Show F who na was who IN by lui louise M 1 comstock CASEY JONES come all you roun dera it if you want hear bear the story atory told bout baut a b brave r ave engineer casey jones was th tha rom dera derla name on a six eight wheeler e ler he won his bl tame fame AS CASEY CASE JONES whose heroic death in a railroad collision near vaughan miss in 1000 has been celebrated in a long ballad boasting i some 3 0 m e six or eight different and variously q quotable u ot versions john luther jones halling hailing from cayce pronounced casey cabey tenn has gained a unique sort of immortality ue ile la Is a popular hero of the day when rall railroading knew a lost in the th e modern transportation system a giant of a man swarthy black headed notable as a teetotaler and a habitual and melodious whistler in 1000 1900 jones was engineer on tho the old illinois central cannonball running south from jackson miss one night jo lewis one of casays buddies was too ill to answer the call from the roundhouse to take out his train and casey just in front from a long run offered to d double out for him the train was an expedite freight run as fast as a passenger train what wh il t went wrong nobody knows dut but th the e crash was sudden and complete a and nd casey though he be saved the life of his fireman slim was himself killed A negro wiper named wallace saunders poured out his bis grief for the accident jn in the original version of the song A professional song writer playing the show house in jackson picked it up in the railroad yards polished it off and gave it to the world in its present form california JOE I 1 H ateno E RO or of more than one dime novel i thriller nevertheless there once was wag a real california joe gen george A custer for whom he once served as chief of scouts writes of him in my life on the plains as follows he was known by b y the euphonious title of california joo joe no other name seemed ever to have been given him and no other name ever seemed necessary but custer was wrong for joes other and real name was moses E milner ile he was born bom in kentucky in 1820 1829 ran away from home at the age of fourteen to seek adventure in the west and during the next twenty five years found plenty of it as d a prospector and miner in california montana and in the black hills or of south dakota as aa in an indian fighter and as a scout and guide tor for army officers during the indian wars in the sixties and seventies milner got his name of california joe thus one day in 1802 when lie he was riding into virginia city mont some inquisitive strangers asked him where he was from alliner who was an inveterate joker replied prom from california where most of the gold Is next they asked him his name and resenting their curiosity told them it was joe all right they replied well just call you california joe if you are from that state and that was the name he bore to the day of his death in 1871 1870 when he was assassinated by an enemy near fort robinson neb THE BLOOMER WITH the prevailing tendency toward slender figures and closely fitted garments the bloomer has today lost much of its former standing as aa a womans comans undergarment but its aunce and certainly its original spirit L amply carried out today in many feminine costumes from lounging pajamas to riding breeches and one piece bathing suits all be speaking the emancipation ci of ecman woman to further which mrs amelia bloomer some eighty years ago bestowed upon this piece of wearing apparel I 1 her good name in the day when legs were still limbs mrs bloomer startled the community at lowell mass by appearing one day in full trousers gathered in at the ankles worn under EL a skirt shockingly abbreviated to a midway between ankles and knem knee in vain did the valiant crusader point out that the costume was more decent than the customary layers of petticoats and certainly more sanitary than skirt which dragged in the street in vain did she argue womans comans right to dress comfortably in her little publication the lily the new york tribune made editorial comment on and bloomers the entire country itry took up the controversy eager feminists here and there adopted and dropped it under a deluge of criticism and mrs airs bloomers name became irrevocably attached to the garment she fostered tn in 1865 mrs airs bloomer herself abandoned the costume because she explained pla ined of the embarrassing havoc a high wind played with the short skirt I 1 0 1132 1932 western newspaper NePa vr union uin |