One of them was wearing a badge in his buttonhole, a white enamelled button, on which was printed very distinctly:
Every
D A M
Booster.
But the DAM, when you looked at it closely, turned out to be "Dayton's Adding Machines."
"What does 'booster' mean?" I asked.
"A feller that makes a job go," it was explained to me.
After breakfast I took a photograph of them sitting in the grass. They were much pleased.
"If Skinny Atlas had been here he'd have broke the camera," said one of them.
An extremely fat boy came into view and approached our party. The others all cried at him "Skinny Atlas," so I asked:
"Is that a nickname? Is his surname Atlas?"
"No," they replied, "his surname is Higgins. But he's so darned fat that we call him Skinny Atlas. We have a saying, 'Put a nickel in the slot and up comes Skinny Atlas.'"