Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1932, Page 16

TORCH TO RELEASE SUB CREWS SHOWN Under-Water Cutting Device| By the Associated Press and “Lung” Seen by Y. M. C. A. Group. The first public demonstration of an under-water cutting torch for the quick release of trapped submarine crews was_given last night by Lieut Lowe H. Bibby at the Young Men's Christian Association. Lieut. Bibby is in charge of the experimental diving unit of the Washington Navy Yard Submerging the torch beneath the surface of the swimming pool. Lieut Bibby showed how it is capable of cutting through the steel hull of a disabled submarine. The instrument e of great value in submarine disaster Is Demonstrated. “lung,” “Lung” ‘The the v NING 101-YEAR-OLD PASSENGER RUN ENDED BY FIRST U. S. RAILROAD Ponchartrain Line From New Orleans to Milneburg, Five Miles Long, Completes Century of Service. NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—“Smoky Mary,” the puffing lttle train th travels America’s first completed rail- road, the century-old 5-mile-long Pon- chartrain line from New Orle Milneburg on the lake, carried its passenger Tuesday. Horses furnished the motive power when the line was inaugurated back in 1831, but two years later the st engine that won its nickname was f ported from England The Louisville & Nashville Ralflroad bought the line from a local interest in 1872 and early Federal District Court approval to nsfer the right-of- to the city for a boulevard in exchange for the railroad’s depot site title. Passenger service was discontinued e line will carry fr this month obtained F ghtened colored cotton pickers scurry- its 12 cars “dashed by at the ity of 15 miles an hour.” purpose was to give the ciiy a quicker transportation link with lake then canal boats supplied, transferred Milneburg into a 5 er mecca and rowdy parties inally necessitated the addition of & prison car for unruly celebrators. its latter years, the line became the of jokes and theé smart alecks wise that the 3-cent-a-mile cents for rockin’ an' 1 ss, the road boasted the raised platform for load- operated without & dis- nmaster, never had a received the first y railroad west of enies and still operates under {ts original name. records were lost and dam- today 1fc r' d at tens of thousands of as done during a fire which “Smoky Mary” was the wonder of the the Citadel, the Salvation early days and newspapers told of its | A headquarters in Belfast, Ireland, “brigade of wooden cars” which sent | recently. 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