I was just reading the Jan. 3, 1917 Wellsboro Agitator of the web site
of the Green Free Library, Wellsboro, PA. Their images of newspaper
pages appear to be from microfilm and the indexes for searching produced
from OCR scanning of the images.-- thus the errors in converting to
text. Sometimes they are too faded or too blurry to read, and for those
of us who still use dial connection to the Internet, slow to download.
In reading the cover story about the death of Bert Hazlett, I wasn't
sure of one word, that looked like 'crownsheet', so I looked it up.
The Building a Live Steam Engine Boiler web page of Colorado Lime
Steamers - Live Steam Boilers,
http://www.coloradolivesteamers.com/steamtech/boiler.html, has:
"Water covers the top of the firebox (also called the crownsheet). It is
very important that the crownsheet always be covered by water or else
the intense heat will cause it to fail, sometimes resulting in a boiler
explosion." Which helps explain what happened to Bert.
If you have difficulty finding or reading the article, please write to
me and I can send you a transcription.
Albert Hazlett was a son of Susan Goodwin and David Hazlett (1832 -
1915), son of Cynthia Hammond & Archibald Hazlett (1803 - 1888), son of
Sally Campbell & Sam Hazlett.