Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-01-16
Items OF interest.


Last year in the United States l0,S5S
persons were killed on the railroads and
log, ,53S injured.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will haul
no more wooden passenger cars. II will
not carry wooden passenger cars, even,
hat are delivered to il by other railroads.
Amos Rusie, formerly pitcher for the
New York giants, is in jail in Seattle for
beating his invalid wife and daughter.
Rusie was one of the greatest baseball
pitchers the world ever knew, but is now
a common Iaborer. Whiskey brought
him down.
The Brandon Hotel property. at Basic,
Va, has been purchased by DR.. Elmer
U. Hoenshel, of Dayton. and Prof. E. I.
Hildebrand, of Roanoke, Va. The pur-
chasers intend TO utilize the hotel for a
preparatory school, TO be known as Bran
don Institute, which will be opened in
September, 1913.
There will be five eelipses OF the sun
and moon during 1913, only three OF
which will be visible in this country. On
March % there will be an eclipse OF the
moon, partially visible in the United
States. There will be partial eclipses OF
the sun on August 3lst and September
Both.
The Norfolk & Western Railway Com
pany has ordered 40 Mallet freight loco
motives, five Pacific type passenger en-
giueS and five steel dining cars. The
Pacific type passenger engines will be
built at the Roanoke shops. In addition,
1900 new all-steel cars will be built at
Roanoke during 1913. The N. & w. is
building additional shops in order TO ac-
commodate the work.
A herd OF so elk will be brought from a
government reservation in Wyoming TO
West Virginia for breeding purposes.
Senator William E. Chiffon has obtained
permission from the Department OF the
Interior tor the transfer OF two carloads
OF these animals, which are fast disap-
pearing before white civilization in the
far West. The elk will be taken care OF
in the mountains OF West Virginia, where
they will have plenty OF pasture during
summer. In winter they will be cared
for by private interests.
In letter in the Baltimore Sun OF re-
cent date, writer who says he knows
gives the real cause OF the numerous
wrecks and other accidents on the WeS-
tern Maryland and b. & o. Railroads
drink. He quotes freight conductor,
who declared that two-thirds OF all rail-
road wrecks are iraceable 10 mistakes or
negligence OF men under the influence OF
liquor. The conductor says that aside
from broken rails and wheels or similar
avoidable accidents, practically all oil
the trouble on the railroads is caused by
whiskeY.
A report has been made OF the opera
tions of the party that seined the {. & o.
canal after the water was drawn oil IN
December. The canal was seined be-
tween Shepherdstown and Great Falls,
and DR.. H. M. Smith, acting commission
er of fisheries, reports that Sl75 was spent
in The work, with the result that 5S.775
fish were caught and returned to fhe riv-
er. OF the black bass, the Small-mouth
species predominated. OF the 3,640 re-
planted, 200 were adults. About 600
large mouth bass were taken, and ofthese
900 were fine adults. The number oi
rock bass, Yarmouth bass, crappie and
sunfish restored 10 the river was 70, 400,
OF which more than $500 were adults
and the remainder yearlings. White
perch, yellow perch, catfish, suckers and
"smelts" complete the list. More than
1000 Of these, including more than i6,-
600 adults, were saved. Species OF
which only occasional examples were
obtained were wall-eyed pike, fall fish
and brook trout. All the pools in the
canal were seined, and the fish therein,
which would have perished during the
winter, were transferred in good condi-
ton to the river. The prompt inaugura-
ton and active prosecution ofthe workpre-
vented seining by people living along the
canal route, who IN former years man
aged to get most Of the fish.