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BRYAN CUMMINGS AND THE GEORGIA RAILROAD. The red sun was sinking behind the hills, and in the fading lights the lean poles of the telegraph stood black against the orange sky, the train was rapidly speeding toward Atlanta, late as usual; when it slowed down and we stopped on a side-track. Upon* inquiry I was informed that we were waiting for the down train to pass us on its way to Augusta. Being somewhat restless, I walked through the cars on to the rear plat form. There I found another gen tleman. My eyes glanced out over the burnished brass-like rails. I no- BROKEN RAIL lbw 1 *• »«» STANDARD RAIL, SIX BOLTS IN FISH JO/NT This drawing shows one of the broken rails, also the standard rail and Joint used on first-class roads. ticed the defective condition of the track and remarked: “The Georgia Railroad has not been over generous in furnishing bolts to hold the rails together.” The gentleman replied: “Oh, this is a side-track; trains running on here never run over five miles an hour, and it is plenty strong enough. ’ ’ I examined the track more closely and found that some rails were brok en; some had one bolt to join them to the others where they met, and others, not any. I then commented on the light rails used on the regular passenger track. He replied in this fashion: “They are plenty heavy enough. I failed to see it in that light”; and remarked that they were only 80 pounds to ‘the yard rails, when they ought to be at least 90 pounds to the yard; that I did not believe the rails used were heavy enough to be safe. He replied, sarcastically: “No, 500 pounds to the yard would not be too heavy. ’ ’ By this time things were becoming interesting, and my newly-found ac quaintance asked me the question: “Are you a railroad engineer?” I answered, “No.” “But that I knew all standard roads like the Pennsylvania and the New York Cen- TWO BOLTS ON LT WMF THREE BOLTS How the rails are bolted on the Georgia Railroad. tral used 110-pound rails to the yard, and six bolts in every fish-plate, in stead of four, as on the Georgia Rail road, and that there was no reason why the Georgia should not use the same kind of rail and joint; the trains being almost identical in weight. A mile down the track the Augusta express came round the bend, vomiting inky smoke, which spread into billows of black vapor, and threw dark shadows upon the fields. “He is late, and got her wide open,” remarked one of the train- men. A long-drawn, piercing whis tle, a hammering on the rails, the big, black engine shaking, belching smoke and cinders, growing rapidly larger; then a roar, and a flash of heat, a glimpse of-windows crowded with human life, and the express passed us at fifty miles an hour. Tq my horror I discovered that one of the rails over which the large ninety-ton locomotive had just thun dered, was connected, end to end witn the next rail, by only one bolt. My friend assured me that no ac cident had ever occurred on the road through a broken rail or a weak con nection, and he claimed to know. Feeling satisfied that he had nobly done his duty, he re-entered the Pull man. I was anxious to know’ wiio this distinguished and well-informed gen tleman was, when sortie one remarked, “Bryan Cumming, Chief Counsel of the Georgia Railroad. ’ ’ I then realized that my five and one-half years * experience in repair ing locomotives, and as a machinist had been of no value to me. That this book-learned gentleman was right. That the road-bed was in first class condition; that no matter how rotten the ties, no matter how light the rails, no matter how poorly-join ted or how sunken the road bed, the Georgia Railroad was safe and sound because Bryan Cumming, who reads law to the “common people” through corporation spectacles, and accord ing to corporation rule, said so. I repeat it: The Georgia Railroad is in first-class condition I But some times, in the black night, I wake up, trembling, feeling sad for the hearts that will be broken, for the lives ,that shall be snuffed out of many a cottage to return no more forever. Some day that one bolt will break. Sometime the strain from the 400- ton train, flying over the rails, with its load of humanity, at the rate of fifty miles an hour, will snap off that one bolt, and then ! G. N. — NO PAY IN ADVERTISING. Don’t advertise if you believe you are wasting money. Let your com petitor waste his money on advertis ing, and perhaps in this way you’ll soon put him out of business. Fix his clockwork for him. Just stand back and laugh at him when you see him squandering his money for print er’s ink. Once there was a boy nam ed John —we think his last name was Wannamaker —anyhow his name was John with some sort of a maker at tached to his last name. He owned 500 yards of calico,- three pairs of jeans and a half dozen pairs of boots. He called this a dry goods store through a Philadelphia paper, and offered to sell a pair of socks for thirty-seven cents. The dont-believe in-advertising merchants laughed. Young John spent sixty-five dollars with the Philadelphia Ledger to ad vertise just one time and had less than SIOO worth of goods. He wag cautioned by those who “knew it didn’t pay I” It was through sym pathy that they offered him advice. 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