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Show "Kimbark Belt line" It was thirty feet. Jong and Its light of way cut the four angles of the sitting room in the home of W. C. Miller In Kimbark avenue. ave-nue. One engine a nickel plated one four passenger coaches, two freight and two flat cars comprised the tangible tan-gible assets, and the invested capital was $33.on. The motive power was electricity. The road bed was soft carpet, ballasted with toy blocks, tin horns and rag dolls. Willie Miller, the five-year-old son of the head of the house was the controlling con-trolling genius and the only person , who took any of the profits. He was general manager, director of freight and passenger traffic station master, ticket agent, flagman, conductor, mo-torman, mo-torman, brakeman and porter. All these high and low offices and skilled and unskilled employes are now In tears, for Willie Is a hard loser. He has gone sobbing to the Woodlawn police and told them of the loss of his dearest possession. "My wholo railroad is gone," he cried at the police station. "I went to dinner and they took it out of the window. My papa built it and he worked work-ed an awful long time at it. The engine en-gine was the best, but I want the cars back, too." The police have set out in search of tho thieves. It is thought that boys who envied Willie's proud position in the railroad world are responsible for the theft. THIEVES STEAL LITTLE I , BOY'S ENTIRE RAILROAD j Chicago. May 28 Thieves In Chica-i Chica-i go stole an entire railroad yesterday. The Btoleu road was known as the |