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The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29

later on the little wooden track along
the Lackawanna creek the first loco
motive had its trial The experiment
was far from successful, and for a
number of years afterward the trains
on most of the railroads continued to
De drawn by horses. The first loco
motive on the Baltimore & Ohio had
sails attached. So did the cars. These
sails were hoisted when the wind was
IN the right direction so as to help the
locomotive. Tke rivalry between the
railroads using locomotives and those
using horses was very bitter In Au-
gust, 1880, an actual trial Of speed was
held between horse and one of the
pioneer locomotives, which did not re-
suit in favor of the locomotive. The
race was on the Baltimore & Ohio,
the locomotive being one built by Pc
ter Cooper, who also acted as engine
driver
The horse, a gallant gray, was in
the habit Of pulling a car on a track
parallel to that used by the locomo-
tive. At first the gray had the better
a quarter of mile ahead Mr.. Coop
er succeeded in getting up enough
steam to pass the horse amid ter
rife applause
AT that moment band slipped from
pulley, and though Mr. Cooper lac
Grated his hands trying to replace it
the engine stopped, the horse passed
1t and came in winner"
AS there were no brakes on the
early trains, they used to stop and to
start with jolts that threw the pas
sengers across the car. The coupling
was with chains, having two or three
feet of slack, which the engine took
up with series of fierce jerks.
There were no whistles in the old
days. Signals were given by pushing
up the valve on the dome by hand
and letting the steam escape with a
loud Kissing noise. On the New Cas-
tie and F'renchtown railroad when the
signal was heard the slaves around
the station would rush to the arriving
train. seize hold of it and pull back
with all their might while the agent
stuck piece Of wood through a
wheel
There were so many collisions and
explosions that some southern rail-
roads introduced what they called a
barrier car between the locomotive
and the passenger coaches of the
train. This barrier car consisted of
platform on wheels upon which were
piled six bales of cotton, and it was
claimed it would safeguard the pas
sengers in two ways-it would pro-
tect them from the blowing up of the
locomotive and would form a soft
cushion upon which the passengers
could land in the event of a collision.
There is no record of how this expert
ment worked out.-American Cultiva-
tor.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
ATOP THE FREIGHT TRAIN
walking the Cars Is Hair-Raislns
Experience, the Novice
Finds Out.

There came over me as l sat in the
caboose that evening wild desire tt
ride with the engineer in the cab
Plannlng to slip ahead along the hal
mile or so of train at the first stop
L made known my desire to our con
ductor over that part of the run.
They'll be glad to see you," he
told me, You won't have any trouble
gettin' there. It's mild evening.
He swung open the window of the
lookout and called to his rear brake
man, Jimmie, run along with this
here party Jimmie pulled me
through the window of the lookout
before 1 clearly realized the entire
plan.
1t was slippery path over the
roofs of 60 cars to the big engine that
was pulling us, and the wind that
swept in from the shores of the ice
bound like, along which the tracks
ran for many miles, snapped sharply
over those car roofs. Jimmie hung
onto his lantern with one hand, to
MS convoy with the other. Long
miles over those slippery car roofs
had taught him to regard it as no
very serious business.
"This amt nothin'," was his assur,
ance. 1T sometimes gets nasty when
we get down to zero an a blizzard
comes a-rippin' from off over the
lake. Sometimes you have to get
down an crawl on all fours. 1t
wouldn't be much fun to be swept
off the tops of those cars"
There was no disputing that, nor
that the three lengthwise planks at
the gable Of the car roofs were not
wide promenades. You jump from
one to another to cross from car to
car, and man has got to have some
thing of a gymnastic training and
some circus as well as railroad blood
in his veins to do it many times with
out dropping into one of the hideous
dark abysses between them.
A hand out of the dark slapped me
in the face. Drop said Jimmie,
and, fearing possibly that 1 might not
obey, he pulled me fat down upon
the car roof.
THAT was a 'telltale," he ex-
planned, and before I could ask fur
ther we were in a short reach of a
tunnel, and l understood. We were
whirleG through that tunnel like a
package in a tube, and if we had
raised our arms we could have
touched the flying roof of the bore.
The smoke lay heavy in the place. 1t
filled our eyes and nostrils.
mot real NICE" said Jimmie cheer
lily. But no danger in the holes,
save now and then an icicle gets a
crack at your nut You see, there
amt much use in arguin' the matter
after that telltale' strikes you."-Ed,
war; Hungerford in Harper's.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29

The trial of John I. Mcnamara and
his brother, James, has been set for
October /, 1911, at Los Angeles.
Topeka and section of state re-
Ceived heaviest rain recorded in two
years, the rainfall measuring 2.S3
inches.
Kansas has a law that has greatly
benefited the farmers of that state
this year, for it provides tax rebates
where ponds are built.
From the available figures which
are incomplete, Texas has gone anti
prohibition by a majority of between
1000 and 5000 votes.
When passenger train on the Mid
land Valley railroad crashed through
bridge near Avant, Okla, at least six
people were seriously injured.
"Chacama," a baboon being exhibit.
ed at the Interstate fair at Fargo, N.
d., escaped from his cage and caused
a panic among the hundreds Of per-
sons on the grounds.
An east bound train on the North,
ern Pacific railway, was held up by
three masked robbers near Buffalo
N. D. The robbers secured about $500
in cash by going through the passen-
gers, and shot Engineer S. D. Oleson
of Fargo twice.
When an embezzler, Jim Antoine, es-
capped from the road gang of convicts
near Carson, Nevada w. A. Wilson.
serving twenty years for murder; A.
B. Nelson, serving eight years for
stealing, and James Lyle, serving ten
years for manslaughter, headed i.
posse and captured him in the noun
tains.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
GEN ERAL-.

The Pullman people are planning
a further reduction in upper berths.
Asiatic cholera has reached Boston
and one death from the plague is re
ported.
President Taft spoke to an audience
at Manassa, Va, made up of veterans
who wore the blue and the gray.
Old Mr.. Stork has made his ap
pearance in the New York Bronx zoe
with the first zebra ever born in cap
tivity.
The seventh death from Asiatic chol
era has occurred at the Swinburne
island hospital of the New York quar-
antine station.
The Gittins bill, which will permit
the opening of the great race tracks
of the state of New York passed the
Senate 26 to %.
A. B. Garretson, president of the
Order of Railway Conductors, now
will receive salary of $4,000 year,
the highest paid to the head of any
labor organization.
Charles Dixon of Kansas City, his
, son, aged sixteen, and daughter, ago'l
fourteen, were drowned by the upset
ting of canoe in Lake Michigan at
Macatawa Park at Grand Rapids.
Two men, after hurting a stone
through jewelry store window,
grasped a tray of diamonds worth
$4,000, killed a clerk who attempted
to capture them and escaped in a tax
icab, in New York.
Eugene G. Scales of New York, G
year ago recognized as the brains OF
the most powerful bull clique which
ever operated in the cotton pit, has
lost approximately $2,O00,OOO through
the unexpected collapse in futures y
it has been said in cotton circles.
The chairman of the Board of the
American Sugar Refining Company.
Washington B. Thomas, of New York,
practically admits that the stock OF
that concern has been greatly watered
Thomas advocates government con-
troll.
In the near future thousands of men
probably will begin the construction
in New York of the most elaborate
system of underground thoroughfares
in the world The entire new system.
involving the expenditure of approx
mately $225. 100000, was awarded to
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
Four of the five construction con-
tracts were signed and bonds were ap-
proved. The system will require from
three to four years to finish in it's en-
tirety, although engineers estimate
that portions here and there may be
completed within eighteen months to
two years.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29

ton & Quincy and two on the Iowa
Central are equipped with automatic
FEEDERS. On one trip on the Burling.
ton a locomotive equipped with a me-
chan1cal stoker hauled 500 tons more
than its rated capacity at an average
speed Of II miles per hour over the di-
vision. The steam pressure did not vary
more than four pounds and there was
very little blowing Off At the end
of the trip the fire was IN such good
condition that the engine could Lave
gone back over the division without
having the fire cleaned.
D. F. Crawford, superintendent of
motive power of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg, has deveI.
oped an underfeed stoker which prom.
ises to produce great results when
all the minor details have been per-
fected through tests in service. He
started out with the proposition that
the stoker must do all the work all
the time, that it must be a part of
the locomotive and not an attachment
to be thrown aside at will. that II
must be saving of coal and that II
must produce no smoke. These re-
quirements seemed to bar all forms
of overfeed stokers.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
FOREIGN.

An indirect result of the massacre
Of Chinese at Toreon in the revolution
means tie exclusion fRom Mexico of
Celestials.
A big strike is plann Il to cover the
entire national railway lines of Mexi-
that it will be inaugurated onAug. s.
The former president of Mexico,
General Porfirio Diaz, is preparing to
leave Germany for Paris, having been
advised by consulting physician not
age His health, however, appears ex-
cellent.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
WASHINGTON.

Plenty of rain throughout the coun
try is prophesied by the Weather Bu-
reau.
By vote of So to 27 the Senate
passed the Canadian reciprocity bill
without amendment, which settles
this question so far as the Congress
is concerned.
President Simon of Hayti appears
doomed to follow President Diaz OF
Mexico, and give way to a revolution
ary government, according to advices
reaching Washington.
More than two billion dollars in re
deemed bonds, representing the major
part of the governments Civil Wa
debt is being fed to the furnaces in
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
The House bill amending the tariff
law to permit the return free of duty
of domestic animals temporarily ex-
ported, including pet dogs, was favor.
ably reported to the Senate by the
committee on finance.
The most bitter fight waged by an
administration in many years will
come to close when the Canadian
reciprocity bill, an issue before two
sessions of Congress, will be passed
by the Senate by a decisive vote.
The woman credited with having
first expressed the idea of a general
memorial day, Mrs. Sue Landon
Vaughn, is dead at the home of the
Eastern Star, a Masonic order in
Washington, on which she was depend
ent.
To begin in the autumn of 1914,
when the big canal opens, Postmaster
General Hitchcock has ordered the es-
tablishment of a fast ocean mail serv-
ice between the principal ports on the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Pana-
ma and Colon.
The Standard Oil Company and the
tobacco trust and other big corpora
tions are going to be split up into a
number of separate and distinct parts,
without connection or monopoly pow
er. This was the prediction in an ad-
dress by Attorney General Wicker
sham.
On account of long drouth, Senator
Warren has introduced a bill granting
persons who have made homestead en-
tries in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho
Utah, Montana and other western
states, leave of absence from the date
Of the approval of the proposed act
until April Is, 1912.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton in obtaining the Tennessee Coal
& Iron Company and it's Southern orc
lands, "cinched" its monopoly of the
ores of the American continent and
tied up available fields for independ-
ent concerns, according to Chairman
Stanley of the House "steel trust" in
vestigating committee.
There is no lodging the fact that
Congress is anxious to avoid the con,
sideration of all legislation at this
session except what it simply must
take up. Statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona, reapportionment, direct
elections of senators, Panama Canal
tolls, Panama Exposition matters
army legislation, conservation legisla
ton, the control of corporations, these
are some of the things which are clam
orlng for attention and which seem
destined 20 go over.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
HORSE RACED ENGINE
HOW THE ANIMAL WON AGAINST
AN EARLY LOCOMOTIVE.
Machine Built and Driven by Peter
Cooper Slipped a BeIt-No Brakes
or Whistles In the Old
Days.

In 1922 the first charter was OBJ
tanned for a railroad in the United
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
Longest Straight Railway.

Egypt has a desert railway which
runs As miles in a straight line, but
the longest straight piece of railway
line in the world is said to be from
Nyngan to Bourke in New South
Wales. This railway runs 1876 miles
on level in dead straight line.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29

OLdU6S. IL was IOA
Ia line from Phila-
delphia to a point
on the Susquehan-
ma river, but was
never built. On
the announcement
of the je C t
some one asked
one of the Balti-
more newspapers:
What Is a rail-
road anyhow ?"
The editor was
forced to reply that
he did not know,
but that perhaps
some other CORE
spondent can tell"
Seven years
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-29
Drop in Temperature.

Sioux City, Iowa.-A severe drop N
temperature has reigned in this sec
ton, the thermometer dropping to 81
degrees.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-13
BIKE RIDERS
ARE INJURED
Bad Spill Puts Root and
Bedell Out of Six Day
Race.
Root Leading a Terrific
Spurt When Accident
Occurs.

Now York Dec. 13.-As a result OF
serious Injuries sustained during a
wild sprint in the six-day bicycle race
I'm the Madison Square garden at 1880
O'Clock this morning, Eddie Root and
Menus Bedcll were officially declared
out of the race at o'clock this morn
ing. Hill. Roots partner, and John
Bcdcll. Menus Bedell's partner, inn
mediately teamed up, being penalz-
ed one lap under the rules Thirteen
teams now remain in the race.
Menus Bedell's injuries are believ.
ed to be serious. He was unconscious
for several hours and became IRA.
tional Physicians think he was in
tcrn( Nv injured. Root suffered q
severe dartery i'm the right knee and
will not he able to mount a wheel
again for several weeks.
The other riders, thrown in the
spill in which Bedell and Root were
injured, were able to continue the
race.
six Of the riders were hurt in the
spill. Root had begun n terrific spurt.
with Jackie Clark leading the pursu,
ers. Clark caught and passed Root
but the others were nto so fortunate,
one Of the riders striking Roots
wheel. Root, Bedell, Cameron, De.
mara, Wells and Thomas were
thrown in a heap.
At noon the condition Of Eddie
Root. one Of the victims Of the carlS
morning spill, was pronounced SER
ious His left leg is badly swollen
and DR. Cox the garden physician.
has grave fears Of blood poisoning
developing. As soon as his fever
subsidies IL is planned to remove
Root 10 his home.
At the end of the sixteenth hour
the leading teams had covered 1193
miles and one lap. The record is
1909 miles, o laps. There was no
change in positions.
AT p. m. the leaders had cover
ed 1928 miles, six laps, with no
change in position. The record is
1888 miles.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-13
COLLECT BIG
FINE OF FETTER
Was Assessed by Mayor
Setter For Selling Liquor
October IA.

When Mayor ]. c. setter sums up
tho fines and licenses for the last
month of his administration, the to-
tai undoubtedly will be much larger
than amounts collected in previous
months for a S512.SO fine was hand
ed over by the mayor yesterday after
noon.
The fine was paid by William Z.
Fetter, saloonkeepcr of South Main
street. for keeping place where in
toNicating liquor was sold on October
II, 1910. He was found guilty Of the
charge in the mayors court and the
mayors decision was sustained by
the higher courts after the case had
been carried Ul,.
Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Sci
ter ordered Chief of Police Klinefcl-
ter to collect the fine or close ,Fetter's
place of business. The chief called
at the Fetter saloon and was paid the
money.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-13
FIVE WORDS ARE
START OF TRAIL
Will Aid Government in
Landing Supposed "In-
side Circle"
Eckhotf and McManigal to
be CHIEF Witnesses at
Indianapolis.

indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 13.-"Com-
pliments Of the -
These five words, said to have been
written on the back of an envelope
which Is alleged to have been handed
to Ortie McManigal, in Detroit In
1907, is asserted here today ito be the
beginning OF the United states gov
ernments trail OF the INSIDE circle
of the Mcnamara dynamiting con-
spiracy The envelope is asserted to
have contained S75 as payment for
the first job of dynamiting to which.
It is alleged, McManigal confessed.
From that alleged initial transac-
tion, the governments trail is said to
lead TO at least eight different cities
in the United States where labor
leaders reside who are believed likely
to be caught in the federal indict-
ments expected.
Documents, reported to contain this
information are now in the hands OF
the United States officials here and
are expected to be laid before the
federal grand jury which will meet
tomorrow to investigate the dynamlt-
ing that resulted in prison sentences
for the McNamaras.
Evidence, now hi possession of the
government. Is said to be wanted in at
least thirteen, cities in the United
States by local officials to be used In
investigating dynamitlngs. The cities
asserted to be Interested are: Detroit
Brooklyn, Kansas CITY, Cincinnati,
Buffalo, st. Louis Omaha, Cleveland,
salt Lake City. Chicago, New York,
Hoboken, New Jersey and Peoria,
Illinois
Every stenOgrapher who has been
employed by the International Asso-
citation of Bridge & Structural Iron
Workers during recent years Is eX-
pected to be prominent witness in
the federal probe.
The chief witnesses are expected to
be Frank Eckhon, the Cincinnati
coremaker, who Is said to have much
knowledge regarding the operations
OF the dynamiters and Ortie McAIan
!gal, who will come from Los Angeles.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-13
MRS. A. LUCAS DIES
IN VINTON COUNTY

A telegram yesterday afternoon an
nounced the death Of Mrs. A. Lucas
which occurred yesterday at noon at
her home in Vinton county. The de-
ceased is the mother of II. j. Thcas
of this city, and was known by many
people here, having frequently visited
I'm Marion during past years.
old age and complications was the
stated cause OF death Funeral ser.
vices will be held at s o'clock Thurs
day morning at the st. Mary's church
In Minnerton, Ohio. and will be con-
Quoted by Rev. Joseph Pollman. In
teiment will be made in the st. Mary
cemetery at that place.
Upon receiving the news. Mr.. Lucas
Accompanied by his son John left inn
medately for his former home in
Nlnton county.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-13
MISS WH|TENACK
.WEDSv. N. WOOLEY
Home Wedding Held at
Home of Brides Parents
Last Evening.

There was pretty wedding last
evening when Miss Bessie r. White
mack and Mr.. Virgil NJ Wooley were
united in marriage at the home of the
brides parents, MIR. and Mrs. Elonzo
IF. Whitenack on Reed avenue.
A prettily improvised altar Of palms
and ferns occupied a convenient cor
nor Of the living room, Here the bride
and groom attended by Miss Margaret
Collins and Mr.. William Wodfey took
their places at " little before eight
o'clock Rov. weatherwaX Of tho
Calvary Evangelical chusch pronounce
ed the impressive words. The bride
wore pale blue silk with lace trim
mings and wore a veil. Miss Collins
wore white, a dainty hand-embroider-
ed frock.
Dinner was served following the
congratulatory season. Misses Nellie
and Lulu Collins assisting n serving.
The bride is a young woman pos
s1ssing very pleasing characteristics.
she has been employed as clerk in
the carpet department Of the Uhler-
Phillips store for some time. She has
been very popular among the young
people with whom she associates.
The groom is barber and has been
connected for some years with the
Hotel Marion shops. lie is a young
man of excellent qualifications
For some weeks the young people
viii be at home 60 their friends at
the home of the brides parents or
Reed avenue.
a. w. Wooley, OF Arbcnia, the father
&C the groom, was a guest from "a dis
tance.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-13
Notice TO Wool Growers and Dealer

Notice 10 Wool Growers and Dealers.
The following resolution was adopt
de by the Boston Wool Trade Asso-
ciation, November 21st, 1911:
Whereas:--it Is the desire of this
Association to Increase the value and
popularity of all American grown
wool with the manufacturers and to
encourage not only the raising of
better wool but to improve. the man
ner in which it is prepared for mar.
ket, and
Whereas; the wool grown east OF
the Mississippi river, and also in the
states of Minnesota, Iowa and Mis-
souri, comes in more direct competi-
ton with foreign wool than that OF
other states, and
Whereas: 1T is necessary to notify
growers and store-keepers as early as
possible regarding changes from pres
ont methods, and
Whereas; 1t is deemed advisable
TO establish "A Standard whereby all
parties interested may be on an equal
basis; II Is therefore
Resolved, That heeces grown east
of the Mississippi river and also in
the states Of Minnesota, Iowa and
Missouri shall not be considered mer-
chantable unless rolled into a firm
bundle, hesh side out, free from tags
or parts Of other heeces, tied with a
hard glazed twine not heavier or
larger than what Is known In the
twine trade as size 1-2,-3 ply
INDIA, using not more than three
single strings each way Of the fleece
and all knots firmly tied. Wool put
up otherwise than in this manner
shall be considered unmerchantable
and shall be subject to a discount Of
at least one cent per pound.
Voted: that the Executive Com
miitee take such action as they may
deem necessary to throughly inform
the growers and others
George W. Benedict, Secretary,
Boston Wool Trade Assn.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-13
Ohio News Item.

All trains We're delayed at Marion
Yesterday on account OF mammoth
christmas cheese being unloaded from
an Erie freight car. IL Is certainly q
monster and was shipped to II. n
Lewis & CO.. grocers 1t weighs sew
eral hundred pounds more than their
50O-pound Thanksgiving cheese and
some estimate It's weight at from SOC
10 1.2OO pounds. they will give a
FIVE dollar gold piece 70 the person
gpsssing nfares lts,toFreet weight n
pounds ana ouhsea i$W w
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-13
PLAIN IOWA SOIL At SIS
TUB Is GOING SOME

Elgln, lis, Dec. 13.-After the
Pearsall Butter company had paid
SIS tub for forty tubs of what was
shipped to them as fine Iowa county
butter, they discovered that every
one Of the forty tubs contained plain
Iowa soil.