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Smyrna times., 1920-03-10

Anson G. Raught of Milton, aged
81 years, died Wednesday morning of
tuberculosis, aggravated by an attack
of grip. Until a few days ago, Mr..
Raught, who was one of the drafts
men for the Delaware State Highway
Department, was able to attend to his
duties. He was a widely known civil
engineer and assisted in laying out
the M. D. & V. railroad from Love
Point, Md, to Rehoboth Beach and
Lewes. After the completion of his
work as one of the engineers on the
railroad, he located in Milton and en-
tered into the timber business exten-
sively. Funeral services were con-
Quoted Wednesday of last week with
interment in the Presbyterian ceme-
terry at Lewes. Mr.. Raught was well
known in Dover, he having been sta
toned there the greater part Of last
year.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

Starkey. 'Tf there is a call for
twenty-five men at 60 cents an hour,
pay every night, twenty-five men
Jump up to grab it. If there is a
call for the same number Of men to
be Daid once week then about ten
respond. If it Is factory job pay
ing every fortnight none Of them
will take it.
"They work for the railroads IN
freight houses, for express compa-
nies helping in emergencies, for coal
companies, for elevator companies
receiving grain, and that sort of
employment. Never will they work
more than two days week.
IF 1t was simply the old floater
class doing this sort of thing the
proposition would not be serious. AS
1t Is wo have some Of tho best types
of skilled labor asking for this kind
Of work. In the old days the buns
were unshaven and dirty. but they
often would work to got beer money
Now they arc without beer and have
little need to work except to get
money for food and lodQinp and
tho movies.~
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Up to Date Hobo Wears White Collar

t1on," said Starkey, ~He Is the pro
h1hition renovated bum Of days gone
by. He wears a white collar now
and has deserted the flop houses,
but he is the same old bum, sans
whiskers and 10o-proo9 breath.
"There are four full-strength divi-
sions OF labor's army holding them
selves for boulevard duty in this city
now. They hold permanent pass
which allows them to escape the fac
tory whistles, daily drill call, and the
only taps they know Is the Il. m.
bright light fade-out.
"They will not work more than
three days q week, and then they
demand their pay every night"
Figures produced by the employ
ment bureau show that every Mon
day morning about $4,000 men ap-
pear for work They demand day
work and refuse to tackle any lob
that does not pay Off once a week.
ION Monday and Tuesday these
JOB shoppers come here and listen
70 what we have to ofYer," continued
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
FROM q photograph of q
4 tornado saOooping doac7,
on Mullinvlle, Kam., Juno
II, 1915

season for tornadoes; or, If there Is.
it is a very short one. The records
show that tornadoes have occurred
in the Mississippi Valley every
month Of the year except December
and January. The early spring ones
are most likely to be at the lower
end Of the valley, the late fall crop
being found in the neighborhood Of
the Great Lakes.
There is some dispute about the
origin Of the word tornado" Co.
lumbus discovered America, but it
was left for later navigators who
penetrated the Gulf of Mexico to
discover tho tornado. One explana-
tion Of the word is that it is q COM
bination Of two Portuguese words,
one slgnifying thunder storm" and
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

dar and know pretty well whether or
not tornado Is likely to drop In
after luncheon for a friendly call.
He may be reasonably certain Of
eating his midday meal in peace, for
the tornado rarely begins its rounds
till late in the afternoon.
OF course, there is perfectly good
scientific reason for the favoritism
the tornado displays toward the Mis-
sissippi Valley as hunting ground.
The secret concerns the Allegheny
Mountains and the Continental Di-
vide, heretofore mentioned. These
two chains Of mountains form, as it
were, a wall on either side Of the
valley. This valley thus constitutes
an immense chute extending from
the warm waters Of the Gulf Of Mex
leo to the chilly wastes of northern
Canada.
Tho Northward Migration
Early In the spring the warm
winds from the Gulf and the ducks
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
the other "whirlfng," hence q whirl-
ing thunder storm.
How the Story Started

Kansas, which now resents the
stigma Of Cyclone state" is only
paying the penalty Of it's genius for
self-advertisement. There were tor
nadoes before there was q Kansas,
but they didn't get their names in
the papers very often. The state
Of John Brown, Mary Ellen Lease
and Carrie Nation was settled al
most entirely by people from New
England and New York, and when
they arrived to take possession of
their quarter sections they found
the tornadoes there before them. a
tr;viality which the land agents had
failed to mention.
The first tornadoes made consid-
cradle of an impression upon the
newcomers, and they mentioned
them in their letters back home.
Soon it became bruited about in the
East that the tornado was a Kansas
product. In disputing this impress
sion S. D. Flora, meteorologist at
tached to the weather bureau at
Topeka, Kan, says:
"To the early settlers of Kansas,
coming as they did from distant
Eastern states where such phenom-
ena are almost unknown, these
storms were one Of the wonders of
a new country, to be told over and
over to visitors and sent as special
items Of news to papers that gave
them wide publicity. The result has
been that the expression kansas
cyclone has become almost an idiom
Of the language, and the reputation
Of the state for visitations Of these
storms is greater than that Of any
other part of the country, when, as
a matter Of fact, there Is no reason
to believe, in the light Of available
data, they are any more numerous
here, area considered, than in any
other states in this part Of the
country"
Anyway. whatever tho circum-
stances, Kansas became, as Mr.. Flora
points out, "the cyclone state," and
the thing eventually became such a
scandal that, soon after the Civil
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Miraculous Escapes

lage was given over to the most
disgusting debauchery.
eve put up at a little inn that
was worse than a pirates den,"
said Mr.. MacG-ath. "Here we
learned to our dismay that prac-
tically all food was shipped to the
island from the mainland, and that
consequently eating conditions were
the vllest imaginable. We found it
impossible to eat the dinner served
US that evening"
But all this was only the be-
ginning of night of horror. Upon
the advice of their host, the Mac
Graths barricaded themselves in
their room to prevent the possibility
of invasion by marauders. The pre-
caution was we'll taken, the author
stated, as their door was tried bv
burly shoulders many times that
night. In the room above them a
brawl occurred and man was mur-
dered. The next morning the Mac
Graths discovered that the blood had
run through the cracks in the ceiling
and had CONCEALED in great red
splotch on their wall.
Ths NEXT day the trip across the
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
e Tornado Belt Advances N0rthward With the Su

drop In pressure In the center Of ths
vortex are so impressive that ono,
seen they are never forgotten. Vel
built houses explode and are car
ried away in small pieces, and state
ly shade trees, that have sheltered
families for generations, are up
rooted or are twisted eff short a.
the whirling, writhing cloud de.
scends from the sky and strikes then
in it's path, and, yet, perhaps, frai
shanty within a few feet will escape
without q board missing"
Houses Explode
The Explosion" Of houses men
toned by the writer just quoted is
one Of the most curious features OF
these storms. Often houses that
might otherwise escape are destroyed
from tho inside. The passing storm
creates a very pronounced vacuum
and the house, if it is tightly closed
is literally blown to pieces by the
pressure Of the air on the inside.
Seriously, it is safety move to leave
window or two open when tor
nado is seen approaching.
The writer just quoted mentions
the enormous velocity" of the tor
nado. That is as definite as any
investigator gets on that point. The
forward motion Of a tornado is only
from forty-five to seventy-fve miles
an hour, but no instrument has yet
been devised which can measure the
whirling velocity.
A United States weather observer,
describing the formation Of lorna
does, says:
"They may form after several
hours Of light wind OF during a
violent thunder storm. Persons who
have witnessed their formation usu-
ally report a great commotion in a
threatening cloud, or, more common
ly, two clouds come together From
this whirling mass the characteristic
cloud descends until, in the case of
damaging storms, it touches the
earth. Sometimes the cloud is really
funnel shaped; more commonly it is
described as resembling an ele-
plants trunk or gigantic snake as it
writhes and sways back and forth
in its progress. Other observers
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

! como under my own observ.+;..
Among the "afmost miraculousp
capes that the foregoing Writ.
might have mentioned ara A..
numerous instances in which bab;..
are carried miles through the .;.
and let down without the slieb.o,.
injury. But I'll content myself with
only two specific anecdotes. One ~
my closest neighbors in the TORNADO
belt had so large family that thera
was a bed in one of the rooms of ~.
ground floor, not a common .b;..
in the farm country. Several men,
bers of the family, being warned 4,
an approaching storm and nos
knowing what else to do, took refuo.
under this bed.
Not timber of the house was lsA
standing. Even the floor was car
ried away with the sole exception "a, q,
the small section upon which the hed
stood. The bed was untouched and
the persons under it escaped without
scratch. Other members Of tbs
family were killed or severely n.
jured.
One moro and I viii tax your
credulity no more. Within 100 ward.
Of where I lived stood three barns
so close together that, boy as l wsis.
I could not slip between them. u
baby tornado came along, picked up
the middle barn, lifted it straight
into the air until it just grazed the
roof Of one Of It's neighbors and set
it down undamaged in the front
yard Of it's owner. These barns were
between my home and the home Of
my neighbor, but neither home was
touched.
The Risk ''Per Capiter" =.
If you are a timid person and Civ
thought to your chances of escaping
a tornado, should you find it neces.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

sary to make your home In the terri
tory over which they range you VIII
be interested in knowing that scien'
fists have figured that "for any spe'
cifc area or farm of one square mile
the probability of being visited oys
tornado is less than lie of ! per
cent par century" =.
But, lest you be too co1nplaceM
about your chances, based on scien,
tific computations, it IS a matter q
record that the little town Of Codel'
in Rocks County, Kansas, was vis-
tied by tornadoes three years in sue
cession, each storm coming on Ne!
25 and at the same hour Of the Gay
each time.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
81 W - 3..s'a: ', n: ''sss 'sss. -.,:S ii,
lows Won see stand

lows you see stand.
ing In line for tickets
at movies at q. M, when the rest
Of Us are going to work."
". 9. Starkey. Of tho Illinois
State Employment Bureau, answered
this question without pausing for re-
fection.
why" he said, "those ars Chi
cago's elegant buns. There are
10000 of them walking the streets
right now In Chicago and every city
In the country is flooded with them"
Checking up on the elegant bum"
resulted In such astonishing revela-
t!ons that dealing with this brand
new genus Homo Americamus may
well be called a "problcm." There
are 10 many problems" and
"cx1ses" nowadays that 1t hardly
seems possible 10 discover q new
one, but the Elegant bum" must be
considered.
Yea hs is brand-nsw PROPOSE
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Marvellous Tales That Strain tbA
Imagination of the Fastener Are
Told of the Kansas Cyclone"

credulity of a person who has never
seen them. Undoubtedly there is
the usual tendency to exaggerate
them, but after examining the
wreckage person is inclined to be-
lieve almost any story that is told.
"The often recited instances of
straws being blown with such vio-
lence that they are left sticking in
the bark and the wood Of a tree or
post, have to be seen in order to be
appreciated. Chickens are some
times stripped of their feathers and
left alive, though more often they
are killed, if near enough the vortex
Of the storm for that to happen.
"An instance has been related on
credible authority of dresser be-
ing smashed to kindling and its mir
ror being carried some distance and
set down against fence without
being cracked; also, Of a window
sash being blown from a railway
depot, which was demolished, and
laid down on an adjoining lawn with
a heavy iron scale weight on it
without the glass being broken.
Spared the Shed
"A glass Jar Of fruit, from a
shelf of this same depot, was blown
a considerable distance and picked
up later in perfect condition. The
writer has known of an instance
where a we'll built schoolhouse was
torn to small pieces and large elm
trees about it uprooted, yet small
coal shed, among the trees and
short distance from the schoolhouse,
escaped with only one board miss
ing.
"It is interesting to note that sew
eral persons who had vainly tried
to get into the schoolhouse for shell
ter from the storm had taken refuge
in the coal shed and escaped in
jury. One Of the remarkable fea-
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

commodity in which he
deals. Take the case of Harold
MacGrath. "While visiting on the
island of Corsica" said Mr.. Mac
Grath, "where had gone with Mrs.
MacGrath to see the birthplace of
Napoleon, we underwent a week Of
lufid and melodramatic experiences
such as no author has ever had the
courage to write"
Mr.. MacGrath had always been a
great admirer of the Little Corporal.
and for that reason decided to see
his birthplace, even though French
people who knew conditions on the
island tried to dissuade him. But
having written "a Splendid Haz-
ard" a novel dealing Indirectly with
the celebrated rulers life, the author
was not to be discouraged.
The party embarked from Mar
seilles and arrived at Corsican
fishing village late in the evening.
It was the height Of the vintage
season" on the island, and the vii
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

have stated that it reminded them
of rope swinging back and forth
from the clouds. Usually in the
case Of slender cloud the color is
milky white except near the ground,
where it is dark from flying dust
and debris. Clouds Of large diameter
are usually much darker"
This same writer, who, let it be
remembered, was writing not for
general consumption but for the off,
cial record Of his bureau, has this to
say of the marvellous tales related Of
these storms:
Freaks Of the Storms
"The freakish occurrences that re-
suit from these storms will tax the
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

island 20 Ajaccio, where Bonapars
was born, began. The road fa
through a wild, picturesque county
infested by Malta gangs, making
travel by nightfall impossible.
Remember" Mr.. MacGrath eS'
planned, during this time we h"
nothing to eat except the remains
of a can of beans q man had opened
with an ak, some crackers, ll'u'
cheese and wild chestnuts We
gathered.
upon our arrival at Ajaccio We W
stayed only long enough to see 'ns
Little Corporals birthplace, wheie'
upon we were glad to embark from
the port of Bastia, at which polus pis
we got our first meal in five days
In concluding his story, the auth"
sai6s
History indicates that Napole'a
seldom mentioned his home. INV
only reference | recall was dur1ps
his imprisonment. This doesns
seem strange to me, for about INV
only time any one could wish io'
Corsica would be when he was y
jail" ss
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

the sign and seal Of Uncle Sam
himself and must therefore be au-
thentic.
OF course, out in the regions where
these storms abound and the local
Ananias clubs whet their imagina-
tons on tornado rather than fish
stories, this bit Of ancient literature
might be considered dull reading
but tc the INITIATED it is startling to
find 1t solemnly set down that one Of
the victims Of the tornado which the
army man placed under espionage
was a woman with exceptionally
long hair; that the storm cut or
tore most Of this hair from her head,
twisted it into a rope and left it ly-
ing near her, while the hair left
upon her head was tightly curled
into many little wisps, such as we
are accustomed to see upon the
heads Of stage Topsies, and was filled
with sand.
1t was the same tornado, according
to cur veracious chronicler, that
bore down upon a large house ex-
ceptionally we'll built Of logs and
heavy native timbers, hit one corner
Of It a resounding whack, veered off,
cantered out around the barn and at
tackled the house from the opposite
sice, dissipating it over the land
scape so thoroughly that much Of it
was rever seen again. So impressed
was the tornado trailer with this ex-
ploit that he drew a picture to il.
lustrate it, showing the course Of the
storm around the barn, which was
untouched, and back to the house.
The route was plainly marked by
such Inconsistencies as giant forest
trees twisted off at the roots and
fragile chicken houses undisturbed.
Tho Transplanted Picture
This may sound rather tame to the
modern raconteur, who tells of an
incident which came under his per-
sonal observation which concerns
picture which had been in one frame
before the storm struck, but was
found later to be fitted perfectly into
frame which the family had never
seen before. And there is the tale Of
another victim, who solemnly AYERS
that when he made his way back to
the old homestead, after it had been
visited by a tornado, he found the
foundation Of his devastated home
occupied by the undamaged home of
neighbor.
Still, these modern versions are
not so much harder to believe than
that told by the government investi-
gator about some bed quilts he found
that had passed through the storm.
These quilts were so matted with
mud, not outside but inside, that
when they were dry they could
be lifted without bending, like the
section Of floor. AS corollary to
this he describes trees examined and
found In which sand bad been driven
entirely through the bark into
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
By Wood1nan Morrison

TF EARLY returns mean any
b thing this Is going to be "cy-
n clone summer" Already there
have been an unusually large
number Of tornadoes, commonly, but
enormously called cyclones" and
the loss Of lives and property has
been exceptionally heavy. T1mid
persons in the tornado belt now
watch every cloud with apprehen-
sion and descend to the cellar or the
Cyclone cave" every time the thun-
der begins to growl in the Southwest.
Whether or not you should give
yourself uneasiness in regard to tor
nadoes depends to a large extent
upon what part of the United States
you call home. If you are on the
Atlantic Coast or in the New Eng
land States or west Of the Rocky
Mountains you may consider your
self reasonably justified in deleting
tornadoes from among the list OF
your worries.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

the wood Of the tree. And this was
not merely on one side Of the trunk,
but around its entire circumference.
In another place he found trees still
standing, but stripped Of every par
ticle Of their bark.
One thing this early Investigator
did was to give one Of the best de-
scriptions that has been written of
the forming Of a tornado. Prior to
the storm the weather, he said, had
been unseasonably warm and humid
for several days. The day of the
storm opened clear, as had been the
previous ten days, but as the morn
ing progressed haze seemed to fill
the air, which was stagnant and so
heavy that breathing was difficult.
There were no clouds, but the sun
was dimmed and looked like red
coal, giving the sky sinister.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
TORNADO Gt Lebanon,
L. Kam., October 8, 1913,
photographed By Earl Y.
B0Wer

lures noted in reading over the ac-
counts Of these storms is the num-
ber Of almost miraculous escapes.
lnexplicable and almost unbeliev-
able occurrences similar to the above
that have come to the attention of
the writer might be repeated at
great length"
Miraculous Escapes
Emboldened by the support of
such scientific testimony, might re-
late numerous incidents that have
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
A Long Island Imitation

To be sure, the New York news
papers some weeks ago reported the
descent Of tornado upon Long
Island hamlet, but descriptions of
the storm did not read much like the
almost stereotyped phrases, in which
the initiated Middle West CORE
spondent records the advent Of a
'twister."
It Is the dweIler In the great Mis-
sissippi Valley who does well to keep
his weather eye open at this season
Of the year. The tornado is indigo
nous to the immense basin lying be-
tween the Allegheny Mountains on
the east and the Continental Divide
on the west.
And the tornado season moves
northward with the sun. The Mid
die Westerner can watch the calen-