Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-11
OLD
TOPLANT TREES
0NANNVERSARY
Rock Island Line to cele-
brate Seventeenth Year
of Operation.

CagO-D OF western railroad
ing when the was young will be
marked by memorial tree planting
this year by the Rock Island lines
during a celebration of the seven
tieth anniversary of the running OF
the first train from Chicago to Joliet.
That was in October, 1882. and things
in a transportation way have changed
since h day when the passeng~
gladly got out and helped the crew
load a new supply of Goa! or wood.
Plans worked out BY the agrie1a-
tural department of the railroad and
the American Forestry association
provides for the planting of these me-
mortal trees in connection with the
town and station identification cam
paign h road has inaugurated.
4 Tree For Each Year.
The anniversary celebration by the
Rock Island will be inaugurated with
h planting Of memorial trees first at
h division points such as Chicago,
Little Rock. Ell Reno, Davenport. Des
Moines, Omaha, Denver, st. Paul.
Kansas City and Minneapolis. There
will be seventy trees planted at Chica-
go to typify the number of years the
road has been in operation in Illinois.
At Ell Reno, Okla, thrity-three trees
will be planted because of the years
ShS AOo0 lids 'Dccu III operation IN
that state. There will be thirty-four
trees on the Kansas division: sixty
nine trees on the Iowa division, and
fifty trees or the Missouri division.
After the division points the smaller
towns will take up the work. The
American Forestry association will
register the trees on it's national honor
roll.
"Old timers" who remember the
America" the old silver engine, No.
100, have beer asked to notify the
Rock Island lines for, there will be .
place for them in the celebration pro-
gram. Little Mary Quaid," the first
woman passenger on the ROCK ISL
and, who saw the division at Joliet
completed in 1852, would have had
the place of honor but she died a
short time age AS a girl she carried
lunch to her brother, construction
foreman. and played along the tracks
when the line was built. On the day
the first train moved out Of Chicago,
President Far1nan lifted her up be-
side him and she made the trip as
the first woman passenger"
At Joliet where the big dinner was
served she sat text to the president
Of the road. The Quaids had moved
from Kenosha, Wis, so that her
brother could do the construction
work.
No. 100 had a unique history. Built
by the Grant Locomotive Works at
Paterson, N. j., the boiler. steam
chest, dome and smoke stack were
covered with a thin sheet Of German
silver. No. 100 was exhibited at the
Worlds Fair in Paris in 1867. John F.
Lacey, honor man and engineer of
Chicago, now retired. once helped o
polish old 100 as one of his first du-
ties with the road. Lacey is the engi-
neer, who in fifty-two years of service
travelled more than ninety-five times
the distance around the world and
never had an accident. He is one of
h I've who planted a tree in the
Honor Row at Midlothian, ILL.,, each
Iaving been in the service fifty years
Or mor
~ Created Sensation.
When the silver engine was brought
to Chicago it was a sensation. The en-
CINE arrived in May. 1869, at the La
Sale street station, the second struc-
ture to be built at La Sale and Van
Buren, streets. On the Fourth of July
of that year, bedecked with ribbons
and polished until she glistened, No.
100 pulled out of the station with a
special train of seven cars and headed
for Council Bluffs, the road to which
had just been completed.
Officials and their guests crowded
h train and thousands lined the
right-of-way to see the silver engine"
that had been to Paris. In every town
of any size there were brass bands,
parades and speech making. At Co.
Iona, ILL.,, h fuel gave out so Presi-