Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 264, 31 July 1911 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AHD SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JULY 31f 1911.

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Hadalab O. Ide Carl Bernhardt . . IV. R. Foaadstosj Rdltur . Aeaotlate K.dttor ....Nim Edlto SUBSCRIPTION TEUM3. In fclchmond 15.00 ier year :i advance) or iOo per wtelc RURAL ROUTES On year, In advance IJ $' BIX months. In advanca 1 " Ona month. In advanca v". 'i Add. -ess chancid aa often aa Cestred, fcotn new and old addrosesa must ba lari. ... Mubscrtbere wl!l please remit with order, which ahould be given for a specified term; nama will tot bo entered until rnymi.t calvad. MAIL. SUBSCRIPTION?! One year. In advanca ",2a Six montha. In advanca it One month, in advanca Enter! at Richmond. Indiana. -jost rfflce aa second clam mall matter. Now York Representatives Payne ft Yoinjr. 30-84 West 83rd street, and 5II West 82nd tret. New York. N. T. Chtrag-o Ker.resontatlves Payne A Ynuni, 747-748 Maruuetto ilulldli:-. Chicago. 111. Tha Association of Amor ifilll iean AdvertUen. baa exIM : i i I. tha circalatiosj ! thia pub lication. Tha figure of circulation ontaioed in the Association's report only are guaranteed. Association of American Advertisers N. 169. Whitehall Bid . N. T. City WHAT OTHERS SA Y THE MOROCCAN DIFFICULTY. ilTom the New York Evening Tost. Ia fact of a situation like that which at vresent involves Germany, France and Great Britain In Morocco, the trained European diplomat suffers largely from the same disadvantage aa the remote observer on this side of the Atlantic. Everybody finds it hard to go to war or whether she has not the slightest intention to do so, she has a way of putting things that rasps the nerves of the nations. The bear who killed his master In driving the : flies from his face might have evinced i the same innocent surprise that Ger- ' man diplomats and the German press i frequently display on the aftermath of an international display crisis. It Is i the same Innocent wonder which the Kaiser used to evince after his most startling speeches. Aro you really frightened because we rattle the saber and growl? Why, we only meant that we should like to talk things over with you in a neighborly fashion. Germany's bitter complaint Is that she Is constantly being misunderstood. HARBOR FACILITIES. From the Baltimore American. Cities that are ambitious to figure us world ports must get busy on the enterprise of deepening and widening docks that will accommodate ships 1,000 feet long and of 40 feet draft. The big ship Is a money haver, and the trend 'of ocean-going commerce is distinctly In the direction of employ Ing the largest ships which the dock ing facilities of ports will permit. The outer Patapsco Is so wide that a pier one-half mile long might be provided If necessary. And when It comes to dockage that Is merely, so far as Bal timore is concerned, a matter of scooping out and not of building tidal basins." ANOTHER THINK COMING. I From tho Chicago News. Senator La Follette may think that 'President Taft has dropped the Roosevelt policies, but the big trusts are not iRenerally of that opinion. ' GOSSIP. Persons staying at a seaside hotel have promised not to talk about their neighbors. This voluntary renunciation of one of the chief seaside amusements may mean that the millennium Is at hand. YALE WINS. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Connecticut woman has just married her third husband and all have been Yale men. Harvard has had a ,bad year all around. A DIFFERENCE. From the Minneapolis Journal. It Is claimed that there are as many microbes on a dollar bill as on a fly. But he dollar bill does not make such desperate and continuous efforts to alllght on you. JUST A LORD. -From the Chicago Recohr-Herald. The Englishman dearly loves a lord, but he wants him just to be a lord and not a legislator. This Is My 70th Birthday ROBERT STAURT MACARTHUR Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur, the new president of the Baptist "World alliance, was born in Dalesville, Quebec, July SI, 1841. He graduated from the University of Rochester, in 1786? and three years later finished a course in the Rochester of Theological seminary. The same year of his enttrance into the ministry he was called to the pulpit of the Cavalry Baptist church In New York city and for forty-one years he hat continued as pastor of that church. Dr. Mac Arthur's fame as aa eloquent preacher is equalled by his reputation as a writer on religious subjects. He has been a frequent contributor to the Baptist church publications and numerous books of his sermons have been published and widely circulated.

Fire Protection

Fire Chief Ed Miller and President Hammond are on the right track in considering the purchase of a motor fire wagon. Perhaps some of the business men of Richmond have been keeping track what has been going on the last year in Indianapolis. Like every other American city Indianapolis found two things that ite fire protection was not adequate and that the fire insurance companies therefore placed the risk accordingly. The commercial organizations turned the problem of fire protection over to the Richard Lieber, a very public spirited man. Lieber devoted his full time and attention to the question of fire protection because if that matter is solved the fire insurance problem would be greatly solved. One of the things that Mr. Lieber did was to get a statement from the fire underwriters as to just exactly what the fire insurance companies would suggest. The fire underwriters advanced every possible thing that they could think of thus forcing Indianapolis up against a stone wall. There is not room here to tell of all the details but Richard Lieber learned the situation all over the country and particularly the situation In his own town. He found that he had a plan so much more effective in the securing of fire protection of Indianapolis that the underwriters were forced to agree with his plan. And therefore Richard Lieber was able to save to the people a quarter of a million dollars; able to change the fire insurance rates on the adoption and completion of his plan and all thi3 because he really had an effective plan for fire protection. One of the most striking changes in the very excellent Indianapolis fire department was the employment of the motor fire wagon. In the trial tests the motor truck beat every single department except the one which was only a few blocks away and the motor truck was many miles away when it started. Lieber works on the theory that there would be no big fires if the fires could be put out immediately and there is only one way to put fires out quickly that is to get there quickly and more than all this is to have men on the spot with chemicals and apparatus adapted to putting out small fires at the very first. But this is so absurdly simple that it sounds very foolish but the motor truck in Indianapolis had made good. It arrives before every other wagon and that is usually all there is to the fire. It has added the final efficiency to the Indianapolis department and will last for many years excepts as more motor trucks are added. We have mentioned this whole subject of firo protection because this seems a very good time to have all this matter straightened out. At this time there is a building ordinance pending and a water works contract. It seems to tho Palladium that it is a very good time to put the fire protection subject under one general plan and to be sure that the work is done right from now on. Fire protection affects every citizen. It does not matter whether a man has insurance or not if the buildings in the factory district burn down, men go out of work if the largest department store in Richmond burns down it makes little difference whether the owner has insurance, he cannot keep on employing his clerks. Before the fire department has an addition of a motor wagon, we should like to see Fire Chief Ed Miller, a representative of the board of works and the merchants and manufacturers of the commercial organization go to Indianapolis and go over the ground with Fire Chief Coots and Richard Lieber. And while they are there it would be a good thing if they talked over with Richard Lieber the water works relationship to fire protection. Richard Lieber is an authority the fire underwriters know that and we venture that if they knew that Richmond were consulting Mr. Lieber on this proposition that they would pay considerable attention to the requests of this town for better Insurance rates. It is a good thing to work all these things out in a definite plan for the future.

"Breaking the Camel's Back" "The council and water works to select hydrants at different points within the city, either on high or low level, and throw water a distance of one hundred feet, through one thousand or twelve hupdred feet of hose." Section 20, present contract. NOTE: THE WATER WORKS CONTRACTS, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT, ARE MADE ON THE BASIS OF PAYMENT FOR HYDRANT RENTAL. THESE CLAUSES ARE THEREFORE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE CONTRACT IN A LEGAL WAY. THIS IS THE LEGAL FICTION ON WHICH THE COMPANY MAKES ITS CONTRACT WITH THE CITY THE CITIZEN WILL THEREFORE SEE HOW IMPORTANT THE CLAUSE IS. Now please consider what the company is proposing to do in the present contract!

It reduces the length of hose to one hundred from one thousand or twelve hundred! Moreover, not more than two streams are to be taken from any sixinch main, nor more than four streams from any eight-inch main. Nor in the proposed contract is a fire to be taken as a test of the performance of the company! The city must give the water works written notice of a test whenever it wishes to see whether the company is living up to the contract. And if the water works company fails What then? Do then rentals cease does the company pay any forfeit? Not at all the company must be given notice and within ten days it shall make another test if it falls down this time, then the company may request at its convenience another test whereupon hydrant rental shall be restored. Please read this provision of the new proposal very carefully and see whether you think it is the sort of contract that the company should be content with for the next twenty-five years. Those who are Interested in fire protection never realize how much until a fire comes along. But this is more than fire protection, for it Is the whole basis of the making of this contract for this contract depends upon the hydrant rental of the city. Think of it in that light see how little the company is asked to give how little are the forfeitures there should be enough in this clause to put the company at the mercy of the citizens if there is non performance. It should be very stringent. Instead, the attorneys for the company have drawn it up so loosely as to be meaningless for the city and have removed the company from all probable liability. They have even removed the clumsy safeguards of twenty years ago and ask that the city continue for twenty-five years under a contract which furnishes no safeguards for the very thing on which the whole contract is made. THIS IS ENOUGH TO THROW OUT THE WHOLE CONTRACT ON. It is clear then that the city diminishes its fire protection at least nine-tenths and imposes no forfeit in case of failure during a fire the only time when the city has need of pressure or fire protection that no liability is imposed except under the terms most favorable to the company. And to cinch the whole thing in this contract cow proposed, the city agrees to enforce the ordinance prohibiting the sprinkling of streets during the time that the tests and the fires occur. This seemingly proper proviso has as a matter of fact the effect of nullifying the whole protection of the city. For we doubt no more than the water works company that it will come into court if the city should try to enforce even the small protective clauses allowed the city and combat the case on the ground that the city had not prevented some sprinkling a thing nearly impossible when strictly considered.

So that if a fire occurred for instance in the Masonic temple, which this paper occupies there would only be two lines of hose from any hy-

drant on North Ninth street through which the company would be compelled to throw water 100 feet vertically and only through a length of 100 feet of hose. If this were a fire and the company fell down, there would be little legal liability for forfeiture of hydrant rentals for there are the provisions as to the torturous way o finding out whether the commny is maintaining its pressure.

PROPOSED CONTRACT. Section VIII. That Section IS of said ordinance, as amended by an amendatory ordinance of said city ordained September 21. 1S92, being Section 2 of said amendatory ordinance, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section IS. Said water works shall at all times maintain a pressure in its mains at the corner of Main and Eighth streets of not less than forty pounds nor more than seventy pounds to the square inch, except as hereinafter provided. Said water works shall maintain an electric gong at its pumping station, connected with the city fire alarm system in such a way that the fire department of said city may notify said water works by an alarm sounded at its pumping station that a pressure in excess of said pressure above stipulated is necessary to extinguish a fire in said city, and said water works shali within ten minutes after such an alarm shall have been given at said pumping station, furnish such additional fire pressure by means of the pumping machinery of said water works, as may be required by such- fire department, not less than seventy pounds nor exceeding 110 pounds to the square inch at any hydrant, and shall maintain such pressure continuously during the continuance of any such Are in said city. If, in the opinion of the chief of said fire department, it is necessary to designate certain fire alarm boxes as direct pressure boxes, said water works shall, when the first alarm is sounded from such boxes, give and maintain the required fire pressure; provided, that no box shall be designated as a direct pressure box the static pressure at the hydrant nearest said box exceeds seventy pounds per square inch. Section IX. That Section 20 of said ordinance be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 20. Whenever new machinery shall be installed by said water works, the same shall be of standard pattern and quality, and the system of said water works shall at all times be of sufficient capacity to throw simultaneously eight fire streams one hundred feet vertically through one hundred feet of 2Vs inch best quality rubber-lined hose and 1 inch ring nozzles; provided, that no more than two streams are to be taken from any one six inch main nor more than four streams from any one eight inch main, and streams from larger mains in the same proportion. The city shall have the right to make a test at any fire hydrant upon first giving to said water works a reasonable notice of the time and place when and where such test shall be made. If the said water works fails at any time to meet the requirements of such test, excepting by reason of damage to the plant of said water works by fire or other unavoidable accident, said city shall give written notice thereof to said water works, and unless said water works shall by another and similar test satisfactorily meet the requirements above specified within ten days after such written notice, the hydrant rentals shall thereupon cease until such time as said water works shall by another and similar test satisfactorily meet the requirements above specified, which test shall be made upon request of said water works. It is hereby agreed that the city will enforce the ordinance prohibiting sprinkling during the time said above named tests are made, and during the time of fires. Section X. Said water works shall maintain upon its present line of piping, three hundred eighteen fire hydrants as now located or at such other points as shall be designated by the said city; provided that in case of the change of the location of anj- of said hydrants, the expense of such change shall be paid by the city. Whenever said city shall deem it necessary for better fire protection in said city to establish additional hydrants on the then existing pipe lines of said water works, the said water works company shall set the same at the points designated by said city and shall charge said city only the price of the hydrants, cost of labor and material furnished. All provisions for a free supply of water for any purpose by said water works except for the extinguishment of fire, are hereby repealed and all free supply of water by said water works, except as above stated, shall cease and terminate from and after the passage of this ordinance and the acceptance thereof by said water works as hereinafter provided. "ON EQUALLY MASONIC CALENDAR Tuesday, Aug. 1. 1911 Richmond lodge No. 196, F. & A. M. Stated meeting. Wednesday, Aug. 2 Webb lodge, No. 24. F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in Entered Apprentice degree. Work to commence promptly at 6:30 p. m. The Best Books. Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all Thoreau.

PRESENT CONTRACT. Section 2. That Section IS of said ordinance be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section IS. Said Richmond City Water Works shall construct their system of water works with all necessary infiltration galleries and filters for cleansing and storing water and in connection with their said system, and as a part thereof, they shall construct a reservoir, with a capacity of not less than 4,000,000 gallons of water, to be constructed on the best and most scientific plan known, and the same shall be constructed so that the same have an elevation above the corner of Main and Eighth streets, in said city, of at least one hundred and sixty-two feet, and shall have a water area at the top of not les than two acres, and so that the same shall be capable, of producing, by gravity, a hydrostatic pressure in the pipes at the corner of said streets of not less than seventy pounds per square inch, and shall maintain the water in said reservoir at or above the line in said reservoir, at all times, that will give said seventy pounds pressure at said point or corner above named, and immediately upon an alarm given at the pump house of said company, said pressure shall exist in said pipes at said point or corner, and during the continuance of any fire that shall occur in said city, the pressure from said reservoir in said pipes at each hydrant in said city shall be such as the head of water in said reservoir kept at or above said line will produce. And if the chief engineer, or other officer having control of the fire department of said city, shall notify said company, by an alarm sounded at said pump house, that a pressure in excess of said pressure above named is necessary, and required to extinguish any fire that may be in said city, said company shall, within ten minutes after such alarm shall have been given at said pump house, furnish such an additional efficient fire pressure, by means of the pumping machinery of said water works, as may be necessary and required by such chief engineer, or other officer, not exceeding one hundred and ten pounds per square inch, and maintain such pressure continuously during the continuance of any such fire in said city, and that in all cases, when a fire occurs in said city, the alarm shall at once be given at the pump house of said company, and when an alarm is so given the company shall at once furnish an efficient fire pressure at all the hydrants in said city. Section 19. Said corporation shall construct suitable buildings of brick or stone, commodious, durable, and modern in style of architecture, with brick smoke-stack. Section 20. The machinery used by said water works shall, in all respects, be first class, capable and durable, and there shall be such an arrangement thereof by duplicates, or otherwise, as to guarantee a continuous supply of water. The pumps shall be of high duty, compound duplex and condensing Holly pattern, and known as the "Gaskill pumps" (the best "Gaskill pumps), and be subject to a duty test of not less than eighty million foot pounds, at a (pislon) speed of one hundred feet per minute; their maximum capacity shall be two million gallons of water per day of twenty-four hours each, or four million gallons combined against a pressure of one hundred and thirty pounds, and there shall be at least two of such pumps. There shall be at least two seventyfive horse power return tubular boilers, or as many as the requirements of the machinery demand, properly encased and set. The pressure power of the pumping machinery shall be sufficient to maintain eight one-inch streams of water thrown to a vertical height of one hundred feet through two hundred feet of hose, the hose to be two and one-half inches in diameter, to be attached to a hydrant situated upon the line of mains or pipes. The council and water works to select hydrants at different points within the city, either on high or low level, and throw water a distance of one hundred feet through one thousand or twelve hundred feet of hose.

AS GOOD TERMS? Advanced Ancestral Pride. "So Wood by is very rich now. When I knew him be was poor. His only treasure in those days was the musket his great snranif at her carried in the Revolution. "Oh. his great-grandfather has been promoted since. Wood by exhibits his sword now." Philadelphia Press. The Limelight. "Fa. what is meant by the limelight r "The limelight, my boy. is something that everybody wants to be In without paying advertising rates for the privilege" Detroit Free Press-

Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 190S, by Edwin A. S'yt

TO A HUSBAND. Mr. Man, when you to home at night you like nothing better than to get inside your smoking Jacket and slippers and rest. And when your wife wants you to go with her somewhere you are quite put out. But Ask yourself. What has the wife been doing the long day, and whom has she seen? The grocer boy, or the iceman, or possibly the woman next door, with whom she has exchanged a few words. She has scarcely been out of the house, while you have seen many people and things. She is made of the same sort of stuff human stuff as you. In a little town in Iowa a fine middle aged woman, devoted to her family, went out one morning and set fire to the barn. She died a month later In an asylum. ' Too much to occupy her hands and too little to occupy her mind," said the doctor. Do you see? Her husband was a good man as men go. But the wife, whose work was never done aud whose personality held the family together, was sacriflc- i ing every fiber ff her being as wife and mother, and the husband did not see. Her only diversion was church on Sundays when she could go. You say the case is an extreme one? It Is. perhaps, but it may serve to give you a woman's point of view. Many a poor wife, driven by never endlnsr tasks, lacking recreation, has developed unrest, brooded and sometimes died tir done a foolish thing. Do you wonder? ) And if. added to her sense of grinding monotony, there is the sense of neglect or d'sesteem, what may you not expect? Some day a thing the hnsband never dreamed of happens. And he cries out, "I did not understand!" If you. a man, cannot sanely live without change of scene or break of monotony, neither can the woman at your side. If the faithfnl wife cannot leave her duties in the daytime, but can do so when the supper dishes are done, go with her whither she wills to go. just as you would have gone with her in the old sweet days of courtship. Else you may some time deserve the bitter apostrophe of the dying wife: Carve not a stone when I am dead. The praises which remorseful mourner give To women's graves, a tardy recompensa. But speak them while I live. Forget me when I die. The violets Above my rest will blossom Just aa blue Nor miss thy tears. E'en natura'a forgets. But while I Llv be true. If "JU J.....-- vIFE An artist's sketch shows two children, a boy 'and a girl. They are being interviewed toy a woman. This part of the con versa tiou: "And, Maud, when you grow up what do you expect to be?" Maud Just Jlmmie's wife, ma'am. Which was a cute rejoinder and more. To be sure, Mnud when grown may change her mind. Certainly when she is older she will be less frank to say she is going to Ik? Jimmie s wife, bowever she may feel about it. ButWise in childish wisdom, Maud lias chosen the better part. Because If Jimmie proves the right sort and if he is to do his best he must have a good wife. His best will depend largely upon the best that i iu his wife. He will need a good Maud to make a man of him. And in making a man of Jimmie Maud will have her hands and heart quite fullMighty Important "just Jimmies wife." Now. it may be Maud has a talent for something else, or Jimmie may not suit her or she him. Each will know when the time comes. Certainly, if both are agreed, when the time comes Maud can aspire to no higher place than that cf "just Jimmie's wife." If she holds to her girlish choice and she and Jimmie choose each other no greater crown of happiness can come to her. Made for wifehood and motherhood, she will find her highest satisfaction In the fulfillment of her manifest destiny. The abundance of Maud's being as a woman will demand husband and children upon whom she may lavish the riches of her devotion. She who misses this misses the abundant life. And if Maud marries Jimmie. besides filling the measure of her own normal desires, she will, as I have said, give Jimmie his chance In life. The subtle tut strong inj"jie.nce of a "THIS DATE

JULY 31ST. 1759 General Wolfe was checked In his assault on the French at Quebec. 1777 Lafayette made a major-general in the American army. ISO'? John Ericsson, builder of the Monitor, born. Died March 7. 1883. 1S13 Plattsbure. N. Y-, taken by the British. 1S31 Completion of the new London Bridge. 1S71 Phoebe Cary, noted author, died in Newport, R. I. Born near Cincinnati, Sept. 4, 1824. 1S73 Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the U. S., died at his home m Tennessee. Born in North Carolina, Dec. 29, 1808. 1SS General MacArthur's force reached the Philippines. 1SS& Sir James David Edgar, Speaker of the Dominion House of Commons, died. Born in 1841. 1506 Mutinies of Russion troops in Finland suppressed with great loss of life. 1910 John G. Carlisle, former senator, cabinet officer and Speaker of the house of representatives, died in New York City. Born In Campbell county, Kentucky, Sept. 5, 1835.

woman working by and through man she loves Is the dynamic that moves the world. More than that, it is the power that saves the world. Wherever you find a ma a worth while always and everywhere you will find a good woman behind that man. Therefore Blessings on the Mauds who find content and greatest joy la being jut Jininxie's wife."

LEE HELPED HIM. Tha Old Soldier That Asked For and Received Assistance. General Robert E. Lee was sitting on the veranda of his Islington homo one afternoon engaged In conversation with some friends when a man. Ill clothed and covered with dust, appeared at the gate and timidly beckoned to the general. Apologizing to his friends, Lee rose at once and went to the gate. Very soon his purse appeared, and he was seen to give the man some money. His friends, knowing the extent ot his charity in any case of suffering, real or apparent, looked on with some impatience, for they knew how slender his means were then and how many calls of the same kind came to him. "General, who was that?" one of them ventured when be had returned to his place. "One of our boys in trouble, was the half smiling answer, for the general kuew the remonstrance which his friend was longing to make. "What regiment and company did belong to?" persisted the friend, anxious, if possible, to unearth the sus pect ed fraud. "Oh, he he fought on the other side,' was General Lee's calm answer. Chinese Business Honesty. With due respect for others, tho Chinaman is perhaps the most honorable and upright business man In the world today. His business principles are founded entirely upon honesty, and he adheres to the policy with the insistence of a leech. The chase after dollars stops if be has to resort to low tricks to get them. Of course a little thing like telling a falsehood occasionally does not bother him so much, but when it comes to plotting and scheming to defraud some one the task becomes distasteful. The equal of the Japanese In initiative and foresight, he Is much their superior when integrity is concerned. A Japanese does not think twice before deciding to get the best of you. tie calculates that you are liable to change your mind or get out of reach if he indulges In a little mental debate as to the propriety of cheating, you. Bookkeeper.. TWINKLES FROM ART'S VIEWPOINT. "What do you think of those Camorrists?" "Well," replied the impresario, "their technique isn't much, but tbey certainly have temperament." THE MAN AND HIS PARTY. "Do you think that man can convince people that he is greater than his party?" "Perhaps," replied Senator Sorghum "but the only way he can do it Is to make his party look exceedingly small." THE SUNRISE. , It is the glory of each clime, -Yet frought with disappointment deep, It always happens at a time. When everybody wants to sleep. t THE PRACTICAL PARENT. "I understand that Count Marigold is paying his attentions to your daughter." "Yes," replied Mr. Cumrox, "And if Gladys Ann Is smart she'll make it a long engagement, 'cause there's nothin' keeps a man paying attention like bein' broke." A COMMERCIAL FAILURE. "Is that astronomer successful?" "Not very," replied the popular scientist. "He insists on spending his time staring through a telescope when he ought to be at a typewriter plunking out articles for the magazines." A BATTLE SONG. Pickin on de banjo string ; I's wasted many a day, : But dishere song I has to sing Is tuned a different way, I sits down in de lazy shade An' takes dat shinin' razor blade; : I etroy 'im An flop 'im; I'se careful not to drop ira, ; Foh de finest sword dat's made. Some folks wants a cannon neat An' some jes' wants a gun An" some is thankful for delr feet Dat stahts 'em on de run. But hishere friend, I wants to say. Has stood my friend both night and day. I strop im An' whop 'im, I pass my thumb on top lm. Dar's nuffin' g'inter stop 'im When he once gets under way. IN HISTORY"