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Show fa 0 1 1st st stADVENTURERS : f { ADVENTURERS ' ' 1 a r r'r 'r r 'r9F ' ADVENTURERS'CLUB ADVENTURERSCLUB 2rr . : > . \ CLUB 9F 9Fs s + " X ! ! . \ vM ? } v\ v .ft . \ , : ' " \ , M .f f . . , t l " ' ; . ' \ . : rtz ii iii i/ i it ' , / ' ; t V # " . V - ( + J , . , i : ( "I I " ' ' f , . : ; . " " Y Y"I > ; ! ' < : - ) . , . fiJfk J ) . J . J . _ 4 } t lq lq"Buried "Buriedor "Buried Buried " or Ea Eaten ent ? " ' I ' I I IBy ? 1 By FLOYD GIBBONSt GIBBONSFamous GIBBONS - < " ' . t * . Famous Headline Hunter . , aOU ft a - . L7'OU L7OU VOU ' OU know , , boys and girls , , one of the most horrible things things'i things8nL 'i i 'ithat ' ? that can happen to a person is to be buried burled alive ahve . For a long longime " , inc ime me ! I thouO'ht thouOht thought ' it ti , \ as absolutely the most horrible hornble , but since since I've Ive I'veY I'vead ' I've011 Ive011 ' Y " sad ad d the Jctter letter I got the other day from Edward V.Mcister VMcister V . Meistcr Meister , I've Ive I'ved I'vead ' I'vei Ivei I'veiad ' ' t f I'vef ad ad d to change my mmdabout mindabout mind mmd about that . , of1 otI ( t ( , For ror I'or Ior ' Ed Cd d Melstcr Meister Melster MeisterVilS was \VilS VilS \ actually nctually In a n spot once , Inch b\ck b ck back ' \ In the winter ot of oft I t * , W5-07 W5 07 - 01 07 , , that was a lot \ worse orse than Just merely beln being ; : buried burled alive . . . ' ? As a matter of fact he was burled buried alive , , and his only hope In Inthose inthose Infl those terrible moments was that nothing worse would happen tohIm to ' 9 9h 9him ' 'f f ' h him before It walall wattall wal watt all over . For If Ed got out of that Improvisedtomb improviseds Improvised escaping,1 escaping1 s tomb of his . , In the one way he could Imagine himself escaping , . . It would only be to get eaten alive . And doggone It , , who wouldn'trather wouldn't wouldnt ' ( " rather be burled than eaten1 eaten ? 1 From the sound of that last paragraph you'd youd ' ' think this adventurea adventureappened adventureappened adventure a " * ippened appened In Africa Alrlca or India , , where wncre there are plenty of or old tombs to bevied be beI befled I ' ined fled vied In and plenty of llona Hons lions and tigers to do the eating . . ' I , / You Can Be Eaten Alive in a Civilized Land Land.I LandI . . 0 \ ' : . But It wasn't wasnt ' ' that sort of or tomb Ed got Into , and Itl1sn't It \ wasn't wasnt \\l1sn't l1sn't l1snt ' an I1nlm3l animal I1nlm3lat animalat animalI iat at was going gOIDg to do the eating . . No-Bd's No Bd's Bds No-Ed's Ed's Eds No - Ed's Eds ' ' adventure took place rightre rightI rightb right b i , ere ( re In this country-at country at country - at Lisbon Falls Falls , , Ualne Maine lIaIne , , , In a n pulp and paper pnper mill millat millat millg iat at was located thereEd there therer r . r Ed , , then a boy of sixteci slxtee'J slxteeJ sixtee'h sixteeh " ' ' , , had Just started working In tho the thex thas x ( , chip loft of the pulp mill . His Job was to see that the big hop.s hops hop . . ' supplyingA r rpers pers full of wood chips were In Qood good working order , , aJ'Id aJId apd ' and supplying | , A ' flow of to the . " ' " " below.I belowI a steady chips big "digester digester 'dlgester dlgester tanks down below . . 11 tf ; The hoppers that tbat Ed took care otere of ot \ were \\ere ere sere continually contnuaUy ! fiIHng-contlnu- fiIHng contlnu filling-continu- filling continu fiIHngcontlnuly fillingcontinuly filling - - - continu-J continu J ly being beln ; emptied . Huge convenor conveyor COD\e COD e \ or belts brought the U1C chips up from belowr belowd below id d threw them Into the tops of the boxesi boxesL boxes i L Trapdoors Were the Mouth of This Cannibal . . I It t . J JGreat i . Great trapdoors In the floor opened at nt Intervals Intervnls to let them fall faU intoe Into Intoie , ie e digester dIgester-big dIgester big - - big chemical tanki tankq filled with adds acids ncIds , , one of which \ hich stood stoodrectly stoodreedy rectly reedy rectly beneith bene1th beneath each of or the hoppers . . v * I e { eEd Ed used to have to get down Into the hoppers to shovel the thechips the4 the\ the \ ' 4 chips this way and that , and there was wa a bell that rang Just be be . . a afore fore the hopper trap wa was opened , to warn him to get back on theS the thesolid ; solid floor . . bisyt I > CdUS Ed Cd \ was \\US US vas kept pretty busy bUBY shoveling chips that first nIght-so nIght so night - so basy busy busyat basyat iat at at . , , , when he be lie sho\ sho sho\eled sho eled shoeled shoveled \ eled some ( ' chips 'hips hips against thearnlng the \ warning \\arnlng arnlng bell , he didn't didnt ' didn'triotice ' riotice tlce Itr itJ itIl ic It r J Il Ilr IlBUR r BUR El ? , t 1 1A < A Landslide of Chips Chip Wax Was Falling From the Hopper . J : ' > JThe ! The first Intimation be he had hnd that anything was wrong was when , , whlIe while whlIeMIDg whiler whileLading whileinding r MIDg Lading on a bed of ot chips , , directly over the trap , the door opened wItht with- with withwarning - - t warning warningIt It was a big pile of chips Ed was standing on That saved " . , [ him from an Immediate plunge Into the acid vat below . A As It Itwas Itwas Itwas was was , , , he felt the ground fall from under him as a ton or so offinely offinely of offinely finely mashed wood fell from beneath hts his feet Before his hl bodyi body bodywent i , went through the trap , though , the door closed . . For Jj"or Jjor " the moment he heas was \\as as sas \ sate safe from the vat . . But In the meantime , , aidsllde a . dslIde adelide of chips " was "as as falling from Crom the sides of the hooper hopyer hopper , burning burying bur ) Ing him . . e t Smotheror Smother or or r Sizzle-It Sizzle It Sizzle - - It Was Ed's Eds ' Choice . r J hisIn Ihc The he rush rnsh of or chips from front the sides of the vat covered him np up to his hisn JIn In He lie struggled to toYork work \York York \ himself free , , but he couldn't couldnt ' vao\e vao e moe moue mo\ mo \ \ e a muscleand muscle musclet muscleand muscleand t and nil all the tbe time more chips , , pouring in from the convenor conveyor conve , } or belts , were ling wereling on his unprotected headEd headEd head headEd Ed screamed for help , but nobody heard him . . He Ho cried andshouted and andshouted andshouted shouted again and again as the rising tide of wooden splintersmounted splinter splinters splintersmounted * mounted to his , p6se-hls p6se hls pose-his pose his nose - - hit eyes . Dust got Into his nostrils andchoked andchoked and , hIpsaway chipsaway choked him , but"he buthe but ' " he couldn't couldnt ' move a muscle to brush those chips , chlp hIps away from his faceHe faceHe face forJp forIp ; He began to find It difhcult dlfhcult difficult to breathe , , and nnd his hl8 repeated shouts for forp Jp Ip were mutlled munted to a meaningless mennlngless gurgle . . ? , ' hopperd Ihcre There here was nas vas only oneay one way \\ay ay say \ Ed Id d could think thlnl . of ot to get out of ot that hopper , , d that thnt would nould \ ould send him torn to a \ worse orse fate than \ was as already bis his Any min min- mine minis - . is e now , the trap trnp would be opening for another bunch of or chips , , and this thise thisne e , Ed Eel would go with them them-down them down - down Into a vat full of sulphuric sulphurlc to be beten ten alive nllve by the ncld acids s biting sting stingEven stingEven Even a Youth Sometimes Loses Hope . , tl thetl And he began to wonder then , , which It would be-suffocntlon be suffocntlon be-suffocation suffocation be - - suffocation In the thepper thepper tlprier pper prier , or a moie mole mOl e agonizing ngonlzl n ; : death deatt In the big digester tanks 15 feet belows below belowspot S Sspot spot where he now restedThe rested restedThe almostht + The chips v/ere v ere were / up to the top of his head now-Ed now Ed now - Ed was almostcompletely almost almostcompletely ht htcompletely completely covered . . A kid of sixteen will cling to hope for a long himlose time , and It has ha\lto ha lto hasyto \ to be a mighty tough spot that makes him lose it . . But Ed lost hope then , and gave himself up for lost . . voiceouting Then , even as he had resigned himself hlmselt to fate , , be he heard henrd a man's mans mnn's mnns ' voice outing belowt . It was sas \ as Wallace Wnllace ron Fowler ler , , the foreman , . warning wnrnIng the men belowI belowr below I r t ; to touch the hopper , , and summoning help to the poor kid burled buried over bead head overbead overhead in the chip bo-c bo c bog bo - . I Wallace Wnl1ace bad had badonm had"ome /-onm onm "ome ome some " / - Ul up ) to the chip loft to see how Ed was getting on , , d ond found him getting on very badly Indeed . wheny'd It ' took tool . a lot of hard work worl . to get Ed d out of that tbat chip bor box , but when y'd yd finally dug dub him loose , he quit tils hl.s hls his . job then and there "Maybe Maybe there"Maybe " ' I'd Id ' take tahe a chance and nnd face fnce death for my 10 dollirs dolhrs dollars a week week"rs weekrs " , " 8 s Cd Ed Ld . . "But But " III I 1 II 11 be darned It If I was going to face fuce two deaths again , tor for foramount toramount tory amount of money monlY . " + ' e-WNU e WNU 4D-WNu 4D - O - WNU Servic Servlco Service * |