SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1919.
Omaha a Religious City;
About 15 Bibles Left On
Street Cars Each Sunday
Rainy Day Nets 15 Umbrellas and One Baby; Women
By DITTO
The kaiser got obstreperous
sort o' put a crimp in sports, so
Sports took a hitch in his belt
and took the kaiser on for a few
rounds got a toe-hold on him,
biffed him one in the uppers
made -a ten strike and fanned
him out, nine down with four to
go. Do you get me? He
skunked him, walloped him to a
frazzle made him take the
count. Anyway, the kaisef as
sumes that nomeclature at pres
ent and there you are!.
The war has taught us-many
things. The board fence around
the ball park, with nary a knot
hole, will hold no views from
Jimmy, with his home , made
periscope. ' The cooties have
given our wrestlers some good
pointers when it comes to the
catch-as-catch-can game . My
friend Cholly says that the
only distinction between
a cootie and a louse is that the
cootie litis military training.
The old glories of the spit-ball"
and in-shoot will fade before the
mysteries of the hand-grenade
gyrations. Digging, trenches
will have added to the efficiency
of the golfer with a penchant
for bunker proclivities. In
horse racing, though one comes
in under the wire, thank Peter,
it isn't barbed wire.
For sports the coming year is
going to be the best ever. We
may surely look forward to air
plane races. We'll have to call
a syd a spad. Just imagine
the start off from the top of
the City National, the Wow
building for the second leg and
the phone building for the third.
Then straight up to 5,000 feet
with i nose dive, the roof of the
lite building for goal. Penalties
mid forfeiti for all flag poles
knocked over - and anyone
dropping a monkey-wrench will
be called down. Aiators will
Trap to Give Tramps
Involuntarily Bath
Proves Great Success
Like all other cities. Omaha in
lim past has been afflicted with
tramps. Citizens of Omaha have
sought methods to make their
premises unpopular for these wan
derers. Few have succeeded, yet
it has remained for Mr. and Mrs.
I. H. Peterson of Parkwood to
torn ulate ways and means to keep
'tramps off their premises, or a
Irast to reduce the number of these
visitors. "
Parkwood, as is known, is a
Xorth Side addition ast of Miller
l ark. Through it extends the Flor
ence boulevard, iols on the east
side of the boulevard are so long
that their back ends drop down
over the steep bluff. It is on one of
these lots that the Peterson home
is situated. While the front of the
premises is on grade with the boul
vard. the rear of the lot drops over
the bluff and is steep and some 60
. ct below grade.'
Annoyed by 'Boes.
Jm time nast the Petersons, like
Real,
other residents along the Florence
houlevard, were annoyed by ho
boes who wandered up from the
railroad tracks on the river bottoms
v :t of their premises.
One day last summer Peterson hit
iini.ii an idea and confided it to his
v.tte. He would construct a slide
over the edge of the bluff and let
tramps use it for a toboggan.. The
i lea looked good to the Petersons
and it was given a tryout with
pronounced success. '
Not long after the idea sprouted
in the mind of Mr. Peterson he
started work on his bluff tobog
gan, lie graded the' chute to a
"i-lth of some 10 feet and gave it
an angle of 45 degrees. Then Ht
fi-e lower end, through a ditch that
!; dug, into a depression, he turned
I'-.t water of a small stream. It
v-as a beautiful little lake, 20 feet
hip.g, 10 feet wide and a couple of
;ui deep. ; This finished, the Peter
ons wailed for the appearance of
thtir first tramp. He came one Sat
urday evening and called at the
Lack Soor of the fcouse. There he
was ntet by FeterSon and his. wife
and instead of being presented with
a toothsome lunch, was threatened
v',:l a heating.
Jumps in Lake.
J. H. Peterson weighs in the
r-righborhood of 200 pounds, and in
Ins younger days was something
an athlete. He made one lunge
it the tramp.v who followed the
cf. 'se of least resistance and start
ed icr the head of the toboggan
4
also be requested to go slow on
chewing tobacco (this is an im
plication). t
, Omaha is going after athlet
ics with a big stick, that is club. ,
We admire strength,! but not in
a pipe or breath. We like speed
in horses but not in women.
Carter Lake (nee Cut-Off) will
look small to the returning Gob,
but we opine the aquatic sports
wiH be revivified through their
Woman Dazed by Striking ,
Resemblance of Two Women
A woman who knows, or thought
she knew, Mrs. C M. Wilhelm, di-.
rector of civilian relief work for
Omaha Red Cross chapter, called
at headquarters at the court house
one day last week on business.
Mrs. Wilhelm was busy in the
outer office, so the woman saun
tered on into the inner office, where
Mrs. Wilhelm usually sits--and
where she was sitting just then I
The woman reeled back against
the door through which she had just
entered. Froyi'her point of vantage
she looked on her right at the wo
man whom she first took to be Mrs.
Wilhelm. . . . .
"Sure and it is Mrs. Wilhelmr
but she turned
And there was Mrs. Wilhelm on
herjeft!
The visitor took a deep breath and
called Miss Martha Gyger, Mrs.
Wilhelm's secretary, to the rescue.
"Miss Gyger, do yeuvsee is that
Mrs. Wilhelm oyer there, of am I
seeing double?" she asked weakly..
'Why, no, here is Mrs. Wilhelm
on the left. The other is Mrs. Her
bert Wheeler, who is often taken
for Mrs. Wilhelm, the resemblance
is so strong."
The visitor sighed a deepsigh of
relief.
"I thought for the moment I was
losing my mind. I never saw two
such striking resemblances."
Mrs. Wilhelm, to whom the story
was told, thought it a great joke.
slide. ."As he ran he stumbled and
when he hit the toboggan he was
going some. Instead of stopping, he
gained momentum as he went over
the bank and landed in the lake,
taking an involuntary bath. Since
then the Petersons have not been
annoyed by tramps, but their to
boggan is still in place and in good
working order for the-spring season.
Liquor and Charities
Are Sundries Which
Increase During War
The germfiad been killed in Ger
many and the Beast of Berlin had
gone down to a significancy con
temptable to contemplate. But the
high cost of living still was a soar
ing enemy in the midst of the good
people of the earth. Millions of
hungry mouths were crying for
breadwhile Mr. Hoover was mak
ing heroic efforts to prevail on mil
lions of other mouths to abstain
from eating cake. "
Two men in the corner grocery
were discussing the problem, which
both agreed shortly was destined to
become the paramount international
issue.
"There will have to be some limit
somewhere," opined one. "If there
is not, the necesities of life' will
climb out of reach of all money."
Fluently figures were quoted to
show' the cost of living had in
creased 70 -per cent between July,
1914, and November, 1917. Food in-1
creased 83 per cent, he contended,
while shelter, clothing, fuel, light
and sundries mounted the scale
proportionately. .
The attentive one grew inquisi
tive. "But these sundries I wish you
would explain more about them."
v "Well,- it is just like this. Sy
sundries we mean tobacco and liq
uor, church and charity, and every
thing along that line."
The questioner offered a solutiori.
"We will charge up the liquor to
the police and the church to the
deacon. The police will eliminate
the liquor evil, and the deacon can
do double duty in passing the bas
ket. Charity begins at home and a
little tobacco is good to keep the
moth out of any- man's clothes."
Rain Water.
Tror. Barrett Wendell of Harvard is a
foe to fthe purist and the pe.iant. He
who shIs "Tomorrow wltl be Thursday"
(ffts no encouragement from Prof. Wen
dell. At Atlantic (iity the professor, aas
Injr ut over the sea one gray afternoon,
remarked: f
"It looks like rain."
A pedant was seated in a rocklnf chair
nearby.
"What lonfcs Hk rain, prof eesor ?" he
chuckled. "Ha, ha, ha! I've tot you
there. WhaV loots like rain?
Water,", saiii Prof. Wendell. Boitov
Traastriut.
Live,
association with the big drink.
Hang it all! There are . so
many and varied sports, it's
hard to include all of 'em. Of
course we can look forward to
some good net results at tennis,
and, sh-h-h!--we understand
the doughjboys will insist, that,
craps be substituted for clay
' pigeons when it comes to shoot
ing. Ho-hum! Young America
will have to "tackle the business
world, but his military "training
will have certainly given him an
appreciation of the upkeep of
the American constitution.
Theports have itl
fit jfi
How They Do in the Country.
(Ad. In Ord Quia.)
BEEF If you want a quarter of
beef inquire of E. H. Marks,
Farmers' phone 4207.
There Ain't No Money in Grammar.
A correspondence school, in a
full-ji-je magazine ad, last week,
quote I the 28-year-old vice presi
dent and financial direclor of thj
Thomas A. Edison industries in a
41-wcrd tc" onial thus:
"My appreciation of the .
Course ,1 based not only npon 'thr
'broad scope of Its appeal and the close
co-ordination of the subjects treated,
but also from the benefit that I have
personally derived from following the
course." ,
Can you pick out the two' gram
matical errors in the great man's
statement?
. THE THIRD" DEGREE.
An Omaha business man, ill with,
the "flu," felt quite recovered after
three days, but, mindful of Dr. Man
ning's advice, remained in bed
Every day he took, his temperature.
He felt perfectly well, but the tem
perature remained around 102. He
-luman Interest
Woman Doesnt Waste
Much on Costly Attire
' on Hubby's $80 Per
Imbecilities of certain legal forms
and expressions is the first thing
that excite one's attention in perus
ing the usual petitions filed in dis
trict court.
"Instead .o attempting to
elucidate, lawyers take great pains
in rendering their meaning hopeless.
What they need is a good city editor
with a trusty blue pencil. Then may.
be ve wouldn't have to waste so
much valuable time wading through
these petitions to, get what they are
driving at," snorted a peeved re
porter. But reading" them has its com
pensations for the humor-loving.
Last week the plaintiff in a divorce-
petition alleged that her hus
band, who was capable of earning
$80 per month, had refused to sup
port her. . The wife asserted she was
a hard working woman herself and
had not spent any of the money on
fashionable dress and. costly at
tire." . N
How much "fashionable dress and
costly attire" could be purchased
after the food bills alone had been
paid, in these days of H. C. of L., is
left to the readers' knowledge,
not imagination. .
Yet lawyers will persist in- wal
lowing in high-sounding phrases.
TWO BARBERS PLAY FOR !
TTTTHTAT TTC IT ft H !? If ft 1
SEE WHO WOULD LAND.
iJarbers are human and they have
their weaknesses as well as other
kinds of people.
Friday morning, in one of the
leading barber shops of the city,
there entered a customer who is al
ways liberal with his tips and whose
bill for "dolling up" helps to swell
the day's receipts very materially.
Another customer, not so liberal
nor so profitable, was ahead of him.
Two of the barbers were finishing
up customers, and each of them
maneuvered to catch the liberal
man. It was a slow race between
them as to which v?ould finish up
the customer in the chair last.
Finally one of the barbers, the
fellow who felt the liberal customer
should rightfully fall to him, quit
his chair and went to his rival bar
ber and asked: "Got a gun?" ' 1
"No-," answered the rival won
deringly, "why?"
"You are such a thundering good
soldier," was the reply, "I thought
you had."
This offensive won the liberal
customer, for the "soldier" promptly
finished tip his man and calls 1
"ucxt."
BY A . 8TIMQBR
couldn't understand it. But, safety
first I He stuck to his bed 10 days,
taking his temperature frequently by
day and night. Finally he called in
his doctor. Doc. took the tempera
ture. . "Quite normal," he said- He
then, tested Mr. B. Man's ther
morrieter and found it registered 3
degrees too high. Sad. Too bad!
Mad.
From Our Study Window.
. i...Ival has dragged ii a calen
dar and. hung it on the office wall.
It bears a pi me of a dead hore,
a dead mule and a dead cow, and is
an advertisement for a stoc!: insur-.
ance company. The outlook for'the
year is glocmy.
Now, IftVz Only Wet Goods
Found rackage of dry goods. Inquire
at this office. (Charges 25c.)
Ad in Mlnden Courier.
' --
PRACTICAL BERT.
Wanted the party who lost an over
shoe near Fredericksburg church, to lose
the 'other 1n the same plice or come and
get the one. Bert Winters. (I mean it.)
Ad In Mlnden Courier.
Just Think of It Girls!
He's Still Running Loose
He Likes Dances and The
aters, Too Oh,
Boy! What a ,
Chance! 1
Editor's Note: This is the first of a
series of stories of eligible Omaha bach
elors which will run on this page each
Sunday. Some day they'll "not be baoii
elsrs. '
By A. R. GROH.
Harry Stephenson Byrne has been
usher or best man at 15 weddings.
Among the IS were his two broth
ers, one two years older and the
other 11 years younger than him
self. . -
'And he is still a bachelor.
"I can't conquer, won't worship
and haven't time to woo," says
Harry in explanation. "The couples
whom I have helped to launch are
now living happily, in various places
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
"Marriage seems'to have worked
well in every case."
Harry is an admirer of ladies. He
likes to take 'em to dances and the
theater. He's a member of the ex
ecutive committee of the' 'Winter
Dancing club. 1
And particularly he likes musical
comedies and "vodvil."
The girls say he's mighty good
company with an interesting lineof
talk about his travels and the wide
range of activities in which he has
been engaged.
This is Harry in Brief.
Briefly, this is the history of
Harry:
Born in Baltimore, Md., June 26,
1878. Studied in several , schools
ending with Johns Hopkins univer
sity where he took, his A. B. degree.
He was president of his class there
and was, also chosen as a studetit
delegate to attend the 450th anni
versary of he founding of Glasgow
university. On that occasion in
Glasgow, Scotland, - he addressed
the delegates from all over the
world. ( .
He secured the degree of LL. B.
after coming to Omaha and passed
the examinations for admission to
the bar at the head of the class.
Securing admission to the bar was
merely a pastime with him as he
was already engaged in the insur
ance business in which he is still a
shining light, as resident manager of
the Fidelity and Deposit company
of Maryland.
His interests aside from business
are so broad that it's hard to tell
them all. But we may group tlieru
nzzinqs
o 3
if
HOLLER 'NUFFf
Harry Deuel never tot- lit one.
A. L. Dick doesn't go around with
T-m and Harry.
F. N. High isn't so very high an.!
Rev. Titus Lowe isn't very low.
VJ. II. London has never been .'.i
England. ,
S. P. Mason never laid a brick
in his life.
Jo'n F. Stout L anything but
that; Halleck F. Rose rose by his
own e.Torts and Arthur R. Wells is
as well's can be expected.
Harry A. Wolf has no difficulty
in keeping the wolf from the door,
George F. West came in this di
rection early in life.
George W. Street lives on one.
David Cole burns it in theNvinter
time.
Has Henry Dunn a lot for this
city? .
JERRVJOB.
Jerry Howard at the legislature
reminds us of the Irishman who had
"a swell job tearin' down a
Protestant church an' gettin' paid
fr it"
Stories
vzie
This picture of Harry is a good
one. It's the' one he likes the best
It isn't exactly the latest, being per
haps three or four years old, or
maybe five or six, or possibly eve..
or eight. But it's a nice picture
anyway. -
under social, political and academic
heads.
He's a Club Man, Too.
Social Is a charter member of
the University and Happy Ho'lo
clubs; a member. of the Johns Hop
kins club; a national .Ttcer of the
Tappa Sigma f. ternity; ..s man
ager of tfie lacrosse team at
Johns Hopkins, which captured the
intercolleciate championship; has
rciereed. many foot ball games audj
) )
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V, I
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Rearing Children a. Hard .
, , Task, Judge Discovers
Judge George A, DaV of the dis
trict court was giving one of his
curtain-lectures the other morning
to an estranged husband and wife
who had three children. He des
canted on the responsibilities and
trials of the -average housewife who
has to care for children without the
means with which to engage help. .
T never realized this so. much,"
said the judge, "until a short time
ago when a niece' came to visit us.
I took the little girl out one after
noon to show her the city. I took
her to Riverview park, into the
stores and showed her nearly every
thing I could think of that might
interest her. We returned home
and I was so tired out that I just
threfr myself on a lounge, glad to
have a little rest. I had thought
that the niece, too, was tired, but to
my surprise she rushed over to- the
lounge and remarked in childish in
nocence: , -
"'Say, Uncle George, Adhere do we
go from here r
So I just said to myself, that the
mother who has three children to
care for, must have her time pretty
well taken up." '
Dugan Turns Down 1
Touch for Big Loan
on Lone Live Stock
"Does youi all loan money on
live stock?" '
.This query was addressed to Bar
ney Dugan, of the .McNish, Land
& Cattle company..".
Barney looked over the counter
to locate the prospective, customer
and saw a little pickaninny, black
as the ace of spades, who had come
into the office shivering with the
Cold.- - r I
"Yes," said Barney, "wedo."
"I want to borrow two dollars,"
said the lad.
"What is your security," asked
Barney.
"I got a liawg. He aint very big.
I'se feedin' him. in mah back yard
aji' in dis yeah cold weathah he
ought -to have some cawn. Dat's
whut.I want the money foil," was
the reply. " ' ,
. "Too big a deal for us, I'm sorry,
said Barney, as he dismissed the
young stock raiser.
Banker Writes with Quill
Senator J. H. Millard, president
of the Omaha National bank, is not
finding any quarrel with the man
who avers that "steel pens do
write," but for himself he prefers to
stick to the old quill pen.
He buys quill pens by the box and
uses them during the day's work at
the bank. He has been offered the
best fountain pens and other kinds
About
judged innumerable track events; is
active -In Ak-Sar-Ben and always a
member Of the Ak-Sar-Ben ball
committees.
Now, Political Is a vice presi
dent of the National League of Re
publican clubs; a vice president .of
the Young Men's Republican
league; pesident of the McKi; !.j
club; member of the republican cit.,
and county central and executive
committees; member of the .cpu
lican state committee and execu
tive committee; close friend of
Governor McKelvie and scores of
other republican statesmen tnd pol
iticians. . ,
Academic Studied in four col
leges and universities; traveled in
Europe . for three . months, .dun
which tin e he was special co
spondent for the New York Even
Post, I'altinu o ' merican ud Mai
t' jr-; News; has taltn special in
terest in diplomacy, history an i
languages, particularly Greek, Lati.-.,
French, Spanish and German; has
traveled all over this country from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from
Canada to the Gulf vof Mexico;
J
Lose Famous "Black Muffs"; Children School -
Books; Many Pocketbooks ; Conductor Finds Purse
With $90, Gets It After Three Months' Waiting.
. .
Omaha is a religious town.
This is the belief of the officials of the Omaha & Coun
cil Bluffs Street Railway Co. C. I. Palm, chief clerk in the as
sistant general manager's office, has proven by the company's
records that of the 250,000 passengers who ride on the street
car lines Sundays the majority are persons going to and from
divine worship. '
The company's books show that
from a dozen to fifteen articles are
left on the cars by passengers every
day, and as many Bibles and sacred
song books are turned in at the
car houses each Sunday, declared
Mr. Palm.
' Bibles Found on Sundays.
"This speaks eloquently of the re
ligious spirit of our city," he .con
tinued. "As far as . can. he shown by
our books, to say' the least of it,
Omaha, sets aside one day in seven
for devotional duties, ifanything is
indicated by our lost and tound rec
brds. Four-fifths of the articles
turned in Sundays at the car houses
are either Bibles or works on relig
ion."
Who Lost $90?
Among the articles turned in on
week days are tooth brushes and
suit cases, various kinds of clothing
and pocket books containing large
sums and small sums. Kecently a
roll containing $90 was found on one
of the cars and turned into the gen
eral office by the conductor. The
money was kept for three months,
and when no one called for it, it was
given to the conductor. It is the
company's rule that ordinarily when
anvthinir is found on the street cars
hy the conductor, it is turned in at
one Of the car houses and it not
called for in 30 days, the conductor
is allowed to take it.
15 Umbrellas and 1 Baby Found.
On rainy days, Mr. Palm de
clared that passengers never leave
less than from 12 to 15 umbrellas;
One day the lost and found report
showed that 15 umbrellas and one
baby had been left on the cars. The
conductor ; on whose .car the child
was left was on the way into the car
house when it occurred to the
mother that she had lost her baby.
She called at the car house just as
the conductor was making room for
the child in the room reserved for
lost articles. ' .
School children frequently leave
their school books on the street
cars, it was said, and three-fourths
of the articles lost are forgotten and
left by women.
W - 1 wilt
"rlave you got my duck munr
the most trequent inquiry
comes over the telephone, said Mr.
' Palm. There is never a day passes
of modern pens, but he casts them
all aside for the quill. f f
The quill, he explains, requires
less energy to propel. He used the
quill pen while serving as United
States senator. A few of the sen
ators at Washington use quill pens.
- Visitors to the House of Parlia
ment, London, are required to reg
ister, with a quill pen.
Omaha city officials use steel
pens. Mayor Smith signs warrants
with a rubber stamp, although he
would resent being referred to as a
"rubber-stamp mayoc" "
ZERO WEATHER CHILLS
ARDOR, OF SOLDIER FOR
LIFE IN OPEN AIR.
Brt. Geiser, formerly a well
known cigar salesman, was dis
charged from the army a few weeks
age
He came out of the service a reg
ular guy, as hard as nails and defi
ant of the we'ather.
' "No more of the mollycoddle in
door lifefor. me," he said. "Me for
the 'open air and a man's job."
He got a position as switchman
for the M. & O. and reveled in the
fresh breezes that blew from the
frosty Missouri river bottoms.
He suffered Thursday and'on Fri
day, with the thermometer at 18
below, got a cinder in his eye while
at work. v'
He came up town to have the
cinder removed and as he hugged
a steam radiator he looed out on
a cheerless world and remarked.
"Gee, that cinder was a piece of
g'ood luck on a day like this."
member of the Japan society and
LV-Ilian:e Francaise.
Well, that's about all. You
oughtn't to be bored when talking
to Harry, girls. Aside from danc
ing and the theaters, he is an ar
dent golfer and walker. Last sum
mer he went down to Jacksonville,
Fla., where he worked for a com
mission in the quartermaster's de
partment of the army. He gor
alon - famously and vas -. -c.ted
from getting a commission only by
a slight operation which he had-T-cently
undergone and which ren
dered him temporarily hors du com
bat. ,
Harry is descended directly from
George Stephenson, inventor of the
steam locomotive. His father was
financial and commercial editor A
the Baltimore Amerifan under
General Felix Agnus. ,
"Will I ever get married?" says
Harry. "Well, you never c.n tel..
I won't Jt down o y knees
any woman and I'm very busy."
But isn't this getting down on the
kre : oiness rf s' . nyway,
in this day of equal rights? , ,
Omaha
that some woman does not lose her
"black muff."
Instructions on Transfers.
In order to assist persons who
have, lost articles on their cars, the
company is having printed on the
backs of all transfer slips instruc
tions as to the. course to follow to
regain their ' possessions. They
should call '.Tyler 800 and tell the
operator what car line they were on
when tbey lost the article they de
sire to recover, and the operator
will advise what car house they
should call Ho find out whether the
object of their search was picked up.
The company is anxious to see
that all articles lost on their cars are
returned to the proper parties, and
carry each day an advertisement in
the daily papers with instpictions
as to the proper method to follow
in looking for anything that has
been left on the cars.
Charlie's Little Lamb
Now Chews Tobacco
LiKe a reg lar reiiow
Charlie had a little lamb. -'Twas
happy aa could be; f
vHe fed It almost every thins.
From vegetables to tea.
Nfiw Charlie loves that lamb lis more,
It tiablta art a Might; ''
For lamby chews old Horse-shoe plus,
. Morning, noon and night,
Charles 1 M. Plotts, police officer,
owns a lamb. Its fleece was white
once. I he lamo was a pet while.
its tricks were amusing and tolerat
ed; but time has changed its status
witn cnanie. uuite UKe its past
master, the nanny-goat, the gentle
and hungry Iamb ate most anything,
cren rutabagas, and 'pumpernickel.
The lamb was a constant companion
to Charlie until one day after pay-'
day things happened in Charlie's
household. An elongated plug of
chewing tobacco, which cost Char
lie several Vubles, caused the rum
pus; while reading The Police Ga
zette, Charlie's peace was disturbed
by the- pet lamb, chewing its cud
or someone's else.- Charlie investi
gated. His loving pet was chewinf
the tobacco.
Now when Charlie comes honn
nights,, he stumbles Over myriads o!
cuspidors. .
People
Man With Wooden Leg '
Gets Job as Channel
4 Man Putting Up Ice
A, wooden-legged man hobbled up
to Fred Lane, tall and supple ice
foreman at , Seymour lake, late in
the afternoon. ' ,
"How are ye fixed for a channel
man?" he inquired in a trembling
voice. .. ', , ,-.' :j
The foreman, instead of looking
at the applicant,' glanced at the sun.
"You can get in at least three hours
yet today," heboid the man." Give
this fellow a meal ticket, Brengel,"
addressing the timekeeper who
stood nearby. ,
"B-but I haven't any money. I
just got in from a lumber camp in
Minnesota," , the old man protested.
"That's all right, it'll only cost you
30 cents a meal, and we take it out
of your pay." the timekeeper reas
sured him. "And it won't cost you
snythlng to sleep at the bunk house."
he added.
"We can't pick our men," ex
plained the foreman. "The - main
thing is to get men, and get them
yhen we need them. Then he went
on to exptain the principles of ice
harvesting on a large scale. It
really was interesting.
The ice is first marked into cakes
22 by 44 inches. A. plow is run ovei
the marks, cutting to a depth reg
dated by the thickness of the ice
An ice saw is used to cut the ici
into "floats", about 16 ton in weight
These "floats" are pushed into thi
"large" channel. They are broken
"spudded" into the 250 pound cake
which were originally marked ant
plowed. The smaller cakes a'
pushed up the "small" channel to i
"conveyor" or elevator. -The eleva
tor, which is a high trestle onwhic.lt
an endless chain revolves, carries the
ice cakes up to one of the compart
ments of the ice house.
Here a door man stabs it fiercely
with his pike, diverting its course in
to the steep house run. Then with
a rush, it descends on the waiting
house men, until a switcher, with
feet and back braced for the en
counter, "takes his turn," and final
ly, with great care, slows the great
block, and delivers it into the hand
of the packer and spacer.
To be a silent witness; to watch
the busy field, the stately elevator
and majestic ice house, with snow
capped hills for a setting, imparts a
genuine thrill, to see the checkered
rafts of beautifully plowed ice on
its way to the elevator with the reg
ularity of the companies of a reKi
ment, shining blue crystal, mov:i)g
majestically upward is both fascin
ating and impressivt
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