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He—Yeah, and don’t the groom look Stunned?—Sixth District (CCC) Gazette. ...»'' U& NO FALSE NOTES "That singer is a placid kind oi chap.” “Yes—keeps the even tenor of his Railroad* Borrow Under New York City. Travelers Rarely Realize Whirlwind of Activity in Pennsylvania Station prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. ALTHOUGH it celebrated A its twenty-fifth anniver sary in 1935, the Pennsyl vania station in New York still is the largest in the world. Walk around it and you have tramped half a mile, with no more sight of train or track than you would encoun ter about the Vatican or the Louvre. The station really is an eight-acre platform, with a mammoth super structure, bridging the Manhattan mouths of two tunnels. Some trains run through these tunnels for seven miles, from New Jersey to Long Island, under the Hudson and East rivers, pausing beneath the station, but never emerging into the day light or night glow of New York city. Northbound trains pass the most complex traffic comer in the world, for above the train tunnel, at Her ald square, in the order named, are the Sixth avenue subway, the Hud son-Manhattan tubes, the street-lev el bus lines and the Sixth avenue elevated. Imagine an airplane over head, and it would be perfectly feasible for six vehicles to pass that intersection at one time. Half Million Tickets a Month. It takes a Staff of 76 men to sell tickets at Pennsylvania station. In a normal month they sold 553,204 tickets for $1,595,280.60. The months of Easter, Christmas and Labor day raise that volume by a third or more. Printed tickets ready for sale, 150,000,000 of them, are stored in a room where they are guarded like notes in the United States treasury. Some of these tinted, water marked slips are worth a hundred dollars and more when stamped. Beside each seller’s grilled win dow is a rack from which he flicks out tickets with familiar noncha lance. These racks are mounted on wheels and have folding fronts and locks. Each seller has his own rack and key.^When he goes off duty, he rolls his rack back of the line, locks it, and deposits the key in the cashier’s safe. The tickets are charged out to him and he must return the unsold quota and the money for those he sold. Selling: Tickets Is Final Step. The station cashier’s office is like a bank. You may have noticed that when you pay for meals on a dining car you always receive crisp, new bills in change. The cashier must have on hand these “fresh” bills for stewards. Some $3,000 in “ones” are enough five days of the week, but on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays he must have a stock of $7,000 or $8,000 in ones alone. Selling tickets, however, is only the final step in a series of events. “When does the next train leave for Topeka, Kan.?” “What connec tions do I make for Chicago?” “What is the fare?” Only a small fraction of such questions are asked In person at the conspicuous information booths. Normally 20 clerks are on duty at a time answering some 700 tele phone calls an hour. The peak of this year’s Inquiries exceeded 1,100 in one hour before Labor day. Forty-four clerks work in shifts to dispense information. If you watch the smooth operation of the soundproof telephone room not once will you see a clerk con sult a timetable. They are too cumbersome and tell too little. Foolish Questions Come Often. Instead, the information chief works with card-index experts to compile all information about sched ules of all railroad, airplane, and bus lines and all fares on visible card files. One file gives name of all im portant golf clubs on Lpng Island and the nearest railroad station to each club. It takes poise, tact, resourceful ness, to answer some questions. As examples: “Do I have a berth all to myself or do I have to share it?” j “What hotels in Washington have swimming pools?" “My husband left last night on the B. and O. Where is he going?” “Have you any hay fever fares to New Hampshire?” i.“Wbat time,d£J£>t Ztq'49 to Mr. Abram walker’s funeral at Toms Ferry?” “Should 1 dress and undress in my berth or in the men’s room?” When you reserve a ticket by telephone you call one of the busi est telephone numbers In New York city. In addition to outside lines, 130 branch ticket offices in Manhat tan, Brooklyn and Newark are con nected with the central reservation bureau by private wires. In a spacious gallery from 15 to 20 clerks sit before a series of aper tures like old-time village post-office boxes, except that these cases are mounted to move along a track from clerk to clerk. In the boxes are piled the reser vation cards, the kind the Pullman conductor always is fingering lust before the train leaves; in each pigeonhole are marked-up cards for 60 days ahead. Lights Govern Conversation. Before each clerk is a series of ten red lights and ten green lights. The green lights denote a ticket office call; the red lights an outside call direct from a passenger. A green light flashes. “Lower ten, K7, 3 p. m. Chicago. Today. Ticket 7,492. Right.” In very different tone and tempo is the next response to a red light, an individual who must have expla nation of price, type of accommoda tion, daylight time in summer, and a “thank you.” No switchboard operator inter venes in the 10,000 or sometimes many more calls that come in daily. An automatic selector, worked out with the New York Telephone com pany engineers, routes these calls from ten lines out of the selector room to ten "positions" at the "card tables” in the reservation bureau. ' If one operator is busy, the "se lector” shunts the call to another, lighting the red or green signal to denote its origin. In an average 24 hours 63 clerks are employed in shifts to make some 8,000 reser vations for berths, chairs; compart ments or drawing rooms. What They Leave on Trains. Perhaps the high light of "human Interest" in the station is the lost and found storeroom. There are stored and ticketed some several hundred different items. The articles recently included a basket of spectacles, skis, two cats, a bootblack’s outfit, books in six languages, a pair of crutches, three sets of false teeth, a restive terrier, dozens of umbrellas, tennis racquets, more than twoscore wom en’s coats, piles of gloves, a fresh sirloin steak (sad harbinger of do mestic recrimination) and $20,000 worth of bonds about to be returned Dy special messenger. In subterranean corridors, far below the station tracks, may be piled hundreds of pigeon crates. As many as 3,200 crates of homers have been shipped in a month, as far as a thousand miles, to be re leased by baggagemasters for races back to home lofts. Other strange shipments come through the station for baggage or express cars—baby alligators, pedi greed chicks, honeybees, game, thousands of crates of "mail order eggs" and bullion cargoes accom panied by 25 or 30 armed men. Saturday nights from 75 to 80 trucks race with their loads-of Sun day papers to catch the baggage cars attached to the “paper trains." One newspaper’s early Sunday edi tion goes to press at 9:10 p. m. and is loaded on a train leaving at 9:50. If the driver gets held up by a single traffic light the statlonmaster must hold the train. Handling the Mall. Some 150 carloads of mall are handled In and out at this station ev ery day. It the sacks were piled and hauled along platforms passen gers would not have space to board trains. They are dropped through trap doors beside mail cars where conveyer belts carry them to huge separating tables. There men assort .the bags as they pour in and pitch them into chutes for other belts that run be neath the street to the city post office adjoining, or to belts that connect with outgoing trains. Around special tracks,. to which passengers are not admitted, where mail cars await loading, are spy galleries from which postal inspec tors, unseen by the workers, may watch the operation. Nearly 150,000 sacks of mail a day, about 1,500 trunks and other checked baggage, 2,200 pieces of hand baggage checked in parcel Sfayfci., a-,. ■cel lockers, from 80,0.. m pieces of parcel post—these are some of the operations that must not obtrude upon passenger comfort • LJE R E is something 11 practical, something sweet, and something or namental for your mid summer wardrobe. Simple As Toast and Coffee. At breakfast time you need the crisp shipshape style of the little model at the left. He’ll proffer that eight o’clock kiss with alacrity and fervor when you greet your hubby in this pleasant surprise. Make it of a gay tub-well cotton for greatest usability. Lines That Live. For luncheon in town, for cut ting up touches on the Club ve randa you can’t find a more fetch ing frock than the one in the center. It combines sweet swing with nonchalance. Never has a de signer given more flattering shoul der and waist lines than these. “And what about the skirt?" you ask. Obviously it has the most | finished flare in town. Chiffon, ac etate, or sports silk will do justice to both the flare and you, Milady. And If Autumn Comes. It’s a help to have a dress like the one at the right around for it gives that feeling of prepared The Measuring Cup. — Grease the measuring cup before meas uring sirup or molasses and the ingredients will not stick to the cup. • • • Sauce for Meats.—For a snap py and delicious sauce to serve with meats, mix one cup apple sauce, % cup horseradish and one cup whipped cream. • • • Burnt Saucepans. — If the bot tom of a saucepan is burnt, sprinkle salt over it and leave for an hour or two. Then add a little water, rub well, and when washed out the marks will have gone. • • • For Washing Brooms. — Allow, two tablespoons of ammonia td half a gallon of water, which should never be too hot. Speed is essential as the glue which holds the bristles in place will melt if allowed to rest in the wa ter for long. Rinse the brooms in clear cold water and hang up to dry. Never allow a broom to rest on its bristles on the floor. Hooks should be high enough for the bristles to clear the floor. WNU Service. Household m ® Qmliohf ness. Prepared in case a cool Fallish day or evening is' slipped out warning. Then, too, it long before cool days the rule rather than the exception. So it would seem a logi cal as well as a fashionable step to set about making this elegant model right away. Be first in your crowd to show what’s new under the fashion sun for Fall. The Patterns. Pattern 1354 is designed for sizes 34 to 46. Size 36 requires 4% yards of 35 inch material. Pattern 1307 is designed for sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 40 bust). Size 14 requires 3% yards of 39 inch material plus 7 ft yards of ribbon for trimming rfs pictured. Pattern 1324 is designed for sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 requires 3% yards of 39 inch material plus Vi yard contrasting, and 1% yards of ribbon for the belt and bow at the neck. Send your order te The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 247 W. Forty - third street, New York, N. Y. -Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. jp Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Foreign Words and Phrases <• Ab hoc et ab hac. (L.) From this and that; confusedly. Per aspera ad astra. (L.) Through trials to glory. Maintiens le droit. (F.) Main tain the right. Lucri causa. (L.) For the saka of gain. O temporal O mores! (L.) O the times! O the manners! Glfassenti hanno torto. (It.) The absent are in the wrong. Ignosce saepe alteri, nunquam tibi. (L.) Pardon another often, thyself never. II sent le fagot. (F.) He smells of the fagot; that is, he is sus- < pected of heresy, i Beneplacito. (L.) At pleasure. Laborum dulce lenimen.. (L.) The sweet solace of our labors. HOT ? 7/RED ? i LIFE’S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher
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