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train leaving five minutes ahead of time, causing him to miss an engagement and lose big money— but the Defendant proved the train was 23 hours and 55 minutes late.
Discarded box cars were used as depots along the entire road, and one oldtime agent— formerly stationed at Linton, we believe— has written a book on Twenty Years in a Box Car. The trains were ridiculed by people along the road, who claimed that the train went east one week and back west the next.
Strangely enough, we Indiana high school boys were in at the birth of another of the great American achievments— the automobile. Historians tell us that "in nearly every village and town in America, especially in the Middle West, the local mechanical genius devoted his whole being to this new device. ... In many respects this was the American spirit at its best— a feverish ferment of intellectual curiosity, mechanical ingenuity, and cleverness of adaptation/'
An Indiana boy could certainly not be blamed for taking pride in the fact that on July 4, 1894, Elwood Haynes of Kokomo gave his newly developed auto a successful road test and eventually was known as the "father of the automobile in America." The new contraptions certainly stimulated American humor and gave us all something to joke about. One of the earliest cracks was the alleged comment of an astonished Chinese: "No pushee, no pullee; but, allee samee, go like hellee."
Again I am driven to the conclusion that I chose a fortunate time to grow up. When the great World's Columbian Exposition opened— delayed a year in its purpose of marking the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus— I was "thirteen going on fourteen." I had a big bump of curiosity which Father had done a great deal to stimulate. He helped me to understand what we saw at Chicago. I couldn't possibly overestimate what the whole experience meant to me and to millions of others. The extravagant words with which Mark Sullivan has described the event seem to me justified when he writes:
The World's Fair at Chicago in 1893 was one of the most far-reaching stimulants to men's imaginations America has ever seen. It was the largest, the most generally attended and, in practically every respect, the best of the many America has had. The mood it evoked in the average American was one of awed exhilaration.
The fair made Americans conscious of having traditions and stimulated us to travel as never before. As Mark Sullivan has pointed out, it "caused nearly every person of the twelve millions who visited the Fair to go home with his soul enriched, his mind expanded and more flexible." What an experience for a boy about to enter high school that fall! Nothing ever gave my mind such a boost.
One special experience, out of the ordinary, I now know gave me a definite point of view. Father and I attended several sessions of the