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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

; With Collins saying work and not talk
is required in Ireland, De Valeras de-
sire to be reelected president was turned
down. The desire for peace rather than
trouble is thus plainly manifested.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

From the many excellent things that
are being said about his administration
OF the post Office department possibly Mr..
Hays will feel compelled TO turr down
that s15o,e60 a year offer
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12
READ YOUR CHARACTER
BY Digby Phillips,
Copyrighted 1921
The Hand of Ideals

The Hand of Ideals
Some people virtually live on ideas
Others never let ideals bother them very
much. They're interested onl yin CON
crete results, and more in success than
in the manner In which it is accomplish
ed.
There are several ways Of telling
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

There are those already who DO not
like the new silver dollars Most peo-
pie. however, will pass Judgment on them
IN accord with what they will buy.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

Pennsylvania thinks 1t has curbed a
coal mine fire that has been burning 50
years. Inasmuch as 1t Is to lay a tax
on all coal 1t cannot afford to let any
escape that way.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

! The prompt trial and sentence Of the
two Chelsea bandits TO terms Of IS to 25
years in prison should hove corrective
influence on any who may be similarly
minded.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

It is fully understood Of course that
Mr.. Grounding pays no attention to ear
ly January weather in arranging his
coming out party.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12
Stories That Recall Other.
A Pointed Question.

A seven-year-old daughter has been
hearing much about women's rights. She
went to church Christmas Sunday ard
the choir sang hymns in which Peace
on earth, Good VIII to Men" of.el &C.
Cured.
She stood it As LON. as she could. Then
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

backache and gen
eral weakness. l
could not sleep
comfer tably at
night for pains in
my back. ] found
your book athon,e
one day and af-
ter reading it be-
gan at once to
tax e Ly dia E.
|Pmkham's V g.
lie t able Com
mound Thove had
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

Even though strawberries may drop
from S1.25 to 50 cents basket, It will
not do to use it as an example of the
reduced cost of living.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

General Wood is endeavoring to have
the Igorrotes stop eating dogs, but 'rhot
dogs" seem to have a strong hold in this
country.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12
NOTICE

The Annual Meeting of the Policy
Holders of the New London County Mu-
tuai Fire Insurance Company will be
held at the office of the Company, Nos.
59-61 Broadway, Norwich, Conn, on
Tuesday Jan. 18th. 1922, at o'clock in
the afternoon,
To hear and act upon the Annual Re-
ports.
To eject four Directors for a term Of
three years each.
To transact any further business
proper to be done at said meeting.
W. F LESTER, Secretary.
jan9d
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

The man on the corner says: Each
snow storm means just that much less
Of the beautiful to look forward to and
shovel
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12
EDITORIAL NOTES

A loaded revolver with which one child
KILLED another was certainly most de-
d!ghtful plaything.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12
MONTHS OF
SUFFERING
How a Baltimore Girl Re.
covered Her Health

Baltimore, Maryland. For sew
eral months l suffered with severe
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12

l. NJ
said That Health the First Wealth"
health subject that Dr. Louis Bumer Founder Of Nature
Utaly child.
cove
especially
Million
shoul
which is restoring afflicted health
The Science That the Human Family Has for Ages
Are
Artificial 6imuIants.
Every
Demonstrations Which P. M Sharp
and Continue For Days.
Friendst to the
NATUREoPATHY DEMONSTRATES AMAZING RESULTS
Admission and Seats Collection
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATUREoPATHc
PHYSICIANS OF NORWICH
of to all are
delivered daily
EACH HEALTH LECTURE is OF VITAL VALUE
Those profession
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12
BumsteadsWormSyrup

ITO children an .nEel o. mercy" where
directions are followed. 1T NENEb
FAILS. Despite scarcity and enormous
rost Of SANTONIN. Il contains full dose.
Stood sixty years test. Sold evcryvhere
or By mail. soc bottle.
Est, @, A. VOORHEES,. II. D.. PhilASeiphia
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12
Norwich. Thursday. Jan. 10. 1929.

The associated Press is exclusively entitled
% tte Use FOR republication Of al news despatch
credited % Il or not otherwise credited to
his psue- ard also the local news published
herein
All rights OF republication Of special des-
patches herein are also reserved.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-12
Relieves the Afflicted While You Wait-Nothing to
Swalow-You Just Watch Him Do 1t.


to
who
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09

it was a simple job compared to pull
ing the throttle of the Boardwalk
Flyer.
The wood used as fuel was on the
pla atform beside the engine. The ensi-
neer and fireman on this primitive
engine were one and the same man.
There was plenty of time In those days,
though, and it was not necessary to
stop the train to fire the boiler. There
was only one lever and that was the
throttle.
When It was away ahead you got
full speed, and when it was pushed
way back you reversed. The engine
had four wheels, no driving rods and
no brakes. 1t had kerosene bulls eye
and pop whistle.
Bob" Hammill rejoices that he
doesn't have such an engine to drive.
He has seen great development in loco
motives even In his day. When the
boardwalk Flyer was first put on he
mighty proud of the job.
Every afternoon, soon after 3 30
o'clock. you can find him in the yards
oiling and petting Engine 121, getting
ready for the start to the shore.
lie examines the gauges. tests the
brakes, and takes up the slack on the
throttle. Then he sits by the window
waiting for the two pops on his whistle
which are signal to start.
When he gets them he braces him.
self, takes hold of the throttle with
both hands and gives II the first notch.
From the time the train starts 1t does
not reduce Its speed until it reaches
the bridge this side Of Atlantic City.
The locomotive IL one of the newest
types. a Pacific engine. with electric
headlight and electric lights in the cab,
with bell ringer and fire doors operated
by its own electric generator. Com
pared with some of the other locomo-
tives. 1t Is low and heavy, built for
power and speed.
'Some OF the lighter engines can run
just as FAST" said Hammill, but they
couldn't pull the load this does. Now
that passengers demand 30 much luxury
on the train. parlor and club cars with
every accommodation, 1t takes heavy
engine to pull the weight. And then
the steel cars Of today are much heavier
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09
Wants Sons to FOIlOD
in DADS Footsteps,

~ N~S& y = VVSOSSEOI
Hammill is now. third oldest on the
Readings engineers roster. He 10
hoping that one of his sons will some
day follow in his footsteps. The boy
is now making his start in the railroad
shops. Els
Bob" and his family have lived in
the same house in Gloucester for more
than fifty years. His parents lived
wife and four children. His wife, like
those Of hundreds Of other engineers.
accepts "Bob's' job and its hazards
with fortitude born of long schooling
and knowledge of the work. In the
early days 1t was harder, for his hours
were longer and the risk greater.
Most Of the train officials with whom
talked had served their day in rail-
road shops as fremen and engineers.
They knew their engines as the geolo.
gist knows his most precious specimen. s
They carried around pictures of their
favorite locomotives. They could trace
the evolution of the steam engine from
queer little runts up to the powerful
and massive machines that are consid-
cred best today.
And the fascination for trains, with
all the noise and hustle and gay -colored
lights of the railroad yards, seemed to
have spread to the wives. too. At least,
those met seemed to love and to know
thoroughly the trainmen's lore. Many
of them had ridden the engine beside
their husbands or sweethearts at va
rious times.
\ group of trainmen and several
women had stopped with me beside the
boardwalk Flyers locomotive to talk
trains and shop" and by the time
Hammill had to begin his oiling task
again there were many others standing
near and staring in our direction.
II the firenen and engineer were as
dirty and hungry as l they welcomed
the home lights that evening. But be-
draggled and hungry as l was, ! found
myself counting telegraph poles as /
passed them In the trolley homeward
bound
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09

road he has never been In a train
wreck where any one was killed.
"Once, In my early days as a fire.
man, the engine was riding jumped
the track hut the results were not seri-
ous," he said. ".And In a storm about
twenty -four years ago my engine COL
lided with another ut Cedar Brook.
My engine turned over on Its side
and I was thrown out of the cab. A
broken left arm laid Inc up for about
seventeen weeks, but ] guess that's the
only time I ever did get much hurt.
No passengers were injured.
1T is much harder to drive at night
than In the day time, Of course, for
1t is more difficult to see signals and
crossings. No. I've never worn glasses.
A fellows eyes just get trained to see
the things he ought to see, and mine
never have bothered me.
"If an engineer had any business to
get nervous ut all II would be during a
storm. Either rain or snow IL pretty
bad, and when there IL lightning 1t Is
even worse. 1t blinds you NO you can
sea rcely zee signals.
''What do we do In . stormy just
slow down and take all precautions y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09

president Of the New York Central,
ordered slower train schedules because
Of a wreck on train from Mentor,
O., to Chicago. However, he reversed
this order when he found that speed
had nothing to do with the accident and
the Twentieth Century Limited contin.
ued les eighteen hour schedule.
But there are still old trainmen who
can tell Of problems that confronted
railroad experts Of early Philadelphia
days-problems that today engineers
laugh ut. Railroad managers poured
over reports Of experts and questioned
each other as to the possibility Of ever
making engines burn coal, pull trains
without setting them on fire, and take
curves without the slipping Of wheels.
When trains arrived at their des-
tination the same day they set out,
without the engineers having been ar.
rested for poaching on the preserves Of
various legislative Jurisdictions, and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09
Flying, POles Look Like
a Long Picket Fence

Ono of the trainmen had told mo I
could judge our speed BY counting tele.
graph poles-forty to the mile. I
counting poles and seconds till we were
going sixty-five miles an hour. Then
fear. OF becoming cross eyed stopped inc.
The poles seemed frightfully close to.
gether. The wind and rain beat in moro
fercely and the engine was noticeably
rocking.
The fireman had given me a handful
Of brightly hued waste to protect my
hands from the oil and dirt of the en-.
gine, but ! forgot that and clutched the
window ledge as we went faster and
faster.
1t was a joyous feeling. ! began to
understand the fascination this sort Of
thing has for these trainmen. The en-.
gine seemed really alive-some : great
swi It. flying. roaring beast that had been
trained to respond to the slightest caress
or touch from the driver-a hungry
monster that needed always to be fed.
At eighty five miles an hour (Mr,
Balthaser, standing near, was "keepine
score") was thankful I had Worn a
bathing cap. At ninety miles the can
was blowing off and l was glad there
were more hairpins in the travelling BAG
back in a coach. The goggles remained
firm. no firm that ! had queer white
rings about my eyes In the midst of a
mulatto complexion when We reached
Atlantic City.
As We flew past stations and cross.
roads l sketchily saw that neonie
stared and waved. managed to Keen
wad Of waste futtering in the breeze
80 they would guess that their saiuta.
tions were returned.
! marveled most at the train sir.
nails, especially the automatic block sig
nal system that serves to keep nil the
trains certain distance apart. At Ger
tain times of the day in summer there
are as many az twenty. five trains run
ming on the same track between Camden
and the seashOre with schedules only
five minutes apart. II something goei
wrong with one train the entire line OF
high speed trains is held up. But thil
seldom happens.
Perfectly built and perfectly KEEP,
engines; expert and tried Rremen ant
essentials for high -speed trains" Mr.
Lewis had told me, ''snd every pre-
, caution is taken a'ways. The engineerl
2 are too proud Of their records to le
!, anything CO. wrong II there is the leas
chance to prevent it,"
The automatic signals are what keel
p the trains from colliding, he explained
The line IL divided into blocks or sec
tlons, and the entrance to each bloc
Is guarded by appropriate signals. Whel
the train wheels pass over the trac
they touch certain instruments or lever
p and set In motion the electrical opera
. tions that move the signals. ..
. When the signal shows green II mean
sL.A La 10 ala &c.. Oh
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09
When rs Miles an Hour
Was "RedL Whizzing"

1t was considered one of the best
locomotives of it's day and could take
train along the road at speed Of
twenty Ave miles an hour. Runniny
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09

pied but that the next home signal will
be at stop" And when the red shows
above yellow It means that another
train is on this block and also indicates
stop. .......
The engineer knows these signals 90
thoroughly that his. eyes catch the colors
mechanically a. his locomotive whixses
BY. and his fingers grasp the levers that
increase or decrease his speed accord.
insly. .E ..t "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09

,,.i,h hi, Lana. ,Do,tod oIicon hc had To
stnnd T n nn k .imtoo " :" ,,o,,r tbe dark iiauid
nus. .hn % ;oip.. p' 81 - ~, % S.sst rsce horse.
M ~" 's W nc - 49, .,,...
. l'eside tne nuse icc9mo!Ve n.s 'nsm
hve.toot ngure looked hke that OF a
pyginy. when ne hesrd ! was 20 t, rue
IN the cap with MIN, ne wlpsd MS nnu Maha
on some WASTE anu tuFhed !" '"aAe
m'me. 49,. ia. ', T..
u nope we give you soou ''oe' lie
smiieu.
ie nad cd.eIu.y !eu 'hsisc.ea S tne 3. eng ensne' i
-. Usual: :;,,. Hn!mo"kn me nv" M,Jho,so ~
N.Y.. WI.s ~. sn' .I trn I'LL, ng 'ou'. ou,'uI.S ".
s M ~. wv Iurs WHSLE" sns =, ~ soeu ~. nS a.
s's"a' ~ START ne ""s :" nis va "i'u
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09
YETERAN OFRAiLS HOLDS
FJRllL YTO THROTTLE WHILE
.I4NDSCAPE IS II MERE BL UR
ctImy Face and W1nd-Ssoept 7resses
For When Tourney to
atlantic City Is Completed ahead Of
~ Time-"M in a Days Work" Is
n Nonchalant Attitude of 7rainmen
BY SALLY LOCKWOOD

NINETY miles an hour!
Hanging out cab
Ia ridden ..
rush wind and dust that turned CRIME the singing pe
drsinl . -. ... -. :. -.
Corng shrek Of the whse roaring Of steam; hot blasts
Ann tS with, ALL glorious feeling Of flying and
trsh damp cool with thought Of anything but that
the end Of fifty minutes queerly shaded busgray face
complexion all till scrubbng brushes had scrubbed their
hardest. -. .-
the sensations first ride the engine cab
Flyer experience nothing
onal earance omnlex
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09
Seconds Are Precious
H. Watches Race On

] never before reulZeu tHc tTe"e"
dnus Importance Of seconds. They had
be.n merely trivial divisions Of min
utes that never bothered me. But when
" went a mile in forty seconds and
tn entire fifty-fve miles in a triie
more than fifty minutes; when saw
u engineer and the road foreman Of
nsines and the supervisor Of fuel con-
ssvatlon, watches In hand, counting up
~ seconds our journey had consumed,
] (Avckled as contentedly as they, and
tilt that to get into Atlantic City even
'ssnds before schedule time meant
nueh.
When my trip in the cab was being
planned scores came forth with suggcs-
toss.
Wear knickers and old clothes and
3sll need goggles" said Reading Rail.
nv officials.
Wear bathing cap to protect your
har, said some one else.
abe sure to cover your face with
e'A cream before you start" and "hold
Muyht. the cab rocks like everything
,Ad you won't have a spring seat. l
.Ov you don't get seasick," and
aont talk to the engineer"
= minute utter we started I was
'-lans over the last injunction. The
.as'neer hung out his window at the
sa' Of the cab. hung out Of the
uan window at the other side.
N1a the constant ringing Of our
u.n bell. the intermittent shrieks Of
-. whistle, the changing Of fire doors
~ t0e hremsn's shovel, the roar of the
!, I'm ana the sweep Of wind and dris.
- against our faces, If I had shouted
ne top Of my lungs I think the en- .
f probably would not even have
40 me unless he had been listening
''s m, voice.
.ns'much as William Balthascr, road
S,%an Of engines. who served az my
.s1s' = nad explained to me the duties ol
- 'nnneer, really had not expected
-, ~ a.sention from William Robert
ry~. '" tue n0"'""a''
y, ''aes keeping his hand on the throt
HWas up. to him to glimpse all high
.Ao s. railroad crossings and blow tn
ssus at such places; to note tn
N. apaors and automatic signals tha
nun whether the track was clear
l. s ..ea the water level In the boiler
nv. ~ On eye on the steam gauge, t
'ne valve II the steam pressur
,.s - 100 great; and to watch the al
80 mat showed whether the pressu,
.'p' up sufficiently to operate Il
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09
Speeding Engine Is Pet
of Veteran Engineer

But Bob" Hammill. who will be
sixty -four years old In October. only
smiles his calm smile. pats Engine 121
stroke the biggest circus elephant with
which he has made friends, and admits |:
THE faster they are the better I like
them"
In his forty five years with the rail.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09
Ahead of the Schedule
Despite One iSI0lcdOscn

Only once in our run did we have a
signal to slow down. That was at
the bridge just this side Of Atlantic
City, where repair work under way
made caution necessary.
After the previous speed II seemed
we scarcely moved across the bridge
and only crawled into the station. But
We were ahead Of schedule BY several
seconds. >l..t .s-, 49,
The greatest speed was made between
Blue Anchor and Colosne-seventeen
miles Of perfectly straight, clear road
bed-where the ferns by the wayside
seemed merely carpet and the trees
ong lonS mass Of green broken only now
"Did you like itTi -
The query came from half a dozen
trainmen. When the swift journey was
ended bob" Hammill smiled beneath
his sandy mustache and asked me to
ride again.
He was as calm and detached as
though he had just come from the corner
grocery store instead Of from the en-
gineer's box Of the fastest train In the
world.
mo. I've never been afraid Of any:
thing in my life." he answered. and
smiled at the question. "When my
mother died at fifty .eight she had never
been frightened in her life." -.
He wasn't .boasting. He simply
doesn't know what fear Is. His nerves
have been trained and hardened By
forty five years Of railroad service.
Thirty three Of these years he has been
an engineer, most Of the time driving
the fastest trains on the road.
Many men after years OF preliminary
training fail to pass the Anal test that
puts them into the fast drivers class
Many others refuse to run fast trains.
They want their hands on the throttle
Of only freight trains.
There are still others who stand the
strain Of the speedsters for few years
then completely lose their nerve and "a
back to firing, or else to the throttle Of
| glow moving locomotives.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09

IN fact, by the time you are going
,hsty miles an hour you are SO ex-
Alhnted that hairpins and cold
uvam mean nothing in your life
,ea Iust want to keep on moving
nln that forever.
At least, was mighty sorry that
~ fastest regularly scheduled
passenger train in the world" didn't
70 ninety miles an hour the entire
dfty.hve miles from Camden to At
Aatic City, instead of just across
those flying miles Of perfectly
straight roadbed that lie on the
meadows.
Strange, isn't It, that the pas.
,eagers can sit 80 calmly, back in
| ths coaches, reading their papers or
powdsring their noses, without get
hns 4 single thrill over the speed
| u train is making? They would
| aty grumble II the Boardwalk
| Flyer pulled in a minute late pt At
hatic City.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09
Plenty of Room, Open
for Crack En0ineerS

He was born in ireland, he said, but
his parents brought him to America
when he was an infant.
"When I was lad" he went on,
my mother told me must either 90 to
school or to the iron works. ! wasn't
works. Then IN 1877 started work
with the railroad as water boy for q
section gang. -.t
1T Il a long. hard training to get
into the engineers box even now, and
In those days there wasn't much pay,
either. Now the pay IL bigger because
all the boys want to be conductors In
stead Of engineers. Nobody seems to
want the Job and the railroads can't get
men 20 easily.
when my water. carrying Job with
the section gang ended I went into the
railroad shops and later started firing.
Thirty three years ago. I was given my
first run and I have been driving en-
gines ever SINCE"
The boardwalk Flyer isn't tho first
In an hour. But IL is the fastest reg.
ularly scheduled train.
Only last year J. Lowber Stokes, q
Philadelphia banker and broker, paid
$427 to have q special train carry him
from Philadelphia to New York in
eighty minutes. The thirty five miles
from Neshaminy Falls to Weston were
covered in twenty .eight minutes, an
average of one and quarter miles
minute.
For the 80 miles between Weston
and Bound Brook Junction only two
minutes were required. an average Of
1875 miles minute. The ninety .mile
run to Jersey City was made In eighty
mi hn eoCnrI ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-09

without loss of life or limb, the towns
people turned out to marvel and ap.
plaud. When cog slipped or car
was derailed, or an engine fell apart,
1t meant many deaths-and it wasn't
an unusual occurrence.
The Rocket" which Is now on ex.
hibition In the Columbia Avenue sta.
tion of the Reading, was one of a group
Of engines which began to arrive In
Philadelphia in the winter of 1887 and
the spring of 1S3S-years before bob"
Hammill's day. 1t weighed about eight
tons. and during its life ran a total of
80, 1914 miles,