Word: brakeman
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Jimmie Rodgers, brakeman on the Southern Railway at Meridian, Miss., his birthplace, sang in a nasal, caressing voice each morning as he strolled to work...
...morning a commuters' train wound across the rolling country outside Moscow. Its 21-year-old engineer had a record of twelve reprimands for misconduct. Its fireman had been discharged twice, arrested once. Its brakeman had been reprimanded for drunkenness. Coming into a station named Fraser, the playful engineer ran past two stop signals. A stalled train stood dead ahead. The roistering brakeman's brakes failed to brake. Result: 19 dead, 44 injured. Last week a Moscow court sentenced engineer and brakeman to be shot dead...
...mile-and-a-half bob-sled run down the side of Mt. Van Hoevenberg. In the two man bob-sled (boblet) races, the best Europeans were a 20-year-old Swiss sophomore at Zurich University, Reto Capadrutt, who steered with ropes instead of a wheel, and his elderly brakeman, Oscar Geier. Best U. S. bobbers were J. Hubert and Curtis Stevens, of Lake Placid who, apparently beaten by a slow first run, heated their runners with an acetylene torch to make them go faster. Steersman J. Hubert Stevens set a new course record (1:57.68), beat the Capadrutt boblet...
When buck deer fight to the often as not it is starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side...
Died. Alfred Pearce Dennis, 62, ranking Democratic member of the U.S. Tariff Commission; by jumping off a cliff into the sea; at Bailey Island, Maine. Professor, night watchman, brakeman, merchant, writer, he was a colleague of Woodrow Wilson in the faculty of Princeton University, later went to Smith College where he became the friend of a young lawyer, Calvin Coolidge. He was an investigator in Europe for the Department of Commerce under Secretary Hoover, was appointed by President Coolidge to the Tariff Commission, which he once described to the Senate as a "debating society...