River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-03-04
a Cure for billiards..

Yes, | am on my way to Washing
ton, replied man with buffalo
oyercoat and beaver cap, who was
held up for an interview at one of the
hotels the other day.
1T is limited that you have made an
important discovery
80 have. | am captain John
White, of Montana, the man who first
discovered the birthplace of billiards,
and who invented cure for them"
Tell me about it.
well have nothing to conceal in
the matter. For five winters past /
have been in the far West watching
cold waves or billiards. Nineteen out
of every twenty start ON line drawn
from Fort Union, in the Northern part
of Montana, to Fort Laramie. in South
ern Wyoming. There are mountains,
rivers. valleys and plains on that line,
and these bring about the conditions
required for radical atmospheric
change"
,
"A hundred of them
What is the Operation?
well, for instance, one day last win
ter | was in camp on the Powder River,
III Wyoming and directly West of the
Black Hills. 1t was a pleasant sun
shiny day, and during the forenoon the
wind blew smartly from the Hills. Just
about noon, while was preparing my
dinner, a puff of wind from the Lara
mie Mountains to the South. hit me.
On the plains. mile TO the South of
me, and just where the two valleys
brought these two different winds to
the focus point, cloud of snow was
lifted high in the air, and the wind be-
gan to circle. In ten minutes the cloud
began moving toward, me and the mer-
curry soon went down eleven degrees.
The cloud bore to the Northeast, struck
the North fork of the big Cheyenne
River, and followed it East to Fort Sui
", spreading its TANKS as it went. AT
Sully it ran down the Missouri to the
Iowa State line. Here the wave was
a hundred miles long. hen it got
down to Omaha il was 200 miles. 1t
left the river there and went East, and
MOines one wing was at Minneapolis,
due North, and the other at Sedalia,
due South. From wing to wing was
500 miles. That wave took in Wiscon-
sin, Illinois and Indiana, and was kept
from Michigan by lake influences, and
later on all the Atlantic coast, from
Maine to Virginia was overspread by
it, That was only one out of the many
| have seen born.
could it have been stopped?"
Certainly. II was no longer than a
barrel when it started
what is your cure for these cold
waves?"
well, | have been experimenting.
You must warm the arr as the first step.
In that case you kill the germ and the
blizzard falls flat. On this line of the
birthplace of billiards. a distance of
500 miles. bas-burlcr coal stoves should
be set about six feet apart. Ten thou
sand stoves might do it, but the gov
eminent might as well add 5000 and
make sure thing of it. Each stove
would burn, say, nine tons of coal dur
ing the winter. One man, as | figure
il, could attend to five stoves. As all
lUt STOVES NUulu bt Oul VI hOOics Ou y
one length of pipe to a stove would he
required. | figure on saving $4,000
joints of stove-pipe. This item alone
would pay for most of the coal. Every
blizzard costs the country S3,000.0 900.
We have an average of ten per season.
/ figure that | can stop every one for
$780, 200 each. This saves the country
S29,0o0,000 per season. The govern
ment puts 100000, 600 in its pocket and
hands me the other nine"
And you have an idea that your
scheme will be adOpted?'
Certainly, the only fear | have Is
that the government may want to put
plain stoves off on me, while l shall
stick for the nickeI-plated affairs.
There's no use in going into this thing
with anything cheap. l shall return
in about week, and as | will then
know exactly how much 1 can save on
stove-pipe, hope you will come and
see me. This afternoon | shall try and
figure on using one leg to stove, thus
saving $4,000 stove-legs. This would
pay for the coal for 3o7 stoves. Don t
forget To come and see me. '-Dcir0it
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