The Washington times., 1905-07-22
THESE EGGS FRIED
ON HOT CAR TRACK
Well, Done Thursday De-
spite Cool Weather.
CROWD WATCHES THE TRICK
One Is Scrambled and the Other sunny
Side Up"-Boy Promised to Eat
One, But Skedaddles.

Notwithstanding the fact that Thurs
day was by no means the warmest day
this summer. the car tracks and trolley
slots at number Of unshaded crossings
were hot enough to fry eggs.
This experiment was tried by a re-
porter for The Times about o'clock az
the intersection of the car tracks at
Fifth street and Louisiana avenue. d.
rectly in front of Police Headquarters.
There is a. slight hill leading down 10
Sixth street. and owing TO this fact
the tracks are exposed to the direct
rays Of the sun during the morning an
well as the afternoon.
Shortly before o'clock several strest
ganins passed the street car crossing on
their way to the newspaper offices to
get their papers One of them stepped
on the hot rails and burned his foot. He
sat down On the curbing to rub the
burned sole.
All Get Burned.
His companions walked back to the
car track to see If the rails were really
hot enough to burn them. They found
that the track was more than warm,
and amused themselves by getting other
boys who came along to step on the
rails and burn their feet.
The Times man thought the urchfns
were taking and strolled over to the
trolley slot, where the north and west
bound tracks intersect one another. Mr..
'Wisenheimer'' put his hand on that
part of the track known as the frog
and promptly hoped away because Of
the intense heat
Dat track is hot 'nough to fry q good
Sfz ct fr 1T ka
sweeper clad in an immediately clean
white duck suit. as he mopped his
steaming brow.
Not taking the white wings word for
it, The Times representative procured
two eggs from a nearby store and pro-
the ear tracks could be used as cook
stove. The eggs were put in a warm
place to take the chill off of them, and
then taken TO the car tracks to be
Crowds Watch the Cook.
A number of persons, including en-
ployes in the Police Department, the
District Building and the Police Court
iocked to the crossing to see the cook
ing done.
The hottest part of the frog was
selected As the cook stopped down to
crack the egg a large crowd surged
Scores of pedestrians were attracted TO
the spot. It was necessary TO clear the
tracks in order TO allow the sun 70 get
at the eggs and help the hot rails along
with the cooking.
The wlsfte wing seemed greatly inter-
estcd. He volunteered TO donateaa piece
OF bacon. left over from his lunch. TO
grease the tracks 10 keep the egg from
sticking.
Trhe f9ar+ Of the track saIae+a al l. ,fsad
only now and then. The rails were hot
simply because of the sun s rays. and
not because Of car wheels constantly
Thinking that perhaps the rails might
be hot enough 10 burn the eggs, the cook
vigorously over the top of the trolley
slot, where the cooking was to be done.
Scrambled Eggs.
Egg No was then broken. The con-
tents of the shell were dropped on the
hot iron Within a few moments the
yolk of the egg began to turn as white
as the street sweepers coat, and stuck
to the hot iron. Because of the down
grade. the egg began TO run toward
Sixth street.
Some one in the crowd shouted:
I'm take my egg scrambled or ship
wrecked at sea- if you don't mind.
Seeing it would be a hopeless job to
undertake 10 fry the hen fruit straight
u, and down" or sunny side up, the
cook drew forth a lead pencil. bor-
rowed from a friend sometime before,
and stirred the egg up IL was scram-
bled to the queens taste, and wGs
ready TO serve in about seven minutes.
No one appeared hungry, so the egg
was not eaten.
Promised TO Eat It.
Got another one, mister" queried
small Coy, II yeu cook one sunny
side up I'll eat it
The second egg was cracked and put
on the trolley slot. The order was for
sunny side up. The cock. eager tc
oblige his first patron. placed cigar
sign ma ie OF tin at the southern ex-
tremity of the egg to prevent it from
running all over itself.
The tin held the egg intact. Because
of the fact that it was not spread over
large surface the white reme4ned
thick In several places and required
long ume to cook. The yolk cooked
and became hard IN about thEee min
utes. but ten minutes was required TO
cook the white.
Because of the time required to pre-
pare the egg so IL could be eaten the
your gster grew impatient and went on
his way before IL was cooked. No one
else seemed TO want It.. Today il is
lying on the track.
The sun has cooked It TO a fraZZIa.
Many persons passing by stopped TO
look at IT, Some of the knowing ones
pointed it out, saying 1T was cooked
/ by the sun
Among those in the crowd yesterday
was Frank b. Madisan. a weH-known
business man VINO has Travelled in many
different climates. He remarked:
When i was travelling through the
Sahara desert about ten years ago. our
caravan stopped for dinner one day ani
one of the camel leaders put number
of eggs III the hot sand and roasted
them. They were delicious
81 cannot say that / ever saw eggs
fried OH a ear track before, however,
Nor do | care TO eat them.
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