January 8, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
In just a moment, we will bring you the Old
Fall river Line starring Brian Don Levy on the Cavalcade
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
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Speaker 1 (01:18):
America, the pony Express, the covered wagon America, the steamboat
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America means skyscrapers and haylofts, the crack of a pioneer's
flintlock and the sound of the river's machine, the glow
of a fireside, the glare of a blast furnace against
the Midnight Sky, America is your Story.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
America is you and everyone you know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Tonight, the DuPont Company, maker of Better Things for Better
Living through Chemistry, presents Brian don Levy in the Old
Fall river Line on the Cavalcade of America, The.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Old Fall river Line on the Old Fall river Line,
Hi fell for Suzi line of Parkan Suzi tap on mine.
I fell in with a partisan any test tightest wine.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
For ninety years, the Fall River Line sent its steamers
down Narragansett Bay, around Point Judah, through the waters of
Long Island Sound. Residents and farmers, businessmen and adventurers, brides
and grooms. They are We all took the Fall River
Line to Boston or New York or Newport or Fall River.
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Our story opens as one of the steamers, the Priscilla,
nears New York. In the captain's cabin, a gray haired
man gathers his belongings. It is his last trip on
the steamer. He has commanded for ten years. He is
about to leave when come in, Captain Hamilton. Were almost
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in New Yorks?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Are Oh? Come in, mister Carter, I mean, Captain Carter.
You have to get used to hearing yourself called captain, Ed,
I guess I will.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Can I send you any of your things?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
No sense?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
And you're taking it all off tonight?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
All right?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Ed?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Some things in my desk I want to take along
the night. Shll what's that?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Just an old tin box, but there's forty five years
of steamboating in it. I don't understand. Look at this,
I guess you'd call it junk. Nothing in here worth
anything to anybody but me except maybe this A quarter.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
That's the first one you ever earned.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Or have something like that. Ed. It was when I
was a kid working on the line. No gold braid then,
and no gray hair. I was cleaning the after deck,
cleaning it at night because it was the only time
I could get at it, handling a.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Brush and a bucket.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Wasn't my idea of romance on the steamers.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Handlton Hamilton?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah, what's the matter, Yes, sir Hamilton.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
I yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm gonna move on down there. I'm gonna take you
all night.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
No, sir, I'd like to bust this right over you
thick fat kids.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Who's that?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Or just a passenger? You're tired of doing that sometimes?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Tired?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Just let me set foot on land, and I'll never
want to see one of these tubs again. I hated
that much, h I sure do.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yeah, going to that job pretty well, can't hate it
very much.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Look, mister, to me, it's a job to get done,
and the quicker it's over, the better i'll feel. Oh well,
maybe you don't feel like talking.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No, I don't mind. Go ahead. The passenger is always right.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
You pretty bit there? And why don't you like your job?
Because it's not what it's cracked up to be? Steamboats romance. Yeah,
work your way to the top, they said. The only
place I will work too is the hull of this tub,
and that's.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
By wearing through with this right, that's a wonderful sound,
mister Hamilton, awe, it's not a steam blowing through a whistle. Oh,
you're wrong. It's America, America. What's your first name?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Then we'll look down to you.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
That whistle's just steam. But to me it's America, just
like the fall river lines America.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Eh, I don't get it.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
You will, you will when you see and hear beyond
the steam of the whistle. You'll get it when you
remember the years that have passed and looked to the
years ahead. You see, then, not too long ago, the
water we're going over now was once part of a wilderness,
a wilderness that looked impenetrable, a barrier to Americans. But
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it didn't stay that way long. Then we broke into
it with our eyes fixed ahead, building a new country
where we could look ahead, where we could build.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
You see, I don't know what's that got to do
with me. I'm a deck hand, so was I on
river boats in Ohio. But I'm nothing but but a flunky.
What chance have I got? I was once a carpenter.
I worked hard at it. Oh well, maybe a word.
But what's all this got to do with me?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Just a woman?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Yeah, it's a quarter. It's not to spend down. That's
not why I give it to you.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And what's the idea?
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Just look at it for a long while and study it,
and you'll see why I've talked the way I have.
And maybe what you'll see there will give you the
answer to all your questions.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
It'll tell you why scrubbing a deck. Now I've been
looking for you.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Your cabin's ready.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Thank you, good night, Dan.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I enjoyed our talk. I hey you wait a minute, Yes,
who was that?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Are you joking, youngster.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
No, I'm not joking.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I couldn't see him.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Who was it that that was the President of the
United States?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
That was a long time ago? Ed? Yeah, But the quarter, well,
I looked at it a long time. I wanted to
ask him what he meant, but I couldn't get out
the nerve. But I finally found out. And what on
the day they made me a steward? I step up?
I took another good look at the quarter, and something
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hit me right between the eyes. I knew what made
it possible for me to be a steward and not
stay it deck hand. One word stamped on this quarter, liberty,
I see.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
But then the rest of this stuff. It wasn't all
given to you by President.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Oh No. Lots of other people traveled on the Fall
river Line. It was like a cross section of America.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What's this?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Oh that song? She? Yeah, you've heard this song? Ed
the old Fall river Line. Harry von Tilzer wrote it, Well,
what's it doing in miss box? Well, there are two
people mentioned in it, Dan and Susan. That you that's right,
Me and Susan was right after I had been made
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captain of the Bristol. Yes, I got to be captain
took fifteen years, but I was still young. I guess
the gold braid and the brand new uniform puffed me
up a little. But anyway, I was standing on the
after deck. We were a little late and pulling out
over an hour. I guess when all of a sudden
I heard.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
Stewart. Are you deaf or just rude?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Are you talking to me?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Miss?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
But there's no one else around?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Is there no stewards anyway?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You is something funny?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Miss?
Speaker 9 (10:12):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:12):
I called you steward? I heard you you were you
looked like a steward.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I happened to be captain of the Bristol.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Oh, yes, yes, I see now it's in gold braid
on your hat. It's really the only way I could tell.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I'm sorry, miss. You'll have to go forward. No passengers
allowed back here until we're out.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Why not? It's the rule?
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Who made it?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's the rule of the lions.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
It's a silly one. Why aren't passengers allowed back here?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Because they might get hurt?
Speaker 10 (10:41):
Are you really the captain? I thought all captains had
whiskers On.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
The return trip, I'll wear a false beard.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
You're not very nice.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Look, miss, I'm very busy. We're over an hour late
getting out.
Speaker 10 (10:51):
Now, and that's what I want to ask you about.
Will we be late getting into Fall River?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Possibly?
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Yes, but my aunt's giving me a birthday party.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Congratulations.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
You aren't very nice, are you, miss may I ask.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You again to go forward.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
How long have you been a captain?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Four days?
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (11:11):
And such a big boat, Maya that you're proud as captain.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I ordered you to go forward.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Passengers aren't allowed back here before we start.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
I know it's a rule of the line, then.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Please obey it.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
I believe you're angry with me.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
I'm not as a captain. I don't lose my temper
with passengers.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Is that a rule of the line too?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And a good thing?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
All right?
Speaker 10 (11:36):
I hope we meet again, Captain more nicety.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
You're having trouble with their captain by Oh, no trouble
at all. Sick And I'm mister Warren, the new president
of the line. Oh glad to know you, sir. I'm captain. Yes, yes,
I know. Pretty, wasn't she?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Who Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Who's a girl? I didn't notice a nice blue eyes,
gold hair, and the spoiled brat. I think she got
her goat. She did not well, I mean she didn't well,
perhaps not, but somebody ought to give her a spanking.
I told her three times. No passengers were allowed back
here before we sailed. Oh well I'd better go there.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh no, no, no, sair, it's all right.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
You're not getting in a wave. You sure. Yes, People
like that girl that annoy me. They refuse to believe
that they're not allowed to do anything they want to.
You can tell them in a second. Spoiled, selfish think
they own the world. If that girl was my daughter,
you would be an awfully young father. Anyway, somebody ought
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to teach her a lesson. Why don't you. I'd like to,
and then let me know how you did it. Eh,
I've been trying for twenty years and she's my daughter.
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Captain Hamilton, Oh good evening, miss Lauren.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Are passengers allowed here?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Of course?
Speaker 10 (13:29):
Excuse me, I'll please don't go. I'm awfully sorry, Captain Hamilton.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
That's quite all right, but it isn't.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
I was nasty earlier this evening, But I'll tell you
a secret secret. What I did it on purpose?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
What for it?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well?
Speaker 10 (13:48):
When I came aboard, I saw you standing there and you.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Looked well, you look like somebody who ought to have
a little.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
Of the conceit taken out of him.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
I'm not conceited now, if you'll.
Speaker 11 (14:01):
Excuse me please, You did look like a dressed up rooster.
I said, you look much more human when you laugh.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But what made you say I'm conceited?
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Just the way you looked so proud? I am proud,
miss woman, you may call me Susan. You said you
were proud. What else were you going to say?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Well, it wasn't pride in myself, but in what I'm doing.
How well? I I don't know exactly how to say it,
but there's something that makes me feel proud when I
come aboard my ship. Not because I'm the captain, not
because the Bristol is a great ship, but because of
the Bristol. The whole Fall river line is like America.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
That's nice.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Go on, well, you see, Susan. Fifteen years ago a
man told me something where I heard just a whistle,
he heard the voice of America growing strong, building. I'm
part of that now I'm helping.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
No.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
I like you very much.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Do you do you make the trip back on the
Bristol too?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
I make all of them.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Why you know?
Speaker 10 (15:31):
I think I'm going to take quite a few trips
on the Fall river Line myself.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
You wanted to see me, Captain Hamilton, Yes, mister Freyling.
I have a few of the passenger reservation lists. Yes, sir,
right here, everything filled.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
For the next trip. Not quite sure?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Oh is sir?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Is there anything wrong? Oh? No, I I've been captain
now for seven weeks. That's right, sir. In that time
we've had quite a few couples in the bridal suite
almost every trip, Captain is is it reserved for the
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next trip?
Speaker 10 (16:25):
Why no?
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Search, well, then make a reservation for it. Name, sir,
Captain and and missus Dan Hamilton.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You are listening to Brian dan Levy as Captain Dan
Hamilton in the Old Fall river Line on the Cavalcade
of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better
Things for better living through Chemistry.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
The al Fall river Line on the All.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Fall River Line.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I Fell for Susie.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Line of an Susie for Line.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
As the second part of our story opens, Dan Hamilton,
retiring after forty five years service with the historic Fall
River Line, is telling his successor how he rose from
deckhand the captain and found not only opportunity but romance.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Yes, Susan and I were married. Harry Van tells her
and his partners wrote that song about her.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
What's that you got there?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
That that's just the cabin boy's hat belonged to a
kid named Tony?
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Or Oh, what's the story?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Then? Well ed, I guess it was Tony? Who?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
It was one night the Bristol. It was on the
run from New York to Fall River, and we were
well out in the sound, and I was on the
bridge with the watch half points starboard, Miss Trapleton, half
point starboard, quarter master, half points.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Starved, Sir.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Steady, good is their nice night, mister Trapleton, Yes, Sir, Captain.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Hamilton, Sir ay to cabin boy, Sir, Tony's collapse.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Uh, Tony looks looks like appendicitis. We've got to get
him to a hospital, sir. Or do you think you
can hold out until morning when we dock?
Speaker 9 (18:33):
He's pretty sick, Captain, no doctor report, has anything been
done for him, but we're taking him below. Try to
make him comfortable. Pain seems to be letting up.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Little mister Appleton. I say, what speed are you making?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Eight nuts?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Increase to ten? Mister Appleton. Aye, Aye, Captain, Captain Hamilton,
I just picked this one up over the wireless, Sir, sos.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
The steamer of Boston Eastern Steamship Company is on fire.
Six hundred passengers aboard position dead Astern Sir, distance about
fifty miles.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Mister Appleton, Hi, Captain, bring her about.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
But Captain, what about Tony? If we delay our arrival
in Fall River will meant his life.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Mister Rappleton, there is six hundred people aboard the Boston
I know the roots and the latest estimated positions of
ships along them. We happen to be the closest to her.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
But Tony's one of us, Sir, can't some other ship?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
We can sacrifice six hundred lies, mister Appleton, or we
can risk one.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
But you're talking about one of your own crew, Sir.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Have you ever seen a ship on fire at sea? No, Sir,
you will, mister Appleton, bear a hand. Now bring her about,
I say, quarter Master, quater Master, I bring her about.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Put your wheel over, hi, Isy.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Sa steady as she goes, now, steady as she goes, Kevin,
mister Appleton, full speed ahead, Tony. How are you feeling now?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (20:12):
Uh, I'm alright, sir, you just go ahead to the Boston.
Don't worry about me.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Oh you know, yeah.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
I I heard the men.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Talking wan n uh uh uh rest easy lad rest easy?
Speaker 12 (20:26):
Now wa will we will we make the Boston in time, sir?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
I think we will?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Good?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Good, Tony? I alright, guess Kevin. Well, I just want
you to know I'd have done anything to say with you.
And then that sos came. Six hundred lives out there,
lad or were yours? I was in the spot I
had to decide something.
Speaker 12 (20:54):
It It was right what you did, sir.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Thanks Tony.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It ain't me, sir.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
I I'd a guide to thinking I'm one person that
there's six hundred on the Boston.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
A life is a life, Tony.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Sure, I I know that, sir. But I got to
thinking about my folks. They came over here from Europe.
Pop U pop used to tell me how it It
made everything different. I got to go to school, something
I never would have been able to do if.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
I hadn't been here.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I I got a job, a job doing what I
wanted to do, not something I would have had to take.
And all of a sudden, lying here I knew why
why Tony?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Because it.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
It's all the people that count, not just one or
even a few. It's all of them, sir, all of 'em,
everybody having the same chance.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
So I figure, what's one against six hundred? You did, right, sir?
Speaker 7 (22:10):
You have made it to the Boston in time, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And Tony he.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
He didn't make it. Oh well, lots of other things
in this box. Come in, Captain Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
We're pulling into New York.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Will you come into the salon, sir?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Sal something wrong?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Oh no, sir, but well will you come sir? Come
on Dan?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Now wait if this please? Dan?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Come on? All right? Hi here he is not.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
What's all you didn't think you're gonna leave cold?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Did you have quiet? Please?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Why?
Speaker 13 (23:13):
Everybody, ladies and gentlemen, you all know Captain Dan Hamilton,
So there's no need for me to introduce him.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Tonight.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
Tonight he made his last run on the Fall River line,
and in a few minutes he'll get down the gang
planks for the last time as captain.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
But uh, well, well, Dan here, we want you to.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Accept this watch from us and from the line. I
guess there are a lot of words.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
The man could stay at a time like this, but
I I can't think of any of them right now.
Just just thanks, goodbye, Ed, take good care of the Priscilla.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I'll walk down with it. No, no, please, don't you
stay here.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I think I'd rather walk off alone.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Ed.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
All right, Dan, we'll be saying.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You sure, sure you will?
Speaker 10 (24:32):
Are passengers allowed back here, Captain Hamilton, Susan, I'll walk
off with you, all right. I didn't want to go
in the salon, Dan, I would have cried.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I know, Susan. I should have said something in there,
something about the line, but I couldn't. Now I can
to you, because you know what the Fall River Line
meant to me, To everybody who sailed on it. It
wasn't just a line or boat, Susan. It was America.
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It grew. People made it grow the way they made
our country grow. I'm leaving it, but I'm leaving it
to men who'll go on from where I left off.
That's what makes America great, Susan, because there's always somebody
to carry on, to remember our traditions and to keep
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them alive.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
In a moment, our Star Brian dam Levie, we'll return,
But first here is game Whipman speaking for DuPont.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Have you had trouble this past summer with bread turning
moldy in the bread box?
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Good heavens, no, You radio announcers ask the most embarrassing questions,
moldy bread.
Speaker 10 (26:09):
Not in my house.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I'm glad of that.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
But you used to find moldy slices now and then
down at the end of a loaf of bread.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Didn't you, well a few years back.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, The reason you've been having less trouble with your
bread turning moldy these past few years is because chemists
have developed mold inhibitors called propionates. Bread is one of
the oldest foods we have, and one of the very best.
The Bible calls it the staff of life. Its very
name has come to mean food. We speak of a man.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Earning his bread when we mean earning his living.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
But all too often in the past, the golden loaf
that reached you, fresh and tasty from the bakery soon
grew spots of mold. It happened usually on warm, humid days.
It happened quite often families where there were still four
or five slices of bread left over for a few days.
When that happened. What remained of the loaf had to
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be thrown out wasted, and bread is nothing to waste,
not these days when the world needs food. So a
chemist in the baking industry went to work on the
problem of keeping mold from attacking bread for just those
extra couple of days that would let you use the
whole loaf. He found that some foods contained a mysterious
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something nobody knew just what it was, which retarded mold,
and at last he discovered the mysterious something propionates. The
DuPont Company manufactures calcium and sodium propionates and supplies them
to your baker to day under the trademark Micoban. As
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a result, the bread you buy stays good longer, saving
food and saving money because the Michael has no taste.
You don't realize it's there, but it's chemistry at work
serving your welfare. Michael Ban is one of the DuPont Companies.
Better things for better living through chemistry.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Now Here is our star.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Bryan don Levy, thanker, Thank you, John.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I've been on Cavalcade several times now and it's always
been a great kick to play the men who helped
build our country pioneers who gave us everything we have today.
There's a story coming up for next week's Cavalcade about
another pioneer. I wish I could play the part, but
it'd be a little tough because it's about a twelve
year old boy, and I gave up those parts a
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few years ago. But John Houston will tell you about
next week cavalcade.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Next week, the DuPont Cavalcade brings you Skippy Homyer in
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Young John brought his brothers and sisters to Oregon and safety.
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The music Fortnight's DuPont Cavalcade was composed and conducted by
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and Hartford Railroad operators at the Old Fall river line
for almost half a century. Ryan don Levy may currently
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next week to Skippy Homeyer in one wagon.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Westward off the inview from Hollywood. This is NBC, the
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In just a moment, we will bring you the Old
Fall river Line starring Brian Don Levy on the Cavalcade
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Speaker 1 (01:18):
America, the pony Express, the covered wagon America, the steamboat
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America means skyscrapers and haylofts, the crack of a pioneer's
flintlock and the sound of the river's machine, the glow
of a fireside, the glare of a blast furnace against
the Midnight Sky, America is your Story.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
America is you and everyone you know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Tonight, the DuPont Company, maker of Better Things for Better
Living through Chemistry, presents Brian don Levy in the Old
Fall river Line on the Cavalcade of America, The.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Old Fall river Line on the Old Fall river Line,
Hi fell for Suzi line of Parkan Suzi tap on mine.
I fell in with a partisan any test tightest wine.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
For ninety years, the Fall River Line sent its steamers
down Narragansett Bay, around Point Judah, through the waters of
Long Island Sound. Residents and farmers, businessmen and adventurers, brides
and grooms. They are We all took the Fall River
Line to Boston or New York or Newport or Fall River.
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Our story opens as one of the steamers, the Priscilla,
nears New York. In the captain's cabin, a gray haired
man gathers his belongings. It is his last trip on
the steamer. He has commanded for ten years. He is
about to leave when come in, Captain Hamilton. Were almost
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in New Yorks?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Are Oh? Come in, mister Carter, I mean, Captain Carter.
You have to get used to hearing yourself called captain, Ed,
I guess I will.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Can I send you any of your things?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
No sense?
Speaker 7 (03:42):
And you're taking it all off tonight?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
All right?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Ed?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Some things in my desk I want to take along
the night. Shll what's that?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Just an old tin box, but there's forty five years
of steamboating in it. I don't understand. Look at this,
I guess you'd call it junk. Nothing in here worth
anything to anybody but me except maybe this A quarter.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
That's the first one you ever earned.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Or have something like that. Ed. It was when I
was a kid working on the line. No gold braid then,
and no gray hair. I was cleaning the after deck,
cleaning it at night because it was the only time
I could get at it, handling a.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Brush and a bucket.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Wasn't my idea of romance on the steamers.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Handlton Hamilton?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah, what's the matter, Yes, sir Hamilton.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
I yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm gonna move on down there. I'm gonna take you
all night.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
No, sir, I'd like to bust this right over you
thick fat kids.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Who's that?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Or just a passenger? You're tired of doing that sometimes?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Tired?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Just let me set foot on land, and I'll never
want to see one of these tubs again. I hated
that much, h I sure do.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yeah, going to that job pretty well, can't hate it
very much.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Look, mister, to me, it's a job to get done,
and the quicker it's over, the better i'll feel. Oh well,
maybe you don't feel like talking.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No, I don't mind. Go ahead. The passenger is always right.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
You pretty bit there? And why don't you like your job?
Because it's not what it's cracked up to be? Steamboats romance. Yeah,
work your way to the top, they said. The only
place I will work too is the hull of this tub,
and that's.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
By wearing through with this right, that's a wonderful sound,
mister Hamilton, awe, it's not a steam blowing through a whistle. Oh,
you're wrong. It's America, America. What's your first name?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Then we'll look down to you.
Speaker 9 (06:19):
That whistle's just steam. But to me it's America, just
like the fall river lines America.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Eh, I don't get it.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
You will, you will when you see and hear beyond
the steam of the whistle. You'll get it when you
remember the years that have passed and looked to the
years ahead. You see, then, not too long ago, the
water we're going over now was once part of a wilderness,
a wilderness that looked impenetrable, a barrier to Americans. But
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it didn't stay that way long. Then we broke into
it with our eyes fixed ahead, building a new country
where we could look ahead, where we could build.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
You see, I don't know what's that got to do
with me. I'm a deck hand, so was I on
river boats in Ohio. But I'm nothing but but a flunky.
What chance have I got? I was once a carpenter.
I worked hard at it. Oh well, maybe a word.
But what's all this got to do with me?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Just a woman?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Yeah, it's a quarter. It's not to spend down. That's
not why I give it to you.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And what's the idea?
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Just look at it for a long while and study it,
and you'll see why I've talked the way I have.
And maybe what you'll see there will give you the
answer to all your questions.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
It'll tell you why scrubbing a deck. Now I've been
looking for you.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Your cabin's ready.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Thank you, good night, Dan.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I enjoyed our talk. I hey you wait a minute, Yes,
who was that?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Are you joking, youngster.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
No, I'm not joking.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I couldn't see him.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Who was it that that was the President of the
United States?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
That was a long time ago? Ed? Yeah, But the quarter, well,
I looked at it a long time. I wanted to
ask him what he meant, but I couldn't get out
the nerve. But I finally found out. And what on
the day they made me a steward? I step up?
I took another good look at the quarter, and something
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hit me right between the eyes. I knew what made
it possible for me to be a steward and not
stay it deck hand. One word stamped on this quarter, liberty,
I see.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
But then the rest of this stuff. It wasn't all
given to you by President.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Oh No. Lots of other people traveled on the Fall
river Line. It was like a cross section of America.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What's this?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Oh that song? She? Yeah, you've heard this song? Ed
the old Fall river Line. Harry von Tilzer wrote it, Well,
what's it doing in miss box? Well, there are two
people mentioned in it, Dan and Susan. That you that's right,
Me and Susan was right after I had been made
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captain of the Bristol. Yes, I got to be captain
took fifteen years, but I was still young. I guess
the gold braid and the brand new uniform puffed me
up a little. But anyway, I was standing on the
after deck. We were a little late and pulling out
over an hour. I guess when all of a sudden
I heard.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
Stewart. Are you deaf or just rude?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Are you talking to me?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Miss?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
But there's no one else around?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Is there no stewards anyway?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You is something funny?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Miss?
Speaker 9 (10:12):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:12):
I called you steward? I heard you you were you
looked like a steward.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
I happened to be captain of the Bristol.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Oh, yes, yes, I see now it's in gold braid
on your hat. It's really the only way I could tell.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I'm sorry, miss. You'll have to go forward. No passengers
allowed back here until we're out.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Why not? It's the rule?
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Who made it?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's the rule of the lions.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
It's a silly one. Why aren't passengers allowed back here?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Because they might get hurt?
Speaker 10 (10:41):
Are you really the captain? I thought all captains had
whiskers On.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
The return trip, I'll wear a false beard.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
You're not very nice.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Look, miss, I'm very busy. We're over an hour late
getting out.
Speaker 10 (10:51):
Now, and that's what I want to ask you about.
Will we be late getting into Fall River?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Possibly?
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Yes, but my aunt's giving me a birthday party.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Congratulations.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
You aren't very nice, are you, miss may I ask.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You again to go forward.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
How long have you been a captain?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Four days?
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (11:11):
And such a big boat, Maya that you're proud as captain.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I ordered you to go forward.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Passengers aren't allowed back here before we start.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
I know it's a rule of the line, then.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Please obey it.
Speaker 10 (11:26):
I believe you're angry with me.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
I'm not as a captain. I don't lose my temper
with passengers.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Is that a rule of the line too?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And a good thing?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
All right?
Speaker 10 (11:36):
I hope we meet again, Captain more nicety.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
You're having trouble with their captain by Oh, no trouble
at all. Sick And I'm mister Warren, the new president
of the line. Oh glad to know you, sir. I'm captain. Yes, yes,
I know. Pretty, wasn't she?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Who Oh?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Who's a girl? I didn't notice a nice blue eyes,
gold hair, and the spoiled brat. I think she got
her goat. She did not well, I mean she didn't well,
perhaps not, but somebody ought to give her a spanking.
I told her three times. No passengers were allowed back
here before we sailed. Oh well I'd better go there.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh no, no, no, sair, it's all right.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
You're not getting in a wave. You sure. Yes, People
like that girl that annoy me. They refuse to believe
that they're not allowed to do anything they want to.
You can tell them in a second. Spoiled, selfish think
they own the world. If that girl was my daughter,
you would be an awfully young father. Anyway, somebody ought
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to teach her a lesson. Why don't you. I'd like to,
and then let me know how you did it. Eh,
I've been trying for twenty years and she's my daughter.
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Captain Hamilton, Oh good evening, miss Lauren.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Are passengers allowed here?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Of course?
Speaker 10 (13:29):
Excuse me, I'll please don't go. I'm awfully sorry, Captain Hamilton.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
That's quite all right, but it isn't.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
I was nasty earlier this evening, But I'll tell you
a secret secret. What I did it on purpose?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
What for it?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well?
Speaker 10 (13:48):
When I came aboard, I saw you standing there and you.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Looked well, you look like somebody who ought to have
a little.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
Of the conceit taken out of him.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
I'm not conceited now, if you'll.
Speaker 11 (14:01):
Excuse me please, You did look like a dressed up rooster.
I said, you look much more human when you laugh.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But what made you say I'm conceited?
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Just the way you looked so proud? I am proud,
miss woman, you may call me Susan. You said you
were proud. What else were you going to say?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Well, it wasn't pride in myself, but in what I'm doing.
How well? I I don't know exactly how to say it,
but there's something that makes me feel proud when I
come aboard my ship. Not because I'm the captain, not
because the Bristol is a great ship, but because of
the Bristol. The whole Fall river line is like America.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
That's nice.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Go on, well, you see, Susan. Fifteen years ago a
man told me something where I heard just a whistle,
he heard the voice of America growing strong, building. I'm
part of that now I'm helping.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
No.
Speaker 10 (15:18):
I like you very much.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Do you do you make the trip back on the
Bristol too?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
I make all of them.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Why you know?
Speaker 10 (15:31):
I think I'm going to take quite a few trips
on the Fall river Line myself.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
You wanted to see me, Captain Hamilton, Yes, mister Freyling.
I have a few of the passenger reservation lists. Yes, sir,
right here, everything filled.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
For the next trip. Not quite sure?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Oh is sir?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Is there anything wrong? Oh? No, I I've been captain
now for seven weeks. That's right, sir. In that time
we've had quite a few couples in the bridal suite
almost every trip, Captain is is it reserved for the
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next trip?
Speaker 10 (16:25):
Why no?
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Search, well, then make a reservation for it. Name, sir,
Captain and and missus Dan Hamilton.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You are listening to Brian dan Levy as Captain Dan
Hamilton in the Old Fall river Line on the Cavalcade
of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better
Things for better living through Chemistry.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
The al Fall river Line on the All.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Fall River Line.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I Fell for Susie.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Line of an Susie for Line.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
As the second part of our story opens, Dan Hamilton,
retiring after forty five years service with the historic Fall
River Line, is telling his successor how he rose from
deckhand the captain and found not only opportunity but romance.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Yes, Susan and I were married. Harry Van tells her
and his partners wrote that song about her.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
What's that you got there?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
That that's just the cabin boy's hat belonged to a
kid named Tony?
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Or Oh, what's the story?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Then? Well ed, I guess it was Tony? Who?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
It was one night the Bristol. It was on the
run from New York to Fall River, and we were
well out in the sound, and I was on the
bridge with the watch half points starboard, Miss Trapleton, half
point starboard, quarter master, half points.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Starved, Sir.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Steady, good is their nice night, mister Trapleton, Yes, Sir, Captain.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Hamilton, Sir ay to cabin boy, Sir, Tony's collapse.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Uh, Tony looks looks like appendicitis. We've got to get
him to a hospital, sir. Or do you think you
can hold out until morning when we dock?
Speaker 9 (18:33):
He's pretty sick, Captain, no doctor report, has anything been
done for him, but we're taking him below. Try to
make him comfortable. Pain seems to be letting up.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Little mister Appleton. I say, what speed are you making?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Eight nuts?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Increase to ten? Mister Appleton. Aye, Aye, Captain, Captain Hamilton,
I just picked this one up over the wireless, Sir, sos.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
The steamer of Boston Eastern Steamship Company is on fire.
Six hundred passengers aboard position dead Astern Sir, distance about
fifty miles.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Mister Appleton, Hi, Captain, bring her about.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
But Captain, what about Tony? If we delay our arrival
in Fall River will meant his life.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Mister Rappleton, there is six hundred people aboard the Boston
I know the roots and the latest estimated positions of
ships along them. We happen to be the closest to her.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
But Tony's one of us, Sir, can't some other ship?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
We can sacrifice six hundred lies, mister Appleton, or we
can risk one.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
But you're talking about one of your own crew, Sir.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Have you ever seen a ship on fire at sea? No, Sir,
you will, mister Appleton, bear a hand. Now bring her about,
I say, quarter Master, quater Master, I bring her about.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Put your wheel over, hi, Isy.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Sa steady as she goes, now, steady as she goes, Kevin,
mister Appleton, full speed ahead, Tony. How are you feeling now?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (20:12):
Uh, I'm alright, sir, you just go ahead to the Boston.
Don't worry about me.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Oh you know, yeah.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
I I heard the men.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Talking wan n uh uh uh rest easy lad rest easy?
Speaker 12 (20:26):
Now wa will we will we make the Boston in time, sir?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
I think we will?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Good?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Good, Tony? I alright, guess Kevin. Well, I just want
you to know I'd have done anything to say with you.
And then that sos came. Six hundred lives out there,
lad or were yours? I was in the spot I
had to decide something.
Speaker 12 (20:54):
It It was right what you did, sir.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Thanks Tony.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It ain't me, sir.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
I I'd a guide to thinking I'm one person that
there's six hundred on the Boston.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
A life is a life, Tony.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Sure, I I know that, sir. But I got to
thinking about my folks. They came over here from Europe.
Pop U pop used to tell me how it It
made everything different. I got to go to school, something
I never would have been able to do if.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
I hadn't been here.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I I got a job, a job doing what I
wanted to do, not something I would have had to take.
And all of a sudden, lying here I knew why
why Tony?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Because it.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
It's all the people that count, not just one or
even a few. It's all of them, sir, all of 'em,
everybody having the same chance.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
So I figure, what's one against six hundred? You did, right, sir?
Speaker 7 (22:10):
You have made it to the Boston in time, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And Tony he.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
He didn't make it. Oh well, lots of other things
in this box. Come in, Captain Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
We're pulling into New York.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Will you come into the salon, sir?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Sal something wrong?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Oh no, sir, but well will you come sir? Come
on Dan?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Now wait if this please? Dan?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Come on? All right? Hi here he is not.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
What's all you didn't think you're gonna leave cold?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Did you have quiet? Please?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Why?
Speaker 13 (23:13):
Everybody, ladies and gentlemen, you all know Captain Dan Hamilton,
So there's no need for me to introduce him.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Tonight.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
Tonight he made his last run on the Fall River line,
and in a few minutes he'll get down the gang
planks for the last time as captain.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
But uh, well, well, Dan here, we want you to.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Accept this watch from us and from the line. I
guess there are a lot of words.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
The man could stay at a time like this, but
I I can't think of any of them right now.
Just just thanks, goodbye, Ed, take good care of the Priscilla.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I'll walk down with it. No, no, please, don't you
stay here.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I think I'd rather walk off alone.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Ed.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
All right, Dan, we'll be saying.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You sure, sure you will?
Speaker 10 (24:32):
Are passengers allowed back here, Captain Hamilton, Susan, I'll walk
off with you, all right. I didn't want to go
in the salon, Dan, I would have cried.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I know, Susan. I should have said something in there,
something about the line, but I couldn't. Now I can
to you, because you know what the Fall River Line
meant to me, To everybody who sailed on it. It
wasn't just a line or boat, Susan. It was America.
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It grew. People made it grow the way they made
our country grow. I'm leaving it, but I'm leaving it
to men who'll go on from where I left off.
That's what makes America great, Susan, because there's always somebody
to carry on, to remember our traditions and to keep
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them alive.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
In a moment, our Star Brian dam Levie, we'll return,
But first here is game Whipman speaking for DuPont.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Have you had trouble this past summer with bread turning
moldy in the bread box?
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Good heavens, no, You radio announcers ask the most embarrassing questions,
moldy bread.
Speaker 10 (26:09):
Not in my house.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I'm glad of that.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
But you used to find moldy slices now and then
down at the end of a loaf of bread.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Didn't you, well a few years back.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, The reason you've been having less trouble with your
bread turning moldy these past few years is because chemists
have developed mold inhibitors called propionates. Bread is one of
the oldest foods we have, and one of the very best.
The Bible calls it the staff of life. Its very
name has come to mean food. We speak of a man.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Earning his bread when we mean earning his living.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
But all too often in the past, the golden loaf
that reached you, fresh and tasty from the bakery soon
grew spots of mold. It happened usually on warm, humid days.
It happened quite often families where there were still four
or five slices of bread left over for a few days.
When that happened. What remained of the loaf had to
(27:08):
be thrown out wasted, and bread is nothing to waste,
not these days when the world needs food. So a
chemist in the baking industry went to work on the
problem of keeping mold from attacking bread for just those
extra couple of days that would let you use the
whole loaf. He found that some foods contained a mysterious
(27:31):
something nobody knew just what it was, which retarded mold,
and at last he discovered the mysterious something propionates. The
DuPont Company manufactures calcium and sodium propionates and supplies them
to your baker to day under the trademark Micoban. As
(27:52):
a result, the bread you buy stays good longer, saving
food and saving money because the Michael has no taste.
You don't realize it's there, but it's chemistry at work
serving your welfare. Michael Ban is one of the DuPont Companies.
Better things for better living through chemistry.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Now Here is our star.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Bryan don Levy, thanker, Thank you, John.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I've been on Cavalcade several times now and it's always
been a great kick to play the men who helped
build our country pioneers who gave us everything we have today.
There's a story coming up for next week's Cavalcade about
another pioneer. I wish I could play the part, but
it'd be a little tough because it's about a twelve
year old boy, and I gave up those parts a
(28:55):
few years ago. But John Houston will tell you about
next week cavalcade.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Next week, the DuPont Cavalcade brings you Skippy Homyer in
One Wagon Westward. It's the inspiring story of John Sager,
twelve year old American pioneer, alone and unaided through sickness
and hardships across the unknown wilderness in a covered wagon.
Young John brought his brothers and sisters to Oregon and safety.
(29:32):
Be sure to listen next Monday to One Wagon Westward,
starring Skippy home Iyer. Daylight Saving Time ends in certain
areas on September twenty eighth. This may change the time
at which the program is heard in your community. Please
check your local paper for the time at which this
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program will be heard next week and each week thereafter.
The music Fortnight's DuPont Cavalcade was composed and conducted by
Robert armbuster Our Cavalcade play was based on research made
available through the courtesy of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad operators at the Old Fall river line
for almost half a century. Ryan don Levy may currently
(30:13):
be seen in the water Winger picture Canyon Passage, a
universal international production in the cast with Brian don Levy Tonight,
where Mary Jane Croft, Carl Frank Clayton Post, William Johnstone,
Jerry Hausner, Sidney Miller, Herb Rowlinson, Ken Peters, and Theodore
von Els. This is John Heaston inviting you to listen
(30:33):
next week to Skippy Homeyer in one wagon.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
Westward off the inview from Hollywood. This is NBC, the
National Broadcasting Company.
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