TRAIN JUMPING
BRINGSPENALTY
Railroad Man Barred From
Compensation; Boarding
house Board No Claim
An Interesting opinion has just
been given by Chairman Harry A.
Mackey, of the State Compensation
Board, in a claim for compensation
by a railroad man hurt alter jump
ing a train and who claimed that he
was on his way to his boardinghou.se
1 where a callboard was maintained.
Mr. Mackey lays down the law on
the proposition.
The opinion says: "Peter Kunin
was employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company as a freight
brakeman. In consequence of his
duties incident to his employment he
reported at the Shire Oaks yards on
May 19, 1917, went to the office
where he was checked off for the
day and in ""company \vith a fellow
employe started for his lioarding
house a distance of about two miles. ;
He chose to walk upon the tracks of
the defendant in making this trip, j
After walking a short distance a '
freight train passed going in the j
same direction as himself when he ;
and his companion jumped upon this
train and rode to a point near their
destination. While attempting to
alight from the train he fell under
neath the cars receiving injuries
which resulted in the amputation of
his right leg below the knee. He
urged in the behalf of his petition
for compensation that he was still in
the course of his employment, inas
much as he had started for his
boardinghouse where the defendant
toad an arrangement with the pro
prietress whereby for tho accommo
dation of her boarders, upon notice
from the employer, she would post {
upon a blackboard the hours whon
each employe was expected to re
port for work.
"We cannot find that this arrange
ment strengthens the plaintiff's case.
The defendant did not own nor op- ,
crate tho boardinghouse, nor was It i
located upon its property and the |
evidence established the fact that i
there was no connection whatsoever |
between the defendant and this j
boardinghouse. The claimant had '
finished his day's work. Had he \
been injured while leaving the prem- i
ises of the defendant because of tho .
operation of the defendant's busi- j
ness, in the absence of any proof
that he had been engaged in inter- |
state commerce, his right to com- |
pensation would be perfectly clear, j
In this case, instead of quitting tho j
employer's premises, he clio&e to use
its tracks as a highway and in addi
tion thereto elected to become a tres
passer upon one of its trains, for his
own convenience. He was not in tho
course of his employment and al
though he was injaiod upon the
premises of tho defendant becauso i
of the operation of the defendant's 1
business, nevertheless, his presence ,
at that particular point was not re
quired because of his employment by j
the defendant nor was the claimant
engaged in furthering the employ
ers business."
Soldier Bakers Turn
Out M.ilion Loaves of
Bread Daily in France
American Advance Zone, France.
—Two thousand soldier-bakers turn
ing out a million pounds of brcud a
day—this is the vast and animated
work one sees here at the Amer
ican Army held bakery, which sup
plies the staff of life to the Amer
ican Army in the entire area of the
advanced zone.
It is a bakery of tents, unlike the
ordinary bakery within brick walls
and with whizzing machinery, but a
held bakery right out in the open
air and open tields, half a military
encampment and half an industrial
city, capable of being picked up and
transported to another point irf a,
few hours. •
A city of tents marks the site of
this huge camp bakery, along the
couritry roadside about a mile out
side of the large cities of the advance
zone—nameless as are ah places in
tho zone of advance. The camp
stretches over many acres, lately
plowed ground of a big farm, but
now humming with the activity of a
huge productive enterprise. Above
the tents one sees countless smoke
stacks of the bake ovens, belching
black smoke, and in the open air
hundreds of soldiers, stripped to the
waist, bending over the huge musses
of dough, and hundreds more ma
nipulating the loaves in the huge
battery of ovens.
Although the camp is in tho fields,
yet spurs of railway have been run
alongside, and each day a huge train
goes forward so that every American
division and every camp along the
whole front gets its supply with un
failing regularity. The nam is near
ly half a mile long, with some iifty
boxcars loaded solidly from tloor to
roof, 20,000 pounds to the car, or a
million pounds of bread to the train.
Nearby another train discharges
huge stacks of Hour straight from
American wheat tields and milling
centers of tho West and Northwest. l
It comes in ninety-eight and 140-
pound sacka, of the best standard
grades, for nothing is too good for
the food of the fightingman.
The soldiers laboring among the
flour sacks have now to look
themselves like flour sacks, for they
have adopted a strange uniform in
which the empty flour sucks take the
place of sleeveless shirts. The sacks
are slit at the side for the arniholes
They are of ivugh white bagging,
much cooler, the men say, than the
Army undorshirt. Each sack has
flaming red and blue letters of its
brand, and so they work resplendent
with the whole range of American
flour brands in their flour sack
shirts. I
"George Washington,"
Former German Liner, I
to Carry Wilson Party
New York. President Wilson has
decided to sail on the George Wash
ington instead of the Agamemnon
when he starts for the peace confer
ence at Versailles.
Carpenters, upholsterers and paint
ers started In to-day to fit up the
George Washington for the presi
dential party and It was rumored that
arrangements had been made for a
three months' stay In European wat
ers. It was understood that the
President and his party would make
the liner their headquarters during
the peace conference.
The George Washington was form
erly one of the crack ships of the
North German Lloyd line. Experts
consider her much more seaworthy
than the Agamemnon.
MEXICANS KII.L HOSPITAL
Presidio, Tex. Through an Inter
national agreement between the
United States and the Mexican Gov
ernments. wounded and sick soldiers
of the Carranza army are treated at
the military hospital here. This nerv- |
Ice is of a humanitarian nature and it
is stated no recompense is obtained
1 or expected by the United States Gov
ernment for the friendly acts it per
forms for the people of a neighbor
i nation
FRIDAY EVENING,
I "The Live Store" Store Open Saturday Night • ''Always Reliable" I
Is the place you can get most for your We Had things pretty much our own way
gg money lt's all because we own thousands of Overcoats when we contracted with the manufacturers and we have
and by making our purchases so long ago we had the choice of the it pretty much the same now for we can sell these "Overcoats" at con
world's woolen fabrics at prices that would tempt any progressive mer- siderable less than the merchant who compelled to buy after the
chant who could use the enormous quantity of Overcoats we bought for advance in prices The way the "Overcoats" have been going from
this season lf you are in need of an Overcoat don't delay come HERE this "Live Store" for the past three weeks is sufficient evidence that
now. 1 Doutrichs surely is
[| The "Overcoat Fair" has been such a pronounced sue- • I
cess and been talked of so much throughout Pennsylvania that merchants
have taken the time to come to Harrisburg to see this exceptional merchant , 'I J ~
brought several employes along in order to get an inspiration—Wish you could have heard *
some of their expressions about this "Live Store," when they saw the Overcoats we had— I'
jP They felt fully repaid for their trouble and learned something besides.
| It will do you a world of good to come here tomorrow and see w/i j I
!how generously people spend their money at DOUTRICHS, because they know whatever #7 j | jj j
they buy must be right they don't doubt that we sell such a tremendous lot of merchandise for they see the ,/m im M l iSI 1
eager crowds who are in the store and figure out for themselves, that it pays to buy at a dependable store t ulmA ff|v9l \l\ j< 1
where the customers get so much satisfaction, courtesy and service with every purchase. j
1 Try The Dependable Doutrich Service j| 1
I■. Hart Schaffner & Marx Jjj
Society Brand Clothes )'
Boys' Overcoats j I
I Our assortment of boys' overcoats would make any boy JJMI |;f
& | anxious to own one the moment he sees them The boys us "stepping" i flSPli'
I since we started the "Overcoat-Fair" lt's a fortunate thing that we provided so ' fjK&jrJ 'W >
I well with large stocks so we could take care of their wants, There are very busy , SK^/^jajT 1
I days approaching, we sell nothing but useful gifts and old Santa gets into this "Live > ' i
I ' J Store" a great deal —lt might be possible that he will buy you a new Overcoat. j
HARRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH
NOVEMBER 29, 1918.
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