Galway In Days Gone By

1922

Railway concern

There are things that concern the people of Ireland to-day in regard to the railways even more intimately than the revolt or the men working in these railways against arrangements that have been agreed to by their unions.

It has come of first importance that the railways should play their due part in the development of the country in the future, that they should facilitate transport and encourage business, and that in doing these things they should be in a position to compete with any other railway companies in England or the Continent.

Last week the announcement was made in our columns of certain “accelerations” in the train service of the Midland line. The public may be forgiven if it has refused to show the smallest enthusiasm for these alterations.

The truth is that neither in the matter of railway rates nor facilities does the Midland serve the western terminal town as it should. It is of vital importance in the future that the western business man and farmer should see to it that progress is helped rather than hindered by the railway company that taps his district; that travel is speeded up rather than retarded; that the rates for passengers and goods are appreciably reduced and that wholesalers may no longer be able to point to the exorbitant freight charges as a governing cause for the exorbitant prices charged in western towns for the essentials of life.

All these reforms concern every one of us very nearly; and they mist be met and faced if the West is to take proper place in the new scheme of things.

Jail for bike theft

Last October a young man missed a bicycle, which was taken out of Dr. Sandy’s motor house. Having searched fruitlessly for it for some time, he gave up all hopes of ever finding it again.

A short time ago, however, he had a rather strange experience which led to the recovery of the lost machine. He was out cycling one evening on another man’s bicycle and dismounted to get the loan of a pump from another cyclist he met on the way.

While pumping the bicycle he was surprised to see that the bicycle the stranger had was the one he had missed. Explanations immediately followed, the stranger stating that he got the bicycle from his brother, who said he had purchased it from a soldier for 25s. it is stated that he afterwards contradicted this and was imprisoned for a fortnight by the Volunteers.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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