The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-07
TWO LANDMARKS.

Anybody who has ever travelled
over the Columbia & Greenville.
rood, especially when the late Capt.
Billy Smith was conductor, will rem.
ember the landmarks at Donalds,
which is the junction point for the,
holy city" as Cap'n Billy dubbed
Due West. The Galloway trunk
lire, as Col. Dave Humphreys i'm
mort1lized tie railN@y Of four miles
20 Due West, has come in for many
humorous scuibs. TIE president
of the System" is Bro. +. S. Gal
lcway, editor of the Associate Re-
formed Presbyterian. The Inter-
urban people wished to buy it but
the residents of Due West. would
not stand for Sunday trains. The
two landmarks at Donalds are Col.
Dave Humphreys and Locomotive
No. 8, or the "three spot" and here
is Col. Humphreys latest yarn about
the speedy mogul, our acknowledge
ments to the Honea Path Chronicle:
"Donalds. March 23.-Parties
lounging around the Southern sta
tion few days ago witnessed quite
novel race between the Three
Spot, the most powerful engine on
the great Galloway system, and a
feet7footed darkey. Train No. 46
on the Galloway system, which con-
meets with the $40 ?. & N. car was
ready to pull out; dense cloud of
black smoke was pouring from her
stack; her pop-valvc was working
like singing teacher beating time;
the grimey old engineer with his
long shouted oil can had finished
iubricating her boxes; as Conductor
Hawthorne looked to the loading of
the baggage lady passenger hur-
ried around the opposite side of the
station, to be sure her trunk was not
left, and the conduc.or not seeing
her, signalled the engineer all the.
way, and mounted the baggage car.
The lady hearing the curt "all
aboard" and the violent snortine of
the engine, ran back shouting for
someone to stop the train, but the
Three Spot was headed for the Holy
City. Uncle Jimmie with his hand
on the throttle and his eye on the
rail, had her linked up in the corner
and every gill working. The train.
was a hundred yards on her run.
when Buddy Boy, seeing the lady's.
great trouble, snatchcd the cover lid.
off his think box and hit 46's trail,
and went around the curve like he:
had been flushed in a skin game.
A quarter of mile away the Three:
Spot had swung her pilot into a.
straight stretch of track and was.
pealing the rails.
The darkey walked through the
rear coach and approaching Capt.
Hawthorne said: Gap, dat lady what
yer lef' sed for yer 20 back 'em I'D;
she wants to go to Ju Wes' widger.'
"Well, why didn't you tell me soon-.
err" said the captain. "Jes' cause
1 couldn't ketch yer no sooner" re
piled the boy. A signal given to
the engineer to back caused a sui
phurious explosion from the engi-.
neer as the train backed to the sta
ton.
Buddy Boy explained: "Dat lady
looked so on cruplus l des had ter
ketch yer, an I'd er cotch yer fo I
did, but dis ole stiff brogan shoe
done blister dat foot. know Mr..
Jimmy's feelin's done hurt cause L
outrun dat Three Spot, but I think
he orter 'scuse me when he know T
wuzn't maxim perlite of him. L
wuz jes' sisten de lady" AS the
train stopped, Buddy Boy jumped
off the back end of the train and
said: "Cap, please splain ter Mr..
Jimmy bout dis demonstrashun.
You wuz gone an de lady wuz 'blig
ed ter go widger an wuz de on:iest
wyles oprater wha: could liver te
message"
"You skin out ee:ora here" said
the conductor, sane don't h,.;her