THE CHKMAWA AMERICAN
7
FROM THE ENGINEERS,
The boys who haul wood since vaca
tion started instead of loafing when they
get their work dono.want to know what
next. They are all willing to do a little
more when help is scarce. Frank Cox
and Aurelius Talbot commenced work
at 3 o'clock Monday morning so that
they would have a good start. (
Ed Lynch and Joe Moss were repair
ing manholes last Monday. Ed says
that he is no brick mason, but he gets
there just the same.
John Miller, John Hunter and Frenk
Cox have just finished packing all of the
expansion joints and valves on the heat
ing system. They say it is the first time
since the plant was put in. They went
at the work vigorously, as they said too
much steam wyas escaping to suit them.
Last Saturday the engineer boys were
taking a lesson in connecting boilers
from Col. Pringle, and they did a good
job, so the Colonel says.
Joe Carasco is trying hard to learn
how to figure the horsepower of an en
gine. Joe is made of the right stuff and
will get there if anybody'can.
Jacob' Scott has been helping the boiler-maker
during the week at the task of.
putting new tubes in boiler No. 1. He
thinks that he will be able to do the
work himself when he gets through with
this job. Any way, he is getting some
good experience.
During the first of the week Truman
Lucas was knocking scales out of boiler
No. 1 and getting it in shapo to put in
new tubes. He made a mistake and
knocked some scales off his head, but he
says it is all in the business. .
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HAROLD CHOSE THE EASIER
WAY.
Maynard had been naughty, and his
father, after showing him his fault, had
sent him up to his room to ask God to
forgive him for being a bad boy. Three-year-old
Harold was present, but seemed
to take no notice of the conversation. It
'was his turn, however, before many days
to receive punishment, ' and his father
took him across his knee. 'Oh, don't,
papa," he said. "I would rather go up
stairs and pray." Delineator
DOUBLE QUICK COMPOSING.
Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote the over
ture to "The Yeomenof the Guard" in
twelve ' hours a,nd that to "Iolanthe" in
less space of time from 9 p. m.,to 7 a.
m. But even this capacity for speed in
composition is eclipsed by M. Bompard,
who for a wager composed the music to
a song in ten minutes. Mr. N. Trotere,
however, is a composer of whom most
quick time anecdotes are told. His
beautiful song "Asthore" was both writ
ten and composed in forty minutes in
Blanchard's restaurant. The melody of
"In Old Madrid" was the result of a
sudden inspiration. It came to the
composer while on his way home from the
aquarium. Lest it should escape him
he rushed into a small public house in
Rochester row, seized a biscuit bag and
on it jotted down the air. But Mr. Trotere
holds the championship. It is said that
he actually compossed ''The Bow of the
Hill," wrote a letter and ran 400 yards
to post it in eight minutes. Dundee
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