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Show II I RAILROADING. -,j ' ' jj ' Mr. Benjamin Morgan the old time Ben I ; if was here on Sunday last. His home since he left j j ! i ' J jiere has been in Pittsburg. Speaking of the way j j railroads are conducted there he gave two facts, j One is that the express for the east leaves there ! ' in three sections every evening, and that one : ! section follows another only two and a half , ; ' i minutes apart, and three minutes later an accom- ! " , ! 1 1 1 modation train pulls out after them. When we :'j I remember that those trains run about a mile a ; ' ! f ij minute, we uee how exact must be the calculations, ' m and how perfect the execution in handling trains. 1 ' !' The other incident was the breaking in two ! j j ; K of a gravel train in the lower part of the city, j ! i ! j ft The accident caused the rear half of the train to I j I be piled up in a grand ruin. Word was flashed ; I I to headquarters in an incredibly short time; a j If yrecking train appeared, carrying a huge derrick i i or crane. It ran up to the nearest car, the crane f ! s,wung around, seized the car and tossed it over I : the bank, then the next and the next, and in ' j 1 1 twenty minutes from the time the accident hap- M j pened the track was clear and the trains that j j i m had been delayed were moving, i ; I Thirty years ago Tom Scott ordered a wrecked i ! ; i m freight train to be burned rather than have the j I ! i ft through express delayed on that same road. Probably there is no other place where that ! ; j I kind of work is so nearly reduced to an exact I jj ; I cience as in Pittsburg, for it handles more j ! ! i I railroad traffic than New York City itself,, and 'i ! I tne envuonments are so cramped that no mis- I fi !' 1 1 takes are permissible. If care kills men, then the ji 1: I train dispatcher at Pittsburg ought to wear his y 'V V life out in a single year. |