Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 294, 22 October 1921 — Page 18

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1921

ILLyWfflJTCEILr Frances Trego Montgomerv

The man Billy was chasing headed straight up the middle aisle for the door, but, looking over his shoulder, he found that Billy would overtake him before he got there, so he sprang over another counter, upsetting a pair of scales and some tall, open jars of fine olives. Bill, was still right after him, but this time the man fooled him by jumping back over the counter. Billy followed up that aisle to the end, where he turned into the crowd, just as the fat man went out on the street. Here he upset two ladies and a policeman who was just coming in, and then took after the man who looked like Hans

Zug. He was flying

Htreet as fast as he

was also a very heavy fellow, and just at that time Billy overtook them and gave the man he was chasing all that was coming to Hans Zug. Down in a pile together went the fat man and the policeman. The policeman had not seen the goat and for a moment imagined that the fat man had jumped upon him and was trying to overpower him, so he pulled out his club and, though he was underneath, began, in a way that was comical, to try to pound the fat man.

They lay there, a struggling, wriggling mass, the policeman with his short arms trying to reach

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After Billy came the manager of " ","'uc'.lu. ;.. u " s""' ih otn La twn nf ht. ,-wiV ami Place. Billy Mischief had stopped

all of the boys that had congregated on the sidewalk. P"jll-mell they went, a howling,

yelling mob, with the fat man and isily in the lead. The man by this

time was puffing like a steam engine and the sweat was pouring from his face in streams. His collar was wilted like a dish rag. He had lost his hat and one of his cuffs and he could hardly get his breath. Policemen, by this time, were foming running from every direction and one of them, who turned fff a side street just then, thinking the fat man must be a thief, . ui right in his road and opened up his arms. The fat man, who had scarcely any strength left, fell right against the policeman who

and backed up to give his fallen

enemy another bump, and was just in the air after hia spring when the manager of the store caught his

hind leg, and he also was dragged

on lop oi me struggling iwo on uie ground. The manager held to Billy's leg, however, and the crowd which had been following them closely now crowded around them. The manager scrambled to bis feet, still holding the kicking Billy by the hind leg, and it would prob

ably have been all up with the goat if a big strong man had not at that moment come up and putting his great arms around Billy, jerked him loose. Billy squirmed and struggled, but it was no use. The big man held him tightly and began to run. The store manager got to his feet and started after them, followed by his two clerks, but the big strong fellow who was carrying Billy darted down an alley, and before the pursuers could see where they had gone, the man darted through the back gate of a high board fence with Billy, closed the gate after him, ran along the side of a great building which was blazing with lights, ran down some cellar steps, opened the door, went in, closed it after him, turned on a light and set Billy down.

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CANAL ZONE CRUISE DESCRIBED BY MIDDY

Young America learning to "pogo". The "pogo", the jumping toy that bounced itself into popularity in England, has reached America. The pogo is a stick with footrests near the bottom attached to a spring. The pogo-er steps on the footrests and jumps along the pavement. SCOUTS PLAN JAUNT

GIRL SCOUTS TO MEET Members of the Narcissus Girl Scout troop planned to hold their weekly meeting at 2 o'clock Staurday afternoon, Oct. 22, at the home

of Thelma Miller, 114 Twelfth street.

Scouts of Troop One of the City's Boy Scouts had planned a hike and camp dinner for Friday, Oct. 21, providing the weather was favorable, as this edition of the Junior Palladium went to press. No regular meeting of the troop was held Monday evening because the room where the scouts usually meet was taken for other purposes. The next meeting of the troop will be held at 7 o'clock in the

South j Grace Methodist church, Monday

1 evening, Oct. 24.

The Junior Palladium takes pleasure in publishing the following letter which was written to Lewis Miller, 402 North Twentieth street (through whose kindness we are able to print it) by his cousin, Waletr Drake who is gyro compass electrician on the S. S. Pennsylvania and tells about a cruise through the Panama canal which he has just completed: October 1, 1921, San Piedro, Cal. Dear Cousin Lewis: I suppose you thought perhaps I had forgotten you, but I just arrived at San Piedro from the big trip from New York. I got to see Cuba, Hatii, San Domingo, Colon. Cuba is a very mountanious country.

When you are quite a ways from it, it . seems to bo clouds. Everybody

on deck thought the same thing. There are dark blotches scattered at various places on the mountainside. We passed Cuba in the morning, Hatii at noon and San Domin

go at night. We arrived at Colon, Aug. 29 and got ready to go through the canal on the 30th. . We Go Through the Locks. When we started through 1 was down below at my locker. When I came up on the third deck I looked through a porthole, and maybe you think I wasn't surprised! It seemed to me as though we were going up a creek, for about 10 feet from the ship was the bank. But on going up on the main deck I found that we were going into the first of the three locks at Gatun. These

are called Gatun locks. I suppose you will wonder what they have locks for. Well, in each of these

locks they close big double doors on locks and the ship is then in a

tank. They then start the pumps to working and the water comes in at great velocity and raises the ship to the level of the next lock and so on until the ship is level with Gatun lake. Here you will find the submerged jungle. They had to do this in order to make water for the canal. It sure is beautiful scenery going through the canal. Well, we proceed through the canal until we come to the next point of interest which is Gambia cut. Here is quite a hill which they had to cut through. So the next place we come to is Culebra cut. This is where they had the big landslides which I suppose your mother or father remember happened a few years ago. The big barren place is still there and

! it looks as if it had just happened

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yesterday. They are still taking dirt from the adjoining hills by means of high powered hydraulic methods. They have a pipe lino running up the hill and then squirt the water on the hill and all the dirt comes rolling down and into the canal. At this place the canal is just wide enough for one ship to pass through. Electric Cars Pull Ship. Well, the next place we come to is another set of locks which are located at Tedro Miguel. These are called Pedro Miguel locks. I forgot to tell you at these locks we have four electric s pull us through. They climb three elevations each at pretty near a 90 degree angle so you can imagine how powerful they are. And you cannot see any of the machinery that

operates the locks because it is all behind the locks and covered with cement. You never saw prettier grass than that which they grow on and about these locks. They sure are a fine piece of work. Well, alter we are lowered through these locks at Pedro Miguel, we then are lowered again through another set of locks which is located at Mirai'lores and are called Mirai'lores locks. We then are on the Pacific side of the canal and what do you think, we are farther east than when we started. Well, we then proceed to Balboa oil station and filled up there and the next day we moved back up on the other side of the canal and stayed there 15 days. Saw Pelicans Catch Fish. All we did here was to buy bananas by the stalk and watch the funny pelicans catch fish, ind we also had race boat contests. We

also had the American minister as a guest one day. Then we had the C. Z. champion kid swimmers, four girls and four boys. Tex Rickard took them to New York and they gave exhibitions at the Winter Gardens. Well, then the last two days we got leave and believe me there never was a happier liberty than that was after being on board almost a month and no liberty. The first place we went was to the Balboa Community House. It sure is a nice place. They have palm trees in a long row and they sure do look fine. We only stayed in at the club house about half an hour and we took a taxi to Panama City. And believe me, the best of Panama City is like Tin Can Alley in New York. We rode over the town in a little cart. The streets are full of them. They haul you all over town for a quarter. One thing that struck me funny was that all ve

hicles and everybody keeps to the left instead of the right. We went into a hash joint and tried to get something to eat and they only had four things and these were all the waiters could understand. It sure seems funny to be in a place where nobody can understand you. Every house and building has a balcony to it. You ought to see their trolley cars. They put me in mind of a box seat on a couple of cars. Well, I can't say much .for Panama, for it sure is a dirty city. There is as much difference between Panama and Balboa as thert is day and night. Have a Regular Zoo. Well I returned from liberty at 11 o'clock with the rest of the bunch. Everybody was happy and

merry, we Drought bananas, co-

coanuts, pineapples and monkeys

back by boatloads. Next day we

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I three poll parrots.

On the fifteenth we shoved oV for San Piedrro, California, and here I am. That trip sure would have cost some jack to go on some steamships. Over here in California we can take all kinds of sight seeing trips. I've already been to Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena. We are going to take the Mt. Lowe trip tomorrow and look through the big telescope, and also to St. Catalina Island and go in a glass bottomed boat. Well, Lewis I'm getting cramps in my fingers, so will bring my letter to a close, hoping to hear from you soon, Your cousin. WALTER, U. S. S. Pennsy. (Ed. Note: Walter Drake left his home in South Lebanon, Ohio, when he was 16 years old and entered the Government Naval Training School at Old Point Comfort. He was selected as one of the four boys receiving highest honors as

an electrician and was assigned to the IT. S. R. Pennsylvania).