The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-14
BITS OF NEWS FREAKS
Chicago Finds Out, Among
Other Things, How Pullman
Cars Get Their Names.
(py The Associated Pressl

Chicago, August 14.-How Pullman
cars get their names is a question that
answer is revealed in the August Issue
of the Pullman News.
''One good name suggests another.
that publication says in explaining
that while many cars have been
| named in definite plan, representing
certain type of car, others were bap-
tied in "sequential fashion"
The person naming a car for
Charles Dickens, for instance" the
, pub ication continues, had his mind
stirred by Dickens.an memories. as
proven by co-relative names as Pick
wick, Dodson, Knickerbocker, Icha-
bod, Tarrytown, Stuyvesant and Man
haitian. Rudyard Kipling. Mandalay
gether. Then there is Stevenson,
Scotland, Ballantrae and Samoa.
Some persons evidently favored Sir
Walter Scott. for there are cars
Cedric, Rotherwood, Athelstan, Ashby,
Talisman, Saladin and Peveril
''MilesianS will. recognize the
sequence in Ireland. Emerald. XII
kenny, Killarney. Kildate, Galway,
Clarke. Limerick and Shannon. With
Napoleon as a starter, Waterloo and
Wellington were obvious and also
Josephine, Jena, Marengo and Helena.
When one thinks of Columbus the
trend of thought runs to lisa bella, San
Salvador and Santa Maria. Kitchener
brought out Khartoum, Soudan,
Egypt and Khedive.
Visions of the days of the knights
of the round table evolved Arthur.
Guinevere. Lancelot. Shallott, Laun-
fal. Gawaine, Merlin, Wizard. To
tiullate the palates of those who re-
greet the passage of the eighteenth
amendment there are Bourbon, Rye
gate, Gordon, Manhattan, Moselle,
( Burgundy Tokay, Yvette, Cohasset,
Scotland and Bacchante. But there is
also Aqua and Temperance"
A large number of persons and
places coupled in history have their
names emblazoned in Pullman letter
ing. such as Ruth and Naomi, Venus
and Adonis. Dewey and Manila, Cad
mus and Europa, Damon and Pythias.
Manomet and Mecca, Perseus and
Medusa, Abelard and Helois, Godiva
and Coventry Rostand and Bergerac
Monitor and Merrimac, Hiawatha and
Minnehaha. Sheraton and Chippen-
dale, Hamlet and Orphelia, Nelson
and Trafalgar, Helen and Paris.
Ending a search of many years S.
S. Riggs of Sleepy Eye, Mimi. has
just found his son. Leslie Kenneth
Riggs. who disappeared from his
II years old.
Young Riggs. his father has lust
learned, served with credit in the
world war and upon returning from
cago symphony orchestra as a drum
mer- He toured the country with
band, and now is a bandman at Lake
Field Aviation Station, American
army, Honolulu.
When the band in which Riggs
played visited Sleepy Eye a few years
ago, the elder Riggs heard the con-
cert, not knowing that his son was a
member Of the organization.
James Barber, a farmer catching
for the futile. n. D., baseball team.
broke a leg sliding home in a game
with the North Dakota penitentiary
team at Bismarck recently.
The accident unnerved the prison
team and the futile players, overcom-
ing a lead, won the game.
Recently the members of the prison
team learned that Barber had cons.d-
bic land in crop and would not be
able to care for it Realizing the ex-
pense of harvesting. the inmates
raised a purse of $3.50 from their slen-
der savings and presented it to Bar
Der.
Bumper crops on the Missouri
slope of North Dakota are being at
1ributed by many to series of prayer
meetings. which started at New Eng
land. N D.. May 2s- The meetings