The Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 3, 1912 Page: 4 of 6
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ftAlLr.Ci.CSfl RETIRE WITH RE-
; ; MARKABLE RECORD.;
William t. Ktmp of follt Telia How
for Nearly Half a Cantiiry Ha
Kept Paaca With tha Travel-
Ing Public
Retiring after 48 years of continuous
work aa a railroad man Conductor
William S. Kemp
of Jollet boaata a
record of never
having had a quar-
rel with a passen-
ger. Kemp who
Uvea In Jollet ex-
plained his sys-
tem; "I don't regard
the traveling pub-
lic In a different
light from those
who atay at home" be said. "Of course
you find cranky people and the dis-
courteous and the faultfinders and
thoughtless but you find them every-
' where.
"Probably because a man works for
a corporation the faultfinder will be-
come more biting In his criticisms and
more active and loud In making 'kicks'
but I never let them disturb me.
"If a man wants to quarrel. It la my
policy to let blra quarrel but he never
quarrels with me. Therefore you can
bet the quarrel doesnt last long.
There have to be two In a quarrel.
"Aa for danger In railroading; why
ft ia not the worst of occupations.
Statistics prove that more people are
killed falling out of windows than In
railroad accidents and automobiles
kill more than do tralna.
. "Here I am without a scratch and
never a bone broken. Yet I have been
on the steam roads traveling; over all
kinds of tracka and rails and grades
on plains and In mountains for 48
years. I have been In accidents too
but I have not been killed yet nor
even sent to a hospital." '
Mr. Kemp waa born Auguat 26. 1889
In Somerset Niagara county New
York. His first railroad experience
waa In 18C3 with 'the old Milwaukee ft
- Bt Paul when he made his headquar-
ters in St Paul. Since then be haa
ridden over the tracks of eight ' rail-
roads and has traveled not less than
600000 miles or a distance equal to
23 times around the world.
He first was a conductor for nine
years then train master for one year
and Anally agent at St. Paul. In 1882
be went to the Great Northern aa as-
sistant superlutendent of the St Paul
and Manitoba division for one year
and division superintendent for four
years. In 1887 be became general
agent for the Union Pacific at Denver
and the following year trainmaster for
the Denver Texas & Fort. Worth with
headquarters at Denver and Trinidad.
Then for six months he was superin-
tendent of the Rocky mountain division
of the Northern Pacific at Missoula
Mont. From there he went to Cleburne
Tex. wbere he was made trainmaster
f the .Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe. That
sras In 1890. The next year he moved
to Jolltt and became a conductor for
the Elgin. Jollet & Eastern. On com-
pleting 20 years' service be retired on
t pension.
When Passengers Were Few.
The closing of the Invergarry & Fort
Augustus railway for lack of custom
recalls an incident of the early days
of the Callander & Oban line. At tiie
outset local passenger traffic was like
Prince Charlie "long in coniln'" and
once when an Oban bound train drew
op at a wayside station the only per-
son who "landed" was the guard.
The station master and porter were
the only people on the platform and
after an exchange of snuff mulls the
guard inquired: "Only passeugers for
me the day?" The station master evi-
dently feeling his position keenly re-
plied: "Nane the day but I hear tell
o a wotrian for next week." Glasgow
Herald.
An Air Brake's Power.
Some idea of the power of an air
brake may be gained from the follow-
lug facta:
It takes a powerful locomotive draw-
ing a train of ten passenger cars a
distance of about five miles to reach
a speed of 60 miles an hour on a
straight and level track. The brakes
will stop the same train from a speed
of 60 miles an hour In 700 feet Rough-
ly It may be stated that a train may
be stopped by the brakes In about
three per cent of the distance that
must be covered to give it Its speed
Canadian Railroad Construction.
Consul Jon.es says that in his con-
sular district embracing much of
western Canada an expenditure of
$15000000 will be made this season
on railroad construction giving con-
tinuous employment to 30000 men and
10000 teams.
FLATCAR HAS CABLE TRUSSES
Novel Feature of Construction Em-
ployed by Prominent Road In
Belgium.
In addition to Its exceptional
length which is 83 feet over buffer
this fiat car built for the North Bel-
glum railway embodied several fea-
tures of construction entirely differ-
11 It I 1 II !
'Exceptionally Long Belgian Flatcar
1 . Rods.
la
Total gross revenue from traffic of
ail the railroads la the United State
In tfce fiscal year 1810 reached the
enormous amount of 12.104.600000.
$211000000 mora than In 190. The
trots revenue has doubled in 11 ytara.
Net earnings In 110 were 39I.0C9.
000 an Increase of $87.00.000 over
uwee oi ibto operating expense
absorbed 67.8 per cent of gross re
ceipts. The railroads paid $33450.000
In Interst and $305399000 in divi
dends. Interest averaged . S.79 " . per I
cent on the total bonded debt and
dividend .averaged 3.64 per cent oh
the total capital slock.
There has been only one year since
1898 when gross earnings did not ex-.
ceed those of the preceding year.
Last year's Increase was the greatest
ever reported.
jjess man a fourth of the gross
earnings came from passenger serv
ice.
The railroads paid nearly $108000.-
uuu in taxes in 1910. Taxes have al
most doubled since 1905 though to
tal asseta Increased only a third.
and gross earnings Increased less
than a third In 1910 compared with
those of 1905.
Total length of railroads In the
United States on December 31 1910.
was 242107 miles. In addition there
were 109879 miles of second track.
sidings etc. Tb railroads : own 2.
297620 freight cara 63030 locomo-
tives 87985 passenger cars and 13.-
173 baggage mall and special cars.
The total capital stock of all the
railroads at the end of 1910 waa $8.-
381.000.000. Outstanding bonds wen
$10510000000. Much duplication is
Involved In these figures aa Ue rail
road companies own $3518000000 of
stocks and bonds most of which rep
resents Interest In allied lines and
are used as collateral security for
bonds and stocks owned by the pub-
ine average rreignt rate per ton
per mile in 1910 was .753 of a cent
a little more than three-fourths of
one cent It was the lowest average
on record except .726 In 1899 and
.746 In 1890.
The average rate per passenger per
mile In 1910 was 1.978 cents .044 of
a cent higher than in 1909.
These flgires are from Poor's Man
ual of Railroads for 1911 which has
Just come from the press. It Is a
volume of 2700 pages and It presents
comprehensive general estimates of
all the railroads as well aa detailed
Information of each railroad company.
The 1911 issue Is the forty-fourth an
nual numoer or tnis valuable com
pilation.
TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE
Remarkable Experience of a Business
Man With Breaking Wheels
of Railway Coach.
Some years ago a well known busi
ness man who was accustomed to
make weekly trips between an east
ern city and Chicago had the un
comfortable experience of having a
wheel break immediately under his
seat while the train was going at full
speed. It was only by the most for
tunate of leaps hat be was able to
escape losing his life. Naturally this
experience' raude a very deep. Impres
sion upon htm.
It was almost a year later that he
took the same train and by a strange
chance was assigned the same chair.
During a chat with a friend whom he
had Just met he glanced out of the
window and recognized the landscape
and the very spot of his narrow es-
cape. He told the friend the story of
the broken wheel. Just as he reached
the climax of his recital saying: 'The
cold shivers go down my back at the
bare thought of It. There It is again!"
Incredible as it may seem the identi
cal accident happened on the sa.ne
train almost between the same two
fields adjoining the track and the
vlctlmof this oddest of coincidences
barely escaped the same way as be
fore.
Train Three Years Late.
When a train on an Irish railway
line Is a few minutes late the passen
gers sometimes express their opinions
more freely than politely. But there I
is one case on record of an American
train arriving three years after time.
This train left Bolivar bound for
Beaumont a distance of 75 miles.
Before the train had traveled far on
Its journey it was caught In a great
storm. Thirty miles of line were
washed away and the train was left
stranded on a sandy waste.
The storm bankrupted the railway
company and no effort to rescue the
engine and carriages was made until i
three years later wnen tne traca was
...n.i.niw renalred to permit ..me
Sillllliici...' - - -
..in to complete Its loug-oeierreu
journey.
ent from those adopted In American
railroad Dractice. I ue longuumum
sills or girders are extremely light
and. If .the usual construction were
followed would be Inadequate but
these Klrders constitute tne compres
sion members of the truss only the
tension members consisting wholly
of the steel-wire cables which consti-
tute the most novel feature of th
construction. Popular Mechanics.
Having
Steel-Wire Cables a Truss
Facte and Figures That Appear
the Forty-fourth : Number ef
Poor Manual.
TO EXHIBIT LACH03SE AtiD EDUCATE FANS
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Reaching for
Con Jones owner of the Vancouver (B. C.) lacrosse team has a tremen-
dous new scheme on for next year. Instead of playing hia championship
matches In British Columbia he Intends to make what he calln a tour of "la-
crosse education" throughout Canada and the United States and schedule
his matches In such a way that the majority of them con be played in the
United States while he will have enough left to make a finish good for the
bene'flt of the New Westminster and Vancouver people. ' . '
Every match will count toward the championship and naturally the
possession of the Minto cup but it win be played In some place outside of
the province of British Columbia excepting the last few.
ANXIOUS FOR BIGGER SCORES
Football Men Want to Change Rules
So Higher Counts Can Be Made
Possible Some Suggestions.
Football experts at the college
club their number Including several
of the official rulemakers are pretty
well agreed that some radical changes
In the rules will be necessary before
the next season. The chief clamor for
reform is a demand for plays which
will allow more scoring. Possibly this
relief will be found by returning to
6-yard gain for first down Inside the
25-yard line by increasing the num
ber of downs allowed to gain 10 yards
to four or by allowing first down after
a 7 Instead of a 10-yard gain.
Games at Cambridge and Philadel
phia show the inefficiency of the new
rules. The Army-Navy game ehowed
little football except kicking. Dalton's
toe carried the day. Yale and liar
vard dabbled with all the wrinkles of
the new game but had to resort to
kicking. This constant punting be
comes very monotonous to the spec
tator. It has entirely changed the
complexion of American football. The
punt was originally put into the game
not as a feature play but as a last
resort when the ball could be carried
no further by the players. Under the
present rules the kick is the main
thing and the game becomes a kick-
ing contest between two men with
he chance of picking up a fumble the
chief reliance for touchdowns scoring.
Touchdowns it ia pointed out are
more satisfactory than field goals;
they are what the players and specta
tors would rather see. They repre
sent more football skill more team
skill and more actual football ability.
What la wanted of the rulemakers
this winter is a game which will not
further increase the risk of injuries
but which will beget some degree of
finality In advancing the ball.
HITCH IN A BASEBALL DEAL
Trade Between Rochester and Wash
ing Clubs Involving Several
Players Held Up.
There Is a hitch In the deal between
the Rochester and Washington clubs
Shortstop Foster.
which Involved Moeller Foster' and
Spencer of Rochester and Groom and
Lelivelt of Washington
Do those- who favor changing the
baseball code want revision down
wardT 1
Citizens of Georgia are beginning to
realize the greatness of Tyrus Ray
mond Cobb.
Walter Camp wants four downs in-
stead of three. Isn't It bard enough
"to stop them now?"
Many football critics favor abolish
ing the forward pass. The bands are
used too much anyway.
Walter Camp can't see a western
man ou his all-tar selections. He
failed to come west in 1911.
Walter Camp eays the new football
rules which cut down the number of
Injuries in football have come to stay.
Connie Mack thinks he has discov-
ered another pitching wonder. Does
he want to get a perpetual lien on the
bunting?
Rudy Unholz. the Boer boxer
threatens to "break in" onre more.
Bat Nelson it seems has set a bad
example.
When football is perfected what
will the experts find to do during the
winter months in place of revising
the rules?
If Horace Fogel
Charley Dooin says
works behind the
"butted in" as
who is the real
throne on the
Phillies anyway?
Some people have the happy faculty
of seeing "sport" in everything. It
isn't a bad thing for the appetite or
the conscience either.
Ad Wolgast has the largest doctor
bill known to the profession for some
time. It cost Ad more than $50000
in lost purses to be cut up.
"Raiceviteli. the giant wrestler la
here to challenge the world" says a
report. Tho only thing against him
is that he has been here before.
Jimmy McAleer is to cout for the
Boston ' Red Sox. Since Jimmy has
always been a "good old ficout" he
ought to shine in his dual capacity.
Hockey at Ann Arbor.
The university of Michigan will be
represented by hockey teams this
winter. At a meeting the other night
enough candidates for the several de-
partmental teams turned out to insure
the university authorities the sport
has attained a firm footing.
Four and possibly six teams are ex-
pected to compete. It haa not been
announced whether' games will be
played this season with other univer-
sity teams.
After American Trotters.
A prominent Vienna horseman R
SchlcBsiugcr who comes to America
every year In search of trotting stock
made two important purchases recent
ly the three-year-old stallion Jack
Swift. 2:I014 and the seven-year-old
mare Maud Light 2:07!. Schlessing-
er also bought through Charles E.
Dean the black mare Black Silk
2:09 which Dean raced successfully
in 1908. She will be used as a brood
mare but the other two will be raced
' ' Jack Donaldson Wins.
Jack Donaldson of South Africa ac-
cording to reports received from Mel-
bourne won the world's champion-
ship in professional sprints from A. B.
Postle of Australia at Melbourne.
Postle won the 80-yard sprint in
: 07 4-5 but Donaldson took the 100
and 110-yard dashes. The 100 was
made in : 09 3-5 and the latter in
: 10 4-6. All the races were run o
grass. r
a High One.
...uitlEN CAPITAL FEST
BOTHER THE LIFE OUT OP OUR
. NATION'S REPRESENTATIVES.
Feminine Time-Wasters of All Classes
. and Sorts Camp Persistently
on the Trails of Lawmakers
In Washington..
. There are a great many people who
think that members of Congress have
. uotning e I s o
to bother
them but the
making of the
cation's laws
They Imagine that unless for a Stray
lobbyist now and then they are never
disturbed from their arduous duties
of lawmaking. Such Is far from the
case and the principal harassers of
out national representatives are to a
great per cent' women. These fem-
inine time wasters are women of all
classes and sorts and represent every
variety of life from the poor woman
who wants a government position for
her sickly husband to the borne stater
who merely wUbes to call on the
member from ber part of the country.
In the capltol there are -two rooms
for these women callers one (or those
wishing to see the congressmen and
another for those who aro looking for
the senators.
In each of these rooms there is a
young woman who takes charge . of
the callers. The young woman In
charge of the Congress walling room
has the most trouble for the callers
are more numerous and more bother-
some. As they come in they go to
ber desk and tell her whom they
wish to see and she takes tbelr card
and writing Instructions on It sends
If Into the representative desired
The pages who carry these cards
back and forth are generally kept
very busy and often come in for ugly
call downs from disappointed callers.
When the legislature at Washing
ton Is In full session the members
are generally very busy and absorbed
In the nation's business. If they are
fighting for a measure which is of na
tional Import they have very little
time to be explaining difficulties and
arranging little minor matters for un-
reasonable women who imagine that
their little trouble Is the only one In
the world and should therefore be ad
justed at once. Just at present both
houses are busily engaged with meas
vres which are vastly Important to
the whole country; they have little
time to apare and yet if one were to
stroll through the rapltol today he
would find that little waiting room
crowded with women who are filled
with that unconscious presumption
that encourages them to protrude
their little affairs to the front at the
expense of the nation's most Import-
ant business. Whep the cause of
Women's Rights" come to Its own It
will bp a toss-up between the nation's
business and the 'acgled affairs of a
pink tea or bridge party.
One of tho old gags that the mem
bers work on callers whom they de-
sire to dode is when the page comes
to them with a call they move to a
vacant seat and send oiit word that
they are not in their seat. The page
who has to deliver this message
which Is not a He. generally comes in
for trouble as oftentimes the caller
goes to the gallery and seeing that
the member Is on the floor gos bark
to the unlucky page and vents her Ire
on him. The congressmen who are
not without human instinct generally
reward the page for his trouble. This
Female-caller" nuisance is not a new
one and while women continue to be
unreasonable the waiting rooms of the
capitol will always be filled
Wireless Operators In Demand.
Wireless operators steady de
mand" Is the market quotation hung
up In the navigation bureau of tho de
partment of commerce and labor. The
federal officials believe that eventual
ly nil ocean craft will be equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus and that
the posts aboard hhlpn should be
tempting to operators.
About COO vessels on the Atlantic
and' Pacific oceans and the Gulf of
Mexico are already so equipped an In
crease from about 350 a year ago. All
have to get a certificate from the com-
missioner of navigation. Heretofore
11 have been examined at the various
navy yards but for the convenience
of telegraph operators living !n Interior
towns arrangements have been made
by which they may be examined by
the military authorities at Fort Oma-
ha Neb. the examinations there to be
conducted from time to time.
Weird Indian . Dances Barred.
It Is fur the economic and social
good of the Indians officials of the In-
dian bureau In Washington declared
that objection has been made to the
sun. buffalo willow and some of the
other prolonged dances In which mem-
bers of certain tribes Indulge.
"Often these orgies for that is what
the dances practically amount to con-
sume several weeks of the Indians'
time at a season when his farm needs
bis attention" said an official.' "The
Interior department will continue to
object to these dances." '
What May Happen to Lifers.
A life termer In prison who assaults
another person with a deadly weapon
la punishable with death under a de-
cision announced by the 8upreme
court of the United States upholding
the constitutionality of a California
Etatute. In so ho'dlng the court de-
clined to Interfere with the death sen-
tence imposed upon James W. Finley
at Sacramento.
HYPNOTIC EYE KO'JTS A CEi
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Director Holmes of .the t':rtau J
Mines Has an Exciting Cncouiv;
. ter In Alaska. - '
Hypnotism. Which he stuCeJ
amusement when a young man w
the life of Dr.
seph ; A Hoi
director of the
reau of m
while ne wa
Alaska rece
He has retur
to Washing!
and relates
thrilling atory
his encounter
a brown bear. I
eral geolog
who witnessed
Incident bear
Dr. Holmes. In
assertion that
put the woui
and infuriated animal to flight
merely waving bis arms and cai
piercing glances at the advar
enemy. Holmes tells the story tu
."I had been 'way up In north
tral Alaska with several scleri
looking over the coal fields whed
of our party saw a bear. He
big fellow; you probably know
the largest beats to be found
where in the world are In Alaska!
he wasn't a great distance from
"One of the boys who carried i
took careful aim and fired. Tb
let struck the bear in the left bint
With a roar the bear leaped Int
air and within a few minutes wa
on our trail. We all ran.
"For1 some reason the bear wit
bead low and growling all tho 1
paid no attention to the other
and boiv-d 'or me. I ran aa far
could with the bear after me. I '
look back every few steps and
found that although the bear
limping be was getting ov
ground pretty rapidly and waa
uy gaining.
"At last when I saw that I cot!
escape and that I was losing st)
and becoming winded rapidly I
around and faced the bear. He
surprised that I had gives u
chase and stopped short within
feet of me.
I looked at him got bis e;
motioned to him with my
Strange as It. may seem thai
i mad aa he. was stood motlonles
minute or two it seemed an I
me and finally with a load
limped away. ' j
"He had not gone mora than;
dred yard a until one of the bo
one who wounded him fired a
shot and killed the bear Instai
"It was just a case of bh
me. I tried some hypnotism
bear as a last resort and ua
slang expression 'I got away !
I will admit I was scared. 1
right to be. When a boy 1
read up on hypnotism just for
of the thing and now I realize
was time well spent for If I
done what I did I. really Oil
bear would have made a mea
Some of my friends up In
skinned that bear and have
to rend me his hide for a sou
MAKES SHIPS UNSI
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New Invention That Is 8eli
Out on American Yii
. Vessels. !
An Invention for keepln
from entering ships through
means of compreBsed air
tested on board the battles
Carolina. Captain C. CMS
mander of the North Carol!
that the use of the apparaiuj
Vent vessels from going (tq
torn following collisions rj
by torpedoes or shells and
will revolutionize marine;
The invention Is merely an
to the compartments of shj
science of air pressure aa
plied to tunnel building.
veloped by one of the en
the subway in this city.
Want New Colorado
The establishment of
park In Colorado totally
character. It Is said froirt
Ing park and much closer
ter of population than an
ent reservations Is recomd
number of letters receive
tary of the Interior Fisher.
J'The general Idea of ba
park at or near tne place
peals to me personally "
tarv Fisher "but before
could be taken it would
to have an examination
territory. Therefore it '
essnry to nubmit tie ma
gresa as the department
able money even for the
. The park as proposed f
an area of about 600000
tlona of Grand Jackson
Boulder counties would
and the park would tak
Peak Grand lake and thj
the Big Thompson river.
For Good Roads Forty-
Nearly $44000000- haa
road improvements by
states alone during the
cording to Secretary
enormous total Is Liade u
turea In the various slati
Alabama $3404000;
450.000: Florida. $15051
$2500000; Kentucky. $4
Isiana $1143364; Mcrv
000: Mississippi. $313
Carolina $4505000; O
50E.OOO: South Carollnl
Tennessee $3900000
000; Virginia. $4.C04.0O
Virginia $1025000. :
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