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Is rs lWpOsSlole 10 Sol by an out
ward touch as a sunbeam
j. F. Crawford visited the
school Tuesday and told some in
teresting things. especially the
story about The Indians. We all
welcome him to call again. and
will be pleased to listen to any
thing he has to say or to any
story he has to tell.
GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT.
The grammar Crude is indebted
to Miss Robnett and Mrs Nc
Annuity for a vely pleasant visit
during the month of October.
Also TO Mr. Crawford for his good
words of encouragement.
Contributions by pupils of the
Grammar Dept: "Our room is
very comfortable since the stove
was fixed. We have been learn
ing a quotation to remember al
ways: Truth is tough, it will not
burst like a bubble at a touch.
but will be round and full at
evening We have lovely recess
as and we have no trouble, we
have passed about two months of
school without any trouble.
Our school is getting along
nicely. We are learning music
and have a very comfortable
school room. We are studying
about Benjamin Franklin and are
very much interested in him.
| like history very much. We
are learning vertical writing.
We are all Interested in his
tory. Miss Brown reads to us a
few minutes every once in a
while.
New pupils this month: Near
lie Barkhurst, Ira Barkhurst, Els
tella Ayers.
INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT.
The intermediate Dept. has had
several welcome visitors. Friday
afternoons the little brothers and
sisters are allowed to come and
make us glad with their sweet
ways.
We have had three new pupils
join us-Blanche Lufkin, George
Stockwell and Don Woolsey.
Mamie Cook has come back to
us again.
We have some earnest workers
in here and parents might have
become alarmed had they heard a
little maiden exclaim: "Oh. Miss
Rowen, I've worked so hard nv
brains went out!'
Pens and pencils and paper have
4 knack of leaving pupils, which
led one young hopeful to re-
mark; Somebody disappears my
pencil every five minutes"
One of our boys made us a pres
ent of II lew growing plant last
week. We are fond of the plants
and hope that the character of our
boys and girls will grow and bios
SON in our school atmosphere AS
beautifully as the flowers do in
the sunshine.
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
Among the visitors this month
were Mrs. England, Mrs. Button.
Miss Robnett. Mrs. Chase and Mr..
Crawford.
The work in reading is being
well done. The IA class have
completed the First Book of the
Ward System.
Jewel Woolsey, Lucy and Alice
Lufkin are the new members of
our school. having entered this
week.
s, far this month the "tardy
list has been quite small. We
hope to do away with it entirely,
before the end of the term.
Bryan Rose, one of the Cd"
Glass pupils. is out of school with
1t. Nitus' Dance.
Walter Edwards has gone to
the Pass Greek Ranch for a short
visit.
Pearl Jenkins, who spent two
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SARATOGA CHIPS.

'iiNH UNI l. OHi lCib iucStiN lOl
Kansas City.
MIR. and Mrs. C. NJ. Wilcox were in
the city Monday.
H. A. Nichols was down from En-
campment this week.
Earl Mowry was in from his Spring
creek ranch yesterday.
Foster Kearns. the Do%wnington
merchant, was a city visitor this week.
Mrs. G.. NJ. Neff and daughter
Eula left Tuesday for Warrensburgh,
Mo.
F. n. Larsen. the popular or Gerry
man. is adding p new Goat of paint
to his residence.
Mark Craw ford returned from his
trip to the upper part of the valley
the first of the week.
Mrs. Dyer is having a coal and ice
house built in the real of her Bridge
street business house.
w. j. Crane, President of the Cop.
per Bar Mining Company, has been
in town the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. C. Blacken moved
up to the Brush creek tie camp last
Friday. James Harden took them
up.
Mrs. Mullison is 1t Omaha ON a
visit TO her daughter Achsah. who is
attending business college in that
l.. A. Barrett. lnspector of forest
reserves, is here from Washington. D.
c., to look over the Medicine Bow
forest reserve.
Alex. Lutte is down from the French
creek country and expects to 60 to
CHEYENNE on mining business the
last of this week.
Elmer f. Lnfkin moved his family
town SATURDAY.. in order that his
children might have the benefit of
puhlir schools.
Andrew Olson and r. D. Never
passed through Saratoga TUESDAY
morning, on their wav to the En-
tie camp.
Lewis Eager is so much improved
that he is able to walk around a lit
tie, and Mrs. Eager expects to re-
turn home in a few days.
Mrs. j. W. Heather returned to the
yesterday, where Mr..
Heather is camped. Mrs. w. H.
accompanied her.
Mrs. N. NJ. Doggett has sold out
the Home Dairy restaurant to Mrs.
A. w. Ainsworth, who took charge of
the business last Thursday.
Miss Bessie rackett and George
W. Collins, of bennington, We're
married recently. The Sun received
no account of the wedding.
L. II. Frances moved his family
from his Brush creek ranch
this week and his children will at
tend school here this winter.
Ashley & Son have rented the east
room, adjoining their drug store to
a butcher from Rawlins, who will
in business the LIST of the
Mrs. S. j. Farris, who was so bad
ly iujured'in the timber, on Spring
creek, some time ago, is recovering
very nicely, being now able to stand
on the injured limb.
F. G. Wolf will leave Sunday for
the railroad with his family, who are
going to Denver on Il visit. Mr..
Wolf will return from Walcott after
his family safely on the train.
The Sun entirely overlooked men.
tioning the very enjoyable entertain.
ment given by the K. P.'s on the
18th inst. Never mind boys. We
will make up for it some other time.
Principal Stearns, Miss Cora San
ders and Miss Nellie Rcwen paid IA
visit to the Elk Mountain mine Sat
urday. The trip was made on horse.
back and, the weather being fine, was
a very delightful one.
Rev. A. Lincoln Berry pass
ell through on his way to Grand En-
campment to take up the Presbyter-
ian work there. Rev. H. w. Baintun
accompanied him, both returning
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ing" The second-'Be kind to
one snother," was given by Fran
ces White; and John Mullison
wrote the n this week-"Truth
is rs impossible to soil by an out
ward touch as a sunbeam"
J. F. Crawford visited the
school Tuesday and told some in
teresting things. especially the
story about The Indians. We all
welcome him to call again. and
will be pleased tn listen to any
thing he has to say or to any
story he has to tell.
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in the afternoon till l. midnight. and
the third. called the swing SHIFT" and
its members ''swingmen," is put on dur
ing the buster hours of the day. from :
in the morning till noon. and from $50
till in the evening. This ARRANGEMENT
makes working day of ten or eleven
hours for each shift
When their days work is over, en-
ployes of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company. frequently spend a
few hours of recreation in the rooms
of the club, referred to by "Old John
ny" They are the rooms of the COM
pany's relief association. an organiza-
ton similar to those formed by the
smaller salaried employees of most large
concerns. Few relief associations can
display more pleasant clubrooms than
those al 914 E Street northwest, between
Ninth aud Tenth. They are on the
ground floor, and the TWO rooms which
look out upon the street are used as
reading rooms and as offices of the as
sociation. There is a rolltop desk, a
typewriter, divans. a table covered with
the current magazines, bookcase filled
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intervals of W. Sing their turns to start
on the car trips
Two suits of blue serge are supplied
to the men yearly at wholesale prices.
The heavier suit, for winter wear. is
ready for distribution early in the fall.
and lighter suit for summer is fur
nished about May 1. One suit in six
months is hardly an extravaganza in
clothes, and, being worn day in and
day out. in all sorts of weather. it is
not surprising if its beauty rapidly be-
comes questionable and it's texture more
and more fragile. AS the time for new
suits approaches the old raiment IL
on the point of dissolution
''Old Johnny" comes out holding ono
hand ruefully to the seat OF his trousers.
Say" he asks. deprecatipgly. when
does we git our summer suits? These
here pants-wen, say, I'm ashamed to
walk through car with ladies on both
sides of me-"
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off, and regulates its degree with his
left hand, and throws on the wheel
brakes with his right. With a possible
speed of twenty-five miles per hour,
electric cars are run in this city at
maximum speed of eight or ten miles
per hour. At this rate they can be
brought to dead stop in less than thir-
ty feet, or about their own length, and
by reversing the power and jamming the
brakes down as far as possible, a car
at half speed, says an old conductor.
can be stopped with jolt Gin its
tracks" The gong which warns wagons,
trucks, and vehicles out of the way is
struck by an attachment which the mo-
torman presses with his right foot
a similar procedure, though not re-
curing so much time is adopted with
the amateur conductors. During his first
hours in the employ of the company he
stands on the back platform and watches
carefully the old conductor as he rings
20 start and stop, collects fares, and
makes transfers. Soon he is allowed
TO ring the commands TO slow down. to
take on and let of passengers. and star,
UP again He can have the felicity of
assisting Southern bellies or venerable
dowagers upon the steps. Then he is
sent through the car to collect fares,
and finally learns how TO make the prop
er transfers.
In time, the conductor. if he is of an
inquiring and alert disposition, gets to
learn the motorman's duties, so that il
an emergency he could lend his assist
ance in that activity also
If the car suddenly stops and refuses
TO run farther, though the place be far
from machine shop, and the time the
wee, small hours of the morning, the
motorman Immediately shuts off the
power and starts an investigation which
discloses the seat of trouble and gen
orally he is able to put the principles
which were drilled into him during his
novitiate into application, and start the
car on her way again
Easily as a robbery OF the conductor
could be accomplished in the unpeopIed
hours of early morning, in remote parts
of the city, yet the amount of money
which he carries from fares is so small
that it is seldom deemed worthy
Of seizure by "hold-up'' men.
During the busiest hours of the day
morning and evening, cars are dispatch
ed from The barns every three minutes.
After the throngs of downtown workers
have been carried to their homes in the
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THE OPEN TROLLEY CAR.

I'm looking fondly forward TO ''the
good old summer time
When the open trolley Will be
here once more:
It is the peoples auto, and 1 long
TO hear the chime
OF the gong that rings so sweetiy
meath the floor.
balmy day of June.
And go spinning through the eoun-
try near and far.
To see sweet natures wonders while
the birds with joyful tune
Bid a welcome to the open trolley
car.
Or on summer evening. in the
middle OF July.
When the heat has knocked your
stock way down to par;
To feel cool zephyrs blowing from
the city you will fly
On the front seat of an open trolley
car.
Or in the month OF August when va
cation days are DER.
And you're longing for the wool
land CT the bar
'Tis then that you are grateful as
you never were before
For the front seat of the open
trolley ear
I. Y. McCLENEGHAN.
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I actual service, even though accompanied
by old hands
When man is engaged by the com
pany he is first OF all turned over 20
the division superintendent. That Of
fetal takes the would-be motorman in
hand and carefully explains to him the
apparatus by which the car is control
led. The side of the power box on the
platform of the car is removed and
each inter-acting part, its workings,
and its means of repair in case of acct
dent, is carefully explained to the nov
ice. When he can pass a perfect
catechism on the instruction he has Just
received. he is given a cap. if not an
entire uniform, and placed on a car go
ing out on its trip.
In New York city the new men are
drilled for days on dummy platforms in
q room fitted up for this express pur-
pose, and finally tested on a car fitted
with full apparatus and power. but
whose wheels are lifted off the ground.
before being sent out on the runs IN
der the tutelage of another motorman.
Although the installation of such rooms
has been considered by the local com
panies. yet so far they have been I'M
necessary The new men learn their
business in from three 10 ten DAYS suf-
hciently well to be allowed to take the
ears out alone. This average time re-
quired is shorter than that required by
the New York motormen, and may be
said to indicate higher grads of acute
ness in the local employees: but the
buster traffic of New York. doubtless
makes the running of street car in
that city more difficult matter.
Many Days Spent in Drill.
10 one ever thinks Of being nervous.
however, for fear that street-car mo-
torman is incapable of controlling the
power, nor is there any need for such
nervousness. No motorman is ever left
in complete charge of a car until he
has proven himself fully capable OF
starting and stopping it as he should.
and watchful of children toddIing across
the tracks, or can check 1t Instantly
when deaf old ladies', reckless boys, or
thoughtless CANNES linGer too long upon
its path. For days, until he is per-
fectIy trained in every detail OF opera
ton, an experienced motorman stands at
his elbow and checks every motion that
would be disastrous When he is pro-
nounced perfectly capable. he is given
his uniform, and sent out alone
The motorman turns the power on and
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ut HERE she goes-gittin' off'n tn
car back ards like a crab off n
a log. Can't never learn them
women no different. Four out O. five of
'em always git off tn wrong way. Hard
est thing conductors got TO learn is L
learn t hold tn car till tn women is all
off safe. An It delays tn trip so tn car
can't hardly get back to tn car barns on
schedule time. This is my last trip to-
day. though TIL new con- is ready to
take tn car out alone now. So if you're
wiIIin' to come out to tn car barns with
me I'll change my coat and take you
down TO tn club and beat t tar out of
YOU at bowlin', billiards, er ffteen-ball
pool.
mo, mum, we don't transfer back.
Yes'm, this is F Street. Yes'm, it's one
block from G Street Easy, wait till tn
car stops. please'm.''
Thus "old johnny for years a motor
man and conductor on one OF the local
street car lines, and a never-failing
source of humor, suggests 10 friend
some phases of the street-car operators
life which seldom occur to the minds Of
people who daily make use of the street
cars that shorten the magnificent dis
tances" Of this city.
The car barn, one of several OF similar
ones in the city, is nothing more than
low-roofed structure which encloses a
space Of ground, two hundred feet
square, on which is laid a dozen lines of
car track On the tracks are standing
greet cars by the score.
At the front of the barn is heavy,
wheeled platform, lowered till it's sur
face is even with the ground, which IS
moved by electric power back and forth
over tracks at right angles 10 the others.
Cars standing on any one OF the barn
tracks can be run upon this platform
and carried over TO any other track
desired 10 be coupled 20 any train. -
All the cars leaving on their trips go
out by large door at the front, and on
their return re-enter it from the rear
Near the front door is a bench where
the train crews conductors and mo-
torrnen. await their time TO take a car
out on its route, and here one may sit
and watch that part of the life of the
men which is unknown TO the public at
large.
1t is in this place that the new
conductors and motormen in particular
are given the elementary instruction
which they must receive before they axe
permitted 70 take charge IF a car {.
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Explaining the Governor to New MotOrnan.

evening the interval between successive
cars is increased to five minutes, while
after theater hours belated individuals
must wait on the corner between eight
and fifteen minutes before their car
comes along. The ordinary run of n
car, say from the barn a Fourteenth and
East Capitol Streets to Georgetown and
back requires an hour and twenty
minutes. while an hour and seven
minutes is allowed for each half OF the
summer trip TO Cabin joan Bridge and
return. A soft snap" much desired by
the men Of one local company. to relieve
the monotony of the ordinary run, is
the office of operating the Columbia. -
the private car fitted Up ror the use OF
officials of the road in making their
trips of inspection ov~- Tie line. 1t is
handsomely equipped in the style of
Pullman observation and buffet car. in
mahogany and plush.
Work in Three Shifts.
The men go on duty in three shifts"
or squads-the first shift working from
) o'clock in the morning to $3.50 in the
afternoon, the second from 1870 o'clock
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They Have Other Interests in Life Than
Changing the Gong and Ringing Up
Fares, and Although Their Pathway Is
Not StreWn With Roses Theu GeneTallu
Are Happy and Contented---The Car
mans Club and Brass Band. :. =.

with standard literature, and pianola
with records of classic and popular"
music. The rear rooms are given over
to pool and billiard tables, half a dozen
of them, and some of the finest bowling
alleys in the city. Here the men of
duty spend pleasant and profitable hours
billiards, or listening TO the 'pianola
as manipulated by some nusically-in-
clined motorman. Cards, checkers, and
chess are also favorite pastimes. And
these clubrooms and their amusements
are procurable for the trif1ing sum of
dollar per month, which likewise in
sures its contributor an unchecked sal
airy in time of sickness.
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Music at the Car Mems Club.

Some OF the men make their own
ed for the pianola Under the leader
ship of A B. Baker, sixteen of the
boys" have been praeticing on the in
struments which so to make up a brass
band. year ago some of the men got
together and bought the instruments OF
a twenty-five piece brass band Since
then they have been practicing indus
triously twice a week. until the six
comets, the four alto horns, the two
slide horns, the two bass horns. the
valve tenor horn. the baritone horn,
the bass and snare drums and the
clashing cymbals are now capable of
discoursing a concord of sweet sounds
with technique and finish which will
make Sousa's and the Marine Band look
to their laurels.
The First Recital in Public.
The boys gave their first public re-
cital on the occasion of the smoker ten
dered April 90 to Robert E. Lee, who
had just resigned his position as an
official of the road. TO accept one in an
other city. The band scored a distinct
success. 1t made such hit with Gen
eral Harries, vice president of the road,
that he called MIR. Baker. who is direct
ing the band, to him and offered to pay
the cost of any additional instruction
the band desired. The two clarinets.
which have hitherto lain idle, can now
be taken up by some heretofore mute,
inglorious musical Millions, and the band
will be complete. The band expects to
furnish music at various out-of-door
picnics and entertainments OF the Re
lief Association during the summer. So
enthusiastic are its members that they
practice in the car barns in the short
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Few People Who Meet These Important Personages Eveu Day
OF Their Lives Are Aware of the Careful Schooling Each
Novice Receives Before He IsGVen Blue Uniform and Put
in Charge of the Front or Back PlatfomManu Important
Details Of Their Work of Which Those Who Ride in Cars
Know Nothing. :: -

klTHERE she goes-gittin' off'n tn
car back ards like crab off n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05

Der of those who declared they intended to become clergymen of one church or another were sa small that they were not counted. Two hundred and ninety-seven of them were going into business. It is only natural to infer that the business to which these young gentlemen referred, meant employment in the immense com binations and consultations of capital that are under the hot fire of popular condemnation, governmental scrutiny, more or less earnest and judicial inquiry as violative, in their methods and opera tons of the rights of the people That Is the only branch of 'business" in which the twentieth century Yale man, whose university course probably cost small fortune. would care to embark. Eighty five resolved to take up the law, the cor poration branch of it, presumably, for that is where the most money Is now to be made. Twenty-four were going to teach, that Is, to become professors of commercialism, while twenty-six an- nounced that they would go shooting off on special lines, the nature of which is not disclosed. Perhaps they lie along the shores of professional infdelity a pursuit which is becoming a good deal of money maker. Not a Yale man for the church, the divine service for which it was first intended, but from which in its evolution 1t has turned asidel
 Harvard. Princeton, Cornell Columbia and a long list of equally potential insti- tutions march in the same line with Yale. The eyes of their graduates are all set in one direction-towards the things that are of the earth earthly. If any of them, when he entered those seats of learn- ing, had an impulse an aspiration, to- ward what have ever been regarded by the wise of all ages as the highest pnr- suits of life, the environment in which he found himself soon killed 1t. It may be that the old teaching was narrow, but 1t made men of very heroic mould whose names are resplendent in the history of the American church. The educational system that has been cast aside had no professors to instl Into the minds of their classes that Emerson ranks higher today than do all the prophets who foretold the coming of the Messiah. That is the dis covery, the mature conviction, of Presi- dent Sherman of Cornell. It had no men to declare, as the president of Yale has done, that religious ceremonials have been devised for the purpose of creating a recurrence of that pathological cond- ton of mind under which the supernatur- al explanations of facts are most readily accepted" President Hadley was re- ferring to the fast of the Savior in the wilderness. and the observance of 1t by the Christians of countless generations in obedience to the injunction of the Lord himself. Religious views and theories equally reprehensible have been advanced by the president of Harvard. Far, indeed, have nearly all of the great colleges trav- eled from the objects and purposes of their institution. They would be model es- tablishments in pagan Rome.