Show W H ht hili H WHO WAS 1 WHO 1 by louise kl al Coin comstock stock l l H hl l CASEY JONES come all yoa if you want to hear the story toll told about a brave engineer casey jones was tho name on a six eight dent wheeler he be won his tame fame A A S CASEY JONES whose heroic ix death in a railroad collision near miss in 1900 has been celebrated in a long ballad boasting some ax six or eight different and variously quotable versions john luther jones hailing from cayce pronounced casey tenn has gained a unique sort of immor lie ile was a popular hero ot of the day when railroading knew a lost in the modern transportation system a giant of a man swarthy black headed notable as a teetotaler and a habitual and melodious whistler in 1000 jones was engineer on the old illinois central cannonball Cannon bail running south from jackson miss bliss one night jo lewis one of case casays s buddies was too ill III to answer the call from the roundhouse to take out his long train and casey just in from a long run offered to double out tor for him the train was an expedite freight frught run as fast as a passenger tram train what went wrong nobody knows but the crash was sudden and complete and casey though lie he saved the life of his bis fireman slim was himself killed A negro wiper named wallace saunders poured out his grief for the accident in the original version of the song A professional song writer picked it up in the railroad yards polished it oft off and gave it to the world in its present form 17 v v california JOE EIZO of more than one dime hoovel ll 11 novel thriller nevertheless there once was a real california joe gen george A custer tor for whom he once served as chief of scouts writes of him in sly aly life on the plains as follows ile he was known by the euphonious title of California joe no other name seemed ever to have been given him and no other name ever seemed necessary but custer was wrong for joes real name was moses E milner ile he was born in kentucky in ran away from home at the age of fourteen to seek adventure in the west and during the next nest years found plenty of it as a prospector and miner in california montana and in the black hills of south dakota as an indian tighter fighter and as a scout and gulde guide for army officers during the indian wars in the sixties and seventies milner ner got his name of california joe thus one day in 1802 when he was riding into virginia city mont some inquisitive strangers asked him where he was from milner who was an inveterate joker replied from california where here most of the gold Is next nest they asked him his name and milner 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 lie bore to the day of his bis death in 1870 when he was assassinated by an enemy near dear fort robinson neb V V V THE BLOOMER the prevailing tendency WITH toward slender figures and closely fitted garments the bloomer has today lost much of its former standing as a womans comans undergarment but its influence and certainly its original spirit is amply carried out today in many feminine costumes from loun louigi ang ng paja pajamas bias to riding breeches and one ode piece bathing bat liing suits stilts all beg peaking the emancipation of woman to further which mrs amelia bloomer some el liev years rears ago bestowed upon tills flits of f qi apparel parel her hei glod name lu in the days when logs legs were stilt still limbs mrs bloomer startled the community at lowell mass by api p poring e r frig one day in full trousers gathered in at the ankles worn andera I 1 skirt shockingly gly abbreviated to a point midway between antles ankles and knees in vain did the vallant valiant crusader sad er point out that the costume iva wa s s calore more decent than the custom ary layers of petticoats and ly pore more sanitary than skirts which dragged in the street in vain did aid slie she argue womans comans rf right ait to dress comfortably in her little publication T the h e lily the new york fork tribune made editorial comment on bloom eram and bloomers th the e entire country county took up the con trove isy SY ea eager er feminists here and there adopted and dropped it under a delu deluge e of criticism and mrs bloomers name became irrevocably attached to the garment she fostered in mrs bloomer herself aban donad the costume because she explained pla ined of the embarrassing havoc a high wind played with the short shor skirt 0 1232 1932 newspaper union |