From the Auburn Daily Bulletin of Auburn, NY
Friday, November 21, 1873

   The Midland "Dismantled" - Sharp Practice. - The Lansing correspondent of an Ithaca paper writes : " The depot agents, on the Midland R.R., in Lansing, it seems, were not quite so sharp as the one at Genoa, in regard to the moving of the furniture from the depots last Sunday morning. The order was, that all furniture should be in readiness for immediate removal. But when the train from Scipio, south, arrived at Genoa, the stove in the depot was red hot; and as it was found rather inconvenient to handle it, it was left. That agent has so much toward his pay, sure."

   The Midland R.R., in this section, has literally "played out". Last Sunday morning, a train went south, from Scipio, clearing the depots along the line to Freeville, of their furniture. This morning all was still along the line. No screech of the whistle or rattle of cars breaks the solitude; no plumes of steam floating on the frosty air; no more mails; no nothing but the silent track and the deserted depots.