BIT OF PROHIBITION PROPAGANDA FEATURES LIQUOR HISTORY IN BAKER LIBRARY--IS RAILWAY TIME--TABLE

One of the earliest pieces of temperance propaganda in the "History of Liquor" collection of the Baker Library is the above time-table of the Dead River Grand Trunk Railway, which was printed by R. H. McDonald and Company of New York City about 1850.

The railway ran but two trains a day, from Sobriety to Dead River or Perdition, and the advertisement states that "Accidents by Collisions are entirely avoided, as no uptrains are run over the road." The train left Sobriety at 5 o'clock and by 8 o'clock had passed through Sippington, Liarsville, and Guzzler's Junction to Drunkard's Curve. People could leave the train at that point for stages of the Temperance Alliance, which ran to Cold Stream River, but after that the train made no stops, although it could be flagged at Reformationsburg, until it reached Perdition. At Delirium Falls, Maniac Marsh, Hangman's Hollow and several other pleasant villages passengers were thrown out without stopping the train.

One of the notices appended to the time-table was that "Passengers were not allowed to stand on the platform or put their heads out of the window below Debauch Slough--the corporation not wishing to alarm persons who were not patrons of the road.

Stages from Tobaccoland connected with all trains, while special trains could be arranged for political conventions, picnic parties, and other pleasure groups.

Even in 1850 there was anti-railroad legislation, for at the foot of the timetable is a notice. "At the request of Superintendent Alcohol, there will be a business meeting, by and by, of the stockholders and conductors of the road, to hear a report concerning liabilities under the Higher Law."