Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-12-06
LOSS OF BIG THINGS.
GONE IMMENSE OBJECTS THAT
ARE MISLAID.
Rai1rond that Had to Advertise to As
certain the Whereabouts of a Twenty
eight-Ton idge-Unaccountable Dis
appearance of "a Heavy Boiler.


appearance of Heavy Boiler.
Human nature Will insist on losing
and mislaying things, but when the ar
ticles get to be as big as boiler or
bridge, human ingenuity fails to under
stand how it happened.
A short time ago a Western railroad
had to issue a pathetic advertisement
in the local papers. They had fixed u
twenty-eight-t steel bridge on three
fiat cars chained together and dis
patched it to Dayton, Ohio, with their
blessing.
At an intermediate station the bridge
was observed to be bearing the journey
extremely we'll, and was seemingly in
the best Of spirits; nevertheless, when
the train arrived at it's destination not
sign Of the bridge could be discovered,
and owing to the inability of the COM
pany to discover any trace of their lost
property, the advertisement was issued
begging the public, should it meet with
a wandering bridge, to return 1t to Its
owners with all dispatch, when a sub
stantial reward would be given In ex-
change.
On the Belgian railway line between
Antwerp and Termonde catastrophe
was thought to have occurred early in
the spring of 1897. The passengers at
the intermediate stations between these
places, after waiting for some time for
the train due to leave the former place
bat eight minutes past in the evening,
were not little alarmed when no train
was forthcoming. Many people thought
an accident had happened others shook
their heads and thought of all the kid
mapping stories they had ever read,
while the light-hearted suggested that
the errant train had lost It's way. AS a
matter of fact, there was no accident
and no trainnaping, nor did the engine
lose its way; indeed, the only individ-
uals who lost anything were the Off
clals, who lost their heads, and, by an
unaccountable oversight, forgot to dis
patch the train.
! Railway wagon No. 60,474 Is the prop
erty of the London and Northwestern
Railway, and fifteen months ago 1t was
missing, with it's contents, consisting of
one ton Of copper. Toward the end of
August the wagon turned up on a sid
ing at Leicester, but how 1t got there
passeA the understanding of all railway
men.
: A year ago an advertisement appear
ed In an English country paper stating
that a reward of ESQ was offered by a
great engineering firm to any one who
produced full-grown torpedo that had
Iof the Trow rocks. 1t was comforting
Ito learn that there were no explosives
In the torpedo. Strangely enough q
month later. similar fish" put In an
appearance at Aldeburgh, In Suffolk.
This torpedo was marked with a crown
and numbered 2414 X, and though orig
inally charged with working pressure
of 1,O50 pounds, when 1t was recovered
pit was exhausted.
! Early in 1897 peculiar case was
tried at Woolwich regarding an extra
ordinary piece Of lost property. 1t APP
lpeared that man bought FOR $75 a
boiler, whose size can be estimated
from the fact that 1t took six horses
and twenty men to move 1t. While this
operation was being carried out the
boiler, by some remarkable freak, man.
aged to lose itself, and where 1t went to
no man knew. nor could they find out,
though the police were put on Its
track, and 1t was requested to return
ia Its Borrowing friends.
Some years elapsed, and then, when a
surveyor in the office of works was es-
stimating the value of fine crop Of
scrap iron that piece of ground
known as mo Mans Land had yield
led, he spied the boiler; but, being ig-
,norant of Its history, ordered 1t to be
sold at auction, at which sale It real
azed $3.50. Then the original owner
recognized his long-lost property, and
sued the surveyor for the $50 1t cost
him. Eventually the judge awarded
him $50, while the surveyor received 81
for the trespass. 1t was learned that
the three years-lost boiler had hid itself
on piece Of land quite near its own
ers residence.-New York Press.