Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1913 — Page 3

RAN FIRST PULLMAN

OLD CONDUCTOR TELLS OF EPOCH-MAKING EVENT. Cara Were Crude, and There Wae Nc Genera) Enthusiasm Over the New Mode of ¥ravel—None Saw Its Possibilities. Fifty-six years ago last month i. !*■ Barnes of Chanute, Kan., was a conductor on the first Pullman car ever run in this country. He made the trip between Bloomington, IlL* and Chicago oil the night of September 1, 1857, and one of his passengers was George M. Pullman, inventor of the sleeping car. Looking back through 56 years, Mr. Barnes recalled that Mr. Pullman arose on the morning sos f of September 2 with a rather tired feeling and somewhat doubtful as to the ultimate success of his invention. Three other passengers who slept that night in the first crude sleeper restrained any inclination they might have felt to tender Mr. Pullman an ov,ation. In fact. It was rather a weary company when it reached Chicago, and alter a conference it was decided bythepassengers that nothing would be gained by presenting Mr. Pullman with a gold-headed cane In recognition of his marvelous ingenuity. i ' Mrj Barnes is seventy-eight years old and it probably would be unfair to v4sit him with the punishment to which he is clearly entitled, but he told how he stood idly by and permitted the first Pullman porter in history to maltreat a passenger with a whisk broom and collect the original Pullman tip. He was a husky lad of twenty-two summers at that time and his muscles were in a good state of preservation, but he did not interfere. Ah, wasted youth. The first Pullman car in America was run over the C. & A. railroad and was built in the shops of the company in Bloomington, 111., under the direction of Mr. Pullman himself. The car was a remodeled day coach, and there were but four compartments, eight berths, four upper and four lower. Then, as now, the lower berth enjoyed a monopoly of public popularity, and the upper berths were vacant on that first memorable night. All the passengers were from Bloomings ton and there were no women on the

interior of First Pullman.

sleeping car. The people of Bloomington, little reckoning that history was being made in their midst, did not come down to the station to see the Pullman car’s premier. There was no crowd, and the car, lighted by candles, moved away in solitary grandeur, if suqftit might be called. Mr. Barnes descjibed the first crude car In his office in Chanute. He retired as division superintendent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway In 1910, after a railroad service covering 56 years, beginning as the first Pullman conductor in 1857. Among his other distinctions he was conductor of the first train that left Kansas City over what now is the Frisco railroad. —Kansas City Star.

Weather Signs.

, If on picking up your newspaper in the morning it displays a tendency to tear almost on its own account, a downpour of rain is not far off. Rain is also presaged when the contents of a salt-cellar are in a moist and cloggy condition. At- such times _your bootlaces have a more than ordinary tendency to snap, and your kid gloveß will have a cold, clammy feeling and be difficult to pull on. Even the walking-stick or umbrella will act the part of a barometer. The handles before rain will reveal a slight deposit of moisture and be Sticky to the touch. Tn this way the question whether it is the wiser to take a walking-stick or umbrella on leaving home will be settled for the observant person by an inspection of the articles themselves. Glasgow News. * ‘

Long Record of Good Service.

Forty years’ service lQ; one signalbox is the wondsrful recqrd of Waltet Down, signalman in the Elmesthorpe signal-box on the London and NorthWestern railway, near Leicester. Thousands of passengers and goods trains have been dealt with by Down during that long period, yet he has never made a mistake. Down’s assistant, George Faulkner, who 1b now sixty-five years old, worked with him in the same signal-box for 31 years, •bujt retired a few years ago.

COST OF RAILROAD ACCIDENTS

Run of Bad Luck Add* Enormously to the Amount Required to Mainm ' tain a Line. This week’s new low record for New Haven shares following the wreck of Tuesday has raised an interesting point as to how railroads are affected financially by Buch accidents. New York Central’s Park avenue wreck occurred on January 8, 1802. That year the company settled claims for property and personal injuries aggregating $882,000, compared with 8768,000 the year before. By the end of 1903 those settlements, however, reached 81,092,000, and the figures gradually Increased, until 82,466,000 was paid out in 1907. After that there was a gradual decline, indicating- that most of the claims were settled in one way or another within five years. Pennsylvania has a good record, despite Its occasional wreoks. Last year was an average year, with 8666,000 charged *>ff for damage to freight, 819,031 for damage to baggage, 860,654 for loss of other property, and 8173,500 for injuries to persons. For a 4,000-mile system that is an enviable record. For the same period New York Central’s expenditures, including low costs, were 82,068,000. New Haven, with only half of Pennsylvania’s mileage, charged off 81,129,000 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912, including 8346,00 for damage to freight, 8574,000 for injuries to persons. The forthcoming annual report for 1913 doubtless will show a heavy increase In those items, as the company has had 11 wrecks during the last year, in which 45 persons were killed and 187 injured. Loss of prestige is the most intangible of any suffered by a railroad as a result of accidents.—New York Evening Post." 1

New Safety Device for Railways.

The fact has transpired that there is a system of signaling now in use on the Midland & Great Eastern railways which, had it been in operation at Malierstang, would haye prevented the deplorable disaster at Aisgill, says the London Mail. After the Shrewsbury accident Colonel Yorke recommended that detonators should be attached to signals, so that when the latter are at danger the detonator is On the rail and will explode when the signal is overrun. It is claimed for the appliance referred to that it fully meets this recommendation. The detonator placer is attached to the signal. When the signal is against the driver the detonator is placed on the rail automatically, and should the driver for any reason overrun the signal the explosion which follows is bound to call his attention to the fact. When the signal gives “line clear” the detonator is removed from the line.

Had Not Understood.

Many people have smiled over the Byron-worshipping old lady who called her dog “Perchance,” after reading the line in “Childe Harold,” -“Perchance my dog will whine in vain,” but not so many are aware of a tour-' ist’s recent experience in the southwest of Ireland. The tourist was a sporting man. When he alighted from his train at a small country station he inquired of the solitary porter as to a suitable hotel. Getting a satisfactory reply, he Bald: "And now, Pat, will you take charge of my gown and my dog, etcetera?” Pat 'hesitated, and scratched his head; then, as the tourist was hurrying off the platform, he rushed forward and touched him on the arm. “Beg pardon, your honor,” he said, "but does Excethra bite, sor?”

Longest Railroad Run.

I see in your columns that a claim is made by a Baltimore and Ohio special train to a world’s record for longest non-stop run, the figured being 190 miles in three hours and 55 minutes, pr 48.7 miles per hour, writes a correspondent of the New York Times. This Is nowhere near the daily performance of the 10:30 a. m. train on the Great Western railway of England—London to Plymouth, 225 miles in four hours and seven minutes, without stop, or 54.6 miles per hour. The last 30 miles are over a very hilly road. Some years ago the mileage from London to Plymouth (Great Western railway) was longer by 21 miles, and these 246 fniles were covered without stop every weekday at about the same speed as the present run.

Sleeping Cow Caused Wreck.

A sleeping cow caused the derailment of a passenger train on the line between Newport and Cowes, England, a few days ago. On rounding a curve the driver of the train saw the cow lying between the rails. Before he could pull up the first part of the train had passed over the cow. Then came a large bogey carriage with less space between it and the rails. It rocked from side to side, tfcen ran off the line and ploughed up the permanent way for two hundred yards before the train came to a standstill.

Where Delay is Fatal.

It is said that on a western railroad where the roadbed is faulty the dining car waiter always hands you n card when he brings the Anger bowls. Here is the message is bears: "This js a finger bowl —not a beverage. Use quick!" * If the guest doesn’t “use quick" the contents of the bowl goes out-of the opposite window when the train strikes the next curve.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. '

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

MEXICAN CONSTITUTIONALISTS WITH MODERN GUNS

"The rapid-fire squad of the Const[?tutionalists of Mexico at Santa Maria. The squad is equipped with modern, up-to-date machine guns, and well trained in hoW to use them effectively.

SKELETONS ON SHIP

Captain of British Vessel Reports a Weird Discovery. 111-Fated Sailing Ship Said to Have Been Sighted in a Rocky Cave in Magellan Strait —Craft Missing Twenty-three Years. London, —A weird story of the sea has been briefly cabled from New Zealand. It is the story of the finding of the sailing, ship Marlborough with 20 skeletons on board. The Marlborough, a Glasgow owned bark, belonging to Messrs. Leslie & Co., sailed from Lyttelton, New Zealand, with several passengers and a crew of 33 under the command of Capt. Hird in January, 1890. She was homeward bound by the Cape Horn route and was spoken in midocean in the southern Pacific after which no other word of her was ever heard. In April of that year she was posted as missing, and later on was given up as having been lost around the Horn, where the bones of many a good ship and many a hundred seamen lie. A government cruiser searched the rocky and tortuous coasts of Patagonia, but no trace of her was found. The Marlborough became just another of the thousand mysteries of the sea. i A day or two ago ahother British sailing ship arrived in Lyttelton with the story that she had found the Marlborough and the skeletons of 20 of her crew in one of the rocky coves near Punta Arenas (Sandy Point) in the Magellan Strait The bap tain is quoted as telling the story in the following words: “We were off the rocky coves near Punta Arenas keeping near the land for shelter. The coves are deep and silent, the sailing difficult and dangerous. “We rounded a point into a deep cleft cove. Before us a mile or more across tire water stood a sailing vessel with the barest shreds of canvas fluttering in the breeze. "We signaled and hove to. No answer came. We searched the ‘stranger’ with our glasses. Not a soul could we see, not a movement of any sort. “Masts and yards were picked out in green—the green of decay. “At last we came up. There was no sign of life on board. After an interval our first mate with a member of the crew boarded her. The sight that met their g.tze was thrilling. “Below the wheel lay the- skeleton of a man. Treading warily on the rotten deck, which cracked and broke in places as they walked, they encountered three skeletons in the hatchway. “In the messroom were the remains of ten bodies, and six were found, on# alone, pofisibly that of the captain, on the bridge. “There was an uncanny stillness around and a. dank smell of mold which made the flesh creep. A few remnants of books were discovered the captain’s cabin and a rusty cutlass. "Nothing more weird In the history of the sea can ever have been seen. The first mate examined the still faint letters on the bows and after much trouble read. ‘Martborough, Glasgow.’ ” Punta Arenas is a pretty large place as South American towns go. It has a population of several thousands, and. of course, the Magellan Strait is a great highway traversed by hundreds of ships yearly, wljich take this way to avoid doubling the Horn with Its furious gales. The whole of the Magellan Strait, from Cape Vlrgus to Cape Pillar, is familiar to thousands of seamen and Indented and rockbound though It Is it seems Incredible that a ship coufd lie concealed for nearly a quarter of a

century in that part "near” a place like Punta Arenas. Had the discovery been made among the desolate and multitudinous isles of the Cockburn channel or down about Cook bay or False Cape Horn —perhaps the wildest coasts in the world —it would have been more credible. Indeed, shortly after the ship was lost there was a report that the crew of a passing ship saw seamen signaling from an island down that way which is 300 or 400 miles from Punta Arenas.

SOCIETY LIGHTS IN COSTUME

Son of Germany’s Envoy and Amerfc can Girl Do “Stunt” for Charity’s Sake. New York.—Count G. von Bernstorff, the son of Germany's ambassador to the United States, in the costume of a Harlequin, as he appeared

Society Devotees in Costume.

with Miss Elsie Park, well known in Long Island society, in the masque ball at the Garden City hotel. Garden City, Long Island, in aid of the Nassau County hospitaL Miss Park wore the costume of an oriental princess.

EUGENICS AID TO LOBSTERS

Supply increased by Work of Ptsherfts Bureau in Washington Clty v (i Washington.—Heavy increase in tbe supply of lobsters this year, according to a report from the bureau of fisheries to Secretary Redfleld of tbe department of commerce, is attributed by fishermen and dealers to operations of tbe fisheries bureau in artificial propagation of tbe lobster. Reports show that there has beefi a heayy increase In the supply since the bureau devoted special attention to the work, particularly along the Coast pf Maine, where lobsters are being taken In greater numbers than ever before. From Rockland, Me.. It Is reported that tbe average daily shipment has been twenty ton? of lobsters from April to September. • v

“WIND JAMMERS” OF ARMY

Some Specimens of the Quaint Blang That la Used by English Soldiers. Londbn.—There is more slang among soldier than one would find at all the schools in England. Some amusing examples are given by Corporal P. L. King of the Second Life Guards in the Household Brigade Magazine. A Tom Clarke is a swab, and it is also a kisß. Hirnce, one may hear a soldier refer to “Tom Clarking his straight miesus, which means kissing his prospective bride. Nobody knows who the original Tom Clarke was. A touch of the Lawrence means a fit of laziness. A pennyworth of bread and cheese is known as a “rimer’’ for some inscrutable reason; and tea is "dirty ’oL” Meat to “saddle flap.” To “put half a gauge on” anything Is to do work for a mah for sixpence, which may have some connection with that a half-gallon can Is known as “half a gauge.” A man wearing a muffler is in “burglar order,” and 1b open to the question, “Where are the ferrets?” If anyone has an unpleasant surprise h# "drops about 17 holes.” Should you agree with a statement you say, “came as that,” whereas if you disagree you remark, “What’s coming off?” Bandsmen are referred to as “wind jammers.”

WAS DECLARED LEGALLY DEAD

Woman Who Lost Legacy Under Absentee Statute Finally Establishes Her Rights. Boston, Mass—Miss Mabel F. Allen of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has proven herself alive after the Suffolk county probate court, the state supreme court and the United States Supreme court had declared her dead, received $2.60C as her share of the property left by her grandfather, Jonathan Merry. When the will of Mr. Merry wal filed several years ago. Judge Grant of the probate court was informed that Miss Allen had been missing for fourteen years, and, under the absentee statute, he declared her dead. The question of Miss Allen’s being declared legally dead was taken to the state supreme court and the United States Supreme court on the constitutionality of the absentee clause. In 1911 Miss Allen received the first information that a legacy awaited her while reading in a newspaper that the United States Supreme court had decided that she was dead. She appeared in the probate court and established her identity.

DUBS WIFE STREET CAR FLIRT

Husband Charges Woman’s Weakness Causes Him Great Discomfort and Sues for Divorce. 8t Clairsville. O. —Charles F. Maripie. a coal operator, declared in a suit for divorce that his wife “was possessed of a weakness for flirting with Harry Albough and Other street car conductors to his discomfort and the lowering of her good name.” Marmle declared his business suf sered through the weakness of hit wife for "street railway uniforms.’ On numerous occasions, according tc Marmle. he was compelled to remait at home with his wife to prevent bei from spending the day riding back and forth on street cars. In answer to her husband's accusations, Mrs. Marmle admitted that one or two street car conductors had tried to flirt with her, but declared that sh« had always rebuked them.

Draw Up Domestic Plan.

Los Angeles.—A detailed plan con cernlng their domestic relations hat been drawn up and signed by Mr. and Mrs. Earle Maddock, a newly married couple, aged sixteen ana fourteen re spectlvely The husband agrees t« help his wife with her household du ties In the evening, .while she prom iees not to “tails back” If a dispute arises.

TO ACCOMPANY MEAT

PREPARATIONS OF VEGETABLES that are Favorites. Scalloped Tomatoes Will Always Bat Enjoyed—Spaghetti In Real Italian Style—Red Pepper Salad la ExcellenL Scalloped Tomatoes—ln the bottom) of a buttered baking dish put a layer of tomatoes (peeled and cut iu small) Slices) ir*rSprißklfßgiOf: pepper; then a layer of chopped onion and green pepper. Add a few bits of butter, cover with bread crumbs, then another layer of tomatoes, etc., until the dish is filled, the top layer bf fine' bread crumbs covering the dish, and bake in a moderate oven about 45 minutes to brown the top. Remove the cover ten minutes before the tomatoes are done. Spaghetti—Spaghetti, Italian style, can be prepared with very little trouble in the following manner: Put the spaghetti (without breaking) into boiling salted water, boil* rapidly uncovered from 30 to 40 minutes. While it ia cooking open a can of tomato soup, heat the contents in a saucepan, add a lump of butter, a good sprinkling of onion salt (or a spoonful of onion juice), a little celery salt and a dash of pepper. When the spaghetti is done, drain and cover with this sauce. Serve at the table with grated Parmesan cheese. Lentils—Wash the lentils and soak them over night. Next morning drain, cover with boiling water and cook slowly one hour. Drain and press through a colander. Return to the saucepan, season with salt and pepper and add a good-sized lump of butter. Beat thoroughly over the fire until hot. The lentils should be of the consistency of mashed potatoes. Pour over each serving a tablespoonful of totpato sauce or chili sauce. Red Pepper Salad —Wash, and cut the peppers In halves (lengthwise), removing the seeds. Cover with cold water and cook until tender, but not too soft. Cool and cut into - strips. Serve on lettuce with French or Italian dressing.

Aunt Selina Braddock’s Cherry Pie.

Line your pie tin with rich crusts Mix four tablespoonfuls of sugar with two of flour, and sprinkle a little more than half of it over the bottom of the crust. Have ready a pint of seeded cherries; put in half of them and sprinkle over them tbe remainder of the sugar and flour. Then put In rest of the cherries and Juice and sprinkle with heaping tablespoonful of sugfer. Wet the edges of the under crust, put on a thin top crust, cutting slits in the middle for escape of steam. Press the edges of paste together and bake In a moderate oven for 20 minutes to half an hour.

Roxbury Cake.

One-half a cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of sour- milk, four yolks of eggs, three cups of sifted flour, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves, grating of nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls of soda; whites of four eggs, one cup of currants or nut meats. Prepare in the usual manner, sifting the soda and spices into the flour and then sifting the whole together. The recipe makes three dozen small cakes.

Scotch Muffins.

One and one-half pints flour, one cupful honey, one-half teaspoonful salt, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, two tablespoonfuls butter, three eggs and a little over one-half pint milk or thin cream. Sift together flour, salt aad powder; rub in butter, cold; add beaten eggs, milk or thin cream and honey. Mix smoothly Into batter as for pound cake; about one-half fill sponge cake tins, cold and fully greased, and bake in good steady oven seven or eight minutes.

Good Substitute for Butter.

An economical substitute for butter, especially for use in seasoning vegetables, etc., is made by frying out ham, bacon .or poultry fat, either raw or cooked, also the droppings from sausages, or the fat skimmed from soup or gravy, allowing to each half pint a small onion, a little thyme, a teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper. Try out at a low temperature, strain throufh cheesecloth and keep in a. cold place.

Crust Wheat Meal.

Put one pound of flour, a plneh of salt and a half teaspoon of baking powder into a basin. Mix them wdl, then rub into them six ounces of fresh butter. Work the mixture with a knife or fork into a paste by the addition of half a pint of water. Roll it out once or twice and it will be ready for use. Sufficient one pound for a pudding large enough for three or four persons.

Lemons for Pie.

I find it a great help when grated lemons are needed for pie. Instead of grating to cut in pieces and remove the seeds, then put through a food chopper, using the fine knife blade, writes a contributor to the Modern Priscilla. It is a saving of time. This can be applied to citron, figs and nuts for fruit cake.

Broiled Salt Fish.

Soak one-half pound salt fish, cut In one piece, one hour in lukewarm water. Drain, put in baking pan, dot over with one tablespoon butter, and bake about ljj_ minutes lu a hot oven.