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Bellefonte, Pa., Nov. 27, 1896.
Land of the Mahogany.
How the Big Trees Look in Their Native Wilds.—
The Woodsmen of Honduras.—An Entertaining De-
scription of Forest Scenes in Central America,
Where Carid Woodchoppers Hunt for Precious
Timber.
In this British colony, of Honduras’
which was first organized by ma-
hogany hunters for the sole purpose
of cutting the valuable timber, the
mahogany business is still of para-
mount importance. Belize owes not only
its beginning but its wealth to the early
hewers of wood, who nearly two centuries
ago brought over slaves and cattle and es-
tablished their camps in the jungle. Princ-
ly fortunes are yet made in the same line—
though not so rapidly in these days of iron
ships, as when wood was more largely used
in naval architecture. The whole coast-
region, bordering what used to be known as
the Spanish Main. stretching southward
from the borders of Mexico tothe Nicara-
gua canal, abounds in precious woods ; and
British Honduras is its very heart and cen-
tre ; rich beyond computation, not only in
mahogany, but in the hardly less valuable
rose, ebony, tulip, cedar and sandal woods ;
vera, ironwood and pelo de San Juan and
caoutchouc, or Castilloa elastica, the Cen-
tral American rubber tree. The Govern-
ments of Nicarauga and the Republic of
Honduras allow anybody to cut the trees
on contract—that is by payments of a cer-
tain amount stumpage ; but not so in the
Queen’s possession ! The ‘‘blarsted British-
ers’ have got a grip on this exhaustless
source of wealth, which they mean to re-
tain until time shall be no more—or as
long as a tree shall be left standing. Now-
adays all the Belize mahogany lands are in |
the hands of afew proprietors, who will |
not sell a foot of them, nor admit settlers
on any terms. They rent them in small
areas to contractors, who bind themselves
under heavy penalties to transport all tim-
ber cut to the coast and leave not a single
log to decay in the wilderness, and to pay
to the owners of the soil a bonus on every
square foot of timber moved, besides a good
round rental.
KING OF THE TROPICAL FOREST.
Everybody is familiar with mahogany
after the cabinetmakers have got done
with it; its rich red-brown and varying
shades of color, its beauty of gran and
wonderful susceptibility of polish, its dura-
bility and freedom from warping in all
climates ; but I fancy that few of my
readers would recognize it in the tree if
they saw one growing. The swietenia ma-
hogni—hereabouts more commonly known
as “‘baywood’’—is a veritable monarch of
the vegetable kingdom, more impressive for
size and majesty than even the giant se-
quoias of California. The latter may some-
times attain greater girth of trunk, but
never the mammoth spread of branches of |
the mahogany, which towering head and
shoulders above everything else in the
landscape, is truly king of the trop-
ical forest. Its pinnate leaves are like
those of the ash ; its delicate yellowish- |
white flowers grown in close panicles, and
its pear-shaped fruit—a hard woody capsule
about the size of a man’s fist—has five-
celled, many winged seed. The mahogany
tree is a long time in reaching maturity,
200 years heing supposed to approximate
its prime. In regard to its rapidity of
arowth we have all read that ‘‘1t hardly
undergoes a perceptible increase of size in
the narrow span of man’slife.”” That is no
doubt true, after a tree has come to a great
size ; but mahogany merchants in Belize
tell me that the young trees grow so rapid-
ly from the stumps of a clearing as to be
large enough themselves for cutting in 25
or 30 years. Of course the trees vary in
size in different sections, and in the value
of wood, according to the color and beauty
of its “curl.” Single logs have sometimes
realized upwards of $5,000 for cutting into
veneer, the wood being too heavy to be
used “‘solid”’ for most purposes. Logs 40
feet long and two feet thick are common
here ; some of them wonderfully figured,
though generally the wood is plain. It is
said that the forests of northern Belize are
more dense and the trees more valuable
than the softer , swamp-grown wood of the
interior of British Honduras. The mahog-
any tree attains its greatest dimensions in
the limestone. regions of Mexico, logs
squared to 48 inches being often obtained,
while three feet is a common size.
HOW THE WORLD LEARNED.
The discovery of the value of mahogany
in ship building has been credited to Sir
Walter Raleigh—that inoffensive gentle-
man to whose doors so many things have
been laid for which he was not responsible.
The story goes that in the year 1597, when
Sir Walter was in Trinidad, his ship needed
repairing, and the first big tree that came
handy was used for the purpose. The
Caribs called the tree by some strange
name, which the Spaniards interpreted
after their fashion, and which we of the
English tongue pronounce mahogany ; and
its wood proved to be so durable—the only
~ kind that can resist the terido worm—that
its fortune was made then and there. How-
ever, owing to the difficulties of obtaining
it more than a century elapsed before it
came into general use. Mahogany is in-
debted to another accident for its popular-
ity as a cabinet wood. The celebrated Dr. |
Gibbons had a brother in the New World
who made him a present of a mahogany log
for a curiosity. The learned doctor thought
to inorease the value of his curio by having
it converted into a ‘‘settle’’ to stand in his
hall, and he employed Wolloston, the
Court cabinetmaker, to do the work.
Wolloston saw at once the beauty and val-
ue of the wood, and did his work with
such skill that a furor was created in Eng-
land for mahogany furniture ; and to this
day the imports of mahogany to Britian
alone average 50,000 tons per annum. Its
dark-colored bark, which has a faint, aro-
matic smell and an astringent, bitter taste,
is also largely employed as a fedrifuge, and
as a substitute for Peruvian bark. In the
countries where it grows the natives use
its seeds, ground to oil, for a cosmetic, to
make the skin soft and shiny, as the Az-
tecs did in early times.
CARIB WOODMEN.
Like everything else that is worth hav-
ing in this tiresome world, mahogany is not
easily obtained. Few people realize the
labor and difficulties that intervene be-
tween the great trees growing in its native
forests and the beautiful piece of furniture
that adorns the home of wealth. Far in
the depths of the almost impenetrable jun-
gle now stands, perhaps hundreds of years
old, environed with enormous buttresses of
roots extending upward 15 or 20 feet around
its trunk fitting props to sustain the mon-
arch through the storms of centuries. As
a rule, the mahogany contractor enters in-
to his agreement with the owners of the
territory he intends to efplore, near the
close of the wet season—say during the
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| Christmas holidays. His cutters secured,
{ who are usually Caribs or half breed In-
dians, he pays them six months wages in
advance, half in cash and half in ‘‘goods’’—
the latter meaning provisions and needed
outfit, much as our western miners used to
be furnished with ‘‘grub-stake,”’ It is un-
necessary to add that the cash generally
melts away like dew before the morning
sun, in drinking and gambling ; hence the
wisdom of paying part of the men’s wages
in necessary commodities. From 30 to 50
men is the average number of men in each
camp, and they are divided into companies
of ten, each company having its own ‘‘cap-
tain.”” The most important and best-paid
man of all, is the ‘hunter,”’ an experienced
woodsman, who leads the way into the
wilderness and finds the trees for the rest
to cut. They follow up the rivers in the
trackless forests, beset by dangers on every
hand, alligators and boas, savage animals
and the deadly creeping things that infest
the jungle ; and when they find a favora-
ble spot begins operations by establishing
their camp upon the edge of the river. A
big watla (thatched hut) is built for the
laborers, and a smaller one, set high on
stilts to protect it from prowling creatures,
in which to store the bacon, salt fish, and
other supplies brought from civilization. |
Hammocks are hung in the watla for beds, |
any convenient logs serve well for tables |
and chairs, and the cook makes an excellent
range by filling a hole in the ground with |
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stones. They eat cazada bread, made from
the grated root of the yucca, from which ;
the poisinous juice has been squeezed, and
the terminal buds of the cabbage palm,
which taste very much like our cauliflower |
and is a delicate morsel when not mixed |
with rancid greasy bacon, as one usually |
finds it hereabouts. The forest abounds in |
wild fruits and edible seeds; and as for |
meat, they are plenty of monkeys and huge |
lizzard-like iguanus, wild hogs, small red
deer, tapirs rabbits armadillos, turkeys and |
parrots, not to mention larger game. !
HIUNTING FOR Trees. !
While the camp is being made the ‘‘hun-
ter”? is off exploring. The precious swiet-
enia mahogni does not grow in clumps and |
groves like our pine and walnut, but each |
monarch stands alone in solitary state,
amid a dense growth of other huge trees,
its trunk concealed by a wild tangle of
vines, orchids, and underbrush, requiring
the closest attention of the experienced
woodsman to detect it. Ina tropical wil-
derness, where the trees are so thick that
gne can hardly force his way between them,
the whole hung with an impenetrable mass |
of verdure as with a curtain, their mingled |
tops a solid wall which makes eternal twi-
light below, and every. trunk twined round !
and round with creepers—it is not an easy
matter to distinguish species. The hunter
climbs the tallest tree that he can find com- |
paratively clear, and from its top his prac- |
ticed eyes detect the foliage of the coveted |
mahogany. He then counts the trees in|
line, notes carefully the direction, distance
and every land mark, slides down from
! his leafy conservatory and proceeds to cut
i and blaze a trail to his “find.”” This done,
{ he marks the trees with his machete and
returns to camp. Each man in a company
| is assigned his particular work—some to
i fell the trees, others to cut truck-roads
| through the jungle, others to collect and
haul the wood and water, etc. The cutters
| turn out from camp as ‘soon as it is light
i enough to see—which in the tall dense
woods means a much later hour than in the
regions where the sun has a better chance to
show himself ; and generally by noon tree
cutting for the day is finished. All work
is done by the task system, which is said
to be the only way of handling native la-
bor ; that is, one man’s ‘‘stent’ is to cut
two trees, from 8 to 10 feet in circumfer-
ence ; two men are given three large trees
to bring down or four men are detailed to
lay low some forest giant, perhaps 25 feet
in circumference.
“BARBCUES"
To the tenderfoot that scems a task im-
possible of accomplishment. Owing to its
enormous huttresses the trunk cannot be cut
near the ground, so the ax-men are obliged to
rig up a platform, 10, 15, 20, or as many feet
high as the buttress extends. These plat-
forms are called ‘‘barbecues,’” though how
that word applies nobody knows but an
Englishman who prides himself on correct |
use of the language can say. The ‘‘barbe- |
cue'’ is made of slim poles, one on each
side of the tree, on supports, and two other |
poles laid across them ; also one on each
side of the tree. The axman mounts this
platform with one foot on each pole, two
men to a tree, on opposite sides, and
rapidly fell the tree. It isa marvel how
men can stand on these slender poles
and chop down enormous trees ; but they
do it, and quickly, too. Itis an incred-
ably short time the stately monarch of
of centuries totters and falls, crashing its
way through the crowd of smaller trees. |
The trunks and branches are then squared,
and are ready for transportation. In fell-
ing a valuable tree every precaution is
taken against breaking or splitting it and
thus spoiling the lumber. This manner of
cutting on a platform seems very wasteful,
as it leaves in the stump an average of 400 !
feet of the best part of the tree, so far as
beauty of grain is concerned—to say noth-
ing of the gnarled and twisted roots, which
bear the same proportionate additional
value that our walnut roots do to the rest of
the tree ; but no better way has yet been
devised. Three hundred trees are consid-
ered a good season’s work for one camp,
each tree yielding 2000 feet of timber, on a
modest estimate of the average.
BRINGING IN MAHOGANY.
When the morning’s stent is completed,
the men are “free for the rest of the day to
hunt, fish, sleep or gamble, to search on
their own accounts for Indian rubber sar-
saparilla and other marketable: products of
the woods, or to make canoes, paddles,
bowls, ete., from the mahogany stumps for
their own use or to sell when they return
to the haunts of man. The logs are hauled
to the camp at night, so as to avoid the in-
tense heat of the day. When the place is
not too remote, oxen do this part of the
work. Mr. G. E. Bailey, who visited a
mahogany camp in course of his recent visit
to Belize, describes th2 bringing in of the
mahogany : ‘The scene by torchlight, as
huge two-wheeled carts toil over the worst
roads in the world, is indescribably pic-
turesque. The gloom, the flashes of torches,
the oaths and cries of drivers, the shrieks
of grease-hungry wheels, the bawling of the
oxen, chattering monkeys, scolding parrots
and macaws, the scream of the distant p u-
ther, the gleam of savage eyes, the dusky,
naked bodies appearing and disappearing,
it looks like a dream of Dante and sounds
like pandemonium broken loose.”’
FACTS AND FIGURES.
To Mr. Bailey I am indebted for the fol-
lowing figures : The ‘‘hunter’’ receives for
his service $60 to $100 per month, the ‘‘cap-
tains’’ each from $14 to $20 per month, and
the laborers $12 per month, including ra-
tions. Trees have sometimes yielded as:
high as three logs, worth $10,000 in Boston ;
but the general run is from two to five
logs per tree, each 10 to 18 feet long, and
from 20 to 24 inches wide when hewed.
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The cost averages from: $30 to $10 per
thousand feet. In addition isan export
duty of $8. Transportation costs $14 the
ton to New Orleans, while to distant Lon-
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the logs were rafted down to sea with all
the excitement of logging in our pineries
and with much loss of valuable timber in
the surf. There are many places where no
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though on some of the rivers of Central
America mahogany sloops and steamers go
up a hundred miles or more. When the
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of the wealthy the world over.
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THI. LARGEST STOCK OF HORSE
COLLARS IN THE COUNTY.
JAMES SCHOFIELD,
53-37 BELL FONTE, PA.
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Travelers Guide.
(shan RAILROAD OF PENNA. |
Condensed Time Table.
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I Nov. 16th, 1806, Tog
No 6/'No 4'No2
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20! ! EFONTE. [10 15] 6 1010 10 |
7 34 7 oY igh L110 02) 5 57) 9 56 |
7 41) 8 05) 4 0 Zion fo 51] 9 50 |
7 46) 8 13] 4 08.HECLA PARK..| 9 {
7 48 8 15] 4 10l...... Dun kles...... | 9 3 |
752181941 ublersburg...| 9 0
7 56) 8 23] 4 18 ..Snydertown.....| ¢
7 58 8 25] 4 Wi....... Nittany. 9 & %
8 00 8 27 4 22 Huston 9] |
8 02] 8 20] 4 2 Lamar. Jd 93 9 29 |
8 04 8 31} 4 26]. ntondale....| 9 33 926 |
8 09] 8 36| 4 31. Krider's Siding.| 9 28 9 21!
8 16] 8 42 4 36]. Mackeyville....| 9 23) 5 18] 915 |
8 23 8 48) 4 42|...Cedar Spring...; 9 17° 5 12) 9 09 |
8.25 8 50] 4 A alona....... 9 15, 5 11; 9 07 |
8 30} 8 55 4 55 ...MILL HALL... $0 10/5 05.19
9 oo ceTersey SI oes i ¥30; T5455
10 05 10 20/Arr. Dont L1vel 400! 47 |
#10 20x11 30] Lve ; WMS PORT Hoe 2 ol #6 55 |
505 7 10). PHILA. .i 18 35%11 30 J
{ | Atlantic Ci ol { 1
6 45 NEW YORK J F430
! | (Via Tamaqua.)
I NEW YORK |
- (Via Phila.) i
Lve.|a.
25 9 3.........NEW YORK.........
Pp. niin. m.iAvr, m. |p. m. |
+Week Days. 36.00 P, M. Sundays. |
$10.10 A. M. Sunday.
PuiLapereiia SLeeping Car attached to East- |
bound train from Williamsport at 11.30 P. M, and |
West-bound from Philadelphiaat 11.30 P. M. i
J. W. GEPHART.
General Superintendent.
Bx CREEK RAILROAD.
N.Y. C. £ H. R. BR. R, Co., Lessee.
Condensed Time Table,
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i 1:
93 1
¢ 112
8 53; 12
8 49! 12 .
$45 12 ew Millport..
8 39; 12 Olanta....
8 33) 11 Mitchells.
8 16; 11 40 Clearfield Junc.
8 08 11 31|o.... CLEARFIELD.
5 ori 21 Clearfield June.
7 48) 11 12] .Woodland Ja
7 42! 11 05) Bigler. 4 652 653
7 37} 10 58 .Wallaceton.. 4 657 669
7 98! 10 50.......Morrisdale Mines....!| 7 06] 7 07
7200 10 41 Mungo ri 715 715
SST ICI * Loi ian AY 140] 70
7 30) 10 1 anf PIILIPSBUG iy) 655) 6 73
"7 18] 10 36/Ar...... . Munson Tv TT
12 os .Winburne 4 T8n 722
6G 48 PEALE. T40 742
626] 9 llintown. 757 801
616] 9 NOW SHOE. 8 04) 808
518 8 SECH CREE 8 48) 8
505 83 wee Mill Hall... 901 910
4 58] 825 LOCK HAVEN. 007 417
4 47| 8 15].........Youngdale 916, 92
4 35 8 0 JERSEY SHORE JUNC.| 9 29| 9 40
4 30| 7 55|....JERSEY SHORE...... 0300 945
+4 00 7 .WILLIAMSPORT.....| 10 05] 10 20
vm gawlly == 020 Avia w rw
“ro. | a.m. |+Phila, & Reading R. Ril A.M. | p.m.
2 40 .... WMSPORT.....Lv{}10 20/*11 30
8 35|¥] .PHILA.. Ap| 505 710
“+4 30 ~IlV.mN. ¥. via Tam. Ar] 600]
#7 30iLv...N. Y. via Phila..Arb7 25; 19 30
AM. | ALM P. M. | A. M,
*Daily. tWeek-days. 23.00 p. M. Sunday. 110-55
A. M. Sunday. “b'" New York passengers travel-
ing via Philadelphia on 10.20 A. Mm. train {from
Williamsport, will change cars at Columbus Ave.,
Philadelphia.
ConNEcTioNs.—At Williamsport with Philadel-
hia and Reading R. R. At Jersey Shore with
Fall Brook Railway. At Mill Hall with Central
Railroad of Pennsylvania. At Philipsburg with
Pennsylvania Railroad and Altoona & Philipsburg
Connecting Railroad. At Clearfield with Buffalo
Rochester & Pittsburg Railway. At Mahaffey and
Patton with Cambria & Clearfield Division of
Pennsylvania Railroad. At Mahaffey with
Pennsylvania & North-Western Railroad.
A. G. PALMER, F. E. HERRIMAN,
Superintendent. Gen'l Passenger Agent, I
’ Philadelphia, Pa.
Travelers Guide.
Prrisivan RAILROAD AND
BRANCHES.
Schedule in eftect Nov. 16th, 1806.
VIA TYRONE—WESTWARD,
Leave Bellefonte, 9.53 a. m., arrive at Tyrone
11.10 a. m., at Altoona, 1.00 p. m., at Pittsburg,
6.05 p. m.
Leave Bellefonte 1.05 p. m., arrive at Tyrone, 2.15
p. m., at Altoona, 2.55 p. mn., at Pittsburg, 6.50
p.m.
Leave Bellefonte, 4.44 p. m., wrive at Tyrone,
6.00, at Altoona, 7.40, at Pittsburg at 11.30.
VIA TYRONE—EASTWARD.
Leave Bellefonte, 9.53 a. m., arrive at Tyrone
11.10, at Harrisburg, 2.40 p. m., at Philadel-
phia, 11.15. p. m.
Leave Bellefonte, 1.05 p. m., arrive at Tyrone,
2.15 a. m., at Harrisburg, 7.00 p. m., at Phila-
delphia, 5.47 p. m.
Leave Bellefonte, 4.44 p. m., arrive at Tyrone,
6.00 at Harrisburg, at 10.20 p. m. :
VIA LOCK HAVEN—NORTHWARD.
Leave Bellefonte, 9.28 a. in., arrive at Lock Haven,
10.30 a. m.
Leave Bellefonte, 1.42 p. m., arrive at Lock Haven
2.43 p. m., arrive at Williamsport, 3.50 p. m.
Leave Bellefonte, at 8.31 p. m., arrive at Lock Ha-
ven, at 9.30 p. m.
VIA LOCK HAVEN—EASTWARD.
Leave Bellefonte, 9.28 a. m., arrive at Lock Haven
10.30, leave Williamsport, 12.40 p. m., arrive at
Harrisburg, 3.20 p. m., at Philadelphia at 6.23
p. m.
Leave Bellefonte, 1.42 p. m.. arrive at Lock Haven
2.43 p. m., arrive at Williamsport, 3.50, leave
4.00 p. m., Harrisburg, 7.10 p. m., Philadelphia
11.15 p. m. .
Leave Bellefonte, 8.31 .p. m., arrive at Lock Ha-
ven, 9.30 p. m., leave Williamsport, 12.25 a.
m., arrive at Harrisburg, 3.22 a. m., arrive at
Philadelphia at 6.52 a..m.
VIA LEWISBURG.
Leave Bellefonte, at 6.30 a. m., arrive at Lewis-
burg, at 9.15 a. m., Harrisburg, 11.30 a. m.,
Philadelphia, 3.00 p. m..
Leave Bellefonte, 2.15 p. m., arrive at Lewisburg,
1 at Harrisburg, 7.10 p. m., Philadelphia at
TYRONE AND CLEARFIELD, R. R.
NORTHWARD. | SOUTHWARD.
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P.M.) P. M. | A. M. A.M. | A. M. |P.M.
720 315 8 6 35) 11 20/6 1(
72 321} 8 629 11 14/6 04
728 323 8 veeeeeeel 11 THE 02
731 32 8 6 25| 11 095 57
74 336 8 6 18( 11 02/5 52
745 340 8 6 15 10 59/5 48
TH 349 8 6 07] 10 51|5 39.
801 355 9 6 00| 10 44/5 32
806. 359 9 5 b4| 10 385 25
808 401 9 5 51) 10 355 21
809 402 9 5 49| 10 33|5 19
817 408 9 5 39] 10 235 08
i 9 28|..0sceola Junec.. .........[.... seen 04
5 35 10 1915 01
2 5 311 10 154 57
261 5 30| 10 14/4 56
3 | 526] 10 09/4 51
8 36] 433 9 52...Blue Ball...| 521| 10 04/4 46
8 42] 4 39! 9 58...Wallaceton .... 516 9 58/4 39
847 444 10 044.......Bigler.... 9 53/4 32
8 53 4 50| 10 10(.....Woodland....| 0 47|4 271
8 56. 4 53 10 13]... Mineral Sp...] 505 9 44{4 24
900 45711017... ... Barrett 9 4014 20
905 592 10 22... 9 3514 15
9 09 506 10 28/..... 9.3114 09
914 51110 34... 9 26/4 03
920 517 10 411... 9 20.3 56
9 25! 522 10 46} 9153 51
! | 10 52! ves coreeneald
11 02! or :
. 11 06... Grampian... |...
.i PML ALM AT. Lyv.l a.m
‘BALD EAGLE VALLEY BRANCH.
WESTWARD, EASTWARD.
1 2 1 2! | | & | %
5 “ Nov. 16th, 1896.f = | & =
a i213 l5
ja 1m y 8 1 7
P.M.| P. M. | A. M. ATT P.M, |P.M.
600 215 11 10 12 30,7 15
554 200 11 12 56/7 21
5500 205 11 2 40/7 25
5460 2 01-10 4417 20
5 40 vee) 10, re sctrenis 8 J S07 35
5 10 46 8 52/7 38
5: 5lf 10 8 12 54|7 40
5 45! 10 8 1 oo 7
5 39] 10 8 1 06/7 5
5 31] 10 8 1148 03
5 0: 23] 10 9 1 23/8 12
4 16 10 04 Snow Shoe Int.; 915 1 3008 20
i 4 5 13; 10 01/...Milesburg.. ... 918 1338 23
1 4 05 9 53|....Bellefonte....| 9 28] 1 4218 31
4 3: 9 410.LN | 1550s 43
42 0 34. | 2048 51
4 9 30! 2 08'8 55
4 | 9 24 9) 2 1419 01
4 05 9 15 ....Eagleville....| 10 08] 2 23|9 10
4 0 I 9 12..Beech Creek...[ 10 11] 2 26|9 13
3511216, 90 Mill Hall......| 10 22] 2 379 24
3 ol .Flemingto! 2 399 26
3 ...Lock Haven..| 10 30] 2 43/9 30
P.M. am Lv, Arr) a pou. poy
LEWISBURG & TYRONE RAILROAD.
EASTWARD, Nov. 16th, 1896. WESTWARD.
MAIL. | EXP. | . | MAIL| EXP.
STATIONS, !
P. plan {mw
2 Jom 415
2 .; 855 410
2 .| 852 407
2 847) 403
2 8 421 3 58
2 48! 837 3453
2 4 833 348
2 48 8 28] 3 44
235 1 S21] 337
so 7 S15 331
B10) © $07, 323
31% 7 801, 317
3% 1 752i 308
Bie 7 7 34] 3 02
33 7 7 38) 2 56
Sel 7 734 2p
349 8 728 245
3521 8 q 19] 2 41
380 8 712] 234
407 82 702 225
4 15| 8 6-53] 218
417) 8: : y 650 216
4 22 R ..Barber... 645 212
427 8 Mifflinburg 638 207
435 8! Vicksburg. 629 158
439] 200... Biehl... 624 153
447 9 i 615 145
4 55 0 2 . 540 138
M.A M. AT. Lv. Am. | P.M.
LEWISBURG & TYRONE RAILROAD.
UPPER END.
EASTWARD, WESTWARD.
% Nov. 16th, 1896. X =»
= i 2 =
Lve.la. Mm. |p. M. !
Ci Scotia........| 10 00! 4 §
..Fairbrook....| 10 19, 5
. ...Musser......| 10 26! 5
8 51 Penn. Furnace: 10 33] 5
es Hostler. ... | 10 40, 5
..Marengo......| 10 46, 5
....l.oveville. ...| 10 51] 5
<r
29 . Furnace Road.! 10 58
AIX LLL
26 ....Dungarvin...| 11 01; 5
18 Warrior's Mark| 11 10; 5
11200 6
1132 6
i 11 40) 6
P,
BELLEFONTE OW SHOE BRANCH.
Time Table in effect on and after
Nov. 16th, 1896.
Leave Snow Shoe,........ 15 p.m.
Arrive in Bellefonte........ 1 42p. m. * 5 20 p. m.
Leave Bellefonte..... ~ 7 00a. m, ** 1055p.
Arrive in Snow Shoe...... 9 00a. m. * 252 p. m.
JELLEFOSTE CENTRAL RAIL-
ROAD.
Schedule to take effect Monday, Nov. 16th, 1896.
WESTWARD 7 T FASTWARD
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Noli hx gl Sramons, lig iin ai
Folie dli¥o.y | FS pn, No. 4/1
po Aa | Aw. Ly. Ar jaw leo
4 20 10 30] 6 30|....Bellefonte...; 8 45 2 106 40
4 26| 10 37) .... Coleville, 8 40: 2 00{6 30
4 501 10 42 Morris..}| 831 1556 25
4 33} 10 47; .Whitmer....., 835 1476 20
4 38( 10 53] 8 31] 1406 15
4 41} 10 56 | 828) 1366 12
4 45 11 02 | 824 130607
448 11 03| { 8 20f 1 25/6 03
4 50, 11 08] \....Lambourn....| 818 1 22i6 00
5 00 11 20! | ..Krumrine.. 8 07] 1 07|5 46
50811 03,7 22). ODIv, Inn... 8 03 Sa
5 05 11 85 7 25|.State College.| 8 00| 1 00/5 40
IT 21 28ers TUDIeS.s| 747, 10%) 80
517] | 7 34|...Bloomsdorf. | 7 40 523
5 20| | 7 37|Pine Grove Tro.! 7 37 5 20
Morning trains from Montandon, Lewisburg,
Williamsport, Lock Haven and Tyrone connect
with train No. 3 for State College. Afternoon trains
from Montandon, Lewisburg, Tyrone and No. 53
from Lock Haven connect with train No. 5
for State College. Trains from State College con-
nect with Penn'a R. R. trains at Bellefonte.
+ Daily, except Sunday. F. H. THOMAS Supt.,