. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . hickens in onestalled car mixed their shrill cries withthe voices of the storm, but as nobodyseemed to care for early spring chickens,the feathered flock gradually stiffened intocold storage. A carload of pigs squealed came unworkable on account of the snowand the lack of power, so hundreds oflocomotives, throbbing at every rivet, asif eager to engage in the war of the ele-ments, had to stay on the reserves. Thelocomotives that were at large made fierceattempts at forcing their way. and cameb
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . hickens in onestalled car mixed their shrill cries withthe voices of the storm, but as nobodyseemed to care for early spring chickens,the feathered flock gradually stiffened intocold storage. A carload of pigs squealed came unworkable on account of the snowand the lack of power, so hundreds oflocomotives, throbbing at every rivet, asif eager to engage in the war of the ele-ments, had to stay on the reserves. Thelocomotives that were at large made fierceattempts at forcing their way. and cameback from labor to refreshment of coaland water only to find that each repercus-sion was met with increasing obstacleslike strong men fighting against a floodof ever-increasing misfortunes. Coming back to New York, strange tosay, that the first time in the history ofthe imperial city, a locomotive and trainwere held up in Eleventh avenue. Thetrain had crawled along at a slow pace,and stopped near an establishment justlycelebrated for its fine quality of Budwei-ser—whatever that is—and the half-. ON THE CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY, NEAR BOUND by Underwood \ Underwood, X. Y. in vain. Their shrieks resembled thevoices of the tempest so closely that noone noticed the additional clamor, so thesnow soon became the winding sheet ofthe frost-bitten hogs. A curious case occurred on the Readingabout 26 miles north of Philadelphia. Onewoman and four men were in a stalledcar out of sight, and a gallant school-boy found a way to relieve them. Themen, in their desire to forget their mis-eries, eagerly inquired about the nearesttavern. They were hopeful of gettingcomfort from an old friend there namedApple Jack. The woman went with theboy to the neighboring schoolhouse andstudied the map of New Jersey. Whocan deny, after this, the moral and intel-lectual superiority of woman? At the roundhouses the turntables be- starved crew jumped off to refresh them-selves. They were
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