Route 1, Leetonia, Ohio 44431
I read so much in your magazine about the wives of men, who love
engines, helping them. Now I’m writing about my husband.
He and his father worked steam engines on sawmills since Carl
was eight years old. He tells me how he fixed the steamer when he
was that young. Of course that is quite a few years ago.
Later they worked with reapers and any other thing you could do
with steam. Next they went to gas engines in the woods. When we
married in 1934, we lived in the woods and moved with the sawmill.
Times were rough, but how happy and free we felt at that time.
Finally now for the last many years Carl has worked on
Draglines, Cranes, or what have you.
The main thing I want to tell you is about how Carl loves
animals. He races our ponies in the Pennsylvania-Ohio racing
circuit and is vice-president. He worked hard all his life when he
was young, now he doesn’t know how to slow down. In the winter,
he works on the Huber or the Rumely and any of the small engines we
have. In the summer, he hurries home from work to train ponies for
the races. We have a registered Hackney stallion ‘C.R.
Sharpie’. He was in the top ten racing hackneys until he hurt
his leg one summer. Carl can take an animal, a man hater, like
Sharpie was, and turn him into one of the most gentle and lovable
ponies in the world. He has a way with animals and children that
demands respect. Of course you know that I love him.