Adventurers’
“Two Trains on a Track”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter.
«fjF i'D been embarking on an expedition into some unex
plored jungle,” says George Force of New York city, ‘I
might have been ready for anything. But as it happened, adven
ture came to me on a trip home from the office. A trip I took
six days a week, fifty weeks in the year.” Well, George, I’ve been
arguing for a long time that that’s the way most adventures
happen.
It was on January 27, 1903, and George was on a train
headed for home, which was then in a small New Jersey sub
urban town. It was a funny old train—as we know trains now.
The cars were wooden ones. They were heated by coal
stoves, one of which was set in the middle of each car. It was a
cold, snowy night. The train was rolling along about twenty
miles out of New York, and just beyond the town of Westfield.
At the other side of Westfield, the train stopped. The express was
coming through and the little local was switched to another track. Tne
railroad dispatchers intended it to stay there until the express had
gone by.
Tragic Train Wreck on Winter Night.
But something went wrong with the signals. The big train—the
Royal Blue Line Philadelphia Express—doing sixty miles an hour—was
on the wrong track. It was coming straight for the rear-end of the local
train on which George was riding, but not a man on either train knew it
until it was too late. The first George knew of it was when the crash
came. It came with a terrible, jarring impact that shook the train
from one end to another. Then, as far as George was concerned, the
whole world seemed to be coming to an end.
Says George: “I was In the forward part of the third car.
The crash, when It came, was so terrific that It pushed our train
half a mile along the tracks. The shock of that collision alone
killed many people.
But that shock was only the beginning. Jolted half out of his
senses, George was dimly conscious of the whole terrible affair. Like a
man in a dream he saw the car he was in turn over on its side. As it
They Led Him Away from the Frightful Scene.
turned, George went Jiead first through a window, cutting his face,
bruising his back. With the whole upper part of his body out of that
window, he was dragged along the tracks as the car, lying on its side,
atill continued to scrape along them.
Express Locomotive Bores Into Wooden Car.
When a thousand things all happen at onge, it takes a long time
to tell them. Actually, George's whole adventure didn’t last more than
ten minutes all told. He felt the car turning over almost at the same
time as the initial impact. He saw himself going through the window,
felt himself being dragged along the rough surface of the roadbed,
scarcely a split second after the car had toppled.
That scared him plenty, but the moat awesome sight was the
one that came Just another split second after he fell through the
window of that still-moving car.
George was up in the front part of his car. If he hadn’t been, he
might not have been alive today. For to the rear of the car came a
horrible grinding sound. The whole back-end crumpled like match
wood. And into the car—right down its crazily tilted aisle—came the
locomotive of the express.
George Describes Scenes of Frightful Horror.
George watched it in a daze of fear as it pushed its steaming
head forward. It had gone through two cars already, killing and mash
ing and maiming their passengers. Now it was coming after George.
Would that hot, smoking Juggernaut get him? George held his breath,
certain that it was the end, but half way down the car, the engine
stopped.
The car was tilled with cries and groans. Injured people
were everywhere. The car was burning, as were ail the other
cars on the train, set afire by the up-ended coal stoves that
heated them.
Says George: "The scenes I witnessed then were indescribable.
The car was a twisted, misshapen mass of ruin. Burning ruin, with
the locomotive embedded in its midst Dead, wounded and helpless
humans were lying along its entire length. Passengers from the few
cars that were not harmed seemed stunned, and it was the less serious
ly wounded—some of whom had been in the worst of the wreck—who
realized that help must be given to the dead and dying and that some
thing must be done about those pinned in flaming cars.”
Wreck Cost the Lives of 30 Passengers.
George himself was one of the latter. He couldn't get out alone,
and only did with difficulty when three or four men came to help. When
at last they pried him loose, he was still in a state of half-consciousness.
His clothes, from his neck to his waist, had been torn completely from
his body. They led him away through a scene of the most frightful dis
order. Moaning, bleeding, scalded victims lay in rows by the side of
the track, and every minute rescuers brought out more.
Every passenger in the rear car was killed outright. Few
escaped in the next one. The engineer of the express train died a
few minutes after the accident. All told, thirty people were
killed and scores were injured.
And George—well—every time he thinks of that jvreck, and the
way that locomotive came crashing right into the car after him, he
counts himself pretty lucky not to have been one of those poor devils
in the last car.
®~WNU Service.
Diet of Japanese Beetle
The Japanese beetle was intro
duced into the United ^States in lar
val form in earth around the roots
of a plant from Japan. The adult
beetle, which is about three-eighths
of an inch long and about the same
width, prefers to eat apples,
quinces, peaches, sweet cherries,
plums, grapes, blackberries, clo
ver and corn. When these are not
available, it attacks the foliage of
shade trees and ornamental shrubs.
The adult beetle is bright metallic
green in color, with coppery brown
wing covers. It flies easily and
has a voracious appetite. There is
only one generation each year, five
sixths of the time being spent in
the soil as egg, larva or pupa.
Europeans Explored Ohio
Ohio was explored by Europeans
in the latter part of the Seventeenth
century. It was the pioneer state
which embraced also what is now
of the old “Northwest Territory"—
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon
sin and the northeast corner of
Minnesota. It was the battleground
of the Indian tribes. The French
explorers tried hard to get a foot
hold in this rich territory, rhey
planted leaden plates at the
mouths of the rivers and sought to
back up these claims to sovereign
ty. John Bull later set himself up
as master of all this region, says
Pathfinder Magazine, and in 1774
the British parliament passed an
act annexing Ohio to Canada.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Chose* Vues
Furs, Conscience-Proof
Caterpillars and Weed*
Wise Generosity
An able Frenchman, long since
dead, yvrote about choses vues—
“things seen.”
There are still
Arthur Ilrlahnne
many things to
see and to hear,
although there is
nobody to write
about them as
that old French
man wrote.
At the head of
the London
Times’ “personal
column," some
one pays to print
this impressive
extract from the
Psalms:
“Seek the
Lord, and His
strength; seek His face evermore.
Remember his marvelous works
that He hath done; His wonders,
and the judgments of His mouth.”
You spend a moment wondering
what kind of English man or wom
an, strong in faith, decided to put
that text before statesmen that to
day seek the “face” of Hitler, Mus
solini, Stalin, but forget the greater
power of the Creator of those gen
tlemen.
After that, you read in the same
Times this advertisement:
"Furs humanely obtained that
can be worn with a clean con
science—full particulars from Maj.
C. Van Der Byl, Wappenham, Tow
cester.”
This being an Ingenious and
doubtless quite sincere appeal to
the tender-hearted Englishwoman
who does not like to think that the
fur around her neck once belonged
to an animal that suffered for days
and perhaps weeks tortured in a
trap.
Possibly the best way to “obtain
furs humanely obtained that can be
worn with a clear conscience” is to
buy and wear some of the innu
merable furs, from rugged bears
to silky chinchilla, made from the
skins of rabbits that are nourished
in little hutches in the suburbs of
Los Angeles, and fed with “rabbit
hay,” tender young alfalfa, grown
on the Mojave desert, a good deal
of it on a ranch owned and operated
by this writer.
When you buy furs, no matter
what kind, with a rabbit skin foun
dation, you may be sure that the
animal suffered very little, if at
all, and when you buy that fur you
also buy honest American alfalfa,
which is a vegetarian product.
F. C. Cobb wrote from the Boy
Scout reservation at Allaire, N. J.:
“The last four week-ends have
been spent by our scouts collecting
tent caterpillar egg clusters from
wild cherry and apple trees along
the highways of Monmouth and
Ocean counties. Many thousands
of egg clusters, each containing
on the average 250 eggs, have been
destroyed.”
No better work could be done
by scouts and other boys. It is
far better exercise than perfunc
tory "hikes,” often exhausting for
smaller boys.
The fathers of the boys, also in
need of exercise, can be useful
mowing weeds along highways, ex
cellent work for the lungs and for
reducing the waist.
Edward S. Harkness, generous
young New York financier, gave to
Lawrenceville School for Boys a
sum that will make possible im
portant new building, plus rebuild
ing and a more extensive system
of small-group instruction, with
more teachers.
Mr. Harkness, who does not like
publicity, refused to make public
the amount of his gift to Lawrence
ville, but he gave $7,000,000 to Ex
eter academy, $13,000,000 each to
Yale and Harvard, to finance their
housing systems. That gives some
idea of the size of his gifts.
Some Americans will agree that
it is a good thing to have men of
unusual ability accumulate wealth
and use it thus generously and
wisely.
Old-fashioned Americans would
rather encourage such gifts and
praise the givers than inculcate the
notion that anybody with brains
enough to accumulate wealth in
this country of opportunity is prob
ably a thief and ought to be in jail.
Mussolini knows how a dictator
can keep his hold on the people. He
establishes 2,000 government
camps where half a million poor
children enjoy free vacations at
sea and mountain resorts. For nine
years Mussolini has carried on this
work.
In Europe, English, French, Ger
man, Italian or Czechoslovakian
will believe anything you say about
American crime, and that is hardly
surprising.
The heading “Chicago Politician
Dies Under Hail of Racketeers’
Bullets’’ surprises nobody. There
might be mild surprise it the head
ing read, “Chicago Politician Does
NOT Die Under Hail of Racketeers’
Bullets.”
® King Features Syndicate, Iucl
WNU Service.
Fashion Back to Femininity Trend
"
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Mannishly
tailored to the
pink of perfection
during the prac
tical hours and for
sports? Decidedly so, if you would
be smartly in fashion. However, it is
an entirely different story which
the mode is telling “what to wear”
at festive midsummer events that
take place midst glamorous set
tings. Comes then into the style
scene as lacy and lovely and sheer
costumes-beautiful as ere graced
a fashion picture.
The lavish use of nets, laces, or
ganzas, marquisettes, tulles and
similar materials of filmy texture
and transparency quite exceeds
anything of its kind seen for many
a year. In the daytime they are
tailored and for the night hours
and for garden party wear these
entrancing sheers are made up as
pretty-prettily as genius and imag
ination can possibly create them.
The trio of dainty costumes in
the picture most eloquently car
ries the message of lovely ladies
clad in beguilingly feminine array
such as is gracing the midsummer
landscape with romance and the
picturesque. The first impression
one gets from this group, aside
from the beauty of the sheer ma
terials, is that of big hats, cun
ning puff sleeves and hemlines that
are generously and gracefully
wide. Since first impressions usual
ly ring true, we learn important
facts in regard to the correct sil
houette for 1936 midsummer gar
den party and dance frocks.
The winsome dress pictured to
the left is of a very fine crossbar
net. Style points to note are the
fancifully picketed hemline with
like-pointed rufflings on the volumi
nous puffed sleeves, the flower
ruche about the throat, also the
huge-brimmed hat that is made of
the selfsame net (stiffly starched)
as the gown. Here also we see the
return of the parasol.
Garden party dresses when they
are as fanciful and airy as the one
to the right in the picture make
one think of a fairy-story princess,
stepping lightly across her garden.
The dress is pure white, in organza
most beautifully embroidered to
knee-depth about the hemline of
the skirt and on the sleeves. The
gown is simply cut, its graceful
lines taking on an added touch of
the exquisite in that a double row
of binche lace borders the wide
skirt working up into a deep point
in the front in combination with
the embroidery. The treatment of
the puffed sleeves is fittingly
quaint.
Lovers of beautiful lace will
adore the gown shewn centered in
foreground. It is one of the loveli
est from among most lovely
dresses brought over on the maid
en voyage of the royal steamship
Queen Mary and shown at the dis
play of exclusive British fashion
creations recently presented here
in America. It adds to its inter
est to know that it was one of four
Reville creations approved for the
royal garden party of King Edward
VIII at Buckingham palace. The
gown is of exquisitely fine lupin
blue cellophane lace. The girdle is
of forget-me-nots, matching the
crown of the hat in the same col
or. It would seem next to impos
sible to imagine anything prettier
than this fantasy of lace and flow
ers which is done all in delicate
blues.
In the present back-to-femininity
trend, the garden party dress has
its important place, especially
when in the instances cited in this
group it is just as perfect for coun
try club or roof dancing on sum
mer evenings.
© Western Newspaper Onion.
“PAX” SILK PRINTS
Itr CHEK1E NICHOLAS
Prints continue to hold sway In
the world of fashion. The lure of
them is stronger than ever. Shown
in the picture is one of the very
interesting and unique "pax” <pax
being the Latin word for peace)
silk prints designed by a member
of the board of directors of the in
ternational league for peace. These
really handsome silk prints are
available to women who are inter
ested in adopting the peace-in-fash
ions movement. The dress pictured
is of a blue and white silk sheer
with the word pax so skilfulu used
as a motif it becomes a p irt of
the patterning. The wide vhitei
bordered cape-bertha is p.eated
and shirred in accord with '.he lat
est styling trend.
FROSTED JEWELRY
LEADS THE VOGUE
By CHER1E NICHOLAS
Summer’s newest jewelry Is
"white and frosty.” Rings, brace
lets and necklaces that look as
icy as a cool drink are being worn
at fashionable summer resorts.
Crystalline and opaque whites are
frequently combined. Crystalline
alone adds a glamorous note to
costumes in the new smoky pas
tels, opaque white is good with
copper-brown, and with the south
sea batik prints or flowered challis.
Choker necklaces are staging a
come-back. Large frosty rings are
frequently worn to match. To set
off the rings, nails are adopting
shades of smoky red polish. Mass
ive couturier rings with multi-col
ored stones are also smart, and re
quire bright nail lacquer such as
robin red or coral to give the hands
the proper balance.
For moments when the urge to be
feminine has you in its grip, try
yielding to the rage for flower jew
elry. Fabric flowers, raffia flow
ers, carved flower motifs, '.re used
—even the real thing straight from
the florist Any flower goes, from
daisies to forget-me-nots. Some of
the necklaces tie demurely at the
back of the neck with a ribbon.
New Mode in Smart Sports
Dresses for Daytime Wear
Smart dresses for daytime wear
during the summer include grand
new sports and spectator sports
outfits. Molyneux has scored with
a new design made for his private
clients, who include several Ameri
cans known for their elegance. A
suit of beige woolen has a most in
teresting belt which is made of nat
ural tree bark and is fastened with
a sheaf of dried grass. Another
successful number is a dress of
navy and white linen tweed with
the skirt of wide, flat pleats. It
is worn under a navy wool redin
gote.
Uncommon john blake
Sense ♦ © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. I
I am writing this on a hot day—
a very hot day. The thermome
ter on my porch
Don’t Watch the informs me that
Thermometer it is a hundred
degrees Fahren
heit. I could believe that it is very
much hotter than that.
The people that pass my door
have taken off their coats—if they
are men.
The women, who refuse to be
beaten even if they can’t really
keep cool, are wearing filmy rai
ment, but they don’t pant the way
men do.
But while I admit that I am
inconvenienced, and wish I could
be in Alaska and lean against an
ice floe like a polar bear, I know
that if I stop thinking about the
weather and go to work I will
soon lose myself in my job.
• * •
A little way down the street is
a fire-engine house. The firemen
have rigged a pipe up in front
of the building and from its
mouth spouts a continuous man
made geyser. All the children in
the neighborhood, and they make
as much noise as all the children
in town, are stripped to their
little buffs and are shouting joy
fully as they bend down their
backs and let the spray from the
pipe run over them.
Every time there is a lull in
the proceedings to change chil
dren—for there are too many of
them to soak all at once—a flock
That’s the Trouble
Quink—Do you believe that all
money is tainted?
Guppy—Yes. Money in fact is
double tainted. ’Tain’t your’s and
’tain’t mine.—Stray Stories Maga
zine.
For the Laundry
“I’d like some soap, please.”
“Certainly, madam. We have
just the thing for that delicate,
peach-blossom complexion—”
“Oh, it’s not soft soap I want!”
Sure to Arrive
“Here, Tommy,” said Mrs.
Jones to her neighbor’s little boy,
“run along and put this parcel on
the bus.”
“Which bus?” asked the lad.
“Any bus,” replied Mrs. Jones.
“It’s me husband’s lunch, and he
works in the lost property office.”
Right the First Time
Little Mary—I’ll bet you can’t
guess what sister said about you
just before you came in.
Mr. Hidebound—I haven’t a sin
gle idea, Mary.
Little Mary—Oh, you guessed it.
Why He Needed Job
“Am I bright? Why, I’ve won
several newspaper competitions.”
Prospective Employer — Yes,
but I need a boy who is smart
during business hours.
“Well, this was during business
hours.”
The Mind *>
, _ LOWELL
Meter • henderson
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
The Four-Word Test
In this test there are four words
given in each problem. Three of
the four in each case beax a defi
nite relationship to one another;
Cross out the one word that does
not belong in each problem.
1. Holy, sacred, profane, divine.
2. Tall, squat, lofty, high.
3. Lob, double-play, net ball,
ace.
4. New Hampshire, Vermont,
Boston, Connecticut.
5. Vain, humble, modest, sub
missive.
6. Shot put, javelin throw, 100
yard dash, discus throw.
7. Hot, stolid, fiery, ardent.
8. Harvard, Princeton, Vassar,
Yale.
9. Tallahassee, Sacramento,
Chicago, Baton Rouge.
10. Running, swimming, walking,
trotting.
Answers
1. Profane. 6. 100-yard dash.
2. Squat. 7. Stolid.
3. Double-play. 8. Vassar.
4. Boston. 9. Chicago.
5. Vain. 10. Swimming.
of sparrows alight to have their
turn at the cooling process.
* • •
But in the suburban town where
I live, and in the great city which
is not far away, men and women
are doing their regular work.
If a fire should break out in
another part of the town, the fire
men who are now watching the
children enjoy their shower baths
would mount their ladder trucks
and man their engines, ana be off
with a blare of sirens to do their
appointed job.
If they decided they didn’t want
to get any hotter and stayed
where they were perhaps the
town might be consumed.
* * *
Men and women can do in a
pinch what they have to do,
whether the temperature is up or
down.
When the need arises, especial
ly the need to help others out of
danger, their courage crops out
and they all become heroes for
the time being.
And I, who have nothing to do
for the present but pound a type
writing machine would do well to
forget the fact that it is uncom
fortable, and stop breathing hard
and making continuous trips to
the refrigerator for ice cubes to
fill my glass.
* * •
Rain or snow, cold or hot, one
is easier in his mind if he forgets
the discomforts that are bound to
come, and to continue with his
work.
And the more indispensable
work he has to do, the more eas
ily he will withstand the steam
ing streets and the torrid skies.
As long as it is not humanly
possible to change the weather,
the only intelligent thing to do is
to forget about it.
BOYS! GIRLS!
Read the Grape Nuts ad in another
column of this paper and learn how
to join the Dizzy Dean Winners and
win valuable free prizes.—Adv.
Use of Talents
If you have great talents, in
dustry will improve them; if you
have but moderate abilities, in- .
dustry will supply their deficien- *
cies.—Samuel Smiles.
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