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The Washington times., 1903-03-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Barton French
start today for Hot Springs. Va. for
brief stay. as they are booked TO sail for
Europe on April l.
The Washington times., 1903-03-05

Mrs. PhillipsJenkins has issued invi-
tations for a matinee musicale. which
The Washington times., 1903-03-05

Miss Cora Clay. who has been visiting
here. returned to Washington on Mon
day.
The Washington times., 1903-03-05

bill in the same terms will be pushed
vigorously next winter and Will un-
doubtedly pass"
The sun., 1903-11-29

Los ANGELES. Cal. Nov "a Outside the
Southern Pacific roundhouse in this city
group of locomotive engineers were sitting
and chatting
Now. there's no denying that it's the
Third call that gets an engineer" said John
Nolan the oldest engineer in California,
q he came ont of the roundhouse wiping oil
from his hands Il have yet to know an
engineer who doesn't believe that, and 1
could tell all day long OF instances to prove
Tie correctness of the belief.
Then, too, there's no use denying that
most engineers can go through any sort OF
wreck and not ge. killed until they have
their third call. Take the case Of Bill Con-
her up on the Frisco and Sacramento divi-
don last year.
Bill was hauling a six car work train
on which was half ton Of giant powder
on the gondola car. A lot OF Mexican track
Rborers were in car near the gondola.
No one ever knew how it happened, but
the dynamite ignited. Half the Mexicans
were blown into atoms, and the rest were
mangled
The fireman on the engine with Bill
Sonner had been in two wrecks before.
he was blown over 100 yards away, and
probably never knew his fate.
'Ths gondola vas shtvsesd - matches.
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The rails were bent like hairpins, and the
whole train and locomotive were in ruins.
when the wrecking crew came to clear
things up, the tender was lacked up, and
there beneath a lot Of coal, covered with
blood and coal dust. and with many broken
bones, was Bill Conner, unconscious and
apparently breathing his last. The doctor
said life was a matter of only few hours.
"The railroad boys gathered about Bill
as he lay on the grass alongside the track.
He regained consciousness and, getting his
breath, managed to say:
- oh, I'll come through all right. This
is only my second CALL
"The doctor shook his head, but every
railroad man there knew Bill was right.
Well, it took four months of nursng and a
heap of pluck on Bills part. but he came
out sound and we'll,
"Bill was transferred to the Portland
division, and had the softest and safest
Job in his life. He feared another and
third call So he sought as safe job as
possible, and at much smaller pay.
Last spring he was drawing No. pas
senger accommodation, just outside OF
WOODBURY. when the connecting pod on the
engineers side of the locomotive snapped
and the loose end struck through the cab.
breaking Bnls lsg and crushins bis ankle.
The sun., 1903-11-29
THE MAN WHO
l LEFT IN A HURRY.
An Experiment by Telephone
Carried on B.tween
Opposite Buildings.

Two mon stood loo ;ing out into Park
row from third floor window of tho Federal
Building one day last week. Suddenly
one Of them spied man seated at IA desk.
at window a building on tho opposite
side of Park "
Now, that 4 very funny" he said to his
companion, There's a man I've been
looking for for two years. | have never
been able to get any trace Of him and hero
l glance out of this window and see him
calmly at work"
Are you sure it's the mani" inquired tho
other.
We'll, ] can prove 1t very soon il can
get telephone, said the first man. And
meantime I'll make you little wager.
I'll bet that | can make that man leave his
Office inside of ton minutes after call him
up on the telephone, and l will not say a
thing to make him leave, but on the con-
trary will do my best to make him stay
in"
"I'll go you for the drinks. just for the
fun Of the thing" said the other.
In the Office of United States Commits
sioner Shields there is a telephone just
beside window looking out on Park row.
The two men got permission to use it.
They looked up in the telephone book the
number Of the man whose name in gilt
letters was on the window at which the
subjec of the bet was sitting.
Now mind" said the man who was going
over the telephone that you construe into
a hint to this man that he is to leave his
Office, you win.'
The number was rIng up while the man
opposite window. boy responded to this
call apparently. for the man at the tele-
phone said:
"Does Reuben Mereman have an Office
Mr. Loft wants u talk TO him moment,
Hes leaving his desk now" said tho
| man at the window.
Yes. and here he is at the telephone, !,
you were down there and thought; I'd ring
you up Prospering? Yes9 Glad to hear
it. Say, old man, want to see you IN the
worst kind of a way. I'm up at Union
sen seee nGM su' Walt M for dnwn %s w hds o9
was that fair?' asked the man, ~ b
hung up the receiver.
Perfectly" said the other.
well, now let s watch him.
The man opposite returned to his do8k,
did some hasty writing, then jumped up
and disappeared
h 1ws,ch ,a,ne,dooG the door now said the man
They watched the door. In exactly ten
minutes the man appeared al the street
door. He looked hastily up and down
the street and then started off at brisk
pace toward Broadway and was soon lost
sight of in the throng
Il lose said the man who took t he bet.
"But don't understand it at all r,
simple enough" said the other. That
man has owed me $500 for five years, Every
time / saw him. up TO two years ago, when
l lost track Of him, he pleaded that he had
had reverses. Then he gave me the slip
and haven't seen him until just happened
to see him in that window. ! knew he'd
run If he had a chance. Come let's have
that drink"
And they went out and had several, tho
loser declaring that IL was worth the money.
The sun., 1903-11-29
KEEPS DOM BRIBERy.
Eject OF Publicity on Election Expenses
Hard to Get Fin Filed.

II is ten years since the law requiring
candidates to file statements of their ex-
penses went into effect, and it has required
ten years, or nearly that period. to secure
general compliance with the chief require
ment of II, which is thus declared:
Every candidate who is voted for at any
public election held within this state. shall.
within ten days of such election file an item
ized statement showing in detail all the
moneys contributed or expended by him.
directly or Indirectly. by himself or through
any other person. in aid of his election.
In the State of Virginia recently thirty
five members-elect Of the lower house and
nine State Senators elect failed to comply
with the provision of the new election
law there. which requires all candidates,
whether elected or defeated, to file state
ment of their expenses before Dec. ?. Those
who fail to file such statements have their
certificates withheld, and are ineligible to
elected A fine Of 5000 is imposed on
unsuccessful candidates who fail to file
statements Of their expenses.
These measures are all based upon tho
Corrupt Practices law adopted some years
ago in England to prevent corruption and
England. at least, such legislation has been cen
effective, and it is recalled that in 1880
Gladstone's majority Of 2li In Midlothian
was obtained at an outlay of e. 6e3 12s. 3D.,
or an average Of e. los. Sd. a vote. In the
same year the Duke Of Devonshire paid
G4,6l7 for campaign expenses, and Lord
George Hamilton and Octavius Cooke, in
MiddIesex, ran up bill OF G11.608. Herbert
Gladstone, rejected by the same constitu-
adoption OF the Corrupt Practices act, an
English Parliamentary seat cost approx
imately 5000; now the average Is FL, 900
The sun., 1903-11-29

II would have taken the fastest bluehsh
that ever swan at least A,S70 minutes 10
make the trip by way Of the Horn, and 10
was only little oyer &c, ,l80 minutes before
that had last seen this particular bluefish
of Fire Island.
But II he hadn't swain around the Horn
how had he come, then? Twas at this
point that my great discovery dawned
upon me. The core Of the earth IL one vast
body Of water, and the fish had made the
short cut through. Here's proof that MY
theory was correct;
Have you over noticed that when YOU
drop stone in bucket of water the dis
turbance is all on the surface? That there
isn't even ripple on the bottom OF the
bucket?
We'll. 30 it Is with the oceans. The
Atlantic ia always rough and turbulent,
while the Pacifc--whv, the very name
pacihc, signifies peaceful 'untroubled
smooth And there you have it, gent e-
men. The Pacific Ocean is the Atlantic's
bottom
This being the case, What's that''.
II was some one at the door. The title
wild eyed man had turned white as n sheet
lhe door opened and a stocky redfacet
man In a blue uniform entered. He wore Il
badge inscribed keeper"
Excuse me fer buttin' in on YOU gents
like this" he apologized, but have yo.
seen anything of a nov thought that Slipped
his brain cell early this morningah there
he IL. Come along here. Sir Isaac. Yes.
we caught Christopher Columbus over an
hour ago. Come on. now
And the new star. with a few protesting
fickers, was gently but firmly put out.
The sun., 1903-11-29

1T was along in the winter Of 1928
that Post got his second call He WAS then
pulling the Coast Express from San Jose
to Frisco.
He was on the northbound train one
day and was two miles from Redwood City.
Heavy rains had loosened the earth be.
meath the rails at this point. and as Posts
engine shot over the soggy earth. down
they went
"The sudden stop of the engine hurled
about two tons Of coal and the baggage
and mail cars on top of Post and me, and
we were in imminent danger of being
burned or smothered to death, after We
had escaped being crushed to death. But
we got of with some severe injuries.
In two months Post was back on his
engine ard as good as ever. In de-
scrbing his experiences he used to say
he was most surprised, when he found his
engine sinking beneath him, THAT he had not
taken the precaution TO jump ont Of the
cab window. He said he knew it was his
second coll, ard ho could therefore afford
to take some chances.
II quit firing for Post after that accident
at Redwood. Two calls inside Of two
wears were Zoo much for me.
"post thought it a great joke. He de-
clared man could do anything he liked
with a locomotive and not die until fate
had so decreed. Posts wife begged him
to give up engineering. or at least to take
a yard locomotive, where the danger is
less Post replied
"If | can't run first class I'll not run
at all
"Post said that his third call would be
his end. but he was dead sure that the third
call would not come until fate said so, Well,
fate claimed him about two years later.
= @He had been working overtime for sew
eral weeks, running between Frisco and
Santa Cruz. There we're lot Of big sea-
shore excursions. and Post was making
money by extra work In hauling them,
He went without sleep, and nodding for
The sun., 1903-11-29

him to steer an engine around that curve
again after dark, and he was known 10 be a
man OF great nerve, too"
II fired for seven years for old Harvey
Post, and he was the most daredevil man
at a throttle ever knew, until he had his
second close call In a railroad wrecA. said
a man in the group. Harvey fost was
Coils P. Huntington's favorte engineer.
He used to run from San Francisco to
Bakersfield.
IL have neve- known any one with so
little fear and so much faith in fate as Post
He believed that fate ruled everything in
an engineers life and that, do wat he
might. an engineer would not die until
his time had come. He was the fastest
locomotive runner I ever knew.
Post = first call came along in the summer
Of 1881, when he was running the Los Ange-
les express out Of Oakland early in the
afternoon of a very hot day. The great
speed was easily made.
About two miles south of the Mercede
station he struck the double track, and
little further ona freight train going south
on the opposite track hove in sight running
at good speed. When within Il hundred
feet of the freight train Post saw a car in
the middle of the long line Of freight cars
leave the rails and strike his track.
"The car str ok 50 hard that it bounded
back and turned partly over on the south
track. Posts train shot by the derailed
car an instant afterward at the rate of
forty miles an hour. The place at which
the accident occurred was near L culvcrt
and steep embamknent some fifty feet
high and had he struck the car a terrible
w. eek would have resulted.
81 was on the iiremans side Of the loco
motive, and was too parayAed at the pros
pect of instant death t. move. much less
speak. When We stopped al Alercede
old Harvey called across the cab to me-,
Say boy, that was terrible close call,
wasn't if Guess no one aboard the cars
knows what shave that was from whop-
ping big wreck. That's my first oa4l
The sun., 1903-11-29
THE MEAN NAN LOST.
Fate or Something Else Avenged the Pink
Haired Stenosrapher.

The Broadway car was approaching
Thirteenth street.
The fat man leaned forward with gasp
and touched one of the meekly standing
women with his folded newspaper Then
he rose with a mighty sigh and moved toward
the door. while his grateful benefciar
dropped into the vacated seat.
A pink haired stcnographer, not rav-
ishingly pretty, who clung to a strap i'm
mediately in front, viewed the incident with
surprise, and afterward assuneda contempt
uous smile. Then the car lurched into
Dead Mans Curve and she swung out on the
strap like "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight.
Her lips moved busily for a moment and
then shaped themselves into lasting arcl,
Of scorn. q.
The mean man. seated opposite. was III
terested. Over the top Of his paper he
observed these facial changes Of the pink
haired stenographer, and he noted their
Gauss with fendish pleasure.
The passenger beside him was folding his
senger rose the mean man touched the arm
OF a woman standing next the pink haircd
stenographer and drew her attention to the
vacant seat.
The pink haired stenographer looked over
her shoulder with a glance of nmazernent
expression, and understood that he had
acted with malice aforethought. She turned
her back squarely. crimson to the tips of
her ears.
The mean man exulted inwardly. Watch
ing the seated passengers narrowly, he
was enabled to repeat this performance
twice more. each time landing another
tired woman in a seat, and leaving the
pink haired stenographer still clingng to
the strap. In the opposite window he
could see her face reflected; and her lips
were set in dangerous line.
The supply Of standing passengers was
depicting. The mean man began 10 look
worried. Bhen came the influx from the
crosstown line at Thirty-fourth street. and
business seemed TO be picking up.
The new arrivals were crowding up the
aisle. when suddenly the pink haired
stenographer abandoned her strap with a
self eiituously into the advancing mass she
brought 1t to struggling pause Just in front
of where the mean man sat.
There was wild swaying and shuff1ing
In which the pink haired stenographer' g
gray jacket mingled vaguely Then tho
car started amid confusion OF out
stretched arms, and the mean mans hat
aisle.
He sprang forward to save II from certain
destruction, and was back in a secondhand
he found the pink haired stenog rapher
settled in his seat But the
scornful arch had vanished from her lips,
likewise the dangerous line: and her eyes
looked beyond the mean man in gaze of
dreamy contentnent.
Then the mean man hooked himself into a
strap and tried to look calmly reflective as
he computed the running time to Eighty
third street.
The sun., 1903-11-29

a moment while he was at the throttle, he
ran past a siding which the train de-
spatcher had ordered him to take A few
seconds later, his locomotive crashed full
into an engine pulling fast northbound
freight.
ut was a horrible wreck. The freight
engineer was bruised and cut frightfully.
1t didn't seem as IL he could live a day, but
it was his first call So he ultimately got
well
Post was taken out of the wreck scalded
about the legs. He had been jammed
against the snokestack. Every one Of
the railroad boys there knew it was his
third call. Death claimed him an hour
later
Speaking Of superstitons on a loco
motive said Dan E. Miller, reminds me
of time had when was pulling the Cali
fornia Overland over the Tucson and Yuma
division, down in Arizona. What | am
going to say proves that there is some
thing uncanny, something humanlike about
a locomotive-that is, that an engine can
be your hoodoo or your friend.
@One evening l got orders to take the
Sunset Limited westbound out OF Tucson
at midnight Everything seemed to 60
wrong with the engine. The roundhouse
hostler had forgotten to set the oil valves
properly, the fireman was slower than mo-
lasses, and the baggagemen were wofully
slow. Besides the dispatcher kept us in
the station half an hour past leaving time.
Just as we were about TO pull away the
conductor came and whispered in my ear
that one Of the railroad vce-presidents
was back in Pullman on the train. That
was enough to make any man in an engine
cab want to do his level best for his repu-
tation,
Notwithstanding the dark night, the
danger of track washouts and the lateness
Of our departure, made up my mind to
make up time between Tucson and Mari
copa il the wheels stayed on the tracks and
the trucks and cars held together. The
fireman said he'd risk anything to mako
The sun., 1903-11-29
A KANSAS CONSCIENCE.
Missfvtngs OF Girl Who Didn't Declare
Excess Baggage.
From the Kansas City journal.

From the Kansas City journal.
Every railroad is said to have "conscienc ce
fund, contributed to by those who have been
overtaken by remorse after wrongng the
company in one OF the many ways possible
However, it Is doubtful II any company can
show as tender conscience as that revealed
to the Santa F6 railroad In the following letter
addressed to the Santa F6 gent at Wichita:
EVERETT. Wash. Nov. 0.
TO AneHt at Wichita.
This summer while attending n camp
meeting. j heard some rousing sermons ON
the limo of restitution. which caused me to
see that had cheated the railroad company
by carrying excess Of baggage from WSiita.
ljudge must have had nearly go poun5 g.
AS knew the rules of tine rai!roao COM
pany, feel that did wrong, and write this
TO ask your forgiveness. and to find out how
much am owing YOU. Please Let ne know
cannSt AFFORD 70 face anythlnE Ike Ike, this ~,
things that are not made right here VIII be
revealed there.
From one who desires to do what Is right.
.Miss) FRANCES BECHLEh.
The sun., 1903-11-29

1T didn't seem like such a serious acci-
dent for railroad engineer, but Bill said:
Boys, it's my third call. III make a
powerful effort to get around again. but 1t
looks bad to me-
IN month Bill died, Blood poisoning
set in and all sorts Of unusual complications
came into the case,
aDo YOU remember that case OF young
Fred Fuller, out on the east Ell Paso divi-
sion?" said an engineer at Nolan's elbow
.That proves the sense Of the three times
and out belief.
aOne night down there when the dark
ness was so heavy that you could almost
chop 1t, and the rain came down In rivers,
Fred Fullers engine was taking a heavy
curve out on the Texas plains. and drive
wheel fange broke. The engine jumped
the track, and Fred had close shave from
instant death in the wreck
at was his first call, and Of course he
survived A few months in the hospital,
and he was ready for an engine again.
He got light work about the Ell Paso
wards and on daylight runs. About year
after the wreck he began taking regular
night runs and appeared to be as good an
engineer as he ever was.
aOne night it happened that Fred was put
on the same train that he was on when
hurt 1t was noticed that he was little
nervous, but no attention was paid to this.
The night out turned to be the same kind of
one az that on which he was hurt-dark and
rainy.
As the train neared the curve where the
frat accident had occurred the fireman no =
ticed Fred slack up his engine, and at the
same time lie began to get paler and paler.
As they rounded the curve whore he had
been ditched before, Fred uttered shrek
and fell over in faint. The strain was
too much for him
He was taken of his engine. this time
for good, OF course, and was for 4 couple
Of years doing switch work in the yards.
As an engineer his first call had ruined him
for life. No amount OF money could hire
The sun., 1903-11-29
NAMES WICKED DOVES.
They're Eating Farmer Jacobs Out Of House
snd Home and the Law Protects EN-.

They're Eating Farmer Jacobs Out Of House
and Home and the Law Protects EN-.
EAST HAMPDEN, Me-, Nov. 2e.-Robert
Jacobs. a small farmer who gets living
by raising fresh eggs to supply tho hotels.
was taken before local trial Justice this
week on the charge Of having killed and
converted to his own use l4e doves. AS
doves are protected under the game laws
of Maine. which impose fine of IS with costs
for every dove slnin it was expected that
he would enter plea of not guilty and con-
test the suit. Instead. he confessed TO
killing not only the 148 doves mentioned
in the warrant, but more than 200 in the
last year.
at was the only way could get living,
YOUR Honor said the prisoner, AS soon
as have gathered in my crop the doves
which breed in the ice houses along the river
come TO my place and eat up every bit of
grain put out for the hens. ! have built
wire fences to keep my fowls inside the
enclosures. but / cannot afford to buy fine
netting to keep the doves out. They took
more than two bushels of corn and meal
every day from late in September until
a week ago, and when ! could stand it no
longer began to kill them, Now, | can't
pay any fine and do not propose to do so.
If you send me to Jail you will have to feed
me, and the town will he Obliged to care for
my family Go ahead and do your worst
After consutin with the town select men
the Justice put the case on file and advised
Jacobs to go and sin no more.
Il shall shoot every dove that comes
to my hen pens" replied Jacobs Doves
have no more right to live than have
The sun., 1903-11-29
time. So. two miles out of Tucson, I put
on all the speed the engine had
"But she didn't Seem to move much faster.

time. So. two miles out Of Tucson. put
on all the speed the engine had
"But she didn't seem to move much faster.
The steam ran down. | was perspiring
with anxiety. Right in the midst OF it all
the pumps began to act wrong. One quit
work altoget her.
II was beside myself. We began to drop
even our running time We left Maricopa
little before daylight an hour and half
late
AT that station the conductor came to
the cab and said, Hope we will get to Yuma
in time for dinner, and was boiling mad
at his sarcasm. Yuma was a breakfast
station, you know.
Things went worse. We lost time all
alung. THree miles east of Aztec Springs
| found the water was getting low in the
boiler. : netting had to be done inn
mediately with the pumps, for there was
long heavy grade to be climbed just ahead.
The conductor was well nigh crazy and
was in despair. We pulled into side
track and gan examining tie pumps.
Suddenly there was locomotive shrek.
and special to ist train bound for New
Orle ms came rolling. at tbs rate OF forty
miles an hour. down the long grade toward
U.S. All my despair turned into amazement,
We ad miraculously escaped head-on
collision.
18Th telegraph operator at Maricopa
had neglected to give us meeting order
for the special But for our balky engine
we would have met that fast train full tilt.
As frightful wreck as ever was known in
the Southwest would have resulted.
Here is the strange part OF this ex-
perience | found nothing wrong with the
pumps. After the special had passed and
we pulled back to the main track both
pumpsworked like charm.
IF a magic wand had been waved over
the engn il could not have done finer work.
We quickly had all the steam we wanted.
and in half an hour we we're making record
breaking speed across the Arizona wastss.
We reached Yuma on the very seaslsa Of
schedule time