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Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
NOT FOR THE PEDESTRIAN
Warning to Keep OF the Railroad
Tracks Is One That Should Be
Kept In Mind.

Only few years ago railroad tracks
In all parts of the country were used
as convenient highways for pedes-
TRANS as short cuts to "the depot"
the mill, the store or the homes Of
relatives and friends. That the tracks
were not even then used in safety
hundreds Of tragedies have testified,
but the danger today has increased
tenfold. It is now a wise man or
woman who fights shy of the use Of
the railroad in any other capacity
than its original one. Double and
quadruple tracks more frequent and
swift trains whose speed makes it un.
safe even to stand by the side of the
tracks when they go by have steadily
intensified danger. Grade crossings
have been replaced by bridges. ties
have been raised from the ground and
filed between with ballast of rough
crushed stone, everything possible has
been done to discourage walking on
the tracks and still the killing of
trespassers on the rail are annually
far in excess of the number killed in
train accidents.
Now comes a climax Of danger
whose warning must be needed or
there will be serious increase of
accidents. The electrified railroad, as
the authorities give warning, is
good place to keep away from. It
cannot be safe for pedestrians. Cur
rent three times strong enough to
kill a man passes constantly over it.
Its trains are swifter and more nearly
noiseless. 1t is a highway Of death
for any except its legitimate users.
The day when the railroad track was
a play place for anybody is far in the
past.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
Cracks in Railroad Tires

Thermal cracks in railroad tires are
attributed by the interstate commerce
commission largely to the action of
the brakes. The tread is suddenly
heated, and the tire, expanding before
the center is affected, causes wide fluc-
tuations in the magnitude Of the
shrinkage strains. Momentarily the
tire may be left with very little shrink
age resistance when there is a sudden
application of the brakes. Even more
important is the fact that thermal
cracks are formed in the steel in this
manner and the presence of these is
a menace to the integrity Of the. tire.
They are caused by the rapid cooling
OF the intensely heated metal where
free contraction is resisted. -Scientific
American. :
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
IN COUNTRY OF SNOW
VETERAN ENGINEER TELLS OF
EXCITING EXPERIENCES.
Slide That Overturned Locomotive and
Plow, Causing the Death Of Seven
Men-Mud and Rock Slides
az Variation.

Representatives of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen held great arbitra-
ton wage convention at Medicine Hat,
Alberta, where they have to extend
the thermometer downward in winter
to register the cold. The testimony
of engineers about their runs, the
snow slides, and unavoidable long
hours has been full of interesting fea.
lures.
Willis ]. Armstrong, a passenger en-
gineer on the Canadian Pacific, YER
baily conducted the railroad arbitra-
tors and the crowded court room
through the intricacies of the loop-the.
loop tunnels in the Kicking Horse
canyon country, while w. G. Johnson,
another Canadian Pacific throttle man,
piloted the audience in and out of
Medicine Hat and THENCE for miles
to the station Of Swift Current.
Engineer Armstrong is the pilot
Of ten-wheeler on run between
Kamloops and Revelstoke. His most
exciting days, however, were on the
Field.Laggan division, which he ex-
planned had been prolific of snow
slides.
I'm the winter months snow slid
are frequent" related the engineer.
"And for variation in the spring ani
fall we used to have mud and rock
slides. During the average season up
there from 80 to As feet of snow falls,
and in the old days besides the obsta-
Gle of drifts we had four and one-half
per cent grade to negotiate. Then
there was what they call the spiral
tunnel, which was good deal like an
underground loop-the-loop that went
around the mountainside, one part Of
the tunnel ascending many hundred
feet perhaps above the lower division.
We frequently were held as long as
seven hours at time by slide, but
while we were waiting the thermom-
eter would fall IS or so degrees below
zero. In several instances several
of my men have been killed by these
slides. l remember once slide came
upon US from the north side and
struck our engine and snow pillow,
hurled the engine over and some of
our men beneath her. Just before that
a brakeman was seen running down
the track to us, yelling, Slide! slide!'
and just as -he passed us the snow
came and he was never heard from in
this country again. The overturned
engine melted the snow, and beneath
her we found six dead bodies. was
buried in the snow myself, and when
they reached me ! was seven feet
below the surface and the engineer
was found standing on my legs"
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
Al. c. FIELDS eRElTER
MINISTRIES C0N|hG soon

J +
The production this season Of the
AL G. Field greater Ministries, which
will open a weeks engagement at
the Crescent next Sunday. is an
nounced as keeping up the reputa-
ton Of the Field Brand
The comedians include such
names as Bert Swor, Joe Coffman.
John Healy, Eugene DeBell. Johnny
Dove, Theodore Murphy. Harry
Young, frankie Miller. Tommy Han
lev, AL G. Field himself and Others
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
RATTl|hG GOOD BILL At
THE ORPAEUM THEATERs NOW

Louise Dresser made her appearance
at the Orpheum Monday when she
was heard in a brand new singing
Offering. This fascinating young wo-
man so favored by nature, played for
two seasons as the feminine star
of Potash Prelmutter.' Later she
was one of the principals of Geo. M.
Cohan's Hello Broadway" and
Author Hammerstein's production
of Song Readings" and her art is
garnished with the liveliest creations
Of the modiste's shops.
An extra feature of the new bill
is Lew Dockstader. the celebrated
minstrel of former years. but now
a fullfedged chardcter-actor-mon
logist. Mr.. Dockstader takes his
victims from the political field.
sparing none. He hits all parties.
One of the yaudeville's best
known musical producers is Ralph
Dunbar, and one OF his best efforts
is the Nine White Hussars. a CON-
pany,,of singers and instrumentalists
Hale Norcross and company will
present a one-act comedy entitled
Love in the Suburbs La Graicosa.
is the title bestowed on an excep-
tionally beautiful woman, the Gen.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
Russians Easily Fed.

Being Injured to hardships, Russian
soldiers can march necessarily and
their needs in the way of food are
few and simple. The Russian soldier
eats very little meat, rye bread being
his staple food, and so long as he can
get some cabbage soup, some tea Che
is great tea drinker), some "kvass"
"a beverage made from fermented
bread-some fish, or some porridgs,
he is quite content.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
Slipping Of Locomotive Wheels.

Attempts to overcome the slipping
difficulty experienced with locomotives
in damp weather have been recently
made in France by directing water
and steam on to the rails. Sand, it
has been shown, generally shortens the
the life of the rails. BY using water
or steam jets the rails are cleaned. A
mere wetting of the rails is shown
to be useless. II, however, water is
applied under pressure, and the rails
thoroughly cleaned, increased adhe.
sion is secured. Special fittings are
suggested for the purpose of using
either live or exhaust steam for teed-
ing the water. The fittings should be
carried by the axle of the wheels, and
not by the framing Of the engine.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
Four Measuring
in Length Weighing $4,000

A steel tube 100 feet long and 10
feet in diameter was hauled across
the continent recently, requiring four
fiat cars to haul 1t. The weight was
$4,000 pounds, and it is said to be
the largest single piece of freight
ever shipped by rail for such dis
lance. It. travelled from Wilkes-B Barre,
Pa, to cement plant in Riverside,
Cal, where 1t is to be installed as a
kiln in one of the leading cement
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26

producing sections of the country. The
huge tube was set upon swivels rest.
ing on the ends Of the cars in or.
der that it might take the curves.
When the consignment reached the
Salt Lake Station in Riverside. the
pipe was covered with inscriptions
scrubbed by persons along the route.
indicating the attention that the great
pipe had aroused on its journey
Modern Mechanics.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26

trail figure of an electroscenic nov.
city styled Visions in Fairyland."
The Primrose Four, sometimes
called the 1000 Pounds of Har-
mony," are heralded as vaudeville's
most popular quartet. Love Wilgur
are STYLED the flying meteor and
the serial Venus.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
Music Club fleets

The Wee Ten" club met at the
home of Miss Flora Sutton in Buffalo
town Saturday afternoon. A very
interesting program was beautifully
rendered by the various members.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
November Train Accident.

Four persons were killed and So in
1ured IN the most notable train acct.
dents in the United States in Noyem
ber. The total number of serious ac-
ciqents was IL OF which five were
collisions ana eight derailments.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26

The list Of singers inc
Richards. 0. B. Ellvood \
Hughes, Walter Wilson,
man, al and Don Palm
Church. John Cartmel
liant chorus. B J J!
Among the comedians
.ers are some Of the leadln
of the organization. and q
to these are Joe McCalsl !,
Neiser. Carl Nixon, Gfan
and others.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26
STOCK YOU SHOULD BUY

SlOON 1OO or7OO.D d.
During past several months estimated that there have been
several thousands dollars Bgsa money invested stock part Of
which will yield any and perhaps OF anything
like the dividends would invested in local concern Bogausa is
known to have more money than any city its size the south ard
the time this be used better advantage
safer investment by investing it in local company
people who have invest want to get tire
best possible for their investment and at the time take
risk whatsoever then they should take stock the Bogasa Building and
Loan Association Besides being safe and good paying investment It
will assist building the The Boeaa Building and Loan
Association doing much business that Bousa money which
vested elsewhere invested in this work dozen houses
could be started in few days The being built would also
the your would be- woud make the city larger give
oment afford opportunity let families locate here
who and the enhance the value
your property in Boealusa.
There man. child in Boeasa who afford
take stock Bogausa Building and Loan Association you
not want purchase stock make the greatest dividend legitimate
and the time risk if you do
assisting building up the city help furnishing homes for the many
families who locate here and thereby show your pride
then do it for selfish reason and buy stock
Doesn't your heart good just pass down Fourth see
the remarkable progress that being made the million dollar
paper ms Work will the fire station the city
the placing the Of the city perfect condition Then
will keep pretty busy notice the progress each Building
section the and at least rs homes
are contemplated Bogausas growth this year excel any
in the state New Orleans included.
Speaking ideal weather remember when there any
delightful weather than enjoying The east
have had already while Bogasa just cool enough
do without your palm beaches and B Dis
Remember poll this and that your friends
and nebos do like will have 1900 votes at the next
election and 1900 the Parish and general election
The good road fund still growing There business man. nor
an automobile Bogausa section Of the Parish
that cannot afford to give literally to this fund.
-+s-
Good Morning. did you know that Delinquent
after Nov. 30th too.
Now that the election days the Fairs have for their
big days
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In days you will hear the old story of shop early?
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26

Miss Kibbie cottrell 4
who taught expression :
last winter spent Tie w.
her sister Miss Aaffa
at the residence q
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-26

In few days you will hear the old story of shop eary
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-16
DISTRICT SOLDIERS
DRILL IN 8 INCHES
OF MUD ON BORDER.
Westinghouse Acquire Texas
Building Lot on Each Shoe
at Practice.

CAMP WILSON. SAN ANTONIO. Oct.
16.-With a Texas building lot on either
shoe the District infantrymen practiced
running and double time movements to-
day.
No speed records were shattered. but
many Of the militiamen insist their
backs are broken rs q result OF an
hours blowing through the eight inches
of black mud which covered the drill
field In roads after last nights torren-
tial rain.
The Washingtonians were also re-
quired to participate in a bayonet drill
and close formation. movements. after
which they were cross-questioned on
the nomenclature OF the various partr OF
their rifles or pistols and ordered TO
clean weapons.
A class OF equation for the officers
and mounted orderlies was to have
Of Troop A as Instructor. but the begin
ming OF the horseback training was
mud.
On Practice March.
The troop went on practice march to
sand and gravel pit some distance
from camp and drilled for three hours
Colonel Young today was advised by
the army recruiting officer at Waco that
Private Phil Mason, Of Company M.
Third Regiment. was held In that city
on charges OF being absent wi ni;ns
Company NJ, says Manson disappeared
the day after the regiment reached
He probably developed a case Of
the waco recruiting officer" said Cap
tain Brian.
Colonel Young has ordered Private
Manson brought here for. court-marual
All the Government empIoyes ~
troller warwick's ruling that they
are entitled to civilian pay from tht
time they reported at the armory OF
June 10 until June 2s. when they were
some IL the men believe their civil
| ian pay Is still going on and VIII con
tinue until they are mustered out, bu
| the officers think the ruling applied
| only to the eleven days preceding
muster into the Federal service.
Attire Must Be Neat.
Colonel Young today issued STRIFE
| orders for neat attire and circum
spect conduct on the part of the Of
ficers and men In the Third Will
here.
scores OF rattlesnakes. scorpions
horned toads, devils horses, and othe
trophies OF their hunts In the wood
yesterday.
The members OF Company @. captur
ed a live possum, six jack rabbits. an
| q dozen snakes.
Earnest Waidecker, Company @. wa
rescued from drowning In the Sa,
Santonio river after he had gon
1 down the third time.
4 Raymond Sauter. of Troop A, ha
II been sent to the hospital at Fort Sar
Houston, suffering from appendicitis
! The mebers of Troop A will receiv
their second innoculation OF paratyp
phoid serum tomorrow. according I
Capt. Herbert Bryson, who will ad
minister II.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-16
Navy Explains Why Destroyers
Cleared for Action on Res
Que Trip.
NEVER FORGET CHESAPEAKE
Since Old Frigate Was Held Yes
sells Are Always Ready When
Leaving Port.

Il superstition almost as old ah the
navy was responsible for the United
states destroyers being prepared for
action when they sailed out to rescue
victims Of the German U-boat, under
sudden orders from Newport, octo-
Der 7.
This was explained today at the
Navy Department. in connection with
the publication in the Sunday Evenin g
Times yesterday OF q letter from a
lieutenant on the destroyer Benham.
telling of this preparedness.
The navy never has forgotten the
Chesapeake.
The old man-of-war Chesapeake
sailed from Baltimore In time of
peace without making preparations
Tor wan With her decks stored with
chicken coops and otner paraphernalia
OF peace, she met a. British man-of-
Mar that was ready for battle. The
gnesapeake was searched and turned
ignominiously back to port.
since then" II was said, whenever
resdy fo vessel ass,d goes out on cruise 1t IL
The fact that the destroyers did no,
know when they left Newport what was
going to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. they might be
attacked, or whether there had been
violation Of this country's neutrality
was another factor In the preparedness
They sailed with almost no notice
knowing only that merchant and passen.
Ser vessels were being torpedoed. They
did not know at that time whether they
were going al lighting vessels or as res.
cue ships. But they remembered the
Chesapeake,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-16
MARKSMEN
FIGURE N FINALS
N. F. Richardson and Sergt. J.
A. Ryan Make High Scores
at Jacksonville.

Two District marksmen figured in the
finals Of the Leech Cup Matches at the
National Rife Associations matches
now being held at Jacksonville, Fla.
N. r. Richardson stood twsnty-fifth,
making an aggregate score of %. and
sergt.. J,A. Ryan, OF the District Of Co
lumbia National Guard team. was forty
sixth, with an aggregate score OF 90.
Richardson's complete score was soO-a
s g sdS. iCo9- a. sysesnt Ryan made 500
The first days of.the matches at Jack
sonville have been devoted to competi-
lions OF. the Southern Rife Association
Brig. Gen. Fred II. Phillips, Of Tennes-
see, editor OF Arms and the Man, with
Offices In Washington. Ia secretary OF
this association.
Lieut.. Walter Myers, First Iowa Ma.
tional Guard Infantry, won the FIRST
matchbox the series. First honors on the
600-yard match went to Private II. Il
Waters. First Mississippi National
Guard; who scored o.. the highest among
A. N. Dow. OF the Jacksonville (Fla.)
Rife Club. won the 1.0oo-yard match and
the United States Marine Corps SWEEP
other competitors of their feet In tn,
Graves sklrmish match.
The National Rife Association match
OF the finest matches open to rifiemen
Wimbledon and Leech Cup matches anC
the Marine Corps match. The nationa
or Government. matches will begin DC
tober 20
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-16
SKELETONS TOTALLY.
At GRQTTOPARADE
Witches and Rafting Bones Are
to Be Escorted Up Pennsyl.
Vania Avenue.

All persons in danger Of being
Oslerized. and the followers of old
General Pessimism. in particular.
have been warned to keep of the
streets of Washington on the eve
ming OF October 80. In order that they
might not be frightened into an un-
timely grave by Kaiiipolis Grotto's
automobile parade of skeletons.
witches, and rafting bones which IL
to precede the Halloween dance at
the New willard Hotel. October 81.
This warning is given by the COM
mittee In charge OF the affair in a
spirit of preparedness. they state.
The committee IL to meet this evening
to make hnal arrangements for the
dance.
The first announcement OF the auto
mobile parade on the evening proceed
lnE tse s dsnee wa; - made . tedS Th'
Ing. OF the Grotto's drill team, will
be headed by His Majesty Great skei.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-16
DISCOUNT
PLAGUE DISCOVERY
Physicians See Little Import
ance In Stories From Johns
Hopkins Laboratories.

Newspaper reports regarding the al
legged discoveries by Johns Hopkins
physicians In respect TO infantue parais
ysis were not authorized, and even u
they contain nothing new"
This was the verdict OF one prominent
child specialist Of Washington today re-
garding the reports of findings said 10
have been made In Baltimore regarding
This opinion virtually represented the
health officsr Of the District :,
II do not think II probable that ~
Johns Hopkins specialists were ready
to give out any conclusions from their
experiments. they would have done II
In Interviews, but they would have been
apt to prepare. signed statements" Dr.
woodward said.
Locslization Not New.
DR.. woodward pointed that the local.
ization Of the infantile paralysis virus In
the intestinal tract was not new.
."If It has been shown TO Be located
there II merely means that great care
should be exercised in regard to clean
illness In preparation Of food which nas
been advocated all along" said Dr.
DR.. woodward pointed out that the
location OF the virus In the large intes-
tine did not necessarily mean that the
OlHe0He COulO not De w vi
tact either with, an infected person or
Other physicians pointed to typhoid az
a disease which IL acquired through
polluted water or food supply, but which
may be acquired by coming into contaet
with the secretions from the body OF an
infected person.
Infantiie paralysis, though, II wal
pointed out, does not yet EXHIBIT
parallel to typhoid, because It's spread
i FOL ha m
| eases which are spread by Impure
| food and water supplies.
Many sporadic outbreaks of polio
myelitis occur. whkh, IL they wer,
due to impure food or water, would
be expected to become general: Then
too. there are many isolated case
or groups OF cases OF infantile paral
ysis In rural districts, and nothing
to show how the water or food sup
plies in those districts became in
fected.
The one new thing in the John
Hopkins report, II true. DR.. Wood
ward said. was the Infection of rab
bits with the disease through feed
sible to infect rabbits at all. etthe
by feeding or by injection of the vi
rus. The rabbit refused to react t
the disease.
would regard any findings cominI
in the form of signed statement
from Johns hopkins men as highl
valuable. but they were inclined L
discount any other announcements o
] alleged discoveries there.
They all agreed that there is moth
ing new In the fact that the viru
Is located in the big intestine.
Reports on the disease as far bacl
as 1919 were cited to show that tn
virus had been found there. Tn
virus already has been isolate
by physicians at the Rockefeller In
| stitute, but II was so small that
could not be readily studied or ex
perimented with.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-16
EVANSVILLE.

Mrs. Ambrose Mills-OKeefe. presi
dent OF the women's auxiliary OF Com
pany r. yesterday afternoon received
a telegram from Capt. Oswald A.
Greager, commanding the OUTFIT, stat
Ing the company would leave Eagle
Pass. Tex, on Tuesday. provided the
winter uniforms were issued. The tele.
Eram also said the men would be mus
teied out In Baltimore.
Mrs. O'Keefe has called q meeting OF
the auxiliary for tonight to plan a wei.
come home for the men.
The mayor. common council, and
Oldest Inhabitants will meet tonight
to search for the right of way OF
Ravenswood avenue and what claim tn,
town has In II.
Several hundred people were present
Berwyn Presbyterian Church. Tn,
Berwyn Troop OF Boy Scouts was ad
| dressed by Colin II. Livingstone, ma
| tional president. Homer Edison, OF tn,
Fourth Presbyterian Church, Washing
| ton. spoke on the boys congress-
work In this county. The music wa
under the direction of ]. II. Mack. as
sisted by James A. MacElwee. Tn
Rev. William A. Eisenberger. pastor O
the church. and Frank L. Middleton
also made addresses.
The volunteer FIRE partment will
meet In the Municipal building tonight
Samuel w. Brown has been appointe,
1 deputy game warden for Prince George
county by Governor Harrington.