Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — But How About the Bust? [ARTICLE]

But How About the Bust?

It is a popular superstition that the center of the car is not only the safest part, but is also much the easier riding. One of the greatest trials of a Pullman conductor's life is the fact that about every passenger asks for lower center birth the first thing, and is frequently indignant because it cannot be had. If the center of the car rides any easier than the end, then onr cars, built as solid and strong as they are, spring up and down in the middle precisely as does a buckboard. If they do not, why should it ride easier? As for safety, if you are in the rear of the last car on the train,and another train runs into the rear, you are liable to get hurt. In all other accidents you.can conjure up as liable to occur, it is safest. If Ahead collision there is nothing back of yon to add force to the blow. If the car leaves the track and collides with a bridge or any obstruction on a side track it will not be in yonr end. If the train is thrown down an embankment, there is nothing to land on top of yon. Then this location is the most pleasant. From it you can watch all the movements of your fellow passengers, often a good way of phasing the hours of a long, tedious journey. If your eye happens to catch a particularly fine view, yon can, by turnning in yonr seat or stepping to the door, take it all in. If there is a safest part of a train it is in the last car. —Elmira Baitroad News.

Frederick Kesselsihg, of Athenia, has invented a power loom for silks. Which is said to surpass the best-known silk looms in Europe and America. Toe take np motion can hi changed to any number of picks without changing the wheels or p.nions. It will run 129 to 130 picks per minute on gros grains, and up to 150 on satins.