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THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1936

njEl FLOYD GIBBONS' Adventurers' Club

"Holocaust in the Cellar"By FLOYD GIBBONS

Famous Headline Hunter.

OU know, boys and girls, some of us go out looking for ad-venture, and the rest of us are smart enough to sit around

and wait for adventure to come looking for us. About 90 percent of all the adventures have happened to people who weren'tlooking for them?and abqut 80 per cent of them?accordingto my figures?come to people in their own kitchens, and diningrooms and living rooms.

Now here's a story I got the other day from Gladys R. Strom, andGladys had to go farther than most people to find the big thrill of herlifetime. It didn't come to her on the ground floor of her home. She hadto go down into the cellar to find It.

Gladys remembers the exact date of her experience. It was

December 2, 1929. She had climbed out of bed, as usual, at about6:30 that morning, and the first thing she did after she camedownstairs was to attend to the furnace.She had bought a new-fangled composition fuel the day before, and

she threw several shovelfuls on the Are. She had never used the stuffbefore, but she figured that you handled It pretty much the same way youdid coal.

But you weren't supposed to use It like coal. That was the partGladys didn't know. And, as a result, she put too much of it on the fire.

It All Started With Her Forgetting the Furnace.When the furnace was filled, Gladys went off and forgot about It.

She didn't think of it again until about 8 o'clock, when her three chil-dren were just about ready to go to school. Then she noticed that thehouse seemed colder than usual.

She felt of the radiators, and sure enough they were stonecold. Then she knew there was something wrong with theheater and went down Into the cellar to see what It was.She was within three feet of the furnace ?was reaching out to open

the door?when the door blew open of its own accord, and a terrific blast

A Terrific Blast Hurled Her Across the Cellar.

picked her up bodily and hurled her across the cellar. She landed againstan ice chest and was almost knocked unconscious, but she struggled toher feet again.

Explosion Made the House Do the Rhumba.The whole house was rocking from the force of the explosion. The

door was blown off, and so were the draught pipes at the top of thefurnace. Great sheets of blue flame were shooting out of the door, andout of the holes where the draught pipes had been. They were reachingup?licking at the ceiling.

And although Gladys wanted to do nothing so much as todrop back to the floor again, she knew that if she did the housewould be on fire In another ten seconds.Moving In a daze, she reached with trembling hands for one of the

battered druught pipes. Fighting her way close to the blazing furnace,she tried to put the pipe back In place, and thus pen up the flame thatwas shooting out of the empty hole.

There Was No Trifling About This Explosion.The damage, she noticed now, was a lot worse than she had originally

thought There was a big, gaping crack running across the entire top

of the furnace, and looking up she saw that the brick chimney had beenblown to pieces. At the spot where the furnace pipes wept In there wasa hole big enough for two men to crawl through.

Somehow Gladys managed to get that draught pipe back Inplace. She had burned herself terribly in the doing of it?but shehad accomplished something. There was still another draught pipe,and she tackled that. When It was In place alongside of theother, she picked up the hot iron door of the furnace.That wns the point where Gladys' memory went blank on her. The

furnace door got put back Into place somehow, but she doesn't rememberdoing It, or how she did It. Nor does she remember any of the otherthings she did from then until the firemen arrived.

Blast Sent This Little Boy for a Ride.Upstairs, in the kitchen, Gladys* nine-year-old boy was eating his

breakfast when the explosion occurred. The blast threw him from hischair, and the cat, lying nearby on the kitchen floor, was lifted about afoot in the air. The doors of the kitchen stove were shaken open, andthe heavy iron lids on top rattled and danced. The other two boys,playing In the next room, ran screaming from the house, and the neigh-bors began telephoning for the flre department

When the engines arrived the firemen found Gladys stillreeling about the cellar, moving In a daze around the still blazingfurnace. But Gladys doesn't remember anything about that?-doesn't remember a thing from the time she started to put backthat furnace door to the time when she came out of a dead faintlipstairs, with a couple of firemen giving her a first-aid treatment.Gladys spent a few days In the hospital as a result of her adventure,

and when she got out the first thing she did was to chuck all that new-fangled stove fodder out the back window. She hasn't used any of Itsince. And I don't blame her.

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Wrote "When You and IWere Young, Maggie"

The place made famous by theold love song "When You and IWere Young Maggie," Is at Duck-town, Tenn., near a creaking oldmill which ground meal for the In-dians and pioneers, and the occa-sion, the return of an aged coupleto the scene of their romance, re-lates a writer In the ClevelandPlain Dealer.

The elite Is marked by a tabletplaced there by the Daughters ofthe American Revolution, whichtells all about it, and about the au-

thor, George W. Johnson, who theremet, wooed and married MaggieHarris, and who years afterwardwrote the poem about her.

Early In the Eighteenth century,Johnson, who, according to histori-ans, was a rambler and hunter ofgold, hesird strange tales from theIndians about wealth In the moun-tains of east Tennessee. Johnsonloaded his canoe and took off fromhis home near the mouth of the Hl-wass&e river. Following the riverhe reached Spring creek, whichfinally became so shallow he aban-doned his canoe and walked. Hear-ing a creaking mill far up the creekJohnson strode In that direction.And then he saw Maggie. He gaveup his search for gold and stayedaround until he had won her, and

then took her to his home downthe river.

Years afterward when both wereaged nnd gray they returned to thehills, and the scene of the old millwhere Maggie lived when she wasyoung. This Inspired Johnson towrite the poem. His poem wasfound later by a musician, J. A.Butterfleld, who set It to music.

Invented Non-Sinkable BoatJoseph Francis, American invent-

or and boat builder, patented in1837, a nonsinkable lifeboat whichwas widely used for several dec-ades after ISSO. He was the found-er of the American Shipwreck andHumane society, developed a cor-rugated metal lifeboat and used hissame Invention in the constructionof steamers. He received the Con-gressional Medal, the Franklin In-stitute Medal and international rec-ognition for his work.

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