Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-05-11
Mike Maher Writes He Proposes
to Spray the Track With Water
for Comfort of Passengers
WAS FORMERLY MASTER
MECHANIC IN BARABOO
Travellers Are Now Carried
Through the Air Between Two
Coast Cities

No longer will passengers on the
Southern Pacific desert trains bite
the dust, according 10 w. H. Whalen.
superintendent. who has discovered a
method of eliminating the discomfort
from the railroad journey. After more
than twenty years of steady combat
with dust which has cost the company
thousands Of dollars in spreading oil
over the surface, Mr.. Whalen has
thought of the simple water sprinkler.
The spray hangs under the tender and
the flow of water is regulated by a
lever operated by the fireman. About
20 years ago Mr. Whalen was master
mechanic in BaraboO for the C. &
n. w. railroad.
Every once in a while out of the
thousands of satisfied newcomers
there emerges one who is not salts
fled and gets out his little hammer
and knocks. For instance a man with
a good position in the east with a
family will throw up his job, sell or
ship his furniture and bring his
family here, arriving with little or no
money. True he can get work which
pays less than the one he left in
the east. One came all the way from
New Jersey, moneyless and friend
less. He stayed one week, left dis
gusted with the west Another was
wiser. He asked for a two months
vacation. He found plenty of work
but had to begin at the botrornl and
work up. He did not knock the city
but quietly returned to his old posi-
ton.
Plans of the electric railway to
build subway to Glendale will help
out the traffic in a city of 100000
inhabitants, which Los Angeles seems
destined to become in few years. Il
has the largest area of any city in
the world.
Jimmy Murphy, driving one of the
most consistant races of his career
and without a single tire change or
pit stop, won the $50 mile auto race
at Fresno for $4,000. This man Muir
ply is the one that went over to Eu-
rope a year ago and won the Grand
Prix prize and since then he won
first money in two races and second
in one. He surely is bringing home
the bacon
| saw a genuine pessimist the 9TH
er day. He said there was to much
sunshine here TO suit him. If he were
here in January and February he
would tell a different story as there
was but a very few days of sunshine.
An unusual sea monster belonging TO
species never before discovered
was captured by the crew Of a large
fishing boat off Long Beach It is
II 1-2 feet long and weighed 1900
pounds. 1t took three hours to land
the monster.
Rapid air transit between Los An
geles and San Francisco became
t, reality recently with the arrival OF
three plans from the Bay City in
five hours. They will carry passen-
gers for little more than railroad
fare and will be less than the half
the time each trip.
What is said TO be the first time
in history a verdict for damages for
the failure of a landlord to supply
heat for his tenants was rendered re-
J Gently James Cohenour was awarded
I $4,000 for the death of his son.
There is a great deal of new build
ing going on; or five sky scrapers
in the bunch. One is the Biltmore ho-
tel, IA stories high and to cost. sew
en- million dollars Well, I guess we
have spoken our little piece. Regards
to ALL
I MIKE & HANNA MAHER
1854 MargO Street
! Los Angeles. California