{"id":2198,"date":"2013-09-05T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorkspast\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2018-08-06T20:47:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T00:47:53","slug":"railcar-gold-chapter-10-work-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorkspast\/railcar-gold-chapter-10-work-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 10 . . Work . . Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RAILCAR GOLD \u00a0 Chapter 10 . . . Work<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RAILCAR GOLD is a historically accurate multi-generational fictional tale of hidden treasure, primarily set in York County, Pennsylvania during the latter half of the Nineteenth Century.\u00a0 This is Part 2 of Chapter 10 . . . Work.\u00a0 A new part will be posted every Thursday.\u00a0 Recent chapters stand alone, starting here<\/a>; however new readers may want to start at the beginning<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CHAPTER\u00a0 10\u00a0 . . . WORK . . .\u00a0 Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles Billmeyer and David E. Small went on a railcar business and sales trip to New York City in November of 1865.\u00a0 With the end of the Civil War, the expansion of the nations railroads accelerated.\u00a0 Billmeyer & Small were eager to get wider exposure for their railcars to become a larger player in this industry.\u00a0 Plans were already moving ahead to expand their York Car Works.<\/p>\n

George Billmeyer looked through a few of the newspapers that his Dad brought back from that trip.\u00a0 One story caught his attention in The New York Saturday Press<\/em>.\u00a0 It was a story about Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog.<\/p>\n

George showed the story to Dan, \u201cYou have to read this story.\u00a0 It is supposed to be about a jumping frog, however very little of the story is about Smiley\u2019s frog named Daniel Webster.\u00a0 This guy, Mark Twain, has a comical way of seemingly avoiding telling stories, by lapsing into tall tales; in the end the whole thing is funny.\u00a0 I asked my Dad to keep a lookout for more of these stories writing by Mark Twain.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Dan read the story, George tells Dan, \u201cWe should train a jumping frog.\u201d\u00a0 Dan responds, \u201cI had that same thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Saturday they catch seven frogs in the Codorus Creek.\u00a0 Dan and George bring the frogs back to an area they had prepared in the stable.\u00a0 This area contained a grassy area formed from a large piece of sod they brought back from the banks of the creek; plus a large deep tray of water.<\/p>\n

They test all their frogs for jumping ability.\u00a0 They could get only three to make a passable jump.\u00a0 The other four frogs immediately went back to the Codorus Creek.<\/p>\n

George always assumed that Dan could apply his horse training skills to training frogs.\u00a0 Dan assumed that George had some idea on how to train frogs, since he brought up the idea.\u00a0 Dan and George soon realize they have no idea how to train a frog.<\/p>\n

They looked at Mark Twain\u2019s story again.\u00a0 Smiley planned \u201cto educate\u201d the frog, but no clues are given how this was done.\u00a0 Smiley spent three months doing nothing but sitting in his backyard and \u201cteaching\u201d the frog to jump.\u00a0 George and Dan certainly were not going to do nothing but train these frogs for the next three months.<\/p>\n

The boys kept the frogs in the stable, but soon started to loose interest.\u00a0 They were still trying to come up with a plan to train the frogs.\u00a0 With cold weather on the way, it was becoming harder to catch flies, moths, grasshoppers and crickets to feed the frogs.<\/p>\n

George had the idea that they try to mix up food pellets and see if they could get the frogs to eat them.\u00a0 The boys tried various combinations of ingredients.\u00a0 From their whole assortment of food pellets, the only combination of ingredients the frogs ate consisted of dried fish, crushed oats and a little sugar.<\/p>\n

One day, just for the fun of it, Dan took one of these pellets, stuck grass blades onto it, resembling wings, and held it over the frogs at the end of a string.\u00a0 One of the frogs immediately jumped up and grabbed the pellet.<\/p>\n

George exclaimed, \u201cThat it!\u00a0 That\u2019s how we train the frogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

At feeding time each day, they hung their \u201cpellet flies\u201d a little higher, forcing the frogs to jump higher each day for their food.\u00a0 In a few weeks they reached a point where one of the frogs could no longer jump high enough to reach the food; that frog was returned to the Codorus Creek.\u00a0 A month later the two remaining jumping frogs were reduced to one by a similar elimination.<\/p>\n

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