Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1890-04-29
rrpKIN's PIPE LINE
ny W. II. .. ATKINSON:

euinmer. 10 '.m 80 connections" ut
Green Syringe Junction, o. 1t was not /,
the fsst time by any meaus that IL had
fallen 10 my lot 10 cool my heels at that
somewhat drekry crosIit 4. j know the /,
Landscape, o. viewed fiom the modest
trisngulsr platform, pretty well. know
also that, barring tho landscape, there Is .
mighty little else to be seen. So
philosophicAiiy seated myself upon the (
upon one oil the rails aud lit up u five f.
center.
Then noticed . strange state Of affairs
for Green Springs Junction. The Y was
filled with cars loaded with huge Iron
water pipes, and along the l. B. Il w.
tra,k, from The south human being
was approaching.
wondered At booth the pipes apd the
man o. tie pejc.trian was q man.
"Moinin'." QLoih the stranger, AZ he
somewhat familiarity seated himself by
my side.
'"Good morning." I replied, willing,
At Green Springs Junction. to make
friends with any one AMI every one who
could speak English.
"Nice mornin'. 'smornln'. 'Sposo you
your
"No. / haven't: but Il you can make
out with Carl Dunder cigar shall be
glad TO accom- immediate you."
As my visitor III lis cigar asked:
. "Posaib.y you cau tell me what those
big wcter pipes are to be used fort"
"sure (pun), sure Spuf) y. Yes
TO carry oil from over yonder at Lima to
Cleveland"
"Ahl" said ]. "srsat thinEs. those
pipe lines. are they NOT"
THAT'S what
For some moments we both remained
silent, putting smoke.
Ny sompanion troke the stillnoss.
II spose, now. you never hecrd tel
of Pipkiu's Pipe Line?"
Can't say that ever did,"
"No. II was before your time,
reckon; and most OF lolks has forgotten
all about It, But hain't, and never
SHALL"
locked at my watch. 1t wanted
forty-ive minutes 10 train time.
: "reli me about It," said /.
swell, good many years ago-ncver
mind how many, stranger, cause II wa
long before the war--lnved over IN Wood
. county. 1t was pretty thinly settled II
, them days, and though cur village wur I
small Que It wur the biggest within
quite Instance.
"a teller by the name Of Pipkin run I
, bit Of = falcon, and though he didn't sci
much whisky, beer either, In the vii
lace, he got rid OF a good deal OF liquo
aud stuff among the lumbermen tina
used to be kiuder thick in that section.
. Nobody liked P.pkin, aud to tell tn
honest truth he didn't have q generwin
J, friend 10 the hull county. His recor
wasn't very clean, ne tier In regard
politics nor his lily affairs. He SCENE
to do pretty vol, however, aud appal
entity had plenty of money, for he live
we'll and bought considerable lard.
IAN OF a sudden. .without giving an
= roiice, Pipkin shet up Ills saloon AL
went 10 work TO build cider mill.
want no one-horse NIL, either. 1t WI
V a big affair, with cooper shop an
:, everything complete. AT the same tim
PlpAin built himself q large, two sloI
2, house, and s., to work with hull lot
Il help (a.i strangers) to farm h S land. Il
had the birges farm in Wood county
&c nigh OIL 10 1890 ACRES, though more
l. half OF 1t WI " DDS.
.'Insidc oil two years Pipkin wur doin
q the biggest cider and vinegar business
s. Northwestern Ohio; only what puzz {
, the neighb rs wus where on earth he z,
q all his Rppies-ior Wood county warn
s. much OF = apple section them day
However, nobody cared much abor
L Pipkin's STAIR. The women gossiIe
considerable, but the men folks lot hil
alone ripkin warns inclined 10
uuways nri., hborly; be never gave an
Que round them parts job, aud he don
all his trading way on. All his liel
, was strange, and evsn TIC Transfers h
: hired he fetched from Toledo. Once oil
Unele'J JEFF sniley, rs wer kinder old all
iuauisitivc like, did undertake to as
Pipk.n where be got his apples. but i
didn't get no satisfaction Tor his paini
We all took thr Lint and didn't bottle
pipkin, and 1t got to lie taat nobody 8
much as passed the time O. day to III
curly codger.
"But apples or no apples, friends G
no lrletds, Pipk In run that there eide
mil OF his'n tull bust, and jlst evcl
isstlngly keat three end four team
a-hauling cider aud vinegar In barrel
to the railroads. He shipped the stu
all oyer-to Cleveland aud PiIts5urg III
TO edo and Detroit, aud even as lar g
New York City.
"well, sir, by the end of the fourtl
year IN Pipkin nus. have made pill
OF wealth, and 1t wer about tibet ther
time that my old uncle, Seth Ssnderson
died Uncle Seth had lived Tor years Il
Saudusky, but owned land In Woo
County, VIII eli he, being so.ter misery
wou dat sell Tor no piiee. There wa
nigh on to 200 acres, and Uncle Sci
wiiled II to me. Tas LOT, mostly In tim
!, her, was west OF Pipkin'h lice, and, bein
ID sort OF uarrow strip, ran cut ear I
the big Wood County swamp, nigh on t
two miles.
"First thing knew, Pipkln came t
me aud wanted to know my price 10
!, uuc 9 Seth's strip. But as I hsdn'
thought It oy put hin oil fer weel;
and the next day, with Levi Rauspnl,
:, st OUT To kinder Inspect my rev belong
, iuge. Wcgo poking aroni d In the 81 c
and purity soon l. vi be ran his hickor
stick into some very soft earth, and the
= struck something real hard and curiou
like. Then we botu o. us kcrapod an
ecrs tchcd, aud at last We MANAGED t
j. clean oil two oil three feet length OF iro
> p,pe-snall pipe, such as city io'ks us
Tor gas lpr.
!, "Wa, I'm durueil' says Levi, an
:" says l: "Well, Pm burned.
3, 1--WE speckerlated M -uessed TIL W
Il. WAS tired, and at last says evl; i hay'
it, says he; I'm run h me for drill,
sf (Leyi being blace smith), aud he went
nj lie war back IN M hour, and Ia lie,
t minutes he had little bols drilled
- Tucn up spurts q steady stream, taller,
\ a man, OF pure, sirise yer-dizzy whisky
Yes, sir, whisky, and no tgo.lnl
'Well, sir, you might have knocke
p me and Levi over with strsg, ard W
had TO both OF us sample the liquor Jus
to brace up our nerves, But VS. didn'