Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1903, Page 4

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C l('. of a fine lot of Scarts, all different and styles, at Chlldren s Coat Specials kersey box cod!, ‘worth uoo. .50 Long and Box Coats, worth of & runaway engine that is descending @ |our minds to make the EVER ON A RUNAWAY TRAIN? 1# Not, Read This and See How You Think Fireman's Story of a Train Gettin Away in & Pass in Colorado— Problem of Jumping or Not Jumping. R to be face to face with the grim monster in the h close range that rather thin E one will take as an only ~ chance something that seems to put the ~ end of things for this world only a little ' funther away, I8 not an easy thing to de- tell the tale. stop the train dawned upon Engineer Watts | granite, on the upper soon after crossing the safety switch be- road, every train that comes down Ute|know. I realized that pass, regardless of how late it may be, stops at Caseade for Inspection. The run-|and that if I didn’t ning gear of the train is inspected, the |under the wheels of brakes are examined and tested, and four and reached different men have to sign a book that|Stop me, says the train s in shape to make ‘he[Fealized that I had descent of the pass safely before the en- |Flling my head was s start his machine on {ts downward journe; As a further safeguard against runaways the company has 4 safety switch bullt on |ned passed whether I the side of the mountain about a half mile | peneath it or not, but below Cascade, and before any train can |not dead. many persons have wondered how Sitting U, it 80 out into space from the cab ~ of a locomotive going at a rate anywhere from forty to Afty miles up because of conviction that the chances of life are greater by taking such a leap than by remaining on the seat of the cab and tak- chances with the machine. To make such a leap into @ level or grass-grown right-of-way Is something that would make an ordinary man hesitate somewhat, but @ great many have made it and made it successfully, To make such e leup out NOT A STIMULANT BUT A CURE Some Nerve Remedies Stimu’ late, But Do Not Cure H known characters of the mountain around |looking at me. I don’t the main lne. whistle for this switch his train runs u the side of the mountaln and “see-saw back and forik on the switch und matn track until {t comes to a stoy bottom of the “sag.’ Traln Beyond Centrel. Frelgnt No. 4 lest Monday evening ; tnspection at Cascade and secured track &t the safoty switch. It long therefater, however that had helped us 4 it the [ run, expecting te find some of the canons al was not { there had been no ons the halr-rolsing discovery that his train tigation was beyond control. His brakes were not | office of the superini of sufficient power to withatand the power- | City. no reasonable expectation that the train |air brake expert and would remain on the tracks through the |tendent. him and the level track. curve—and there were curves everywher down that stretch of track—would probably precipitate the train over the side of the embankment to destruction. Fireman Brandeberry, as he tells the |JHS | story now, says: “The train was inspected Cascade by the regular inspectors an everything appeared to be in perfect trim. The last safety switch was passed with the train under perfect control, stealing slowly and safely down. the mountain side. It ran as usual until we had covered about three- fourths of a mile, when the engineer thought he'd better recharge his air brakes. There is @ certain amount of loss of air in running the train, and It is necessary |gien cars. We have from time to time to recharge the brakes. | mountains over the Nerve tonlc that cures and you stay eured. 'NERVAN TABLETS are -l:‘..... of Nervous- ey preduss il Now « wood appe- power of the forelgn c 5 per cent, and that drugsiats of thia city trath: 1 were offered 31, repere & {aaa Nerven I 6ouid 8ot do " 1 arid. n 6 not. Besitate, it tabe Milvm resew Vigor and Vitallty v young and Yoo e tried them and know while the home \thn t tain sides. cannot be applied wit! power is about 80 per arh We are bouh gaining b fih. “We both cheertully recommend N It s e iats "W 'are Svery resdy to vouch Tor"tta"s00d Gualitios. " Yours for success T, 3 MALONEY AND wive, Lock Bax 0, Guide Rock, N , Chicago, Wi— using NERVAN for general de- &8 saaray villdar they with the terrible weight of the train we | (00 many cars of low recharaged the engineer there seemed to be lttle effect. He ap-! plied them again and again, but it was of no perciptible effect whatever. You may imagine that we were feeling mighty un- comfortable just then, and we had to de- ‘,’,"“ Wells, a8 admi cide pretty quick what we were going to | of John P. Johnson, do. We simply sizsed up the situation as | that the jud‘n.nl of best we might and declded tiat we had | be set aside. cn the & chance only by ,u-m from the cab, | and ti m‘hn.:l- e present. Wants Ji urious .ll,._vmw.n_k-u {BRAN stretch of track such as the Midland has | with her for three-quarters of a mile and down Ute pass, however, taking chances | knew that she was wild and that every on landing against a granite boulder or|gecond lessened our chances: Watts made the side of a mountain, against a rock |the leap ahead of me. When he jumped ribbed tunnel or over the side of a precipice | we were on & stralght stretch of track - You'd Like It. over which no one could go and live, it |and he was fortunate enough to strik — is even a little more strenuous, but thls|the ground on a gravel slide. He went at is the feat that Engineer Frank Watts |least twenty-five feet flat on his stomach, lw‘l"a DEAT“ RIG"T W T"E EYE and Fireman James Brandeberry performed |and I thought still less of my own cbances . g recently, and both men are still alfve to|when he bad made the leap. I think'it was about twenty seconds later that I The fact that the airbrakes would not |followed him. I hit a bank of disintegrated I rolled over and over for about thirty low Cascade. As 8 well known to per-|feet and how my head kept in connection sons familiar with the operations of this|with my body is something I will never ther down the embankment all the time but caught nothing. WI gincer s allowed, to pull the throttle to |thin& was black as night before me. “T couldn't tell until after the whole train In a few seconds, although they have the main line to make the descent the | seemed hours, I realized that the train had ngineer must whistle for the track, when |gone, and I sat up. There was Watts about ‘Unclé Jimmy" Taggart, one of the best [sixty feet behind me, also sitting up and this vicinity, turne the switch and opens [ was not because I didn't want to. If the engineer falls to|moment we remembered that the engine was following and we flagged it the | point down to Manitou we made a slow have to carry the remains of the rest of the boys down to Colorado City with us. assed | were forty-five minutes making the run to tp main | Colorado City, Our surprise at finding that that Engincer |that we found there was equaled only by Watts, in recharging ais air brakes, made |our surprise at being allve ourselves.” Those present were the crgw of the ful welght of his sixteen cars of gold ore | Wrecked train, the superintendent of the and lead and silver bullion, and there wag | motive power, the traveling engineer, the The main reason for the cause of first tunnel of the eight that lay -between |the Wreck brought out in the Investigation If tt should by |Was that the train was composed of so el, the next | many forelgn cars with low braking power. R LI AR e [ rwhere | A explanation of this is that the braking from 70 to %0 per cent, due to the fact that foreign cars, as a rule, comparatively level roadbeds to travel placed on the mountain roads and loaded heavily and the air brakes being about 4 per cent of the welght of the cars, they those of the mountain cars, whose braking This train *was composed mostly of for- “If this is not done the brakes will lose | just as many cars as we had Monday morn- their grip on the wheels. This recharging | ing, but never with so many foreign cars. process requires nearly three minutes and, | The road had been very careful not to have were bringing down this time, gave us & |same traln, but they will be much more terrific impetus. When the brakes had been | careful now that the accident has occurred. pplied them, but | _Colorado Springs Telegraph | r{euu«m has been filed in the district in the case of H. E. Cochran ageinst EIS. STE A Bargain Sale of Leather Goods P s e ——a THOUSANDS OF THE FINEST HAND BAGS, AUTOMOBILE BAGS, CARRIAGE BAGS, WRIST' BAGS, ETC., AT ONE-FOURTH THEIR VALUE. A bli bargain chance for Omaha shoppers. One of the greatest manufac- turers of fine leather in the east was unable to flll further orders and called In seven traveling men from the road. Ho disposed of these seven lines of sample leather goods to us at a remarkable reduction. ing fatigue duty, They are the latest designs in real kid, levant, real walrus, real seal, alligator, snake skin, lizard, Morocco and pig skin—some fitted with genuine cut glass smelling salt bottle, card cases, and change purses. Frames of these bags are German silver, genuine gunmetal, oxidized and copper finish, etc., beautifully embossed, col- ors are the new poppy reds, rose, French grays, light blues, modes, wood browns, etc., a remarkable opportunity to buy now for Christmas gifts, worth up to $3.00, at 49¢-59¢-69c¢ Big Sale of Purses and Pocket Books at 25¢ Hand purses and mén’s money purses in fine leathers, some with two pockets, made in fine chamois skin, real seal, alligator, snake skin, e(c., 2 SC worthupto TOR, B oo naios oss POFREATIRVYS RS .BIG PICTURE SALE SATURDAY $3 Pictures at 98c Each A remarkable picture selling event for Saturday. These pictures have been displayed in our window and have ex- cited much admiration We have never offered such an at- tractive picture bargain in our store. The pictures include 20-inch circle pictures—20x24 parlor pictures —16x20 new oak mission framed dining room pictures—3 combination batted oak mission framed game and fruit pictures — yard pictures and an immense assortment of odds and ends, worth up to $3.00— ON SALE SATURDAY AT— $15 HALL RUGS AT $5.98 A fine assortment of handsome Axminster and Moquette hall rugs. These are in new designs and are remarkably attractive. The sizes, 4-6x10-6 and 4-6x12. They would be excellent value at $15.00 each, $ as long as they last Saturdny, 5 9 8 [ | SRR i 183 b “ red \ riors ot o mis ana | REASONS WHY THEY DESERT Seldiers in Garrison Olassed as a Very Sentimental Lot MUSIC MAY START A QUITTING EPIDEMIC tional, Deadly Work of a Zither in the Phil es—Love and Grief and Homeslckness Among the Leading Causes. side of the track. I was rolling far- any other time. An old sergeant of the regular army now stationed at a New York harbor post, who fought the Sioux under Crook and Custer, helped to chase the 'Pache Kid and did his trick in the Philippines at the beginning of the row down there, recently delivered him- self of some of his own cbservations on the desertion question. He has soldiered in more than fifty posts and has known bat- talions of deserters. ‘There are plenty of reasons besides those given by the boss soldiers in their reports behind desertions from the army,” sald the old sergeant. “I am not speaking of pres- ent conditions, but of desertions in norm: years. “In the first place, desertions become epl- demic in certain posts, and when one of these deserting epidemics sets in nothing can stop It short of switching the whole outfit to another post. Some years ago one of these deserting epldemics began at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, and Inside of less than three months nothing but the skeleton of the command was left. They quit in squads and sets of fours, good men as well roughs and no-accounts. “That epidemic was started by a layout of bad and unpopular officers. One domi- neering or unjust officer In a post can cause more desertions than bad rations or cruelfy- stop, 1 was going but hopelessly the train, sure. I for something to 1 topped sliding and wimming and every- Thinki to desert, had been ground up TR0 wna it 1 knew that I was think I cried, but it In a I mean. own from Leadville From that affected by music, the train piled up in ong the way and to We e hurt in the wreck Is to s was held at the his zither, a big tendent at Colorado SUITS THAT SUIT the season, the wearer, and Jlfiedperja MAKERS # NEW things that that the general superin- Tho! ars is only from 4 to of the home cars is the difference being minz@ | | YORK cars are adapted to once in a while, he foreign cars are was golng on, the outfit, “Less h nearly the force of cent of the welght. dcscended the same same roadbed with braking power on the coming home. nistrator of the estate It is asked the court in this case ground that the case they Almost without 98| I once knew a little runt of a shavetall just out from West Point to cause thirty-two men from one cavalry troop, stationed in Arizona, to jump the outfit within two months after he'd joined. “The deserting epldemics causes that would seem mighty trivial to outsiders who do not know what an emo- not to say absolutely sentimental, lot soldlers in garrison are. soldiers In garrison are easily played and preyed upon, and when a few of them hap- pen to go up In the air at the same time the thing becomes infectious, Itke getting re- ligion at a camp meeting. For example, there are always more desertions from the army around the holiday season than at “There used to be a very widespread, erroneous American army officers that the presence of a band In a post contributed to the con- tentment of the men and made the wabbly ones less liable to desert. punctured. It is well known that the mili- tary band, instead of keeping men from deserting, actually causes many of them impressionable fellows and it tells a-plenty of them that they are making hashes of their llves by sticking to the uniforms of the buck army private. get a chance just watch what's-the-use expression on the faces of the soldlers listening to an evening band concert and you'll get a better understanding of what ‘‘Soldiers In barracks are in fact queerly the moving and tender sort. For instance, we had a trig outfit of moderately con- tented and fairly healthy men in the little Luzon settlement in the Philippines where we were quartered, a zither joined the company. ‘He was a windjammer—trumpeter, that from French Canada, and when he transferred to our fitsout ment from Austria, could do to and on that big zither were certainly sinful, not to say devilish, and even us old relics of gagging days had to either duck out of the sound of the kid's music or find our- selves gulping and coughing & lot. “He'd spread the thing out on his bunk nights, between supper and tattoo, and he'd no sooner make the first swipe at the strings and work in the tremolo stuff than the boys 'ud knock off gassing and begin to look serious and thoughtful. while that zither music you'd see some fellow, a burly rufan as like so’s not to make & show of himself before that two weeks after that boy with the zither began those nightly per- formances we had twelve men in the hos- pital, down with nothing else in the world but nostalgla, which means homesickness. And it you've ever picked up the notion that nostalgia, as it's called, is merely a harmless and boobyish disease, I'll men- tion that two of these twelve men died of It. The boy with the zither put it away then and never played on it again until we were on our way home on the transport nd then it didn’'t matter; the boys were “The well educated men who drift into the American army cause desertions. Nine out of ten of these well educated men are tallures in civil life, in spite of their good education, and In nine cases out of ten are perfectly useless exception grouchy, grumpy kickers and knockers. ““When they find themselves in the army with MHttle show of getting out again Sale of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children's Hosiery Boys’ school hose —stoutly made, medium and l 5 heavy weight, worth 26c, ate...... ..cicaveinennane C Ladies’, Misses’ and children’s hose—plain fine ana heavy nbbod some fleecy lined, others lisle thread—many double soles and spliced heels— 12]/90-190 on bargain square, at............ Artistic Millinery « Very Special Prices Some of our most handsomely designed hats will be offered tomorrow at remarkable values. Saturday will be the Millinery Bargain event of the season Handsome Trimmed Hats. Unusual Bargains in Splendidly trimmed hats—including an especially fine line of black tur- bans and togues. them away to make room We must clear for new arrivals. Those formerly selling at $8.00 — tomorrow basement and millinery in the basement and floor at. Trimmed hats formerly sold at $7—basomsnt and milllnery floor basement and basement and millinery floor—worth up to 52 30— go at EEETEER ‘e started by The minds of idea among The ldea’s been at the hearts of the Next time you particularly music of until a fellow with he brought concert-grand instru- along with him. The French-Canadian boy the bucking-and- Fine assortment _of street hats in the latestideas and smart designs— . Fhe New Trimmed Fur Hats A special display of mink, Russian squirrel, ete. These hats have underbrim of fur, some have fur crowns, draped with silk, velvet, etc, and trimmed with flowers, foliage, laces, etc. They would easily bring $10.00 to $12.00, our special price POF MAVUINARY «. <o o0 5 ¢ hido's o5 miavmbie sichaoenmueiasiih cves 2 Pompons, wings, quills and breasts, entire sample line of an IOC importer, at.. Sisesestecsccsscersensestessne TOMORROW IS CHILDREN'S DAY Children’s Trimmed Hats—lats that | Children’s Dress and School Hats, elak are neatly trimmed in rib- orately trimmed in the prettiest new s . c ideas for juvenile wear, bons, quilly, wings, etc., at g dilony A tremendous assortment of popular books goes on sale tomor row. This is an opportunity to buy Christmas gifts at a great saving. All these books are well and firmly bound. Copyrighted Books at 25c—An immense assortment of regulation copyrlghted books, such as Dodd, Mead & Co., Scribner, Street & Smith, Sou- venir gilt top, Coates Edition, etc., some haudsomely illustrated, 25 ~ worth up to $1.00 and $1.50, special bargain, at.......... ..ouees C Books for Boys and Giris—Gul- | Standard and Popular Novels liver’s Travels, Swiss Family Robinson, Black | at 74c—Merchon & Co, 16-mo., SR G, vty B v cloth bound books by standard ey { Falry Tales, otc., nlu-zm'ed and “well authors, also popular novels, made zc beund, worth b0c, to sell for 20¢, at... ”’ " N o Children’s Story Bookl-—vae Little Peppers, Dicky Downey, Beauti- ful Joe and hundreds of other illustrated books, worth up to 250 $1.00 each, at.. without deserting, the majority of them Wwho enlist in & certain part of the choose that alternative, Those that stick | for service in that same section don't ltke through thelr enlistments develop into bar- o make & lon shift to difterent pagt Zith rack room chaw bacons, and make the |another climate. ore desertions result other chaps nueomeuud.'-n.x then the de- |from lh;“lhllflh:{ :‘b:uut of regiments than sertions begin. ever appear in the res. “Ihe ,_.p':,‘nnc, in a post of a former| “Soldiers that get mixed up with women member of the outflt, diked out in happy |Outside. the post gates are particularly la- mufti rags and exhibiting other evidences |ble to desert when their outfits are ordered o8- provpieity, aiwars. Nas . the eltaot at ;:;’;—h‘T:f’x::‘r‘Qf"':;‘iz o e sov o Sertions result om that siight nd foolsn | 40a he doesn't feel like Jeaving her, and s0 sy there's only one thing left, and that Is to Visits of a Sport. “Any old conntry looks good enough to “I belonged to & troop once that was sta- some soldiers who become involved with tioned at the Presidio of San Frun(‘*co ‘women. The most aggravated case of that One qt our men, a bright fellow with a kind I ever saw, and I've seen a lot of such pleastbs way about Bim, and & skiiful and | cases, Bappened whet {he Iapest s’ WEGS inveterate gambler, caught on as a main 1 was attached was about to leave the faro dealer in a big San Francisco gambling Philippines. house at the wind-up of his second enlist- | “With us wi snappy, hustling kid from ment. It wasn't long before he had an in- Kentucky, a boy about 22 or so, who got the terest in the business himself, and he made 'corron:?: ;l:evm:llflcht soon after he took money fast. on for bright work in campaigning, and who “All togged out in expensive clothes, and 'had all the makings of a fine soldier. Fact wearing dlamonds, he used to drive out to he was In line for & commission. the Presidio behind a fast and stylish pacer, But he got mashed on a pretty Filipino In a trig and tidy trap with yaller running &'rl, the daughter of a Filipino comman- gear. Well, after a few months, the com- 4ante, and when we were ordered to Manfla manding officer of the Presidio had to re- |10 take the transport for the states he quest that' ex-swaddle, as a speclal favor, | c0uldn't see the thing of leaving her. I be- to cease his visits at the post. Desertions lleve they had been married, or something by the dozen were traced to those visits, | lke that. Anyhow, when we went to “The bunch would look thelr former mate | Manila, this judgment-lacking fool boy over and get ambitious all of a sudden. I¢ |Sta¥ed With his Filipino woman. he had made such a rattling good job of it | DUt he did something even more foolish in civil life, why couldn’t they, too—or, at l:’;": :"‘lfld' m:’:":':h;:cl: ::n -::( :Mnn: any rate, make some sort of a stab at it? - the . come back any more, in sets of fours, just y- because they had seen the visible signs of oo ‘her® foF & While, until the search for the prosperity of a man who had formerly .,They""::(';'.m N e et ar b‘f,’,‘rkh":;:‘i:'::‘:';::':'::: :’t’,::'el'_"'m' reached the states. D've know what that » OF e¥en |y romising, good-looking boy from Kentucky of a very popular enlisted man, is often |y doing now? He is doing ninety nf lisble to start an epidemic 0f desertions. In | yeqrg on Aloatras island for Guserth 'u"t:' the far northwest, at & dinky Wttle two- |(nomy—the court-martials sencemse oo troop post, there diod a first lieutenant who | geath, but it was remitted githdid was cnormously prized by the enlisted men. | ““Dig you ever happen to take & peek at “This officer died of too much drink. He | Ajcatraz island? No? Well, most men was a fine man and a splendid moldier—|would prefer death to pven ten years there never was a better soldler man anywhere— | _put ninety-nine years on the rock! Man but the drink had him, and it took him The |jet us pray to be good! 3 men, though, didn't think any the less of “And to think of & white boy, from XKen- him for that, although they all felt pretty | tycky—boy with a head, not to mention sorry for him, for the drink wi a thing Yh‘(‘pn'— letting & skinny, wmop-halred. that had got beyond him. pigeon-toed, rlce-powdered Filipino girl Often, when he was officer of the day, |land him for a dose like that, even if her and I was humping my guard post in the | eyes were fine!"—New York Sun, middle of the night. I've taken that officer of Home. . to his quarters—led him quiet-like by the arm, and him not saying a word, but just submitting like a young 'un. He'd be prowling around the post in the dark, dazed, and not able to take care of him- self. “But he was a fine man—a grand athlete, too, until the drink sapped him—and he was to square us bucks of the barracks, and fought our battles in the teeth of the 0ld man—and always won, too. He wouldn't stand for anybody imposing on us, and— Well, as near as men can get to loving a man, I guess us fellows loved that good man and square officer. “Pretty gulpy layout, we were, son, when we scraped out a hole in the hard- frozen ground for that one, and tossed him into it, and fired the volley over him, and listened to the blubbering kid of a wind- jammer sounding taps. The desertions began the next day. They missed him. They sald that the post was not only lonesome, but uncanny, with- out him. When, & month later, the fit-out was shifted to the southwest, we were not much more than one troop, instead of two— and the cashing in of officer with the heart and the gizzard of a sure enough man was the cause of it. Transfers Cause Trouble, “And, talking of the transferring of out- fits, that, too, has got to be taken into con- sideration as & cause, and. in the aggre- gate, & big big cause for desertions. Men Watch for the mis-spelled words—they're coming. ! Mis-spelled words next week. l If you can spell, you may win a prize Watch The Sunday Bee. Every not, slinking out, Stop tearing your throat! One dose of Ayer’s Cherry ~ Oe.. Pectoral. soldiers. they are