Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-12-22

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A skipper, returning from a
South American trip with a circus.
fells of the elephant. Must have
been crossed with a goat. Topsy
was 50 and weighed three tons. In
T~wenty-four hours two tarpaulins,
lot of tackle, fifty feet of deck
house and a chest of signal flags
had disappeared. / think Topsy
threw them overheard, but the
keeper insisted that she would eat
anything she could get in her
mouth And the camel: she
must have gone on a fast before she
came aboard. The first day she
smpted the canvas bathing pool
which was filled with fresh water
and with the water inside the camel
the passengers had ITO go without
their swims."
Rockefeller Center is planning
the addition of more underground
passages to the city. To take care
Of the 100000 daily population of
the development, subsurface pedes-
trian passageways of more than
three-quarters Of a mile in length
will connect all buildings. The
corridors will be unconditional,
weIl-lighted and thanked on both
sides BY shops. Roadways for four
lines of vehicles will be even lower
~ feet below the street. From
This level deliveries will be made to
all ct the office buildings in the
development.
Here's one cabby that has rem
dered real service. Because his taxi
passenger had recently broken a
leg, instead of merely landing her
on the dock, he drove from the top
deck of the pier through an entry
way right on to the promenade deck
of her ship and landed her within
ten feet of her stateroom. She was.
bound for Havre.
A new store in a restaurant chain
here counts the electric eye as one
Of its valued employees. Wait
resses, passing through a small fence
leading to the doors to and from
the kitchen, block the passage of
light from one side of the fence to,
the other. As the beam of light is
cut, the doors open before them
Automatically.
Speaking of the electric eye-the
New York Public Library has an
electric eye counter for all those
who pass in their fo%rty-second
street entrance. Some people have
been known to count for two,
however, by cutting the light beam
with a hand after the shoulders
have already cut it once.
A sandhog fell in shallow water
and was fished out and taken to
the hospital where he puzzled the
doctors with a case of the bends
which requires some explana-
ton, A sandhog is the term for a
man who works under air pressure
in digging river tunnels and similaf
work; and the bends result from
too much nitrogen of the air being
forced into the blood, which can
only happen at high pressures.
The doctors knew this, of course
and since the water the sandhog
was in was shallow, they were puzz-
led.
The semi-conscious victim told
the doctors where there was a de-
comprising machine where the
victim was put under high air pres
sure which was gradually reduced.
When the victim recovered he
confided that since there was no
river tunnel digging and he had
been out of work, he and a couple
OF Others had been working at top
speed, diving for the liquid gold"
OF a sunken rum ship. He wa SO
fatigued that he lost his balance
and fell off the pier-and then the
bends hit him after he had been out
of a diving suit for an hour or