The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-21

chanic, rod repairer and bageaxl
master, He runs the one train. on.
CINE, passenger coach and fat car FOL
BAGGAGE. all the rolling stock this
railroad possesses, single handed. II
anything is wrong with engine, carr
or roadbed he drops his other duties
and turns himself into an emergency
gang. A great and versatile man ID
Hen Hauck, and he has made HID
railroad the most accommodating in
the country. ,45 -
It Is not as fast a line as some,
will acknowledge. but then 1t will
stop for any one regardless Of sta.
lions, and Hem has been known to
halt his engine and 90 up to the near.
est farmhouse to arrange for horse
and buggy to carry stranger up in
the mountains. There's q sort OF
schedule. OF course Hen plans to
make two round trips day, but
when it comes to- question of pleas.
Ing passengers he lets his time table
slide and lays himself out to be
obliging. ~ =
Nobody would ever imagine there
was railroad like this, few miles
over the mountains from Newark. But
Hem is q real character. His rail-
roads the Rockaway Valley railroad
It runs from Chester, through Mend
ham, over little more than thirty
miles OF wild. beautiful country, a
good deal OF it away back from civil
1zatfon and along a historic route
! They do say, Washington marched
through there. The little railroad
comes Sto an end In the woods miles
from anywhere, q mile even from the
nearest house. MS s 4. Il s. :,.s :
This terminus is five miles from
Morristown,. and IT, any Of yon are
really interested you can take stage
from Morristown over there. That
stage, let me tell you, is one 81 the
picturesque thingsso f New Jersey. No
one can tell how old II Is: Il looks De
II 1t had been used in the days before
any railroads at all. s., + =
can't. say for certain, Dut I wa
told by ono old man up in the Rock
away Valley that this :ens-rnan rail.
road never has had but one accident
That was not at all q serious one. It's
the custom Of Hen, to start the en-
CINE. get her running nicely, and then
come back In the passenger coach to
collect the tickets. That might sound
dangerous, but 1t isn't, for there are
no switches and no grade-crossinga
on this railroad, and nothing can
happen. This isn'tsa seventy-mile-al,
hour train, you know. And when
Hen leaves the engine to take cars
Of itself on his ticket collecting trip'
It's just ambling aiong easy. -.
Something did happen once. though
They tell me COW stopped to nibbl>
on the track too long-for grass
grows close to this roadbed; it's not
model track the engine jolted
her. AS heard 1t. the COW WASN'T
hurt at all, and had to be driven
away by Hen Then Hen turned
his attention to the casualties. They
were very light. All that had hap
pened was the. 1ouncing of Of q 60
cart that had been bought by q widow
living in the woods neaE the end Of
the line from rnail-order house IN
Philadelphia. It hadn't proved satis
factory, and she was sending It back
.The go-cart, 1t that. wasn't In
1ured. It simply jounced of from the
Nat baggage car where Hen stacks
all the freight and express packages
Hen remarked afterward that he
was to blame; he'd orter ha' wedged
Il better .:} s. !:
u .'As Hen puts II, any point on the
Rockaway Valley railroad where any
one wants to get on or OF 10 sta
ton New York Press: