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The territorial house of representatives on
March 19 adopted a report of the judiciary ;
committee asking the removal from office I
of John F. Dillon, United States commis- '
sioner at Fairbanks, for charging extortion
ate fees, for willful neglect of his duties in
connection with the registration of vital
statistics, and for showing an “utter con
tempt of the territorial laws.”
The judiciary committee of the house, to
which was referred the report of Secretary j
of the Territory C. E. Davidson, in compli- j
ance with the request made by the house, 1
relative to the non-enforcement of the ter- j
rit. rial laws, signed the report asking Dil
lon’s removal, and copies of the report will j
be forwarded to Judge Charles E. Bunnell
of the Fourth division, and to other federal
judges in Alaska A roll call on the adop- j
tion of the report showed a unanimous j
sentiment against Dillon.
Dillon Replies to the Charges
According to the Fairbanks Citizen, Com- |
mi.-Mnner Dilion’s reply to the charges was
as follows:
“The federal law requires me to charge !
$2 for recording marriage statistics, and ;
until I discovered that the legislature had j
fixed the price at SI, I charged $2. Since \
then I have charged only $1.
“Whether 1 am required to obey the fed- }
eral law in this regard or am to conform to |
the Alaska law passed by the legislature is a j
matter of some doubt, and I have presented
the question to the attorney general of the
United States for his decision. I have not
been unmindful of the Alaska laws, but if
the attorney general of the United States
gives his instructions I will abide by his
ruling. ’
ATTORNEY GENERAL RULES
ASSOCIATED PRESS NO TRUST
WASHINGTON’, March 30.—That the
Associated Press is not a trust is the finding
of Attorney General Gregory. This deci
sion came after an investigation. In Feb
ruary, 1914, the New York Sun filed a
petition to have the Associated Press de
clared a trust because its controllers re
fused to give service to any but a limited
number of papers. The service is owned
by all the papers using it, it was alleged.
A certain number of newspapers in each
city, the number depending to some extent
on the size of the city, are made members
of the Associated Press, and the members
themselves control the organization and i
meet the expense of the whole service ac- j
cording to their proportionate size and the j
size of the city in which they are pub
lished. The Sun declared that as these
papers control the service and prevent other
papers from using it, the association is es
sentially a trust or “corner." The decision
of the attorney genera may not be final, and
the Sun owners are said to be contemplat
ing a further fight on the question.
REPEATING
One morning Rosie's teacher noticed her
hanging around the desk with rather a
"wistful expression.
“Well. Rosie, what is it?” she finally
asked, drawing the child to her.
“Please, teacher, we’ve got a new baby
t' our house.”
“Oh, have you, Rosie? Isn’t that fine?
What’s the baby’s name?
“Ikie.”
Several days later the teacher remem
bered to inquire about the new arrival.
“Oh, Rosie, how is Ikie today?”
The child looked bewildered. “Oh, teacher,
-we ain’t got no Ikie.”
“Yes. You told me you had a baby.”
A gleam of intelligence appeared on
Rosie’s face. “No, teacher, his name’s Mose;
his name ain't Ikie. We found we already
got one Ikie.”—Everybody’s Magazine.
A GOOD EXCUSE
“How is it your son didn’t graduate last
year I’d give it to him.”
“S-sh, it’s all right. I have it from him
on the quiet that he failed purposely to ,
oblige the management of the football ■
team.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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ROOSEVELT’S COPPERHEADISM
(New York World)
Applauding Mr. Roosevelt’s attacks upon
President Wilson’s policy of strict neutral
ity, the London Spectator is confident that
“a vast number” of Americans will recog
nize that Mr. Roosevelt “has arisen to the
greatness of the occasion,” and that he “has
performed a task worthy of himself and
of the place he holds in the national life."
It makes little difference what the Lon
don Spectator thinks, but it would be un
fortunate indeed if any considerable num
ber of English-thinking people deluded
themselves into believing that Mr. Roose
velt’s copperheadism represents American
sentiment. What Theodore Roosevelt
thinks of Woodrow Wilson in this crisis is
of as little importance as what Franklin
Pierce thought of Abraham Lincoln in the
crisis of 1S61.
The attitude of the American people to
ward their President and their government
at this time was defined by former Presi
dent Taft in the noble and patriotic speech
that he made at Morristown on Washing
ton’s birthday. Referring to those persons
who “attack President Wilson because he
has been faithfully following the example
set and the admonitions given by our first
President, Mr. Taft said:
“We must abide by the judgment of
those to whom we have intrusted the au
thority, and when the President shall act,
we must stand by him to the end.”
That is how most Americans feel. What
Jfr. Taft said at Morristown was said in
substance recently in the house of repre
sentatives by Mr. Mann, the Republican
leader. Except for a few German-Ameri
cans, a few Anglo-Americans and a few pro
fessional critics like Mr. Roosevelt, there is
no popular dissent from the President’s in
terpretation of the rights and duties of
neutrality.
Many Europeans, like the editor of the
Spectator, have made the mistake of taking
Mr. Roosevelt’s criticisms of President Wil
son seriously. They have been misled by
Mr. Roosevelt’s former power and prestige
into thinking that he commands an impor
tant body of American public opinion in his
present desire to make the United States a
left-handed ally of some of the belliger
ents. They do not know that on this issue
Mr. Roosevelt has no following whatever.
Even the German-Americans, who are per
sistent critics of the President, part com
pany with Mr. Roosevelt on the policy that
he would substitute for President Wilson’s
policy.
The wise and sane course for all foreign
ers to adopt at this time is to take it for
granted that the President of the United
States is doing his duty as he sees it, and
that the people of the United States will
stand by their government regardless of
party prejudice or race sympathy. What
copperhead sentiment may expect is not
worth capitalizing.
PHENOMENAL ACTIVITY
AT PORT OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK. March 27.—Indications are
that the phenomenal record in American
exports made in the past few weeks will be
exceeded this week. Never before in the
history of the United States has there been
such activity as there is now in foreign ship
ping at this port. Work is being rushed I
at full capacity in loading more than a I
dozen ocean-going steamships with food
supplies, ammunition, guns, motor trucks
and other material for the use of the allies
in the war in Europe. In addition to these
special cargoes for foreign governments
there are many vessels being loaded with
cargoes consigned to those in the regular
trade channels in Europe and other foreign
countries.
The shipments to private purchasers in
clude food supplies, cotton, copper, steel
products, machinery of all kinds, manufac
tured woolen and cotton goods, tools, and a
multitude of other classes of manufactured
goods, medicines, chemicals, mineral and
other products.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails, $2
can Iditarod Meat Co.
Visit our new store at Flat.
Boas the Clothier.
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ALASKA
Dredge for Sunrise
Charles E. Herron has made all the ar
rangements for placing a dredge on the
property near Sunrise which he and Major
L. H. French drilled last summer, and the
dredge will be in active operation within a
few months, according to a dispatch in the
Seward Gateway. Mr. Herron returned re
turned recently from New York, where he
has placed the order with the American
Dredging & Construction Company for the
big machine. It has been arranged through
the company to have the dredge built in
Seattle, and the contract provides that it
must be finished within thirty days. From
Seattle it will be shipped to Ship creek
and thence overland to Sunrise, where it
will be placed in operation without delay.
Herron bought all of French’s interests in
January, but Dr. P. T. Barnes of New Y’ork
will be associated with Mr. Herron this sum
mer on Sixmile creek.
“Farthest North" Trading Posts
Modern exponents of the spirit that en
aided the founders of the Hudson Bay Com
pany to establish trading posts on the edge
of the world is found in the business careers
»->f E. E. Patterson and Tom Berryman,
who own three trading posts within the
Arctic circle, says the Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer. One is located at Kotzebue and the
other two are at Sungnak and Selawick, in
the same region. Mr. Patterson is the out
side partner of the concern, and spends but
three weeks of the year in the Arctic, while
Mr. Berryman, who has lived in the North
continuously for the last nineteen years, su
pervises the three posts. Mr. Patterson,
with Mrs. Patterson, has just returned from
a tour of the East, and are en route to their
fruit ranch at Cashmere. “We are 'farthest
north’ when it comes to Alaskan trading
posts,” said Mr. Patterson. “Our stores
are well within the Arctic circle, the land
of the midnight sun. It may seem very
strange to think of a man being a small
■natter of 4,000 miles away from his place
of business for eleven out of twelve months
in the year, but that is my position. 1 will
go in next spring as usual with a stock of
goods and supplies for my partner, Mr.
Berryman. He is the original lover of the
North, as he has not been Outside for nine
teen years, and he doesn’t particularly care
to come out. either. He is interested in my
stories of the immense growth of Seattle,
but he finds it hard to visualize them. 1
am going to take in a lot of photographs oi
the buildings here just to back up my word.”
Steamboat Man Loses Leg
A telegram received at Skagway on
March 10 stated that Captain S. C. Barring
ton, one of the best known and most popu
lar steamboat men on the Upper Yukon,
and at present general manager of the Side
streams Navigation Company of Dawson,
was seriously injured in an automobile ac
cident at Seattle. Captain Barrington was
taken to the hospital after he was hurt,
where the physician in attendance found it
necessary to amputate one of his legs.
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Juneau Pioneer Dead
David A. Epsteyn, a resident of Juneau
for the past seventeen years, and head of
one of that city’s most prominent families,
died in Los Angeles on March IS.
Strike in the Kougarok
Judge F. H. Thomas brings some interest
ing news from the Kougarok. including in
brmation of a strike of no small innr..
tur.ce made by George Lake and “Cayuse”
Johnson on Garfield creek, says the Nome ;
Nugget of March 9. The boys are said to
have located four feet of 5-cent. dirt over
twenty feet in width. The pay lies in an
old channel on the first tier of benches, and
is covered with twelve feet of overburden.
The work of hoisting the dirt wall com
mence about the middle of the present
month. Gus Hymen and brother have
worked all winter on four shafts, 125 feet
in depth, on the second tier benches of Dahl
creek, and while they have found fair pay,
it is of hardly sufficient value to hoist.
More Dredges for Nome
Among the shipments on the first boats ;
to Nome will be three large-size dredges
which will be installed in various sections
of Seward peninsula, says the Nugget. De
spite the failure of several dredges to make
good last summer, it is clear that investors
continue to take a lively interest in that
industry. At least two of the new dredges
are for people who are already engaged in j
the business in that district.
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Opposed to Repeal of Mining Law
Before leaving Nome for Juneau to take
his seat in the territorial senate, Thomas
McGann, who was elected at a special elec
tion to succeed the late Senator Bruner,
said: “I am unalterably opposed to the
• epeal of the new mining law'. For years
the miners and prospectors were a unit in
their demand that legislation be enacted
abolishing the association claim and power
of attorney locator. This pernicious system
had become a plague in the land and greatly
retarded the development of the country.
Even those who indulged in the practice de
manded a remedy. The revision of our min
ing law' had become a slogan in the dif
ferent party platforms, and was one of the
strongest arguments in support our demand
for territorial government. It was claimed,
and rightly so, that the people of Alaska
W'ere the only source from w'hich intelligent
action could come correcting the laxity of
the mining laws. * * * The system that
permitted one man or any number of men
to gain a position w'hereby they could spec
ulate on the efforts and labor of bona fide
miners was a vicious one, and indeed was
clearly not the intent of the law in the
first place.”
Little Ones Beg for Daddy
Mrs. Clinton D. Stewart of El Segundo,
Cal., requests information concerning her
husband, who some two years ago left Cali
fornia for Utah and later came to Alaska.
Stewart is described as five feet eleven
inches in height, of light complexion, smooth
shaven, and weighs about 153 pounds. Mrs.
Stewart writes: “We have three little chil
dren, and they beg for their daddy to come
back. His share of his father’s estate is
waiting for him if he will communicate
with me or his mother.”
Circle City District as a Producer
More gold was produced in the Circle
ones, and operators who have recently gone
City country last year than any previous
Outside state that the old camp will in
crease its output still more in 1915, accord
ing to an exchange. Many claims are prov
i ing good producers, and some of the prop
erties which were about to be given up
“came back” and gave their owners profit
able returns for the season.
Enjoys Unique Distinction
A Tacoma paper says that Mrs. George
Lennon of Elma, Wash., mother of the first
white child born in the Klondike, and wife
of a rich Klondiker, is plaintiff in a suit
against the Elma Lumber Company for a
partition of a valuable properly in the vicin
ity of Elma.
Matanuska Potatoes
One rancher in the Matanuska valley
last year produced six and a half tons of
good potatoes from a half acre of unfer
tilized ground and with unacclimated seeds.
Do you realize that this more than four
times greater than the average yield of the
best producing state in the Union? asks
the Knik News, and proceeds: “We predict
that, at no distant day this immediate vicin
ity will be one of the greatest producing
countries for this crop on earth. We have
the great markets of the Pacific to cater to,
and with the Lord’s help, and a bit from
our good President and congress, we will
have transportation like other white people,
and then, like Senator Dollivcr’s hog. our
Alaska spud can show' its superiority in all
parts of the world. We are not writing
this article because we believe that potatoes
are the only crop that can be grown here—
not by a jugful—for statistics prove that
all countries and sections of countries that
are pre-eminent in potato production are
likewise well up in most other agricultural
productions, and this section will prove no
exception to that rule. But we wish to im
press upon our farmers that potatoes are
really one of the earth's greatest crops. A
government agricultural experiment station
would aid us in developing a good seed po
tato, as well as assist us in grain and stock
experiments, which the average settler can
not afford to undertake.”
An Alaska Order
There’s an order quite powerful in South
eastern Alaska in both numbers and influ
ence, known as the Order of Alaska Moose,
says the Nome Industrial Worker. It has
no connection, of course, with the L. 0. 0.
M., but its officers enjoy titles which arc !
certainly racy of the soil. These are the
names of the officials of a lodge: Ruling
Spirit, Spirit of the Winds, Tenas Chief,
Wawa Man, Keeper of Chicamon, Guide,
Guard, Muck Muck and Jesus Man (chap
lain).
CONDITION OF THE JEWS
IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE
“Do American Jews who think it more
natural to espouse the cause of ‘enlightened’
Prussia than ‘barbarous’ Russia realize that
Jews in Germany suffer under the most ob
noxious disabilities?” said Israel Zangwill,
the eminent Jewish writer, to an interviewer
in London, as reported in the Chicago
Tribune.
“There is no geographical pale in Ger
many, but there is a social pale hardly less
odious. In no country in the world is the
Jew so completely an outcast as among the
military and aristocratic oligarchy which
constitutes upper class Germany.
“His name is a byword which dare not
be mentioned in what purports to be polite
society. His sons may not aspire to the j
status fixing rank of an officer in the army i
or navy. They may not hope for careers in j
the civil service, unless they disavow the |
faith of their fathers. They may not join
the great student organizations at the uni
versities.
“l'hey may only become second-rate pro
fessors of the arts or sciences. Ehrlich of
Frankfort is an exception which proves the
rule.
“The kaiser has honored men like Baffin •
and Rathenau and Simon at the cost of
alienating the loyalty and support of ‘true
Germans' whose souls are all a me with anti
Semitism.
“Dr. Dernberg himself, Germany’s chief
protagonist in the United States, is a vic
tim of unreasoning Prussian anti-Semitism.
Although he was elevated to the colonial
secretaryship because of conspicuous merit,
his downfall was plotted from the moment
he took office by the court clique, which
could not tolerate even the renegade son of
a Jewish father in its exclusive midst.
“Germany has scant claim, on its record
of its treatment of its own Jews, to the
sympathy of Jews in America, or anywhere
else in the world.
“You interrupt and ask: ‘How about
France and Dreyfus? Dreyfus was perse
cuted; but French public sentiment, French
love of justice, eventually purged him and
vindicated him.
“What hope do you think there would
be of such a moral regeneration in a com
munity like Berlin, where the best news
paper. because Jewish owned and Jewish
edited, and waging prior to the war an un
compromising and truly Jewish crusade
against militarism, is formally barred by
decree from entering the home or pocket of
a German officer? I refer, of course, to the
Berliner Tageblatt.
“I ask American Jews, the Jews who are
in your senate and your house of repre
sentatives, and in your army and navy, who
have been in your diplomatic service and
who are always pre-eminent in all that is
best in American life, to remember these
things when Count Bernstorff and Professor
Muensterberg flaunt Russia in their faces
and ask them how ‘good Jews’ can sym
pathize with the allies’ cause.
“As to the straightening out of the Jew
ish situation in Russia, I am fond of quoting
a metaphor invented by Herbert Spencer.
He said that, if you took a saucepan with a
dent in it to be mended, the tinker never
hammered directly at the bulge, for that
would have simply caused a bulge on the
other side. He just tapped all around the
bulge, flattening out the surface so that
the bulge disappeared of itself.
“If the Jews of the world concentrate at
tention too much on their own particular
grievance, especially at a moment when civ
ilization is in the melting pot, they will
find that what is gained in one way is lost
in another. Let them help now and always
in the general struggle of civilization; let
them protest as much against the ill treat
ment of blacks or Indians or Belgians as
against their own ill treatment; let them
• assist everywhere in the triumph of right
eousness and peace, and it will be found one
day that the persecution of the Jews will
have become as unthinkable as the persecu
tion of witches.”
NOTICE
I will move my drugs and office into the
Pioneer building. I want to serve the camp
to the best of my ability. If you are or
dering drugs from the Outside, don t do it
until you reason with me. I will sell you
anything I have and order anything you
want. DR. H. R. MOORE.
Flat City, Alaska.
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PASSING OF “BOB” BURDETTE
At announced this newspaper at the time,
Robert J. Burdette, preacher, author and
humorist, died at his home in Pasadena, j
Cal., on November 19. tie had been ill for i
the greater part of two years, and for a !
week had been in a state of coma.
Robert J. Burdette began cultivating good
humor obscurely in Peoria, 111., forty years
ago, when he spent part of his days at a
desk on the Peoria Transcript, “trying to
think,” as he himself once related, “of pleas
ant things to ted the folks when I went
home at night.” Ilis audience of “folks”
then was Carrie Garrett, the Peoria girl he
had married a short rime before, while she .
lay supposedly cn her death bed, but who j
lived and, though an invalid for life, be- (
came immortalized as “her little serene hap
piness.” It was she who encouraged him to
sow his humor in wider fields. At her bed
side Burdette became prolific with fun-mak
ing contributions to the Burlington (la.) i
Hawkeye, and through these he bacame
famous the country over as “the Burling- |
ion Hawkeye man.”
“She kept me at it,” said Burdette, “and
in due time we had a lecture on our hands j
“The Rise and Pali of the Mustache.’ Bur- i
dette insisted on trying the lecture first in
Keokuk—“for Keokuk hated Burlington,” j
and if he succeeded there he would know
that it was good. Even Keokuk applauded.
The whole United States later did the same.
He became a sort of itinerant preacher.
At 60. ten years ago, Mr. Burdette was
called to the permanent pastorate of the
Temnle Baptist church of Los Angeles,
Cal. '
Although Burdette's original home was in I
Greensboro, Pa., where he was born in j
1844, the latter part of his life was spent
in California. At Sunnycrest, Pasadena, he
had a spacious house with broad verandas.
His first wife had died after fifteen years
of encouragement to him, during which she
1 traveled all over the country with him.
In 1899 he married Mrs. Clara B. Baker of
Pasadena.
Burdette died with the conviction that
there was just as much fun in the world to
day as ever, but “a great deal more be
cause,” as he said, “there are more people
in it, and {>eople are the funniest things on
this side of the grave.”
Bob Burdette's Masterpiece
This story is usually considered the best
the famous humorist ever told.)
On the road once more, with Lebanon
fading away in the distance, the fat pas
senger drumming idly on the window pane,
the cross passenger sound asleep, and the
tall, thin passenger reading General Grant’s
'‘Trip Around the World,” and wondering
y-hy “Green’s August Flower” should be
printed above the doors of “A Buddhist
Temple at Benares.” To me comes the
brakeman, and seating himself on the arm
of the seat, says.
“I went to church yesterday .”
“Yes?” I said, with that interested inflec
tion that asks for more. “And what church
did you attend?”
“Which do you guess?” he asked.
“Some union mission church,” I haz
arded.
“No,” he said. “I don’t like to run on
these branch roads very much. I don't
often go to church, and when I do I want
to run on the main line, where your run
is regular and you go on schedule time and
don’t have to wait on connections. I don’t
like to run on a branch. Good enough, but
I don’t like it.”
“Episcopal?” I guessed.
“Limited express,” he said, “all palace
cars and $2 extra for seat, fast time and
only stop at big stations. Nice line, but
too exhaustive for a brakeman. All train
men in uniform, conductor’s punch and lan
tern silver-plated, and no train boys al
lowed. Then the passengers are allowed to
talk back st the conductor, and it makes
them too free and easy. No, I couldn’t
stand the palace cars. Rich road, though.
Don’t often hear of a receiver being ap
pointed for that line. Some mighty nice
people travel on it, too.”
“Universalist?” 1 ventured.
“Broad gauge,” said the brakeman; does
too much complimentary business. Every
body travels on a pass. Conductor doesn't
get a fare once in fifty miles. Stops at
flag stations, and won’t run into anything
but a union depot. No smoking car on the
train. Train orders are rather vague,
though, and the trainmen don’t get along
well with the passengers. No, I don’t go
to the Universalist, but I know some good
men who run on that road.”
“Presbyterian?” I asked.
“Narrow gauge, eh?” said the brakeman.
“Pretty track, straight as a rule; tunnel
right through a mountain rather than go
around it; spirit-level grade; passengers
have to show their tickets before they get
nn the train. Mighty strict road, but the
cars are a little narrow; have to sit one
in a seat, and no room in the aisle to dance.
Then there are no stop-over tickets allowed;
got to go straight through to the station
you’re ticketed for, or you can’t get on at
all. When the car is full, no extra coaches;
cars built at the shop to hold just so many,
and nobody else allowed on. But you don’t
often hear of an accident on that road. It’s
run right up to the rules.”
“Maybe you joined the Free-Thinkers?” I
said.
“Scrub road,” said the brakeman; “dirt
roadbed and no ballast; no time card and
no train dispatcher. All trains run wild,
and every engineer makes his own time,
just as he pleases. Smoke if you want to;
kind of go-as-you-please road. Too many
side-tracks, and every switch wide ojjen all
the time, with the switchman sound asle-p
and the target lamp dead out. Get on as
you please and get off when you want to.
Don’t have to show your tickets, and the
conductor isn’t expected to do anything but
amuse the passengers. No. sir. I wa- of
fered a pass, but I don’t like the line,
I don’t like to travel on a road that has
no terminus. Do you know, sir, I asked a
division superintendent where that road run
to, and he said he hoped to die if he knew.
I asked him if the general superintendent
could tell me. and he said he didn’t believe
they had a general superintendent, and if
they had, he didn’t know anything more
about the road than the passengers. I
hiked him whom he reported to. and he
laid ‘Nobody.’ I asked a conductor whom
lie got his orders from, and he said he
didn’t take orders fro many living man or
dead ghost. And when I asked the engi
neer whom he got his orders from, lie said
he’d like to see anybody give him orders;
he'd run the train to suit himself, or he’d
run it into the ditch. Now, you see, sir,
I’m a railroad man, and 1 don t. care to
run on a road that has no time, makes no
connections, runs nowhere and has no super
intendent. It may be all right, but I’ve
railroaded too long to understand it.”
“Maybe you went to the Congregational
church ?”
“Popular road,” said the brakeman; “an
old road, too—one of the very oldest in this
country. Good road-bed and comfortable
ars. Well managed road, too; directors
don’t interfere with division superintendents
and train orders. Road’s mighty popular,
hut it’s pretty independent, too. Yes;
didn’t one of the division superintendents
down East discontinue or.e of the oldest sta
tions on this line two or three years ago?
Eut it’s a mighty pleasant road to travel
on. Always has such a pleasant class of
passengers.”
"Did you try the Methodist?” I said.
“Now, you're shouting!” he said, with
some enthusiasm. “Nice road, eh? Fast
time and plenty of passengers. Engines
•arry a power of steam, and don’t you for
,get it; steam gauge shows a hundred and
enough a'l the time. Lively road; when
the conductor shouts ‘All aboard,’ you can
hear him at the next station. Every train
light shines like- a headlight. Stop-over
checks are given on all through tickets;
passengers can drop off the train as often
as they like, do the station two or three
days, and hop on the next revival train
that comes thundering along. Good, whole
souled companionable conductors; ain’t a
road in the country where the passengers
feel more at home. No passes; every pas
senger pays full traffic rates for his ticket.
Wesleyanhouse air brakes on all trains, too;
pretty safe road, but I didn’t ride over it
yesterday.”
“Perhaps you tried the Baptist?” I
guessed once more.
“Ah, ha!” said the brakeman; “she’s a!
daisy, isn’t she? River road, beautiful
curves, sweep around anything to keep i
close to the river, but it’s all steel rail and '
rock ballast, single track all the way, and
not a side-track from the roundhouse to
the terminus. Takes a heap of water to
run it through; double tanks at every sta
tion, and there isn’t an engine in the shops
that can pull a pound or run a mile with
less than two gauges. But it runs through
a lovely country—those river roads always
do; river on one side and hills on the other,
and it’s a steady climb up the grade all the
way till the run ends where the fountain
heal of the river begins. Yes, sir; I'll take
th ' river road every time for a lovely trip,
su'f connections and a good time, and no
prune dust blowing in at the windows.
Ai yesterday, when the conductor came
art ml for the tickets with a little basket
h, I didn’t ask him to pass me. but I
pa my fare like a little man—25 cents for
an our’s run and a little concert by the
pa:- angers thrown in. I tell you, pilgrim,
you take the river road when you want
Put just here the long whistle from the
engine announced a station, and the brake
iii£ii huriied to the door, shouting:
“uionsville! The train makes no stops
betv.een here and Indianapolis!”
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