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The bowling season is now well under way; it prom• tion to the forty bowlers, there is always a big gathering ises to be the best in history. of spectators, who enjoy the spirited fun. Engine 623 in the Rigby Yard The Maine Central General Office Bowling League— The make-up of the teams is as follows: consisting of eight teams, of three men and two women Engineer Robert Presnell in Cab. Foreground, Left to Right—Arthur Martin; G. H. Garrison, Geneaal Foreman; I. P. each—was organized at the beginning of the 1922-1923 SANDY RIVERS Whittemore, A. J. Olson, Robert Lombard, Coleman Connelly, Dudley Andrews, Irving Kay. bowling season. It finished a schedule of twenty-one weeks, with the teams closely grouped at its end; and the H. Malloy, Mrs. Neil Smith, Miss Mildred Sweet, season was a great success, all of the bowlers, women as Neil Smith and Raymond Hennigar. well as men, greatly enjoying the weekly sessions. This, the 1923-1924 season, began in the same way KENNEBAGOS (Technical ©eatrtptton of Kighu, ufermtnal about four weeks ago; and there will be a twenty-one The following technical description of equip• trains for points on the Boston & Maine; also week schedule, which means that the sport will continue H. Wilson, Miss Grace Noyes, Miss Mildred Libby, ment and the make-up of trains—of interest to the regular through service via the M. C until April. There are some mighty good bowlers in D. lleiskell and Malcolm Allen. railroad men—has been written for the Maine Mountain Division, making close connections the league—both men and women; and the teams are Central Railroad Magazine by one who intimately with the Grand Trunk, Canadian Pacific and neck-and-neck, shifting their positions in the standing knows the Rigby terminal: western points. BRIDGTON AND SACOS Rigby Freight Terminal is divided into sec• • * * • • weekly. tions—the westbound yard, where all freight A session is held each Friday night in Souviney's Cecil Beane, Miss Marion Sleeper, Miss Rose Langlais, trains from the Portland and Mountain Divisions The Portland Terminal Co. has taken over the of the Maine Central and from the WN&P operation of what was the Boston & Maine new recreation rooms on Congress Street. And, in addi• H. Oberg and John McCullum. Division of the Boston & Maine are received, and Rigby Tower, located at Scarboro Crossing, and freight trains for the Portland and WN&P this is now known as "Tower One." On account Divisions of the B & M and Mountain Division of the additional interlocking and signals, the of the M. C. start; the eastbound yard, where machines at this tower have been greatly en• freight trains from the Portland Division of larged. the Boston & Maine are received and trains for At the east end of the yard, near Skunk Hill the east over the Portland Division of the Maine Bridge, is a new tower known as "Tower Two," Central start. from which all the main line switches and signals at the east end of the yard are handled. The yard repair tracks are operated day and There is a new tower on Fore River Bridge, night, and such repairs made to freight equip• known as "Tower Three," to handle all switches ment as can be handled where the work is of a and signals in connection with the junction of character not requiring heavy shop repairs. This the Mountain Division and Portland Division at in itself will be very helpful in prompt handling that point. of freight. A new tower at the west end of Union Station Trains arriving from the different routes have Yard is known as "Tower Four" and here the usually a miscellaneous lot of freight consigned freight main tracks and passenger main tracks to various points. These cars are sorted or come together. classified into groups of solid trains for certain All these towers, and Tower Five at Brighton destinations. Avenue crossing, are modern, equipped with pri• Trains with freight for points between Bangor vate branch telephones and manned by experi• and Vanceboro, including Washington County, enced telegraph men. They also are equipped Bar Harbor, Bucksport, together with freight with the train dispatching wires of all routes properly grouped for points in Aroostook County affected, so it is possible to keep in close touch run via Northern Maine Junction. with the trains and be prepared to handle with For instance, trains run for Vanceboro with the least amount of delay or interference. freight for points in the Provinces. ***** There are trains for Waterville, including cars The handling of Maine Central Mountain Div• for Skowhegan, Belfast, Harmony, Foxcroft ision and Boston and Maine WN&P Division at Branches and for main line points between Rigby necessitated a new connection from the Waterville and Northern Maine Junction. Mountain Division to the old Western route, Trains for Rumford and local cars for various and a double track has been built across Fore points along the line. River for this purpose. Trains for Boston, including cars for Boston Mountain Division passenger trains that have & Albany Railroad. in the past been hauled into Portland via Trains for Lowell, including freight for Rhode Thompson's Point and doable track through to Island points on the New Haven Road. Cumberland Mills are now handled over the Trains for Worcester, including freight for WN&P Route between Cumberland Mills and points in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Harlem Deering Junction, and over the Portland Division A Group of the Maine Central General Office Bowling League, Taken by Flashlight River and Southern states. between Deering Junction and Portland Union Trains for Mechanicville, and the usual local Station. At Souviney's Recreation Rooms.

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RANGELEYS MP" &tafforo $0rtlano M. Of. A. Carl Baldwin, Miss Violetta Macumber, Miss Hazel Continued from Page 9 Marshall, Bliss Eadon and H. Bucklin. A QJhallenge Continued from Page 8 MEGANTICS had to be replenished six or eight times between Bangor accepted within a few hours. Nevertheless, the playing Editor, Maine Central Magazine: and St. John. In short, he began in the days when rail• of dominoes is good sport, and in this Y. M. C. A. a great O. Bonney, Miss Frances Moran, Miss Madeline Please enter a challenge in be• roading was picturesque, and some of his experiences deal is made of it, thus giving the Portland railroad men Walsh, Charles Mills and George Foster. half of the Waterville Engineers will make interesting reading in an early issue. But the a certain unique distinction. Last winter there was a first question asked him by a representative of the Maine tournament, six games being played once a week; and SOMERSETS to any other departments, for a Central Railroad Magazine related to the danger from the big assembly room was filled with interested spectators. Roy Shaw, Mrs. Roy Shaw, Miss Marguerite Holly• bowling contest, five men to a reckless automobilists at grade crossings—the best way Another tournament is to begin soon—probably by the wood, Eddie Nagle and Hcrmon Stover. team. to learn the viewpoint of the men in the cabs being to time this issue of the Maine Central Railroad Magazine ask one of them. reaches its readers. Among the uncommonly good OQUOSSOCS Yours truly, "Well, the danger hasn't been exaggerated," said players are Thomas Foss, Charles Lord, Edward Collins JAMES CLARK, C. Dodge, Miss Ruth Mangum, Miss Elura Berry, Mr. Stafford. "I've had some experiences myself that and Harry Waterman, freight handlers; Roy Shepard, Clayton Waite and John Goud. Engineer. you'd hardly believe possible. Sometimes I've seen I. H. Swett, R. A. Spaulding, George Copcland, H. II. automobilists deliberately race the train, get to the track Freeze, C. J. Cayford, M. S. Williams, Frank Downs WASHINGTON COUNTIES This challenge was communi• ahead of it, clear it by not more than two feet—and then and William Webber, roadmen. turn around to wave in triumph at the engineer. They There have been problems in the past two years, Walter Talbot, Miss Methel Packard, Miss Helen cated to the Maine Central Gen• don't care, or perhaps don't realize, that that same engineer Meserve, H. Caldwell and Ben Goss. but Secretary Harding has faced them squarely—and, eral Office Bowling League, bring• and his firemen have been through a few seconds of thus far, successfully. When so many roadmen were ing the following response: perfect hell. Of course there are days—sometimes long transferred to Thompson's Point, after the roundhouse -am— Editor, Maine Central Magazine: intervals—when nothing of the sort happens; but most fire, he established an automobile service that made it engineers have some such experience an average of once possible for those who had made the Y. M. C. A. their league §>tanoutg In reply to the challenge of the or twice a week. home to remain there. A modest car ran from the Y. Waterville Engineers, I hereby ac• £83» cept in behalf of the Maine Cen• The league standing as the Maine Central Railroad "No engineer can stop his train every time he sees . - - ——------i Magazine goes to press is: tral General Office Team. We will an automobile approaching a crossing. If he did, the Won Lost P.C. bowl one game in Waterville on passengers would think him crazy. On the other hand, Bridgton-Sacos 15 5 .750 Jan. 26th, Saturday, with a return there's no reason why the driver of an automobile can't A OJhalhmge Rangeleys 14 6 .700 stop at the comparatively few crossings he comes to We, representing the Domino Club of Megan tics 13 7 .650 match in Portland, at Souviney's and take proper precautions. The best an engineer Washington Counties 11 9 .550 Recreation Rooms on Congress the Railroad Y. M. C. A. in Portland, can do is apply the brakes when he fears a collision— challenge any railroad organization in , Oquossoc 9 11 .450 street, Saturday, Feb. 2nd. Total and keep on the alert every second when he nears a Kennebagos 8 12 .400 the State of Maine, but specifically any pinfall to decide the match. crossing, for there's no telling when someone may try representatives of the Railroad Y. M. Sandy Rivers 6 14 .300 to dodge onto the tracks ahead of him. Yes, there are Somersets 4 16 .200 John P. Goud, 232 St. John a whole lot safer pastimes than trying to beat a train— C. A. in Waterville, to a domino match Street, Portland. but a surprising number don't seem to realize it. at any place at any time, to be played with double six dominos. Records Hasn't Maine any domino players out• High Individual Single: Hennigar and Allen side the Portland Railroad Y. M. C. A.? 118 "One rather unusual thing is that these automobilists We are waiting to find out. High Individual 3 String Total: Goud 296 who take reckless chances are not always young, by any High Team Single: Rangeleys 478 ©he mark S>h«p We are so anxious to show Waterville means, Quiet, respectable, middle-aged family men the game that we will pay our own High Team Total: Rangeleys 1324 The Maine Central Black Sheep League was organ• sometimes try it—the Lord knows why! I would say, High Individual Average: Foster 92 expenses. ized when it was found impossible to include all who roughly, that it's about fifty-fifty between the young and 1921 the old; between those of whom you might expect some• THOMAS Foss, Champion, enjoyed this sport in the Maine Central General Office Portland Terminal League. thing of the sort and those you wouldn't. Averages CHARLES LORD, 1922 Champion Men: Its president is Mr. A. P. Vantigue; secretary, Frank "But not all who cause us so much anxiety ride in automobiles. I remember once that I was coming from Portland Terminal Foster, 92; Goud, 92; Hennigar, 92; Allen, 89; Mc- Johnson, and treasurer, Sidney Foster. The four teams are named after various breeds of, South Brewer and at Sargent's Crossing saw a milkman M. S. WILLIAMS, Chairman Cullum, 88; Nagle, 88; Eadon, 88; Stover, 88; Oberg, approaching. The reins were tied to the top of his cart; Domino Club 86; Caldwell, 86; Baldwin, 86; Gass, 86; Mills, 85; Bucklin, sheep, namely, Merinos, Cotswolds, Leicesters and Llamas, and great rivalry has already been created as to which his feet were in the air and he was reading a newspaper. 85; Heiskell, 85; Bonney, 84; Smith, 84; Dooley, 83; Well, he just kept on reading his paper—didn't pay any Shaw, 82; Beane, 79; Malloy, 77; Talbot, 75; Dodge, 67. breed will hold the record of best Black-Sheep. The league meets each Friday night in Souviney's attention to the train at all. We had seven cars. The Recreation Rooms. horse ran squarely into the third car and was killed. Women: And later that milkman seemed to think it was the. fault M. C. A. building to the Point by way of No. Two round• "Several of the Black Sheep are poets or artists," house and the Union Station, and at times it was subject Miss Packard, 82; Miss Marshall, 78; Miss Sleeper, the editor was told, "and so the magazine can look forward of the engineer! 78; Miss Noyes, 77; Miss Moran, 76; Miss Macumber, 75 to call twenty-four hours a day. And there was a time to several contributions during the season." during the winter, Portland being buried beneath a white Miss Libby, 75; Miss Meserve, 71; Miss Walsh, 70 "Good!" said the editor. "Bring on your poets." • Miss Hollywood, 69; Mrs. Smith, 68; Miss Sweet, 67 avalanche, when it was the one public motor vehicle The make-up of the teams is as follows: "My most terrible experience, however, wasn't due running anywhere it the city or its suburbs. Between Miss Mangum, 66; Miss Goudy, 65; Miss Langlais, 64 to any ordinary carelessness. I was coming around Miss Berry, 61; Mrs. Shaw, 57; Miss Lowe, 54. October 25 and May 1 it covered 11,000 miles, carrying Merinos Llamas Basin Mills on No. 96 when I saw a baby squarely between a total of 8000 passengers—significant figures, nevet S. C. Foster J. T. Welch the rails. I put on the brakes; and, just about that before published. It did not pay expenses, but it broughs Crack Team Planned F. E. Small F. R. Landers time, out came the frantic mother. Her foot slipped and about this result: Patronage at tb.3 Y. M. C. A. wa, A little later there will be a five-man team, composed E. C. Whitney F. E. Spaulding she fell in the path of the train. almost double that of the year before—whereas logically, of the best bowlers in the league, which will meet railroad "I don't take any credit for what happened then. due to the transfer of so many men to Thompson's Point teams in other places—Lewiston, Waterville, Rumford, Cotswolds Leicesters It was just luck—or the hand of Providence, perhaps. it should have fallen off. Also, it is the primal principle But we stopped within four feet of the helpless forms. Bangor. F. E. Morton W. V. Cummings of every Y. M. C. A. to give Service. There already is a team of five women, who are willing P. Smart "Nobody in the world knows what an engineer and a The opening of the great terminal at Rigby has raised A. P. S. R. Vantigue fireman sometimes live through," said Mr. Stafford. t o meet any other teams of women bowlers. Last season R. C. King Philip Pearson another problem—one of the immediate present, but they won two games from the railroad women of Lewiston. "Talk about a man's heart being in his mouth! There've this, also, is in a fair way to being solved. This time the Frank Johnson, secretary and scorer. been times when 1c ould taste mine." 22 MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE 23

Cumberland Light and Power Company has been a great current the result is clearer music, less distortion and no aid, for it runs special cars hourly, after midnight, from interference either to the operator or others, provided Rigby to the city by way of Cash's Corner and Pleasant- the grid leak is of the right capacity. dale. And so, notwithstanding that Rigby is three miles "I believe we are coming to non-regenerative sets— away, and an eight-car bunkhouse is now maintained which can be tuned without ear-phones, through the loud there, seventy-five per cent, of those who all along have speaker, without causing unpleasant noises." lived at the Railroad Y. M. C. A. continue to call it home. Perhaps this may sound technical enough, to one who The institution is controlled by this executive com• is not a radio fan. But Gordon Berry's manner was all mittee: Charles H. Blatchford, chairman; G. II. May- animation as he spoke, and as he pointed out various / berry, treasurer; Forest E. Baker, recording secretary; objects in the curious little room. One of them was an W. P. Reeves; George F. Black; Charles T. Vose; Samuel ordinary Victrola, from which the reproducer had been Records of Service By American Roads in 1923—Committee On Public Relations Hadlock; E. Murray Graham; John M. MacDonald; removed. "I give some of my radio concerts through C. R. Chevalier. that," said Mr. Berry. "It makes a perfect sounding of the Eastern Roads Makes Statement of True Values Finance committee: W. P. Reeves, chairman; George. box." S. Hobbs; A. P. Foss; D. C. Douglass; Fred O. Wood; One thing is certain: his concerts are becoming famous H. G. Parkman; E. H. Rice. in that part of Waterville. Not only are the Y. M. C. A. corridors filled while they are going on, but many gather outside the building on clear nights. Uatermlle % M. % A. WHAT THE RAILROADS DID IN 1923 : Continued from Page 9 Milk Stain From January 1 to October 1, 134,636 new freight cars and 2,936 new •homelike office; a smaller office for Secretary Benn; the Continued from Page 15 locomotives put in service. dining room, and a modern barber shop. The second and All records of loading of livestock, forest products, merchandise and third floors are devoted to sleeping rooms; and what from towns and cities on the main line; but some is first impresses a stranger is that many of these rooms are brought as passenger baggage over branch lines to Bangor miscellaneous freight, broken. named—not numbered, but named. Neat door-plates and Portland, where the special receives it. Thus ship• Number of locomotives awaiting heavy repairs lowest on record— tell the individuals, or organizations, whose generous ments are taken at Bangor from territory north and donations made possible ttie original furnishings and east, and at Portland from the Farmington and Rumford 13.7 per cent. equipment. Thus one room is dedicated to the Order of lines and from points on the Mountain Division this Number of freight cars awaiting heavy repairs, only 5.4 per cent. Railway Trainmen; another to the Baptist Men's Class; side of Fryeburg, which is the last town in Maine. Every Freight cars loaded with revenue freight totaled 40,545,920, an in• a third to J. W. Philbrick and so on—not forgetting that drop is Maine milk; and more than four thousand cars railroad man of beloved memory, Colonel Frederick yearly, the minimum carload being 220 forty-quart cans, crease of 18 per cent over 1922. Boothby. Specifically, there arc fifty-five rooms; and, were delivered to the Boston and Maine in the year Average mileage covered by each freight car daily reached 27.6, and in as this is written, all of them are taken. They are spot• ending July 1, 1923. September was 29.2. lessly clean and modestly attractive. A considerable The heaviest shipments are from Androscoggin county, number—and it is another of those odd little features with Kennebec, Waldo, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Lincoln, Practically no car shortage for first time in years. that attract the notice of a stranger—have iron, "double- Knox, Sagadahoc, Somerset and Franklin following in For each car 511 tons were carried one mile daily. deck" cots: the upper cot being reached by a step-ladder the order named. Cumberland county milk is largely More railroad coal placed in storage than in any previous year. that in the day-time, by an ingenious mechanical arrange• absorbed by Portland or shipped directly over the Boston ment, can be converted into a chair. The entire effect, and Maine; Hancock county milk is absorbed by Bangor, Definite figures showing that the railroads of the in the last two years have cost an average of about $60,000 not inappropriately, suggests a Pullman sleeping car. Bar Harbor and coast resorts; and there are comparatively United States are more efficient today than at any time each, and some have cost as much as $75,000 or $100,000. There are six showers—three in the basement, two on few dairymen in Aroostook and Washington. in their history have been made public in a long report 2,400,000* Freight Cars at only $1,000 Each = the second floor, one on the third; and, incidentally, "There is one point worth emphasizing," said Mr. Wil• adopted by the directors of the American Railway Asso• $2,400,000,000. The average cost of a freight car today they are the only showers in any public institution of liam G. Hunton, head of the Maine Central's industrial ciation. is about $2,500. Many recently put in service cost Waterville. Throughout the big building are many department, who long has been in intimate touch with A few salient features of the report—which exhaustively $3,000 and refrigerator cars $3,500 each. modest comforts and conveniences. the state's farming interests. "There are those who reviews activities in the year 1923 and covers twenty or Secretary Benn came here a few weeks ago from the say that dairying is on the decline, despite all that the more typewritten pages—are printed above. It is dis• 57,000* Passenger-Train Cars at only $10,000 Grand Trunk Y. M. C. A. in East Deering; and, prior State Dairying Association, the State Chamber of Com• closed that, despite the fine accomplishments, in service, Each = $570,000,000. All steel passenger-train cars now to that, he was with the Grand Trunk Y. M. C. A. in merce and other organizations can say or do. These the roads were unable to earn even the modest return of cost from $30,000 to $35,000 each. Port Huron, Michigan. All phases of activity in the critics point to a gradual decline in the cow census during 5.75 per cent, fixed by the Interstate Commerce Com• Waterville institution seemed to have leaped to renewed the past ten years; and from it they argue that dairying mission for rate-making purposes. Materials and Supplies =$500,000,000. Railroads life and interest under his direction. There is no more is falling off. Obviously, if it is falling off, it doesn't pay. It is a matter of pride to Maine Central workers to have to keep on hand millions of tons of coal, rails, ties, popular gathering spot, now, in the city. "You hear that very often; but it is absolutely know that their efforts have had a share in making pos• spikes, and all other material required in maintenance The board of management is composed of Archie untrue, and for this very good reason: Thirty years sible this high standard of service. and operation. Towle, engineer, chairman; Eugene Winslow, fireman; ago, cow testing associations were formed by the Extension Ernest Finnemore, foreman of the Maine Central black• Department of the University of Maine. Their purpose Halue of Soaoa Working Capital = $500,000,000. smith shops; David Staples, engineer; "Jeff" C. Smith, was to have each cow of every herd tested by someone 50,000 Stations and Terminals, Yards, Signals, Y. M. C. A. state secretary; President Philbrick of the who would give all of his time to the work—some expert The Committee on Public Relations of the Eastern Roundhouses, Shops, Machinery, Water Supply, Waterville Iron Works; Judge C. W. Atchley and W. who would learn the volume and quality of the cow's Roads, under the heading "What Is the Value of the Power Plants, Elevators, Docks, Coal Pits, and H. Bowden. milk, give careful supervision to her feed, and determine Railroads?" has issued a clear and careful statement. all other items, including administration = $7,000,- whether or not she was a paying producer. "Fair recognition of railroad property," the committee 000,000. In over 1,000 cities and towns, stations and "This soon proved that many inferior cows, not worth states, "is essential for adequate earning power and terminal facilities cost over a million dollars apiece. &ix Saoio 8>eta the price of their care and feed, were kept on Maine credit for further expansion." These facilities in a few of our larger cities would alone Continued from Page 1U farms. Eliminating them caused a decrease in the The statement follows: account for over a billion dollars. number for dairy purposes, certainly. Hence the census 400,000'Miles of Track at only $25,000 a Mile = The shops apd machinery engaged in the repair of "Yes, I can give a concert from the first number to figures and arguments of the critics. But statistics $10,000,000,000. The Department of Agriculture esti• equipment constitute an enormous industry in them• the last, without interference or interruption. How? also prove that the volume of Maine milk and cream is mates that the average cost of a mile of improved highway selves, employing nearly 400,000 men, and spending over Well, if more radio enthusiasts really knew how to tune constantly increasing; that there is more profit in fewer today—which has no rails, ties, tunnels, trestles, and a billion dollars a year. their sets, there would be no interference—either from cows through the lessened cost of maintenance. In relatively infrequent bridges—is about $36,000. themselves or others. A great many turn the detector other words, maintenance is less and production is more. The above property is believed to be worth fully tube so high that it 'spills over,' resulting in a squeal like The outlook is very bright—for those who care to see. 69,000* Locomotives at only $20,000 Each = $10,000,000,000, and could not be duplicated for anywhere the wail of a lost soul. When there isn't so much filament Dairying in Maine has remarkable possibilities." $1,380,000,000. The 6,000 or more locomotives bought near that amount today. 24 MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE 25

Jtoatuent MtBomib's Statement Asked by the Portland Press Herald to make a statement for its annual financial edition, published January 4, President Morris McDonald of the Maine Central Railroad Company replied as follows:

Operating results of the Maine Central freight in 1924 will be equal to that in 1923; Railroad for the year 1923 have not been en• therefore, given normal weather, the year tirely satisfactory. Although we believe that should bring a much more gratifying financial fixed charges for the year will be fully earned, showing. there will be nothing left for dividends to I wish to call attention to the tax burden stockholders or for improvements to the prop• imposed upon the company, which is required erty from appropriations of income. Lacking to pay an average of a million a year for the the net income for these purposes, no railroad mere privilege of doing business in the State can continue indefinitely to provide satisfac• of Maine, in addition to a substantial amount tory transportation service and facilities. upon its property, and to urge our stockhold• There is, however, one rule which the ers, and all others who may be interested, to Maine Central has thus far consistently fol• unite in an effort for a more equitable adjust• lowed, notwithstanding its unsatisfactory net ment through amendment to the existing law. earnings of the past few years—it has main• If those interested would do this with the tained its property and equipment at a high same earnest enthusiasm shown in the prob• standard. lem of consolidation, I believe it would result Abnormal snow and ice conditions in the in reducing the tax burden and provide a sub• early part of 1923, followed by wide-spread stantial amount for the payment of dividends freshets, imposed exceptional difficulties in on preferred and common stock. operation and materially increased our oper• Although the proposed consolidation of ating expenses. Although freight business de• railroads is a matter of great importance to The New Topsham Bridge, Looking Down Stream from Topsham Shore. creased because of these conditions, it later owners of Maine Central property, and the recovered and for the year will be approxi• recent meetings were significant and gratify• This Shows the Two Completed Spans mately eight million tons carried as against ing, I feel that an interest in tax reduction iseven million three hundred thousand in 1922. will bring our stockholders quicker and better Topsham Bridge, over the Androscoggin River about Any forecast for 1924 at this time would results. Tax reduction is the vital issue of one mile east of Brunswick, on the main line, is now t . . T be, necessarily, in the nature of a guess. It the hour; consolidation is indefinite and may being rebuilt and will be finished in the spring. It is is rather my opinion that the volume of be drawn over a period of years. one of the largest and most important bridges on the road and consists of six spans having a total length of 880 $xtettba CfSmttnna feet, the four longest spans being 183 feet each. The New York Central Lines Maga• The new structure is a riveted type of the most modern zine, one of the largest in America, ex• This Totals $22,350,000,000. And a valuation Eight locomotives—six heavy freight engines of the construction, designed to carry the heaviest train loads tends this greeting to the Maine Central recognizing all the elements of value assured to the Mikado type, and two Pacific-type passenger engines, that can reasonably be anticipated, and is the fourth Railroad Magazine as it enters the field: ordinary property-owner would be far in excess of equipped with boosters. to be erected on this site. The first one was of wood, It is a pleasure to know that the this amount. Nine all-steel passenger cars—three smokers and six built about 1850. The second was a pin connected Maine Central is to have a modern com• The tentative minimum valuation of the railroads coaches. They will be electrically lighted, an innovation iron bridge erected in 1872, and the third a pin connected pany magazine and to welcome it as a at the end of 1919 was found by the Interstate Commerce in Maine, and will be equipped with every modern com• steel bridge, erected in 1894. full-fledged comrade of the older rail• Commission to be $18,900,000,000. This valuation was fort and convenience. The weight of steel in the present bridge which is road magazines. More and more, the based on costs and prices up to 1914, and therefore in• Four all-steel baggage and mail cars, with 30-foot being removed isil,350,000]pounds, while the new one railroad magazine is coming to be recog• cludes no war-time inflation of values. The subsequent mail apartments. will weigh 2,500,000 pounds. There will be about 66,000 nized as an invaluable means of con• investment of approximately $1,984,683,000 (1923 One hundred all-steel, fifty-ton coal cars, of the rivets to drive in the field. The old bridge was designed structive work. In these days of far- estimated) brings the Interstate Commerce Com• gondola type. to carry a load of 750,000 pounds on each span, while flung railroad systems, it is in many mission valuation for rate making purposes as of Two hundred and fifty steel underframe box cars, of the new has a capacity of 1,330,000 per span. About ways the chief means of maintaining the end of this year up to $20,884,683,000. 80,000 capacity each. 43,000 board feet of timber will be required for the ties liaison among the widely scattered units. Each reader can judge for himself the fairness of the The financing of these purchases will be arranged and 800 gallons of paint will be used to protect the steel. It helps to create and maintain a finer contention made by Senators LaFollette, Brookhart, through an equipment loan. The distance from base of rail to the water is about 47 esprit de corps and exerts an influence, and others that the Interstate Commerce Commission The directors authorized, also, replacing the Ticonic feet, and it is about 60 feet to the bed of river at the deepest part. sometimes indirectly, that far outweighs valuation should be reduced by from $7,000,000,000 to bridge, 680 feet long, across the Kennebec River at what its cost may be in dollars and $10,000,000,000. Such a confiscation of values would in Waterville, with a three-span steel bridge of heavy modern Extensive changes in the masonry were necessary. cents. As a means of informing men in The piers were all cut down several feet and capped with effect be a denial to the railroads of their chief means construction. Two new spans, totalling 318 feet, will one department of what their fellows of keeping pace with the development of the country. replace the two older spans in the bridge across the reinforced concrete. The westerly abutment was faced with concrete, and new wing walls were added. are doing in other departments, and of Fair recognition of railroad property values Androscoggin between Lewiston and Auburn. showing them better ways of perform• is essential for adequate earning power and credit The design, erection of steel, and masonry work are for further expansion. —seisa— all being done by forces of the Maine Central engeneering ing their daily tasks, it is an instrument Two college professors, one a teacher of history, went department. The Shoemaker Bridge Company of Potts- that long ago proved its worth. into a restaurant. The history teacher said, "We want town, Pa., fabricated the steel. I can wish the new magazine nothing Turkey with Greece." Topsham Bridge is one of five that the Maine Central better than that it shall perform these £foui fEqutpment 3fox Mains Central *r The waiter replied, "Sorry, sirs, but we can't Servia." has over the Androscoggin River, there being another various functions in the spirit of sturdy An unusual amount of new and modern equipment "Well, then, get the Bosphorus." of four spans, 402 feet long, at Brunswick on the Lewiston thoroughness for which the Pine Tree was authorized by the directors of the Maine Central The boss came in and heard their order and then said, Branch; one five spans, 821 feet long, at Lewiston on the State has long been renowned. Railroad Company at their meeting on Wednesday, "I don't want to Russia, but you can't Roumania." Back Road; one of three spans, 609 feet long, at Livermore Here's good luck! January. 9, and is to be purchased in the year 1924. It So the two professors went away Hungary.—Illinois Falls on the Canton Branch, and one of four spans, 350 C. W. Y. CURRIE, will include: Central Magazine. feet, six inches long at Rumford, making a total of 22 Managing Editor. spans, 3063 feet long and having a combined weight of 6,670,000 pounds. MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE 27 26 MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE

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Maine's charms as the queen of vacation states have out of employment, which made it possible to engage long been told—both by word of mouth and through the competent extra help. East year, it is recalled, it was printed page. But learning of them from the air is some• very difficult to get anybody. Thus even a general Fire Prevention and Protection—What They Mean and How They Are thing new. The radio broadcasting station at East industrial depression may sometimes bring good. Handled on the Maine Central Railway. Pittsburgh, however, is sending out a series of lectures, All this avalanche of mail was consigned to points on of which Maine is the subject. the Portland and Mountain divisions of the Maine Central The first of these lectures was on January 7, the second railroad, and to the Maine territory of the B. and M. on January 14, and others are announced for the 24th and 28th. They have interested radio fans all over the Written for the Maine Central Railroad Magazine country; and thus the allurements of Maine, as never By F. L. WILCOX. before, have literally been spread broadcast. Six hundred thousand vacationists, by conservative estimate, come here each summer—drawn by our hunting, our fishing, the scenic beauties of our woods, rivers, lakes and coast. For there are countless wonderful places for the vacationist to visit—and the Union Station at In olden times, fires were more or less regarded as r 1 Portland, from which branch the Portland and Mountain "Acts of God," along with lightning, earthquakes and Divisions of the Maine Central Railroad, is the gateway Mr. F. L. Wilcox, who conducts the "Hints on tornadoes. If Bill Jones' barn burned down, everyone Safety" column for the Maine Central Railroad to them all. felt sorry for Bill and passed the hat to help him get a Magazine, tells the following true story. He Winter sports, too, are becoming increasingly popular. tells it to illustrate the average person's care• new barn, provided he was not insured. If he was, so lessness with fire, but incidentally it illustrates Snow and ice carnivals, in many of the leading cities, several other things—man's inhumanity, for attract not only local residents but thousands from out much the better, for the insurance companies were sup• posed to have plenty of money and Bill would like a new instance. of the State. Waterville will this year hold one on Jan. 17, A certain hay and grain store was infested 18 and 19; Portland, Feb. 7, 8 and 9; Auburn; Feb. 14,15 barn, anyway. by rats. The owner was- told that if he could and 16; Bangor, Feb. 14, 15 and 16; Augusta, Feb. 21, 22 But no one raised the question as to whether or not catch one of these rats alive, saturate it with the fire was any fault of Bill's. He might have been kerosene and then touch it with a match, all of and 23; Bar Harbor, Feb. 22. In the White Mountains, the other rats would be so impressed they the North Conway carnival will be Jan. 22-27. smoking in the hay mow or filling a lighted lantern with wouldn't stop running until they reached the kerosene. No one thought of investigating, or if they next county. did know the reason, no one said: "You caused this fire So the owner set a trap, managed to catch a big rat therein, and took both rat and trap out by your deliberate carelessness. You not only burned into the road. Then he poured enough oil on the your own barn, but if the wind had been in another captive to drown him, pretty near, opened the direction, and if the fire department had not done good trap and let him go—managing to touch a match Mountain of Mail At Union Station work, our homes would have gone, too. We ought to as he scampered past. But the frightened rodent didn't live up to put you in jail, but we are simply going to make you expectations. Blazing like a small meteor, he Those who went to Union station, Portland, just before pay for the cost of turning out the fire department. made straight for his old hole beneath the hay Christmas Day thought the crowds that surged through Hereafter, be more careful." and grain store. the waiting room, and up and down the great platform, The owner's heart was in his mouth. He was £820 not insured, and a fire would have ruined him. made a truly wonderful showing. But the mountains But, strangely enough, nothing happened. It of mail were equally impressive. Viewing them, one In the last twenty-five years great strides have been was finally figured that the dirt, when the rat marvelled that anybody in Maine escaped getting at made along the lines of fire prevention and protection, got into his hole, extinguished the flames that least a dozen presents. It was a "green Christmas," and and people are beginning to take a different view of enveloped him before any harm was done. Any lack of snow made it much easier for the mail handlers; these matters than they did formerly. They realize harm, that is to property. but, had all those sacks and packages been opened, the that when over $500,000,000 worth of property, an Permit us to repeat—this is a true story. entire station would have been buried beneath a white amount representing more than the entire assessed val• avalanche. uation of the State of Maine, outside of Cumberland Specifically, in the period from December 19 to De• County, is burned in this country every year, it is a follow it are known as insurance engineers or fire in• cember 26, there was an average of 43 mail cars a day. national calamity and one that affects each of us. While spectors. The former seems a better name, as the word Each car held about 1200 sacks, and the sacks—although the insurance companies may reimburse the losers to a "inspector" has come to mean simply a fault-finder they varied greatly—averaged perhaps fifty pounds. certain extent, they cannot create a cent's worth of rather than one who seeks to improve conditions by Anybody is at liberty to do a little figuring. A grand new wealth. Their work is simply to "pass the hat" constructive criticism. total of at least sixty-seven million pounds, and possibly and collect money in advance in the shape of premiums. a great deal more, was handled in that brief time. These premiums, in turn, are paid by all of us—directly, Ninety-five more than the usual number of mail when we buy an insurance policy, or indirectly, when The writer is now doing this work upon the Maine storage cars were received, and 85 were dispatched. we buy a hat or a pair of shoes or a loaf of bread. Central, endeavoring to "plug up" the weak places and Each of these "storage cars" was unloaded and its con• As nearly as can be estimated, the loss of life by fire carrying on a campaign of education which, it is hoped, tents taken to Station A, where it was sorted and rc- in the United States each year is over 15,000; more than will in time be reflected in a reduced fire loss. It is the dispatched to the various mail-cars—an herculean task. the population of Waterville, Maine. It docs not seem so purpose of this page to give a short talk in each issue But the work was done with great promptness and to the very serious when we pick up a paper and read that one upon some common subject, such as the chemical ex• decided credit of Station Master Kennedy and all others or two people were burned to death, but if we should tinguisher, how and when it should be charged; the concerned. And, in those tens of thousands of packages, read that the entire city of Waterville was to be destroyed lowly water barrel, and why it should be placed near the only three were damaged. by fire during the year 1924 and not one person escape, door with two pails over it, instead of tucked away in the Official figures show the mail to have been sixteen and it is safe to say that things would look decidedly seriou, farthest corner under half a ton of unclaimed freight. one-half per cent, heavier than in Christmas week 1922. particularly to the people of Waterville. Also why it is no longer considered good etiquette to Those who handled it, however, were favored by two To combat this fire menace a new profession has grown smoke over a gasoline container, and why nobody enthuses circumstances. One, as has been said, was the total up, known as insurance engineering. The men who any more over the policy of lighting fires with kerosene. lack of snow. The other was that many men are now A Typical Maine Winter Scene 28 MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE 29

A Ueltame, mh Bximt Snfotmation Terminal Co., was held in Pomerleau's Hall, Waterville, on Thursday, Jan. 3. New York, Jan. 1G" The following members were present: General Chair• EDITOR MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE: man, C. S. Robbins, Waterville; District General Sec• It is a pleasure as well as a privilege to welcome THE retary, Joseph E. Moore, Portland District; General MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE into the Railway Treasurer, George B. Hunter, Bangor District; George Employees' Magazines Association. H. Parrot, President of Portland District; A. J. Pine, (Ennburior Sim ilalotw Iteralla Wtytn In April, 1922, when our Association was officially President of Waterville District; B. L. King, President born at Chicago, a comparatively small number of rail• of Bangor District; J. E. Oates and James N. Brice of roads were issuing employees' publications with any Portland, P. O. Kelley and R. D. Woods of Waterville, degree of regularity. Some appeared monthly and others Harry Latham and R. Link of Bangor. Various matters JRatlniaMng Mm $tctur^que semi-occasionally; some were full-fledged magazines, were discussed and plans for the coming year talked others bulletins, and there was one newspaper among over. ... . , . . ——— ...-4 them. Their combined circulation was probably not The Shop Craft Employees of the Maine Central more than 750,000 copies. System number about 1500 and are not now affiliated Today, largely through the efforts of the Association, with any other organization. There are 600 in Portland, over thirty railroads, including the largest trunk lines in 500 in Waterville, 200 in Bangor and 100 on the Mountain Conductor James Malone, who since September 24, There isn't another on the whole system, probably, whose the country, are publishing thirty-seven different mag• Division, with small groups in Lewiston, Rumford, has been on the Bucksport branch—his first passenger number hasn't been changed!" azines, newspapers and bulletins. In practically every Calais, Vanceboro and Brunswick. There are three run—first went to work for the old European and North Mr. Malone was on the "iron train" for fifteen years. case the magazines and bulletins are printed and dis• districts—Portland, Bangor and Waterville—with a local American Railway, which is vividly remembered by That was a period in his life of hours that would now seem tributed monthly, while the four newspapers appear in each. The general officers, who discuss problems and Bangor's older residents. He had worked for it four very long and wages that would now seem very small. semi-monthly. These thirty-seven organs are received settle grievances, meet every three months; the locals years, shoveling gravel, when it was absorbed by the His pay as conductor was $2.66 a day. The engineer, by about 1,200,000 railroad employes, and counting five meet every three months, also. Maine Central. he thinks, got about the same—possibly $2.75 or $2.80. persons to the average family, it may be said without Those were the days—almost a half century ago— Brakemen drew $37 a month. And a working day, as fear of contradiction that they are read monthly by at r- - - — - T when railroading was picturesque. A man worked as intimated above, was any part of the 24 hours—sometimes least 6,000,000 people. many hours as necessity demanded—sixteen, eighteen, all of them, for trainmen could force themselves to go There is not an iota of doubt in the minds of the She Aftermath sometimes twenty-four at a stretch. He battled the long periods without rest or sleep. editors as to the great value of their respective pub• elements of a Maine winter with none of the effective There were, however, certain financial compensations lications. Within the next few years, I confidently "Joe" Neddo, as he is known to hun• modern means of doing it. Safety appliances, now ac• unknown in this year of grace and high prices, 1924. expect to see every Class 1 road in the United States dreds of fellow railroad men, went to cepted as necessities, were unknown. In short, it was a From the first of every April until fall, or "freeze-up" issuing a magazine or some other form of official organ, war when the gray menace of Kaiser man's game—as it is now, but in a sterner setting. They time, the train boasted a cook; and board—rather good that will serve to keep the rank and file of employes were loyal, too, those old-time railroad men; they were fond board, too—was $12 a month! Members of the crew thoroughly informed as to local operations and the William's militarism was sweeping of their road; they seemed to thrive upon hardships. had their bunk cars; and Mr, Malone has memories of national transportation situation. This informative and across Northern France. His record Mr. Malone, as stated, had worked with a pick and the "Black Maria," with its wood stove and total lack educational data should, of course, be supplemented by was one of the best made by any shovel for four years—averaging ten or twelve hours a of windows. So it was possible to eat and sleep for $3 a substantial sprinkling of personal items, so that em• Maine Central man. Then German bul• day, although there was no particular limit—when the a week—to prosper and save money on $2.66 a day. ployes on all parts of a given railroad system, located, old European and North American Railway, running Following his varied experiences on the iron train, as they are in many instances, hundreds of miles apart, lets shattered his leg, and five pieces of north of Bangor, became part of the Maine Central Mr. Malone was conductor four years on an extra that may find it possible, through the medium of the printed lead remained embedded there—even system. Then he went into train service. For three left Bangor at 6 a.m. daily over the Stillwater branch, page, to keep in constant and close touch with one another's after the gray menace had vanished years, early in his career, he was brakeman on a freight dong switching jobs at the Webster and Stillwater mills. personal and business activities. and he returned home. from Bangor to Vanceboro—Frank Hammond, recalled Then, for eleven years, he was conductor on a Bar Harbor I have always been a firm believer in the thought that by many of the older men, being conductor. Then he freight. A few months ago he began his first passenger the board of directors of a railroad company owes it to Since then, Neddo has tried to work was promoted to what was sometimes called the "iron run, between Bangor and Bucksport—two trips each the actual owners of the property they administer, to at his old job—as plucky a fight as ever train"—a unique sort of work and construction special way in the forenoon. take employes and the public into their confidence. he made against the kaiser's soldiers. that ran all over the division. The duties of its crew Mr. Malone remembers when it took nerve and skill Such a policy cannot fail to cultivate a spirit of mutual were numerous and varied. They picked up iron; un• to couple cars—in the days before automatic couplers helpfulness betweeen the workers, the patrons and the But again and again the pain from his loaded ties; laid steel; put in side tracks; saw to it, in became universal. He has seen a companion crushed to management. Closer relations with employees and the shattered leg, which never fully healed, winter, that loaded cars were released as soon as possible death a few feet away. And he has passed through traveling and shipping public, I believe, is going to be the made work impossible. —for cars were none too many in those days. And often, many experiences, humorous as well as tragic and tinged most potent factor, during the next two or three years, The climax came last week, when he with no other equipment than a small, common plow, with the romance of early railroading—experiences well in solving the so-called "railroad problem" than anything they'd battle the cruel drifts of Northern Maine ahead of worth recording in future issues. He has brought up a else I can think of. For, in the final analvsis, a railroad was ordered to a New York hospital. No. 1—a passenger train of four cars that left Bangor fine family and has become one of Bangor's widely known cannot function properly without a well-informed and He faced, with grim fortitude, the long at 4.15 in the morning and Vanceboro on the return at citizens. contented working organization, because their whole• ordeal before him. Many of his fellow- two in the afternoon. "If I had my life to live over," he said to the reporter, hearted co-operation is absolutely essential in providing workers shook his hand, with words of "It was due in Bangor in time to connect with No. 2 "I'd probably choose railroading. It's a clean game, the public with safe, prompt and efficient service. out of there for Boston," said Mr. Malone, "and that's a man's game—and there's something about it that On behalf of the members of the Railway Employees' quiet comfort. rather a curious thing. Ever since I can remember, brings out the best in one." Magazines Association, I desire to extend their heartiest "Good luck, Joe," they said. the 8 p.m. train, Bangor for Boston, has been No. 2. congratulations to the Maine Central management for Sometimes, in the long aftermath of its foresight in establishing this vitally important point of contact between employee and employer, and hope war, one wonders if death is always the the magazine will be a success from every viewpoint at supreme sacrifice. the very outset and throughout the first year of its life. *•"------.. 4 GEORGE FLATOW, Secretary, Railway Employees' Magazine Association. WHY ENGAGEMENT WAS WRECKED —ma— He informed his sweetheart, who was 24 years old, that he was sending her a rose for every year of her age. Bifov draft dfEtttplagr-ea To the florist he gave the order to send the young woman two dozen of the finest red roses he could procure. The regular quarterly meeting of the General Board of "He is a very good customer," remarked the florist to Association of Shop Crafts Employees, Motive Power the assistant who was packing the bouquet, "so put in First Trick Crew"]At No. 2 Roundhouse, photographed Just Before Moving to Rigby Department, Maine Central Railroad and Portland an extra dozen." 30 MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE 31

(fur lunral (Kotttriha NOT FOR HIM "Here, boy," said the man to the boy who was helping A little boy who lives on Jackson Street, North Deering, him drive a bunch of cattle, "hold this bull a minute, asked his mother what a train dispatcher was. She will you?" couldn't tell him. No," answered the boy. " I don't mind bein' a director His father, however, who works at Thompson's Point, in this company, but I'm darned if I want to be a stock• could. "A dispatcher," said he, "is a fellow who always holder.' ' has the correct time, and thinks he owns the railroad." S£9? A Dramatic Criticism have taken a third, or may be it is a fourth, and I am more SHE EMBARRASSED HIM than ever convincew that any man thqt doen't is a big SIM PROVENCHBR, THE SAGE OF PITTSFIELD It was at a- college dance. The young man had just In two of the Maine theatres, recently, idiot. You say that this evabion of the law is producing Sim on the fone: "Yes'm, this is Sim." been introduced to her, and after a brief and awkward a visiting company presented that weird a sta6e of affairs in our Crear nand Glorious Country. "No'm, I don't know what they're paying for eggs silence he ventured, "You are from the West, I under• mystery play, "The Bat." Its great You are wronh. This ciuntry is jess as good as it ever this morning, but I'll find out and call up this afternoon." stand." scene, as those who have seen the play was and was a great deal better country and will leabe "Yes'm; no, don't give her paregoric. Try castoria." "Yes, from Indiana," she replied. "Hoosier girl" will remember, comes in the last act— it to you f iit wasn8t, when we had free rum. "Yes'm, ten cents a pound, I paid." I wan&t to say to you that this Sccitch is all right. He started and flushed deeply. "Why-er-really" when the virtuous people of the cast, "When are you going to take that Boston trip? he stammered, "I don't know—that is, I haven't quite crouched in a darkened garret, see the A lot of it would't do us harm. When we ened stimulany You're not going by the boat from Belfast. Sure, go by decided yet."—Railroad Men. form of the mysterious super-criminal we need it. My grandafyer was brougr up on rum. rail and enjoy the trip. All right. Good-bye." climb through a window. They had it in the housd all the time. They = dranj No wonder Agent Staples tears up the job advertise• In a sort of shuddering unison they are it freeely and even the ministew drank it when he come ments before Sim sees them! YES, WE HAVE NO CAR SHORTAGE! supposed to whisper: "It's the bat!" to our housa. It8s a pretty kinf of a ciontry when a garnd- Yes, we have no car shortage; Now, we enjoy the mystery drama as son is better than his gundfaher. I can drink this sort of Seutcg all day and not be no worse a citoxen than I Ed Sullivan, the agent at Burnham Junction, was We have no car shortage today. much as anyone; but we did object when was befote. I could drink this whole quaet andd neger breaking in a new operator. One day he handed him the We have loadings by millions, and ton-miles by billions one of the characters forgot himself and qibcr an etelash. seal press and told him go out and seal some cars. "All And all kinds of freight, and, say, ' shouted: "It's the owl!" I want to say to tou that there are 34" = to the lasr right, Mr. Sullivan. Now, where's the wax?" We have no old-fashioned embargoes, cendus free american citizens in The Ud,D.S. These As soon as you load it the car goes, But—yes, we have no car shortage; are no bumbs. I sa yto you thay yoe maje me sick. Hermon Stover had an invitation out for the evening. well, sir, me Editor, wheb I satartef out to write this We have no car shortage today. He was a little late home from the office, and after eating —H. F. L. in the Railway Age. A Setter <®tt lum lerret., i had no 38343 3 notion to taje micg of ypur ti,e. hurried up-stairs to change his clothing. Before donning seth May is alright in hid plaxe. he8s a smaet alex. But his go-to-meeting clothes he got undressed and was he8s payinh toi much atttensuo to circinstaabdshaal about to get into bed when he happened to think. " H—1, RECIPE FOR LONGEVITY evifence. TherOs no porof of the giuuilt of the arsotook this isn't where I was going!" To the Editor: shreiggOh. I know sherigf GRant. Iwan8t to emphasixe When you walk You seem to take a good deal of delight in telling other the fact htat HEX ALKRIGHR.2. SC6C88 And when you fliv, people how to live and perhaps that is your business, but it Thesw typrwrutet keys are buxxing around so I canj Hugh Kennedy to Jack Foley: Look both ways . . . seems to me that you exceed your duty when you arrogate writr no more Bue whay I wneat of yiu is to remund "What job are you going to take, Jack?" And try to live. to yourself the right to inform all of those who may happen yiu oner agiaian abd agnain thqt you arw dead wronh "What do you mean—what job am I going to take?" —Detroit Motor News. to enjoy an occasional drink of "Scotch" on occasions. lb comsfenging evert bony whu drinls as a bouhm. We "Why, now that Rigby is in operation, Union Station I have been presented a fine bottle of Scotch whiskey ain't criulals. We are as goof meb as yiou. wE mau will be only a flag stop, with a caretaker." for Christmas and it is before me as I sit at my typewriter takEaDrinNroR not as fEE% abo&y iy but CLOTHING ECONOMY and indite this letter to you. It bears the label Sandy wE ain3^T no bUmS. She was trying to reason with the poor boob on the Macdonald—a good, fair, well bodied liquor which I I wilL sat inxlosihg , thqt i wisg yiu a The Black Sheep not only know how to bowl—some day the monthly bills came in. am assured was bought before the war and has been in 2meRrT Chrihywax" an %haooy Ncr Yrare" of 'em can write poetry. If you don't believe it, read this "You see, I simply had to have all these new things my friend's cellar ever since. What right has any form Rexoevtfillu Yioytdx 08Bd%t Swrv-MT. by Black Sheep Joseph T. Welch: Lvorything's Egyptian now that they've dug up Tut• of Law to make me a criminal if I partake of this gift, Willie B. FulLe r. ankhamen, and—" We have organized a bowling crew as it was intended that I do by the giver? _ "Yeah?" growled the brute. "Well, all I gotta say I claim that any such law is an invasion of my personal Composed of a selected few is, I hope they dig up Adam next—that's all I gotta say " liberty. I notice that you have referred to the so-called The editor is pleased to publish this interesting letter —Illinois Central Magazine. Bill of Rights which secures to all men and women certain Of men, and boys, and clerks and such, and acknowledges the force of the same. Who don't expect to average much. inalienable rights to their personal liberty, which, as you • <«93 say, are not inconsistent with the rights of others. How But once a week it is the plan REASSURING do you reconcile your statements? To call a gathering of this klan I have just tasted of this bottle of liquor, I will confide Think This Over "Be careful not to spill this," said the hostess, as she to you, and I cannot see where or how I am invading It was the edge of a precipice. One prong And hie ourselves to the polished lanes— poured the home brew. "It has a tendency to eat holes in the carpet." the rights of any other person on earth. I find it excellent. of a pick-ax had a meagre hold on the edge. I am sorry to say, without the Janes. It warms my stomach; it inspires my thought. I cannot To the handle of the pick-ax, dangling over feel, Mr. Editor, that I have wronged the community or space, desperately clung an adventurous moun• AN APPLICANT added to the lawlessness of general society in so doing. tain climber. To the left foot of this man Uttlj the ^tiaaurs It makes me tired to be classed as a criminal for any clung another climber, equally adventurous A weary-looking fellow who had opened all the doors such reason and I notify you that before long, there will and equally desperate. DEVOTION looking for work happened to see a huge police adver• be a revolt against the sort of stuff that you are writing. Booth Tarkington, talking about negroes, told this tisement headed: Said the first mountain climber to the "Murderer Wanted." Just to show my independence of such truck as you second: incident to illustrate their affectionate disposition. are writing, I have taken another drink of the aforesaid After a young negro couple had been married by a "Well," he said, scratching his head, "it's bettcr'n "Let go my foot, you, or I'll strike you with nothing, anyhow. I'm going in and ask for the job!" most jubilant Sandy MacDonald and I will say to you this pick-ax." white parson, the groom turned to the latter and asked: that it is about as smooth a drink as a man ever put "How much docs Ah owe you, Rev'ren'?" The above, taken from the Great Western into his system. The second drink, which I shall soon "Oh," said the minister, "pay me whatever you think £920 Magazine, reminds us of Dan Dexter's famous follow by a third, makes me more certain that those who it's worth." A PROPER TIME FOR EVERYTHING ieel their systems require stimulant, should hand together, story of the French officer whose right arm The young fellow regarded his bride with adoring was shot aviay in battle. Made desperate by A sign found conspicuously placed on a Hebrew golf organize and start a campaign to floor this Volstead eyes. Then he turned to the minister and said mournfully: links, reads thus: "Members—It is against the rules to business if it can be done. the thought of going through life a cripple, he "You's ruined me fo' mah financial life, Rev'ren'. temporarily lost his reason and, drawing his pick up a lost balLuntil it has stopped rolling."—Portland Now Mr. Editor, I am no bum and you can't make Yo' sho' has." Shoppe Talk. me a bum. 1 like a little drink now and then and 1 sword, cut off his other arm! 32 MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD MAGAZINE

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