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Canadian railway salaries have
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past leer years. This has ap-
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and in those off the islands at its
month including St. Ignore, run
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the,2,329 'miles from Honolulu to
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previous time for the voyage and
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for any other Pacific liner except
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..Decreased' 50.3%,
Actual Gross Ton Miles
.,Decreased 17.2%
Payroll- ' of Engine and
Train Service Employees
and Telegraphers ,
Increased 31.3%'
Train Miles ." Decreased 22.8%
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PIPE -ORGAN PUMPING`
!While the compre'hensive elaotrifice
atioe program of the past decade has
undeniably brightened thte hues:. of
toil -racked matron's and stirieulalted
the, balance sheets of the ,p'u'blic. nitil-
ibies, it has relegated uranyl three-,
honored
ree-
hono'red insbitulti'ons to the upper cup-
board shelf with the ,p"altenit wick
trimmer. Ahd not the least, by far,
of the ind$i'spen!salbrle fa'oters of an-
other ;day tlhat have been swept into
obs!aleslcence by the wave of ampered�
progress• is the humble but ue naiiibh-
ed profession, o:f„p•ipeyotlgwn pumping.
The organ p'uimper. was a figure in
this time. He Was just a boy, im-
mature .and . awkward', , whose '}la'th'er
and m'dther sincerely 'believed' his
church affiliations would- some dhy
l'ea'd to sparkling accantptisthmentta in
the real'rn of music if nit in the fields,
of theology—beliefs t'hat'' were uitie
Mately well shattered..
(Suliabl com'fort came to the pumper
on location. He wrested'' Ms pittance
and prestige 'from the 'orga'n at no
trifling coat. After a 'heavy snow, he
couldn't be out waiting to flip the
speedy, cutter of the rich townsman
who ,was mentioned in every annual
crusade against high check -reins. He
missed numero'u's' piratical explortin:g
parties when the crocus ,was in ,broom
and during vacation he forswore
many a good rou'sin'g game of d•u'ck,
on the rook.'
Every -service irked him to some
'extent, !though !his 'toughest tests
came on Easter 'Sunday 'and 'Ohitld-
ren's Day. Ole these .occasions he was
often granted the assistance of an el-
tennate to spell him on the handle;
'but the relief, althio'ugh welco'm'e from
a !physical standpoint, ,was ,financially
odrovs, because he was compel'led to
spirit ,his fee.
91.as tlh
w ea
t s.•k
of the pumper to
maintain the wind in the bellows of
the organ. IHe did chis by means of a
h'an'dle that .projected through a long-
ish aperture in the unpa'inited pine cas-
ing at the side, in the rear. On some
sntral'1• instruments the 'handle was ant
in front and Was protected by a
screen around. whish the pumper .could
peek anti make faces at a'mu'sed play-
mates out in the' congregalti'on. His'
were ,cramtped quarters, and dusty--
cheerless
usty-cheerless and cold in ,winter, 'hat and
stilling in summer, 'Cha'rge'd' by the
organist and'ather authorities with his
grave responsibilities, he bent over,.
meowing his arms and body up an:d.
dawn, straining to keep !his gauge at
a*pointbelow which complete de-
moralization Of .tlhe service and pro'b'-
able loss of his job wortal'd. result. He
was bidden entirely from the view of
the churchgoers. And though he Was
required to push aside the red da-
mask curtain and sit outside in 'a
chair opposite the organist 'through-
out the sermon — an obligation he
shirkednow and then if he was able
to ,drop from a window or sneak out
a back door unobserved- the received
scant attention,
None knew of his struggles, for it
was- a general theory, supported by
mast church' officials, that the music
of the organ would 'be 'sheared of
Much of its dignity and grandeur if
the .bobbing, perspiring .pumper yea's
extpoised.,
'The sele'cition of an organ pumper
rested with the board of trustees', the
president, of an auxiliary society, or
possibly ,the pastor or p:rie5t, and was,
in a measure, hal-Leary. ,Boys who at-
tended Sunday school' only a, few
weeks !before the . free boxes of can-
dy were distributed by an uncom-
fortable ,Santa Claus at the Christmas
exercises, or just bong' enough to fight
for a chance to ride the baclk steps
of the carryall on, the .a'nnu'al picnic
at Fishers Lake, were ineligi'b,le..
Boise counted' some. 'Bust ase out-
standing indication of determination
and aib•ili'ty to sustain the wind when
the ecstaltic organist pulledo.u't
the stops to show off his' or her praw-
ess was the principal demand.
It
was especia'l'ly' required that the
pumper arrive early, Tong before the
;last 'bell' had 'been' tolled, for without
him the doatology or the chants
Wautl'dtn'k'"h'ave' boomed oiit to' muffle.
the offense of the members who carne.
in Rate.
eat his side. was a .gauge, a , lead
weight o.n a string, to inform hien ,of
the, status of 'the wind: Above a half,
way notch the reservoirs conta'ine'd
plenty of air for all leasoar'ab'le pur-
pases. Excellent loft ,genenabsllnip was
;displayed in .keeping the indicator
atbove this mark. Just' beliolw it there
was no immediate danger, ;brut farther
down tihiere . was another notch ---e'
gianfng..-s.car on a-noitch hacked with
the jackknives ,df'successive pumpers
to streslsits.signd'fioantce=anti there-'
abouts hovered catastrophe. Weil, ,time
pumper knew his notches !
Deep down in the heart of every,
pumper,`
.art all biin'es dhittiai'g his acs'
hivepump'in'g career, there lu'rked
mischievous d'esire;,.'b'orn of s
various
causes, to allow the indicator to drop
below the danger p'oin't. ani wfeck
full-1t'hlrbated' '.anldhetn or a slhrill so -
prang sato in the agonized screeches
of the high pipes and the guttural
grunts of th'e low ones as the wind
supply expired. Ne Pumper ever lived
w'he dr not feel_ this' urge,
Remuneration for organ pu'mp•ing
'vatted with commetniities and :den'om-
ena+tions, Some puimpers worked with-
out pay, force'd by pious parents or
'the econdmfcail custom of church
.leaders to preserve a strict amateur
standing. Other ,pum'p'drs earned more
or:'less handsome ,monetary rewards.'
Alt Slt. Jlohn's' Episc'op'al Clhmrch in.
Boston, Harry V. 'Wade received
fifty cents a Sunday, aind a similar
payment ,vela's made to Burt R. Tho-
mas in Cleveland. Apparently Chlis.
was a metropolitan rate, alth'oug'h
Clarence Bludinigton X'elil'and, tus!s:litng.
in the loft of the Purest Avenue Pres-
•by!t'eni'a'n Churoh in Detroit, and Ed-
gar A. Guest, who shared his job
with his brother, received ,but fiwenr
ty-Ifive cents.
James Coluzens, United States sen-
arbor from M'ichtygan, received five
dollars a year for the full fifty-two
Sundays, pumping in the Presbyter-
ian 'Church' at 'Oh'atihalm, Ontario.
(Mord ,M. ,Pettit, in the ' Episcopal
Church alt , •Eaton R'apid's, 'Michigan,
where his father was the pastor, re-
ceived twenty -(five cents 'a week; and
after two years, when the .bent so far
over the handle at a critical sptot in
an ora'tcnio that he burst his grous-
ers art the seat, the members of the
choir hipped tin land tb!oulght !himhis
first suit af clothes with long ,pants.
IE. S. Evans earned twenty-five cents
in' the °hurdle olE the Epiphany at
(Lexington, Ken'bucky; and George
W. Welsh, fohm'er lieutenant govern-
or of Michigan, d're'w fifteen cents at
Grand Rapids.
IA standard wage of twentty-Ifuve
cents was paid in Three Rivers, Mich-
igan, for two senvitces on Sunday,
choir practice weekly an Fridley
'nights and any'oan'tattas that might.
bob up during the' year. In Cleveland
churdhes the regular pay was also
twenty-five cents, but an 'allowance
of ten cents extra was made for fun-
era'l's, weddings and .rehearsal's. Will
-Hays, the movie czar, was,rewarded
with a tenicent wage in Sullivan, hn�
(liana, but the custom of the church
provided that :he put the dime in the
Sunday-selecedl co'llecti'on, r so his net
'profit .was neglligtilbl'e.
7t was George B. Db!lliver, new a
wea'1!ttyy publisher, who .was 'pumping
the organ in the lilaptist church at
'B'att'le Creek, Mliohigan, along with
the .m'inister's -son, The services had
!begun one Sunday and the congrega-
tion hard -risen to sing ,B'l'est Be the Tie
That 'Bands, S'u'ddenly, from. the reg-
ion cif the l'o'ft,, above the 'reveren'ti'al
voices, came the saun'd of a crash of
splintering woad fo'lllowed by a he:avy
thud. Simultaneously, almost, the or-
gais wheezed, grunted and expired.
The singing, very naturally, ceas-
ed; and in the ,ominous Silence the
sounds of a brisk conflict, with fists
stniking solidly on flesh, could be
heard. The minister, sensing the
cause, disappeared through the cur-
tain of the pumfper'ts sanctuary. In a
mom'en't he emerged, in eadplanabion,
holding the red-Ifaced, kicking, pant-
ing, dis'h'eveled Draliiver boy by the
scruff of the "neck, Thrusting him a-
head, he propelled him down' the
'aisle of the church, to the suppressed
delight of the parishioners, andpu's'h-
ed him fbrcibly thr'ou'gh the front
door. Doltibv'Qr, it developed, was the
head "Pumper•, The minister's on was
his 'assistant. But the'son was tend-
ered only, ten cents as helper an,d he
resented the arrangement, .:He fre-
quently voiced. his disa'piproval Of the
policy, and on this Sunday his pest-
ering forced Doiliver's patience
through the breaking point, and Dot-
liver, um'mliadlfud of the consequences;
smashed him{ on the ja'w, A ch'ai'r was
craslhed and the melee .was well under
way when the minister • ,intervened:
But, undaunted, Dldltiver took.another
pumping jab at the Eipiisc'opal
church which he held until miade a
member of the-cleoir,
And there was Henbert Mc;Kiinn!ey,.
who held' the pumip'er's 'bench in a
church. at Sault Sainte Marie, M'i'chi-
gan. H!e was paid fiffty cents a week, a
staggering sum in those day's, and his
place was liberally coveted, I1 was
so desirable, in fact, that one' young,
men wiho stood next in line for ap-
po'i'ntment sought to trick McKinney
into 'disgrace. He sneaked : into the
chlundlt early an d gre'as'ed' the floor
under the handle, MelKianey, uesus-
peobiaa'g; came in later with his usual
alalcriity ,and was 'prod!uc'intg this cus-
aoumary high' grade amid' iulfald'iib,le
brau,d 'o'f air, wtlpen„ near tlhe 'close o'f
the d!oxolo,gy, his feeit s'lifp!p,e'd avid the
went down with a trem'endon's clla't
ter. Before he could regiaine his com-
posure the organ had coughed a tem-
p.orary' requiem and the service was
seriously fractured. McKinney .ribs,
covered the c'au'se of his slip, pointed
it out to the pastor, .and an o!ffitcial
investigation was held then :and eleere
confession was sus!pen'ded from Sun-
day school' for three weeks. '
IProbalbly the mast discouraging in-
cident was encountered in Council
Grove, Kansas, by E. W. Davidson,
now associated withan electrical re-
search society, in New Yonk City.
'Davidson was puin'ping for a Christ-
ian Endeavor meeting et the Presby-
terian church When the li'g!hts flick-
ered and went out. A practical. youth,
he left his handle, procured a kero-
sene lamp and investigated. The
liglhtityg system' wars fed by gasoline
Vapor generated by a force pump
and Davidson, judging from organ
camnpta'ints, -logically thought a lack
of pressure had' caused • the .dOfect. He
pat his lamp down, worked' tlhe pump
energetically and :then removed the
cap from the gas reservoir. This move
1u' never revea'l'ed until' many years
afterward, for, with the cap, came a
squirt ;of -alt. 'In an instant it ignited
and all was afl'am'e, including - young
Mr. Davidson, He .rusihed out, yelling,
threw his blazing coat from him and
galloped five blocks down the m'a'in
street to a shed where a two -wheeled
hose cart was sheltered. He had just
enough strength left to sound the bell
ata'rm before he collapsed. The re-
sponse was slaw, and by the time the
hose was laid the braze had gained
su'dh headway that the townspeople
could only stand by anti watch the
structure burn to the ground.
Davidson was not censured for his
important' port in the disaster—large-
ly because he didn't admit his error.
The turnover among 'pumpers was
quite heavy. Statistics gathered over
a wide ,territory show that the aver-
age period of Office incumbency was
about three months. Ln spite of the
desirability of the place, ex'pul'sions
for infractions of the rules of deport-
ment wereq uite• common
'Organs were tuned about once
every two years, w'h'ere fund's were
available, and the appearance of the
tuner was considerably more than a
casual event. At these times the
tuner, after a canferen'ce, hired the
pumper to work by ,the hour at a
rate which never exceeded fifteen
cents, and was more •likely to he ton.
The English sta'nda'rd for this tabor,
was eighteen pence a day.
iWlhi'le the tuner scr'am'bled around
in the organ, grunting and cursing
in a most unconventional and un-
onthod'ox manner, the pumper was
expected tb stand over the handle,
prepared at any s'hriif w'histl'e or rauc-
ous shout to suck the life-giving wind
into the bellotws, .P'i'pes were remov-
ed and cleaned' with a long swab,
stops were taken out and corrected,
pedals were ex'aimined and aligned,
stickers were adjusted.. I,t was exact-
ing work, and the 'dusts accumulated
since the previous tuning were stirred
up by the activities in dense clouds
that enveloped the, scene.
The tuner, who considered himse'lf
as high an artist as 'the ,greatest • ar-
ganist, was extremely temperamental.
His demands were hard to meet. At
the and of every ten-hour day that
invariably ran into unconnpu'ted over-
time, the pumper was inclined to toss
his job without ceremony. 'B'ut the
thought of a heavier pay day than he
had ever known spurred hint on. He
bore the abuse meekly, sweltering
along up to requirements; bruit none
was more exuberant than he when
the tuner, after a final ,sonorous paean
that tested every pipe, pron'ounc'ed
the job complete„ and, with exasperat-
ing sIownebs, finally paid off with
crumpled bills extracted from a 'four-
clasp pocketbook.
TH,E BEST OF AUD!LENCES
The 'best audience -T have ever had
in; my life isthe radio audience, stays.
S. IP. 'B. ' Why? (Because' You never
distract me by coughing or shuffling
your, feet, and .you are tremendous in
numiber. !Every speaker is at his best
before a full house --and a silent one.
I am arbnormaily sensitive to atmos-
phere. Latecomers, whisperers, ear- ant of it than you would if you saw.
ly.'ieavers, and nose -'blowers, have the the face behind' the voice. After my
power to macre me lose completely. the lectures I get applause, from girls'_
thread of my argument. You are .schools (by far my most appreciative
II
ideal in. that respect, .!For all 'know nces), 'warm soon tan eous, ex.hil.-
you may be feediing noisily 'while I orating ap'pla'use: SometimesI get a
am talking. II can't hear.yeu, and 'few letters. But after talking over: the
what the ear doesn't hear the heart 'microp.hdne there is someth'in•g much
better than fast -fading applause, there
doesn't grieve over. Even if
Yost is_ a deluge of letters, the'beginnings
switch me Off in contempt I go on
talking as 'ha'ppily as if you 'were still of friendships 'based on something
listening. What is 'much stranger ,is 'far more permanent than physical
the fact that I get.a better sense of, contacts, and that is common ylo
your' appreciation through the micro- La'sms.' You, .shyest of the shy, , lone -
I do on a platform;' Your (test of the lonely, pour 'themselves
waves of sympathy arid, enthusiasm outo to m, e; because there _ is same
travel back to me just as East as my nizefiord in in voice thin h you' . You
words travel tri 7°'''' 'arid 1 ran `gauge as akin to something in you. You
,much more easily in the studio' what and I have jmst- dtiscovered spiritual
your reactions are to my talk than 1 'adventures, joyousese ,exciting, and•
ever can when I ani confroiatin we can undertake these together, you
g you
delightful sensation feeling andandI,
in the flesh, '" It is a, ling sadd. and you In your babbling -over let -
(sympathy' ters to ane, and I in my bubbling -over
over the ether, When, I am on the talks to, you. It is all very straiarge
but ;anitaxin Itsatisfying,
platform .your attention is diverted gs y
from my voice and m m,. " l can at last say i�"le 3 books
a •
Y eseaSe tobean.
on
physical irrelevancies', the fact that me trying, is pla platform, to
le books icl life,
rte Is
sli,pp'isag- arottud 'id` the cornet- of the publicoiuyoUrnp i t say all my bite;
my neck, that my, front studs are `wla you, 'on yow• :pats, not only catch
about to burst or have just done so..i'h^haat 'I am say'in'g, btuth a yosh r -
Tihe culprit was found and on ';hisIth'at`my hair is not so dark,, as into e. by the warmth of your re-
The
you like s•panse:
hair' to be, that my mouth is croaked;
that 'I am younger or older than you
.expected.
Like the cuckoo and the nightingale
and unli'ke the model Victorian child,
I ought to the heard and n'at seen. Wi-
thout my 'face •I might make a for-
tune. • Do not imagine that I am ogre- r`
is
h i T 'have, v , in my time; even been
called handsome. Not by many People,
it is true; by my mother and'. :7 'am
quite sure there was somebody else,
'but `I have forgotten her name. What
I am trying to convey is that not my
body only, but anybody's body dis-
tracts you in'bhe flesh. To me, there-
fore, the microphone is a god -send.
In a moment of time you, a private,
strongly individual, 'highly sensitive,
shy„isolated, lonely' you, a million shy,
lonely, isolated yours (as the Irish
say) are, brought into .direct .com'mun-
tont with me, without any 'd'istractin'g
element whatever. You and I escape
into a rarefied atmosphere where we
San not • suly talk together in quietude,
but also understand one another per-
fectly (I am presuming that your
wireless set •func•tians adequately): We
are more than cut Off from the rest of
'the 'world. 'We do not even have to
overcome the initial self-conscious
ness and nervousness that would pre-
vent our 'personalities from emerging
'true 'and 'clear on a first introduction
in the flesh.
IDxtcing a life spent almost wholly
in speaking in public I have never
descended from a platform or s'a't
down after a speech without a sense
df deep self -d'issatisfa'ction.
'That is not what I meant at all,”
"that is not it at all.”
Illhere are many reasons for my
failure to .say what 'I mean 'before a
visible au'dien'ce. iI'o read a speech
is intolerable. But +I have so wretch-
ed a memory and so complete a lack
of logical or even coherent order that
without notes I meander and scram-
ble about haphazard, 'Puke a 'man who
has lost his track over the mountains;
and can•not'rega'in it. To read my
speech 'I ant .ashamed. Even to refer
to notes puts 'me off my stride: They
destroy my flow, which is fairly 'facile.
When 'I talk on a platform 2 must
walk up and down, I must 'fling my
arms about, II must act. 'I have to
rely entirely on my brain's impulse.
When I am talking to you I .have
every word , written down in front of
me, though it doesn't sound so to you.
I do not have to think what I am
going to say next. II can concentrate
solely an convincing you,
Then, more often than not, alt the
'energy 'h'as gone out of me 'before I
lbegin a public lecture. "There is the
long and tiring railway journey, niee't-
ing host and chairmen, listening to
reasons why the 'hall is not full. The
weather is 'against me, 'Teeple will
not leave home on a night like this";
there are counter -attractions, "Tim a-
fraid we can't expect many to -night.
You see 'the Amateur 'Dramatic....";
there 'is an epidemic, 'People are so
afraid of infection"; there is always
•soanething.
:Ultimately there is the audience,
'Eagerly 'I scan this sea .af strange
'faces, looking in vain for you, you
'who understand so perfectly what it
is I have in mind Ito say. tI can't say
anything to these people. T listen to
the chairman. IHe is declaiming gro-
tesquely ina'c•curete things about me.
Why is it that no one can pronouuce
any name correctly? -0n the other
,hand, why should he know? Who am
I, anyway? II rise like a beaten puppy
all the spirit whipped out of me. .I
do my best. 91 ,I catch your eye all
is well. Usually I dare not even look
to see if you are there, and after
fighting for an h'our to rouse some
enthusiasm sink dawn as cxihaus'ted
as if I had been playing a'fierce game
of hugger,
Do not misunderstand me. S like
lecturing. There is only one th'ing I
like better, and that is talking to you
over the microplhone.
'But not even an overcrowded hall is
so exciting as the microphone, for the
disembodied voice has a magic qual-
ity about it th'a't makes a better conlfid-