Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 5

ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH PAGE FIVE the Farmers Indian Creek Bridge Only Obstacle In War Of Travelling New load lnllw of sla on 160 are being Used by the public even though the road has not been opened. Much of the slab has been completed three or lour months while the work has progressed in both Directions but the fact that no floor has placed on the new bridge over Indian creek spoils the whole route. There Is a crossing in the creek that has been In use and many cars and trucks haVe been stalled In the creek. The farmers out that way can't understand why that bridge floor cannot be built. the bridge was floored you could drive your automobile upon the slab at the German church southeast of 'Bethalto and go almost to Alhambra without getting off.

one day this week Ralph Stahl. well known Moro business man, got his truck stu6k In Indian creek while trying to get across. Me telephoned back to Moro and Ills brother, Cecil, took another truck and went to his assistance. Arriving at the creek It was found Impossible to pull the from the west side and there no way of getting the second truck to the other side of the creek to do the pulling. Finally Cecil went around the country a distance of about ten miles to get his truck around the stalled car to e(ve It a pull.

Arriving on the east side he pulled the truck out of the croek without much difficulty. the Old Way Of Shredding rodder There are lots of ways of handling a corn crop, every farmer taking care of his own yield- In the way that Is most convenient to his needs and at the same time in a way he thinks he could get the most benefit out of the crop, but It is evident In this locality the old way of shredding the crop has almost gone out of existence. It Is all the more wohder that'the shredder is not used when the great convenience Is considered. The farmer who has a silo and a barn that his crop of'fodder after it is shredded with the exception, of' course, of that part of his crop which goes into the silo, Is undoubtedly in the best shape for deriving the benefits of a corn crop with the least amoUnd of trouble, labor or drudgery. Harvesting his crop starts with filling the silo while the corn Is yet green.

Next comes the cutting and shocking of the crop. After it stands In shock a few weeks the shredder comes to his place and the shocks are hauled to the barn, fed Into the shredder and the earns of corn are poured out by the machine into a wagon, while the machine tears the fodder''into small bits and blows it into the barn where It is to be kept out of the weather. The stock will feed themselves from the shredded fodder air winter. A big advantage In this operation Js in having the stalks cut up into a. fine state so it Is hauled out in the spring with the manure and the farmer experiences no trouble from corn stalks.

Road Commlsloner Disabled By Illness F. Havelka, highway commissioner of Wood River township, has been confined to his honw the past week suffering from stomach trouble. Prom his home in East Alton he has been directing the work on highwaysi and although has been 1 unable to, be on the outside following up the work he knows move that has been made and Just where every load of cinders have been dumped on the detour road past the cartridge works, it was last Saturday morning at 10 o'clock that Mr. Havalka was, obliged to quit and go home and much of the time since has been to bed. He has not been out of the house since.

For two years, Mr. Havelka says, be has suffered from thto trouble but this is the worst attack he lias ever had. He is a most efficient township officer and his work has been such that Wood River township has gotten a dollars' worth of work on the roads for every hundred cents spent. His friends are hoping for an early recovery. A Birthday Surprise Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Hlcher had a family reunion Sunday at their home In the Upper Alton-Brighton Road neighborhood, the affair being arranged by their relatives and friends without then- hearing anything about It. were 21 in the party and all carried baskets filled with good things to eat and a fine birthday dinner was spread. The occasion was the birthday anniversary of Mrs. PHcher and the surprise was a complete one for she and her husband.

In the party were Fred Maneke'and family, George pjlcher and family, Grover Jonef and family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wade and Mrs. James Wilson. Grader Moves In To Start Work Job's ranch road running from East Alton up to the EdrBalster corner, is going to be paved and paved this fall, according to the man who has taken the contract.

William Tonsek, of Edwardsville, is the grading contrac-, been given the job under the firm at the county seat who has the general contract. Tonsek was it moving his equipment into the Job Friday and was get- ting ready to: start grading at once. The engineers were working on the road the past two days setting the stakes for the paving contractor and grader to work by 1 1 contractor can finish the entire Job this fall-andwith this, guarantee the county and township officials are allowing him to start. Still Poring Hole? In Bottom Of River The force of engineerstare still busy at Hardln prospecting for the building of piers in the Illinois river for the support of the highway bridge that Is' to be built by the state at a cast 'of 'more than four hundred fhousand dollars. The engineers have a boring outfit rigged up on the end of the old ferry boat "Ruth" that was for many, years used at Alton.

They have struck quicksand in some spots, one of the engineers said tha other day, that will make it necessary to use extra Ions piling wherever o.uioksand is found. The engineer said the work of prospecting is now well under way and ho thinks that in two or three weeks they will have com- pletcd the task they to do-by the highway department Of the. state. The Calhoun county people are looking forward'with great anticipation to the time when the bridge will be completed and they aro satisfied this will be accomplished next yean The "Lincoln" KUls A cow Many a train has been wrecked by a cow but tha Lincoln Limited, one of the Chicago it Alton's red trains, was not destined to be wrecked this week when a "bossle" strayed upon the traclujiorth of Springfield directly in front of the speeding passenger train. A couple of hours later when the train was making; the stop at the College avenue station In Alton the engineer related his thrilling experience when the bovine calmly walked along side of the track and then took a notion to cross to the other aide just in time to have her life brought to a sudden end.

The engineer said he was tunning between 75 and 00 miles on hour when the cow made her appearance on toe track, The distance between the big engine and tha BY M. TAOGAttT I No Bad Dog Here But Lookout for the Rooster In the old days it was no uncommon sight see a sign in front of a farm home reading something like this: "Bad At the Longfellow home up In the Brighton vicinity such a sign would be Appropriate but It should read "Bad one- man we know of is in bed at his KBme because of the encounter he had with a rooster at the Longfellow home and this, man is a retired farmer. It is not often you hear of a farmer being crippled by a rooster and that's the reason we are telling you of this most interesting incident. Henry Scheldt and C. B.

Hawkins, two Alton men, were making tome business calls this week In the neighborhood of Brighton and the, Longfellow place was oh the list. Hawkins is ad insurance man while his companion, now resident ol Alton but for many years one of the best known farmers In Macoupin county in the Dorsey-Woodburn neighborhood, was accompanying htm on the rural errands. While Hawkins was at the house talking to the mistress Mr. Scheldt walked about the place. He hadn't noticed a rooster on the place but suddenly he thing fly against him.

Looking down he saw a big rooster with his feathers ruffled up and ready for further fight. It was a very unexpected attack and while Mr. Scheldt was getting over his surprise the rooster made a second and more vicious attack. This time he ran one of his long spurs into the shin of the retired farmer. Scheldt got away In a hurry this time and went to the house.

He says the mistress of the place tells him the rooster attacks everybody who comes about. The next day the Alton'man went to a doctor when the Injury to his shin commenced to cause trouble. The physician gave him treatment and sent him to bed In order that he could keep off his feet. animal was shortened so rapidly that he did not have time hardly to wink an eye. There was no time to slow down but the Idea of a cow wrecking a train flashed through the mind of the old engineer who for many years has safely driven fast trains over the rails of the C.

A. The thought of danger had scarcely gotten through his mental faculties when he saw the cow knocked straight into the air. He said the carcass of the cow had not struck the ground when the engine passed by. At Springfield he made a report to headquarters "one cow killed." He could not swear that he had looked upon the dead body the animal but he was so well satisfied that the cow was dead he reported that way to headquarters. Bert Elfgen To Have Big Cattle Sale Monday At his stables in North Alton.

State street, Bert F. many years a live stock dealer in this locality, will hold an auction sale of cattle Monday. The sale starts promptly, Mr. filfgen says, at 1 o'clock and the auctioneer will not wait a minute when that time comes. There are 28 cows and-heifers in the lot also a registered Jersey Mr.

Elfgen has purchased an entire herd, of stock from a dairy farm that was selling put and it was In this way that he has the stock auction sale. Eleven of the cows are-fresh with calves by side and since there has been a great for cows this fall Mr. Elfgen is expecting his sale to draw a good sized crowd. Bert is one of those live stock dealers who was put out of business by the live stock trucks and hard roads but he Is not the kind of a fellow to complain. He says this condition came about simply by progress of the times and progress, he says, is something anyone would be foolish to try to stop.

He has been building houses alnce live stock buying went, on by and he has taken a leading part In the development of his part of the city building over fifty houses since he started. Many Autolsts Discovering; Fine Road For Driving "That wonderful oiled road" is what many autoists term the highway which runs east -and west across Madison county from the hard road at the Balster place to'Route 112. The road runs parallel with the Greenville road on Route 160 being mostly about a mile south. In'speaking of this road several we said it runs through the cream of the farming land of Madison county and this is an undisputed assertion. Since attention was called to this fine road many people have hunted it up and have explored it, autoists always being anxious to find a new they can explore and not know where they are going as their engine purrs.

While many other roads are closed because of work being done this, fine stretch of smooth piled road has come in for much traffic and a number of people have been heard to say they had enjoyed driving over that elegant road while at the same time looking over-the beautiful farms that It passes. Poor Ground A Few Years Ago Grows Fine Corn On illustration of what can be done In a few years in soil building is shown on the old Reuter farm three miles northeast of Alton on the Senjinary street road. The farm is now owned by Nicholas Bfohlhepp vyho is in the business and has been the farm seven years. He has a piece of corn along the road that has attracted much attention. Many comments bavauljeen heard about, that fine piece of corn which is regarded as one of the best In the county.

The land on this place was all poor when Mr; Kohlhepp took It over seven years ago, Ho has engaged extensively in growing alfalfa and sweet cloyer after liming the land. Practically all the place has had lime put on It twice. The owner has not attemptedJo grom much corn since he went qn the farm but when he does plant corn he uses land that has had either sweet clover or alfalfa on It, Then he raises corn that is'not to'be excelled 1 by any in the neighborhood no matter what kind of ground it grows on. The piece of corn along the Seminary Street road produced this year is on ground that had sweet clover turned under on It, The field is a splendid specimen of soil that has built up after many years of run down condition. May Sell Farm After Hard Road Is Completed John O.

Neunaber us he may sell his farm after the new hard road is completed on Route 160 which through his place giving him a frontage of a half mile on both sides of the new slab. Mr. Neunaber for many years was a prominent farmer of. his neighborhood but In late years he has been living in Bethalto while, the sons have been operating the farm. It Is located.

Just east of Wood River whero the hard road runs through the Klopmeier bottom ad- Joining Dan Stoeckel's place on the east. The location qf the Neunaber place is ideal, the site being high making 1 a line'place to live, it is one ol Jew farms that front a half mile on both sides of the new hard road. Mr, Neunaber says the farm is all tiled. To anyone who has had experience farming land that Is tiled and that which is not, this means a good deal. Many titnes'the tiling Is worth as much ns the land.

The farm consists ot MB acres and Mr. Neunaber is 6f the opinion that some one will want It for cutting up ihto small farms after the new road Is completed. How Would Yon tike To Plow Inches Deep? An Iowa farmer visiting In this locality a few days this week was telling of treatment given a certain field in his neighborhood this season. This man from Iowa was looking over some fields around Brighton, Piasa, SHipman and Bunker Hlli while on his visit where fall plowing is being done. The shallow plowing done in this country was a wonder to him.

White talking over the question of deep and shallow plowing he Was telling of conditions in this, field which was to be given, special treatment. The'land had run down and the owner took steps to bring It back to its former usefulness. He put on Hme and got a stand of sweet clover on it. The clover was not pastured for two years the owner allowed ft to grow Unharmed. The third year the sweet clover again grew and thickly covered the ground.

About a month ago it was as high as a man's head when the owner of the farm set to work to plow It under. A specially made plow was used which cut a strip 14 Inches wide and ran 14 Inches deep. A powerful tractor was used to pull the plow and a heavy log chain was rigged up to pull down the clover in front of the plow so it was effectually turned, under. Tha Iowa man said 14-inch plowing is not uncommon in his neighborhood and those who have given their land treatment of this kind have had fine results he says. This field where the big sweet clover was turned under will be stated until next spring when it will be planted in corn.

There Is much land in this locality where 14-Inch deep plowing would be impossible bift it Is likely a fact that most of us should plow our lands a little deeper than we do. Mrs. Culp Able To Be Out Mrs. Frank E. Culp was said to be doing well today at the farm home northeast of Bethalto where she has been confined to her bed since a recent automobile accident In which she and her daughter, Edith, participated two weeks ago today.

Miss Edith Culp was able to bs out yesterday for the first time and attended the Bethalto Community Fair but her mother will be confined to her home some time. The daughter was driving the car and with her mother was starting home from Alton. Because of College avenue being torn up they had gone by way of Alton. At the point where the Vaughn'road Intersects the Wood River and Edwardsville hard road their car collided with another car driven by Mrs. Manure of Wood River.

The Gulp car was turned over and Mrs. Culp sustained several broken ribs and many bruises about her body. The daughter was also badly bruised. Mrs, Culp also sustained sprains of both ankles. Mrs, Magulre es- -caped Injury and her car was very little damaged while 'the Gulp car was wrecked.

The mother and daughter were taken to their home in the country where they have been under the care of a physician since. Miss Gulp is an office employe" of a wholesale, grocery firm on Seventh street In St. Louis, the Landau firm having recently purchased the business. Pouring 'Concrete For Slab Gets Started At German Church The hard road building outfit that has been pouring the slab In an easterly direction commencing at the residence of the managing officer of the Alton State Hospital, was moved yesterday afternoon to the German church southeast of Bethalto where pouring started this morning at the end of the slab which has already been built from Cahokla bottoms to the church. The last of the concrete was poured yesterday afternoon at 1:30 at the John a Neunaber farm where the road will end for the time being.pending decision as to an overhead crossing on the Big Four.

There is also some trouble In right of way adjustments on the other side of the railroad hence'there will be a good sized gap at this point which will be cindered at once by Madison county. The last concrete poured Friday afternoon, the road building crew lost no time in starting to move. Asked when he would get Started pouring in front of "the German church the foreman said he expected to have things going at 8:30 o'clock this morning. He said It would take only a few days to bring the road west from the church to the Heeren farm where It will end. Then the crew will move up to the Alton city limits to start on College avenue.

Barn Remodeled At Deem Place The Deem and of the Roberts place on the Fosterburg Road, have Inaugurated an improvement program at then- farm and the first item on the list of work to be done was the remodeling of their main barn. Ben Budden has been doing the work and he has made a wonderful improvement on this building which has been converted Into a first class stable. The Deem brothers are planning further improvements to be made about their place in the near future all of which will add to the general appearance as well as the convenience of their place. Raised So Much Corn More Cribs Necessary Lee Belk has had a busy season and has done much real hard work on his farm although he is not farming the place himself. The Job he is engaged in right now is building a new corn crib.

His man has grown so much corn on that good farm that Lee realized somo tune ago he would have to have more crib room to hold his part of the crop so he got busy. After the crop is gathered and his part is safely cribbed Mr. Belk'will spend a couple of weeks with his nephew, Carl Kuhn, in Alton. After that he is going to St. Louis to spend the winter with his brother, Ed.

In the spring Lee is going to "go some place" but he lias not made up his mind where. Several years ago lie went around the world but he says he is not golns to take that trip again. Covering New Concrete With Dirt To Keep Jack Frost Out All the concrete poured on Route 160 this week has been covered with a good coat of dirt. While there is no immediately danger of freezing, the 7 contractor is not going to take any chances uud as soon as the surface becomes hard a few hours after is finished the men put the cent of earth on the road to keep Jack Frost out of it in case ho comes near, A small amount of earth makes a wonderful protection against freezing. The road building gang had a bad week.

Rains came every day up to Wednesday night. Thursday was tha This Horse Had A Brief Working Career Last winter when Frank E. Culp had a sale at his farm which he was leasing to the Alton state Hospital, a horse was sold at auction which was regarded as an Unusual animal in that he had enjoyed grazing on the farm with plenty to eat and nothing to do all his life and he was up in his 'teens. Just why this horse was never put to work when he became old enough to "get into the collar" doesn't make any difference to the story but we wrote him up at the time of the sale, the interesting feature of the sale being that this horse brought forty dollars when Mr. Culp himself did not expect the animal to sell for more than a ten dollar bill.

After the sale was over the man who bought the horse got a surprise when he found the horse easy to "break" and that the animal went to work with little trouble and In a short time was a useful animal at any kind of work. Jack Kierle, Alton teamster, bought the horse later paying eighty dollars for him according to reports. The changed hands several times but at any rate his working career which had been short came to an end last Saturday when the horse fell Into a basement which he had been helping to excavate and broke Its neck. The basement was being excavated in the Bering tract where a new house is being built. The base- mdnt was near completion and a high bank on one side was responsible for throwing the horse over when It was wet and slippery after a rain.

only full day's work In pouring and Friday the gang had to move to another location when the end of the road was reached near the Big Four track. Great Growth Of Wood River Township Ten polling places will serve the voters of Wood River township when the National election is held on the 6th day of November and In most of these precincts the Judges and clerks will have all they can do to handle the big vote of the township. In the territory east of the city of Alton known many years as "district 99" the population has become so congested that the county board found it advisable at their meeting last June to split the territory making two precincts out of one. All this great population had been voting at "Coonle" Flchtel's store and last spring at the township election this one polling place voted almost a thousand votes. In the old days when the sand In that district southeast of East Alton was used for growing watermelons Instead making gasoline, Wood River township had three polling plase, Upper Alton was a part of the township, the old village hall, the second was In Bethalto and the third at East Alton in that old time building where the village board held then; meetings.

The biggest vote polled those days in the entire township was less than two-thirds of the vote polled last spring In Coonle Flchtel's store alone. This ancient It does not seem like very long us to resolve In our minds the very first thing that Wood River township certainly ought to be able to build some hard roads these days. With the great manufacturing plants, corporations Including railroads, the taxes now collected in that territory is amazing. With a few townships such as Wood River, this plan of building hard roads by a county bond Issue ought to be a sound one in Madison county. Great Improvements Planned For Moro Cemetery Since the'formlng of an organization for the improvement of the Moro cemetery which adjoins the Presbyterian church there, steps have been taken which will eventually lead to great Improvements for the old cemetery.

Money was subscribed for the purpose and the effects of the organization became Immediately visible' about the ground when the grass was kept cut and the grounds cleaned up. Additional land for. the expansion of the burying grounds has been purchased. Next season granitoid walks about the cemetery will be built if funds expected to come In soon are In hand by that time. Moro people are much, interested in this old cemetery and there are people in distant parts of the country who are anxious to donate funds toward these improvements.

Hanna To Have A Sale On Brinkraan Place Harry C. Hanna "having decided to quit farming" is going to have a sale at his place on the old Brinkman farm west of Godfrey.on the Pierce land, October 30. Mr. Hanna has a lot of valuable machinery and live stock and he is going to put everything up for auction and sell it for what it will bring. Col.

Jerome Long will cry the sale. Big Improvement On Powder Mill Road Being Completed Nineteen car loads of cinders have been placed on the powder mill road in the last two weeks since the job of putting this road Into Ilrst class condition started under direction of J. Havelka, highway commissioner of Wood River township. The Job was being finished today and travel over the road had been started. The highway commissioner said he would still be hauling cinders to this road for several days putting them on spots where they were most needed although the entire length of the road has been given one coat.

The cinders for this improvement were supplied by the Standard Oil company, the cinders being loaded in railroad cars and placed by the Standard on one of their sidetracks within the yards of the plant, -The township commissioner then unloads them from the cars with the plant hence there is no freight to pay but the Standard charges the regular fee for loading tho cinders into the cars. The improvement of the powder mill road was brought about by the necessity of a detour from College nvenue. The new slab on Route 160 is completed and is iivuse along the south side of the State Hospital grounds therefore the institution is now provided with a tlrst class rond as on outlet. Traffic from the east Including Fosterburg and Bethalto and the entire country will use this route when College aveime Is closed and this will be most any time. The powder mill road was graded and straightened before being cindered so it will be a very useful highway from now on, Season Of Cane Syrup IB Here Down south they call it "lasses cane" but in tills country they call it sorghum.

Call It what you wish but in a good many home there la going to be some good molasses put away to eat on bread and butter when the wintry winds are driving snow In the air. We can tell this by the number of farmers to be seen taking their cane to the "lasses factory." These "factories" are not very numerous through the country and on this account some farmers who have grown a small patch of sorghum for making syrup for their own home use have to haul it many miles to the place where it Is and the sap boiled down. Over at the east side of the county in Saline township there Is a place where this work is done, but one of the largest plants where the cane is pressed and several big kilns are at work cooking the Juice from the cane is at Woodburn. This place Is doing a big business and cane is being hauled there from almost everywhere. You can buy all the syrup there you want.

Boy Hurt When Kicked By Horse While John Duvall was unhitching his team In the barn yard at his home on the lyitnard Joehl farm opposite the Alton state Hospital his 6-year-old son came to assist him. While the boy was on the opposite side of the team from his father one of the horses kicked tht lad striking him over the eye. Mr. Duvall knew nothing had happened until the boy ran around the team and told nun he had been kicked. It was almost dark, but when the father saw that the had had been badly hurt he ran across the road to the State Hospital taking the boy with him.

one of the physicians of the institution gave this boy emergency treatment. A.long cut over the boy's eye was inflicted by the horse's hoof. For several days afterward the eye was swollen badly but the physician found that the lad's eye was not injured and he thinks the boy will suffer no permanent injury from the accident. Didn't Like To Milk Cows Before The War- III Dairy Business Afterward Henry Bardetaeier, vice president of the Farmers Institute and one of the most successful farmers in Madison county tells of his sons making good at farm- Ing by going into the dairy business. He has four boys and two of them are successfully farming two of'the father's farms between Edwardsville and Troy by dairying.

Mr. Bardelmeier had been very successful himself but he had not much hope of making' farmers out of the boys. Two of them had Objected strenuously to milking cows and they did not care much for general. They had been considering other lines of work when along came the World'War and took them both to field battle. They were away from home two years or more and when they came back they made arrangements with their father to let them each have a farm.

This pleased the father but when both of the lads eng'aged the very first thing In the business he was surprised and very agreeably at that. The boys have made good and are well satisfied with the progress made so fdr. They really are following In their father's footsteps toward one of the four, sons of this Madison county farmer is a manager tor the A. p. grocery company it Peoria while the other Is the International Harvester company agent at Edwardsville.

Last Tomatoes Come To Town A truck load of tomatoes were gathered this week and on Thursday they were brought to Alton and sotf to the grocers. It is safe to say this consignment wai the last of the tomato crop for" this year. You will wonder how it is possible that ripe tomatoa were gathered now when the have been dead thret weeks following that early frost that knocked every greet thing cold. Thre was a reason. Ofor old friend R.

L. out there on the Job Ranch, east of East Alton, is the man who raised these tomatoes. Hs had been In the sweet corn business all season having planted a number of fields at different times during the early summer so that he had sweet corn coming on all the time. When he started to gather sweet com and haul it to the grocers all around Alton and Wood River in July he never quit until the frost sounded the death knell for vegetation recently, Mr. Christenseh say he sold so much sweet corn to the grocers that they got to calling him the "sweet corn man." But here is the way he came to have these tomatoes.

The patch had grown up in high grass for several weeks at the end of the season and this grass shielded the tomatoes which were down close to the ground. The first night of the frost the grass was nipped and it commenced to drop down. Then you will remember it was three nights later when the killer came. This finished the grass and It dropped down completely covering toe tomato vines and their fruit. A few days ago Mr.

Christenson and his boys gathered the last of the crop picking the tomatoes out from under their' blanket of dead grass. They were firm and sound and In fine shape. Bucking Bronco Runs Over Man All you have to say is "Rodeo" and they flock out to see it. Two weeks ago some cowboys came into Alton and announced that the next day would see a real "Rodeo" on a tract ct ground which was formerly a part of "The favorite chicken farm of the late Edmund Beall, former mayor of Alton. They flocked out that way and when the time came for the cowboys to ride the western ponies there was a crowd.

The fun started and the bowboys did some riding that was genuine and it pleased the crowd. The ponies were supplied by Baker Hehner who had recently received a car load of ponies from Montana, none having ever been touched by a human hand. Finally one of the ponies bucked right Into the crowd running over an Alton man. He said he was not much hurt, according to the promoters of the show, with the exception one of his feet that the pany stepped on. Tomorrow there is to be another show at the samo place it was announced.

W. Ely is head of the "division of simplified practice of the United States Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce." You'd think the division would take a day off and simplify that tltlei The name of the new president of Mexico, Emllio Tories Gil. is pronounced "heel." Here's hoping the new president never has to take to his Oils. Several gentlemen of our acquaintance who liad been planning business trips to St. Louis and Philadelphia changed their minds at the last minute and went to New York and St.

Louis instead. A Boston newspaper, citing population figures of 708,200, claims eighth place among the cities of the United States. Substantiation of the claim is amply provided by the Bosten Red Box,.