A Nkhor Worth of ...
Comment On This and That
Thursday, May 28, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVZB
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Prw Writer
Washington OJ.R) Any old
timer who hasn't sat around a
pot-bellied stove in a caboose
tied onto the
fend of a freight
train jusi
hasn't lived.
I did that
once. I had a
fast, memor
able round trip
of say 50 miles
on a caboose,
on a runaway
trip from home
on account of I
Harman Nichols had flunked
7th grade arithmetic.
I've looked one up again and
the caboose has changed. No
longer do caboose " stoves have
bellies like Jackie Gleason. Ca
booses are rather refined things
now.
The Association of American
Railroads has in its files a won
derful volume called "A Treas
ury of Railroad Folklore." It's a
bunch of stories, tall tales, tradi-
u 's
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Reedsport Local
Asked To Show Cause
Portland (IIP) U. S. Dis
trict Judge Gus J. Solomon yes-!
terday ordered Reedsport local
7-140 of the International Wood
workers of America, CIO, to
show cause why an injunction
should not be issued to prevent
the union's engaging in alleged
unfair labor practices in a dis
pute with Firchau Bros. Logging
company.
The National Labor Relations
Board charged last month that
the union is conducting a second
ary boycott by inducing era
ploees of Long-Bell Lumber com
pany not to use, handle or haul
any of the products of the log
ging concern.
The show cause hearing was
set for June 3. Judge Solomon
also directed the union to file
by May 31 an answer to charges
made by the NLRB in its peti
tion for an injunction.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day
tions and the like. Anecdotes
about the little men who made
railroads great.
Whole Chapter
There is a whole chapter on
the hind side of the train.
This volume, edited by B. A.
Botkin and Alvin F. Harlown,
tells us that the caboose is
known among the railmen by a
lot of other namesi "some not
printable."
It seems the caboose is known
in polite railroad society as a
crummy, a bedhouse, a dog
house, bouncer, buggy, chariot.
glory wagon, go-cart, monkey ,
wagon, palace, parlor, brainbox. i
zoo, diner, kitchen, and shanty, j
Even the word "caboose," it- j
self, is sort of a stepchild, and j
isn't American at all. According i
to the railroad experts, it is a j
conglomeration of a number of j
tongues. It first appeared as !
"cambrose" or "camboose" in j
the logs of French railroaders
during the last century. The j
word caboose first appeared in j
English literature in 1859 during j
a lawsuit against the New York i
and Harlem Railway. In the :
courtroom, somebody mentioned j
that "the men had erected a ca- i
boose in which to cook their j
meals." The phrase had nothing I
to do with the lawsuit, whatever j
it was about, but the word" ca-
boose" was born.
Cupola Added -
It is interesting to learn how
the cupola was addechto the ca
boose. According to the rail
folks, it happened in the summer
of 1863. A conductor named T.
B. Watson was assigned to a
regular freight run between Ce
dar Rapids and Clinton, Pa. He
was the temporary captain of a
rather shabby boxcar, which
somehow had come by a circular
hole in the roof. Mr. Watson,
being something of a comic, ap
proaches the yards to Clinton,
stood on a packing case, stuck
his head through the hole in the
top, lifted his lid and bowed to
the other railroaders. There was
a two-foot clearance above the
roof of his car. He talked the
master mechanic into glassing in
his observation perch. And there
was the first cupola.
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