Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last July, Manhattan Lawyer Philip Davis boarded a New York Central train at Albany with a ticket for New York. Along with a score of others, he could find no seat in the day coaches, though there were plenty available in the Pullmans. When the conductor came along, Lawyer Davis at first refused to hand over his ticket unless given a seat. He surrendered when the conductor threatened to throw him off. All the way to Manhattan, for nearly three hours. Lawyer Davis stood in the aisle. Then, furious, "leg-sore" and worn down from the strain," he hustled...
...Municipal Court, the road claimed that it is impossible to determine in advance exactly how many passengers will take a train, that the officials do as best they can. The road admitted that day-coach passengers unable to find seats may legally take unoccupied seats in Pullmans at no extra cost. Lawyer Davis retorted that several on his trip who tried this were refused permission. Last week the N. Y. Central rested its defense on the ground that Lawyer Davis had not proven that "the railroad failed to make a reasonable effort to provide sufficient accommodations...
...with a truck tractor and semitrailer owned by Sentle Trucking Co. The railroad promptly sued Harvey H. Sentle, declaring that his driver had been negligent since the railroad operated flasher warnings at the crossing. The driver retorted that he stopped at the warning, but neither saw nor heard the train until he was almost across the tracks, when it hit him. Railroads have won similar judgments before, and the Common Pleas Court decided in favor of the N. Y. Central, ordered Harvey Sentle to pay for damages to the Century. Truckman Sentle appealed. Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court refused...
Week after taking Governor Alf Landon on a Florida hunting & fishing trip, Guide Walter ("Red") Welner was lost in the woods two days. Speeding through Missouri, the train bearing Governor Landon home to Topeka cut a 1,600-gal. oil truck in two, badly burned the driver...
...Bernardino, Calif., entered the Valley by way of Furnace Creek and never got out. Ahead of the Sand-Walkers there was a band of young men, traveling in 20 wagons, unencumbered by women or children, known as the Jayhawkers, who split off to save themselves when the train bogged down, turned aside to locate what became known as the Lost Gunsight Mine, and never got out of Death Valley either. Only survivors were the families in four wagons trailing behind the Jayhawkers. When, the wagons could go no further, two young scouts pushed ahead, traveled 25 days across the desert...