Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-12-17

main SUefl Trains H. leICiNO'
which placed in horn (called an
''amplifiier") similar to horns
used on monographs, tho much
shorter; the volume of speech is
so increased that the talk or con
versation can be distinctly hearo
and understood throughout an or
binary room. The dispatcher al
this. main line table requires nc
receiver at his ear, and is the on
ly "uumuZzled" operator in the
Office. This system is also being
used on short line between Louis
Vile and Cincinnati and will bt
used on all divisions should 1t
prove, after further experiment
satisfactory, and it is believed it
will.
Capt. George w. Roberts, who
was a brakeman in the early sew
enties, later a conductor and also
night station master at L. & n.
union station, retired two yeal S
ago on railroad pension list.
Dispatcher Mudd, whom many
on Knoxville division remember.
is an examiner of employees will
Office i'm union station.
Conductor John RISE still &C
cuses the writer of killing his
grandpa's dog, when we were boy S
back in 1865.
John Fabey, who was at one
time a supervisor on this di
vision, We learn died seven years
ago.
f. X. Mudd, who was a tele.
graph operator at Loretto and a
8arstown Junction later, has
been president Of a poultry cal
company in Chicago for past
twenty years aud is SAID to have
accumulated small fortune
amounting to a quarter of mill
ION dollars or more,
Willie Smith, the boy who wa:
a student in our schools wher
quite young, has been for past
few years, general superintendent
Of construction for entire l. & N
y stem with headquarters at Lou
lsville.
Tilman Gilpin, when we las
heard of him, was foreman in K
& I. yards, Louisville.
We didn't hear from Mart Dill
IN, the baggage master, about thu
irst one who ran out on the
Knoxville division Is years ago
he was station agent at First anC
Water Street station up to a few
years back.
When the writer began service
on L. & N. we believe H. D. New
comb was President. d. W. G
Rowland was superintendent; G
2. Atmore, General ticket anG
passenger agent; A. Broadus, for
xarding and M. FL. Smith receiv
ing freight agent at 9th ant
broadway; HI. It. Curd, audito
and c. B. Simmons, treasurer.
Before the Pennsylvania bridge
was built, freight cars made il
Jacksonville, were ferried across
the river and dumped on whar
in Louisville and drawn thru tn,
streets up to the L. & N. tracks
1t will be remem bered cars were
much lighter in those days thai
now, the load limit was probably
uot more than $4,000 or 3o,ooc
pounds.
The railroad reached Lebanon
in 1857. Richmond and Mt. Yer
non in 1867.
James Guthrie was about the
first president of the L. & N. Mt
Guthrie (now Maretburg) wa:
named for him.
Halls Gap and Crab Orchard
turnisht most of the cross-ties fol
this and Rowland branch.
Mt. Vernon was the terminu.
Of the railroad for about two year.
before it was extended to FISH
Point (now Livingstone.
Old engine No. AZ, a wcot
turner. with stack as big as
hogshead. did most of construction
work on this and Richmond
branch.
Iu 1856 but one local freigh
a day was run. 1t left Living
ston one day and came back tn
next. 1t made the round trip Il
Richmond in two days via Rich
mond Junction. Capt. Georg
Roberts and Huff Dudderra wer
brake men, VIM. Fiddler, engineer