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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1976
CS cemetery
founded in 1870s
By LYNN ROSSI
Although the College Station City
Cemetery may be small potatoes to
some people, it means a great deal to
others in the area, said Ms. Peggy
Owens, a member of the city cemet
ery committee.
Founded in the 1870s as a private
Czech-Bohemian cemetery, it is lo
cated on Highway 6 at the south end
of town.
Owens said, “We want the cemet
ery to look pretty, yet keep the flavor
of the old cemetery.” Wildflowers
grow throughout the cemetery dur
ing the spring and oak trees have
been planted.
Old markers written completely
in Czech still stand. Dates on the
markers range from the 1870s to the
present.
The city took over the cemetery in
1947 because, Owens said, the
people of College Station wanted
their own cemetery. The land was
purchased on the condition that the
original part of the cemetery be left
intact.
The old part of the cemetery is
now the southern portion, and lots in
the northern portion are quickly
being bought.
“We didn’t anticipate the growth
of the city when we purchased the
land. College Station was a little
town during the 1940s,” Owens said.
The purpose of the cemetery
committee is to make recom
mendations to the City Council con
cerning rules and upkeep of the
land. The council passed a number of
new rules in 1974 concerning the
appearance of the cemetery.
Owens said that due to an over
sight the new rules were never
printed up. Those buying plots today
receive copies of the old cemetery
rules last revised in 1967.
Committee members include
Owens, Mrs. Mary Eckles, Mrs.
Virginia Abbott, Mrs. Ruby Morse,
and Mrs. Melvin Ruckes.
Owens’ mother was chairman of
the cemetery committee at one
time.
“We’ve worked awfully hard from
the time it started. The cemetery
matters a great deal to us,” Owens
said.
Wooden it he nice?
The hands of an artist and the patience of Job are per
sonified in Texas A&M Assoc. Prof. Rodney Hill as he
does detail work in one of the centennial wood panels he
and wife. Sue, are carving for the University. The
three-by-eight foot solid walnut panels, which chronicle
the history, traditions and progress of Texas A&M, will
hang in the Memorial Student Center after their official
dedication in October.
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Railroading has change/
Whatever happened to the old
days of railroading when taking a
train meant sleeping berths, draw
ing rooms, shoe shines, crystal and
china dining service, and a comfort
able lounge car?
A Texas A&M University eco
nomic researcher, Dennis Chris
tiansen, has provided some of these
answers in addition to retrieving
some “will little note nor long re
member” items from the murky ori
gins of Texas railroading history in a
report entitled “The History of Rail
Passenger Service in Texas, 1820-
1970.”
Gov. Dolph Briscoe proposed
legislative funding to have A&M’s
Texas Transportation Institute con
duct a state rail system evaluation.
Although most of the evaluation
will look at rail freight movement,
Christiansen did a study of intercity
rail passenger service. This is part of
a series of reports by TTI. The result
of the study will he to determine
needs that might be served by inter
city rail transportation which will be
presented to the legislature in its
next session.
The report will cover such topics
as why and when rail passenger ser
vice developed in Texas, why and
when the importance of rail
passenger service peaked and how
much has the importance of rail
passenger service declined.
The first railroad in Texas, all 20
miles of it, went into operation in
1853 between Harrisburg and Staf
ford’s Point (neither town is listed in
the 1976 Texas Almanac). It had five
passenger cars, all of which had ap
parently led previous lives as Boston
streetcars.
Prior to the Civil War, the rails
had emerged as the main means of
travel between the cities they
served. Stagecoach lines rapidly dis
appeared in those corridors. How
ever, in its earliest days, rail travel
was not always an enjoyable experi
ence. On one rail line in Texas the
passenger cars developed leaks,
causing the red velvet cushions to
stain the ladies’ dresses. Subsequent
passenger complaints led to sugges
tions that trains be run in dry
weather or that the passengers carry
umbrellas.
Food service was not always fan
tastic either. In the last 1800s a din
ing car was frequently a converted
baggage car with four-inch boards
placed around the meal trays in an
effort to keep the food from hilling to
the floor during the rough ride.
Nevertheless, the railroads were of
fering the highest quality of intercity
service that had ever existed.
The conventional railroads oper
ated virtually without competition
until the interurban railroads began
serving a few major travel corridors
in the State. These interurban trains
prospered from about 1900 to 1930.
This type of service is an alternative
if intercity congestion continues to
intensify in Texas.
The conventional rails actually
had reached their zenith in terms of
passengers carried in 1920 when
over 30 million Texas passengers
rode trains with names such as the
“Katy Flyer,” the “Sunshine Spe
cial,” and the “Texas Special. ” After
1920, passenger use declined rapidly
in spite of the fact that the railroads
provided the highest level of service
in their history throughout the
1920’s. The rider decline was not the
result of a service decline. According
to Christiansen, by 1925 both the
absolute and relative importance of
rail passenger service had peaked.
By the 1950s, rail passenger ser
vice was in the unenviable position
of being less flexible than the au
tomobile, slower than air travel, and
more expensive than the
1970, fewer than 400 tl
passengers used the
Texas.
As a result of the declining
maud, some railroad companiei
lowed their service to detents
the classic example being thedis
tinuance of food service on the
mile route of the Sunset Linn
(vending machine service was
vided). Reductions in qualityoli
vice no doubt further decreased
demand for train travel.
By the end of the 1960s, il
apparent that, unless majorat
were taken, rail passenger
would cease to exist. The U S.
emment responded to thissil
by passing the Rail Passenger
vice Act of 1970, creating Amtri
Amtrak, a quasi-public
tion, now operates virtuallyalli:j
city rail passenger service,
of Texas, in an effort to continue
provide the highest level ofmok
that is economically realistic,is
actively evaluating what the sts
role should he concerning inlen
rail passenger service. During)
remainder of 1976, the Texas In
portation Institute will be
sively studying this matter.
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