The _Indianapolis News_ is responsible for the following story. A
railroad official of Indianapolis had, among other passes, one purporting
to carry him freely over the Warren and Tonawanda Narrow-Gauge Railway.
Happening to be near Warren, he thought he would use this pass. Now, it
appears that some enterprising citizens of Pennsylvania once proposed to
lay a pipe-line for petroleum between Warren and Tonawanda. The
Legislature having refused to sanction their scheme, they “engineered” a
bill for building a narrow-gauge line, which passed, the oil capitalists
not conceiving that they had any interest in opposing it. It is needless
to say the narrow-gauge line was the “desiderated pipe-line.” The
enterprising citizens carried their joke so far as to issue annual passes
over the road, receiving others in return. When the traveller sought for
the Warren station on this line he found a chimney, and for the
narrow-gauge an iron-lined hole in the ground. It is hardly surprising
that now he is moved to anger at the slightest reference to the “Warren
and Tonawanda Narrow Gauge.”