The Springfield herald., 1918-09-06
DERSONS
JStOries and Incidents
Old Boston
i And the Old Days
Newspapers, Towns
And Town Lots
By the w ritter

er of Aug. % sends us out oil
county this week for two or
three good stories, which we will
relate as kind of by-product, or
as au aside, after which we Will
return again to our home field.
The question of the item with
comment thereon follows. along
with the stories having their ori-
gin in the old town:
M. Konkel is running in his pa
per, the Springfield Herald. of
the days of old Boston in 1887
and 1888 he quotes this week
from the Granada Exponent.
This reminds US that at that
time there We're three pa
pers published in Granada, all
by exceptionally able men. The
Exponent by Hamer Norris, now
editor of the Garden City Herald:
The Granada Times by Bob Dav-
is and the Granada Graphic by
Herbert Brown. who also owned
the Albany Advance. The Ora
phic and Times were Democratic
sheets and the Exponent was
Republican"
We were we'll acquainted with
all the boys-all hale and well
met. Brown got a position as
reporter Oh the Denver Ne VS.,
where we called on him at one
time. Didn't know what had be-
come of che other two.
But we are quoting the clip
ping from the Leader for the
purpose of relating an incident
that missed being tragedy by
only fraction of second-or
the width of q hair, and another
incident the Fem9nIbrance OF
which has stayed with US through
all these troublous years.
In explanation, it was at the
old Granada, which for some
reason was afterwards picked up
bodily and moved two Cr three
miles down the river.
A PerilouS Situation
Granada old timers will re-
member that at that time the
railroad bridge was also the wag-
on bridge, the wagons crossing
safely before or after train time.
On this occasion the writer
with his mother and two broth
ers had occasion to cross that
bridge, wanting, as we remem-
Der it now, to for some purpose
go down to Coolidge.
AS we remember it now, it
was about 500 in the morning,
and the depot agent and others
told us to go right ahead-tha
the train wasn't due for an hour.
Those old timers will remem-
Der that about hundred yards
east of the east end of the bridge
the road curved around a high
knoll that hid the trains until
they turned that curve.
We drove leisurely across the
bridge, and had Just turned off
the track to go down to the
grade, when an engine, under
full speed, turned that curve and
bore down on US.
Whichever one was driving cut
those horses with the whip, and
we We're down that grade-about
five or ten feet from the track,
when that engine went by with a
"whir" that only an engine un-
der high speed can give.
Had we been ten feet-probab-
ly five-further back, on that
track, there wouldn't never have
been any Great County Builder"
in Baca county and the writer
wouldn't now have any boys in
the army lighting to make whole
dam world democratic party"
Whetherundert the hecircumstanc-
es the Santa Fe company could
have been prosecuted and made
to pay worth while damage, or
, whether we would had to have
waited to be killed to get damag
es. we never stopped to inquire
about, and will turn over now to
the lawyers wanting to work
without retainer.
A Nightmare Wretch
When in Granada we always