New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-09-16
.ilknlan Loses
Days Supplies
TORN-UP STREETS AND ALLEYS
RESPONSIBLE FOR BROKEN
BOTTLES.
DELIVERY WAGON DEMOLISHED
UPSETTING DUE TO UNEVEN
SURFACE.

found their allowance of milk cut short
Monday without any warning and had
to supply themselves as best they could
from private sources, for the Pleasant
Ridge dairyman, VIM. Schuck, "took all
his eggs to market in one basket and
the accident that befell him cracked
Not to get the eggs and milk too badly
mixed, we mean chat Mr.. Schuck had
the bad luck to overturn his delivery
wagon Monday morning before he had
half covered his route and when he got
Strengthened out again he found that
nearly IS quarts of milk had disappeared
and about that many customers had to
do without their daily supply from him.
Nor was that the extent of Mr.. Schuck's
misfortune. Most of the bottles holding
the milk that disappeared were broken
and large number of empties besides.
just how many the dairyman could not
tell. Now is the time for those customers
who are in the habit of using milk bottles
for numerous handy household purposes
to come to his relief and see that he gets
all OF them back to prevent unnecessary
expenditure for new ones. This is only
suggestion born of self-experience.
A milk bottle is mighty handy re-
ceptacle, and to no one more so than the
owner just at the present time.
The way the unfortunate accident
came about was this. The New Ulm
Gas Company in laying its mains thru
the alley between Minnesota and German
Street found in the first block north of
First North Street that they had to go
down thru a sort of stone bottom. In
taking this out it made a deep de-
preston and when refilled with the earth
after the pipes were laid, there remained
quite a stretch of sunken ground. The
heavy rains of Sunday caused the surface
to sink still more and as the alley is very
narrow the wheels on one side Of any
vehicle must travel in the depression
and those on the eother side are on the
higher ground at the side of the depressed
area. This makes tip-top conditions
for turnover, and that is just what
came about. The same conditions exist
back of the German Street residences
south of Center Street and Mr.. Schuck
says that he narrowly averted an up
setting Saturday down there. So when
ne felt his wagon going over Monday
morning he jumped and attempted to
repeat the trick of holding the wagon
upright but this time it was too far over
for his strength and it crowded him to the
ground and gave him a black eye and a
bruise hip for his pains. He managed
after several minutes to extricate himself
from the wreck and the mud and found
on taking stock of his losses that the
entire top Of the wagon was a wreck
besides dozens of broken bottles.
Mr.. Schuck thinks himself fortunate
to escape with no more bodily damages
than he suffered, however. He figures
his losses at about SIS to $50, most of it
being the cost of repairs to the wagon.
His work in deliveringwill also be badly
hampered for lack of suitable vehicle
and if the weather should turn hot again
he would be in for further losses thru
the souring of the milk. He completed
his deliveries Monday by making use of
one Of the Crone Delivery wagons. Mr..
Schuck says that he hopes Minnesota
Street will soon be paved for he has had
so many broken bottles since the street
was torn up that he had to take to the
alleys and now they have taken to
tumbling his cart over he does not know
how he is to get about. Others besides
Mr.. Schuck will be glad to see the work
completed.