New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-06
THE PASSING THRONG.

You see some unaccountable accidents In rail-
reading" said John Rumble. OF Boston. the
Grand Hotel yesterday Some
UTNACCOUNT- years ago 1 worked on the old
ABLE ACCT Maine Central when Payson Tuck
DENTS IN er-God rest his memory. for he
RAILROAD was a generous employer and the
ING. best OF men!-was manager OF the
line. 1t was in the days when they
bringing the road up date. and nothing
was being spared in expense on roadbed or rolling
stock One day the Boston express ran into
WatervIe. and after the regular ten minutes for
refreshments started for Augusta She hadn't
gone fifty yards before. easily, gently. even com
placently. the engine went off the track calmly
though that was the way she usually did things.
hasty examination showed that half Of the
fange of the forward wheels OF the pony
truck had broken of. They sent post haste for
another truck, lacked up the engine and put II IL
place OF the injured one. and the train was sooz
on It's way again. Then they started 70 md out
road across the Kennebec Just north OF the
II is ana ION tne Shos 20 sns 11olsd
that the break had occurred somewhere on that
CINE to hold the track on a curve with only half
a hange its front wheel II wasn't there. how
ever. and systematic search up the line was or
dered and something Ike thirty miles away, near
Newport. it was finally discovered by a track walk
err Up and down steep grades. round sharp curves
e ana across river had that engine run in mat
work to make a sound engine shudder IL had
than moving and when the only thing destroyed
or damaged was time The fearful accident that
70 me, must have been ayerted by what the law
would term act of God"
Years ago." said a Western millionaire at the
Waldorf-Astoria yesterday. when I young
tried farming In North Dakota
DISCOURAGE They called 1t farming IN the
MENTS IN North then and ranching In the
FARMING. South. Now. I believe in both
North and South If is termed
ranching. The business I had been engaged IN had
failed through no fault OF mine, and. becoming
rtfr-
reached concerning the future possibilities that
existed in North Dakota farm lands. I invested
about all had in farm and went to work there.
Of them managed to. raise. i had them ali dug
Hp ana ID t then srEanse9 Wn the to s
they made up almost a trainload by themselves II
to be shipped, and so I made up my mind 70 travel
with them TO Chicago In order that l might per
fering horrible death by freezing. II was rotten
company. and l felt as though about be re
leased from states prison when we finally rolled
tatoes, however: and disposed Of mine at a coed
the clothes civilization for the first time in many
months, dined. wined and smoked we'll, hied myself
manner of my kind and age. The next morning
got out my accounts, for had kept strict record
profits. When I had everything added uD and
the debit was exactly SO 20 I thought must have
made a mlsIake a9I went over 1t agalpi same re- :.
SIS 80 first and then SIS 20 on his second shot That
was my vocation, and never saw North Da-
kota again. I got a small equity out Of the mort
gage, but I would have paid money rather than
have had to go back there
THE custom that prevails IN the Baptist Church
of baptizing by immersion has led to tnnumeraole
amusing Incidents said Wallace
BAPTISM BY Pope. OF Buffalo. at the Hotel
IMMERSION. Savoy yesterday. II went once 20
T. De Witt TaImage's Tabernacle.
In the old days when he preached IN Brooklyn Dr..
Talmage used the victims. which seems
the proper term. in a large glass tank My friend
who with always referred TO the spec
tacle a tank drama Years ago there was
baptism by immersion in the river. at the place
where I then lived The ceremony had gone OF
without a hitch until they reached old fellow
who had a cork leg. The minister led him into the
water. but when he had reached a certain depth
the buoyant property Of that artificial leg assert
Ell itself and his back with splash
the old fellow went; Up he came. mouthing and
spluttering and visbly out Of temper Never mind.
brother said the officiating clergy in consoling
tones Remember always that you going
place VIII ere there will be cork legs Nor water
either amended a bystarder.'