Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — PIGEON FLIES WITH TRAIN [ARTICLE]

PIGEON FLIES WITH TRAIN

Southern Engineer, According to Hi* Report, Had a Strange Traveling Companion. Engineer George Gill, of the Seaboard Air line, has a strange story of a white pigeon that flew seven miles beside his cab. When he reached Vance a white pigeon appeared beside his cab and flew with him all the way to Southern Pines, a distance of seven milei. The train was traveling at a lively clip, but this did not worry the pigeon, which kept the pace with seeming ease. At times the bird came close enough to the cab window for the engineer to have reached out his hand and touched it. At times the pigeon would cross over the engine and fly beside the window on the fireman’s side, and then recross the track again. This is the first time, states the engineer, that he ever witnessed such a sight. It has been his experience and the experience of other engineers that birds always fly away from a locomotive instead of toward or parallel with it. —Raleigh (N. C.) Dispatch to the New York Sun.