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IN TRAIN WRECKS
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A Seemingly Impossible Escape
From Disaster.
TRUTH THAT RIVALS FICTION
Derailed by Automatic Switch In Nick
f Time Runaway Freight Leaps Into
th Air Locomotive Turns Turtla
and Engineer and Fireman, Lika
Specters, Emerga Unscathed.
Marvelous escape from disaster
marked a wreck a mile outside of Jo
liet, 111., when a runaway freight train
was derailed to save other trains along
the road. By loss than a minute a Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pucitla passen
ger train, bound for Chicago, missed
the meeting that would have meant
death and disaster. The engineer and
fireman were buried in the wreckage I
of the derailed engine, which over
turned. Although it took ten minutes
to cut the way to the men with picks
and axes, Uiey were found to be with
out a scratch.
The freight cars, heavily loaded with
coal, were thumping down the tracks
at considerable speed. John T. Suth
erland of Rockdale, 111., was at the
throttle. Ilia fireman was Henry Bau
eell of Blue Island, 111. At a signal
point Sutherland threw on his brakes.
They refused to work.
Freight Train Becomes Runaway.
Down the tracks went the freighter
a runaway.
Meanwhile the passenger train due
at Joliet at 6:10, and ten minutes late,
tore along the track. The signals were
tip to give her the right of way. The
heavy freight runaway recognized no
signals.
Less than two minutes before the
freighter pulled up the San Francisco ;
flyer hummed by the scene of the
wreck. Sutherland jerked and pulled
at the levers in an effort to stop the
sad progress.
The tracks are guarded by an auto
matic switch that provides for such an
emergency. A train disregards the
second signal, and the automatic
switch derails it The derail is sup
posed to be Just enough to ease the
engine from the track.
Cars Leap Into the Air.
The freight train, however, was fly
ing along at high speed. When It
struck the derail it fairly leaped Into
the air. It twisted over, and Its
wheels pointed to the sky. The coal
cars telescoped. The first to arrive
got no sight of the engineer and fire
man. "Get to work with the axes and
picks!" commanded a section boss
who happened to be near with a crew.
"Get their bodies out.1"
The squad attacked the metal and
wood pile. Finally from beneath the
mass came Sutherland's voice.
"Easy there.1" he called. "Don't get
careless with the tools. We're all
minutes later they were drag
ged from their perilous refuge. The
steel in turning had formed a roof
ver them.
Boston policemen have had to quit
chewing tobacco ami guiu while ou
duty.
A!: hough eighty-seven years of age.
Melvlu Shaw of Ottslleki, Me., has cut
and split sixteen cords of wood.
At the recent race meeting at Au
teull, France, an Amerlcau woman cre
ated a sensation by appearing in a ti
ger skin which cost $t,000.
While motoring home in New Or
leans Dr. C. A. Bohue was attacked by
a large hawk which was attracted bv
the headlights of the machine.
"Smallpox home, but I ain't afraid,"
said Tommy Flti, eight of 116 Wood
ward street Jersey City, N. J. "Go
borne!" screamed teacher. What he
wanted. No smallpox.
Frederick Spreck, Michigan farmer,
aged seventy, burned the school where
bis foster daughter, aged eighteen,
taught so she would return to his home
aud give up a suitor living In the
neighborhood.
TANGO MAY KILL THE AGED.
Dangers of the Now Dances Pointed
Out by Medical Association.
Here Is a medical opinion on the
present popular dances sent out by the
American Medical association:
It seems unnecessary to call attention
to the fact that the tango, the various
waltzes, the Tnaxixe, etc., are being ardu
ously cultivated by callow youth and cal
loused old age. The problems created by
these dances differ according to the age
f the participants. For the young the
question of morality is paramount; for
the old the possibility of too great a strain
en a dilated heart or an arteriosclerotic
vessel Is apparent. The physician will do
well to caution the stiff jointed, aged pa
tient who derives too great a pleasure
from those to him potentially harmful
amusements.
PAY FARMERS MORE TO CUT
LIVING COST. GOV. M'GOVERN
Also Urges Better Distribution to Re
duce Prices Co-operation His Plan.
Discussing causes of the blgb cost
of living, Governor Francis E. MeGov
ern of Wisconsin recently declared
that the cityward drift of population
constitutes the most menacing tend
ency now operative In American life.
'The only way In which the cost of
living can be reduced," said he, "is by
increasing the supply of the necessa
ries of life, and this supply in turn
can be kept up only by properly re
warding the producer. There is no
reason why with better distribution
of food products the farmer may not
receive more for what be has to sell
and the consumer at the same time
pay less for what he buys."
Governor McGovern said that the
producer received much too small a
part of what the cousumcr gave. The
wide difference between what the pro
ducer receives and the consumer pays
is, of course, not all unjust profits to
the middleman, he asserted. In large
part, be said, it represents duplica
tion, waste and circumlocution in the
handling of food supplies. "But It also
Includes ill gotten gains knowingly
extorted from both consumers and
producers," continued the governor,
"because for the time being they are
at the mercy of those who deal with
them."
He suggested that the producers and
consumers should form co-operative
associations and leagues by means of
which they could establish closer re
lations with each other.
A FIVE CENT HOTEL
MANHOOD SUFFRAGE.
It's here at last! What?
Why, a henpecked husbands'
club. New York has blazed the
way. Among the charter mem
bers are men well known in
west side society. Says A. S.
Smythe, president and founder
of the organization:
"It is no slap at our wives,
whom we appreciate greatly
and love dearly. It is merely to
regulate custom in a manner
most conducive to mutual hap
piness." Here are some of the resolu
tions on which the club is
founded:
That women shall be compelled to
have the hooks on their dresses ar
ranged alternately.
That women shall not have the
right to drag their husbands out of
cozy homes more than three even
ings a week If husbands object
That if a husband chooses to go
out on any of the evenings set aside
as his he is entitled to do so.
That husbands shall not be re
quired to feed the parrot canary
bird, cat dog or monkey.
That wives must get up and dress
for breakfast.
That no wife shall have the right
to Interfere with her husband play
ing golf, tennis or any other game
'all day Sunday and shall not com
plain if he is late to dinner.
Next!
Real Beds at That Pries, and Msals at
From 1 to 5 Cents.
Chicago's bread line will be abol
ished with the new year. A hotel
where real beds can be had for 5 cents
a night and where meals will be fur
nished at from 1 to 5 cents each will
supplant it
Charles G. Dawes, former comptrol
ler of the currency, who has been the
host to the unfortunates in the bread
line, Is the founder of the hotel, which
will bear the name the Rufus Dawes
Memorial. It will represent a father's
memorial to a dead son. Connected
with the hotel will be free baths and
a free employment agency.
A large flag similar to the one raised
during the battle of Lake Erie by
Commodore Terry and bearing the
words "Don't give up the ship" will
adorn the lobby of the new hotel. "All
the men may not understand the his
toric part of the motto," said Mr.
Dawes, "but every one will catch the
spirit of the message."
A GOVERNMENT ORCHARD.
Panama Canal Commissary to Grow
Its Own Fruits.
The Canal Record, the official bul
letin of the Panama canal commission,
announces that the government Is go
ing into the fruit and cane raising
business on a limited scale. Already
the subsistence department of the ca
nal government has taken charge of
several large estates in the canal zone,
the title to tbe lands having passed to
the United States through awards' for
damages made to the owners by the
federal Joint land commission. Tbe
land lies along the line of tbe relocated
Panama railroad.
"The production of sugar cane," says
the Canal Record, "will be secondary
to tbe growing of tbe most common
varieties of tropic fruit It Is planned
to go into banana culture on a scale
sufficient to meet tbe commissary and
hotel requirements, and also to raise
an adequate supply of oranges, limes
and avocadoes."
Buys and Sells Everything That
0n9 Can Think Of.
DOWN TO NURSING BOTTLES
Big Year For Yellowstone Park.
Almost 2,000 more people visited the
Yellowstone park, Wyoming, in 1G13
than during the season of 1912, accord
ing to tbe report of the superintendent,
recently made to Secretary Lane. Tbe
tourist travel has Increased 45 per cent
since 1900 and was heavier in 1913
than ever before, with the exception
of 1909. when the Lewis and Clnrk
exposition was held In Portland.
Almost Seventeen Thousand Artloles
Are Speoified In Schedule of the Gen.
tral Supplies Committee, From Which
Purchases Are Made by Administra
tive Departments.
Uncle Sam buys everything under
the sun, even to nursing bottles. Proof
of this statement Is found In tbe sched
ule of the general supplies committee.
Stationery and drafting supplies;
hardware, metals, cordage and leather
and saddlery; dry goods aud wearing
apparel; drugs and medicines; chemi
cals and reagents; laboratory, hospital
appliances and surgical instruments;
electrical engineering and plumbing
supplies; lumber, mill work, packing
boxes and building materials; paints,
oil, glass and brushes; furniture and
floor coverings; groceries, provisions
and ' household supplies; forage, flour
and seed; photographic supplies and
special equipment; engraving, print
ing and lithographic supplies; fuel and
Ice; incandescent electric lamps; In
candescent gas lamp supplies; motor
trucks; typewriting and computing
machines; electric service; telephone
service.
These are tbe general classifications
under which nearly every conceivable
thing on earth is subllsted.
Services Which Can Buy Direot
Under the law and regulations all
items scheduled by the general sup
plies committee, if In any part or
quantity needed by any administra
tive department or bureau lu Wash
ington, must be purchased through
the medium of the committee. Only
the field services, such as the army,
navy, revenue cutter service, postal
service, internal revenue service, the
various secret services, etc.. are al-:
lowed to make purchases direct with-1
out consenting tbe general schedules. 1
Also, if an item is not listed on tbe
general schedules, but that seems Im- j
possible, an administration depart
ment or bureau can get Its own esti
mates and make direct purchase.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Newton Is tn charge of the general
supplies. It was in tbe pursuit of in
formation to permit him Intelligently
to direct these affairs that be delved
Into this marvelous dictionary of com
merce, which Is given In tbe Washing
ton Star.
Everything from a needle lo a bay
stack is to be found listed In tbe gen
eral schedules. Needles, darning and
sewing needles, engravers' and lithog
raphers' work needles, surgeon's nee
dles and other sorts of needles are
marked down. Bay? There you And
It against tbe cabalistic number 11,018,
and there Is nothing to prevent pur
chase In haystack bulk.
Apparently there la no real estate
listed tbe one Item of barter really
missing from the list
If a person la taken sick there
are medicines to cure all the ills that
man is belr to. If that doesn't help
tbe hospital is available, where all
sorts of devices and Instruments and
materia medicus are to be found.
Coal, wood. Ice and coke are listed.
There Is telephone service to be had
from the same source. One can buy a
typewriter, and for the expert and spe
cialist in scientific endeavor, for tbe
book lover, for any one at all with a
fad or a fancy, the means to satisfy it
are available.
An Endless List
You can bny an adz or ale or other
alcohol for beverage or other purpose;
alfalfa, an angle Iron, an apple or an
apron, bridle, saddle and spurs; arnica
or court plaster for wounds; breakfast
bacon or a bag; rubber and paper
bands, bandanna and cotton and linen
handkerchiefs; barley, wheat and oats;
a basket or a button or a nursing bot
tle or some other sort of bottle, or
thodox or unorthodox, for spirit con
tainers or chemical experimentation
and other varied uses; bromide and
benzine, boots and boot blacking,
books and blotters, chairs, chalk, car
penters' tools; carriages and whips,
etc.; chains and chisels, chimneys,
chocolate, dishes and dishcloths; cord,
crackers, fascinators, fan, flags, flasks,
gum shoes, chewing gum, fresh beef
and furnaces, hammers and tongs and
nails; horseshoes and bose; crowbars
and iron and quinine; cameras and
lanterns: soap, towels, toothbrushes,
wrapping paper and cord; beef liver,
milk, mutton and mutton tallow; neck
ties and gowns: ointments and un
guents, paper and pins; paste, peaches,
pens, pepper, pickles, pipes, pots.
pumps, rat traps, revolvers and other
arms; ribbons and laces; rings, rods,
snrsaparllla, sausage, sauces and sau
cers: scythes and reapers; shirts and
thread; soda, soda crackers; soda
water, stamps, straw hats, razot
strops, sunflower seed and other seeds:
tape and tapioca; tooth extractors, tea,
tags, tacks, tin cans, tbgme, torches
automobiles and motor trucks; uni
forms, varnish, vaseline, china, water
colors, wire, yellow pine and zinc,
and so on. and so on. Nearly 17,000
different articles are specified In tbe
general schedule, and many have from
one to a hundred variations of forms.
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