The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-08-31
Making History

Buffalo, N. Y. Charles H. Spring
born, just retired, ran q New York
Central locomotive between Buffalo
and Cleveland for 30 years, not count
ing five years as fireman.
He puts his total runs at 3,806, 400
miles-152 times round the world at
the equator, plus twice across the
United States.
If he'd made this trip straight
away, 60 miles an hour, he'd have been
at the throttle 264 24-hour days, plus
eight hours. out of the 265th day.
He estimates he has hauled 1884,
600 passengers.
Springborn made his first run as
engineer at 90 in wood burning To-
comotive, weighing 40 tons; his last
one in a 245-ton engine of the Pacific
type. He piloted the first Twentieth
Century Limited for three years. His
fastest run was 1873 miles in lat min
utes, with seven slow-downs for CT
ties. He never missed days work
on account Of an accident.
His health is excellent. Last Octo-
Der, after rigid eye test, he received
fitness certificate for two more
years.
Boston Boston has been expert
encing "a "child evangelist" lately.
She's Mary Agnes Vitchestain, aged
ID. Mary's been preaching mostly at
Revere Bach, telling bathers how
they ought to behave.
Here are some of the things she
says:
,"We're movie mad" "The devil
plays while we dance" "Real men are
scarce as fve-legged frogs" "Ci-
garet-sucking simps!" "The DEVILS
got the fapper on the rum" "The
preachers who champion evolution are
filter to bark Hot Dogs at Coney."
"Away with your advanced civilization,
your culture and refinement"
"The queer thing" remarks a "Wo-
mans Page" writer, ais that adults who
ought to have a wild longing to take
her into a woodshed and spank some
sense into her, can be found who will
listen seriously to this presumptuous
chit discussing topics entirely beyond
the ken of her experience or insight"
Wichita, Kas. - Though he~lost his
vision three years ago, Prof. Arthur ].
Hoare of Fairmount College, Wichita,
continues one of the couRtry's fore
most instructors in mathematics.
Prof Hoare's favorite pupils are
school teachers, far advanced in their
studies. Younger people, who require
discipline. he, cannot manage, since his
infrmity makes it impossible for him
to, be disciplinarian.
The professor cannot see the figures
he draws upon the board, but he draws
them unerringly, and he points them
out, as he explains a problem, from
memory as to where he put them.
Pittsburgh, Pa. - Though only Z,
Howard Wolfe Specht, Pittsburgh
"child evangelist" has been acting as
supply pastor during August in
church near the city. He has preach
ed in half a dozen pulpits previously.
Due allowance being made for the
fact that Howard speaks from child's
the boy delivers strong
sermon and his appeals have brought
many hearers to the converts bench
at each of his meetings.
Young as he was then, the lad won
an honorary warrant for encouraging
marine corps enlistments during the
war, and Treasury Department medal
fer Liberty bond sales.
He is a constant Bible reader and
his mother is determined to make a
clergyman of him. His father is an
sx-sergeant of marines, now street
car conductor.
Hobart, Mich When Howard Mot
or. il years old, discovered a broken
all on the PENNSYLVANIA track close