The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 1947, Page 2

ered by it vers pro- ,, L900 morn- >n? ah 79 bad by them- $ something to. it. once, I've. told if (ly tg ia let Oo mes at clocks. Sod a fou, can’t ‘| byse them. xpect them to Fas figbt Come ob, now, tell me what you did to it.” “12 The wise; wife , will. meekly ee that she must have done mething heinous to the clock, ise hay ablished that in-jit is all hei he man is per- t &etistied, and ready to go dont to the .pext step, which con- ists of the issuing of the terse oraet: “Bring. me. the pliers, the gctewdriver.and the oil. I'll have this clock fixed in no time at takes care of the next tir or five hours. The man will out all the screws, bolts, shafts, COBS.} count, whose claim to hig titile|of banking, born Columbia, Mo.,. ‘7 or cams, é| wheels, pinwheels, flywheels, and fevery other piece of the innards gf.,the clogk..and line’ them up Really jn froat of Kim, engaged in. this fasci- nal poeegl will alternate- whistle off-key and make Te: ‘ks to. various small parts he abstracts them: “Oh, -a, widow, I. <TMis goes out,” t youne man who. was. 9 iping me unpack, who 3 teality was hampering me dread > fully, .man-fashion. He pounced upon, the clock. greedily. out nite-clock?”, he in ed. “Don't do that. What's wrong with it?” “It won't work,” I re- . “Then I'll fix it. so, work,” he promised, and it off with, him, Two weeks later he brought it back, and I saw with surprise that, it W. jng.and in the right di pat that, That is, the one ,re! i ‘hand was moving in the proper direction. “The second hand got broken,” he explained apologetically. “But you can tell about what one it is by the hour hand. See? When it is one quarter past the hour the hand will be about here. See? At half past it will be about here. See? And at a quarter of it will have moved to about here and then on to the exact hour. See? When I have time I'll put a second hand on it for you.” I assured him that I saw, and need I add that he never put that sec- ond hand on that clock? Sometime later an_. Italjan I never could quite, find was spurious or legitimate, saw the ¢ six cocoanut trees he hed cut down, TODAYS BIRTHDAYS Lieut.-Gen. Joseph Lawton Col- lins, born in New Orleans, 51 years ago. i F , Dr. Bepjamin M., Anderson of the University of California at Los Angeles, economist, professor 61 years ago.. Leo Sowerby of. Chicago, com- k, asktd why it had only one} poser-organist, Pulitzer prizewin- hand on it, and volunteered to not only put on the missing hand, but give the entire clock a gen- eral cleaning and overhauling. He 8S! assured me that he was net don’t! an expert with clocks, but also.a ‘ner, born in Grand Rapids, Mich., 52 years. ago. € Prof. Henry De Princetown Univ., cist, author, of the bomb report, born Clinton, N. Y., want to..come off, heh? Well! crack rifle shot, and this infor-| 48 years ago. ; well, we'll just see about that.” Wali, yank). .“There we are. ’s this?”: (Twist, twist’. “Oh eah? Let go there, you——. ; Pa “Ah, that an it, What Oy YOU'RE doing, eh? ia a Neéedn’t tight. That’s got aps, . D. gs te whole thing alls his wife to come what he has done. She is vt me paste and admire, she. dutifully does. {Pheri the whole process is re- ed, and, all the pieces, with tadl-vital exceptions, are re- ape in the clock case. These «| féw small parts the man pushes side a§ being of no consequence tever. “They don’t need to ‘ith tt Doii't know why they dem, in anyway.” tt Screw in place he €alls his wife to look at dotie. She agrees it is) hand. The idea, he said indig-|said, was > il job, and ig, tarttul t ugh to; ask ‘if the clock will run now that he has worked oh it..She khows full well that at ae clock is done for. mation so impressed me that I turned over the clock to him very willingly indeed. Several weeks later he return-' ed it, and angrily. said someone had messed up its interior, and he couldn't do more with it than put on a second hand. I had a strong suspicion that he was the one who had damaged the inte- rior, because meantime I had vis- ited a shooting gallery with him and it had developed that I was a better rifle shot than he was, for, all his boasting, and I had rightly figured that if he wasn’t any better as a clock repairer than he was as a rifle shooter. there wasn’t much hope to be held out for that clock. My second husband had his/4et him have a go at the much-} ,Dim turn at the clock at due time. I Rokert R. Wason, of New. York, manufacturer, Natl. Asso.,. of Manufacturers head, born in Ash- tabula, Ohio, 59 years ago. was of brief duration, and the poor hacked-up timepiece - was once more put aside to collect dust. The last person to, take it apart was. a Norwegian. He. hai showii great willingness and, won prowess in the making of 1 on.a toaster, a cord foi trig iron, various electri plumbing fixtures, the radio, re- cord player ahd two doorknobs: Having done all . these, dull, thankless tasks so well I decided I'd give him a special: treat and fixed clock. had made another attempt to! His eyes glistened as: he: lpok- throw it away, but he stayed my nantly, of throwing out a hand- some clock just because it needed a few minor repairs., Still indig- nant, he went to work on it. Upon the completion of his ef- ed it over. Now this, his attitude: something really worthy of his talents. For the job he visited the hardware store. and returned with an assortment of miniature screwdrivers . and other small instruments. He also ‘Here's. your clock,” he says}forts it ticked away loudly, but! brought into play. thrée. bottles peudly, and. adds. with great Céiifiderice: “Just take it easy and + 8 wihd her too tight or ite her too roughly again, and, she'll last for years.” Wife tells her husband he’s wonderful, takes the clock, * 1 throwg .itgin the trash and goes aha buys, a pew clock. She ws, her..husband will never Kpow the difference, and even if hie, does he will assume she mon; keyed, with that, clock again and ruined it completely, so, that even {he couldn't fix it. Having re- paited it ohce, he has washed his hands the whale matter, and rt touch jt again. He'll wait thing goes wrong with clock. is that I have oné that vt ferent men have repair- , in their fashion, and I da eH} say seven more will take their i af, it. I keep it as a sort of 4g for my men friends. .Was given to me reasoh I Know so much Then and. their way with »@id.yedrs ago by a youth-| something it hadn’t ever done} can fix that clock. And I'll hand r as a gentle hint that $ titéd of constantly wait- ge rateguarter hours Nowadays, of course, at. ‘nis only if I let it lie face down. If you wanted to see the time -you had to pick it up fast, give it a lightning glance and replace it face down quickly. If the opera- tion required more than a split second it would stop suddenly and then sullenly refuse to start again unless shaken , vigorously and rigorously. One day shortly afterward it gave an angry whirr. and stopped altogether. I put it away again. Three years ago I met nice French naval officer, and he wasn't any different from any- one else, because the minute he laid eyes on that clock he be- came possessed ef a. frantic de- sire to undertake its repair. I handed it over to him, figuring that he couldn’t do any, more harm to it than the combined ef- forts of a Scotchman, an English- man, an Irishman, an Italian and a Cuban had accomplished. The French touch was really some- thing, because ‘not. only did the | clock work splendidly for four solid hours, but it also alarmed, before, to my knowlegg, » even when it was brand new. fact, I had never even noticed it hdd an alarm on it. je But this brilliant performance of oil, a magnifying glass, a co! plete set ‘of typewriter-re; ‘tools, and a soldering iron, with two kinds of solder wire. All this, spread out on the kitchen table, made an imposing and impress-, ive array. By the time ,he had taken the clock apart and spread all, the parts out too, together with all the spare parts from the j bag, I was completely overcome {with admiration ahd —astonish- | ment. It looked like he really | méant business. happily. At almost midnight he had it finished, ‘‘There,” he, said, “she'll work now, Just take it easy, don’t wind her too tight and don’t handle her roughly.A clock ‘is a delicate piece of machinery.” I suppose it is superfliious to add that the clock still doesn’t run. I don’t see how it can. There are more pieces of it in the, bag 'by now than in the clock. itself. | apples, the next man who,.comes | along wlil believe firmly, that he it over to him and let him try. What harm can it go? It will no. harm. ¥ Men and clocks, Hmmmm. {ELLA LOUISE Ss, i the. elec- and | All one Saturday and far into! § Saturday night he worked away | suc! But as sure as God made little ! make him happy and do the clock en od Keon Fiala, intone nF ery fast Elepais Court of Mon Dated April 16; 1962. Pole, Dvnets, URRIS. 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