The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 57

1 OLD i TIIE KNOXVILLE Sunder September 19 I9S4 Tragedy Ends Celebration As Car Leaves Rails And Falls Into Creek Work On Kingston Steam Plant To Be Completed Next Year By BAET PITTMAN are capable of producing 1000 000 pounds of steam per hour and the other five 1280000 pounds of steam per hour Five larger boilers are of the controlled circulation type The circulating water pumps will be capable of supplying 1038000 gallons per minute Peak employment on construction hit about 2800 men and a force of about 350 will be required to operate the plant 1 000-kilowatt turbogenerators op- thority big $213000000 Kings-1 ittnnn ton Steam Plant is steadily pro- erae r)m an gressing and the last turbogener- volts with steam pressure of 1800 ator unit is scheduled to go into 'pounds per square inch at 1000 operation in the fall of 1955 degrees Fahrenheit The 200000-with a nine-unit electricity pro-! kilowatt units will operate at during capacity of 1600000 kU-3600 rpm and 20000 volts with steam pressure of 1800 pounds Four 150000 kilowatt units per square inch at 1050 degrees have already been put to work Fahrenheit I five others 300 feet The 150 Four of the nine reheat boilers CARROL r- -rwv i V' 1( 1 Astrological Forecast No one could assign any cauo for the accident which suddenly brought grief to the excursion party and cast a gloom over Knox--ville and country side betw een this city and Cumberland Gap where large crowds had prepared to welcome the guests who had planned to spend part of the day ia the new terminal Leon Smith vice president of the Railroad was interested in thg trip and rode in the head coach next to the engine to watch the operation of the train on its first run George Eager president of the construction company that built the railroad line also had been invited by Smith to accompany him on the trip The two men were in the same coach and kept their eyes on the rails ahead as the tram kept up its slow schedule that had been arranged for the first trip The officials were shocked hen they felt the lurch of the ill-fated coach as it toppled and turned upside down PUBLIC FUNERAL SERVICES Two years before the Railroad was started Knoxville subscribed $225000 tow ard the construction of the new railroad line and the contract period expired the day after the accident The excursion was operated to demonstrate that the railroad had been completed The road was accepted as completed The various organizations of the city met a day later to arrange for appropriate public exercises for the obsequies for Messers Reeder and Andrews and expressions of sympathy were extended to the families of the victims The body of Mr Powers was removed to Kentucky where funeral services and burial took place He was" a member of a prominent and wealthy family HERO OF THeId IS ASTER There were many brave men Continued on Page 7 LEARN BY DOING Show your child that hands and heads go together and help him find satisfaction in solid achievement YOU AND YOUR CHILD Do-It-Yourself Kits Rob Child Of Creative Sense making electrical power from tons of coal The first of five 200000 kilowatt units is due to be completed by next Dec 8 Construction of the plant began April 30 1951 and its purpose is to supply additional power for the East Tennessee area It is one of seven such TV A plants Site of the plant lies on the base of the peninsula formed by embayments of the Watts Bar ItCservoir on the Clinch and Emory Rivers -Officials explained that opera-j tion'of the plant is ba-ed on the same simple principles of a tea kettle The water is pumped purified to prevent erosion of tubing and pipes and heated to steam by huge boilers From the boilers the steam is piped to the turbines and forces them to turn and power the generators which produce electricity A site near the plant with its towering smoke pipes is capable of holding 800000 tons of coal of which some 15000 tons or three carloads will be used daily when the plant starts full operation The coal is pulverized to a flour-like substance before it is blowm Into the burners of the boilers After the steam has done its job it is piped into a big con-i oenser with 57 miles of tubing circulating cold water The ateam is reverted to water and sent to reheat boilers to repeat Its cycle A skimmer dike or inverted on the condenser intake channel of the Emory River allows the cold deep water to blow underneath through to the nine condensers and out through the discharge channel into the Clincn River about four and one-half miles downstream Four of the smoke stacks project 250 feet above ground and TNE GOLDEN YEARS £3 1 Marcia Winn spool hands the spool to the nearest small angel ith a "Here honey you can play with STIRS IMAGINATION Dr Moffitt says that too correct a procedure An empty spool by itself much An empty spool in a box of junk opens the door to magnificent creation throw the spool away it into the resource box together with scraps of silver foil a bit of sponge hinges paper towel rollers metal washers bits of twine scraps of ribbon whatever you have Help jour child find satisfaction in doing start him off with a cake mix Show him that hands and heads go together The 4-H slogan of head hands heart health has yet to be improved It cannot be prefabricated Tailor Makes Alterations Pay DES MOINES Sept 18 Several months ago a Des Moines tailor shop owner was groping for an idea to stimulate business Finally he advertised that for $25 he would convert a double-breasted suit into a single-breasted one The idea clicked He has con-verted 650 suits and in the process picked up 62 new customers Emergency State KUALA LUMPUR Malaya Sept 18 UP) Sir Geoffrey Bourne director of operations says 6-year-old "state of would end within a year if shopkeepers and others stopped paying protection money to the Communist guerrillas and Infantry Airlift WUERZBURG Germany Sept 18 The US 1st Infantry Division plans to use helicopters in field exercises next week to airlift a combat battalion from a rear position to an area hit by a simulated atomic shell Nearly 1000 men would be involved the excursionists There were no ambulances in Knoxville at that time There ere no large hospitals Scores of physicians and all of the surgeons of the city were on hand to give prompt service to relieve the suffering George Eager president of the construction company that completed the new railroad and Leon Smith rice president of the Railroad Co were in the forward coach next to the locomotive They escaped injuries and rushed out to give assistance to those injured THE GALA DAY TRAGEDY Knoxville then a small industrial city had planned for a gala day observance of the opening a new railroad line for traffic The Railroad had been under construction for more than a year Business leader bankers and industrialists of the city were elated that the time had arrived for the inauguration of traffic They realized that the new line between Knoxville and Cumberland Gap would be an important unit making this city an important railway center The line eventually was absorbed by the East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia Railway and is now part of the Southern Railway System The day the coach of the first train met with disaster was turned into a day of mourning for many who had participated in the preliminary plans for the gala day events The invited guests who traveled in the coach were prominent business leaders and the executives of firms that became noted for three quarters of a century The excursion as not the main attraction While thousands were around the railway station and along the line leading from the city as the train departed hundreds of other guests had come from other towns and cities to participate in the celebration that as staged at Lake Ottosee The late Sproul Thompson a brother of former Mayor Mel Thompson was quoted in a story a few years ago as saying the celebration at Lake Ottosee was an event to be long remembered The Thompsons were active in developments in Knoxville The former Mayor Thompson founded the Palace Hotel one of the early first class hotels Sproul Thompson related in an interview published years ago that the city furnished free dinners for the guests who came to Knoxville to participate in the exercises at Lake Ottosee The food supplies prepared the day before the excursion were spread on improvised tables at Lake Ottosee It was said liberal supplies of beers and wines were sent to the guests for free distribution One brewery representative donated several kegs of beer and furnished pint cups to be used by the guests All of the hilarity at Lake Ottosee subsided in the early afternoon when details of the accident at Flat Gap Creek bridge became current news of the day The citizens and guests who remained over night in Knoxville hotels and lodging houses were saddended by the tragic deaths reported and many paid respects to the families of those killed and injured MYSTERIOUS DERAILMENT An immediate investigation was started to ascertain the cause of the unusual accident The train moving slowly when the coach lurched from its coupling and left the rails as it catapulted to the bed beneath ood-en structure No responsibility was placed upon the railroad trainmen because the train was being operated as scheduled The equipment of which the train was composed had been inspected and was at the best standard for that time The railway track also was in the best of By CHARLES PATTON Journal Staff Writer The first passenger trajn operated over the Knoxville Cumberland Gap Louisville Railroad on Aug 23 1889 met with a disastrous accident causing the Ices of several lives and serious injuries to many prominent citizens One coach of the train was derailed and toppled from Flat Creek bridge landing in the creek upside down Among the a ssengers killed were Alex Reeder exsheriff of Knox County who was the uncle of Col Claude Reeder of Reeder Chevrolet Co who now lives at 316 West Hill Avenue Powers formerly of Winchester Ky who was a resident of Knoxville when killed Judge George Andrews jurist and one of the prominent lawyers died an hour after the accident There were 34 men in the coach when it left the rails Among the prominent men aboard the initial train were Alex A Arthur president of the American Association and director of the Railroad Isham Young chairman of the Board of Public Works of Knoxville and John Hearn editor of what was then known as The Knoxville Evening SentineL Hockenjos a city alderman died of injuries suffered in the derailment Others injured in the accident were Ed Baker Charles Seymour Rev Cooke of Athens Tenn A Albers Woodruff Gen Schubert who as a member of the staff of Gov Bob Taylor Alex Wilson Kinseil Peter Kern founder of Kern's Bakery John Hall George Maloney county judge Judge Ingersoll Knoxville jurist and lawyer flesh injuries Hugh McKeldin Adkins Wetsell Samuels Phillip Samuels Schmidt A (Will) Park son of the late Dr James Park who was pastor of First Presbyterian Church Charlie Abli who was at one time manager of Theater and Smith a member of the train The special train equipped for the first trip over the new rail' road line consisted of two coaches and a baggage car The ill-fated coach carrying the excursionists was the only one to leave the rails The accident occurred at a point 22 miles from the Knoxville depot The train running at an es timated rate of 10 miles an hour had passed a grade crossing as it approached the bridge It was evident that the engineer fol lowing the instructions to run with extra precausions to avoid an accident on the first trip over the railroad The rear coach broke from its coupling and left the rails The other coaches remained upright on the track The coach dropped 30 feet from the bridge to the water in the creek channel Word of the accident spread rapidly over the countryside and farmers and other residents for miles around rushed to the scene on horseback and by buggies and many walked to offer assistance to the injured Many of the excursionists suffered broken legs and arms and back injuries A few persons suffered fractures of both legs and arms After officials of the railroad in Knoxville heard of the acci dent a special train was operated as a relief train to return the dead and injured to the city When the relief train arrived at the Knoxville station more than 1000 citizens had gathered and more than 100 carriages and buggies were offered to assist Start Thinking Of New Job If Past 60 The do-it-yourself era which has engulfed the American home fills a great need and makes the do-it-yourself er feel fine when what he does works but must this trend be extended into the nursery? At least one educator Dr Mary Moffitt of Queens college Flushing is alarmed by the neat little do-it-yourself packets assembled for children These are multitudinous and cover every facet of a child's manual interests All are prefabricated All a child needs do is assemble In just that Dr Moffitt believes lies the flaw Creativeness suffers from prefabrication It cannot follow a pattern or come out of a mold The child working with a or ends up with a false sense of competence His hands have done the work but he has relied on someone brain a mass brain The human hand and the human brain work beautifully together to achieve that wonder of man manual dexterity but the individual behind them reaps incalculably greater profit if his ow brain directs operations ASSEMBLY LINE Give a child enough kits and sets Dr Moffitt contends and you will effectively stifle his latent urge to experiment and cre: ate He will be extremely proud of what he makes but it be his It will be assembly line Children as well as adults get a feeling of solid achievement from solid achievement If they make or create something holly by themselves their sense of achievement is greater yet This cannot be bought Dr Moffitt says every home should contain a resource box A resource box is what little pockets used to be odds and ends bits of string a pretty rock or two anything that pleases his fancy but primarily something which in his mind he can use to make something else Almost every mother hen taking the last bit of thread off a ARIES (March 21 to April 19) After a services take a good long look at the place your greatest number of hours are spent See how you can make it more in tune with your thoughts so that more peace happiness is present daily TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Shedding on others come of the happiness that you feel alleviates much of their distress brings you added support in whatever you desire Show your gratitude for your blessings today GEMINI (May 21 to June 21) Making your residence so that whoever is there is more deeply aware of your urge to bring him or her real depth of security also brings equal concord to yourself Live the Golden Rule fully now CANCER (June 22 to July 21) Your mind is very analytical searching for answers to any perplexities and finding right answers today by attending the worship of your choice then studying your newspaper other outlets available to you LEO (July 22 to Aug 21) Look to the past your family background for solutions to ways to secure greater sense of peace less frustrations where material assets are concerned Opening your mind to abundance starts its trend in your direction VIRGO (Aug 22 to Sept 22) Be as personal as you like today think out what you want then channel your efforts to obtain this result swiftly An under- where this is being written is a man 62 years old who have it suffering from what the family says is a stroke and it seems possible he recover from it how it came about For 12 years the man was assistant to a top departmental executive in his company Since he was two years younger than the boss he expected he would in time get his job hold it until 65 then go into retirement in his own blaze of glory PASSED BY But the boss had a heart attack and died suddenly And the company think the assistant was the man for the job It had its reasons it want to put a man into such a top job when he would be retiring in three more years it also wanted some changes of policy in the department and figured a man who had grown into his 60'a under the old policy the one to institute the changes So a man in his early was chosen The assistant was asked to stay on in his same capacity The assistant blew his top The company sought to placate him explained the reasons for its decision It quieted him but cure him There followed a couple of weeks of sulking and whispered politics with employes against the new boss Then the crackdown The assistant was going to join the new team and play ball or he was going to get out The stroke followed A man in the assistant's position who had been looking around for jobs on the outside would have had better mental balance to face this situation and handle it Or he would have been in much better position to tell the company the new boss the paymaster and the hole crew to go jump in the lake standing smile will work wonders in getting active assistance LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) Your sense of neat touch fine finish cooperation operates splendidly today in quiet conferences huddles with all others to whom you look for suggestions advice aid But keep your plans secret i SCORPIO (Oct 23 to Nov 21) Getting right down to specific items various requirements of whatever your over-all ambitions happen to be releases the necessary push to make them success sooner than you had anticipated Friends help greatly SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 to Dec 21) been some time since taken sufficiently into account the aid powerful persons can extend to make your worldly ambitions part of your everyday living got one now Use intelligently positively CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 20) Now you would be wise to get out to church of your choice listen carefully to understand complete doctrine being enunciated there for it contains answer to your current needs Follow as closely as you can AQUARIUS (Jan 21 to Feb 19) Your intuitions are unusually accurate but to what purpose unless you make point to understand follow them? Be still get your answers this am Then put them in effect this pm PISCES (Feb 20 to March 20) After attending worship get out in world of activity meet everyone available new acquaintances as well as old friends and partners Discuss joint aims come to real meeting of minds to attain success in ambitions IF YOUR CHILD IS BORN TODAY child is one of those very fortunate youngsters who has the ability to take any idea and make it workable because he or she has a profound and basic understanding that necessary to handle details in an exact and precise manner However it is essential that in all scholastic training greater emphasis be given to policies and comprehensive plans than have breadth of scope Then your offspring can really be successful in almost any line' of endeavor that he or she chooses Carroll individual 16-page ASTROLOGICAL FORECASTS for November are now ready For your copy send your birthdate and 25c with a stamped self-addressed envelope for each forecast to The Knoxville Journal: Forecast Box 350 Madison Square Station New York 10 Voter Carries Rifle And Knife LAWTON Okla Sept 18 A Lawton woman evidently wanted to eliminate all opposition to her voting in the Oklahoma runoff election When arrested by police for drunkenness on her way to the voting place she was carrying a loaded 22 rifle and a paring knife Cold Front LA JOLLA Calif Sept 18 (INS) A "cold in the waters of the Pacific Ocean generally means happy hunting grounds for the commercial fisherman The Scripps Institute of Oceanography at La Jolla says that ocean usually are centers of teeming plant and animal life and are visibly marked for the fishermen by lines of kelp or foam on the surface Simplicity And he went on his way to put in some more work on the prayer which later actually was said all over the world at the same minute even though it was Tuesday in some places when it was Wednesday in others As I remember it that prayer and not only pep but simplicity which I believe prayers should hsve Now that I come to think about it except for the Prayer almost my favorite of all the prayers ever heard was one said by a small girl at a family dinner table where I was a guest She bowed her blonde head folded her little hands and piped You very much God for these nice things to eat do my best to be good enough all this year to deserve I like that prayer because it Is thankful not demanding If God truly knows what we have need of and the Bible says He does then surely this is enough So Jim Bishop if all right with you I think modify the little prayer to: you God for the nice things you've put in the world for all of us I for one will do my best to be good enough to deserve them" By THOMAS COLLINS If past 60 and your company is going to make you retire in a few more years who 'vou start thinking about another job? not so likely to jeopardize your position as you would have in your or whether an executive or hired help because most companies would be tolerant of a man nearing retirement Nop will you endanger any of your retirement benefits if you handle things right (One man recently left his 22-year job at age 63 He made a deal with his company whereby he paid two years of pension premiums in advance and sewed up the pension so payments to him would start at age 65) JOB BENEFITS In" going out and looking for another job how you may benefit- yourself: 1 You may find a job better -than the one got It may pay more It may be work more to your liking But most import-'ant it may be a job which has no -retirement age and can carry you on into your 2 Ot course you really want to leave your present job until you have to so the main benefit may be to line up a job you can step into atfer 65 Men who get the better jobs after 65 go out and find them aft-er jobless They get them "in advance IMPORTANT INSURANCE 3 Fossibly the most important benefit of all to you in investigating pother jobs is insurance against heartbreak against indignity and against the injustices that" your company despite the Tiestbf intentions may in time inflict on you underestimate the importance of this insurance Ina hospital not far from TA Huhui 3s Bara BY CLINT JIONNER A 2 MARY MARGARET McBRIDE SAYS Prayers Should Have me before I finish this column) piece of paper with typing on it that I have not yet been able that had been rigorously crossed to one But I do hope out a few thoughts on the subject "She says this prayer Somebody has said that prayer the little prayer expert con-is the throwing of a switch es- tided sadly "She says she has tablishihg a connection between to have a prayer with pep in Guide Me Jehovah The Welsh are singing people They sing of great events of heroes in battle of rolling hills and the seas that beat on their native shore And as far back as the sixth century the Welsh have sung hymns William Williams was educated for a career in medicine but changed his course to the ministry He was an ordained deacon in the Church of England at 23 and probably would have become a clergyman in the Established Church had he not been warned against the preachings of such "fanatical dissenters? as John Wesley George Whitefield and Howell Harris who preached in barns cow pastures and on street corners Such warning was bad psychology for an inquisitive mind like that of William Williams He straightway sought out Howell Harris found him preaching from a grave slab in a cemetery while worshipers filed out of their regular church service to hear his message Williams joined a branch of the dissenters who called themselves "Calvinistic Unrestrained by formalities of the Established Church the self-styled evangelist rode up and down Wales like John Wesley rode up and down England preaching everywhere to everybody who would listen In 43 years he traveled 95500 miles delivering sermons to crowds that numbered 10000 and more Once he preached to a congregation of 80000 and noted in his journal strengthened me to speak so loud that most could He was bronzed by the sun soaked by rain chilled by snow and beaten by mobs but only death stopped his tongue in 1791 In England the people sang hymns of Isaac Watts later those of Charles Wesley John Newton and William Cowper But the song-loving Welsh people had comparatively few hymns in their native language So what Isaac Watts was to England William Williams became to Wales He wrote 800 "hymns just for his countrymen Given below is his best Williams wrote it in 1745 but it became so popular that he translated it into English 27 years later and its popularity still holds after nearly two centuries Guide me Thou gieat Jehovah Pilgrim thro this barren land I am weak but Thou art mighty Hold me with Thy powerful hand: Bread of Heaven Feed me till I want no more Open now the crystal fountain Whence the healing waters flow Let the fiery cloudy pillar Lead me aU my journey through: Strong Deliverer Be Thou still my Strength and Shield When I tread the verge of Jordan Bid my anxious fears subside Death of death's and destruction Land me safe on side: Songs of praises 1 trill ever give to Thee CALL TODAY AND BE SURE LONG DISTANCE RATES ARE LOWER ALL DAY SUNDAY and every night after 6 Some typical example from KNOXVILLE to Asheville 40 Atlanta 55 Birmingham 65 Chicago 90 Houston $120 Miami $120 New York $120 Boston $1 30 Los Angeles $190 These are the Staboo-to-Surioo rates lor the first three minutes all day Sunday and every night after 6 They do not include the federal excite 18W KATES rwa ICTAXT P01KTS AIL mi AWIHCA Jim Bishop who writes hiv tories and biographies has signed a contract for a different kind of book to be called "My Favorite and Samuel Cardinal Stritch David Ben Chiang Kai-shek John -Rockefeller Jr Clara Booth Luce and many others have sent their favorites Now Mr Bishop suggests that I one The author feels that millions ot people from many faiths are womewhat mute when it comes to prayer In fact he surmises that unless they are reciting a formal written petition they are almost unable to communicate with God I have never prayed a formal prayer in my life and I must confess (unless it comes to ncniar tout vacation: FILM DCVELOFINC 24 HR SERVICE CALL 1-1424 STUDIO 622 CAY Glenwood Baptist Church was organized in 1890 and admitted into the Knox County Association the same year The first pastor teas Rev Amos Demar cus Since 1890 Glenwood has had 12 pastors Thirteen deacons and nine ministers have been ordained The church has experienced unusual growth in the past decade On the 64th anniversary today September 19th) the present pastor Alfred Royer end congregation will dedicate the new 85000 sanctuary 'The building which also provides considerable Sunday School space is of unusual design and modern in every respect A large part of the labor was contributed by men of the church God and man often thought that even God the understanding and omnipotent must sometimes feel like turning off the current when He hears some of the long tedious supplications that are beamed His way It seems to me that for instance sitting quietly looking at water mountains and sky feeling thankful in every atom of your being to be alive amid such beauty or being filled with gratitude for some chance you have had or job done well must please God as much or more than many of the sonorous and lengthy demands that often sound anyway as if they were designed for an earthly audience rather than a heavenly one Of course many of Mr Bishop's prayers will be made by experts It had never occurred to me that there were prayer experts until a time years ago when Stella Kara conceived the idea of a prayer heard round the world for the Interchurch World Movement A prayer expert was assigned to her My desk was dose to In the Promotion Department and one day I met the prayer expert just as he was leaving after a conference He was carrying a I ifKiortucu Since 1834 Telephone 2-1129 "5 Iflfjann Dependable 414 ff Church Are.