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Still Hauls Freight With the coming of busses the Due West passenger train stepped out of the picture as a regular means of transportation, but the Due West Railway Company, which also oper- ates the bus line, maintains the rail- way for hauling heavy freight or baggage, so the old New York engine. continues to render service, although on no. ordered schedule. ' ' ‘When word comes that freight is waiting at one end of the line, the engineer of the Dinky; who is also depob-agent, freight agent, and coal dealer, prepares to make'the journey.- The bus Jiriver, who is likewise the brakemyi, JUgman, train crew and track foreman, is called into service. so ng goes '. Transferred: many years since from a New York elevated railroad and its cosmopolitan environment, a stubby, blunt-nosed locomotive - remnant of the days of crinolines- and stovepipe hats --eontinues to serve the travel- ing public on what is perhaps _ the shortest railroad in the United States --tr.four mile line which runs from Due West to Dona‘ds in. the Piedmont section of South Carolina, where it makes connections with .a standard line and secures contact with the world, says the Christian Sience Monitor. . On a‘little biddy track, It runs out to Donalds . T . And. runs right back. The last line refers to the fact that, there being no turntable on the Due West Railroad, the engine is forced to make one lap of its journey in reverse. . V ' "iweitths 25 tons and'is isHine piece of ’mac'hinery,” says Mr. Gallo- way. "It has never had a mishap, never ran into a person and. has never presented a bill it couldn't pay. Only 315' has been spent on it for repairs." . t The railroad and engine has an- other distinction of which its presi- dent, R. S. Galloway, is extremely proud, and that is that.in the 21 years of its service it has run on Sunday but one; and then for a hu- manitarian purpose. Blond Is Standard Gauge The road is a standard, gauge, or, as Mr. Galloway likes to put it, f'not as long as some,_but just as widevas the best of them.” Its entire equip- ment consists of one flat car, one pas- senger coach, one passenger and freight .car, and two engines, omrof which is the former elevated:loeomoi qiWe iryz'--"ri7er>riW, _ - 'rr-va (33;; '5? _;::-“.' =d “5“:1‘! Mr; Galloway' refers to, his pitt"tn- zine as "The Mogul" but' long ago, before'busses supplanted it as a pas- senger engine, students bound to and from the Due West Women’s College and Erskine College for men dubbed it "The Dinky." They even wrote a Ancient Engine of Days of Crin- oline and-Stove-Pipe Hats Has History iliuraday, July 26, 1929 OLD LOCOMUI‘IVE B STILL 0N JOB The Dinky runs about it, one, verse of which No Distribution of Gas Tax to Counties _ Until Year Cdmpleted Garrett D. Kinney, state director of finnnms, has corrected on erroneous impression that counties will receive a share of the three cent gas tax soon after its. imposition starts Aus trust lat. _ _ Director Kinney pointisd out that under the gas tax" act the :counties ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY . BELL SYSTEM One Policy -â€" One System " Universal Service More Telephones More Business , ‘IHEN a person calling your plate of busi- ness by telephone fintis that the line is busy C, he is' shut out just as' completely as if the' doors :Wnsthimfi‘he‘caner mayifwait and 'teltjydniuteie--iout if he; is unable to rriich you - several iimes. in succesgion hdis quite Likely tQ take his business elsewhere. l i The obvious remedy for this is more lines. Only one person can reach you ala time over one tele- phone. With more lines. you would be able to receive more customers and know that you are pleasing them with quick and certain service. A business cannot grow as it shouldyrithput facilities ttyhandle greater- volume. Adequate tele. phone service is it genuine builder of business. This condition exists in many stores' and other business places. Many calls cannot be completed because all lines are in use. . THE PRESS will T receive one cent of each three cents paid into the state treasury. This one cent,' however, will be paid in proportion to the amount of auto- mobile license fees each county pays into the state treasury. Inasmuch us the amount of auto- mobile license fees paid by the in- dividual counties cannot be deter- mined until the gmd of the year, there will be no distribution from the new gas tax fund until that time. There is: possibility, however, that Consequently there seems little likelihood of any gas tax money reach- ing the counties before next year. approximately '6,500,000 in the state treasury raised by the invalid w tax may be distributed, but it is deemed tmlikety'thtit the courts will deter- mine wha gets this money until some time next year. Director Kinney insists there has been no agreement under which the oil companies were to dismiss their suits tying up this, fund.“ ._ '- 47