' ' THE CHARITTE EVENING CHRONICLE JUNE 24j 1909 S" ' " ' , :. ' y ' ' . ' . V ' '-j;'v -
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Make Your -Reservation at Once! :
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Many tickets have already been sold, - and a large
number of orders for reservation; iire be
ing received daily r ; ,
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Your; Vacat
15th.
3 days' trip will be made in all the luxury pos-
. sible on a railroad train. .
Railroad fare (574 miles)
Standard Pullman (3 days) . All for
Dining car meals (entire trip)
Visit the National Soldiers' Home at Johnson City. :It is located in one' of the
most picturesque spots in the mountains of Tennessee. This home is composed of .
20 magnificent buildings. . - - : ,
r On this trip you will have an opportunity to see the wonderful c,oal mining de
velopment of The Clinchfield Coal Corpoition, undoubtedly the tmost advanced
svstem of coal mining in Am erica to-day. This feature of the trip alone is worth
the priice. , : : - ''
The Observer; Co, desires to make it possible for as many as care to take this
elegant trip free and offers these propositions in connection with the circulation of
its publications.
For each 13 paid in advance vnew yearly subscriptions to TheEvening Chronicle
one free trip.. For each 8 paid in advance new yearly subscriptions to The Daily
Observer one free trip. For each 64 paid in advance new yearly subscriptions to
The Semi-Weekly Observer, one free trip. v ". -
Even if you'don'tseoure the required amount for a
ceive credit for the amount you do turn in, and can ? take this trip hy ; paying the
difference in cash. Example, One-half the required number of hew subscriptions and
$8.00 wm entitle you to the trip. ; , . ., v v , . . ; :
. The Evening. Chronicle per year:$5,00; 6.months-$2.50;.3 months $1.25.
The Daily Observer per year $8.00; 6 months $4.00; 3 months $2.00. t
.The Semi-Weekly Observer per yeary$1.00; 6 months 50c; 3 months 25c.
Four quarterly or two six months' subscription count as one yearly. No limit
as to territory in which to earn this freevtrip. ""
Reservations for this trip should be made at once.
. Tickets will, be good to stop off: at any point' on the line. Several ideal places
to spend a week's vacation along the router - , ;
Reservations for : our Excursion are being made very fast. Don't delayV mak
ing arrangements for this trip. - ' . ; - " " ' .
1 For Further information address JA.-KER, JR., C. P. A., S. A. L. Railway,
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INTEREST IN THE
GREA T C. C. & O. TRIP
Every Comfort and Convenience Will be Furnished on
The Observer-Chronicle Special Pullman Excursion
The New Clinchfield Road and the Scenery
The Pullman palace car excursion
which the Observer Co. is to operate
July 15, 16 and 17, over the recently
completed and far-famed Carolina,
Clinchfield & Ohio Railway system
through western Xorth Carolina, east ;
Tennessee and southwest Virginia,
traversing the grandest and most
Epectacular regions of the Appalach
ian mountain ranges, promises to be
one of the choicest and most delight
ful trips of the kind ever offered in
'he South. The train, .which will be
made up exclusively of Pullman
toaches, to which a diner will be at
tached, thereby insuring -not only the
Neatest comfort and ease of , travel
but every modern convenience in
point of service and fare, will leave
Uarlotte Thursday morning, July 15,
. 10:25 o'clock. After making the
np over the Seaboard to Bostic, the
JPecial will be run in on the Clinch
ceia tracks and the trip through the
loothills to Marion will be made.'
After leaving Marion, the new line
crosses the Catawba and breaks di
rectly into the very heart of the
mountains The journey from Marion
to Alta Pass, Spruce Pine, across the
Blue Ridge, and down the Toe river,
through the Nolichucky ?: canon to
Unaka Springs, Erwin and Johnson
City, Tenn.. is one of ttfe most, elegant
in America. And the trip from John
son City to Dante, the present term
inus of the new road, is equally as
beautiful from a scenic point of view
though not so stupendous. During
the latter part of the way, the road
winds through the pleasant valleys of
the Clinch and Holston rivers, turn
ing in and out, piercing mountain
spurs here and crossing fertile valleys
there, the adjacent country being just
rugged enough to afford the most de
lightful changes of 'scenery. The eye
never tires for the sky line is con
stantly changing and new and fresh
scenes pass into view all tie time.
REPRESENTATIVE CROWD GO
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, The unparalleled ' opportunities of
fered by this trip have appealed to
numbers of the most representative
people in Charlotte and throughout
the 5tate for" The Observer Company
has been receiving reservations daily
from all sections of the 'State ever
since the . first announcement was
made. These have come from cities
J as remote -on ; the south as Charles
ton, S. C, and from Burlington on
the north. Others have been received
from intervening towns ; enough to
justify .the belief that . the ex
cursion will not only be the
most select in personnel : and the
most , delightful and Comfortable
in operation but the- largest' as well.
As has been prevfously announced,
the trip will last three-days, and all
those purchasing tickets' -will - have
reservations not only On the "sleepers
but on the diner as well and the price
of the ticket, which is lltf. covers all
details. This is an average of $5 per
day fof- a trip which under ordinary
circumstances, operated as this one
will be, would cost fully twice as
much. The railroad 'fare alone to
Dante and return is more than the
price of this ticket.
Over " and above everything else ,
connected with this Pullman .. palace
car excursion, the; outstanding featr
ure, nd the- thing that will remain
in the memories of all those who go
on it for all time to . come, ; is the
marvel of .engineering s: design and
construction -of the toad itself. In the;
opinion of., the best-posted experts,"
this road is the most carefully built
line east ' of the Rocky mountains,
costing as it did more than $40, 000,
000 from Dante, Va., to Bostic, this
State. : , - v.A --
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nct oa the C C. & O. BaUua; over Copper Greek, Scott Connty, Va. , This vladnct 165 feet high and
1A40 feet lmi-. (On die rout ot Tie Observer's Bl Excursion, v July i. - ::' ."
FEATURES OP THE NEW ROAD.
JThe ... new road presents so many
interesting features that the whole
story can hardly be comprehended in
one brief article. It is a difficult mat
ter to determine just what particular
feature merits first place. To lovers
Of the beautiful and grand in .scen
ery, it will appeal more so than any
other road on, this side of the Rock
ies. A new and. heretofore untravers
ed territory has been-opened up, one.
that .eclipses by long odds anything
in the neighborhood of "Asheville, Sa
luda, Round Knob or Waynesville and
far in advance of anything on the
Chesapeake & Ohio- along the Kana
wha in West . Virginia. Words are
inadequate to describe the imposing
majesty of the towering peaks of the
Black mountains, which are so over
whelmingly visible for a distance of
more than 15 miles as the. new line
half-way encircles the Catawba val
ley. Mount Mitchell, the . highest
peak east of the Rockies, stands out
in all its majestic dignity and so also
a score of other lofty peaks which
constitute the Black mountain range.
Of broad and fertile valleys', of foam
ing, tumbling streams and of skyward-reaching-
mountains Vthere are
hundreds, one following the - other in
rapid succession -from Marion to
Johnson City .to Dante, .'Va. .
SOMETHING. OF THE ROAD IT-.'
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Surpassing .in . grandeur even the
scenery,. God's .handiwork,-, .if . Such a
thing be possible, is . the . road itself
regarded from .the . engineering point
of view. On the. lihe. between Dante
and. Spartanburg,; S.. C-t are 35 tun-
the road .hilJi jis six miles, and in a 'distance of 14
Wf P -fir. 1 ttTtt. miles of the 20 south of Alta Pass, in
in The Observer about two months i A-, i oia
ago, . . i j f p- with a. fnmnensatVil 'er-a.dn.nf l.'l
per cent., there are IS tunnels of
varying length up to"2,l'56 feet. The
I alignment-of the road winds in and
out among the mountains, cfossing
great ravines here and piercing moun-'
tain. spurs there, never deviating from
a specified course and constructed abv
solutely regardless ' of "cost. ' ; For in
stance, just south 'of the ' gffeat Blue
. a itiage tunnei at Alia jpss tne nign-
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road as built covers' a' distance of sev
en miles and returns again to a point
less thah a quarter -of a mile from
the starting pofnt. " At another place
on this bend the 'direct distance be
tween two points is- bu.t '182 feet,
whereas .thi; distance by ; rail is more
than . two miles." ' "
The road -Is intended 'primarily for
coal carrying -purposes and- although
it penetrates districts- heretofore' con
sidered inaccessible,- the maximum
grade has i. been maintained- at One
half of on,e per cent-, - compensated
against southbound traffic.- -In . order
to maintain this grade many excava
tions and - an equal number. of fills
were necessary. One- ;cut: . that near
Johnson . City,: is 3,800 Ifeet long 'with
a maximum depth of' 85 feet, from
which 500,000- cubic yards or mater
ial, was removed. A number" of fills
more thah 100 feet in, height' were
also necessary. ; ' '
In this" connection as illustrating
the ingenuity rof the locating engin-:
eers,1 thestoryis. told of 'se smort 'promoter-whet
acquired large holdings of
real estate In Moccasin Gap, a natural
pass to the, north of "Clinch moun
tain,, the barrier to ' the Clinchfield
district, through which it was believ
ed the new"road . would have k to go.'
By this route'the road worlds paral
lel the Virginia & Southwestern t for
some distance.' - From careful 'inves
tigation, it was . decided- to -take a
short route through the' -mountain,;
much to the detriment of the-schem-
ixys prompter,, who was lying Lq, wait
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General view .of Pumpkin Patch:
. leycl, and 2,200 feet above
for the railroad company expecting
the ne(st-egg of a fortune by sale of.
right of way on the basis of city lot
prices. tBy means of a tunnel, which,
while it cost something like a million
dollars,' saved, several miles, the com
j pany sidestepped , him and escaped.
xne guiding principle or tnose m
charge ' of the new road has been td
reduce grades and. cut distances and
by sparing neither time . nor money,
construct k system : the future maintenance-
of which the expense would
be very little.
- A SPLENDID ROAD.
: The track all along the way has
been ballasted ,with crushed stone and
slag from . furnaces and the rails are
of . 8 5-pound class, American , Society
section, in 33-feet lengths. The width
of the roadbed on banks is , IS feet;
in rock cuts, 20 feet. and in earth cuts
22; feet,' including .ditches. In, many
places' where extra .material was
needed : for filling, the ad jacefnt cuts
were excavated to a still greater
width in ; preference ', to taking the
material from borrow pits nearby.
This plan has not only provided more
generous room "for the roadbed and
ditches but will greatly reduce the
expense of building second tracks or
sidings. - All passing sidings have -the
very ce'ntre-of the coal district. A
number' -of - openings have - already
been made. Mr. John C; Winder,
president of-the corporation,' a North.
Carolinian and well, known in Char
lotte, who rioW makes his headquar
ters in Roanoke Va,, will -be ' located
for. .the greater ; part " if his time : at
Dante, after, July. ; , . . . . . "
; THE. "EQUIPMENT. COSTLY. "
At nearly - all points, along - theline
there is. evidence of . studied locatfon
and v careful engineering, particularly
along the .cliffs '-of 'the "qiinchi river
MOuntaio, near Toecene, N.- C, showing farms 4,300 feet deep above the sca
the, river.' (On the route of -The Observer's Bic Excursion. Julv 15K
and at Starne's bend,: where the new
line gradually gains an elevation over
the ' old location in order 7to- strike
high up' into Clinch mountain. The
bridged are all of the heaviest steel
with strongest 'concrete abutments.
The equipment ': consists of engines of
the latest and most approved, types,
100-ton passenger locomotives, 125
ton' consolidation locomotives, and
the Mallet, type of locomotives weigh
ing 182 tons. The -coal cars are of
steel j throughout wt,h a capacity, of
50 tons each. One of ' the sights
along the way from Bostic to" Marion
is a string of these; cars more than 'a
mile .and a half in length. Fifteen
hundred more have been ordered,
their: cost approximating $ir"200 each.
A locomotive is now at the shops, for
the new road but difficulty is being
had in "getting it home, owing to the
refusal of connecting roads to give it
passage over their lines. The opera
tion .of trains over the new. system is
entirely by telephone, this service be
ing in accord with the latest and most
approved methods of railway opera
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SEASIDE SHOOTING GALLERIES.
Target
Customers Who Handle the
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It might seem that a man -wouldn't
get rich very fast running a shooting
gallery at three shots for a , nickle,
and he' wouldn't -if the rent was too
high, and still he . might make some
thing at it, ; ; . ., . '; ,v
, The little rifles are . easy to handle
and. it's fun to. shoot them. The maga
zine holds fifteen' cartridges, and' many
a shooter when he once gets started
shoots the whole fifteen-, a.nd that
costs him a auarter. and sometimes
a man will stand up and fire away
maybe four magazinefuls one after the
other, sixty shots, - for which he pays
$1; and customers like that help along,
but every nickel counts.
.- Some men can shoot and some can't.
One man will step up here and plug
a target bullseye with shot after shot,
keeping the gong sounding like the
striking of a clock, while the man
alongside of . him will fire away time
after time and never hit a thing, like
the man you've heard about that
couldn't hit the side of a barn even if
he was standing-, on the inside.. .
' You -ask, How ; about that? If he
was standing' in 'the barn when he
fired how .could he ; fail to hit some
side ? Well, the answer to that is that
what he hit. was the, roof! .. , .
'Some of the people that come along
can't- shoot' much 'bitter than" that,
but they like to shoot Whether" they hit
anything -or, not, andif they hit a duck'
or an elephant oneshot. in. ten they,
think they're haying, fun, and that's
what-they, are seeking at the seashore,"
and whether the shooter hits the tar
get or not every, shot, counts for the
gallery, man.-, ' , V
Stopped in TVbne.
Philadelphia Record. ' " - '
. Congressman John T. Lenahanj of -the
Luzerne bar was once engaged in
a - bribery case and - was questioning
a- prominent 'witness. "Have you your
self ever: refused a. bribe ?" he asked. '
"NO, but -" "that's all!" th.in.r. ,
'ed John! Later On Mr.? Lenahan was -
askea why ; he .dismissed. , the , wit
ness so soon, "Because," he replied,
"I knew by. the 'but that he was go-'
Ing vto teU ne.:'u.6 onehad ;ever at-,
tempted to hrjbe hlm.,
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