Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1915 — Page 3

BILL DAIDY'S CHAPTER

By ROBERT F. HOFFMAN.

It is a feature of the glad, free life of this republic that every man is entitled to an opinion on everything under the sun, and, within wide limits, is entitled to the unrestricted expression of that opinion. Bill Daldy is one of those who believe there is good in the large exercise of that privilege, although of late years he has added caution to candor. In the old dayfcftie came in off his engine, loaded with the usual accumular tion df griefs over the shortcomings of the roundhouse, which are apt to loom large in the long watches of the night run. • He gradually grew the habit of closing his regular harangue to the round- . house foreman with a sort of peroration which summed up the real or im- ‘ aginary derelictions of everybody connected with the road, from call-boy to president. . ;r'lL,In an effort to break the -flow of Bill’s rough eloquence the roundhouse foreman unwittingly set Bill’s feet upon the path that led upward—downward, Bin laughingly insists sometimes.

“Bill, why in thunder don’t you write a book?” said the long-suffering foreman, when Bill had become more than usually aggressive in his none too gentle impeachments. “You are sure wasting your talent on an engine." Rill glared for a moment before he was able to let down the pressure of road management which he had mentally assumed, and then, as the recollection of a purchase he had recently made for his growing son flashed across his mind, he gave way to a slow and said: “Blamed if I don’t believe that’s a good idea, Ballard. Maybe I’ll just go ;you a chapter, when my boy gets lit with his machine.” So, Daldy, in his evenings at home, took to rehearsing his daily griefs to the boy, who laboriously hammered them out of the typewriter into grotesques of composition and the printr * B art. Daldy “dictated” and “revised," “killed copy” and “edited,” although he did not know it in those terms, and after many days what he had grown to call “The Chapter” was finished, decked out with border lines that fairly exhausted the resources of the boy and the eighty-odd characters of the .machine. Bill gloated over it for a week of nights, and then liked it so well that he decided to have it all done over again, in order that he might not only supply Ballard, but also send carbon copies of it surreptitiously to the superintendent of motive power, the division superintendent, and —holy of holies —the general manager. The superintendent of motive power duly received his copy, threw it in the waste basket, and remarked casually, "Bill!" He. liked Bill, but not Bill’s too free excoriations. The division superintendent read his copy and, laughing, pigeonholed it for future use in letting down the pressure of the superintendent of motive power when next they should lock horns over engine failures. The general manager took up his copy from its personal cover and read It from start-to finish, as follows:

Chapter One. If this don't fit your case, you get a clearance card right here. The board Is out for others. When you build an engine and want the most results and don’t care what kind, fix yourself with a lot of discouraged draftsmen, and, for chief, get a good wrangler that talks into his whiskers and don’t decide much. Tell them fellows, at the start, that you put them into that cheese-box office to stay, and they can’t break out onto the road to see an engine do' business, noways. Don’t pay any of them too much. They are working on paper, and you can easily fix the engine after we get it Hire a lot of master mechanics that know all about sawmills. There ain’t none around here, but you can see them running in the woods if you take a ride with me. They will be ready to lay up your new engine when it comes out. Fix up boiler steel specifications that you know are O. K., and then let the purchasing agent bluff you into taking something better but cheaper; he can prove it. That will sure give a lift, once in a while, to some of us fellows that’s a little slow about circulating in the scenery, and It will make things brisk in the boiler shop. Them fellows need work. They are too strong to'rest nights. Use hammered engine frames. If I was a track man l*d like to be able to put my hand on a busted weld and say, “Them’s It,’’ after the engine jumped the track and got pulled out of a borrow-pit. The dispatcher won’t care, if she don’t block the track. It makes work for the blacksmiths. Fix your spring-rigging so, when it breaks, the equalizer will hit, point down, in the track. Gives the engine a better start when she jumps. She will go farther and everything had ought to be made to go as far as it can. Truck-pedestal binder-bolts should set low enough to rip up a frosty pfacnk OTpephßg. - It gives the anghtet g_ good 'name as goers. One nut’s enough. Two itay on too well. Put your driving-box wedge-bolts in a safe deposit box behind tbs driving

wheels. Somebody might get at therw with a wrench, on the road. Wedgebolts had ought to be smelled or heard from when the journals screech; not semi. - '>l . If anybody thinks he wants to slack a wedge-bolt, let that man shoot the Jamb-nuts off with a gun. That’s what guns is for, and they’d ought to be carried In the tool kit. The roundhouse gang’s too good for the job. New engines don’t run hot soon enough to suit yours truly. Put a crew of hoboes in there and tell them they got to save oil and ram the cellar-packing down in with a pinchbar. They will do it. The babbit and stuff you drop over the division makes good ballast. Wall in your cellar-bolts, so if a fellow gets them out, digging babbitt out of the cellar, on’ & fast run, he can’t get them in again inside of flf-, teen minutes apiece. The dispatcher won’t care —ask him —and the engineer daresn’t. It’s all he can do to talk his way out of a lay-off. Don’t you worry .about front-ends. If the engine looks good to you, but don’t steam no more than a teakettle with the bottom out, let the trainmaster put on a helper once in a while. Three .or five years from now somebody else will have your job anyhow, and he’ll set most of your front-end furniture out on the scrap pile while he cleans house, and forget to put It back again. That will help some. If you’flnd there’s rooms to rent in the front end after you get it done, and the heater men show up again without the Incubator, fill her up with their stuff. It’s hang for us fellows, but it helps hold the front trucks down when _you’re going some. Bend your feed and air pipes as sharp and as often as you can. It Shows that nobody was looking and they freeze up quicker. Look out for your engine cab. Fix it so that if a fellow goes to the front door he can’t get back again to the throttle without getting orders from the dispatcher, showing that the main line of the cab is clear.

The boy allows we -are working too many nights at this. He wants a change. We are. So don’t bother about fire-boxes and ash-pans. When the president sends word that he “couldn’t see the right of way on his last trip for smoke,” send him to me, and I’ll tell him he was on the wrong end of the train. It was all clear ahead of the engine. That’ll make him know that we are men of some parts; part wood and part leather, with brass trimmings—which I am

Yours truly, WILLIAM DAIDY, Engineer. When a man has enough strength of character to get his head above the common level, however grotesquely he may at first appear, there is usually something in him worth observing. If he has balance and staying po>wers he may get his feet upon the solid, and a leader has been discovered. Somewhat in this fashion the general manager reasoned as he read Bill’s chapter. He called his secretary, and by careful question and reply it was soon established that neither* of them knew who William Daidy was, nor what of William’s chapter was fact and what fancy.

Therefore, the general manager made a brief investigation, put some pointed questions to the superintendent of motive power, who fumed a little, but electrified the master mechanic (as witness his short and simple inquiry of Bill), and thus Bill’s little seeds began to grow apace. Changes were made. Plans were devised and revised until new engines bore signs of Improvement These things were discussed on the home road, and the news of them went broadcast over many roads. Bill’s ideas bore the test of service, and flourished like the proverbial green bay tree, until finally they came before the “First Intelligence,” the “Great Arcanum,” or “Court of Laßt Resort” of the railroad mechanical world, and were called good. No longer bearing the name of “William Daidy, Engineer,” it is true, but labeled with the naihes of many men, for that is the way of the world, and the destiny of all things that are good enough to prove good. Bill never got beyond “Chapter Ono” of Ballard’s “book.” 'There wss no need. But having demonstrated that he was “a man of parts,” it was thought advantageous to transpose him to the. ranks of those he had smitten. Thus, Bill became a road foreman of engines—and more.

Foolish Question.

A man who, with his family, had spent several weeks at a fashionable summer resort discovered one morning that he had lost his pocketbook. Thinking it possible that it might have been found hy some employee of the hotel at which he was staying, he reported his loss to the landlord. “That’s too bad, Mr. Johnson,” said that functionary. “I’ll make inquiries about it. What kind of pocketbook was it?" “Russia leather,” answered the lodger. “What color?” ' „ “Dark red.” “Any distinguishing mark about it?” “It had a clasp." “What was the shape of it?"' “Flat, of course,” said Mr. Johnson. “Haven’t I been here more than a month?”

Response to Popular Demand.

“Donyou think these crook plays have a tendency to make burglars rather plcturesque and popular?” “Sure,” replied Crowbar Jack. “I have been thinkin’ serious of givin’ up me reg Tar work an’ startin’ a corre-

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DE PALMA AGAIN WINS ROAD RACING TITLE

—For th© second time Ralph De Palma has been declared road racing champion of America, the honor having been won by virtue of three firsts and two fourths in five starts. Runner-up of De Palma is Eddie Pullen who made a gallant fight but who lost the honor because he had only two firsts and one second in his flvb starts. The American Automobile association never has attempted to decide the road racing championship, so it has reverted to Motor Age to make the picking, a practice that has been carried on for six years now and which

BRESNAHAN TO MANAGE CUBS

Sturdy Backstop Given Three-Year Ironclad Contract at Balary of slß,ooo—OiDay Will Umpire. Roger Bresnahan has been appointed manager of the Chicago National League Baseball club, following a meeting between President Thomas of the club; Charles P. Taft, owner of the majority of the stock of the club, and Bresnahan, who succeeds Henry O’Day. Bresnahan signed a contract for three years. Bresnahan formerly was catcher for the New York Nationals and last season was catcher for the team he has just signed to manage. While the selection of Bresnahan to the managership of the Cubs was not unexpected, the length of the contract came as a distinct surprise to baseball men. When asked if the

Roger Bresnahan, New Cub Manager.

signing of Bresnahhn to a three-year contract meant that all negotiations for the sale of the club were at an end, Mr. Taft said: “Negotiations ended several days ago and we are simply going ahead with the operation of the ball club. The signing of a manager for three years has no significance, to my way of thinking. It is not an unusual thing In baseball.” •The terms nnder which Roger Bresnahan signed to manage the Cubs, according to newspapers quoting a “trustworthy source,” include a salary of' $6,000 as player and $12,000 as manager, or SIB,OOO a year. ▲ clause providing that the new manager cannot be dethroned without his consent until the expiration of his 'term also was included.

Stallings Signs Again.

George T. Stallings, who led the Boston Nationals to the world’s championship this fall, will continue as manager of the club for at least five years. He has signed a contract extending four years beyond the coming season, when his previous agreement will expire. »

Jobs for O’Day.

Hank O’Day may not ge beck to-um-piring next year, after aIL Hank has received offers from more than one club to look after its welfare and may decide to Accept one of these. - v-’. r :

Ralph De Palma, Champion Road Racer.

result Is accepted as official by the motoring public in general. This time De Palma did not have the walkover he did in 1912, when he was adjudged champion, but no one disputes his claims, for his three firsts include the winning of the Vanderbilt cup trophy for the second consecutive time and his second victory in the Elgin National. Besides this he was fourth in the American Grand Prix,' after leading for a long ways, and fourth at Corona. Pullen won the Grand Prix and Corona; was second in the Elgin National, and failed to finish in the Vanderbilt and Chicago Automobile club cup race.

THIRTY-FIVE DEATHS CAUSED BY BASEBALL

Thirty-five deaths and 918 injuries were caused by baseball during 1914, according to figures made public by a sport f writer who kept a tabulation of the season’s records. Of the players who died from injuries 20 were hit by pitched balls, five were struck by bats, four were in collisions, four overexerted themselves, one was hurt sliding to a base, and one was killed in a fight. Injuries to amateur players are classified as follows: Broken limbs, 314; concussion of the brain, 18; fractured skulls, 13; paralysis, 4; sprains, 37; spiked, 26; fractures, 17;* dislocations, 7; torn ligaments, 10. Players hurt in the major leagues number 116, American league 69, National league 61, Federal league 56 and college teams 8.

RING TOSS TENNIS IS NEW

New System of Bport Hailed With Delight and Finds Many Followers in New York Suburbs. Ring toss tennis is the latest'variation of the favorite game of the courts and nets to which racquet wielders have turned their attention. The lawn tennis players.of the Bronxville Athletic association, New York, have tried out the new game on the courts at Bronxville and Hugh Robertson, A. Dudley Britton, Morris S. Clark, James Robertson and David R. Todd have established a set of rules which seem to fit the new game to perfection.

The inspiration for the game came to one of the players who recently returned from Europe, having whiled away his time on deck during the voyage with the usual ring toss. He got a number of the six-inch rope rings and started to play the game on the regulation lawn tennis court by scaling them back and forth over the net. This made the flight of the ring somewhat too fast and the court was too large, so the net was hung on Badminton poles to a height of five feet six inches. A new court was marked out 21 feet in width and 48 feet in length, the net crossing it at its center. For purposes of serving, the middle of the net was marked by a white band. The server stands at the base line, and because of the height of the net tosses the ring into the air so that it falls with a slow motion which makes It possible for the receiving player to catch it in his hand. Only one service is allowed. With the ring once in play, the players—and it has been found that doubles work much better than singles—may not hold the ring, but must toss it back over the net with the same Arm motion as they receive it. It is not permissible to raise the band or arm above the shoulder.

Opposition From Amateurs.

'Metropolitan district amateurs are strenuously opposing a proposed amendment to the A. A. XL. constitution wherqby collegians will be allowed to compete for any athletic club in their district The opposers point out that should the entire Yale track team be eligible to compete for the winged foot for instance, there would be no competition but a walkover.

Bromley Signs Contract.

~ Defty Bromley, the young Oakland jiffcher who" twirled i one-hit game against Portland recently, was immediately signed up to a two-year contract, so good did he look to Manager Christian.

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

BASEBALL

As a Baltimore Terrapin Chief Bender won’t- have to stack up against Rudolph of the Braves again. * • • The Federal league announces the opening of the 1915 season on April 13, with full equipment and added stars. * • * Walter Johnson, Rankin Johnson, Chief Johnson —the Federal league seems bent on cornering the Johnson market • • * Jack Coombs, the Philadelphia American league pitcher, has been given an unconditional release by the Athletics. ■ ♦ . - Connie Mack used-to send his castoffs to Baltimore to aid Jack Dunn. Bender •will also try to boost Dunn — out of that city. * • * Contending that lower wages produce a better brand of ball, the Michigan State league magnates have voted to reduce the players’ salaries for 1915. • • • Hamilton college wants Johnny Evers to coach its baseball team next spring and there is a chance that the Trojan can arrange with Stallings to do the work.

FOOTBALL

Charley Gleason, eeJ# was elected captain of the Andover football team. * * • Russell Cohen, right end, has been elected captain of the Vanderbilt eleven. • • • Harry Tuthill, coach of West PoinT In football and Detroit in baseball, says the Army and Navy game was the roughest he ever saw. • * • Michigan awarded the reserve “R." to 30 players this season. Yost may have had his reverses in the Blast this year, but look out for the Wolverines In 1915. • 0 * Bill Cochran, boss of the University of Michigan football has a father who claims he'eta throw Bill at wrestlihg. If certain coaches hear of this, Cockran, Sr., may be found in some lineup next fall.

AQUATIC

Cornell’s rowing plans include a possible trip to the coast next summer in response to an invitation to the Ithacan crew to enter the Panama-Pacific events. * * * Harvard’s rowing schedule for 1915 will be made up of races with Annapolis, Cornell and Yale, according to Capt. Harry A. Murray, Jr., of the crimson crew. ' N '* * • Harvard university has 200 ambitious students trying for places in the various crews being tried out by Coach Jim Wray in an effort to win from Yale next summer in their annual New London race.

PUGILISM

Bet it will be a long time before Young Shugrue can get Freddie Welsh into a tight fight over the Marathon distance. * * . • Freddie Welsh is going bad, and the dope is he’s stale. His work in the ring is a big disappointment, and he shows no improvement • • * Young Shugrue is in great demand among the fight promoters. The Jersey scrapper is a big favorite among the fight followers because of the fast way he carries a bout along.

HORSE RACING

Dick Watts, 2:15% is counted on by Redhey as a star for the 1915 campaign. f\ • • * Dick McMahon drove an AzofiLyearling an eighth in 6% seconds at Libertyville. • a • There is a three-year-old by Baron Direct in Denver that recently worked a half in 1:01 on the pace. • • • Roamer, the champion three-year-old of the American turf, is by an Eng-lish-bred sire, Knight Errhnt, from an English dam. Rose Tree 11.

GOLF

Larry Doyle has developed into considerable of an expert-on the golf links at Jacksonville. - * •- • J. J. McDermott, former national open champion in golf, has resigned as professional of the Atlantic City Country club. t'y' ~'' : - Exercise is a great thing, but we never have heard of a woman Improving her stroke with a broom through playing golf.

CHEAPER MEAT DISHES

FOR THOSE TO WHOM ECONOMV IS OF MOMENT. Flank Beef Cooked In Casserole May Be Made as Desirable as the More Expensive Cuts—Good Stew of Neck of Mutton. T<v the women who are compelled to economize in household expenses, the following recipes will prove of Interest: Cut up from two to three pounds of the thick flank or leg-of-mutton piece of beef into neat pieces, place it In a casserole with one quart of cold water or bone stock, bring this to the boil, then let it simmer gently for an hour, when you add to it the white part of six leeks and two or three turnips sliced, a lump of sugar, a small teaspoonful of salt, and half that quantity of pepper, and let it all stew gently together for one and a quarter hours to one and a half hours longer. Serve in the dish in which it was cooked. Take a pound of liver, wash It to get rid of all blood, etc., and dip it in flour. Wash, peel and slice four pounds of potatoes, chop up finely two onions and two apples (the latter softens the liver); put one ounce of dripping in a pan and when melted and quite hot put in the liver, sprinkle it with a little of the onion and apple and fry till nicely colored; add a little powdered sage; now put the liver into a saucepan or casserole, add the sliced potatoes, the rest of the onions and apples, a seasoning of salt and pepper, and three-quarters of a pint of water; bring just to the boil, then draw the pan to the ..side of the fire and let the contents simmer for 45 minutes. Serve in the casserole or turn out onto a hot dish.

Take the scrag end of a neck of mutton and cut it up into neat pieces, cutting away all unnecessary fat; dissolve two ounces of clarified dripping in a casserole, and add to this two ounces of flour, and when thoroughly blended and of the consistency of cream, but only lightly colored, lay in the meat and cook for 20 minutes, stirring It constantly; now add enough stock or water to cover the meat thoroughly and stir it all together till it comes to the boil, when you draw the pan to One aide and let the contents simmer gently, seasoning it with salt and a dust of pepper; it will take from two to three hours slow cooking. Meanwhile peel and cut up into* dice two carrots and two turnips and slice thinly an onion; now toss all these vegetables in a pan over the fire with one ounce of dripping till nicely colored, when you add them to the meat, etc., and let them all stew gently till the meat is cooked. Lift out and serve with the vegetables in the center.

Put into a casserole a dessert spoonful of dripping and let it get hot, then fry in this two sliced onions. Take one and a half pound of neck of mutton, wash it well and put it in the pot with the water which clings to it, cover down closely and let it cook gently for 45 minutes. Meanwhile trim, and slice down a cabbage into eight pieces and put these in water; peel six potatoes and cut them into slices about half an inch thick and place these also in water. When the meat has been simmering for fortyfive minutes lift out the cabbage and potatoes dripping with water and pack them round the meat, season with a teaspoonful of salt and half a teaspoonful of pepper, cover down the pan closely again and simmer for forty-five minutes longer. It must be oeoked very slowly or it will burn.

Swiss Potato Soup.

Wash, pare and cut in halves four small potatoes. Wash, pare and cut in slices one large white turnip. Parboil together ten minutes, drain, add half an onion cut in slices, and three cupfuls of boiling water Cook until vegetables are soft; drain, reserving the water to add to the vegetables after rubbing them through a sieve. Add one quart of scalded milk, reheat, and bind with shortening and flour cooked together, using four tablespoonfuls shortening and half a cupful of flour. Season with salt and pepper.

Hazelnut Taffy.

Mix a pinch of salt, a pinch of creamof tartar, a teaspoonful of vinegar and half a cupful of water and add to a pound of lump sugar which has been put into a saucepan with two tablespoonfuls of butter, melted. Stir constantly until boiling and then add two cupfuls of hazelniiti, which have been shelled and halved. Stir and cook until the candy is brown, add a scant teaspoonful of vanilla and pour into butter pans. Mark into squares when cool.

Better Griddle Cakes.

When making griddle cakes of buttermilk, they will be much lighter and more tender if one small cupful 'of very dry bread crumbs is added to each pint of buttermilk. Dess flour will be needed, and the dry bread will be utilized. —“Home Department,” National Magazine.

Cold Chicken Soup.

Cook one pbloken. half buqcfeof Cetquarts of water, cool, skim, add minced parsley, two tablespooufuls grated cooked ham, Juice of a lemon, two cupfuls cream, salt, white pepper, and dice of white bread. - •' . ' 'id* '