The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-08-09
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

The trc laduleS OF the 1lhefnla en-
CINE ran their machine out for II tria
last week, and by all reports she i
working to perfection OF course this
could hardly be otherwise, as they al
take great pride in keeping her il
first-class condition.
We noticed James H. Callan upon
the street recently James is looking
fine and the business with which he is
connected seems to agree with him.
Miss Hanna Rourke, of New York
City, is visiting at Mr. John Call.
Miss Rourke formerly worked in the
rubber mill and made her home At
Mr. Calls.
Mr.. Edward Rittenhouse. the super
intendent of the L.ambertyille Rubber
Company, returned home the fore
part of last week after tive months
vacation, which was spent through the
Western States and Indian Territory.
Mr.. Rittenhouse is looking fine and
says he enjoyed his trip very much.
Mr.. Thomas Crowley, the surerin
tcndent of the boot and shoe depart
ment of the Lambertville Rubber
Company, will spend his vacation at
Atlantic City He and his family will
take a cottage at that resort ON the
12th inst. for three or four weeks.
The Gurbstone Club holds meetings
regularly every evening and some
lively debates take place. Base bill
seems TO be one of the leading nrgu-
ments since the boys have had n couple
of Sunday games.
Politics is rather long way off
though the Democrats have several
candidates who have already an
nouneed themselves. We may look
for hot time when the primaries take
plaee.
Miss Maggie Duffy met with an ac-
eident in rather peculiar way ON
Friday evening. While stopping over
| to pick up her shoes in the dark, her
head came i'll contact with the back of
II chair, which gave her n pretty severe
shock ms we'll as some painful bruises.
Mr.. Rittenhousc, the superintend-
ent of the llnmbertville Rubber Com
pany. spent few days in Ashmy
Pnrk the latter part of last week with
his wife and family.
4 mummy is IL we'll preserved man,
but he is not going to write II book on
the subject and tell us all about il.
This fact proves that he is not mn
Englishmnn.
Patrick Duffy has had his house
beautiiied with coat Of paint The
artistic work was performed by Henry
| Holeomb.
Did you ever notice II whistle split
ter g? | will cndeavor to define II
whistle splitter. lie is the man who
leaves his pick i'll the mir and hnrries
off To dinner when the II o'clock
whistle blows; he does not cure about
| the pick, 1t will come down NIL right /.
| he does not want the boss Ia have II
minute of his time that IL moi paid for
! His noon hour is sixty full minutes,
and they begin M soon "a the whistle
lets ont its first foot and lasts until it
has exhausted itself at clock. This
man always has the privilege of work
| ing with n pick If the boss needs II
man very much. In factories about
| town there are always n few employees
who come to be known us whistle
splitters. Their splitting begins in
| the morning when they cross tho
threshold on run Just as the sound
of the whistle dies ont in sob. AT
noon they are ont Of the door stimuli
taneously with the first blowing of
the whistle and at night they have
their coats and dinner buckets all
ready to be grabbed as soon Hs the
whistle starts to blow. These men
see their fellow men become forcmen
or get better positions elsewhere,
while they stay at the same old wages
year by year because they arc too
mean for any other position. Every
body in the mill knows these whistle
/ splittcrs.
The man with brains may inveigh
against the world because it prefers
money to brains, but give poor man
$50, 900 and he will get more enjoy
ment out of it than he would out of II
head as big ms barrel and as solid as
| IL % t,,p 4 Al
world avoids Ms under the belief TINT
we are above its shallowness. If we
are not wise enough, We mingle with
these same people to be overcome and
done for. ! have figured it ont to my
satisfaction that the mildest and
safest way is to put on grin and do
no talking. Every man will break
down occasionally, and he then de
sires to become confidential. The
man who il foolish enough to admit
that he dyes his hair, wears porous
plaster, lies about his age or dont
hear as good "a he did twenty years
ago, weakens his respect and exciteF
your contempt.
On Thursday evening last. the merry
go-round opened up to the public.
The great steam organs first blast an
nounced the opening Gust as the
Sun Went Down" There was big
crowd IN attendance and each fan
night since the First ward reminds rs
of being on the old Bowery in the
campaign of "a. There is also ii
connection with the merry 90 -rount
game which we will not attempt t,
name, but will merely describe it
There are three rows Of dolls or fig
ures set upon the same number o
frames. Three balls are sold for
cents, and by knocking one figure
down You receive cigar, for two /!
cents and for three you get 80 cents
1t is quite amusing TO see how easill
they are missed, as one would natur
ally suppose it would be hard to mis-
| thnIu AT auch abort ranUa