. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. delightful highway is growing and cannotdo other than continue to grow in theminds of the American people. Mourns for the Drinking Cup. The cranks whose senseless agitationl;as eliminated the public drinking in Pullman cars, have inflicted muchdiscomfort upon ordinary people and havelargely increased the business of saloonkeepers. The victims that deserve thegreatest pity are the poor immigrant chil-dren who have need to make long jour-neys in hot dusty cars. When this per-nicious movement against free waterdrinking has passed, people will wondera
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. delightful highway is growing and cannotdo other than continue to grow in theminds of the American people. Mourns for the Drinking Cup. The cranks whose senseless agitationl;as eliminated the public drinking in Pullman cars, have inflicted muchdiscomfort upon ordinary people and havelargely increased the business of saloonkeepers. The victims that deserve thegreatest pity are the poor immigrant chil-dren who have need to make long jour-neys in hot dusty cars. When this per-nicious movement against free waterdrinking has passed, people will wonderat the blindness which enabled cranks andsaloon keepers to spread so much dis-comfort among honest people. Skillful Train Robbing. Five masked bandits made a very de-liberate job of train robbing last monthon the Southern Railroad, near Stephen-son, Teun. They boarded a train, anddisplaying an armory of weapons orderedall hands up and everybody lie or<ler was obeyed without they compelled the mail clerk to tie. Railway Consolidation in SouthAmerica. With further reference to the extensiveschemes of railway consolidation beingcarried out in South America by Mr. the hands of three other clerks while therobbers rifled the registered mail. If therobbers are ever caught we make the pre-diction that several trainmen will befound among them. October. 1912. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 353 Old Time Railroad Reminiscences. The guide contains two maps, one show- extent of this connecting line of railroads, ing the railroads of New England in as far as it is already finished, is 161^^ 1840, the other, those completed and pro- a recent visit to my old New jected in New England and part of New (3) The Boston & Lowell Railroad, 26Hampshire home, while rummaging York in 1850. miles in length, the Nashua & Lowell, ex-through the attic archives, I across j^q pages are devoted to an article tending from the termination of thea railroad guide whic
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