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mmrnmm HsfeS »?• '?rr#t -«* • Who Rose to Head Great American Rafireade^# - Went Up Prom Ranks and*8orne by Way of Learning--More Won- rferful Than 8omo Arab^W Nights Talea. ( > s v*tl Not yet are the days of romancing passed. They are making more won- ^flerful romances under your very eyes . «fthan they used to make in the. days of 'i *' and the Arabian Nights. ^Vhat ®°n °* Mustafa by rubbing a . lamp could be elevated, more wonder­ fully than a grimy locomotive fireman, f\. "Vho opens a book, and presently finds fjiimseif head of a great railroad? Take Daniel "JViiiard, for instance, e is president of the Baltimore & o railroad nowv Mr. Willard is a eat executive. He is an art con­ noisseur, a musician and a .Scholar be- i«ides. His collection of portraits of ^Kapoleon Is one of the best in the "S 'JjjForld. His interest in men of affairs • *s world-wide. Some time ago, when te whs In the midst of negotiating a 110,000,000 expenditure for improve- ; ^pents of the Baltimore & Ohio, he bo- f * jjfan to study French. , ft, I* is only a few years ago that Wil- . ; lard was fireman on an old Vermont " , road that is now part of the Boston & '^Malne. Willard was a locomotive flre- •£... man, that's all. But one day he found it book that interested him, in spite of »\ Its forbidding title. It is "Welliug- • ton's Economics of Railroad Locations." ^jrWiliard bought it. He tucked it be- - neath the cushion of his seat in the ^ «ngine cab, and when he Wasn't keep- '• 4ng up steam in the boiler head he <**86 reading about railroad economics.* .It gave him a wholly new view of rail- < : - goading. The rest you can read. "Fred" Underwood, now president of tie E'-'S«, the most jovial railroad presi-ent of all, was the conductor of Wil- : fard's train. TJnderwood was coming , #long fast then--so fast that pretty loon he was Willard's boss--"Mr. Un- erwood" to Willard. But they be- . «ame close friends, and each recog- -feized the other's worth. Some yeatfs later Mr. Underwood was in line for v ' j|lie presidency of the Erie. Then the . chance came, and almost the first man si he called to the road was Willard as *ice president. The two men are . "fiioscr chums than ever now. •/" With the exception of a few every- ;v. " iqne ha? climbed the ladder from the lower rung. One could almost count > the college-bred men on the fingers of bis two hands. And Louis W. Hill,' 1: llead of the fcJreat Northern, is practi- , \cally the only one who inherited a big ^ jfailroadipg job to start with. That v; >> as vice president under his father, \ -|he late James J. Hill. C. P. Markham, president of^the JJli- iiols Central, prominent socially its ' -veil as financially in Chicago, began Ids career as a section hand--a com '« nion laborer--on the Santa Fe, in Kan- V,» sas City, then one of the toughest rail- ••••-' itoad yards in the country. He Is re­ marked today jas one of the most dap- ' . per-looklng of these powerful railroad •'inen. No one looking at him or study- . . Ing him closely would say he was other : "than the son of a rich man who had all ihe frills of a course at a leading uni- _ ^ '^ersity. " ? ^ There's B, P. Ripley, president of "Che Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Tears ago a young man named Rip- 7 .ffey went to work as a clerk in the • traffic office of the Boston & Maine. B^t his stay there was not long, pretty soon someone higher up spotted ;. film as a coming railroad chief and .gave him a job as general manager ef the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. .And when the Santa Fe was reorgan- i tied E. P. Ripley assumed the presi­ dency. His friends celebrated his sev- ' «ntieth birthday last year in Chicago, : jMid the gathering was one of the most distinguished ever brought together, v A man is a man to Mr. Ripley, whether lie is a section hand or a general flian- 1 ager. r*#' ; Then there 'Is Fairfax Harrison, fearer of the proud name of Fairfax of Virginia, president of the Southern V Jfailway, one of the few college men in • 'die executives' group. He is an emi­ nent lawyer and a Greek scholar, be- • (tides a leading railway executive. Some time ago he translated Cato's *^arm Management," considered by . i jttany scholars as a literary gem. ' T But then, he isn't altogether to fttame for that It has been tradition- ^ among the first families of Vliv t • ginia that their sons must go to col­ lege. It only goes to show that it is jtfce caliber of the man which counts, ifcrailroading as in everything elae. PUT MQTBB TRUCfe OS All Engineering Journal Suggests the t. F>||lhmty*of "Autom^WJialfaP* the Railroads. r* Motor trucks are already "stealing" much of the short-haul freight traffic. Why not automobilise (the railroads? Because Carranza would not permit American troops to use Mexican rail­ way equipment, some genius In our amy temporarily transformed motor trucks into railroad rolling'stock by fastening detachable steel flanges to the motor-truck wheels. Thus the trucks were driven over the railroads, where there were railroads available, and over dirt roads when no railroads were available. 1 The change from a roll vehicle to a dirt-road vehicle is quickly made, and thus the problem of automobilizing one railroad system was speedily effected in part. Innumerable rail lines carry* only a few trains daily, and the trainloads are not great at best. There is every rea­ son to believe that much cf the freight traffic over such lines could be more Cheaply handled by motor trucks adapted to ran on rails as well as on roads. „ . « May not the pressing and perplex­ ing problems of furnishing adequate terminal facilities in large titles be solved by automobiliadng the term­ inals? " • Why will it not be economic to transfer nearly all freight from, cars to motor trucks outside the , limits of large cities, run the trucks into the cities on rails, remove their tempo­ rary wheel flanges, and thus enable them to run over paved streets to their destination? « } Railway managers, wake up! Come out of your narrow path, and beyond its extremities, into all the highways of transportation. View transportation in its entirety as your field of action, and you will add more to human wealth than you have already added-- which is a vast deal.--Engineering and Contracting. UNUSUAU -USE FOR CULVERT Structure Near Lake Superior Haa ̂Jkttn Utilized aa a Moat 1% ,̂ ,, 1.; *f feetive Beathouaa. J^ lftfge culvert through whi^^a- ter passes under a railroad track that skirts the shore of Lake Superior is used by the owner of a fair-sized mo- torboat as a boathouse. The level of the culvert's floor is a few inches above the lake and rollers have been laid at intervals from the edge of the A Railway Culvert on the Shore of Lake Superior That te Used as a Shelter for a Motorboat. water back into the passageway along, which the boat is drawn. This un­ usual shelter furnishes ample protec­ tion in the severest storms. Ordinarily the amount of water which flows through the culvert is of very little in­ convenience. The roof is composed of old iron rails to which the boat la chained when it is brought in from the lake, so that it will not be swept away in case the flow Is greatly in­ creased by a storm.--Popular Me­ chanics Magazine. ' Building Hard te Wraefc. ̂ Dynamite, oxy-acetylene torches, fire and wrecking cranes were employed successively in razing five tall, thin walled, reinforced concrete, cement storage bins, built 15 years ago at South Chicago, says the Engineering Record. Heavy charges of dynamite In the supporting columns produced no effect. Oxy-acetylene torches were then employed to cut the steel rails that reinforced them, the weight being shifted to wood shores. Even the effect of the heat and flames oi burning kero­ sene-soaked supports, roaring up through the barrels of the tanks, ap­ parently had no disintegrating effect, as the structure was not wrecked when it dropped on edge. Wrecking cranes finished the work, starting at the top and pulling the tanks apart In chunks. Chinese Advancement. Forty years ago China's first locc |Jve killed a man who was trest 'pa the track. Promptly the «cuted judgment oh the teile road. The jails we SThe locomotive was sold. •was no more. Now there Sniles of prosperous being made, China will tries of l&ilronds "The new a China; IF is in id additions are age every year, e foremost coun« e extent of her >flts from them, promise of be. «Why iMacle's vv- "The and . feetchi V'l: D*|ier T "isn't fit utkma. ng hare at four pa had aphasia, It might be s All. -See , here, waiter, this water to diia^^itiL discolored. , Waiter (UfflHHjlass and replac­ ing it)--Oh, water's per­ fectly all rijj^^^^ponly the glass that's dirty.Evening Tran- :> 'r4 • A ^ , Coltector- '4jfinn!ng for -^FOwens--^ maybe it «rd- Dlscoyerer of Corn Oil. Lucius E}mer Sayre, discoverer of a process for making corn oil, which is take the place of lard and to some extent, is dean pharmacy of the Uni- He has devoted 'study of chemistry, and of years was in business lufacturlng chemist. He is ior of a number of works, in- *Chart of Materia Medlca," rmacal Botany," and "Essentials Pharmacy." "The fat can be pro­ duced at a lower cost than any of the other vegetable fats now so generally used throughout the country," says Professor Sayre. "It is Just as effi­ cient as other fats for the same pur­ poses." caleulat similar of Railroade Earn $545 a Mile. Sixty-seven of the largest steam railroads earned a net revenue of $545 per mile during last July, an increase of $43 a mile over July, 1915. A sum­ mary made public by the interstate commerce commission shows net rev­ enues totaled $41,355,921, compared with $96,328,588 in July, 1915. The largest gains were made in the East. tloii, unt hits t stop It and marathon roe- Why the Cook Stayed. *®ow long did your last cook stay with you." 'i r ; > "Oh, about Ave hours." 1 "How did that happen?" lifts "The afternoon train back tp town has been discontinued." Qoing Far. • "Tour dollar goes farthest in this store." "Really r "Tea; our cash register Ja nearly half a mile loag.**~-Loaisvî a Courier" lovraaL BAYONNE FIGHTING WITH Photograph taken during one of the many pitched battles in the streets of Bayonne, N. J., between the police the oil strikers and their sympathizers. A cordon of police is seen firing on strikers hidden behind a nearby ^*1 ̂ •ARRIVE i jv- - *V,~ Jay Gould and his family photographed on their arrival in San Francisco from Honolulu, .where they had been spending several months at the former home of Mrs. Qould. During their stay Mr. Gould bought the birth­ place of his wife and gave it the name Polar Star. MODEL FOR SCULPTORS mmwjmmssEm ( The heavy French guns that are pounding the Germans on the west front being moved up to new positions just taken from the enemy. MACEDONIAN WOMEN MAKING ROADS Mra. Samuel Taylor Dorsett, daugh­ ter of a North Carolina mountaineer farmer, is the perfect model for a num ber of Junoesque figures which have brought considerable fame to the sculp­ tors who made them. Her figure, an inch less than six feet tall and perfectly pro­ portioned, waa reproduced by Paul Bartlett in the central figure of the new house of representatives pedi-* ment. The figure of Panama on the diplomas of award bestowed by the Panama-Pacific exposition is hers. She appears in the mural paintings of S. Y. Turner in the state capital at Madison, Wis. Mrs. Dorsett was reared on one of the sides of Mt. Mitchell in the "8apphire country." Much of |kgr life has been ifpent in the open. ^ ' cr. ' .. a :: An Insinuation. Mrs. McManus (in shoe store)--Oi'm afther wantln' t' look at some shoes fer th' kid. Salesman--Yea, ma'am. White ldd? Mrs. McManus--Dont yes get fresh, young man. Av coorse it do be white, aven if it is Oliish. •' BRIEF INFORMATION One hundred species of oysters have been classified by scientists. It Is estimated there are more than 200,000,000,000 board feet of merchant­ able lumber standing in the 60,000 square miles of public forests in the Philippines. According to a German investigator, the artificial lakes that have been built in ills country decrease the tem­ perature and increase the number of foggy days. TEUTONS M CITY ILUNOIS NEWS IMPORTANT SEAPORT OF CON- STANTA CAPTURED FROM ROUMANIANS. LOSS: IS ADMITTED BX JOES V t II II nr i jr "... * ^ * Both "Bucharest and Petroflrad An­ nounce Retreat of Armies in Dob- rudja--Tchernavqda, Key to Interior Reumania, 4e Threatened. ̂ Berlin, Oct. 25.--The city and port of Constanta on the Black sea has been captured by Field Marshal Mack- ensen, says an official statemena. The entire Russo-Roumanian army In the Dobrudja Is in full retreat northward, fighting desperate rear-guard actions. Troops 'of the central powers have crossed the railroad line running be­ tween the Black seaport , of Constanta and the Danube at a pqint to the east of Murfattar, the official announce- ment says. The fortress of Constanta was taken by German1 and Bulgarian troops. On the left wing of Field Marshal von Mackensen's army, the statement adds, the Germans and their allies are approaching the Danube town of Tchernavoda. Petrograd, vio London, Oct. 25.--The Russian and Roumanian troops in Dob­ rudja are continuing to retreat, the war office announced. They are offers ing stubborn resistance to Field Mar­ shal von Mackensen's army. On the Transylvanian front the Rou­ manians made attacks compelling the Austro-German forces to retire slightly in the Trotus, Oituz and Slanic val­ leys. On the western frontier of Mol­ davia the ' Roumanians are fighting stubbornly and with success. Bucharest, Roumania, via London, Oct. 25.--The war office announced that the Roumanian forces in Dobrudja had made a further retirement before the army of Field Marshal von Mackensen. Constanta was one of the principal objectives of Field Marshal von Mack- ensen in hio ennip&ign in Dobrudja. It is of particular importance by reason of the fact that it is the eastern ter­ minus of the only railroad between the Black sea and the Danube, which it crosses at Tchernavoda. Thence (the railroad runs westward into old Rou­ mania. Von Mackensen's new campaign in Dobrudja was begun only last week, on October 19, when anf offensive along the entire line from the Black sea to the Danube was opened. Constanta has been notably of use in offering a seaport and railroad en­ trance for Russian troops and ammuni­ tion sent to the aid of Roumania. Its capture cuts off the most convenient water route for Roumanian replenish­ ment, especially in munitions, of which the Roumanians have been reported badly in need. Possession of the en­ tire line would give the Teutonic al­ lies the easiest road to interior Rou­ mania from the southeast^ over the Tchernavoda bridge. Constants is Roumania's greatest maritime port and its harbot works have been extensively developed. The city was partially rebuilt when Dobru­ dja was ceded to Roumania In 1878.' It has bgen the base of the Roumanian Black sea squadron. The city before the war had a population of about 13,- 000. ,r. Scene inside the British lines in the n»ifein«, whom roek and making roads for the allies. are breaking is*- %t;,T L'S'*'- A man in California has fenced te his estate by chains connecting cement posts, made and colored to represent tree stumps. Ireland has 84,889 landholders hav­ ing plats not exceeding an acre, 61,730 who hold more than one acre and not more than five acres, 152,299 under fif­ teen, and 136,058 not exceeding thirty. It Is suggested In Paris that the Rue de Sofia In that city, named after the capital of Bulgaria, have Its.^, name changed to Rue de Serble in honor bf France's Serbian allies. ' . < INTERESTING BITS , Aa arm chair from which, the seat can be extended to form a crib for a baby has been* patented by a Baitt* • more woman. During the last year 79,251.733 short tons of sand and gravel, having a value of $23,846,999, were dug out in the United States, "Safety first" signs are placed in hemispherical basest so they right themselves in case they are knodqfP oat of place by passing vehicles. KILt "SLAYER OF SHERIFF Police Find Murderer of New' York _^Official Dead In Home After Bat­ tle With Posse. Whitestone, N. Y., Oct. 25.--After killing Sheriff Paul Stier of Queens county with a shotgun and keeping at bay a posse of police and depnty Sheriffs who had surrounded his home here, Frank Taft, sixty-five years old, was shot and Instantly killed on Mon­ day by one of the besiegers. The sheriff had gone to Taft'S home with an order for his arrest In a case pending in the supreme Court. Taft barricaded himself and shot Stler down from the window. Re-enforcements were sent and a siege of Taft's house'began. Four policemen and one of the deputy sheriffs were wounded by Taft .before he was killed. Sailors from the United States tor- pedoboat Henley, lying in the sound off Whitestone, lapded to nssist the police, and the bullet which* killed Taft came from an automatic repeating r^fie bor­ rowed from one of the sailors by Sergt. James Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald shot Taft after he had himself been wounded. Police Chief Is Indicted. Chtcflgo, Oct. 25.--Indictments nam­ ing Chief Of Police Charles C. Ilealey, his secretary, William Luthardt, and Charles T. Essig, secretary of the Sportsmen's club, were o)[ttalued on Monday by State's Attorney Hoyne in a whirlwind finish in his drive on al­ leged city-hall graft. Steamer Sinke; Sixteen Drown. New Orleans, Opt. 25.--Sixteen mem­ bers of the crew of the steamer L. Ed­ ward Hlnes, Including Capt. F. M. Mc- Keige, Jr., of New York, were drowned when the Steamer was sunk in the Caribbean sea, 45 miles east of B^e. Germane Wreck 22 Aeroplanes. Berlin, Oct. 25.--Twenty-two allied aeroplanes were shot down by the Ger­ mans during the last 24 hours, the Ger­ man war office announced on Monday. "Eleven aeroplanes are lying behind our lines," the statement added. Bomb Hits British Ship, Berlin (by wireless to Sayville, L. L). Oct. 25.--A British destroyer off the Flanders coast was struck by a bomb from a German aeroplane Saturday, the admiralty announced. All the raid­ ers returned unharmed. ,» Eighteen Months for H. T. French. New York, Oct. 2&,--Home;- T. French was sentenced to serve 18 months In prison for Impersonating a federal officer for the purpose of ex­ torting $15,000 from Edward &. Weal pf Highland Park, III. Report# of Happenini From Ail Parti of the State. HOUSES^ HAVE NEW Remounts for the Allies Attacked |g| New and Mysterious Malady Sim- _ iter to the Dread Hoefc® and-Mouth Disease. Chicago.--A strange malady, similar* in many respects to the dread huof- and-mouth disease, has attacked mor» than 800 horses, remounts for the ajb lies, which are awaiting shipment afc points ii and immediately around Chi­ cago. None of the animals have died so far, but the disease has interfered with their eating and drinking. Ail the horses have been Quarantined. , Utmost secrecy has been maintain*1# about the malady. However, the state veterinarians took hold, and lift­ ed the veil of silence which stoek-^ yards officials have maintained. "The disease is a peculiar one," s. ** Dr. O. E. Dyson, state veterina*-. "We have never had anything the it. It resembles the foot-aid-mlC ' disease among cattl£*i)^h<i-ses nefd the have that. I think thcuisease is form of rnstular stomatitis, and that j it is a genu u&ease. It is easily com­ municated. Just now we are bending , ;our efforts to stamping out the dis- J ease, rather than experimenting with cures." . -iy4'- Galesburg.--Oust Steller, a C. IK. Jk Q. Switchman, was crushed to dean here. . . • Peoria.--Martin Brophy, a paroled slayer who broke jail here, got druah ! and was picked up by the police^ t ^ Dixon.--Edward Di l lon los t both Of. his hands when they were drawn ln|t * a corn shredder he was feeding. %' > Lanark.--"I'll lie ninety-one ye&fe old If I live till next February," said William Griffin, in answer to a que®- tion as he seated himself In a barbef't chair. <Then he fell dead. . Freeport.--John Kubley, ^eleven, |l the first victim of football here. In a V grade-school game another play** jumped on him, causing abdominal In­ juries which resulted in death. Mount Carroll.--Cholera is killing great numbers of hogs in Carroll, Ste­ phenson, Winnebago and other coun­ ties, Charles Stakemiller, living near here, lost 80 head'in a week. «, V Savanna.--Plans are under way fOf the building of a hospital here. t#i' city Is a railroad center, and the need pf such an Institution long has been felt. Rock Island.--Five persons were fob' jured when an automobile in which they were driving struck a tree en the main driveway of Rock Island ar* senal. Washington.--Rev. S. S. Kauffma» of Chicugo delivered an ordination Ber-v tnon before the sixty-sixth annual co»i* vention <jf the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Illinois. Bloomington.--Work on the corn pal* ace Is progressing rapidly, convert­ ing the Coliseum building Into one solid muss of corn, grain and bunting. The decorations this year are mote elaborate than ever before. ( Galena.--A petition asking thdt the Great Western Lead Manufacturing company be declared bankrupt hftt been filed by Its officers. The com­ pany Is said to have* earned large profits formerly. Chicago.--John Gannon, known at "Old John," died at his residence, 1MB Chatham court. He was one hundred and five years old, was a picturesque character and had lived In the "aa> house" district for about seventy-five years, , Chicago.--The dollar mark waa touched by corn when .Not. 2 yellow sold at that figure In the sample mar­ ket here. This Is the highest price reached since 1S92 and was a feature of the cash grain strength which predominant in the market. Chicago,--Another piivate bank was thrown into the bankruptcy court here when depositors asked Federal Judge K. M. Landis to appoint a receiver for the bank of A, Olszewski, with liabili­ ties of $800,000,.of which $000,000 i$ deposits. Alton.--Proper recreation te on%gf the fundamental things that those hi social work should see Ls given their charges, Miss Amelia Sears told those atten.llng the opening session of the state conference of charities and cor­ rections here. Addresses along similar- lines were given by Raymond A. Hoy- er, social center director of the Lfc. Salle-Peru township high school, and Miss Anna May Price, secretary of the Illinois library extension commit sion. The relation of the church the moving picture theater was dis­ cussed by Rev. George C. Dunlop ot Springfield. • • ' „ . ^ Danville.--Dr. Raymond L. IIatfiei<!»* who attended Prof. John D. Shoop ha his recent automobile accident sontlk of here, was seriously injured at SU Elizabeth's hospital while operating aifc X-ray machine. He was thrown acrosat the room, but It Is not believed any bones are broken. ̂ Litchfield.--An organization ot ' usual proportions is being effected tar- be known as dairy day extension mover ment, which will have for its purpose the promulgation of the dairy Industry. An annual celebration, to be known as dairy day, will be held the first Thursday in October of each year. Springfield.--Rev. Robert Anderson.;>§ of Onarga was elected moderator or ' the Illinois syuod of the Presbyterian church at the opeuing session here. Rev. R. C. Tully of the Freei^rt preen bytery and Kev. J, C. Tracy of th* Mat toon presbytery were made tempo* v rary clerks. Chicago.--Five Indictments «etf returned against William II.. diver R* and James T. Paisley, private hunkera, on charges that they accepted ck»p*>sitp when they knew the three InstltuUwili which they owued were Insolvent Their hanks recently failed. Bonths of • <v "-i. >M M: