The Chandler Tribune (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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(i ride into New York on a freight
*-*■ train is a heinous offense. The law
says so. Kailroad companies sug-
gested the law and secured its enact-
ment. They prefer to handle their
passenger traffic in the regular way.
Fares cannot so easily be collected
from passengers who are secreted
around the trucks. Besides, freight
train travelers have gained the repu-
tation of being uncertain persons.
They sometimes steal small things
that rich persons would not think of stealing. Yet,
against them as the law is, patrons of the box
cars pour into New York at all seasons o
i ear. .
An Ohio boy. one morning last winter, was n
court for heating his way into the metropolis. He
was only sixteen years old, and rather small for
his age His coat fitted him a little too soon and
anxl4rease was on it. Hadn't had time to slick
up since he was pulled from the trucks. S ill l e
waR cheerful. Answered the court s questions as
if it were a Pleasure. Told all about the folks at
home, and why he left home.
He and another boy craved
the big life. They wanted to
be in the midst of something
and he something. Only, the
other boy had a little hitch to
bis ambitions. He wanted to
go to Chicago, where he had
an aunt who, in an emer-
gency. might be induced to
provide food.
The boy who stood before
Jlis Honor waved his com-
rati* away.
"I told my chum.” he said.
"that I would rather be in
New York, broke and hungry,
than be in Chicago with a
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OKLAHOMA NEWS
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meal ticket at every restaurant
right there. I paid my fare as far as 1 could and
heat it the rest of the way."
The court, some years back, having broken into
town in substantially the same way, did not hear
the boy's story without feeling. During the re-
cital, the Judicial mind had gone back to that
other day, now long gone, when lie, a penniless
lad, had said good-by to his native town So lie
said to the boy:
"My son, let me commend your Judgment. Any
boy who will ride the trucks to New York, in
preference to going to Chicago and living with
his chum's aunt, has the rigiit spirit. 1 think this
town needs boys like you, and 1 am going to let
you stay. Discharged.”
Nothing can illustrate better than this incident
the lure of New York. Perhaps no other city ever
had so large a percentage of tile world's popula-
tion bluffed. A bigger word than "bluffed” is
needed here, but it does not come. The point Is
that the city has the power to cast a great spell,
and casts it. She makes no comparisons. To
make comparisons would be to admit that there
are others in her class. She says only: "I am the
wonderful city—come.”
The call goes nortli to the edge of the frozen
world; east to the point where the east is west;
south as far as a white man lives, and west till
the west is east. Not everybody comes, hut every
body hears. Millions would like to come, but
can't. Everybody would like at least to see the
siren city. And, untold thousands do come. One
railroad thinks nothing of dumping 100,000 stran
gets into New York In a day
The reason for so much coming is plain. Ev-
erybody likes to be mixed up with a success. The
bigger the success, the better. New York ts uni-
versally regarded as a big success. It has the
tallest buildings, the richest men, the whitest
"White Way" that ever cut'n streak through the
night, tind some of the most prodigal dlsbursers
of the circulating medium that ever dazzled any
community.
In a variety of ways comes the message to
mix with this great success—to become a part
of this wonderful bigness. Perhaps the newspa-
pers and the stage do the most to spread the lure.
New York date-lines appear over the most impor-
tant Items of news. There seems to be only one
place In which anything worth while can happen.
Has Mr. Morgan bought an old master or formed
a new trust? Where did he do it? New York
Has Mr. Rockefeller paid his annual visit to the
office of Standard Oil’ Yes—a New York dispatch
says so. lias Mr. Carnegie slipped in the icy
park and sprained his ankle? What park \ by,
Central Park, In New York, of course. And, when-
ever an Italian opera singer, a Russ'an rev du-
tl.mist, or an Irish patriot comes to this conn -y.
where docs he land” At New York What < : y
sends out the news? New York.
As an advertiser of the glories and splendor of
this great town, the stage Is second only to the
press.
Twenty years ago, a Nevada youth went to see
a show in Carson Citv. Th« show was that old
/YjTRYUJD <3QUAR>JE
I left my chum classic, "The Two Orphans.” In the cast were
extremely few persons besides the orphans them-
selves, as railway transportation and board were
bolh high. But the show made up in scenery what
it lacked in cast. One scene, In particular, ap-
pealed to the chuckle-faced youth. It was a scene
in which the two orphans were sitting on the
steps of Trinity church. The snow was drifting
down over their thin shoulders. Broadway was
thronged with pedestrians. Horse-cars flew along
at eight miles an hour. Nobody looked at the or
phans. But the orphans, silent as little sphynxes,
looked straight ahead—straight up the street.
There was Broadway! The infinite skill of the
scene painter seemed to tiave carried the street
clear to the horizon. Nothing but buildings and
people and people and buildings till they blended,
at the finish, into an indistinguishable haze of
paint
The Nevada youth could hardly keep his seat.
The painted scene had fired his mind with an
intense desire. Ho must bo off to New York.
All during the show, which he saw not, though he
looked straight at the stage, he kept his eyes
riveted ro the splendid visla of Broadway. The
whole thoroughfare seemed to him to he a treas
ure-house of opportunity. And, at dusk, when the
lights begin to blaze up along the "(Ireat White
Way"—ah, it Is all Just as he had dreamed it to
be! All grand! All surpassingly great!
But, kind friends, he dines at no lobster palace
that evening. Nor do his magnificent Jewels glis-
ter in tile "horseshoe crpscent" at the opera. With
the money that ho can spare for his evening meal,
he couldn't buy a lobster's tail, and a drygoods
box in an alley would fit him better than a box at
the opera So, he dines poorly for sixty cents at a
side-street restaurant, gets a glassy eye from the
waller for nol giving a tip, finds a room In which
there is no light by day, nor pure air night or day
—and goes to sleep to dream of home and mother.
The next morning, he Is awakened by a mis-
cellaneous assortment of noises, ranging frmn(
elevated car wheels to horses' hoofs. As he puts
on the shirt that mother laundered for him. his
heart takes a sudden lurch back to the old roof
He calls his heart back. He is in New York to
make good It Is up to him to do it. And, by Hip
time he is ready to go out to hunt for breakfast,
his nerve is all back
With nothing to do hut get a Job or starve, he
ooks for work. He hears that motormon are
wanted on the subway. Half afraid to offer his
services, he nevertheless decides to do so. On the
\ -y ■ - the company's offices, lie considers all of
the -• niton's glorious possibilities. Never in
the .......... aid lie dure dream that some day lie
m ein make a battery of motors bite off 2.000
horsepower of electricity and snatch eight loaded
cars through the subterranean night.
The good news goes home to the old folks that
their boy is going to run a train in the New York
subway. Oh. if the boy could only see the min-
gled sorrow and pride that light up his mother’s
eyes when Rite reads the letter. It breaks her
heart to have her boy away, but It mends It to
know how emphatically he lias made good in the
JYRVV YORK WATT#
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big town, doing to run a
train driven by electricity!
Going to run a train hearing
fifteen hundred human be
ings, each of whom lias put
his life, for a lime, in her
son's keeping! Such confl
dence as the company must
have had in her boy to In-
trust him tflth so grave a
responsibility. Oh, it is such
a comfort to her to know
that her son. whom site has
loved since she felt his first
heart beat; for whom she has
toiled and suffered and de-
nied herself—it Is such a
comfort to iter to know that
he lias been recognized at
what site knows to be Ills
true worth, by the most won-
derful city in the world
A year later, what rejoicing
there was in the little* home
when the hoy wrote that he
was coming back on a vaca-
tion. Mother could hardly
read the letter, she was so
excited. Kan to the fields to
tell father Ran back to get
dinner. Could hardly cook—
___burned the eggs to a crisp.
something she had not done
in thirty years, and had to fry some more. In such
a hurry to put on her “other dress” and run over to
Mrs. Pratt's to tell her: "My boy is coming home ”
The boy came home. When lie took mother in
ills arms and held her for a full minute, she couldn't
speak. All choked up. So glad to see him, she
couldn't say a word
TO HAVE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Lawton Will Be Ten Years Old on ths
8th of August, and Will Celebrate
Lawton, Okla.—On August 10 Law-
ton will be ten years old, and the city
is going lo have a birthday party. The
tlrst steps toward making the anni-
versary the biggest event of its kind
in the history of southwest Oklahoma
will be taken at the regular meeting
of the chamber of commerce. Law-
inn will make no special celebrulion
of July 4 l his year, leaving that date
open to surrounding towns and con-
centrating the city's efforts on the
tenth birthday party.
COLLUSION STOPPED
School Land Commission Cancels Cer-
tificate of E. F. Fauchier
The school land commission has
made It plain tHat no collusion be-
tween buyers and lessees in connec-
tion with the sale of school lunds
will be allowed by cancelling the
$5.60; Ardmore and return, $7.05; Ter-1 certificate of purchase of Enos F.
roll and return, $8.20; Clinton and re- Fauchier to a quarter section in Kay
turn $9.15, and nil others in proper- j county and the lease of Daniel Dondan-
tion at n fare of one cent per mile - villc to the same land. The hoard
each way. Tickets will be on sale al ! found after a thorough investigation
all railroad stations on May 14, 15 and! of the matter that Fauchier and J.
Hi good for retir'd June 5, with the' H. Knelling had paid Dondanville $40#
privilege c.r extension until June 15. not lo exercise his preference right
bv deposit of ticket with validating ‘"'d keep out of the bidding on the
agent and paving fifty cents extra. '»nd, and held that the state had been
"Your commander lias perfected ar-: defrauded by their action Fauchier
rangemenis with the Rock Island road bought in the land at $6.:,000 the up-
to operule a special train or trains for Poised value, and made affidavit at
the accommodation of persons desir- '>'» same time that he was buying it
tug to visit the reunion. This special - solely for himself and for his own use,
train will start from Sayre on the ' although he says that lie informed the
western border c.r Hie state of Okla sales superintendent that Koelling wan
hmna and will pick up coaches on its in with him on the deal,
way PHBl.'* WILL BUY SITE FOR HOME
CATERPILLARS STOP TRAIN
U. S. V. REUNION RATES
Commander Hailey Issues Order Giv-
ing Information
McAlester, Okla.—L). M. Hailey, ma-
jor general commending the Oklaho-
ma division of the United Confederate
Veterans, has issued the following
general order:
“To all Confederate organizations in
the state of Oklahoma:
“Your commander has the great
pleasure to announce to you that he
has secured through the passenger
departments of the different railroads
in the state, the lowest possible fare
rate to Little Hock, Ark., on account
of the Confederate reunion to be held
there May 1U, 17, and 18, coming, the |
round trip fare being from the points
herein mentioned as follows: From
McAlester and return, $4.95; llolden-
ville and return $5.85; Oklahoma City
and return, $7.35; El Reno and return,
$7.90; Lawton and return, $8.15;
Chickasha and return, $8.20; Enid and
return, $8.90; Coalgate and return,
Millions of Tern are Infecting the Vi-
cinity of Tulsa
Tulsa, Okla. Eastern Oklahoma is
in the grasp of a plague of caterpil-
lars and millions upon millions ot \
these insects are creating havoc, es
pecially along the transportation lines j
in the vicinity of Tulsa.
The situation is graver
in Kansas a
than that which existed
few years ago.
For a week farmers and others had
been reporting the invasion of their
properties by millions of caterpillars
which are covering their trees and
houses and small plants. The climax
was reached Friday when a passen-
ger train and in terurhan electric ear
were actually “held up” by the pests.
A passenger train on the A. V. & W.
railway between Tulsa and Enid was
approaching Mannaford, west of here,
when it mowed down innumerable
thousands of caterpillars. Their bod
ies were smeared over the track iu
such a manner as to actually stop
the train.
Several minutes were lost in
Lawton Lodge of Elks Orders Purchase
of Lot on Which it Has Option
Lawton, Okla.—The Elks will buy a
site for a new home for that lodge, if
no unexpected hitch arises. The
lodge has an option on the northwest
corner of Seventh and C streets.
A special committee composed of J.
Conner, M. Koehler and Captain Rob-
possibly | erts, will meet at Mr. Conner’s office
and complete the arrangements for
the purchase.
Steel Mill For Sapulpa
Sapulpa, Okla —The last obstacle to
the completion of the extensive steel
mills at Sapulpa has been removed,
according to the promoter, VV. C.
Wells, and work on the building, near-
ly completed, is to be resumed in a
few days. The lust papers have been
forwarded in connection with an east-
ern loan which makes the opening pos-
sible. The mills are expected to em-
ploy 500 men.
Lumber Company Sued
Sapulpa, Okla.—Alleging that the
trying negligence of the Fayetteville Lum-
ber company, for which he was man
to make headway by after In .his city, was responsible for
ing the tracks, then
backed up and with a running start
slid througii the mass of slime that
covered the tracks.
And, when she did speak, the
first thing she* said, as she looked up into his brown
eyes, was: “Oh, my boy. how pale you are!”
He was pale. He knew it. Subway air makes no
red blood-corpuscles. Kills some of the red ones
that exist. Nor does the electric light of the sub
way brown the cheek as the sunlight browns the
cheek of the farmer. All the year that he had
been away, mother had carried in her mind the pic- i (hig Hprlu(,
tore of her farmer boy. Never had dreamed that j me|ll ,g ,m lool
her farmer hoy would come home with a grayish-
white faoq Didn't need to say she was shocked.
Looked it. The boy caught the message and laugh-
ingly replied
"Oh, mother, nil city folks are pale."
During the week that he remained at home, the
boy was kept talking Father and mother con-
stantly asking question... Seemed to mother as If
she couldn't ask questions enough. Wanted lo get
first-hand information about everything of which
she had read.
Six months nftey he returned to work, ids mother
had an opportunity to see for herself, just how big
was New York. A telegram told her that her tioy |
had been hurt She and father found him in a hos- j
pttal, with his head bandaged until they could bare ;
ly see his eyes. At the end of his run. he had
tried to crost the trarks lo catch another train hark
and get to -.inner more quickly. Didn't see a train
running is the opposite direction, far struck him. j
Kicked up for dead. Seemed to have a fractured
skull. Fortunately, did not. Reviv'd in the hos-
pital and would get well.
Oh. but the mother’s heart was glad when she
heard the ties, instead of the worst. Glad until she j
and fattier went lo the boy's room. Not his room j
In ti.e hospital, hut his room in a lodging-house |
Glad until si"- saw how miserably he had lived. A
dirty street A dirty house. \ dirty hall A cheer I
less room Little light. Had air. A skimpy bed A |
Wolves Proving Plague
Tulsa, Okla.—Ti.e destructive gray
wolves that three years ng^t created
a reign of terror among the farmers
and oil field workers near Glenn Fool,
ami killed much stock. Including chick-
ens pigs and calves, tire now showing
up in great numbers ill Hie rattle dis-
tricts northwest of Tulsa. Consider-
able damage lias been done by them
and an organized move-
ment is on foot to exterminate them.
G. e. Tenney of the big Sligler ranch,
says he has killed thirty wolves in
the past thirty days.
Still No Returns
Oklahoma City, Okla. The Oklaho-
ma state board of election commie
sinners is making a great effort to se-
cure a complete canvass ot the vote
cist iu tin* railroad amendment elec-
tion, Hut despite the election is a mat
t *r of almost two week's history, two
counties Osage and Fontanclip have
nol yet sent in official returns. In
both counties the chairman of tho
county hoard of election commission
ers
a fall he received and which lie sayg
rendered Him a permanent cripple, Jo
seph F. Crawford has brought suit
against tlie company in the suat of
$25,000 for damages.
Asks State Reward
The Logan county commissioners
have adopted a resolution asking Gov
ernor (’nice to offer a suitable reward
and as liberal as possible for the appro
liension of Hie persons who attempted
to burn the court house there on the
night of April 26, the building formerly
used as a stall- house The commis-
sioners under the law are not permit
tod to issue rewards. A reward also
is being made up by private subserip-
t.ion
Wreck at Hobart
Hobart, Okla. A split switch at tiio
north end or the local Frisco yards
caused the Frisco through freight
train No. i;;!5. running from Enid,
Okla, to Vernon, Texas, to leave the
track.
Oklahoma City Lad Lanas Plum
Oklahoma City Launcelot I.ingen
teller, the 11 year old son of Nelson
Lingenfelter, editorial writer of the
has‘been absent- Vroin'The county Dully Oklahoman, has been appointed
to be a pafco in tin house of rapreseu
talives at Washington.
seat, preventing the certification of
the official returns. Several telegrams
Noted Indian Woman Dead
Tulsa, Okla. Mr*. John Ruck, an
aged Indian woman, said to be the
mom peculiarly built Indian in old In-
dian Territory, died from dropsy at
her home in Rixby, southern I uh-u
county, Sunday. She was but four
feel and two incheH tall.
Cattle to Oklahoma City
own picture, stuck in the edg
Her boy could afford no hotter plan
pay was only $2.25 a day. That is. his pay from
the company was only $2.25 a day. Tho lure of j loud* ot corn
New York made up the rest that was needed to In- I shipment to Oklahoma ‘ \ly.
duco him to stay.
Such is life for millions in Now York. Not life 1 Didn't Want Divorce
as the newspaper dispatches describe It. Not life Muskogee, Okla Alive V. Mmtiglt
ns the stage pictures It Life as It Is. went Into court here Friday and had
A few draw colossal priz‘-s. A few more draw annulled
coed prizes. But if only those should come tc. New
York who can earn a better living here than they |
can elsewhere a handcar, running once a day, would
almost bring them In. Ninety-two per cent, of the
population have not drawn enough prizes to enable
them to own their own homes. Yet people come.
Come from every state In the Fnlon. Come from
every town In every state-—every hamlet. Come
from Italy, Norway, Sweden, Turkey—come from
everywhere
First Alfalfa on Market
Hobart, Okla. Kiowa county's liret
cutting of alfalfa was placed on the
market Iasi week and commanded top
prices. Owing to the backward spring
ttie stalk was not as long as usual, bill
tliis condition only tends to shorten
III'! crop and make its grade higher.
Sunday Closing at Hobart
Hobart, Okla.—Commencing May 7
the local postoffice will he closed on
fraved cnmiorpane. Not a decoration, sav- her
J of a mirror 1 Ferry, Okla. George Lumbers,
to live Ills I prominent citizen and stock raiser of Sunday, according to an order reteiv-
BlacU Hear, Okla., brought in two car- ed by Postmaster Gillette tills week,
ot nini fed -i Monday for Tin- general delivery window will *•-
decree of d vorcc she had
'secured from her husband a few weeks
ago. She is an Indian woman and a
short time ago ■ old a part of her al-
lotment to Fortner Governor Haskell
tor $21,100. Immediately after that
she sued for a divorce and secured it.
open for a short, time,
Gets Federal Position
Sapulpa, Okla.—Walter K. Perrett,
an attorney, formerly of this city, ha*
received a federal appointment Iu the
Philippine service and has departed
for Ihe Islands.
Retailers Elect
McAlester, Okla The McAlester
Retail Merchants' association met oa
As tho divorce, under the law of litis Thursday night and elected officers as
state does not become absolute until follows G M. t'haney. president; J.
six months lias elapsed, and Ihe wo-! h. McAlester, vice president; Miss
man and Iter husband appeared to- Carrie Thomas, secretary and credit
getiiei, the court gtanted tliu request manager, \V. 11. fuller, treasurer.
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