The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-18

Swiss drummer rendered conspicuous
by pair OF tight French riding trousers
which apparently were intended to be
worn standing up furnished me with a
means OF comparing the European with
the American method of doing business,
Ills line was French agricultural machin-
cry, and inasmuch as lie had been "mak
ing the coast for several years, it was
tair to assume that he was a success in
his business
For three weeks after his arrival at the
Lupone, he did nothing save sit in the
covered mont yard OF the hotel and idly
Speculate about the progress Of the war,
while ragged urchins, alter the manner
OF the country, polished and repolished
his shoes. lie assiduouslg cultivated and
bought drinks for politicians and lis
tened to their bombastic utterances,
without ia the least committing himself
N the matter Of opinion. BY the second
Sunday night, he had progressed far
enough IN social intercourse with the ex-
listing political regime to secure place
at the presidents table for dinner. The
week after that he went riding in
brougham with some of the women OF
the presidents immediate household aud
dispensed Central American small talk
between uouthfuls OF the thick red dust
which oVerRys Managua like a blanket.
AT the end OF a mouth, he sailed away,
a lamented social lion, carrying with
him orders, for machinery which could
more acceptably have been filed by
American manufacturers. He had caught
favor ~ high places and his honors had
been REJECTED upon the plantations.
An American drummer had burst into
.Aanagua at about the same time as the
Swiss, buoyant with aifability which but
thinly concealed his contempt for his
prospective customers. He bought drinks
for natiIes 3fp the opeu Dragged about
American machinery night and day and
produced truthful figures to demonstrate
its superiority.
When with European traders he COW
ertly congratulated them upon being
"white," and IN the confines OF the Inter.
national club he drew long breaths of
relief and told Of difficulties in doing
business with the "niggers." The Euro.
pesns treated him like hail fellow well
met, and then, straightway, With the
intent Of conserving their own interests
against nroads from the United States,
saw to it that the natives learned all
about the American drummer's pleasure
at meeting white" people in Central
America.
in consequence Of this, the American
found fiat be was welcome to buy re-
Treatments galore. for politicians and to
talk abe4fg bin machinery He was con.
spicuou5 By Rls presence in public places,
Abut nobody saw him entered as a guest
at amy family gatherings Of note in
official circlesg 4Ie went away, openly
scursing niggers" and vowing that Latin
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a white mans country,
anywayA Trbms "Whv Latin America
4Iates U.s. in December Technical World
MggazinWbe gtHe
Pile Cost In Lives of Boiler Explosions
Nobody win ever know how many
hoiTs blew UP ~ the United States in
iHo9, butt any one who will take the
1rouble may learp that at least $40 Of
them did, That IS at the rate Of aIr ex.
poson for EACH sixteen hours ana six
aunutes in the year III those $50 boil
er explosions, 227 persons we're KILLED
outright and 422 Others were injured.
Considering the modest and unobtrusive
way in WHICH the slaughter goes on this I
is 4 pretty good score
There Sssqpe class Of boilers, and one
onv, concerning which official statistics
eXd, and even these are fncomplete;
Sand this Is tae locomotive boiler. The
Interstate commerce commission is able
10 announce that From July |, 1904 to
Aiune 80, 1909 26j persons were killed
sand 1866 were injured IN explosions
aof locomotive boilers but not even the
Interstate @6ffmdpel commission knows
CHOW many boilers were blown up to ac-
AComplsh this feshlt
From unoiliciaie sources it may be
leo'ned that ia 1907 there We're 81 To-
conceive boiler explosions, which means
TINT one uut-ut each thousand in use
tRat year Icy up.,-1illlng l0l persons,
OF nearly one fourth Of the total killed
ssin boiler explosions that year, aud in
~tjming 6s. IA 1909, there were ~ ex-
fpiosions of locomotive boilers, which was
g per cent of the total number of ex-
plpsions, inswhiclt "a persons were killed,
(which was 1913 per cent of the total
smumber killed in explosions, and 90 were
iniwed
& Saw-mills. which have a pretty hard
population in such things, only scored
.34 explosions but then saw mills are
rfnot nearly as numerous as locomotives.
Eslhere We're 81 parsons Killed in these ac-
#cidents, whsh~was dne more than was
tcrcdited to the locomotives, and Al were
!. iniured.-From when the Boiler Blows
I.p7 in December Technical World Maya
SINE. f.a
y Englands Process in Aviation.
& When Santos Dumont made the his
torie hop Of twenty-five meters that
counts as The first authentic flight in
sE0iope theirs was Just one man who
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