Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1913 — Boys Spanked for Onslaught on Dinner Buckets [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boys Spanked for Onslaught on Dinner Buckets

CLEVELAND, O.—The boy's who for weeks have been neglecting their mealß so as to enjoy better the lunches of the motormen and conductors of the Quincy avenue car barns will soon begin to take an active interest In three meals a day again. Their little perquisite has disappeared. For a month the lunches of motormen . and conductors, neatly hung In rows on 'the hooks in a little room facing the alley behind the barns, have been disappearing. As a last resort, the motormen nominated a watcher and the conductors ratified the nomination. Conductor Joseph Busch was unanimously elected to sit up all night in the room where the lunches were stored and watch for the mysterious thief. fie sat In the dark little room and waited. Nine o'clock came, and then ten. Shortly before eleven o'clock, however, there came a squeak and then a crash!

Outlined against the faint square of light there rose a long, black bar, curved at the end and tapering to a point. The pole rose, dipped, and was quickly extended to the row of lunchladen hooks along the wall. The next Instant Busch saw the Ihnch of Motorman David Schmidt caught on the hook at the end of the pole and drawn toward the. window. Half an hour later a new set of boys armed with another long pole with a hook on the end, sneaked quietly into the alleyway. Half a minute later they were seixed and spanked. Individually collectively and thor> eughly.