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How Far the Cars Travel.
Probably one of the most practical
evidences of the change in the manner
of handling busine-s, brought about by
the change of gauge on the southern
roads, is the difference in the number
or cars which the southern roads han
dle now, as compared with what they
handled before the change occurred.
On the Western & Atlantic railroad,
for instance, during the month of May,
1886, which was just previous to the
change of gauge, there were handled
the cars of 64 other roads, while W.
& A. cars ran on 30 other roads.
During the month of June, which
was just after the change of gauge,
AV. & A. cars ran on 38 other
roads, while the AV. & A. handled the
cars of 125 other railroad companies.
During the month of October, 1886,
which was four months after the change
of gauge, the AV. & A. cars ran on
100 other roads, while the AV. & A.
handled the cars of 100 other railroad
companies.
To show the wide spread range over
which the cars roam, we may mention
the fact that W. & A. ears during
October last ran over the following
roads: Central Railroad of Vermont;
Florida Southern; Grand Trunk, of
Canada; Southern Pacific; Burlington
& Missouri River; New York Central;
New York & New England ; Texas
Pacific; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe;
and others equally as widely scattered.
The AVestern & Atlantic handled
cars belonging to the Southern Pacific
Railroad; Burlington & Missouri River;
Grand Trunk, of Canada; Mexican
Central; Southern Pacific, of Arizona;
Central, of Vermont; Chicago, Bur
lington A Quincy; Union Pacilic; New
York Central A Hudson River;
Houston & Texas Central; Gulf, Col
rado A Santa Fe; Pennsylvania Rail
road, and others fully as widely scat
tered.
This is a wonderful change from the
old way of handling cars which exist
ed before the war, when all freights
were transferred by each receiving road
into its own cars, and to find a Nash
ville A Chattanooga R. R. car down at
Atlanta was a sight which the town
went out to see.
A iTLtim.oro'u.s dare-devil—the very man to su.it my purpose. Bulwer.
OTJZFt MID-WINTER KT U JMZ B E It.
Looking For
Him.
Here we have
the representation
of a skirmisher
peering over a
head-log, looking
for one of the en
emy’s skirmishers.
From the “cut of
his jib” we take it
that he is one of
Joe Johnston’s
men who has a no
tion of trying a
crack at one of Sherman’s sharpshoote/s.
The woodsand hill-sides around Ma
rietta and Kennesaw Mountain, and
amid the wilderness which surrround
ed New Hope Church in 1864, were
full of just such scenes as this; and it
is the testimony of the commanders on
Old “Hell Schmell.”
One day during the fighting around
Marietta, in June, 1864, the Confed
erate batteries on the crest of Kenne
saw Mountain began bombarding the
camp occupied by the division of Gen
eral Osterhaus.
Osterhaus was eating his dinner at
the time, and concluded he would pay
no attention to it until he finished his
meal; but noticing that first the team
sters, then a number of soldiers, and
finally some of his staff began to seek
cover with some precipitation, and
doubtless feeling that there was no cer
tainty but that some flying bombshell
might lose its way and come crashing
into his tent, sans-cereMonie, he leaped
to his feet, shook his fist furiously in
the air and sprang out of the tent, ca
pering like a Dutch dancing-master,
and yelled, “I’ll make’em hell schmell!
I’ll make ’em hell schmell!” and at
once sent orders over to the batteries
in his command to open fire upon the
Confederates on Kennesaw.
It is not a matter of record that the
furious bombardment which he direct
ed caused the retreat of the Confeder
ates from the mountain ; but we would
doubtless be safe in recording it that
he felt somewhat like he had gotten
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region traversed by the AVestern A At
lantic Railroad still show a great num
ber of rifle pits which were occupied
by the* skirmishers of the two ar
mies during the eventful summer
which the two armies spent in north
west Georgia in 1864.
even, or as nearly so as possible, after
he had sent a few scores of projectiles
crashing against the rocky cliffs amid
which the Confederates were perched
with their infantry lines and batteries
of artillery.
But the Federal soldiers called Gen.
Osterhaus “ Old Hell-schmell,” and
this is said to have been one of his fa
vorite expressions when he was angry.
Wouldn’t “Shpike Dem New
Guns.’’
The following story is said to have
been one of General Grant’s best:
In the battle of Shiloh a Dutch ar
tillery commander came running to
him, blubbering like a whipped school
boy, and evidently in great distress.
Grant, who was annoyed at the Con
federate advance which had driven
back a portion of his line, inquired of
him what was the matter, and received
from him the information that his bat
tery had been captured.
The General asked him, “Well, did
you spike the guns before you aban
doned them?”
With a look of utter amazement on
his face, the Dutchman bellowed out:
“Vat ! shpike dem guns —shpike dem
new " guns. No sir, no sir! Vhy, it
both sides that the
losses sustained by
the two armies
were about asgreat
from the incessant
skirmish fi ri n g
; which was main
tained between
the two, as were
their casualties in
the greatest bat
tles between Dal
ton and Atlanta.
The forests and
hill-sides in the
would has pin a shame to do dhat.”
Grant used to tell this with great
relish, and would then quietly remark,
“and within less than fifteen minutes
‘dem new guns’ were playing on our
own ranks.”
“ Pick out Your Tree.”
A good story is told of Colonel Jo
seph Grisham, the father of Senator
Brown’s wife. He was a man of un
usual vigor of intellect, clearness of
perception, and withal, of very great
decision of character.
It is stated that < n one occasion he
hired a man to come and split boards
for him. The party arrived before
breakfast, and was asked by the Col
onel to take breakfast with the family,
but answered that he had already eat
en. In the course of the conversation
relative to the work, the Colonel was
giving his ideas about what he intend
ed to do in the way of constructing the
building. The countryman took issue
with him and expressed very decided
objection to the proposed plan. This
was pressed to such an extent that at
last Col. Grisham got out of patience
with one of his expressions of what ho
thought, and remarked :
“Well, I didn’t hire you to think,
sir, I hired you to work.”
This brought an end to the argu
ment. Shortly afterwards, they went
down into the forest together, and ar
rived at a large tree which the Colonel
inspected very carefully, walked around
once or twice, and then remarked to
the countryman:
“Well, I think this is a first-rate
board tree. AVhat do you think about
it?”
“You didn’t hire me to think, sir ;
you hired me to work —pick out your
tree,” answered the man with some de
cided emphasis of tone.
The Colonel laughed good-humored
ly, and told him that there were some
points upon which both of them could
think with perfect good taste and pro
priety, and invited him to take dinner
with him that day.
Sixty-eight different kinds of miner
als and ores found on the line of the
Western and Atlantic railroad.
MO. 2.