs and asking
him whether the photographs inclosed
We're pictures of the first second or third
cars put out by the Pullman company
| The photographs sent were of the third
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of the crude first and second cars in ex-
! istence. Mr.. Barnes dictated a statement
of his experiences as the first Pullman
| conductor and sent it to the Pullman
j company in Chicago.
Marked as Conductors
After leaving the Pullman company Mr..
| Barnes went to work as a train con-
! ductor on the Alton, where he met Octave
| Chanute, who was the chief engineer OF
the Alton and who built the Hannibal
| bridge and founded the town of Chanute,
Kan. They became good friends. Later
Mr.. Chanute became chief engineer for
| the Missouri, Kansas and Gulf railroad
| Which later became the Frisco. The road
at that time ran only to Olathe and Mr..
| Chanute obtained for Mr.. Barnes the po-
| sition of conductor, and he ran the first
train between Kansas City and Olathe or
| December Is. 1868. The engine was fer
| then building the Hannibal bridge. The
| trip of about 20 miles was made in ono
| hour and forty-five minutes, and there
was but one train each way each day.
| There had been much rain, the track
| was rough and it was necessary to make
| slow time. The Frisco of today make
| the trip between Kansas City and Olathe
| in less than 80 minutes. The only other
railroads out of Kansas City at that
| time were the Missouri Pacific and the
old Kansas Pacific. Later Mr.. Barnes
was made trainmaster of the Missouri,
Ft. Scott and Gulf. and when it was
extended to Fort Scott Chanute predicted
to him that it was going to be big road,
and that 1t would be q fine place for
young man. Afterward, in 1874. Mr..
Barnes became trainmaster of the L., L.
and G., later sold to the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe. and Mr.. Barnes be-
came assistant superintendent June I,
1882 He became superintendent of the di-
vision. with headquarters at Chanute, in
1882 and held the position until No
vember 10, 1910.