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The use of common impure soaps is answerable for much of this skin deterioration, and for this there is no excuse, since the best and purest of all skin soaps Pears' Soap is really mora economical than ordinary soaps, because of the fact that it lasts twice as long. The pre-eminence of Pears' Soap all the world over is easily accounted for. It is composed entirely of natural beauty preserving ingredients. Its emollient action ensures the skin of a permanent softness and delicacy of color, and exercises a protective influence that keeps it in perfect condition.
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The general idea of Mother's Day is a simultaneous observance in every country of the love and reverence men. women and children owe to a good mother. The second Sunday in May is observed as Mother's Day throughout the United State?. The Movement is not denominational— Even* society and organi7ation is asked to unite in making the observance universal. Do some distinct act ot kindness to the sick or unfortunate, in loving remembrance of your mother. The White Carnation is the Mother's Day special flower.
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"What makes the Victor tone so sweet, clear and natural, and of such splendid volume?" people ask as they become captivated by the unequaled Victor tone-quality. The "goose-neck" construction of the tone-arm is largely responsible. A little thing in itself, but a great big thing in what it accomplishes. It puts the weight of the sound-box in the proper place and at the proper angle to get the best results from every record. Its flexibility enables the reproducing point to follow the lines of the sound- waves so closely that every detail is reproduced with absolute fidelity. And besides improving the tone, the "goose-neck" adds to the convenience of using the Victor. This exclusive patented "goose-neck" is only one of the many valuable features that help to make the Victor the world's greatest musical instrument. If you have never heard a Victor of the present day, go to the nearest Victor dealer's and hear it. You'll be astonished at the height of perfection it has reached in recent years. And be sure to hear the Victor-Victrola
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In answering this wlrvrtisrmrnt '' is desirable thil ym mention The RAii-noAri Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE- ADVERTISING SECTION
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IH answering I lilt advertisement il is dcnirable that ynu mention The Railboap Man's Mahazixe. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE CONTENTS FOR MAY
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The Thousand- Mile Ticket. Pail II Dan Duane 617 Dr. Jourdans Mystery. Part II C. W. Bcels 655 Baker of the Bad Lands. Part II W. T. Percival 703 Vanishing Railroaders. Part IV John W. Saunders 750 SHORT STORIES.
Crompton's Train Robber Clue I Illustrated.) J. R. Stafford 586 Captured by Cheyennes R. M. West 601
The Secret Red Lights. In two parts. I Harry Bedwell 631 Check 7-87-45. (Illustrated.) Edgar Welton Cooley ... 641 Honk and Horace. (Illustrated.) Emmet F. Harte 677 Catching the Boat. (Illustrated.) George Foxhall 692
5 feet 5 vs: 6 feet 3 Lillian Bennet-Thompson . . . 713
The Man Who Listened Benjamin Rush Thornbury . . 728 Against Great Odds. (Illustrated.) Earle C. Wight ...... 737 SPECIAL ARTICLES.
The Railroad Builders. Part I Walter Gardner Seaver ... 577 Great American Train Robberies. No. 16 Howard Morris 595
Observations of a Country Station-Agent. No. 36. (Illustrated.) J. E. Smith 609
The New Atlantic Gateway. ( Illustrated.) John Walters 626 First Fight for a Railway. Part 11 Felix G. Prentice 667 The A. B. C. of Freight Rates. Part III John C. Thomson 686
When the Con Was "Called." True Story No. 56 . . . Sam Henry 700
A Family Railroad . . .- Dennis H. Stovall 711
Ten Thousand Miles by Rail. No. 12. (Illustrated.) . . Gilson Willets ...... 718 Coddling the " Old Girl '* Thaddeus S. Dayton .... 733 Record Runs of Millionaires George Jean Nathan .... 745 VERSE AND DIVERSE.
Hands Up! I Poem.) Thomas R. Ybarra .... 584 The Railroad Alphabet George F. Merrill .... 594 By the Light of the Lantern 648 A Schoolboy's Description of an Engine 676
Lullaby of the Wheels. (Poem. I J. Edward Hungerford ... 699 The Sunny Side of the Track 731 The Railroad Man's Brain Teasers .... 758 MISCELLANEOUS. Some High Bridges 593 Cutting Down Casualties 684 Horse Power for Luxuries 600 First Aid to the Injured 685
And What Did the Con Say ? . . . . 616 Japanese Smoke Preventer 698
Government Inspection of Engines . . 629 Duties of a Fireman 502 The Good Samaritans 630 Freight-Car Held for a Bird 712 Value of an Apprenticeship 647 Steel Mail Cars Only 749 Story of a Fast Train 654 Good Mileage Record 749 Solid Steel Wheels 675 On the Editorial CarDet 759
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WHEN railroads throughout the West were warring with one another for new territory and pushing their tracks through that part of Kansas and Nebraska known ag the Great American Desert the intense rivalry between the builders of competing roads often gave rise to incidents, many of which are still unwritten history. The first instalment of Mr. Seaver's series of stories told by promoters, engineers, and contractors deals with the rough-and-ready tactics of these Western railroad builders whom no obstacles however great could overcome, and who sought to finish their work on time even if they had to help them- selves to the building material belonging to another line. PART I —THE FIGHT FOR RAILS. Master-Strokes of Nerve, Daring, and Audacity That Marked the Efforts of the Men Who Struggled To Win Supremacy for the Roads They Were Building. BATTLE FOR COUNTY AID BONDS. and Wichita, a part of the Missouri Pacific system. The Frisco system had a line run- Joab Mulvane Learns that It Pays to Have ning from Monett, Missouri, to Wichita, Public Opinion Behind a Railroad. but offered no competition to the Santa Fe, i as it was controlled by that line. IN 1S83 the freight and passenger The Southern Kansas, from Kansas City traffic of that part of Kansas to Independence and thence west to Medi- lying west of the Missouri, Kan- cine Lodge, was the only line through the sas and Texas Railroad and Osage Diminished Reserve from east to south of the Arkansas River was west, and the two southern tiers of counties controlled by the Atchison, To- depended upon it entirely for dieir supply peka and Santa Fe lines, with the exception of fuel and lumber. It was almost impos- of what went to the St. Louis, Fort Scott sible to get soft coal from the mines in south- 1 RR 577 578 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. eastern Kansas during the winter of 1882- were Carried in every county with very little 1883, either for the reason that the Southern opposition. Kansas did not have cars enough to serve the Just about the time that the contract for territory, or because of a combination be- the underwriting of the bonds was to be tween the dealers and the railway to restrict closed, the Palmer-Sullivan lines went into the supply and thus advance prices. What- the hands of a receiver, as did also the Den- ever the cause, coal at any of the stations ver and Rio Grande. It was found that no west of Elk City cost from twenty-five to funds could be secured for a narrow-gase forty cents a bushel, delivered. system, as the Palmer-Sullivan smash During the fall of 1S82 an immense corn caused bankers to believe that narrow-gage crop had been gathered all through southern lines were not practical when brought into Kansas, but the price was low, the grain competition with those using standard gage. bringing but ten cents a bushel delivered at the railroad. As a result, corn was used Special Act Passed. for fuel, and made a quick and exceedingly hot fire, though the majority of people found Something had to be done; so the Denver, that in the spring their stoves were burned Memphis and Atlantic secured the passage out and fit only for scrap. of an act in the Kansas Legislature, permit- Colonel Joseph Hansen, superintendent ting companies incorporated to build nar- of the Union Depot at St. Joseph, Missouri, row-gage lines to build standard-gage roads and prior to that superintendent of the St. instead. This was in the winter of 1885- Joseph and Denver City, was thoroughly 1886. familiar with the situation and the country. The -time stipulated for the building of He planned a line of narrow-gage road that the line in the county aid propositions had was to connect the Cairo, Arkansas and elapsed, or so nearly so that a compliance Texas, then being built down through Ar- was impossible, and it became necessary to kansas and Texas by the Palmer-Sullivan make a second appeal for help, Colonel Syndicate, with the Denver and Rio Grande, Hansen having received assurances that, also a narrow-gage system running out of with the aid voted for a standard-gage line, Denver. the underwriting would be forthcoming. Just about this time the Santa Fe, which Wanted Broad-Gage. had ignored the Denver, Memphis and At- lantic scheme, began to sit up and take no- Associated with him was J. J. Burns, of tice, under the impression that there was Belle Plain, Kansas; Charles C. Black, of something doing. Joab Mulvane, of To- Winncld, Kansas'; Colonel John Doniphan, peka, had charge of the Santa Fe exten- Henry M. Hansen, Frederick C. Parker, of sions. He incorporated the Independence St. Joseph, and a number of others who had and Southwestern, and entered the field filed a charter incorporating the Denver, against the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic. Memphis and Atlantic Railway. Mulvane intended to build only enough of The line was to run from Memphis, Ten- the Independence and Southwestern to head nessee, crossing the Cairo, Arkansas and off and kill the Denver road, and then Texas (now the Cotton Belt) at or near leave the Independence line to be operated Brinkley, and thence along the White River as a spur only, as he thought that the peo- Valley in Arkansas to Joplin, Missouri. It ple wanted a railroad, and did not care who was to pass through Baxter Springs, Kan- built it so long as they had the line. sas, crossing the Missouri, Kansas and Tex- as at Chetopa, Kansas, and thence through Not in Touch with Public. Coffeyville, Sedan, Winfield, Belle Plain, Kingman, and Lamed. He either forgot or did not know that the The proposed line would tap the rich Denver, Memphis and Atlantic was really coal-fields of southeastern Kansas as well as the result of a short-sighted policy on the those of Arkansas. In Arkansas for a hun- part of the Southern Kansas management, dred miles it ran through forests of yellow and that, the cordial warmth of the people pine. The announcement of the project was toward the Denver road was due not so hailed with delight by the people all along much to the fact that it was a new project the proposed line, and when issues of bonds as to the. fact that it promised them cheap in aid of the line were proposed the elections lumber and coal and opened to them the : THE RAILROAD BUILDERS. 579 markets of the Southeast. From their Southwestern, for it would practically par- knowledge of the personnel of the Denver allel the Southern Kansas. directorate, they were satisfied that the line would be one that would 'benefit the people. A Fight to the Finish. Joab Mulvane was a keen, shrewd, saga- cious man, so loyal in every fiber of his be- " Both roads had the requisite number of ing to the Santa Fe that the success of his signers to their petitions to call the election, road had actually became a religion with and the county commissioners were in a him. He could rot tolerate the idea of an- quandary as to what they should do in the other line coming into its territory, and»could matter. Mulvane and Black both appeared not see why a network of Santa Fe lines before the commissioners and made argu- would not serve the people better dian a ments in favor of their propositions. score or so of small ones. " Mulvane laid strong stress on the fact He was not in direct touch with the mass that the Denver was a paper road and had of the people, however, and he did not know no assurances to give the people that it that the efforts of the men at the front and would ever be built, and told the commis- in die operating department to secure die sioners that they should demand of Black friendship of the farmers along the line was the names of the underwriters of his propo- handicapped and in many cases entirely sition as an evidence of good faith and a nullified by the traffic department. guarantee that the road would be built. "Now, the Santa Fe had been moving Caused Some Excitement. heaven and eardi to find out who was be- hind the Denver, Memphis and Adantic, The first time that Mulvane came up but it had been foiled at every turn. So far against the Denver in a square tussle was at as the public at large knew, there was not a Sedan, in Chautauqua County, when the dollar behind it. Mulvane said that, on the question was put to the people as to which other hand, everybody knew the Santa Fe, road should secure the county bonds amount- and that was evidence enough that the road ing to $125,000. The campaign had been would be built if die bonds were voted to a hot one, and everybody in the county was the Independence and Southwestern. He worked up over it. No political campaign closed by challenging Black to show the had ever evoked the interest that this one people that he could build the road before had. he asked them to tie up the bonds. With few exceptions, the entire press of the country along the proposed line were Cheap Coal and Lumber. heart and soul with the Denver proposition. The story of the batde at Sedan is thus told " Black responded in a speech in which by one who was there, not merely as a " look- he set forth the advantages that his line er on in Vienna," but as an active worker offered in the matter of cheap coal and for the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic lumber from Arkansas, as well as giving "I guess that the first time that Joab the people a competing market at Memphis really got a full understanding of the feel- against Chicago and St. Louis. He said ing of the people was when he ran against that the names of his underwriters con- Charlie Black, secretary of die Denver, cerned only the members of his board, and Memphis and Atlantic, at Sedan, the seat that it was not necessary that he should give of Chautauqua County. The Denver, Mem- diis information, as in so doing he would phis and Atlantic -was asking for $125,000 give the Santa Fe information that it had bonds of the county in aid of the road. been vainly scouring New York to obtain. "The Independence and Southwestern " The proposition was plain on its face. was asking for the same. Joab Mulvane No bonds could be issued, if voted, unril was president of the Independence line, the road was completed with cars running which was building from Independence thereon to the points in the county named down toward Cedar Vale and Arkansas City. in the petition, and, therefore, it was no con- It was a Santa Fe extension, and the people cern of the commissioners whether the road had an idea that it was only a scheme to had a dollar behind it or not. head off the Denver road, and that if the " They were there to determine which road latter had not entered the field no one would would be of the most benefit to the county have ever heard of the Independence and and the people, and if this result was in 580 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. favor of the Denver road the county com- scheme so that I can afford to wear a little missioners assumed no liability, for if the dinky straw hat and a biled shirt when I road was not built no bonds would be issued. come down here to tell you how to vote "An overflow meeting was held in the the right ticket ! Now, people, will you help ' court-house, at which young Joab Mulvane me to get it? and the editor of a little country paper in "All the men there were clad in their Crowley Count}', who was an assistant to rough working clothes, just as they had Black, did the speaking. come in from their farms, and this young "Young Mulvane wore a black alpaca editor's talk struck them just right, for they coat, a white vest, white shirt and tie, dark had the Western contempt for a man that pants, patent-leather shoes, and a straw hat was dressy. of the latest style. "The county commissioners decided to take a vote of the crowd as to which rail- Didn't Know Rube Editor. road should have the election called, and they all adjourned to the outside and joined "The country jiewspaper man, on the those in the square. The chairman of the contrary, had been in the saddle all the week board of commissioners put the motion from campaigning from house to house among the court-house steps, requesting all who the farmers, and was clad like the majority desired the election to be called for the of men in the audience. He wore a broad- Southwestern to step to the right, while brimmed straw hat, through a hole in the those in favor of the Denver road should crown of which a wisp of hair stuck out, a step to the left and line up so they could be checked hickory shirt, and jeans pants stuck counted. into his boots. "When the line-up was completed, the "He had not been shaved for a week, Denver supporters outnumbered the South- and though he stood close to young Mulvane western crowd four to one. They were so the latter did not know him. clearly a majority that it was not necessary "During the latter's speech he said that to count them, and the election was ordered the Denver crowd claimed to be building for the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic peti- the road to benefit the people, but they were tion. Joab then set about preparing peti- only out for the dollars, and their design tions for township bonds to be voted in aid was to get aid voted along several hundred of his line, and this was granted. He went miles of their proposed line, and then ex- back to Topeka with a good sized flea buz- pected the Santa Fe to buy them out. If zing in his ear, however, and he marked they were wise they would demand of the out his future campaigns on the line of con- county commissioners that they call the ciliating the people instead of talking election for the Independence and South- against new railway propositions." western, and thus be sure of a railroad, and not find themselves sold out when it was too BORROWING A TRAINLOAD OF RAILS. late. "He was followed by the newspaper man. Thayer's Steel Was Delayed, So He Helped who, by reason of his campaigning, had be- Himself to the First He Could Find. come known to ever)' man in the county, who made only a few remarks, closing by saying: A STORY is told of D. J. Thayer, chief " of engineer of the Fitzgerald " Men, you all know me. I am one & Mal- you. I live in this section of the State. lory Construction Company, that was build- My interests are your interests; your suc- ing the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic from cess is my success. I suppose I ought to Chetopa to Lamed. have rustled up a silk hat and a biled shirt The company had contracted for a lot of to talk to you in and tell you how to vote, steel from the Joliet rail mills, but the but you know me, and know that I can't twenty cars of rails, which had been deliv- afford it. My friend says that we are out ered to the Santa Fe at Kansas City through for the dollars. Certainly. That's what I a mistake, had been forwarded to some am running my paper for. point near Dodge City, Larned, I think it " ' It is what you fellows are raising corn, was, which, though on the Denver, Mem- wheat, oats, hogs and cattle for. Now, men, phis and Atlantic line, was several hundred I would like to make enough out of this miles away from the point of delivery. THE RAILROAD BUILDERS. 581 S. H. Mallory was_fretting and pulling until they took up the slack and the cars his whiskers as if he wished that they be- began to move that the night men in the longed to Mulvane, instead of himself, when depot caught on to what they were doing. he heard that a shipment of twenty cars of The jolting of the cars as they straight- steel for the Independence and Southwestern ened out attracted the attention of the night had been received by the Missouri, Kansas operator, and he ran out with a lantern, but and Texas at Parsons, to be sent up to both the house and wagon tracks were occu- Cherryvale, to be delivered to the Southern pied by strings of box cars, and he had to Kansas at that point. climb through between these before he could - Mallory 's son-in-law, Thayer, was chief reach the track occupied by the cars of rails. engineer of the construction company. They When he got there they were moving too had just received two new engines, which fast for him to catch on, as the engineer had had been set up. One of them had steam pulled his engine wide open when he took on her, and she was sent to the front, about the slack, so that the cars were running at five miles from Chetopa, where the Denver the rate of thirty miles an hour as they went road crossed the Katy. over the leads. \ The fireman knew from the way the Getting the Steel. engine started that if he expected to get back to Chetopa that night it was up to him The other was being tested when Thayer to get aboard, and as she passed he swung climbed on her, with his superintendent of up. The superintendent of construction had construction, and told the engineer that they climbed on the tank as soon as he had made would run her up to Parsons and have the the coupling, and they went on without division master mechanic of the Katy look bothering about the fact that they had left her over and see if anything was lacking. an open switch behind them. Now the engineer knew that there was There was no night operator at Chetopa nothing the matter with the engine, but at that time, and _ the engineer kept up the Thayer was the boss, and what he said had gait, without easing up for curves or shut- to go all along the line, so they ran out ting her off for the slopes. onto the Katy and traveled light to Parsons. Here the master mechanic looked the engine Off the Rails. over and said that she was all right, and then Thayer asked him to go over to the As soon as the operator found the cars of hotel for supper. rails were moving out, he at once tumbled About ten o'clock that night, after the to the little game that Thayer was playing. southbound passenger had left Parsons, and He hustled across to the roundhouse, where there was nothing more on the card until there happened to be an engine under steam along in the shank of the morning, Thayer and he ordered her out to catch the thieves. got a clearance for his engine running light When the engine came out she was headed from Parsons to Chetopa. The twenty cars north, and the boys did not stop to turn of Santa Fe steel were on a siding, and her, but set out after the Denver gang, run- between it and the main line were the house ning in the back motion. All went well and wagon tracks. until they struck the switch, a brakeman riding on the back of the tank with a lan- The Operator Gets Busy. tern to flag the way. The switch was a stub, and there was no The Denver engine had been set in on switch light, so when the brakeman caught the south end of the wagon track next to a glimpse of the target by the light from that occupied by the steel cars. Thayer his lantern it was too late, and the tender told the engineer that he intended to steal went off the rails. those rails, and to pull out on the main line That settled the question of their ever and back down and hook on to them. He stopping the runaways, and it was now a dropped the fireman to close the switch as case of hustle to get that engine back on the they pulled out with the steel, and the super- track and out of the way of No. 4, which intendent of construction ran across to be was due about three o'clock, and with all the on hand to make the coupling. trucks of the tender off, the boys had no They set the engine back as easily as pos- time to lose. sible and made the coupling, and it was not Thayer reached Chetopa all right, and i 582 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. ran by the depot without stopping. South " We had a lot of bridge timbers coming of the depot he whistled for the Denver to us over the Santa Fe lines, but a wash- switch. The boss track-layer, who knew out came on with the material on the wrong the sound of the two spot's whistle, ran out side of the break. My time was very short, and opened the switch, and they ran on to and I had to get some kind of a structure the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic rails that would carry the rails across the Cow- without slacking up. skin, a tributary of the Salomon, which was a little dinky stream, but as treacherous as Spiked Down! a copperhead. "While I was in this dilemma several They concluded to pull on down to the cars of bridge material, bound to some point front, and the boss track-layer, seeing the west on the Kansas Pacific, were side- cars of rails going by, routed out his men, tracked at a little station near where I was so that when the 2 stopped for the switch working. I believe they were delayed by to be opened onto the main line, they were defective draft rigging, or something of the swarming over the cars like a lot of flies sort. over a saucer of molasses. They ran the Worked in the Dark. Cars on down to the end of the track and stopped, the rails were dumped on either "There was no night operator there, and side, and the empty cars were then pushed the station closed at about eight o'clock. back to Chetopa and set on the siding. Along toward midnight I routed out my The agent at Parsons reported the taking men and teams and we sneaked over there of the rails to the Santa Fe, and then there and unloaded every stick of that stuff. As was wailing and gnashing of teeth and some fast as a wagon was loaded it would drive language, but it did no good. Thayer away. We worked in the dark, using no claimed that his steel was three weeks over- lanterns, and I would not allow the men due, and that when he saw the stuff at Par- to smoke, lest the fire in their pipes should sons he naturally concluded that it was his. be seen and attract the attention of some Parsons was a division point, and it was prowler to what we were doing. only natural that it should be temporarily "Long before daylight we had the stuff set out there. unloaded on either bank of the stream, and Thayer wasted no time getting the rails the teams were put up while the men went spiked to the ties as fast as his men and a to sleep. Harris track-laying machine could hustle. " Bright and early I had the bridge gang The Denver, Memphis and Atlantic rails out, and, while they wondered a little at were hurried back, and the Santa Fe had to the miraculous arrival of the material, no take them in place of those Thayer had bor- questions were asked, and they settled down rowed. As the weight and section were the to the work. It was three miles to the sta- same, it made no material difference. tion, and I heard nothing, as none of the men had occasion to go to the railroad, and CARTTER'S "MISTAKE." I was busy rushing the work. The next day the iron gangs were within a mile of me, and Robinson came out to see He Needed Bridge Timbers, and Couldn't how we were getting along. I told him we Wait Till His Own Arrived. would make it all right, and would let the WILL CARTTER, who has been a track gang*through on time. He looked at bridge and railroad contractor for me a little quizzically and said that he forty years, tells the following story: would order the bridge material sent to the "Now, I don't want to boast, but in the front. I knew then that he was on all right, '80s there were subsidy bonds to be earned, but said nothing. and it was up to the contractor to get things ready for the track, so the road could get The Agent Buffaloed! through in time for the bonds. I had a contract on a Santa Fe extension. A. A. "We got the temporary bridge in all Robinson was then chief engineer, and I right, and the track was laid across before have never had a contract under a. better I went to the station. The agent told me man. He was as inflexible as steel, but that my bridge material was on the siding. absolutely just. I looked at him and said that he must be THE RAILROAD BUILDERS. 583 mistaken. My material had arrived some He came into St. Paul one day on his time before and I had unloaded it die same private car, and there were rumors afloat night and took it out to die work. that die Northern Pacific was about to take "The agent looked at me a moment and over the Seattle and Northwestern. A ejaculated: reporter called on him, from the St. Paul "'Well, by the jumping Jehosaphat! Globe, and sent in his card. Here they have been jacking me up about He interested the newspaper man so a lot of bridge material that was set out much that he forgot all about the news here to be reloaded and sent on west, on he had come to get. When he looked over account of defective cars, and I swore by his notes afterward he found that he had all the gods that no bridge timber had ever material for a first-class article, but not been left here, nothing but half a dozen one word about the rumored sale and trans- empty flats.' fer of his line. The general knew when "The agent reported the arrival of the he came in what he was after and had missing material and was ordered to rush set about forestalling him. it west on the next freight. Whether the Kansas Pacific ever caught on, I don't The Other Fellow's Stakes. know. Perhaps they did, but as they had plenty of bridge material, they thought it One of General Bryant's favorite yarns was not worth kicking up a row about, was a story of an occurrence that happened especially as I had the stuff already in the on _some road in the west. He did not structure, and it would do them no good to name the road. It seems that two lines make a rumpus. were racing for a pass in the mountains, " But I want to say here, and now, that I and the one that got its stakes set first firmly believe that it could get hotter, rain would hold the right of way. harder, snow fiercer, and the wind could One day the engineer in charge of one blow swifter in Kansas than in any other of the parties was out ahead looking up place in the universe." the line, and he picketed his pony at noon, ate his lunch, and lay down to take a nap A RACE FOR A PASS. while the animal was browsing. When he woke up his "pony was gone, and he had General Bryant Had a Great Deal To Say, but a long, weary walk back to his camp. Was Not Betraying Any Secrets. It appeared that the engineer in charge of the other party had ridden up, and /GENERAL J. H. BRYANT, who died seeing the other man asleep, had led his in Washington during the latter part pony some distance away and turned him of November, 1906, was one of the old-time loose. The pony came into camp the next Western railroad men. He built die Seattle day, trailing his lariat. If the object of and Northwestern, and was president of the the prank was to delay the other party road until it was sold to the Northern and beat them to the pass, it proved a Pacific. General Bryant was a real gen- failure, for the engineer who was forced eral and won his title during the Civil to walk jumped his party ahead ten mile^s, War in the Union army. He was an Irish- took up the line at the spot where he had man, and used to say tiiere were only two ended his reconnaissance, and ran his line •days in the year when he would wear a into the pass. He then went back and silk hat—St. Patrick's Day and the Fourth filled up the gap and checked afterward, of July. so that when the engineer in charge of the He was a good railroad man and was second party reached the pass he found the popular with the people .along his line, other fellow's stakes. He had to back up and consequently the road was successful on his line some twenty miles and run for under his management. He never refused another hole in the hills, with the result an interview to any newspaper man who that the road was several miles longer than requested it, but he could talk more and was originally intended. tell less than any man in the business, How he squared it with the men higher except Jay Gould. up no one ever found out. This is the first of three papers on the adventures of the railroad builders and contractors. The second paper will appear next month. HANDS UP! BY THOMAS R. YBARRA. Written" for "The Railroad Man's Magazine." Being a song about a perfectly charming and eminently frofer young train-robber, to 7c-it: YOUTH of barely twenty-one, Montgomery V. Cox, Assisted by a moonless night and two enormous rocks. Derails the Lightning Flier on the L., M. N. and O., And stands the crew and passengers before him in a row. An awkward pause ensues—young Cox, embarrassed, rubs his head. And, in the midnight stillness, turns conspicuously red. The passengers seem quite annoyed; so, likewise, do the crew. (A man wants sleep or action on a winter morn at two.) "Well? " snaps the flier's engineer, as angry as two sticks. " Poor Mont explains: I'm green and young—and, oh, I'm in a fix! I've held you up; I mean to steal your cash and jewels rare; But—what's the next move in the game? I'm dashed if I'm aware! He looks so terribly ashamed; such blushes burn his face That passengers and crew grow interested in his case. " " I should suggest," a banker says, that motion number one Is to exclaim ' Hands up! at us while flourishing a gun! 584 — HANDS UIM 585 A deeper, hotter crimson overspreads poor Monty's cheek. For fully forty seconds he cannot emit a speak. " I have no gun! " Across his lips the statement scarcely creeps Ere Monty flops upon the track, and tears his hair and weeps. " Come, that's all right," observes a pretty schoolgirl, " dry your phiz; I have a big revolver in my satchel—here it is." " " Hooray! exclaims the highwayman—then, at his rude commands. Both crew and passengers in proper fashion raise their hands. " " Go through our clothes," the banker says, that is your second task." No, no," objects the banker's wife, "he hasn't got a mask! " " Alas! —too true! poor Monty groans—his bold demeanor's gone " " I'm selling masks," remarks a quiet fellow, try this on." It fits! His victims wildly cheer. Then Monty, very gruff. Annexes twenty-seven thousand dollars' worth of stuff; " You did that well," the engineer agrees, and then explains A really scientific method of derailing trains. Then off the flier whizzes. " Such a promising young lad," Opine both crew and passengers, " will certainly make bad! " " "What thoroughness! the banker cries, to be his prey I'm proud; That highwayman would pinch the silver lining off a cloud! And when, next week, those victims read: " Montgomery V. Cox, Assisted by a thunder-storm and four enormous rocks. Derails the Arrow Special on the L., M. N. and O., And swipes two million dollars," they exclaim: " I told you so! CROMPTOWS TRAIN-ROBBER CLUE BY J. R. STAFFORD. His Determination To Run Down Some Forgotten Outlaws Didn't Jibe with Old Tinkworth's Tangent. S chief of the G. and T. Railroad the same calm disregard of what they might Company's western depart-, want him to do, he opened fire with a pump- ment of secret service, Mr. gun into the surrounding darkness. Crompton looked his part Each time, too, after he had thus bom- admirably. He was tall, barded the right-of-way, he quietly dropped well-formed, active, ap- to the ground, a pistol in each hand, and parently fifty years old. He had mild gray waited on the field until daylight. eyes, and mustache six The second and last inches long. His manner time, finding a trail, he was unobtrusive — almost had followed it, and deferential—and he wore coming up later with a at his belt, as was proper nondescript character who for him, a pair of large claimed to be a sheep- white-handled pistols the herder he had marched holsters of which sagged him back to civilization half-way to his knees. and the law. In short, he could have Though it was after- posed for what might be ward proved that the termed the latest stand- prisoner really was a ardized American man - mere sheep - herder and hunter — but Crompton quite innocent, his sheep, never posed. it seemed, had followed As was to be expected, the trail of the bandits, his record with the G. obliterating it, but leaving and T. fully measured up his own trail clear. The to his appearance. In his moral effect of Cromp- twelve years as chief de- ton's act was in nowise tective the company had lessened. Even- one said, suffered the robbery of "Well, what of it? If only two trains; and that it had been the robbers, was away back in hi? first Crompton would have year. followed them just the Other robberies had same, and he would have been attempted — two THE LATEST STANDARDIZED AMERICAN caught them or fought to others—but both had MAN-HUNTER. the last ditch." failed. They failed be- Without doubt, this cause Crompton, after the first two hold- was a correct estimate of the man. The gen- ups, always rode with the big shipments of eral advertising of it speedily resulted in valuable express. On each occasion, when train robbery on the G. and T. becoming a the train was stopped, he quietly slid back thing of the past, for train-robbers only op- the door of the express-car before the ban- erate where the chances are at least even dits ordered it opened and, each time, with tha't thev will meet widi no resistance. 5S6 : CROMPTON'S TRAIN-ROBBER CLUE- 587 As for Crompton, all the to-do over him, I want is a man who won*t?llow an>' work detectives. over his bravery and all, made not a whit to be made for your storv-t5fik "patronize of difference. Really, it rather annoyed him, Shippers and travelers don't a for he was a modest fellow and so honest road for its record on catching thieves. ain that when he was dragged into the business They'd rather patronize a line tn'J * of talking about himself, as frequently hap- given to sensations, see? So you gi out pened, he always felt it his duty to apolo- of here! Go off and clean up your pis^ gize for the blunder he had made in arrest- or something, an' leave me alone! iy'^feV e ing the sheep-herder. work to do. Here, take a cigar and P 'i ?/ oU He usually made his apology after this Then, as always, Crompton obi. Ay fashion: " Awh, yeah! But openin' on fel- held his peace, took the cigar, and wenJ^g lers with buckshot when they air figgerin' way—not to clean his pistols, however, bu^ on ye handin' 'em a large sum o' money! to read or rather to study the latest detect- That hain't much! It don't make up fur ive story, or the press despatches which some other things. A detective ort to know contained news of the bolder variety of clues. If 'e does, he alius gits the right robbery. parties." As a result of all this persistency, and in Then, as a rule, he would sadly conclude the face of every one's good-natured tolera- " 'E never lets 'em git plumb away." tion, Crompton, like any other man who This last dictum referred directly to the follows his ideal alone, acquired much in- first year of his service when the two rob- formation and some rather curious theories. beries had occurred. The perpetrators of For instance, he'knew the names, general those two robberies had never been appre- characteristics, and the records of practi- hended ; worse yet, the identities of the ban- cally all the men who had robbed trains dits had never yet been ascertained. west of the Missouri River. Again, he could Now it must be admitted that the escape locate all the hiding-places of the organized of the miscreants in each instance might bands, and he had a fairly good idea of the have been prevented very easily. The first trails leading thereto from well-known Hole- time, Crompton took all of his men and in-the-Wall to die more obscure fastnesses scoured the desert, but the robbers undoubt- of Horseshoe in southern Utah, and The edly left the country on one of the G. and Roost which is in western Arizona. T.'s own trains. So far as his limitations would allow, The second time, in an attempt to profit for he was not a ready or a close reasoner, by his former discomfiture, he put all his he had gained some familiarity with the men guarding trains and terminals, and the processes of deductive reasoning as applied thieves rode out of Arizona and into Old by the detectives whose names appear in Mexico oh nothing fleeter than some broken- best sellers, and as the crowning achieve- down pack-mules. ment of all his researches, he had formu- Of course, Crompton really did make a lated a theory by which he hoped some day mistake each time—as any one else in this to retrieve for his early mistakes. world might have done—but, unlike many His theory was this: Some day, the another man, on finding himself hailed with men who had robbed the G. and T. would praises later on, he did not forget. Per- look back to their ease of escape and con- haps Crompton's ideal of efficiency was clude that it might be safe to try again. really too high. To be sure, he knew that they would not At any rate, he worried over those fail- try unless they could work some scheme to ures, strove to improve himself along the get his attention directed elsewhere. lines of his weakness, and about every two Crompton was not quite an egotist in this. or three months he w'ould come into the He really believed that if he were in an ex- office of Brasfield, manager of the G. and press-car with a repeating shotgun in his T.'s Transmountain Lines, and would say hands, he could stand off all the robbers that to him: "I hain't sure that I'm the right ever got together for a hold-up. It was be- feller in the right place after all." cause he believed this that he had made it To this, Brasfield, who was a big. rough win, and believing that train-robbers are man of highly developed commercial in- rational men, not running up to a man just stinct, always made this sort of answer: to get shot, he felt very certain of his con- "Go along with that, you big simpleton! clusion that they would make an effort to I don't want any Sherlock Holmes! What outwit him. a 58s HE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. They would make some sort of demon- Crompton advised the waiting station- stration in a given place, and when he went agent, " only ye might tell 'em, seein' they'll to see ;ibout it, they would strike in probably worry about it, that there hain't M her a goin' Jf garter. to be no wreck nor no robbery." confidently expected all this. He rolled -the door shut • and, beckoning p . °T'Pton JP^cting, he had planned how to meet it. his two men into the forward end of the xii the first place, he would send some of car, said to them: -el i able young men with the train that "Now, when we git to where that engine mdits evidently designed to attack. is, I'm a goin' to hop off. They hain't a .ie would go himself to the scene of goin' to be no robbers around 'there at all. demonstration, find out who of the Naw, sir. They'll be up the line, I figger, forty fifty Jang had done this part of the work, and, about or mile beyond Falls, in afterward, he would keep that man under the Paint Hills. They hain't a bit o' doubt, such close surveillance that, in time he would either, but what they'll stick ye up. be able to connect all of the band with "I'm a goin' to count on you boys to do the fact of crime, and convict them to the what I've done myself a couple o' times. last man. The two of ye can do it easy. One o' ye It must not be supposed that Crompton jist open the door the minute the train stops, intended a robbery to take plaqe. Not at and the other'n, without waitin' to say all; he merely intended to get a clue— ' Good evenin', gents,' or ' What kin I do fur clue which would lead him to the perpetra- ye? ' wants to jist open with the pump- tors of those two robberies which every one gun, p'intin' it sorter lowlike and shootin' else but himself had forgotten. in a different place ever' time. Consequently, he went on his habitual "Them fools'U be figgerin', o' course, way; studying his books and papers in that it's me they air"afeard of; but by the leisure moments; and when on duty, guard- time ye"ve raked all the hillside around ing his bullion shipments by sitting upon there with buckshot, they'll have a different them with a loaded shotgun in his hands idee. They'll know that it wasn't me they and the big pistols loosed in their holsters was skeered of at all. They'll reecollect that at his waist. it was the shotgun that was liable to git Wherever he went, no matter what he 'em into trouble, an' they'll dig out. was doing, he had that air of quiet watch- "Now, when ye git done shootin', jist fulness which a man assumes only when he close up the door an' don't neither of ye git has watched and waited for years. out. It won't be necessary. I got a surer It was only logical, therefore, that one an' a better way o' ketchin' 'em. Besides, night as he was riding eastward in an ex- you fellers is young an' foolhardy, an' ye press-car, with two of his men, carrying a might foiler 'em off an' git into a box." particularly heavy shipment from the San Both were young, and both were fool- Francisco mint, he should have been more hardy. They were delighted with the task than usually alert, for this particular ship- he had set them; but, after a moment's ment was big enough to tempt all the bandits jubilation over their opportunity to do in the West. something approximating the greatness of Therefore, he was not surprised when the their chief, Jackson asked: "But, say, cap, train stopped at Homan Flats and the sta- s'pose'n' the hull bunch is with that engine. tion-agent rushed out and thrust into his What'll you do, bein' by yerself? You ort hands a telegram that read as follows: to let us have a chance to he'p ye." " " " ! Crompton grunted. Yer Engine number 1192 with tender stolen Humph from roundhouse at Falls and run west on a mighty young man, Jackson. An', though main line. Local offices fifty miles west I hain't savin' that I'm a better detective closed for night so cannot wire derail instruc- right now than you air — for the Lord tions. Probably the work of hold-ups who knows you hain't never let nobody git away either intend to let engine run into your train from ye as I have—I'm bound to say that wild and wreck it. or else wished to large take this job I'm aimin' at now is what ye might party into rough country along Grapevine and call first-class. hold you up. Look out. Wire any instruc- "An' if I git it done as I figger I will, tions you see fit for our cooperation at this is goin' to have full credit for end. you lads your share in it. O' course, what I'm ask- " I ain't got no instructions for "em," in' ye to do is, as ye might say, the rough — CROMPTON'S TRAIN-ROBBER CLUIi. 5S9 work; but it's important, jist the same up between the rails toward the motionless jist as important as the fine work I aim to headlight. Approaching within fort)' fect do. So don't ye sabe that yer helpin' me of it, and still well out of the^one of its the best way ye kin by jist ridin' right rays, he sat down and listened. "'After half " straight ahead ? an hour, during which time he did T.Pt near Of course, they did not understand; and, a sound—except the cinders dropping\irora of course, they said as much—but they got the grate-bars, as happens when the firS, IS nothing out of him. going out—he crept up closer and close?, A man who has planned a coup for ten until at length he put his hand on the step. years does not communicate it even to his He listened for a long time. He heard lieutenants until he has need of their as- sistance. Then he tells them as much as is necessary, arid no more. An hour later, when the engine ahead of them whistled for a train without the right of way, and Crompton peeped ahead and saw what he knew must be the headlight of the stolen locomotive, he said as he pre- pared to alight: " Whichever of you fellers does the shoot- in', I wish ye wouldn't go to no extra pains about killin' anybody. If ye killed 'em, they wouldn't be no ketchin' of 'em; an' I'm powerful set on ketching them fellers by high-class work. I'd jist like to do somethin' once that I'd have a right to be proud of." Opening the door a little farther, he dropped off the now slowly moving train. Running alongside, he came to the cab just as the fireman was getting down to go forward and ascertain what was meant by an engine standing dead still on a siding which was never used for anything ex- cept as a derail for cars accidentally breaking loose from trains. " Burgess," Crompton said persua- sively, " you leave that there to me. It's jist a engine. It hain't got no cars hang- £ ing on behind onto the main track. You ( 590 ) THE RAILROAD MAN S MAGAZINE. His wish, therefore, was more than grat- Jackson and Miller—the other lad he had" ified at the Si'ming of daylight. He then counted on — simply had forgotten their found on tl}e floor of the cab a man's hat. guns and his orders, and that the bandits an empty whisky bottle, and an empty had made a very easy escape. grain-l>jg stenciled in big, probably the > on which was "They're somewhere in redJetters: " Hy Tinkworth." Paint Hills," the superintendent of the di- tis if this were not quite enough, when vision suggested, " and if you'd take a and posse up there from here and have the . Se got down to examine his find ' trains get f chanced to look back into die tender, he watched, they couldn't away." saw Mr. Tinkworth sprawled on the coal, Crompton shook his head modestly. apparently dead-drunk. "Naw, I've tried than tricks twice, an' With all haste, Crompton slipped from they won't work; but I've got 'em with the the cab to the ground. He knew Mr. Tink- goods on, I reckon, this time. That's what worth. I was doin' that I wasn't with the train." Tinkworth was about the most unregen- " Well, you'd better have been with the erate old rascal along the whole line of the train,"' the superintendent advised. G. and T. He was somewhere past sixty The superintendent, like Brasfield, had years of age; had never done an honest no sympathy for Crompton 's artistic ideals. 'day's work in his life, but always had Still, he had great respect for Crompton's money, and when not actually doing some record, so he concluded: "Well, do as you devilment was drunk. want. I reckon you know your own job Moreover, he was an exceedingly clever best. Are you going to \frant any extra rascal,' always wriggling out of his mis- trains, or men, or anything?" " deeds entirely, or else getting off with the Naw, nothin'. I jist want as little said very lightest of punishments. He always as possible till I git ready. I aim to git had some sort of a plausible excuse which the whole works—them fellers from away tickled the jury. Once, when he had been back, too—at one swipe." arrested for stealing a horse, he had made it The superintendent, who had almost for- appear that he only wanted the halter. gotten those robberies of bygone years, While guilty of stealing small articles, he laughed incredulously, but said nothing. had never committed a crime that would It was not his place to criticize the plans of approximate grand larceny. a man whose work had been a success as Therefore, Crompton wanted to get away Crompton's had been. However, suddenly without being discovered. He believed, as recalling the theft of engine No. 1192, he every one else did, that Tinkworth must asked about it. be hand in glove with all the rascals in the "I've looked into that," Crompton re- country, and reasoned that if the old fellow plied with the nearest approximation to van- " learned that his part in the stealing of the ity he had ever been guilty of, an' be- engine was known, all communication be- tween you an' me an' the gate-post, that tween him and his confederates would cease. engine was takened jist for a blind. Sabe?" To be sure, Crompton could place him The superintendent understood. Now under arrest for theft and "sweat him," that he came to think of it, the stealing of but that wasn't the way Crompton wanted a locomotive was a most improbable sort of to work. Moreover, Tinkworth was not larceny, so he slapped Crompton on die the sort of man who perspired information back and congratulated him, and tiien " freely, either as to his associations or enter- asked : But how did you happen to think prises. of that?" " Beyond doubt, it seemed wise to hurry Humph ! A feller that's been a groan- away. Crompton hurried. ing in sperrit, ye might say for ten years, About nine o'clock that morning, having over his early mistakes has a right to git flagged down a through freight and board- somewhere, if he digs for it." explained his ed it, Mr. Crompton alighted at Falls. In a hoarse whisper he There he learned, even before making in- long-cherished theory, and wound up with quiries, that the express - train had been his discove.y of Tinkworth in the cab. held up in the Paint Hills, and thg only "You ought to have nabbed him," the the haste or ignorance of the robbers had superintendent said. Amazed at die work- saved the thousands of dollars in the safe. ing out of the theory, he could not help He was also apprised of the fact that thinking of the company's interests. "The CROMPTON'S TRAIN-ROBBER CLUE. 591 old devil may get off with that engine yet. Having run through his scrap-book to No telling but what he'll drive it on over to find out if any of the noted American train- Homan Flats and sell the coal in the ten- robbers had ever been heard of as inhab- der. He might get a train wrecked. Don't itants of Arkansas — Tinkworth's native you see, it would be like him to come up State—and finding no evidence of such, he with some sort of a tale of that kind—that left the hotel and went to Tinkworth's he stole the engine for the coal in it, as he shack. stole the horse for the halter? Crompton, This was situated on the edge of town, .you ought to have nabbed him." somewhat apart from any other house. Again Crompton whispered, and at Around it grew rows of irrigated sunflow- length the superintendent, seeing the whole ers, forming a most complete screen for the plan and astounded at the vastness of it, seeing eyes of the passer-by. went down on his knees in apology. Without hesitation, Crompton entered the " I'll wire Brasfield," he said as he trot- premises and made a thorough search of ted off, " that you've got 'em all." them. He found nothing except evidence For the first time in many years, Cromp- of old Tinkworth's masterly shrewdness. ton strode along the platform in real pride. There were several piles of old iron in the Passing down the street, he met the recreant back yard, some ragged bales of discarded Jackson and Miller in front of his hotel. rubber-boots in the kitchen, and in various They tried to avoid him, but he smiled pa- corners and odd nooks of the other room tiently at them and generously said: were pieces of brass castings. All this, of " I hadn't ort to have sent you kids on course, was merely the pretense of a legiti- sich a job. I might ha' knowed ye wasn't mate occupation. Old Tinkworth pretend- hardened to shootin' human bein's down; ed that he was a junk gatherer. an', anyway, I don't mind except on yer,own Crompton returned to his hotel. For ten account. We'll git 'em, anyhow." days he patiently waited the return of old Without pausing to demand their shame- Tinkworth. On the tenth day, however, ful confession, he went up to his room. there was plenty of excitement. Not only : " 592 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. did old Tinkworth return, but, what was lous preparations for a tremendous spree, almost unbelievable, Mr. Brasfield appeared also seemed to be feeling that life was one on the scene. Mr. Brasfield left no doubt grand and glorious holiday. Crompton, as to the reason for his coming. noting this, was in the seventh heaven of He called Crompton into the division su- anticipation; drunks, he knew, are apt to perintendent's room. In a voice that might talk freely. have been heard all over the building, he Mr. Brasfield, seeing everything, grew demanded very glum. "Now, say, have you gone and let 'em "Now," said the prosecutor with great " get away again ? severity, "Tinkworth, we've got you with Crompton, of course, whispered. the goods on. I've prepared an indictment " " " Thunderation ! roared Brasfield. The against you for complicity in the Paint public has forgotten all about those old rob- Hills hold-up. You are charged with being beries; and I don't want 'era recalled, even an accessory before the fact. You can't get if you get the robbers. Why don't you nail away from.it that you stole that engine and this old rooster and send him up? That'll ran it off down onto the derail - switch, satisfy everybody that the whole gang has thirty miles west of here, on the night of been caught. Why, confound it, we've lost the robbery. You can be sent to the pen for ten .thousand dollars' worth of business the larceny of that engine, or, again, for just because of that robbery week before unlawful appropriation of the property of last. Say, you've got to do something, or a common carrier, or for doing such acts as we're, going to be ruined. Go right now constitute a menace to the lives and prop- and pull that old rascal and send him up."' erty of the patrons of that common carrier; This was quite disconcerting. To obey or, again— Brasfield would not result in the capture of " Hold on," old Tinkworth wearily re- real train - bandits. Crompton shook his plied, as drunken men sometimes will when head and argued: "Naw, I'd ruther not they cannot follow what is being said to do that. Tinkworth hain't no ginooine them, "let that go till some other time. I'll bandit. We could send 'im up; but if we jist take yer word for it. If ye say I'm did—well, that would be the end of it." guilty o' ever'thing, I reckon I am." "That's what I want. Send 'im up. I " Or, again," the prosecutor went on, — "' want the thing ended. It will get into the " we can send you up for— for papers. That's the main thing." Recalling that he had completed the cata- When Brasfield wanted a thing done, logue of Tinkworth 's crimes, he concluded there had to be a good reason why it wasn't somewhat lamely: "Well, here's what I done. propose to do. I'll dismiss the information Knowing this, but resolved to make the against you which would make an indict- best of his situation, Crompton began to ment for larceny of the engine or threaten- bargain. ing the lives of travelers, and I'll just "Well, say," he declared, "lemme arrest charge you with Leing an accessory to the 'im an' offer to let 'im off if he'll turn train-robbery, provided you'll agree to tell state's evidence ag'in' the rest o' the gang. all you know about that robbery. What do - I know where to find whoever it is, and you say to that ? " I'll go an' git "em." Old Tinkworth's sodden features sharp- 1 For a moment Mr. Brasfield remained ened with sudden eagerness . ReaUy, it " undecided. Then he agreed : All right. seemed that he never could get so drunk That's logical. Go get him while I bring but diat he always saw his chance. The the district attorney." prosecutor smiled grimly. Crompton al- Half an hour later, Brasfield with the most swelled. Mr. Brasfield even looked district attorney and Crompton with old expectant. Tinkworth, met secretly in the prosecutor's Then Tinkworth suddenly declared, " All office in the court-house. right! I'll go ye if I lose," but he grinned The lawyer, a young man anxious to win with such obvious delight that they all renown as one who could ferret out and knew he was not going to lose anything. convict train-robbers of ten years' immu- Recalling his past misdeeds and the ingen- nity, was in high spirits. ious methods through which he had al- Old Tinkwordi, who had been arrested ways wriggled out of diem, they all laughed. in a saloon where he had just finished bibu- When the necessary papers were signed, , CROMPTON'S TRAIN-ROBBER CLUE. 593 Crompton, who had prepared his questions, " Crompton," ordered Mr. Brasfield, " you seated himself in a chair beside the old go and call up the master-mechanic and all rascal and, with no thought of humor now, the roundhouse men that had anything to propounded: "Well, Hy, what d'ye know- •do with that engine after it came back." about that robbery?" Crompton did so totteringly, and in re-' "Nothin',*' came the drunken answer. sponse to that summons the men soon ap- " Nothin' ? " shouted Crompton " You peared. tell about that as ye agreed, er we'll convict "Ragon," said Brasfield to the master- ye for swipin' the engine." mechanic, " was there any brass-work miss- ' " : Cajn't tell nothin' more'n I know ," ing on that engine when you got it back?' Tinkworth replied, with the somber gravity That engine which was stolen a week ago? " of a man deeply inebriated, "an' I don't "Any missin'?" snorted Ragon; "that know? nothin'." ain't a proper way o' speakin' about it. "Well, then, seein' that's too direct for . We been a huntin' ever since to see if they ye, ye bein' drunk, gimme the straight o' was even a brass rivet left about her." " why ye takened the engine ? Then seeing old Tinkworth, and sudden- " Sure," said Tinkworth, with imper- ly recalling certain baffling suspicions which turbable dignity, since he knew that he was he had held for a long time, Ragon shout- safe in the confession. " I been a w^antin' ed: "And that danged old rat was the to steal a engine for a long time. Been feller that done it! I know- 'im! I'm onto thinkin' about it for ten year, ye might say. him now ! Say, he makes his livin' swipin* Well, that night I'd jist got a check for a oil-cups an' castin's." ,Jot o' old copper wire, an', gittin' on a pow- Crompton and the district attorney crum- erful jag, I sorter lost my judgment, an' so pled down in their chairs, but Mr. Brasfield I started. It was a powerful fool thing to did not. He arose and galloped up and think o' doin', but," he added with a sly down the room three or four times. At grin, " it seems I'm a gittin' off with it." length he wheeled on Crompton, and said: "Here," suddenly demanded Brasfield, " If ever I hear of you trying any more whose patience was quite exhausted, " why of this detective business, I'll fire you. " did you want to steal an engine? Don't you monkey with it again." "Awn, say, now," old Tinkworth de- Humbly Mr. Crompton arose. His pride manded solemnly, "what would a feller was gone—he was the same old Crompton want to steal a engine for? D'ye think now, but a little more chastened, more un- he'd want it to play wittf? I reckon not. obtrusive, more mild than ever before. He'd want it to git the brass off'n it. They's Putting on his hat, he bowed obediently. over a hunderd dollars' worth o' brass on A lifelong hope or a lifelong ideal must one of 'em." perish tragically. It w-as but natural, "Did you get the brass?" the manager therefore, as he started out of the room that demanded. he should sigh heavily and say: " " Awh, sure I did. I got it sold, too; O' course, I can go on as long as I live an' ye might say I wr as gittin' drunk on a herdin' fellers off with a shotgun—but them brass-works when Crompton fetched that's nothin'. I'd like to make a record me up here." that a feller could take some pride in." SOME HIGH BRIDGES. ACCORDING to the Industrial World, the River, in Oregon, 350 feet high. The Kuskulana new steel three-span, cantilever bridge over bridge is 328 feet high. It consists of standard the Kuskulana River in Alaska, built by the Cop- trestle approaches and three pin-concreted steel per River and Northwestern Company, is the spans, with piers of solid concrete. The total seventh highest bridge in the United States and length and approaches is S00 feet; of the steel the twenty-third highest in the world, According structure, 525 feet. The bridge was completed on to statistics prepared by Engineering New, the Christmas day, and has since been placed in regu- highest bridge in the world is St. Giustina, in lar operation for construction and ore-trains of the Tyrol, which is 460 feet above the water. The the Copper River and Northwestern, which is highest already completed in the United States is building 50 miles beyond the bridge to the Bo- at Pecos, Texas, which is 328 feet high, and ranks nanza mine. An electric plant was set up in the twelfth in the list. However, bridge number seven canon, which lighted the entire works day and in the list will shortly be built over the Crooked night, owing to length of darkness and cold. 2 RR THE RAILROAD ALPHABET. BY GEORGE F. MERRITT. Written for " The Railroad Man's Magazine." A—is for Auditor, who handles the money. B—is for Brakeman, with a yarn that is funny. C—the Conductor in charge of the train. D— the Despatcher, with keen-working brain. E— is the Eagle-eye, fearless and cool. F—is the Fireman, who obeys every rule. G—the Grasshopper, an engine that's right. H—is the Hostler who keeps 'em so bright. I —Interlocking, a system to beat. J — for the Journals that concentrate heat. K—is the Key— the pounder's delight. L—Locomotive, the acme of might. M—is for Mogul, oft used to haul freight. N—is for Narrow-gage, gone out of date. O—is for Oil-burners, and Operator, too. P—is for Porter in the swell Pullman crew. Q—is for Quartering—then the crank-pin's ajar. R—is the Red light we see from afar. S —is the Semaphore, lord of the way. T—are the Tickets for which we must pay. U—is the Union which holds us together. V—is the Ventilator for relief in hot weather. W— for the Watchman with lantern at night. X— for Xtra which has the least right. Y—for Yardmaster, the boss of the yard. Z— for the fellows who work mighty hard. 594 Great American Train Robberies, BY HOWARD MORRIS. the series of gripping" hold-up tales already published in The Rail- TO road Man's Magazine, dealing with historic desperadoes who have plundered railroad trains ever since the first steel trails were stretched across the prairies, we now add No. 16. It is the story of two cold-blooded, desperate men, who measure up well with the worst outlaws of the past. The looting of the crack train of the Harriman system was more than a surprise. People who sit in the electric-lighted drawing-rooms of the lux- urious hotels-on-wheels are little apt to think of the daredevil feats of Jesse James and the Younger gang except in the light of an entertaining novel to while away the after-dinner hour. Those who parted with t-heir valuables on a west-bound Overland Limited last January had the unusual experience of being dumped from romance to reality in a remarkable short space of time. No. 16.—THE HOLD-UP OF THE OVERLAND LIMITED. Daring Feat of Two Outlaws, Carried to Success by Coolness and Delib- eration, Though Marked with Deeds of Violence and Utter Brutality. 'O pleasant thoughts accompa- the palatial train of the Harriman system nied the mental evolutions which runs between Chicago and San of Engineer Ed Rowse when Francisco arrived in Ogden, Utah, six he saw that the light of hours late. At this point the train leaves an automatic semaphore was the Union Pacific tracks and, on the right- blazing out red against his of-way of the Southern Pacific Company, six-hours late Overland Limited. Yet it begins the last lap of its two-thousand- never occurred to him that this tantalizing mile journey. state of affairs was the initial happening The train consisted of a combination in a series of sensational events which a baggage and dynamo - car, six Pullman short time later would result in his gazing sleepers, a diner, and an observation-car. into the muzzle of a sa wed-off shotgun, Railroad posters and guides proclaim the along the barrels of which glistened two train a veritable palace on wheels, and in- beady eyes, peering over an improvised deed it offers conveniences to tourists which handkerchief mask. are not to be had everywhere. Its arrival On the evening of January 2, 1911, in Ogden so far behind its schedule was Began in the October. 1906 Riilroad Man's Magazine. Single copies, 10 cents. 595 596 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. a most unusual proceeding, and when the A hundred yards ahead of the locomo- new crew stepped aboard, it was with the tive he waved a faint assurance with his avowed Intention of diminishing this last lantern, and the engineer caused the train time or at least to maintaining schedule to creep along in the wake of the hurry- speed while the train was in their charge. ing brakeman. Thus for a mile and a half At 10.32 p.m. Engineer Rowse opened the Overland Limited, already desperately the throttle, and the limited started west. behind time, was man-paced toward the The light of the junction city soon faded modest station of Reese. There they found in the rear, and on the level road-bed ap- the home-signal was clear, indicating that proaching the Lucin cut-off, which stretches the fault was merely a defect in the mech- across Great Salt Lake, the limited sped anism of the intermediate semaphore. at a rate of sixty miles an hour. The head brakeman climbed aboard the Most of the passengers had retired for train and the man at the throttle gave two the night, and there was a stillness short blasts on the whistle. throughout the train that was broken only In another minute the Overland Limited by the monotonous rumble of wheels. Con- would have been on its way, but something ductor W. A. Middleton had checked up happened to prevent Engineer Rowse from his tickets and the result showed twenty- carrying "out his intentions. The brakes seven passengers aboard. suddenly gripped the wheels, and the train Six miles west of Ogden, the engineer could not be moved. whistled at West Weber, and three miles farther on Rowse again opened the screech- Warned of the Hold-Up. valve for Reese siding. Between these sta- tions there is a block, governed by auto- "Well, this beats the Dutch.'* came with matic semaphores at either end. disgusted vehemence from the lips of the One mile and a half east of the home engineer. "First it's the signal and now signal at Reese station is an intermediate it's the air. I'll have to go back and find semaphore. out what's the matter." There is nothing else to mark this par- " Yd' better not go back der, Mister ticular spot, there being no habitations of Engineer," said a voice with unmistakable any kind in sight. The land on either Ethiopian accents from the top of the ten- side of the track is barely worth the tilling, der. Engineer and fireman looked up and for in wet seasons it is flooded by an in- saw an ashen-hued Pullman porter climb- land sea and is too soaked with salt water ing toward them. to be fertile. It is altogether a bleak^ "Der's robbers got this yer train and desolate place, but to those on the speed- dey is killin' all the porters what they kin ing train this made little difference, for the fin'. Dey's already killed Mister Davis, scene was hidden by darkness even to the and dey has shot Mister Taylor so's he passenger who might be finishing a last can't live. They is robbin' all de people. cigar in the smoking-compartment. Better not go back, Mister Engineer." There was no mistaking the true pur- Stopped by the Semaphore. port of the frightened porter's words, yet, disregarding his warning, Engineer Rowse His eyes riveted upon the glistening coolly lighted his torch and climbed from track ahead, Rowse sat silently in his cab the cab. He worked his way slowly back until, with a start of alarm, he perceived along the coaches, peering at the couplings the intermediate semaphore just east of and hose connections as he went. Stand- Reese piercing the night with its single ing on the track behind the last coach was red eye of danger. Reluctantly he closed Brakeman Cross, his lantern lighting a the throttle and applied the air. little circle of the bleak surroundings. The chance of making up lost time' went glimmering as the brake-shfles gripped the Flagman Made Prisoner. steel tires and the train came to a dead stop alongside the signal-stand. Head The engineer, who there discovered and Brakeman William Cross alighted from closed the open angle-cock which had set the the front coach, and by the aid of his brakes, was again told that the train was lantern groped his way past the engine in the hands of bandits. Neither of the and down the track to ascertain the trouble. trainmen was armed, yet they decided to GREAT AMERICAN TRAIN ROBBERIES. 597 enter one of the cars and learn more of the The train robbers did not tarry outside robbery which was then taking place. the coach, for, be it known that their inten- When the train had stopped at the tion was to complete the looting of the train first semaphore, almost a half hour before, before its slow progress brought it to the Flagman H. H. Hancock, who had gone home signal at Reese Siding. With a back to flag the rear-end, was in the act of warning to Hancock, they pushed on into responding to five short blasts of the whistle the train. From the first berth the robbers when unforeseen circumstances prevented. seized a pillow-slip and, handing this re- - He had just grasped the hand-rails when ceptacle to the flagman, they began the his attention was arrested by the gruff sacking of the train. order: "Throw up your hands!" Still holding to one hand-rail he turned Shot in Cold Blood. to gaze behind him, and found a double- barreled shotgun pointing at his head, with Coming to the smoking-compartment, at the muzzle not more than three feet away. the end of the third Pullman, the shorter Without waiting for further explanation, he bandit attempted to push open the door. It complied with the order. did not yield to his first effort, and, believ- At the side, and only a few feet to the ing that some of the passengers had barri- rear of his companion, the flagman dis- caded themselves in the little room, the covered a second bandit, for such he real- bandits prepared for trouble Throwing ized the men to be. The two men had sud- the weight of his stocky body against the denly appeared at the rear of the train like door, it flew open and the short bandit darker shadows which had detached them- lunged into the compartment with his shot- selves from the surrounding gloom. gun ready for instant use. The train was already moving when He was surprised to find only two negro Flagman Hancock received his second com- porters, William Davis and W. A. Taylor, mand, which was to get on board. He who had entered the room to eat their mid- obeyed with alacrity and was closely fol- night lunch, unmindful of what was taking lowed up the steps by his two unwelcome place on the train. Both men jumped to acquaintances. Standing on the wide rear- their feet with exclamations of alarm when platform of the observation-car, Hancock, the bandit burst in upon them with his hands again extended skyward, "What'll we do with these porters?" was able, by the aid of the dim light from asked the shorter of the outlaws, evidently- the drawing-room lamps, to make a more believing that the colored men had opposed careful scrutiny of the bandits. his entrance to the room "Kill 'em—they're only niggers," an- Ready for Business. swered the taller desperado, with an oath, and, acting upon these brutal words, the One of the pair was more than six feet short train robber fired pointblank at the tall, with stooped shoulders and a gaunt, two men. slender form. He was dressed in black, Both negroes dropped to the floor of the and wore a short, shabby overcoat, with col- car. The heavy buckshot from the bandit's lar turned up His companion was sev- gun had pierced Davis's heart, and he died eral inches shorter, and of more rotund without a struggle. Taylor's right arm w as proportions. shattered by part of the charge, and. though He was apparently darker in complexion he did not lose consciousness, he lay beside than the other, but his clothes were of the the dead body of his companion feigning same hue, and he, too, wore an overcoat death, until the murderers had passed on Both wore caps which partly covered their out of the narrow passage and into the next ears and foreheads, and the lower portion car. of their faces was masked with large blue handkerchiefs taught in a Trap. About each man's waist was a cartridge- belt with two automatic revolvers of heavy That Flagman Hancock did not share caliber, and in their hands they carried the fate of Davis shortly afterward is most sawed-off shotguns. There could be no mis- remarkable. While the attentioa of both taking their motive in thus boarding the bandits was temporarily occupied by the train. negroes, Hancock, still in possession of the 598 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. sack containing the valuables so far col- from a Tiffany setting on his middle finger, lected, made a dash for liberty. He ran as he bade them good-by. ahead through three cars, and would prob- Conductor Middleton, in the front Pull- ably have left the train had he had time to man, was informed of the hold-up by the open a vestibule door, for unfortunately all fleeing porter, as he scurried past on his were closed. way to the engine. Middleton is small in He had scarcely vanished when the taller stature, and has been in the service of the bandit discovered his absence, and both Southern Pacific a score of years. What he robbers gave chase. Upon reaching the rear lacks in height he makes up in dignity. platform of the baggage-car Hancock found the door locked, and here he was overtaken Face to Face with Them. by the outlaws. Considering their murderous deed of a The startling words of the colored man few minutes before, it would have seemed caused him to arise from hig seat, twist one most natural for them to send a charge of of the frail ends of his gray mustache nerv- buckshot into the flagman's body, but, with ously and start toward the rear of the train. a volley of oaths, they ordered him to come Like the captain of a ship he deemed it his on back and finish up his work. Reluc- duty to face any danger that might be lurk- tantly Hancock preceded the bandits back ing. Incidentally he transferred his time- to the point where they had paused in their piece "from his vest to his hip pocket. robbing to commit murder. In the next car he came face to face witli Fiction writers have clothed the bandits the plunderers. of the West with more or less chivalry. The "Dig up," was the laconic salutation marauders of the Overland Limited were that greeted him, and the sack, now growing not bandits of fiction, and even the crude heavy with its booty, was held in an accom- chivalry which attaches itself to many of modating position by its unwilling custo- the tales of the James boys cannot be cred- dian. What change the conductor had in ited to these men. Their entire trip through his pockets he dropped into the proffered the train was marked by coarse brutality. sack. "Put in your watch," he was roughly No Regard for Women. ordered. "I forgot my watch this trip," he lied Women passengers were greeted with boldly, pulling back his coat that they curses and vilest insults, and some, clothed might see the vacant pockets of his vest. only in their sleeping garments, were jerked The taller man stepped to his side with roughly from berths and forced to drop an oath. their jewels and money into the yawning "Better give it up," whispered Hancock, sack lield by the flagman; who knew the brutal temperament of the One woman, who indignantly resented men Middleton was trifling with. the intrusion of the robbers into her berth and who refused to take off her rings at the His Timepiece Is Taken. request of the masked men, was dealt a vicious blow with the butt of a revolver. The tall bandit reached forward, seized Her valuables were then taken, and she was the conductor by his mustache, and nearly left in a faint upon the floor. tore the facial decoration out by its roots. A traveling salesman, who had not yet A cry of pain escaped the distorted lips of retired, was reading a newspaper when the the trainman; his hand moved speedily to outlaws approached from the rear and his hip pocket and came forth with the hid- ordered him to throw up his hands. Be- den watch. wildered by such an unexpected order, the Middleton joined Hancock as a prisoner, salesman stared dumbly at the train rob- and under the guns of the enemy marched bers until the shorter bandit struck him a forward as he was bid. It was shortly blow over the head with the barrel of his after this incident, and before the bandits shotgun. had completed their canvass of the pas- This man dropped more than a hundred sengers, that^he slow progressjjf the lim- dollars into the plunder-poke, and he gave ited was momentarily checked, followed by the whistle. a last wistful look at his watch and two- two blasts of carat Kimberley stone which had gleamed Realizing that the train had reached the GREAT AMERICAN TRAIN ROBBERIES. 599 home signal at Reese siding, and that Flag- Rowse hurried ahead. Two of his fellow man Cross had found the block clear, the trainmen stood near the locomotive with train robbers thwarted Engineer Rowse's their hands above their heads, but he had intention of proceeding by setting the air grown accustomed to this pose and it elic- against him. ited no further smile. He did not speak. - When the last coach was looted and the Holding his torch ahead of him he began end door of the baggage-car was reached, elevating himself into the cab of his engine. the robbers ordered that the door be opened, but as it remained closed, they "did not Forced To Obey. endeavor to force it, but compelled the train- men to open the vestibule door leading from The muzzle of a gun was shoved so close the train. to his face that he glanced along the mur- As soon as they got outside, Hancock was derous barrels until his eyes met the steel- relieved of the plunder, which, in cash and blue orbs of the tall train robber, who valuables, amounted to more than three backed away and permitted him to climb thousand dollars. He was then forced, with into the cab. Covered by the gun, the pilot the conductor, to lead the way toward the assumed his accustomed "seat. engine. Here again the masked men dis- " Cut the engine and baggage-car loose," played a knowledge of railroading. The ordered the tall man, and his companion taller man, climbing into the engine-cab, climbed from the cab and told Hancock to ordered Fireman McLean to pull ahead assist him in uncoupling the train. and clear the switch. Singled out again to do the bidding of the Following the orders, so threateningly robbers, the flagman accompanied his guard delivered, the fireman turned the steam into to the point where the baggage-car was the cylinders until the train moved ahead coupled to the first coach. He was ordered a few car-lengths. to uncouple the cars and began the task, which was no easy one. -What the Engineer Found. "Stand back and I'll fix it," said the bandit, after the flagman had tugged at the Let us return to the engineer and the valve of the steam-hose for several moments. rear-brakeman, who but a few minutes be- With the shotgun at his side the bandit fore this movement of the train climbed crouched between the cars like a veteran aboard the rear platform. The engineer trainman. He succeeded in closing the boldly op«ned the door, and the two train- valve and disconnecting the hose, but the men entered the train, to find every person steam was escaping so badly that he did in the last Pullman with his hands extended not stop to break the other connections. upward. The bandits were gone, but the With a half-audible statement that they passengers, hypnotized by fear, were still would "just pull 'em apart," the bandit obeying their orders. Engineer Rowse unhooked one safety chain, raised the Could not repress a smile—grim humor coupling-lever and told Hancock to signal though it was. the engineer to pull ahead. "What's the matter with you people?" he asked. Escaping on the Engine. "Train robbers!" exclaimed the boldest in the coach, and at the words the others There was a rending of hose between the attempted to reach higher into the air. baggage-car and coach as the front part of "They're gone now," assured the train- the train glided ahead a few feet. Severed man. " Better give your arms a rest." from the dynamo-car the coaches were "They are in the next car," ventured a pitched into darkness. Leaving Hancock passenger, and not a hand was lowered. with Middleton, the short bandit climbed Engineer Rowse left the car by the rear aboard the engine, and again Rowse was door and began walking back to his engine. ordered to pull ahead. ' The train jerked and strained at its brakes The locomotive was wheeled to the Reese and then moved slightly ahead. This phe- switch, which was opened by Fireman Mc- nomenon led the engineer to believe that the Lean, at the command of the outlaws. The robbers must be on the engine, for die fire- engine was backed upon the siding, run man of his own volition would not attempt eastward past the coaches, and again shifted to move the train. to the main track. — 600 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. It was easy to divine the intention of the the man, the outlaw tore a portable tele- bandits. It was no part of their plan to phone from the wall of the car and broke mount horses held in waiting and gallop it upon the floor. Satisfied that this move off to some mountain fastness. They were would allow more time for escape, the not train robbers of the old-school, but of bandit swung himself from -the steps of the the modern type, and they desired to have caboose and, joining his companion, disap- the engine carry them back to the outskirts peared into the night. of Ogden. Once in the city, they knew they An hour later the sheriff's office at Ogden would be safer from capture than were they received a telephone message from James hidden in the very heart of the Wasatch \Ya}Tnent, a- bishop of the Mormon Church J Mountains. at Warren, that his two daughters, with Every detail of the hold-up to this point fheir escorts, while walking home from a seemed to have worked as the bandits plan- country dance, had been held up by two ned. But fate, which had favored them in masked men and relieved of what few valu- ever}- move, at this juncture turned for the ables they carried with them. This robbery moment against them. occurred about seven miles from Ogden and In their planning they had not reckoned about two miles from the point where the that the Overland would be followed by a train robbers abandoned the engine. meat train, and now, as the stolen engine Almost simultaneous with this report rolled toward Ogden, the headlight of the came the- information of the train robbery, second locomotive loomed in their path like the message reaching Ogden from Promon- a nemesis. The freight had stopped at the tory Point, fifteen miles west of the scene of semaphore and the front brakeman had the hold-up. Engineer Rowse had returned already advanced ahead of the engine and with his engine to his. abandoned train and, was walking toward Reese. recoupling to the coaches, had pulled west- Engineer Rowse brought his engine to a ward to the nearest telegraph station. standstill within a short distance of the The usual western plan which prevails freight locomotive. The walking flagman in crimes of this character was followed in paused by the side of the bandit train and this instance, except that the sheriff's held his lantern high. posse, all heavily armed, rode in automo- The light enabled him to see that a shot- biles instead of on horseback in scouring gun was pointed at his head, and when the the country for traces of the train robbers. holder of the weapon told him to back to Within a few hours after the first report of the fence and hold up his hands, he fol- the hold-up detectives from three railroads lowed instructions without argument. of the Harriman system were arriving in The outlaws climbed from the cab and. Ogden by dozens. passing the freight-engine unnoticed, walked A special train brought a number of rail- along the track toward the caboose. The road officials and more detectives from Salt short bandit entered the way-car and cov- Lake City. For days Ogden and surround- ered the lone brakeman with his menacing ing country fairly bristled with officers and shotgun. detectives, but the identity of the men still Then, momentarily turning 'his back on remains a profound mystery. HORSE-POWER FOR LUXURIES. THE public demand for all the luxuries of the sistance and radiation from the boiler amounts to modern hotel, in travel, together with a de- the most. In winter the horse-power consumed by sire for speed, has put a tremendous tax on the auxiliaries is about 300 for a ten-car train, which twentieth-century locomotive. Not only must the may be divided as follows: 75 horse-power for heavy train of steel cars be kept in motion at a operating the two 9j4-irieh air pumps; 60 horse- high speed, but it must be heated, lighted, venti- power for operating turbo-generators for train lated, and braked as well. All of these are im- lighting, and 150 horse-power for heating and portant considerations, as they cause a constant ventilating. The total of 300 horse-power calls drain on the locomotive boiler. The steam con- for the combustion of about 1.500 pounds of coal sumption of auxiliaries is so great that locomotive per hour. It is common for Pacific type power in designers have been forced to consider it in this sen-ice to consume 8,000 pounds of coal an selecting power for limited trains. It happens hour. Hence we may say that about IS per cent that the drain on the boiler from auxiliaries is of the coal consumed is used for auxiliaries. greatest in winter; the time when the train re- Raihcay and Locomotive Engineer. CAPTURED BY CHEYENNES BY R . M . WEST. This Remarkable Incident in the Life of a Frontier Soldier Is Founded on Fact. frosty y^T^k N a morning in the fall of ing that he saw ten or fifteen in all riding 1868 sort ^Mi —just the of morn- in the same direction and strung out one R^SBpw ing to jump into the saddle behind the other. (t^5p§Rr and dash over the buffalo As this picket was a raw recruit and had ^^-^^ grass of the prairies—eleven jiever seen an Indian, the other men wire cavalry men, members of inclined to doubt him. I took particular Troop M, then stationed at Fort Wallace, interest in his observations, however, for he Kansas, were ordered fifteen miles into the described the Indian style of riding so well wilderness for fire-wood for the fort. that I believed him. Our mules had been in the corral for sev- While in the midst of his description, we eral days, eating Uncle Sam's grain and saw the picket who had been sent to relieve hay, and were unusually frisky. When we him, waving his musket from the bluff, started, the light pistol-like snap of the about half a mile away. I was ordered to black snakes mingled musically with our go to him and learn die trouble. Mounting shrill voices and the rattle of the wagons. the wagon-master's little mule, Ned, I A squad of soldiers, under command of started for the bluff. Sergeant McCoy, of the Fifteenth Infantry, While riding up the steep incline from was sent along to act as escort. Sergeant the ravine, I thought I heard firing, so I McCoy and Tom Davis, the wagon-master, put the spur, to little Ned and sent him rode ahead. McCoy was mounted on a big to the top at full speed. As I came out on brown horse, but Davis rode a little black the bluff, the picket was dashing toward mule named Ned, which played a prom- me on foot. The report of firearms was inent part in the little drama I am about now plainly heard, and the dust caused by to relate. bullets was flying up near the fleeing man's We hit the dusty pike for several hours, feet. He had deserted his mount. until we came to a steep bluff bordering a While I stood watching, I saw the man ravine filled with fine cotton-wood trees. fall. He was up again and running, but It was easy enough to get the empty wagons fell again, only to climb to his feet. This down the bluffs, but when loaded it was time he limped along very slowly. impossible to return to the roadway back of I started for him, but a bullet plowed up the fort without following the course of a the ground directly in front of me. Who- sandy creek for four or five miles. ever was doing the shooting was under - While the wood was being gathered, one cover, so I looked in the direction from man was posted on the bluffs to signal the which the shot had come and saw a head camp if Indians approached. At one o'clock duck down behind a shelf of stone. we all gathered round the mess-chest for our All over the prairie in the vicinity of luncheon of bread and cold buffalo meat. Fort Wallace there were ridges of soft sand- The man on picket duty was called in for stone. Over to my right there was a long his luncheon. He said that shortly irefore ridge of it, .and I judged that the attacking he had seen mounted men riding to the party was behind this ridge, and that they south and east of us. We tried to laugh were approaching the wagon camp from him out of it, but he seemed positive, claim- that direction. 6or — 602 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. The poor fellow ahead of me was now I had a good line on the Indians, and lying quite still. I kept a close vvcitch to let them understand that I had shooting- see if he stirred. It struck me that he did irons by letting three broadsides into them. move, so I made for him to take him to I must have hit some, for one stopped camp, thinking he might only be wounded. and others gathered around him. I now When ten yards farther in his direction, turned my mule and rode back up the I encountered a storm of bullets. My left sandy bottom, for the red-skins were plenty leg was struck four inches below the knee. in my front as well as on both my flanks. I knew it would be the height of folly to They had only to throw a line across my attempt to warn the camp. I dismounted front and I would be hemmed in like a and, leading my mule, tried to get into the buffalo. ravine. Turning Ned's head, I galloped up the On arriving at the edge of the long bluff ravine about a quarter of a mile. Ahead that led down to the cotton-wood camp, my of me was a little gulley that seemed to last hope of getting back to my comrades lead to the level plain beyond. I rode into left me. On both sides of the ravine were it, and kept looking to the right and left, the red devils. They were not in great hoping almost against hope to be able to numbers, but they were sufficient to stop get to the level prairie with a fair start for my retreat. the fort. I made a dash for the table-land. The I had not gone far when a shower of Indians did not seem to be worrying about bullets came from all sides. Poor little me, so I took the way leading toward Fort Ned and I went down together. My mule Wallace, and prepared to run the gantlet was dead. as best I could. I rode clear around the I did not feel hurt, but one of my legs stony ridge, keeping as far out as possible was penned under the side of the mule, so and lying down on the side of my mule. I opened fire with my right-hand six- I came in sight of the outlet through shooter. I was soon knocked out, however, which I must dash if I intended turning and for a time lost all interest in the fight. directly toward the fort. If I failed, I When I next began to take notice of my would be run out on the open prairie, where surroundings, I lay on an old, dirty piece the race between the Indian pony and my of a blanket. It was dark and a drizzling fat little mule would end in only one way. rain was falling. I tried to make out where I started down the stony side of the bluff I was. I soon began to make out objects at a good stiff gallop, the thin slates of the more plainly, and noticed a number of loose stones clattering and rattling under " feather-heads " near me. my mule's feet. The mule is one of the I did not move or speak, but lay perfectly most sure-footed animals. At one time, my still. I found I was not tied. Then I tried little mule made a jump that must have to learn if I was badly hurt. The leg that been fifteen feet out and downward. I was hit was a little sore, but there were no expected that we would both land with bones broken. Further investigation proved broken necks, but we were still going over that the ankle of my other leg was badly the ground at good speed. sprained. Mules do not like Indians, and Ned had I sat up with my arms and head on my an interest in this affair. As we began to knees and began to think. I tried to make ascend the bluff on the other side, ten In- out where I was and how to get away. I dian horsemen confronted us and opened could not hope to move unless I could get fire. Their aim was poor, for I was not on the back of a horse. struck. I did not return their fire just I was in a bad fix; one I had always then, having left camp with only my two dreaded even more than death. A prisoner six-shooters. I had not taken a gun with in the hands of the Indians ! Oh, for a me, which was a great mistake. But I did six-shooter! Five shots would have sent not suppose for a moment that I would go five of these red devils to the eternal— fires further than to ascertain the truth of the and the last bullet for myself! picket's story and then report back to camp. At the first streak of day I tried to look When I saw the Indians in front of me. about me. If a pony or any other animal I turned to the left, and throwing myself that I could ride had been within my reach, along the left side of my mule, rode toward I would certainly have made a break for the wagons in that position. liberty. ! — — —; CAPTURED BY CHEYENNES. 603 As I was straining my eyes trying to sur- cause he could not go through the manual vey the camp, I was so startled that I of amis, he was discharged from the ser- nearly shouted with joy. I heard a voice vice. How he got among the Indians, I not a cultivated or refined voice—but one was yet to learn. that was touched with the north of Ireland And yet I did not believe that he could brogue. do much for me. I had shot at the Indians The voice was singularly familiar. Sit- and, no doubt, killed one. I was pretty ting near a big bundle of buffalo robes was sure that Peter had not. It was more prob- the speaker. If it had not been for his able that a year or two before he had wan- fiery red hair and his short turned-up nose, dered into their camp, little knowing or he might have been taken for one of the caring where he was going. savages, for he was dressed like the rest of Suddenly my surmises fell to the ground, them. I remembered that unless it is in self- He did not look in my direction, but I defense, an Indian will not attack or injure knew from his first words that he was talk- a red-headed man. If they are obliged to ing at me, or rather, singing at me. The kill one, they- will not scalp him. They tune was one I had often heard under more kept their hands out of red hair just as if favorable circumstances. It was " The it were red hot. Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow," but his Well, as the dawn broke I saw that there words ran like this: were not more than three hundred Indians all told. Now don't let on you know me, So Standing Otter had me! And he was But I know you —ahem For you are Mr. Bobby West as bloody a woman-killing fiend as there Of old Troop M. was on the plains. I knew I had nothing to hope from his soul of black ink. I looked at him, and, perhaps, I smiled. Only a few moments were lost in getting Anyhow, lie went on singing, making up breakfast, which consisted of " bread and the most remarkable verses, so the Indians meat." The "bread" was jerked buffalo would not understand that he was giving meat, the "meat" was the fat or tallow of me instructions just what to do. First he the same animal. told to do out that I me what —to make Then the camp began to move. We trav- was very sick, and could not stand or walk eled, I should say, about six miles an hour. that he could not help me now, but would I rode in an Indian wagon. This vehicle soon as he a chance. he as had Then went is made by fastening a long pole to each on singing. I recall these words: side of the pony, the ends dragging on the ground, and swinging a stiff untanned buf- I hope God put it in your mind To bring along your mouth-organ falo hide between the poles in such a These devils like that kind of music fashion that it makes a bed something like So play it all you can. a hammock. Who—who—too-too-too-de They placed me on this and tied my feet " Otter's band." You're with Standing in such a way that I could not slip out. Don't look behind you, My bad leg did not get accustomed to the No matter what you hear or see jolting of the pole ends over the ground, Hum—hum—te-dee, te-dum. and my suffering was intense. In a short If you try to speak to me,.__ time the torture was so great that, at inter- They will kill us both. vals, I lost all sense of my misery and must All this was sung in a kind of a chant, have been unconscious. with frequent pauses, while the singer was The fever in my leg got so bad that I working on a pair of moccasins of green buf- was afraid inflammation had set in. I falo hide. It was the sweetest song mortal looked for death from blood poisoning. If man ever heard. There are marvelous sing- I could have got hold of a weapon I would ers in the world, but I am sure none of them have made such a fight that the Indians will ever get the applause that I secretly would have killed me. gave that morning to stubby little red- We had not gone far before I began to headed Peter Farrell —the last man on earth suffer for water, and kept calling for it in I expected to meet just then. the»hope that Farrell would find a way to I had known Peter Farrell as a soldier help me. My head began to ache, and with at Fort Sedgwick a few years back. Be- every jolt it seemed as if my brain would 604 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. burst. Every inch of my body was afire. Calmly but intently I studied the situa- The pain I suffere'd is beyond my power tion. I was hemmed in by half a hundred to tell. mounted Indians. I kept pretty quiet, and About two hours later, a bladder of water we jogged along. I did not see or hear was thrust into my hands, but, even then, Peter all that day. This made me feel it was difficult to manage it so as to drink very blue, especially about the middle of the warm, filthy stuff. Still, it was wet, and the afternoon, when we began to meet the as soon as I could master the bladder I let runners from the Indian village. nearly all the water run down my throat. Some were mounted on fleet little colts, When we stopped for the night, and the while many of the squaws were on foot, persistent jolting ended, I slept for a few with heavy loads of fresh-killed meat on hours. It was still twilight when I awoke. their backs. Peter Farrell sang to me again. I tried to It seemed strange to me then that none get a conversation with him, but he would of the bucks of our party offered to carry not allow it, singing to me that if we were die bundles for them—but this is not the discovered exchanging confidences his life Indian way of doing things. . The men as well as mine would pay the bill. rode easily along on horseback, with their With my leg swelled to four times its wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters usual size and the almost certain prospect trudging wearily under their packs by their of death before me, the warning had very horses' sides. little meaning—only so far as not to com- There were now several dozen young promise Peter, who, no doubt, in his own boys running alongside my pony. They way was doing all he could to help me.. talked to me all the time, but I knew I also learned from Peter's singing that, nothing of what they said. However, I if nothing happened to stop us, the Indians replied to them in the few Indian words would be at the big village by noon the I had picked up. next day. My- conversation must have been very This was good and bad news. Good funny, for they laughed a great deal, and that I would not have to be dragged any for a people who laugh so very seldom, I farther; bad that I was probably being took it as a great compliment. taken to the Indian village to make sport I made signs to one for water, and im- for the squaws and papooses while I was agine my surprise when he ran some dis- being transferred to the happy hunting tance away and waited for me to ride up. grounds. When I did, he gave me a drink of very Remembering what Peter had chanted fair water. about my mouth organ, I got mine out and_ I took this as a good omen. At that struck up a lively tune. time I was not quite eighteen years of age, This so pleased the Indians that I had and I had a faint hope that the young some faint hopes that they would not roast Indian boys had, boylike, taken a fancy me just yet; at least as long as my little to me. tin harmonica amused them. We were soon in the middle of the vil- For some reason or other, Peter became lage. The returning heroes were warmly so (imid that he sang me very little— in welcomed by wives and sweethearts, and fact, no information whatsoever about the there was mourning for the hero who would village, where it was, or the number of never return. Whether I was guilty of being Indians living there. At night, when all the cause of the lamentations, I did not was still, I tried to wriggle over to a pony know, and had no way of finding out, for that stood in a dejected attitude near by, Peter Farrell had disappeared. but it was no use. I found that I had That night he turned up again. I learned to crawl over sleeping redskins to get near from his chanting that this party had been him, so after a few feeble efforts I lay out nearly three weeks, had been beyond still and waited the coming of another day. Smoky Hill, and had run onto our wood- I was overjoyed to find myself on the train by accident. Peter had so much to back of a pony when we started early next sing that he was soon out of voice. Putting morning. my trust in God. I went to sleep. " Now," I said, " here goes for a break. I had lost no opportunity to bathe my They will never take me to their village lame ankle and the bullet-hole, thus re- alive." ducing the swelling in both and causing — ! CAPTURED BY CHEYENNES. 605 them to heal rapidly. Although my stom- keep up my own spirits, but when the sun ach rebelled against the stuff the Indians went down and the squaws lit the fires, there called food, I tried to eat to maintain were the sounds of deviltry by night. strength for the first chance to get away Then the fiends began their dance, now or get killed. slowly, then leaping faster and faster, I had given up all hope of help from shrieking and writhing as they circled the Peter. When L made any indication for crackling flames—and I often expected his assistance in escaping, he seemed scared that the rising sun would illumine naught to death, and repeated that if I did get of me but my ashes. away they would be so mad they wquM - I kept cool, however, and was always kill to matters. I planning him square wondered" and watching. Oh ! if Peter how he could be so contented with those Farrell could only disappear for a day and filthy people. From time to time as he get word to the fort! If into that wild, sung to me, I learned that he had been weird Indian swinging chant and the thump, picked up by the Indians while tramping thump of the tom-toms should burst the along the old abandoned North Platte crackling music of the Spencers road, and as he had no arms and did not I managed to play the cripple pretty try to hide, they took him along. He soon well, and had not as yet let them see me went to work with a few shoemaker's tools on my feet. My wounds were healing and he had with him and made the chief a I was getting stronger. kind of a half moccasin and half shoe out On the fourth day after arriving at the of green-tanned buffalo-hide, and this es- village my opportunity came. tablished him as shoemaker for the tribe. A duel to the death was to be fought by He could talk quite a little of their gib- two young warriors. Stripped perfectly berish, and he seemed to like them. naked, they rode out to the end of the For my part, although not wanting to camp, and the whole tribe was present to make matters any worse, I had to draw see the fight. the line on poodle soup. When it came My two guards were no exception, and, to sitting around a big pot of dog stew though they kept a good, close watch on and plunge and struggle for such titbits my movements, thev were attracted by the as the short little legs and stumpy tail to fight. pick, as is done at weddings, I had to I began to squirm around as if eager quit! to see the sport, but all the time shaping The Indian has but one good trait my course toward a good-looking American bravery. He is game to the backbone, a horse with " U. S." branded on his hip. fighter to the core. For all danger and I had spotted this animal at the very pain, and even death itself, he has a con- first and resolved that I would, get him, if tempt that amounts to indifference. The I could, when my turn did come. expression "Indian bravery" has become Not more than ten yards from the horse the measuring stick by which we size up was a rawhide bridle. Now, ten yards is all other kinds of courage. not much of a distance, but in my case Yes, I waited patiently to make my es- yards were miles and minutes hours. cape. I pretended all the time that I was Two or three times my body - guards sick and could not walk, otherwise my glanced over at me, but at each glance my red friends would have used me for a bon- whole attention was directed to the two fire. As it was, they did not even tie me. fighters. Their mode of dueling was some- From what Petter caroled to me one day, thing like Don Quixote's encounter with I found out that one reason why_I had the Knight of the Mirrors; they rode in not been disposed of sooner was that this a half circle, one to the right, the other village was supposed to be at peace, and to the left, and when drawing near each that the government agent would soon other their, ponies were put to a good run, call and distribute blankets for the cold and as they passed each tried to drive his weather. spear through the other. All day long, however, I kept giving It took a long time to draw blood, for them good lively tunes, "Money Musk," they were splendid horsemen, and would "Marching Through Georgia," "The Red, drop on the opposite side of their pony mite and Blue," and "A Life on the when nearing each other. Ocean Wave." The music also helped to It was on the third round that one / G06 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. managed to rip a gash on the shoulder my horse to his greatest speed. "~At first I exposed by the other. At each dash the was afraid I had picked the wrong animal fighters shortened the distance. I judged for I. had all I could do to get him out that if one did not kill or disable the other of a trot. However, he proved to be only soon, they would slide from their ponies in need of urging. and settle it hand to hand. As soon as he struck a gallop, I turned As things became more warm, the in- on his back and looked behind. I saw a terest of the spectators become more rapt, great commotion among the Indians. "Some and my guards were now paying strict at- were running after me on foot and others tention to the two gladiators. were mounted. I knew that my success or I waited for the propitious moment. It failure depended entirely on the speed and came sooner than I expected. The wound- endurance of my horse. He was going ed warrior jumped from his pony and splendidly now; that " IT. S." on him was made a mad rush at his adversary, jabbing beginning to tell. his spear into the rival pony's side. The bridle - rein • had a long, whiplike As I expected, the whole village tried to end, and this I used to keep him up to be where they could see the finish. I his work until he lengthened out into looked and did not see my guards any- springs that made the prairie flow back where—they were lost in the rush. under us like a river! This was my time. I hobbled for that The Indians were now in full chase " rope-bridle and slipped it on the big U. after me. They had spread out like a S." horse, but just as I was climbing onto fan, making it necessary for me to take him my leg was grabbed and I was pulled a straight course ahead. I was overjoyed back to the ground. to find that my horse was no mere sprinter, I turned and saw an old buck, half but was keeping up a good rate of speed; blind and supposed to be crazy. He did that there was none of the wabbling, un- not seem to be angry, but made signs and certain motion of a broken down, winded tried to say something. plug. I said "how" to him for good-by, arid I kept my face toward the line of bluffs again tried to mount, but this time he in front, expecting they must skirt a river. grabbed my arm and gave me a powerful When I next took a survey behind me, I jerk that swung me around in such a way, saw-that eight of my pursuers were away as to place him between the horse and me. ahead of the others, and that one of the Then I threw all sentiment to the winds eight was leading the whole tribe. He, and went at him with the only weapons I then, was the one with whom I must first had," my feet and fists. deal. He did not yell or fight back, but kept How I wished for a Henry rifle or even grabbing at me when I would try to mount. a Long Tom! I had nothing in the shape Getting a good opening, I butted him in of arms, so it all depended on the bound- the stomach. This doubled him up and ing animal beneath me. He was holding made him "runt, but on turning to the his own. If he could keep going until horse I got a sharp crack on the top of dark, I would have a show to dodge thg^ the head from a little club which he quick- outfit behind me. ly picked up. On I went, straight ahead. I thought I went at him again and butted him in I must be close to the bluffs, but distance the stomach with my head, following this on the plains is very deceptive, and they up with blows and kicks. The club com- seemed as far away as ever. ing in contact with my hand, I pulled it The Indian leading was now not more away from him and struck him two or than five hundred yards behind. I saw three times on the head. that he was slowly gaining on me. He fell to the ground. I did not wait I had no doubt but that the little In- to see whether I had killed him or not. I dian pony would do as he had always done mounted the horse and lost no time in put- —run down the big horse in a long chase. ting him to a gallop toward \tfhat I had Besides, the Indian has a secret of twisting taken all along to be a river of some kind. speed out of a horse that a white man ? I thought it must be the Arkansas. I doesn t possess. There was a saying on " made straight in its direction. the plains that A white man will ride a I did not look behind, but kept urging horse till he drops, and then an Indian — CAPTURED BY CHEYENNES. 607 will mount him and ride him twice as the horse's mane, and ran with all my speed far." for the top of the hill. In selecting the big horse I knew this. On gaining it, I looked back and saw my I would not trust a. pony to take me out horse eating grass, while the Indian, who of the village. Some may laugh at this, had reached the foot of the hill, had not but when they see as many tricks per- tried to follow me, but was riding around formed by those, knowing little rascals as the base of the hill to head me off. I have they will not laugh. Besides, I His pony was about as winded as my felt a companionship for the American horse, and, as the red gentleman seemed to horse with the big " U. S." on him. be unarmed, I was not much afraid of him; When the .nearest Indian got to within so, as he went on around the hill, I doubled two or three hundred yards of me I ex- on him and ran back to my horse. Out of pected to feel the wind of a bullet; but sight on the other side of the hill, the Indian for some reason he bent forward flat on sent forth shrill u-ar- whoops to guide his his horse and rode in silence. The others companions. were so far behind that I did not fear They would soon be here. I snatched them, for it was getting late, and darkness the horse's bridle over his head and started would soon be with us. to run along and lead him, but he proved" I was riding toward what looked like balky, so I left him and struck out on foot a big rock, but it turned out to be a down between the steep banks of a small, cone - shaped mound of dirt. My horse dry water-course. when he brought his forefeet down was That bloodhound had not seen me, and I now making that heavy flop that is the bore off in an entirely new direction. It forerunner of total collapse in the tired- was^now growing dark. I kept on through out horse. I well knew that, pound him as I the winding gulleys, never going to the top might, he would soon slow down to a dog- of the ridges if I could help it, for an ob- trot or tumble—but I had already planned ject moving along the sky-line can be seen what to do when flight was no longer pos- far away—even at night. sible. I knew that I had little or nothing to I glanced back at the naked savage. The fear from the Indian. His finding me shadows behind me were growing longer, would be a mere chance. In the darkness but it was not yet dark. I could see only he could not follow my trail, and, besides, this lone Indian. I could hear his pony's I was able to make almost as good time as short, hard breathing. he could. He did not shoot. I lay on the side of Though my wounds hurt, I had to keep my horse, but he should have been able to moving. If I rested, my leg would get so fetch me with an arrow at that distance stiff and sore that I would not be able to not more than seventy yards. The knoll walk. was just ahead, and my hopes were high; All night I went on. Two or three times but in one leg I had a bullet-hole, and on I thought I saw a mounted man. I stopped the other a sprained ankle; and my horse still a moment, but must have been mistaken was beginning to stagger. —for it was never so dark but I could have Lashing him once more into a wavering seen any large object moving on top of the gallop, and keeping a good grip on his hills. mane, I slipped from his back and on my It was now gray in the east, and I had lame legs ran by his side. Be it known not yet come to the Arkansas. I expected that a good man on foot can easily outrun at every turn to see the valley where the a tired horse—even if it is ridden by an river was, and it was nearly daybreak when Indian. I found myself plunging through the tall, The pain was frightful, not so much dry grass which, in the plains, is a never- from the wound "as from the sprained ankle. failing sign of water. The horse kept me from falling. I held on Daylight found me still in this grass—at to his mane until my foot became numb times as high as my head—but I could find and would bear my full weight. no water. We were now about fifty yards apart, I was so utterly tired out, and my leg and, behind me, I could hear the Indian pained me so badly, that I lay down and quirting every possible inch of speed out went to sleep. About noon the burning sun of his gasping pony. I looked back, let go awoke me. Observing nothing to hide from, — '60S THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. 1 1 pressed on. I was both hungry and dry. loaded with grain and bound for Fort Rey- The thirst was the worst of the two. At nolds. The boys did all they could for my first I made little progress, but after a while comfort. What a breakfast I did eat! The I limbered up and kept up a good three- amount of bacon and flapjacks I stored mile-an-hour gait for the rest of the day. away, to say nothing of the coffee, almost Still nothing to eat, and no water. Along wrecked the grub-wagon. toward night the grass began to grow short- Mackay invited me to travel with him er. I must have traveled parallel with the until I came to a stage line, where I could river, or else this was the widest valley I get back to Fort Wallace. Bull trains trav- had ever struck. el slowly, and it took four days to reach Soon, however, I was out where I could Fort Lyons. There I reported to General look around me—and I was mighty glad Penrose. He listened to my story, and de- when I saw a small shanty about half a cided that I had been captured by a band mile ahead. of Cheyennes which had been sent to Silver Before I reached it I saw the shining Creek to await the government agent, who water of a good-sized river. was to send them to a new reservation. After drowning my thirst I stuck my " That's the way of it," he said. " You foot in the cool water, lay back on the grassy can't depend on an Indian when he is once bank, and again fell asleep. out of sight. I have no cavalry, or I would There was a good road along the river, send a squad out after them." and I felt comparatively safe from my ene- The quartermaster at Fort Lyons fur- mies, as the Indians seldom traveled on the nished me with transportation back to roads. When they attack trains or camps Fort Wallace, and next day I climbed they always make a sudden dash from the aboard the coach. bluffs which line the river valleys. When the Concord lumbered up the dusty At this time the Overland stage did not road and rolled into the fort it carried a run on the lower Arkansas. It crossed the pretty happy youngster. Every one was sur- river at Fort Lyons, and the mail was then prised to see me come back with my hair on. taken from the forts and towns to the Twenty days after I returned to Fort smaller places by military mounted men or Wallace a newly arrived troop of the Sev- four-mule ambulances. enth Cavalry was sent out to hunt up the On coming to the old hut I found it Indians that had captured me. empty. I entered, found a bunk, and con- I went along. I wanted to see Standing cluded to spend the night there. Otter. Besides the usual allowance, I took I lay down, but soon heard a noise. I an extra supply of cartridges, and one in listened, but could not make out what it particular I marked and made " good medi- was. A rustling noise seemed to be all cine" over, and carried handy in my vest- around me. pocket for the Indian who chased me. I lay still to listen, when soon, by the Before we started I went to the quarter- faint light that streamed in from the open master's clerk, bought some lump sugar, doors and windows, I saw a large snake and took it along. This was for the big the largest I had ever seen—glide across the American horse with " U. S. " on his hip. dirt floor and under my bunk. but I guess that run about finished him. Before I could make up my mind what to We .found the camp, but all was still and " do another moved out to the middle of the lonesome. I fired my " medicine cartridge floor, stopped still, then made a dive for the at a coyote. place under the bunk. I made a dash, and I have wondered often if Peter Farrell was soon marking good time down the road. is alive to-day. If he stayed with the In- The next morning it seemed as if the dians he is probably a rich squaw man, sides of my stomach were rubbing together. living on some reservation surrounded by As I started forth I noticed little camp- his interesting family. But, alive or dead fires at my front. I approached them very —good luck to him! I shall never forget carefully. Finally I made out the canvas*" his singing when I lay a wounded captive, covered wagons of a bull train. I need not sick and hopeless, waiting to be burned at attempt to describe my feelings when I rea- the stake. His rich Irish brogue was sweet- lized that I was near my own kind of people. er than the angels' singing. God bless red- I was soon telling my story to A, N. headed Peter Farrell—and that big Ameri- Mackay, the wagon-master of a bull train can horse. Observations of a Country Station-Agent. BY J. E. SMITH. No. 36.—Matt White and Sam Home, of Two Kentucky Freight-Houses, Indulge in a Battle Royal Because " Barko " Would Ride in a Way-Gar. ' OU can't tell me," urged the body sends a dog away, or somebody gets a express driver, " that worn- dog. I've handled a thousand dogs and en think more of cats than nary a cat. That ought to tell which of 'em they do of dogs. A cat people think the most of." ain't one, two, three in the " You can't tell me anything, either," ar- affections of a family com- gued the freight-house man. " I know when pared to a dog. Not on yer life." a woman gets attached to a cat she thinks " A woman will go as far for a cat as she as *nuch of it as she does of one of the will for a dog," persisted the freight-house family, and she wouldn't think eny more of man. " I know. I've seen it tested." eny dog. People think so much of cats they " How can you tell anything about it, won't trust 'em to express drivers. I've truckin', checkin', and deliverin' freight?" known 'em to come all the way from Ohio demanded the express driver. " When you and git 'em theirselves. I've seen examples drive an express wagon as long as I have of tender regard for cats that would open you'll entertain different views. I've been an express driver's eyes." | pickin' up and deliverin' express five years "Maybe you have," acquiesced the ex- in this town, and I've never handled a cat press driver with the Missourian accent; yet. Think of that! Never had one boxed, " but when I see one thousand dogs shipped crated, or led by a string to ship out or that in and out, and nary a cat, I can't help came in. Not a single cat, y' understand ! forming some private opinion of my own " If people think so all-fired much of which of the two the human family thinks cats as you say they do, how does it come the most of. no one ever has a cat expressed to him or " Why, a dog's a friend of a man. He'll her, and no one ever sends a cat out by stick to you till they tie the crape on the express? Ain't that good evidence? They door, and then follow the hearse to Crown can't be much affection, or somebody would Hill. A dog will take care of the baby send somebody a cat—or somebody would and be a chum to the boy, while the cat's get a cat from somebody. Every week some- stretched out asleep behind the baseburner. Series began in the July, 1907, Railroad Man's Magazine. Single copies, 10 cents. 3 RR 609 610 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " There's something in the wag of a dog's mark and relieve you of all your change, or tail like the human handshake, and noth- have you scrubbing the back porch, doing ing else in creation has it. He's barking the dishes, and filling the bottle for the his welcome to you and showing his dumb baby. When you pet anything you got a affection, while the cat's inside sneaking up weakness that will be used against you every on the canary. Can't convince me any one time." thinks as much of a cat as they do of a dog. "Well, I wouldn't want any spiders, and It ain't human." a horse is a horse," observed the express This argument ended as all arguments driver. " But a dog's different from any between man and man end, whether politics, other animal there is. He's the only living religion, or philosophy. Each had his own thing you can abuse and treat mean and slant to the proposition. The freight-house that will come back to you a friend. He's man because of the woman who came back the only living animal that knows you and from Ohio after her cat, and the express picks you out and follows you true." driver because he had handled a thousand "Nix on eny of 'em for me," protested dogs and " nary a cat." the freight-house man, "and durn a dog." We base many a robust conclusion on a It is said of a well known but odious per- slender incident. In the blindness of toil sonage, who sportively displays a cloven by which we earn our bread there is only hoof and two short, roguish horns, that if now and then a flicker of light, in which called, "Here, Satan!' Here, Satan!" he grotesque and ill-defined outlines are im- will at once appear. So it was in the case of pressed on the mind of the worker and from Matt White, the freight-house man. Having which he works out his state of mind, his passed a sweeping condemnation of all ani- estimates and conclusions. mal pets, with the final anathema on the He retains the primitive instinct of com- dog, he proceeded to break the seal of a bat. So we spend many hours in argu- way-car that had just been set out by the ment and wrangle, and we touch everything local from the West and placed at the from the eternity of the soul to the domestic freight-house platform. value of the dog and the cat, proving but It should be explained in this connection little and convincing no one. that every day a way-car from the West was "Well, there's one thing sure. You partly emptied at Willowdale, after which couldn't give me the best dog or the flossiest it was set out at Mosstown, which was Matt cat that ever lived," concluded the freight- White's station. Then from the East there house man, grasping the truck handles. " If was a way-car every day, with the reverse you should ever get a dog addressed to me, operation : that is, partly unloaded at Moss- you'd do me a favor to stop at the drug- town and set out at Willowdale. store and git a package of pizen. Then These are industrial towns ten miles we'd have what they call one of them closed apart and with the usual keen rivalry for incidents right away." the world's attention. He released the truck handles. Intense loyalty to one's surroundings, the " I was up at the drug-store the other passion for exulting over a superiority, the day, and the clerk was showing me a big, glory of outdoing and surpassing, are ever woollv spider in a bottle of alcohol. strong in the human breast. It is particu- '"What's that?' I asked. larly marked among office men at various " ' Why, that came out of a bunch of ba- railroad stations. nanas,' said the clerk. ' It's a tarantula. The consuming passion of the force at The boss is keeping it; it's a pet.' Willowdale was to be ahead of Mosstown. ".The other day old Judge Holbrook's Ditto the reverse. family mare ran two miles, and only touched It was a matter of keen interest to each the ground about a dozen times. When she station every month to know how many way- brought up she had only a piece of one tug bills the other station had issued, how many hanging to her. She had scattered the vari- expense bills had been made, how much the ous members of the family at convenient tonnage, and the total revenue. distances along the roadway. The old nag This feeling of live interest and rivalry has been in the family ten years and is a is not confined to Willowdale and Moss- pet. These animal pets is something fierce. town. Everywhere, be it village, town, or "Why, you can't even pet your own wife. city, there grows up a rivalry with a par- If you do, she will cast you up as a soft ticular near-by station of the same class. OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRY STATION-AGENT. 611 There is glory and exultation in the Thus it was with the excoriation of dog freight office of Akron to surpass Canton. pets on his lips Matt White, the freight- There is rejoicing in the office of Kalamazoo house man of Mosstown, broke the seal of ' to learn they have outdone Battle Creek. the way-car that had stopped last at Wil- The old agent at Onward, With one saw- lowdale, and opened the car-door. mill and one general store, boasts with tri- He was greeted with a plaintive whine umph and some braggadocio that last month and a lusty bark. Then a white dog with a he made eighteen way-bills, while his neigh- black spot on his back, soiled by the dirt of bor station, McGrawsville, with a grain ele- the car, made a bound for liberty and vator thrown in, only made thirteen. jumped up to Matt with an effusive demon- stration of gratitude and friendliness for his liberation. " Git out! " yelled Matt, aiming a kick. The dog dodged, retreated a safe distance, then began wiggling himself back with a tentative caution. Matt stooped for a piece of coal and let fly the missile. The dog tucked tail and light- ning-streaked to the end ofjhe platform. Then he HE JUMPED UP TO MATT WITH AN EFFUSIVE DEMONSTRATION OF GRATITUDE. It is always stimulating to be a little stopped, rested on his haunches, and barked ahead of some one else. All the glory of a few scattering volleys at Matt. the world is like the earth's physical foun- Matt temporarily suspended hostilities dations—one strata above anodier. and turned his attention to the way-car. In the freight office of Mosstown there "That's no way to treat a dog," pro- was but little concern about the weal or wo tested the express driver, letting out an en- of the commonwealth or the question of couraging call and whistle. "When that dividends for the railroad company. The dog tried to say ' Thank you ' in his dumb only motive of inspiration was to be a better way, you kicked him. Maybe he was in station in rank than Willowdale. In this there ' by accident. Maybe some one was strained relationship the two stations were shipping him here. Maybe he's a piece of neighborly, but faultfinding and critical freight. If he is, there is one check clerk with one another. that ought to be fired." 612 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. the freight-house man at Wil- lowdale. "He's always doing some low-down thing that will get me in bad. " Whenever he's over anything he don't know what to do with, he sneaks it into this way-car and lets it come to Mosstown, and that puts it up to me. " I've handed him some warm ones in the way-car that runs out at his station, if any one should ask you. Now, here's about that worthless cur there. He's been hanging around the freight-house at Willowdale, and Sam Horne has just passed him along to me. You can't fool your Un- cle Mathias. That dog goes in the piano-box at the end of the freight-house, and to-morrow he goes in the way-car tagged to Sam Horne." The dog submitted without resistance, and was duly incar- cerated. The next day Sam Horne, at Willowdale, opened the way- "IF I CAN'T FIND 'BARKO,' I FEAR SHE MAY LOSE HER MIND. car the local had set out at the house and met the joyous greet- The express driver sat down on a box ings of a white dog with a black spot on his and whistled again. The dog started back back. He, too, administered a kick, but spy- with circumspection and wariness, but as he ing a tag on the dog, he called him back and " drew nearer he almost doubled himself in read : Sam Horne, Freight-House Sop. manifestation of friendliness, and then Willowdale, Kentucky." crawled in humble submissiveness to the feet "What do you know about that!" ex- of the express driver. claimed Horne. " Some one's marked that "Hallo!" exclaimed the driver. "He's coyote to me. Come here, Rastus! I don't tagged. He's marked to some one. Nice know for certain, but I think I know where way you have of handling freight shipped you come from. To-morrow you take a " to this station ! special journey to Mosstown. I'll feed you The express driver leaned over and took on choice cuts to-day, and all I ask of you the tag between his fingers. in return is to nab Matt White by the calf "Well, wouldn't this jolt vou!" he ex- of the leg when he opens the way-car to- " !'* claimed. ' To Matt White, Freight-House morrow. Nab him, Rastus Hustler, Mosstown, Kentucky.' Matt White The dog bristled into a show of bellig- getting a dog! Matt White, the animal- erency, and for his understanding found hater, importing a spotted pup! What's himself under a bos in the freight-house his name, Matt?" awaiting the next day's way-car. Matt hurried out of the car and took a Matt W^ite opened the way-car at Moss- look at the tag. town and was at once repaid by the cordial "They ain't any reason why any one and affectionate greetings of. "Black Spot." should send me a dog," said Matt with a "Hey, cut it out!" cried Matt sharply. puzzled expression on his face. " But, all "To the piano-box with you! You don't the same, I know where that come from! get any fartiier than Ellis Island. To-mor- That's some of Sam Home's work! He's row you are going to be deported." — OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRY STATION-AGENT. 613 Matt White was puzzled. The dog would of meter, measure, and rime to express the go back to Sam Home in the Willowdale freight-house contumely, and Jjy the next way-car next day, and there was no question day had this on the back of the tag: on that point. But he wanted to add some When you pass away the preachers say: sharp and sizzling words to the tag, and he " Dust to dust " we here inter. could think &f none that would adequately But. alive to-day, all we can say. carry his bitter emotions. In truth, of you, is: "Cur to cur." Matt was no wit. Freight-house truck- ing doesn't develop the art of apt response " Cur to cur," explained the express " and the withering £onie-back. He called driver. That's the rub of it. Means dog the express driver to help him mark a tag to dog, you know. We send this dog to the " that would be suggestive, comprehensive, other dog! See the point? and commensurate in conveying the dislike Matt could hardly pick it out through —nay, the disgust; nay, the loathing—of the verbal ambush, but stood for it, and " one Mathias White, freight-house man of Black Spot " was tagged to Sam Home, Mosstown, for one Samuel Home, freight- Willowdale, with "Over" printed con- house man of Willowdale. spicuously to direct attention to the lyric on The express driver favored a verse of the reverse side. poetry written on the back. Immediatelyon receipt of " Black Spot," Matt was inclined to one rapier-thrust Sam Home directed him to the prison-box. a single stiletto stab under the name of He read the insinuating verse, but failed Samuel Home. to catch the hidden thrust in its full signifi- But Pegasus, being the winged horse of cance, and only- understood that the cur, poesy and swifter than the dull fancy of a Matt White, of Mosstown, had once more freight-house trucker, won out. returned the other cur, " Black Spot," to The express driver went into the problem Sam Home, of Willowdale. THAT DOG GOES IN THE PIANO-BOX AT THE END OF THE FREIGHT-HOUSE." : ! 614 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. On the following day "Black Spot" " Look here, Matt," said he. " The su- cleared again for Mosstown, bearing a tag perintendent complains that you are secret- with Matt White's address, coupled with ing a dog in the way-car that sets out at the pseudonym "Rastus" and the tart quo- Willowdale. Saturday he ate a basket of tation, "Two of a kind." sausages. You understand that kind of This was short and pointed, and its mean- work must be cut out. If you do that again ing was not befogged by any literary you can cash in. You will settle for die infusions. sausage when the bill comes in, understand For a week "Black Spot," alias "Ras- that!" " tus," was whipsawed and seesawed and Willowdale commenced it," urged Matt shuttle-cocked back and forth between the with a sort of boyish doggedness. two towns, with resentment and anger aug- "Well, it's up to you to put an end to menting day by day in the breasts of Matt it," directed the agent, returning to the White, of Mosstown, and Sam Home, of office. Willowdale, until written words were no " We'll deduct for this sausage before we longer potent to conduct die heat and the divide the reward," said Matt to the express gages showed personal violence pressure. driver. Then the affair took a sudden and unex- , The local was very late and the eagerly pected turn. expected way-car did not come in. The dog was due from Willowdale, but On the afternoon passenger from Willow- the way-car had not yet arrived at Moss- dale a slight, somewhat bent, middle-aged town when the express driver, who had all man got off and made his way over to the along taken a live interest in the exchange, freight-house. He did not stop at the office. drove up in haste to the freight-house door He cast furtive glances about him, but spy- and called out with some eagerness to Matt: ing nothing, called "Barko! Barko!" a "Matt, come here! Want to show you number of times. something. Where's ' Black Spot '?" "What is it?" asked Matt White. " He's due from Willowdale most any The man sat down on a box in evident time now," answered Matt, coming across disappointment. to the freight-house door. " I am looking for a dog," said he. " A The express driver thrust a paper out to white dog with a black spot on his back. Matt and pointed out a paragraph. He's been missing about ten days. I was "Read that!" he exclaimed. "That's informed yesterday that a dog answering this morning's Leader." this description had been shipped up here Matt read aloud in a freight-car. Can you tell me anything about him? Do you know where he can Twenty-five dollars reward for the safe be found?" return of my white dog. He has a black spot " I seen in the paper this morning," said on his back, and answers to the name of Matt diplomatically, " that a white dog had " Barko." He strayed or was stolen about ten been lost, and had a black spot on his back. days ago. - Ezra Phillips, Let's see. Seems to me there was a reward. Willowdale, Kentucky. If I recollect right, it was five—no, twenty- five—dollars." " 1 " That's Black Spot ' ! urged the ex- "No doubt that was my 'ad.' I have press driver. " He commenced coming from offered that, ""said the man slowly, " for his Willowdale about ten days ago. Nab him safe return. I will explain it. We had a this time, Matt, for keeps ! It's our money little boy at our house—little Jimmie. He We'll go half and half on it! Hope that was a cripple. He could not run and romp freight-house man at Willowdale won't light with odier boys. When he was three years " on that advertisement and beat us to it! old we bought him a pup,, a little, affection- " That mutt can't see anything," answered ate fellow, and he stayed and played with Matt assuringly. "He don't get half his Jimmie and never deserted him a minute. freight out of the car. If he can't read the "No child ever had a' more constant name of his own town on freight packages, devotion for an animal pet than Jimmie had you wouldn't expect him to light onto an for that dog. He filled the long, dull hours 'aoV like that, would you?" with frolics. The agent came from the office to inter- " At last Jimmie could play no more. He view Matt. lay in bed for weeks, drawn and shriveled. " " OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRY STATION-AGENT. 615 and all the time ' Barko ' lay by him. Every but I'll take care of him. Will you wait sound of the little fellow's voice 'brought an here this afternoon ? You see, it's this way. affectionate greeting from ' Barko,' a show He'll come in our local freight. He's been of friendship or i token of devotion. Jimmie riding the way-cars." knew he could not get well, and his great " I must return on the next train—that's ' " regret was parting from Barko.' Over and in a half hour," replied the man. But if over he made his mother promise to take you will get him and take care of him and "black spot" alias "rastus" alias "barko" appeared. care of ' Barko ' —to always keep him .with let me know, I will come after him early in her and let no harm befall him. the morning." "Maybe you can't understand it. Jim- This was eagerly agreed to by Matt. mie died, and it's a sacred trust with us. The man returned to his home. Mother doesn't sleep day or night. If I A short time before the local arrived, can't find ' Barko,' I fear she may lose her Matt received this message from Willow- mind. I am a poor man— dale: There was a touch of huskiness in his Return dog by baggage-master No. 3 this voice. He took a handkerchief from his evening. Owner is here waiting. pocket and wiped his eyes. Sam Horne. " I am a poor man, but I will pay twenty- five dollars for the dog's return—because we Matt White responded briefly: promised Jimmie— Dog will not be returned. Will deliver him ' " I'll accept the offer," said Matt, missing to owner himself. the pathetic feature and fixing his mind on. " " " " the reward. I don't know just what time Huh ! chuckled Matt. That guy has I can find the dog. It may be pretty late, just woke up! He's never found out until : " — 616 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. after ' Barko ' lifted anchor this afternoon The dog you expressed is not "Barko." from his station that there was a reward, He was returned to me yesterday evening by Mr. Sam Home, local then he yelps for him back—quick! When of the freight-house. • You should have consulted me, as I requested, he finds out I git that tvventy-five-dollar re- and saved this misunderstanding. Dog is held ward, when he had such a good chance at it, by express -company subject to your orders. he'll probably jump on the track -in front of the limited." Matt was dazed* Sam Home had re- It was quite late when the local got in. turned " Barko " to the owner and raked irT Matt opened the door with extreme caution. the reward! And Sam Home, the low- "Black Spot" alias "Rastus" alios lived, treacherous wretch, on the last ex- " " Barko appeared to be within, but he was change had rung in a stray and vicious cur not in an amiable frame of mind. When resembling " Barko " just to fool the honest the car-door was opened the width of a hand Mathias White, and had' sent the fake tele- he snarled and bolted for liberty. gram to whet Matt's cupidity! Matt grabbed him none too gently, and There was the rattle of the express " the supposed Barko " at once Shylocked driver's wagon and the call of his voice at about a pound of Matt's calf. Matt held the freight-house door. on, choked him loose, and threw him into " Hey, Matt, here's your dog ! Where do the piano-box like he would a rat. you want him?" " I won't have that ugly whelp around a "Git out!" yelled Matt furiously. "I minute, if he is a pet," said Matt to the don't want him! driver. "He goes back on No. 3, by ex- " " No you don't ! responded the driver. press, C.O.D. twenty-five dollars!" "He's your'n. You shipped him, and he's Matt juggled him into a box, nailed him " ' back to you ! " up securely, and marked him to Ezra He dragged the box inside and drove Phillips, Willowdale," and was forthwith away. The dog let out an ominous growl. assessed one dollar by the express company, Matt White, animal hater, was the owner which takes no chances on a dog. of a pet. Matt rubbed on a little arnica, and chuckled at being able to wind up the dog incident twenty-five dollars to the good, and in triumphantly putting over such a neat one on Sam Home. The next day Matt was stunned_by a note from Mr. Phillips, which read: MATT WHITE, THE ANIMAL HATER, WAS THE OWNER OF A PET. AND WHAT DID THE CON SAY? ONE of Michigan's railroad companies de- out stopping to finish dressing, dashed down the cided to establish a freight and ticket stairs, flag in hand, ran out upon the platform, and office at a small flag station in the southern part began wildly waving the flag across the track. of the State, and the grocery keeper of this hamlet The train stopped, the conductor alighted, and was commissioned as agent. The honor thus con- seeing no one but the agent, turned to him with ferred on Mr. Storekeeper, whose knowledge of the inquiry: "Where's your passengers?" railroading was very limited, somewhat razzle- " Haven't any," replied the agent, as he made dazzled him and led to the following incident another grab at his trousers. " The first morning after he had donned the " Then why in thunder did you stop us? " regulation suit " he awoke about five o'clock " W-well, I—I—thought perhaps there might and, hearing the " limited " whistle in the dis- be some one who would want to get off here." tance, hurriedly slid into his trousers, and with- Detroit Free Press. — THE THOUSAND-MILE TICKET. BY DAN DUANE. Author of "In the Hornet's Nest." Fate Brings Together Fulward and the Per- son Who Seems To Be an Al Accomplice. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. OXENHAM FULWARD, assistant cashier of the Snowball Trust Company, had been robbing that concern systematically for five years. His peculations reached an amount of over one hundred thousand dollars. At the opening of the story, he is in sore slrails as to how this money is to be paid back without detection. J. Erasmus Low, multimillionaire, owes his wealth to the Thousand-Mile Ticket, on the back of which had been written a will which gave him the nucleus of his fortune, willed by a man whose life he had formerly saved. Low prized this Thou- sand-Mile Ticket above all his other possessions, and Fulward. knowing this, decides to steal it, hoping the reward offered will cover his losses. While standing in front of the Low home, trying to decide how the theft is to be consummated, he is surprised to see an expensively dressed young girl coming out of the servants' entrance. He is attracted to her and follows her up-town, but loses her in the crowd. A few nights later upon entering his own rooms he surprises some one ransacking the apartment, and quickly turning up the lights, discovers the young girL CHAPTER V. She seemed to be trying to speak. Her lips quivered painfully, but uttered no sound. The Charming Intruder. She wanted to say something to him, but couldn't ^LUTCHING wildly at her "No doubt she is a thief," said Fulward throat, her face mirroring every to himself— "and I am a thief, too! What phase of grief-stricken horror, a fortunate meeting! She is just the one her body trembling, and the person of all the inhabitants of this big city great tears forcing through for whom I am looking. Thank the fates " her eyes, the young woman for this boon ! was the picture of a hunted fawn run to bay. Perhaps she noted the friendliness that Fulward stood and looked at her. He his facial changes exhibited, for she man- was so dumfounded that he could not find aged to say in a voice that was broken with words. The situation in which he suddenly tears and almost incomprehensible: found himself—in his own apartment at an "Oh—please, sir! Oh—" ungodly hour of the morning with a young If she said anything else, it was lost in girl, and a very pretty young girl at that, sobs. She buried her face in her hands and who seemed intent on robbery — had un- cried as if her heart were breaking. strung him. Fulward, who had stood as resolute as an Fulward eyed her as she knelt on the oracle, stepped across the room. When he floor with her clenched hands and her tears was beside the girl, he leaned over, put his coming faster and faster. She was so daint- hand gently on her shoulder, and said: ily molded; her form was so very chic; her "I am not going to hurt you, miss. Get face was so dainty and her hands so small up. Sit in that easy chair by the table and in fact, she seemed so very ladylike that the tell me all about it." man wondered what strange kink in her He partly lifted her throbbing body from brain had driven her to such straits. the floor and tenderly placed her in a chair. Began in the April Railroad Man's Magazine. Single copies. 10 cents. 617 — 618 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. His manner was sufficiently kind to insure " I won't hurt you," said Fulward, laugh- her that his words were honestly uttered ing a pleasant little laugh and tempering that, instead of calling the police, he would his voice with gentleness. "I won't hurt treat her as a guest. you. Perhaps I may be so bold as to say He extinguished some of the lights so now that I may prove the very best friend that the glare would not hurt her eyes. He in all the world. Come. Don't carry on drew the blinds down and placed a chair that way. Dry your eyes and tell me all quite close to the big one, in which she was about it." huddled like a punished child. She almost interrupted him. She still sobbed violently. Fulward knew "You won't send for the police! You sufficient about women not to ask one to won't — will you?" she cried, extending break off her flow of tears too suddenly, so both her hands. he let the girl sob on while he carefully se- "No. I sha'n't send for the police," re- lected a well-seasoned meerschaum, which plied Fulward with the same gentleness and he filled with his private mixture. Then he compassion in his voice. "Why, I couldn't sat beside her, and blew three or four inha- have the heart to turn a little girl like you lations of the fragrant smoke to the ceiling over to the police. It would be—it would before he noticed a cessation in her throb- be—" Fulward was at a loss for a word, he " bing body. f so went on : And, besides, you haven't It wasn't just time to speak. He waited taken anything that I can see. If you had a little longer—and smoked. succeeded in opening that—that wine vault Up to that moment both of her small over there, I don't know what you would hands had been used to hold to her eyes the have done with its contents. tiny bit of lace and linen that she would " There is some rare old vintage' wine in have called a handkerchief. One finally there, and a pretty good burgundy; but I dropped in her lap. Fulward looked at it, don't know what a little girl like you would and then he turned and looked at the rather do with them. You'd be a funny sight run- large jimmy and the hammer with a sawed- ning down the street with a bottle of cham- off handle with which she had tried to pry pagne under each arm and the cops chasing open the walnut locker in which he kept his you — at this time of the morning — now, liquors. wouldn't you?" They were lying on the floor, mute evi- If the girl saw any humor in the picture, dence of the fair one's guilt. Beside them she didn't convey it to Oxenham Fulward. rested a long bull's-eye lantern—the new- " Now," he went on, " I want you to tell fangled electric kind, not the old-time brown me all about this—this midnight raid—who headlight of song and story. — you are and why you should have picked out Fulward looked at these — er "bur- my rooms as a place to plunder." glar's tools." He didn't much like to give She drew herself closer into the big chair them so terrible a name, for surely the little and looked at him with eyes of wonderment. thing nestling in the big chair beside him If he were really friendly, as he claimed, could not be a burglar. she wanted to be quite sure of it; so she He looked at them, and then he looked at studied him most minutely to detect some the small, trembling hand of the girl, and little curve in his face and manner that wondered at its strength to ply so formida- would prove otherwise. ble an instrument of crime. Fulward refilled his pipe and looked at It couldn't be possible. And yet he had the girl, as if by vibration he could transmit seen her with his own eyes and heard her the thoughts that were uppermost in his with his own ears breaking into his locker. mind much more potently than by spoken She!—the very girl who had left the Low words. mansion so mysteriously and who had at- She was looking at him strangely. Her tracted his attention so strangely. eyes seemed to penetrate his mind and body. There could be no mistaking those two The tears in them were drying. Her lips very important points in her disfavor. were set and immobile. He wanted her to Fulward leaned over and laid his hand speak. on hers. It was an act of friendship. He In order that she might have further in- wanted her to understand that he meant her dication that he wanted her to be entirely at no harm; but she drew away as if he had her ease, he arose, strolled easily across the touched her widr a red-hot poker. room, and removed his coat. He reached THE THOUSAND-MILE TICKET. 619 into the dresser and took out a comfortable Taking a bundle of personal letters from smoking-jacket, which he donned with ease the inside pocket of his coat, he threw them and satisfaction. His shoes he also removed in her lap—but even a detective might bor- and laid side by side in their accustomed row another man's calling-cards and letters corner, and as he slipped his feet into his in order to hide his identity. comfortable slippers he glanced over his "You still disbelieve me? " said Fulward. shoulder to detect her observations. "Yes—and no," the girl replied. She had watched him as a cat might watch "Make it no," he said. "I am Oxen- a mouse. She had followed every little ham Fulward. If you don't believe it, you movement that he made with the keenest in- may call up the office of this apartment- tensity, and when he returned to the chair house and have them send up a clerk to he had placed beside her she was almost jdentify me. Owing to the lateness of the certain that he was not a detective. hour, I am sure that you would not like She hadn't quite been able to make up that." her mind on that point. At first, he seemed "No! No!" cried the girl. "Don't do so very plausible and nice; he had talked that!" with so much charm that her doubts had "Well," Fulward went on, having found been aroused; but when he slid across the a weak spot, "if you don't believe me, I room for his house garments she felt pretty shall call up a clerk on my own account certain that he would not have taken to and prove it against your wishes. Perhaps another man's wearing apparel so deftly if- you wouldn't like that, either." he had been a detective. Still she was not The girl shook her head. sure. "We can't waste time here all night," " Fulward dropped into his chair again, Fulward continued, and I must get you out and again the fragrance of his pipe floated of here — before daylight. And I don't over their heads. propose to let you go until you tell me all " Come, little girl," he said, " I want you about yourself." to tell me who you are. I promise you that Fulward drew his chair closer to hers that I mean you no harm. As I have already no syllables might be lost in the cross-ex- told you, I may prove the very best friend amination that he was about to undertake. " you ever knew. Can't you trust me ? Here, right under his very eyes, as if The girl looked at him with a most sus- hurled in his lap by the god Luck, was the picious glance, and asked: very person he needed in all the world to be " " Are you Mr. Fulward ? a party to his crime. " Yes," replied the banker. "Are you sure," she went on, "are you sure that you're not a detective?" CHAPTER VI. " " A detective ! Oxenham Fulward ut- Getting Down to Facts. tered a convincing hearty laugh. " Perhaps you would like some proof. Here is my "YVTHAT is your name?" was the first card," and he opened his pocketbook and * * question asked by the banker. handed her an engraved calling-card bear- "Minnie," she replied, almost inaudibly; ing his name. " If that does not suffice," then in a clearer voice, after a pause, she he went on, "here is my crest on my ring, gave it in full, "Minnie Payne." with my initials under it," and he thrust his "Minnie Payne," repeated Fulward; left forefinger under her eyes. "and how old are you, my girl?" She took his hand in both of hers and Minnie did not hesitate to reply. She eyed the crest and the initials beneath was going on twenty-one, she thought, but strangely — and Fulward was not uncon- she wasn't sure. * scious of the tender touch and softness of "Didn't your father and mother ever tell those little hands. you the date of your birth ? " asked Ful- What a dear little burglar! he thought. ward. The girl did not seem to be greatly im- " I ain't had no parents," replied the girl. pressed by the ring, judging from the man- Fulward saw at a glance one of the hun- ner in which she eyed it. Fulward noticed dreds of beautiful girls of the great city of this; and then he noticed also that she picked New York who, like Minnie Payne, are up his card and looked at it again, and orphans, who become the prey of the mas- seemed to want some further proof. ters of the underworld and are taught to — 620 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. steal. Their beauty is their best asset. In " there were three other girls there and his nine cases out of ten, when one is caught, wife, and she was very kind to me." " she usually gets off with a reprimand. Do you live there now ? " asked Ful- Through her willing tears she can promise ward. so smoothly not to do it again. " Yes," replied Minnie,. " in the very Minnie Payne was undoubtedly one of same place." these girls. Her absolute disregard for the "And this uncle is the man who taught English language proved to Fulward that you how to break into these rooms ? " ques- she had grown up without an education. tioned the banker with a sweep of his hands. The more she replied to his questions, the " Not uncle, exactly," Minnie continued, more he was convinced that she was hope- "but the girls. They taught me how to lessly a criminal by instinct; but there was steal vegetables and meat from the stores in no telling what might have come to her had the neighborhood, and then they taught me she been given a chance to improve her mind. how to get away with purses in a crowd. That she looked younger than the twenty I like that best. It is very easy, specially and one years to which she laid claim, Ful- with women, when the streets are crowded ward was also convinced. and there is a parade or something going " Do you do this for a living—this steal- on. Why, I have gone home with ten purses ing!'" asked Fulward. on an election night," and the girl's eyes " Yes," she answered. fairly beamed with satisfaction, "and I "What do you do it for?" would have taken more—only there was no "My uncle makes me." way to carry them.'" Fulward looked aghast. "Umph!" exclaimed Fulward with a " " " Your uncle ! he repeated. You don't smile, "you ought to be in Wall Street." mean to tell me that you deliberately do this " Not for mine," replied Minnie. " I " work for a man. Does he pay you ? never could get anything out of that dis- " He gives me my home and clothes trict. It's women for mine—and nice homes ain't that plenty?" she asked in return. after dark." " Have you ever been to school ? " was " I should gather that you are rather pro- " Fulward's next question. ficient in your—profession ? Fulward ad- " I went onct," said Minnie, " an' when vanced. I gets home I tells my uncle that the teacher The girl caught the meaning. carried her money in her purse an' that I " Yes," she answered, " uncle says that I seen it. He told me not to come home nex' can beat the rest of the girls put together." " day without it—an' I didn't," Minnie added You will pardon me for asking you one as a sly humor played in her face. or two rather pointed questions," Fulward "And you didn't go back to school, said. either?" said Fulward. " Ask what you like," said the girl. " I "You can bet I didn't," Minnie contin- guess I've told you more now than is good ued. " Uncle an' me went an' hid." for me." "Tell me about this uncle," said Ful- "Don't say that," Fulward answered re- ward. "Who is he? Where is he? What assuringly. "What you have told me has is he?" deeply interested me, and it will be of the "You sure ain't goin' to tell no one?" greatest help to me in what I am planning asked Minnie appealingly. for your future. What I want to ask you " On my honor, little girl," Fulward re- particularly is this: Were you ever appre- plied as he raised his hand to establish an hended?" " oath. " Do vou mean did the cops ever get me? " All I know," Minnie said in telling the " Yes." " " " story of her life, is that I was taken by Once," said the girl. I dipped for a, this man some years ago when I was a little woman's purse coming out of a matinee. girl. He came to the asylum and got me and She was too quick and grabbed my arm. I took me to his house. He told 'me that he looked surprised and began to cry, and she was my uncle. He was very kind and held onto me until a cop came up. I swore bought me cake and candy on the way home. that she was a liar, but the cop took me in. When we got to his house," and Minnie The next morning the judge released me, mentioned a certain number in that part of because the woman didn't show up against New York not far from Hell's Kitchen, me. That's another good reason for tack- " — THE THOUSAND-MILE TICKET. 621 ling women, they hardly ever come-back at and waiting in the hallway of the top floor you. Men always want to prosecute." for hours—until I was ready to make my "Was that the only time?" asked Ful- play." ward decidedly. "Poor little girl," said Fulward, "you " That's the only time," she assured him, don't have it easy, do you?" "unless you hand me over to-night. I'm "Not always," she said, "but I expected pretty careful, because that is the only thing that the trouble of coming here would be I dread. It would kill me to go to jail." worth while." Behind the girl's words was real sin- "It will—believe me!" Fulward assured cerity, something which indicated that she her with some emphasis. "I want you to- was not a born criminal. Somewhere in her put your trust in me, Minnie. I have a make-up there was a strain of good blood. little scheme to unfold to you later on; and "Now, Minnie," and Fulward turned on if you will do as I say, you won't have to the tap of his extremest sweetness, " do tell undertake any of these queer midnight " me why you picked me out as a victim? journeys again." "Uncle told me that you were rich." He held out his hand and she clasped it, Fulward was filled with glee. and seemed to be much happier than she had He laughed outright, and slowly the rip- ever been in all her life. Just why, she did ples faded into a very serious countenance. not know. It wasn't prompted by a' feeling For a few moments he had nothing to say. of reform, either. He was facing for a brief space of time his Fulward was not at the end of his quiz- greatest accuser—his own conscience. In- zing, however. The one particular bit of sanely, he thought that this girl's uncle, who- knowledge for which his brain was tingling ever he might or might not be, had some he was now to seek. If Minnie Payne an- cognizance of his stealings at the bank and swered the next question to his satisfac- had sent her to find some of the loot—just tion, he would immediately endeavor to as if he kept it hidden in a wine-locker. form a partnership with her—a partnership Then the ludicrous side of the idea which would have as its basis the getting of - brought him to his senses. the Thousand Mile Ticket owned by J. " And what did you expect to find in that Erasmus Low. locker ? " he asked. Fulward leaned back in his chair, picked " Oh, I have found jewelry and money up his diamond pin, looked at it, and threw in queer places," she went on. " Before you it down as if it were valueless; he did like- came in I looked around the room, and I wise with the ruby cuff-links; he crossed his didn't find—much. I came to the conclu- legs; he stuck his thumbs in his armpits, sion that there might be something hidden and then he put the question with slow in that place. I started to open it when you enunciation, that Minnie might not lose came in." any of its import: " You didn't find much? " asked the man " I saw you coming out of the Low man- in a quizzical tone. sion on Fifth Avenue the other night. What " " Only these," and the girl produced from were you doing there ? a fold in her skirt a diamond scarf-pin and Minnie Payne hesitated for a moment. a pair of cuff-links of heavy gold, with a She seemed disinclined to answer. A little huge ruby burnishing each center. blush appeared and disappeared on her She handed them to Fulward. He took cheeks, and then she admitted that she was his property and eyed it as if he had never a friend of the second butler of the million- seen it before, then carelessly threw it on aire's establishment, and had called that the table beside him. evening to have a little chat with him. " Minnie," he asked further, " there are Fulward didn't quite care to believe this.. only a few more things that I want to know. He remembered that Minnie had left the " How did you get in here? place rather peculiarly, and that she had The girl pointed to an open window in walked from Fifth Avenue and returned the sleeping-room. toward that thoroughfare when she saw a " " Came up the fire-escape, eh ? man ahead of her. He brought all of this " That's right," she answered, " and I got to her notice; but she quickly waved it aside on the fire-escape from the roof of the build- as nonsense, and proved to Fulward that his ing next door; and I got onto that roof by own warped mind was responsible for such going up in the elevator just before dark suspicions. — — — 622 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " " " " I walked away from Fifth Avenue be- Oh, don't ! said Minnie. After find- cause I was not sure of my direction. The ing me here as you did to-night, it is only man who approached me did not frighten natural that you should think that my visit me in the least. You were standing on the to the Low house was not honest." corner. If I had been frightened by him, " Did you ever think of it as a place to why wouldn't I have been frightened by to break into ? " Fulward was surprised at " you ? the ease with which he said the last three Fulward saw the force of this logic. words. " I stood on the corner and waited for the "I know it's full of stuff, but there's bus, didn't I ? " she asked. " And you stood enough cops hoverin' around there to stock almost beside me—and stared straight at a hen-coop," said Minnie. " Oh, don't me! And when you got into the bus the think that uncle hasn't had it on his list; same time that I did, I thought that you only but he's afraid to tackle the place. It has wanted to flirt. But I don't flirt, Mr. Ful- a bad name among—among ward. Whatever my life mav be, I don't " Say it, Minnie. Go ahead. Don't mind trifle." me." Fulward spoke with easy assurance. " You say that you know the second "Thieves," said Minnie, and she turned butler?" her head away. To tell the truth, she didn't " He is a friend of mine." like the word. " " A very intimate friend ? •" Did you ever hear of the Thousand-Mile " He was a boy in the orphan asylum Ticket?" asked Fulward. when I was there. I met him several years "The Thousand-Mile Ticket!" It was ago on Broadway, and he told me how he like introducing the girl to an old friend. had acquired an English accent and had be- "Why, uncle talks about it night and come a butler. He took me to the theater day. He says that if we could get our hands several times—and I only called on him on it, we would be on Easy Street the rest that night. of our lives." " "I rather like him," Minnie confessed, Has he ever made an attempt to get it " and added that in her dull, prosaic life the or to have you get it? little friendship that he held out to her was "No," answered the girl. "We have one of its few bright spots. talked it over many times, but we have al- That night she had called on him, she ways been afraid to tackle the job." told Fulward after he had closely ques- " Does your ' uncle ' know that you are tioned her, because she had not heard from acquainted with the second butler?" him for some time and feared that another For the first time, Minnie seemed to show woman might have taken her place in his a spirit of resentment. She drew away from heart. Fulward as she remarked: It was just a touch of feminine jealousy "Say, what are you asking me that for? that was all—and it comes to the poor pariah What do you want to know so much about " of the streets just as it comes to the lady me for? who is blessed with the luxuries of life " Minnie/' said Fulward quietly, "T have and counts her lovers among the men to a reason for asking you these questions. whom second butlers are the under-crust of You shall know in a very few minutes. creation. Only answer this one, and then I will take ' No, it was only a little satisfaction for vou into my confidence. Does vour ' uncle this unfortunate girl to know that her Char- know?" lie had been faithful to her, and that his "No," the girl replied, returning to her silence was not caused by his attentions to former attitude. " I didn't dare tell him. another woman. She had gone to him as her I was afraid that he might want me to use duty seemed to dictate. She had talked to' Charlie." him that night only a few minutes, because he was very busy at the time; she made an appointment for the following week and de- CHAPTER VII. parted; and if Mr. Fulward noticed any- The Second Butler. thing peculiar in her actions, it was his own actions that aroused suspicion, not hers. X^ULWARD emitted a long "m-m-m-m," Fulward listened to her story, and then he and resolved himself into a committee apologized profusely—most profusely. of the whole for a few minutes. ! THE THOUSAND-MILE TICKET. 623 Although Minnie had protected the ple- "Please don't," said. Minnie, looking up beian Charlie from the man who held her in at him with the eyes of an injured animal. thrall and made her steal for him for her " I'd give anything in this world to lead an living, there might come a time when Min- honest life—and, besides, I don't^drink." nie would be obliged to call Charlie into the Here was a queer combination, indeed; Fulward service. but the girl's desire for a better life, and the At the moment, however, it was a matter fact that she was not given to drink, did not of secondary importance. Fulward turned soften the heart of the man. his thoughts to his own case. If he had hunted the world over, he Just how to tell the girl why he wanted thought again, he could not have found a her to come into his friendship, his confi- more satisfactory person for the theft that dence, and his employ was puzzling him he was planning. It all fitted in so* well. somewhat. Everything seemed to shape itself so per- He thought it best to blurt it out in a fectly—and there was Charlie, the second heap; then he thought it best to parley with butler her and learn just what she would agree to Fulward cleared the little center-table of do; then he decided to let the matter rest for its paraphernalia and books, and turned it the present, and ask Minnie to call on him so that it stood squarely between them. He in the morning when he would unfold his placed his own chair, and then went around plans to her. to Minnie; and twisted the great armchair His thoughts were finally interrupted by from which she hadn't moved, so that it the girl who spoke. faced the table. "What are you going to do with me?" Then he went to the sofa, carried back an she asked, her voice faltering somewhat. " I armful of pillows, and propped them be- have told you the truth about myself, and hind her so that she could eat more com- you said that you would be my friend." fortably. As he administered the last pat " I mean to keep my word, Minnie; but it to the last pillow, he leaned over the girl and is difficult for me to get started—to tell you put his arm around her shoulders. in the right way, I mean. When you hear She drew back with a timidity that star- my story, you will be—dumfounded. Let tled him. Her natural thought was that he me think a few minutes longer." intended to insult her in some way. She " I'm very hungry—and thirsty," said the felt like the sparrow that finds itself in the girl. claws of the cat. But Fulward was not a " Why didn't you say so before? " put in man to trifle with such as Minnie Payne. " Fulward quickly. That part of it is easily This was a matter of business. It was remedied." business for him to be kind to her; it was .He went to the telephone and called the business for him to assure her of his confi- office. In nearly all well - conducted New dence, and it was business for him to show York bachelor apartments the kitchen is her that he liked her and wanted to trust her. kept - open all night, and Fulward's place The next words that he uttered made her boasted its little accommodations of that sort. shudder still more. Ever since she had been "Let's see, what would be nice at this discovered by Fulward, Minnie wondered hour? " he said, turning to her; but Minnie, what he intended to do with her. The out- be it known, was not a particular being come of the night and the plausibility and when it came to food, and shook her pretty kindness of the man had taken more shapes head. Turning to the telephone, Fulward in her not too well-developed mind to enable gave the order for some oysters on the half- her to settle on any one as a possibility. shell, lamb chops with browned potatoes, a Fulward had decided on his plan. There salad of hearts of lettuce, and an omelet and Was no time like the present. coffee. " Minnie," he said, bending still closer, "That order is for two," he shouted into "I am in great trouble, and I want you to the telephone and hung up the receiver. help me. Like vou, little girl, I am a " I think that will make a very nice sup- thief—" per—for two," he said. " We can open a She drew away from him in horror. bottle of that rare-vintage I caught you pil- He stood erect, and stepped a few feet fering to-night, if you like." from her chair. Holding his arms wide as He patted her head to assure her that he an orator would while making an impas- did not mean to hurt her feelings. sioned peroration, he continued: " : 624 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " What I tell you is true. I am no better The supper was hot and inviting, and than you. In fact, I am a more pitiable Minnie ate as she had seldom eaten before. object, for my stealing has been premedi- Fulward noticed how famished she seemed, tated — it could have been avoided. You and spoke of it in a kindly tone. " were forced to it, for you became the tool of I haven't had anything to eat since yes- a desperate man, who uses you because you terday," said the girl. "I carft eat much are young and pretty. If you had grown when I am on one of these affairs. I had to up in better surroundings, and had known come here yesterday and look over my a father and mother, you would have a dif- ground and study how to get in, and," she ferent story to tell. I am confident on that went on, "what is more important, how to point. get out" " Minnie," he went on, as he returned to Fulward helped her to another chop. the table and took his chair opposite her, "What is this great scheme of yours? " "lean over; 3L want you to understand me What do you want me to do—rob a bank? perfectly." _ • she asked with a twinkle. She moved her body so that she could Fulward rested his arm on the table and place her arms on the table. - looked steadfastly at the girl. "You and I are both thieves, Minnie; "Minnie," he said, "you eat and I will we understand each other on that score." talk. But listen carefully, for I am going She nodded. to make you a proposition that will mean " Do you really know me—do you know- much to you. Before we go any further I " just who I am ? want your sacred promise that if we should "You are Mr. Oxenham Fulward," she disagree, and you should decline my offer, replied. " You belong to a trust company." you will never speak of this visit or what I " You have heard of me ,manv times shall tell you to any one. In return, I shall before?" keep sacred all that I know about you." "We have had you spotted for a long " I agree," said Minnie between bites as time," said the girl. she held out her hand. Fulward shook it " You thought I was a rich man?" warmly. Then he proceeded " Yes." " Minnie, I want to get the Thousand- The customary idea of the general public Mile Ticket in my possession, and I want regarding gentlemen connected with trust you to help me." companies, thought Fulward. Minnie looked up from her supper as " Well, I'm a poor man — a very poor much as to say that's about the most impos- man," said Fulward. " I need a great deal sible thing in all the world; but she waited of money, and I need it at once—and I am to hear the rest of Fulward's proposition. going to employ you— " I am short in my accounts at the com- The waiter bearing the supper knocked at pany's office. I need money, and I need it the door. quickly. I am certain that the easiest and " You can go in that room if you do not quickest way in which to secure cash is to want to see him," said Fulward, pointing, get hold of the Thousand-Mile Ticket. "but it is not unusual to give late suppers "Now, I want you to help me solve that here, and the waiters know their business." part of die problem. If you care to work Minnie shrugged her shoulders as if it with me and for me from diis moment, you mattered nothing to her. will have everything you may want to keep " " Come in ' called Fulward. you comfortable until I get that document The waiter entered, and with the silent in my possession. When I do I will give activity of his kind proceeded to set the sup- you five thousand dollars in cash—and in per. While he was spreading the snowy the kind of cash that will be easy to handle. cloth and placing the dishes of food where " I want you to meet me here to-morrow they would be in easy reach of Fulward, not evening and make the final arrangements. a word was said. The waiter seemed to be We will then go into the details, and find particular in having everything just so, as out the best way to operate. What princi- careful waiters will, and Fulward became pally interests me at this moment is whether impatient at his persistent attention. When or not you accept my proposition." he finally handed Minnie a serviette and " Supposing I fail," said Minnie, wr ith an stood at attention, the banker sharply said, eye to business, " what do I get for my " IH serve," and the waiter retreated. trouble then?" " " " THE THOUSAND-MILE TICKET. 625 "I will take care of that," replied Ful- made that reply. It made die girl mistrust ward. "I won't ask you to work for him. Of that he was sure. She looked at nothing." him for the first time during the night as if " Couldn't you give me some idea? she hated him, as if he were trying to make "Well, say, I promise you a thousand her and the man she loved the tools of his dollars, anyhow," Fulward said. " But I scheme. would rather not state anything definite just If they failed, she would "be to blame; now. We must work for success. If we and if Charlie were dragged into it, he fail, I will see that you do not lose any- would be jointly to blame with her. She thing." could see it in no other light. She was " ? Why do you think I will succeed struggling inwardly with herself. She was asked Minnie. not a match for the keen mind of this man, " Because you know Charlie, the second old enough to be her father. All she could butler, so well." do was lead her humble life as a pickpocket This was an obstacle over which Ful- and a sneak and abide by the orders of her ward feared that he and Minnie would trip, "uncle." And when the time came and she and he wanted to tackle it early in the game. could marry Charlie—when he earned suffi- " Oh, no—no! " Minnie put both hands cient money to support them both—then she to her face. "I couldn't! I couldn't! He would give up the-- terrible life into which doesn't know that I —that I steal ! And he's fate had so rudely thrust her—and be a so honest ! lady! " " Are you sure ? asked Fulward, whose Fulward had made a mistake. ideas of honesty were not too solid. "I'm sorry, Minnie," he said; "I didn't " Sure of what? " Minnie asked in return. mean to say that." " That Charlie is so very honest. Wouldn't "I think I had better go," she said, he like a few thousand, too, and a little trip reaching for her things. " to Europe ? "No. I forbid it," said Fulward. "You Minnie realized that the banker meant must wait and hear me further. I can't af- business, that he was prepared to spend all ford to let you go now. We will not speak the money necessary to carry out his plan. of Charlie again. I will apologize for what " I don't know," the girl answered. " But I said about him. I did not know that you he has been the one person I have looked up would take it so much to heart." to in all the world. I would hate to think The girl was gathering up her " tools," that Charlie would go bad, too. Everybody seemingly unconscious of his presence. I meet is either a thief—or—wants to be. "Minnie"—Fulward caught her by the " And Charlie—" Minnie brushed away a arm—"you must listen to me! tear. He turned her around until she faced "Well," Fulward went on, "we won't him. He placed his hands on her shoulders worry about Charlie just now. There are so that she could not get away from him. " a lot of better things in this world than Do you know what I am doing for you ? being the second butler of a millionaire. Do you realize? I want you to help me. Young men want to get ahead, and I guess Do so, and I will take care of you always. that Charlie won't pass by the right kind of Here! I will talk real business to you now an opportunity." — this very moment." "He is not the kind of man you think He pulled a well-filled wallet from his he is," said Minnie sharply. pocket, and opened it so that the bills were ~"And you are not the kind of a girl he exposed. He sat at the table and began thinks you are," retorted the banker. counting them out. Minnie stood as one A second later he was sorry that he had transfixed. (To be c c tin u e d. J It might be fun to see your steam indicator rising without work, but it would only mean there was something wrong with the gage. Always distrust a cinch.—Comments of the Cynical Super. 4RR V MONTAUK (ARROW) THE PROPOSED TERMINUS OF THE ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP LINES, AND THE PAST RAIL ROUTE THROUGH NEW YORK CITY. The New Atlantic Gateway. BY JOHN WALTERS. NEW YORK harbor's claim to the title of " Gateway of America " is being seriously threatened. The call for longer wharves for Europe's gigantic liners, which grow larger every year, is not being satisfactorily met, and shipping facilities are fast becoming limited. In looking about for a future docking place, however, the steamship companies have found what they believe to be the complete solution of their difficulties. It consists of a well-sheltered bay, free from shoals, lying at the eastern extremity of Long Island, within two hours' travel of the metropolis, and well fitted for handling the commerce of a great nation. It will bring Europe six hours closer to America. Overcrowding of Shipping in New York Harbor Gives Promise of Rival Port on Long Island and Will Shorten Mail Routes Across the Continent. T looks now as if the big Eastern indicate the realization of this gigantic railway and steamship terminal scheme. The principal builders are the of the near future will not be Pennsylvania Railroad and the International New York City, but a place Mercantile Marine Company. known as Fort Pond Bay, situ- The Titanic and Olympic, the new levia- ated at Montauk Point, Long thans of the White Star Line, may inaugu- Island, the most easterly spot in the State of rate the Montauk Point service before the New York. Ever since the Pennsylvania end of the year, giving the Pennsylvania Railroad got control of the Long Island Railroad, through its connection with the Railroad, this project has been the talk of Long Island Railroad system, control of a Eastern railroad circles. Part developments great portion of the transatlantic traffic. 626 J THE NEW ATLANTIC GATEWAY. 627 As a seaport second to no other in the car was substituted for the last part of the world, the Fort Pond Bay improvement will trip under the East River. involve the expenditure of many millions of In preparation for the Fort Pond ter- dollars. Piers great enough to accommodate minal, the Long Island Railroad is com- railroad trains for passengers and freight pleting the big freight terminals at Bay will be projected one thousand feet into the Ridge and Jamaica, which will be connected bay, with elaborate stations for the rapid with the proposed Jamaica Bay improve- handling of luggage by the customs in- ment and the New England connection of spectors. the Montauk main line. This connection Along the water-front for a mile and a will include a system of bridges and tunnels half the pier system, which includes steel to connect with the Mott Haven yards in reenforced concrete bulkheads and double Manhattan. The new right-of-way has al- concourses, will form the main part of the ready been obtained by the New York Con- terminal from which passengers will be car- necting Railroad. ried, without change of cars, to the Gulf of With the Montauk main line as the back Mexico or the coast of California. of the elaborate system planned by Mr. When Austin Corbin, the consolidator of Peters and his predecessors, the Pennsyl- the Long Island Railroad lines, took the vania Railroad, spreading four track-lines initial steps for the Fort Pond Bay harbor south, east, and north from its New Jersey improvement, the scheme was regarded as a yards, will control one of the most important far-distant possibility, but since the Hudson railroad systems in the United States. River and New York harbor, crowded with On the land side of the main terminal at ships of every description, has been con- Montauk, five thousand acres of land have siderably narrowed by the big docks on the been reserved for the building of a city in Manhattan and New Jersey shores, Mon- which to house the thousands of employees tauk is left open as the natural gateway to who will be required to handle the passenger New York. traffic when the seaport is completed. At Ralph Peters, now president of the Long the end of a strip of land where the Montauk Island Railroad, who recently closed a deal Point lighthouse stands, one thousand five with Edward C. M. Fitzgerald and Robert hundred acres have been reserved for a C. Baldwin, a brother of the late William summer resort. H. Baldwin, for many years president of Although the International Mercantile the Long Island Railroad system, for the Marine Company, which controls the White purchase of the mile and a half water-front, Star Line, the Atlantic Transport Line, the including two hundred and twenty-five acres Red Star Line, American Line, and Leland of land, expects to carry to completion the Line, is not recorded as having interests at Corbin idea. Montauk, its close connections with the Before announcing the purchase of the Pennsylvania Railroad brought about the harbor at Montauk Point, Mr. Peters spent negotiations which resulted in the announce- several months with the officials of the Penn- ment that Montauk is about to be estab- sylvania Railroad and the International lished as a steamship-station. Mercantile Marine in forming tentative Recently, J. Pierpont Morgan hastened to plans for the gigantic seaport and the track- Washington in the interest of the White ing of the railroad system to accommodate Star Line to make application for the exten- the fast electric trains which will be operated sion of two of the Chelsea piers for the from the Pennsylvania terminal to Montauk, accommodation of the Titanic and Olympic. a distance of one hundred and eighteen miles. The War Department refused the applica- tion four times, but finally granted permis- To New York in 150 Minutes. sion for the erection of some temporary piling at the end of the present piers so that By actual demonstration, Mr. Peters and these great ships can make a landing on James A. McCrea, president of the Penn- their maiden voyages. sylvania Railroad, proved that the run from The license stipulates, however, that the the Fort Pond Bay station to the Manhattan Secretary of War may at any time order terminal of the Long Island Railroad can the removal of these additions without legal be made in one hundred and fifty minutes, protest from the White Star Line. including a stop at the Sunnyside yards in This leaves still unsettled the question of Long Island City, where an electric motor- future docking facilities in New York bar- 628 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. bor for the big transatlantic liners now Following the present railroad course building or which will be built in the fu- along Napeague Beach, the narrow neck of ture, and makes the using of Fort Pond land between Napeague harbor and the Bay as imperative as ever. Atlantic Ocean, the system will run through The interests in favor of extending the Hitherwoods. From the -present woods the steamship piers contend that Montauk Point lines of tracks will spread along the water- will take from New York its supremacy in front to connect with the gigantic terminal. handling transatlantic shipping, and that after passenger service has been inaugurated Piers One Thousand Feet Long. to Fort Pond the freight service will soon follow, leaving the biggest ships entirely out The big ships entering Fort Pond Bay of the Hudson River. will pass through the deep-water channel in Block Island Sound, and, entering the har- In Favor of Montauk Point. bor protected by a bulkhead from Culloden Point, the most easterly point of Fort Pond "It remains to be seen," said an officer Bay, will steam alongside the one thousand- of the International Mercantile Marine, foot piers, which, according to present plans, " whether New York will keep up the strides will be three hundred feet apart. which are making in steamship advance- Where passengers are now compelled to ment. Boston is offering inducements to stand on cold piers while customs men go shipping in many ways, but Montauk will through their luggage, those landing at Fort be the most favorable to New York should Pond Bay will be at once conveyed to the the War Department turn down the appli- examination on a long moving platform. cation for longer piers in the Hudson River. The same means will be used to carry lug- " The objection to Brooklyn as a docking- gage to the concourse, where it will be piled place for the leviathan steamships is the for rapid examination. small depth of channel and little available^ On the lower floor of the pier will be the land. In Manhattan the steamship com- railroad tracks for the trains, which will be panies can only build their piers in the river, loaded with baggage as rapidly as the cus- as the city will not allow the condemnation tom-house officials have finished their work. of land for us to dredge inland." These trains will be run to New York at With the decision of the steamship lines intervals of a few minutes, so that no time to adopt Montauk as the alternative of the will be lost after leaving the ship. Chelsea piers, engineers and experts in the An elevated promenade will extend over handling of passengers and freight have the tracks in the railroad yards, which, when been engaged to work on the plans for the completed, will be the largest in the world. Fort Pond harbor terminal. The secrecy This promenade will lead to the heights, with which the work is being guarded is where the promoters of Montauk Point ex- equaled only by the secret methods employed pect to build modern hotels. by the government in preparing fortification Along Fort Pond Bay a tentative site has plans. been selected for an electric power-house The engineer who prepared preliminary to operate the trains and the many devices plans for the four big piers to extend into which will be installed on the piers for die Block Island Sound from the Fort Pond quick handling of passengers. This power- Beach declared that five million dollars will house will also furnish electricity for the have been spent before the first ship lands town now being planned on the site of at Montauk. Hitherwood Hills. From Oakdale, Long Island, a town sixty miles west of Montauk Point, the Long Will Land Immigrants. Island Railroad right-of-way will be double- tracked and later probably four-tracked. In connection with the power-house, there Amagansett, the least-populated town on will be a special pier in addition to a ter- Long Island, which is eighteen miles from minal for coal-cars, which will be ferried to the proposed Fort Pond station, will be the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, from Greenville, and starting-point for the elaborate system of then run over the Long Island tracks through tracks which will be laid through the cut the Bay Ridge railroad cut. connecting be- •now used as a single-track line to Montauk yond Jamaica with the Montauk main line. Point. It is expected that the high land at THE NEW ATLANTIC GATEWAY. 629 Rocky Point, which is the west end of Fort spots there is a solid rock foundation, while Pond Bay, will be selected for the immi- in other places there is heavy sand, which is gration stations if the steamship companies said to be ideal for foundation work. On finally decide to land all passengers at the ocean side of the land the engineers are Montauk. This land borders on the rail- planning to build a sea-wall to skirt the road yards, and by a system of moving cliffs, which are now gradually being platforms above the tracks the immigrants changed by the action of the water. can be shifted from the pier to the station The sailing-time of fast ships from a in less than fifteen minutes, doing away point opposite Montauk to the docks in the with the steamboats, which are packed to Chelsea district is estimated at eight hours, the limit by immigrants leaving the big ships with considerable delays in case of fog. in the Hudson River. When Montauk is used as the landing- After the immigrants have been passed, place, the time to the Pennsylvania Rail- special trains will carry them to the Penn- road depot will be cut to two hours. sylvania terminal in Manhattan or to their From Montauk to Philadelphia will be destinations in the West. The engineers four hours' run on the proposed all-electric now at work on the plans will submit their line, making that distance in half the time ideas to the government experts as soori as it it now takes for a ship to reach its pier in is decided to establish the station. the Hudson River. To Chicago in twenty It will be possible to select one of the hours from the time of leaving the ship will small islands in Napeague Bay for a quar- be a possibility. antine station. The boarding-officers can In connection with the plans, freight- take charge of the ships at Fort Pond as experts are considering the ultimate adop- soon as they round Montauk Point and pass tion of Montauk as a freight-station. The into the Block Island Sound. There the steamship companies say that this will not water is protected from the northwest winds be done for many years, but those who are by the low stretch of Gardiner's Island. working on the plans are considering a loca- A ferry service from Fort Pond Bay to tion in New York for a central freight- New London, Connecticut, and connections depot in connection with the steamships. there with the New York, New Haven, and " This depot would be an immense build- Hartford Railroad and the Central Vermont ing provided with entrances for the trucks Railroad will be considered as the means of which now block the steamship -pier en- transporting passengers to New England and trances," said one of the freight-experts. Canada. It is estimated that fifteen hours " It would mean tubes under the East and many irritating transfers can be saved River, so that no delays would be possible by the operation of the ferry-line, which between New York and Montauk. Freight will consist, as planned, of fast ships capable designated to the West could be sent through of crossing the Sound in less dian two hours. by way of Bay Ridge and Greenville, New " Foundation experts who have made tests Jersey, while the proposed New London ter- of the soil at Montauk Point have found it minal would take care of the New England suitable for big buildings. In most of the freight-handling." GOVERNMENT INSPECTION OF ENGINES. (From the report of Congressman James R. Mann, Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.) THE bill [Burkett Locomotive Boiler Inspec- motive engines propelled by steam power in mov- ing interstate foreign tion Bill I, as now reported, has the approval and traffic unless the boilers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the and appurtenances thereof are in proper condi- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engi- tion and safe to operate, and unless such boilers neers, the Order of Railway Conductors, and the shall be inspected from time to time in accordance Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. It also has with the provisions of the act. It provides that the approval of the special committee on relations the inspection of the boilers shall be made by the of railway operation to legislation, representing railroads in accordance with rules and instruc- the railroads. It also has the approval of the tions to be prepared in the first instance by the American Federation of Labor. railroads, -but subject to approval and modifica- The hill forbids the railroads from using loco- tion by the Interstate Commerce Commission, — " 630 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. which may itself prepare the rules and instruc- apparatus pertaining thereto not in serviceable tions for any railroad if that road fails to prepare condition, subject to an appeal to the chief in- and file the same. spector, and a further appeal from the chief in- The bill provides for the appointment of one spector to the Interstate Commerce Commission, chief inspector and two assistant chief inspectors but provides that pending the appeal, the require- of locomotive boilers, to be confirmed by the Sen- ments of the inspector shall be effective. ate. The chief inspector to receive a salary of It provides that in case of accident resulting §4,000. and each of the assistants $3,000. It pro- from failure from any cause of a locomotive boil- vides for the division of the country' into 50 loco- er or its appurtenances, resulting in serious in- motive boiler inspection districts and the appoint- jury or death to one or more persons, statement ment of 50 inspectors, who shall be in the classi- must be made by the railroad to the chief in- fied service and be appointed through the civil spector, and that such accident shall be investi- service commission. The 50 inspectors are each gated by a government official, and that the re- to receive $1,800 a year and expenses. sults of such investigation shall be made public It authorizes any district inspector to order any in such manner as the Interstate Commerce Com- locomotive out of service if he finds the boiler or mission deems proper. THE GOOD SAMARITANS. CONDUCTOR: " Fares, please." We connect with a Belford Place car that goes Old Lady Passenger (fumbling for her right by there." " purse): "Is this the car for Auburn Heights?" Matron: " Don't the two run into each other? Conductor: " No, ma'am. One along in a Alert Young Man: "No'm; they're three 'n' a few minutes." half miles apart, one in Grandview an' the other Alert Young Man (on her right): "Well, she in South Hilford.' — can change at Grove Street, can't she?" Matron (subsiding) : "Oh! I always thought Conductor: " Sure, she can. Take a green Old Lady: "Then, what'd I better do?" car marked First Avenue. Transfer-checks on the Conductor: "You can get off right here, right. Fares, please." if you wanter, lady, an' take a car that'll be along " — Old Lady: I want to call on my cousin who's in twelve minutes if it's on time ' C ' an' Brock- took a house on Elgin Square." way Streets, via Bayville." Alert Young Man: "That ain't on the First Old Lady: " I don't know. I "think I'd rather Avenue line." stay on this car, now I've got a seat, and it's so Conductor: "Who said it was? Your best cold and all. Besides, I'm late now. Did you say- car, then, lady, is the Fairmount Village line. to change at Baywood?" Get off at Lafayette Street and walk four blocks." Conductor: " Not if you stay aboard this car. Benign Old Gentleman (leaning forward from Fares, please." " opposite side) : Excuse me, madam, but it's Old Gentleman: "It isn't Baywood. madam: much easier to take a Greenville car. I used to it's Bayville. I don't wonder you get confused live on Porter Square myself. A red car marked with these names. It was years before I could Western Point." get the difference between Fisher's Falls and Alert Young Man: "Not a red car, mister. Fisher's Avenue straight, and living on Castleton Used to be yellow, but they're white now." Crescent all the time." Old Gentleman: " They were red five years Alert Young Man: "But she don't want Bay- ago, I'm sure." ville, anyhow. Lucky she don't! It's a mighty- Conductor: " All going to be green next month. poor line at that." Fares, please." Matron: "Hull! I know some real elegant Old Lady: "Then what's my best car when I folks on it, all the same." " change, did you say ? Old Lady: " Well, I'm sure I don't know what " Irascible Matron (on her left) : If I was you, to do when I change." ma'am, I wouldn't change at all. If you keep Conductor: " Just leave it to me, ma'am. I'll right aboard this car till it goes round the loop see you get right. Fares, please." over the creek, " and and ask to be let off at Searle Old Lady: Oh, dear ! I guess I'll get out Street, you can take a cross-town line that'll take right here." you to Wulfson's Corner for an.eight-cent check, Conductor: ." This stop won't do you no good." and from there it isn't more than five minutes to Old Gentlcnian: " But you don't change here, Elgin Street. I declare, it's a shame the way the any way." conductors treat poor, helpless women on this Alert Young Man: "No.no! Sit still! He'll line, trying to bamboozle 'em for the sake of an look after you." extra fare. This ain't the first time I've seen 'em." Matron: "Oh! I'm just as much obliged, Alert Young Man: "Well, I guess that's right, but I've just remembered I left my money on the too." bureau." (Exit.) Samuel F. Batdielder in Lip- Conductor: " It ain't Elgin Street she wants. pincott's. THE SECRET RED LIGHTS BY HARRY BEDWELL. Bert Daily, the Conductor, Begins an Investigation of a Queer Happening on the Lobo Division. PART I. *' *! / ' 1 \HE engineer of the work-train of air-brakes and to study the distance be- I was forcing his undersized tween his train and the freight with a calm j| IlljlllJIIIIJ a (Mil >llHI* engine do her best to make eye. tmie - was Saturday night, "We're going to hit 'em hard," he judged fib 'I dm T i Jinill and the crew was impatient reluctantly. to be at Lobo, the division The left-hand tail-light blinked once, headquarters, for Sunday. and Daily knew the head brakeman had The headlight thrust its wedge of white deserted the cab. It blinked again, and he into the darkened desert. The east was be- guessed the fireman had unloaded. " ginning to be faintly tinged by the coming It's time I, too, was going," he said moon. grimly as the whistle screamed a final pro- It was a light train 'that the engine test, and the engineer swung clear of his pulled, a few empty flat cars, a tool - car, engine. and the caboose. The workmen sat on the Daily glanced back as he swung low on edge of the flat cars and stared vacantly the bottom step for the jump. He saw the into the desert. The gang-boss stood stiffly conductor spring from the rear platform of erect in the middle of one of the cars, his the caboose and bound off at a tangent, hands behind his back, trying to look mas- and then over a bunch of sage-brush. He terful. Bert Daily, the rear brakeman, fell heavily and shattered his lantern. came out of the caboose and stood on the Daily swung lower still, and sprang away platform, gazing ahead, his lantern swing- easily. ing idly in his hand. The freight-train began to move ahead The train rounded on a curve at the foot slowly. Then the work-train struck, and of a line of sand-dunes, and the flaming went tearing through the caboose. tail-lights of a freight-train which stopped Bert Daily rounded sharply about and on the track ahead of them showed almost ran to his conductor, who was getting pain- in the engineer's face. A flagman sprang fully to his feet, spitting out sand and from the rear of the freight-train, and fran- vicious oaths with the same breath. tically waved down the work-train. " We've torn those fellows up some," " " " The fireman's Hold 'em ! was tossed Daily panted. I'll go back and flag. broadcast over the desert as the air-brakes You have your work cut out for you." went on with a roar that convulsed the Still running, he struck the track and train. It checked the train so suddenly swept on around the sand-dunes. He un- that the gang - boss soared upward with twisted two torpedoes from his lantern- flapping arms; then came to eartii on the frame, planted them at the prescribed dis- soft sand, alighting on his face. tance, then walked back some way toward The workmen were tumbled off the cars the wreck and sat down. like tenpins. Bert Daily glimpsed the red He could catch only faint sounds from lights ahead in time to anticipate the shock the wreck. These became fainter as the i 632 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. night slipped by, and at length ceased al- Daily, you come back to the car with me, together. Something definite had been and tell Mr. Hood what has happened." done—help sent for, or perhaps the two Daily followed Sargent back to the pri- crews had settled to the work of getting vate car, and swung up on the platform as under way again. the train started slowly forward. Sargent The chill of the desert night caused Daily entered the car. Daily paused in the door- to get up and pace about restlessly. The way till his eyes, used to the glaring hot hours dragged out till midnight and into light, could distinguish objects in the cool, morning, yet no sign came from the other dark car. side of the sand - dunes to proclaim how "Oh, it's Daily!" came Mr. Hood's affairs were with the two trains. quiet voice. "What has happened now?" Daily's impatience waxed hot as his body Daily began to see the interior of the grew chill. This was a deuce of a way to apartment more clearly. Mr. Hood sat spend Saturday night! What were those comfortably tilted back in a chair, a news- fellows over there doing to take up so much paper on his knee. At the far end two time—and yet make so little noise? And ladies sat at a small table, on which glasses why had there been no trains along to be of cold stuff clinked musically. Daily sat stopped ? Two or three were past due from his useless lantern down upon the platform. the east. "Here, sit down," ordered Mr. Hood, So he fretted out the hours till some time pushing out a chair with his foot. His after sunrise, when the desert fumed like a quiet eyes had noted that Daily's face was furnace under the hot sun. Then a train haggard from a sleepless night of watching. streaked up over the long horizon, shot Daily slumped wearily into the chair toward him, struck the torpedoes, and and explained how he happened to be there, stopped beside him. and his eyes kept turning toward the "Work-train tore up the hind end of a glasses of cool liquid that clinked so merrily freight around on the other side of those on the little table between the two young dunes some time last night," Daily ex- ladies. plained to the conductor and the engineer. He had neither eaten nor drunk anything "Haven't heard anything of them since. since the afternoon of the day before. Don't know if they are still there or not." "Yes," he heard Sargent murmur to the " You look as if you had spent a pleas- young women, "he has been out all night ant night of it," grinned the conductor. flagging." " We've been tied up behind a wreck our- " You don*t know if any one was hurt, selves." do you?" asked Mr. Hood. "What have you there?" asked Daily, "No, sir." Daily shook his head, and nodding gloomily at the two dusty coaches the motion caused a row of sweating glasses drawn by the engine. He had hoped for to ring themselves about the car. a passenger-train with diner attached. The train came to a stop, and Mr. Hood " Superintendent Hood's car," answered and his chief clerk walked out into the sun- the conductor easily. light. Daily arose stiffly, and started to A straight, slim young man, with a face follow. At the doorway a quiet voice of great gravity, strode from the -rear end checked him suddenly. of the train. "Wouldn't you like to have a drink after " "What's the delay, Morris?" he asked your night out? the conductor. Daily came about slowly. One of the Tone and gesture were self-conscious of young women was coming toward him with his fresh, clean clothes, and his authority a glass held out. over these older men. Daily looked into "If—you—please." He counted out the the restless eyes with his own direct gaze, words slowly, to be sure of them. and saw the other's flinch. He put the glass to his lips and drank This was Ellis Sargent, Mr. Hood's deliberately. The cool stuff seemed to sat- chief clerk. urate his being with a divine fire. The The conductor explained why they had grave face of die girl before him became stopped. radiant and glorified. It seemed to lure " All right," said Sargent bruskly. " Run him kindly out on an azure cloud. down to where the accident happened, and "Won't you have another?" the glorified see what has become of the two trains. face asked. — THE SECRET RED LIGHTS. 633 Daily willed himself to refuse, but his " I gave her the big hole," he concluded will was broken. his testimony doggedly, " and had her " If — you — please," he again counted stopped within her own length. That's all, out soberly. except I guess maybe there really wasn't Another glass loomed before him; again any red light there." he drank, and again the grave face of the Daily grew tired of the questioning, and girl became glorified and floated above him wandered into the outer office. There was in a vague mist. He gave up the glass no one there. Business had been suspended slowly, thanked her with a tearful voice, during the investigation. Daily got him- and walked out into the hot sunlight. self another paper, a more comfortable The work - train and the freight - train chair, and sat down by a window. were gone, leaving behind only the caboose Presently Miss Hood and her friend. —a splintered and mangled hulk tipped Miss Harnett, came in quietly, nodded disconsolately to one side—the only mark gravely at Daily, and sat down. Daily lost to show there had been an accident. interest in the paper and stared idly out of Daily forgot to be angry because he had the window. not been called in when the trains had de- The investigation broke up; and men be- parted. gan to file through the outer office. Ellis " I wonder what that was she gave me to Sargent came out hurriedly, spied the ladies drink?" he asked the solitude. and Daily, and came forward with his The girl was Miss Glen Hood, the su- quick, nervous stride. He turned to Daily perintendent's daughter. from greeting the young women. " I'm going out with you to-night, Daily," II. he said. " Wait till I get my hat and coat, and I'll go down to the yard office with lV/TR. HOOD was holding an investiga- you." He hurried back into the inner tion in his office to determine the office. cause of the rear-end collision between the " I hope there were no bad effects from work-train and the freight. All those in- your night of flagging," Miss Hood said, terested, and some who were not, were gath- turning slowly to Daily. ered to give testimony. The conductor looked at her idly, and Mr. Hood, his chief clerk, and the train- the vague speculation began again in his master sat at one side of a big table and brain as to what kind of drink she had examined witnesses. The investigation was given him to make this grave face appear wearisome to all, particularly the rear glorified. Her remark hardly broke his brakeman of the freight-train, for the evi- chain of thought, for the thought of so dence tended to show that his swiftness in many harder nights than that one made it getting out to flag any train following his seem pointless. own was not great. Why Sargent was going out with him To the rest it was nerve-fretting, for cau- was of more interest. tious train and engine men make poor wit- "The beverage you gave me killed all nesses. evil effects before they even came to a bud," Bert Daily was called, told the little he he said. knew, then went back to his chair at the Mr. Hood came out of his office, followed back of the room and the paper he had by Sargent, who carried a long coat on his been reading. arm. Four days had elapsed since the rear- "Been entertaining Conductor Daily?" end collision, and in that time he had been smiled Mr. Hood at his daughter as they promoted to the rank and pay of a conduc- were moving to follow Sargent and Daily tor. He had made two trips, and had but a down the stairs. "Be careful of him. He few minutes before going on the stand been never does anything just as you expect. called to take an extra east at five o'clock. There was never a man came to this divi- Daily raised his head from his paper to sion with a recommendation like his. He listen to the testimony of the engineer of came in here one day over three years ago the freight-train. The engineer said doubt- thin, red-eyed, and rather old—and gave fully that a few seconds after rounding the me a letter from an old friend of mine in sand-dunes he had seen a red light swing the East. ' This man is as good a one as across the track and disappear. I know of when sober—but he is seldom 634 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. sober,' is the way the letter ran. I put him "Do you see that red light down the in the train service, expecting the job to track there?" he asked. "That is Billy break him. He's still there." Mack, my rear brakeman, back there flag- Daily and Sargent turned up the street to, ging. You get a lantern from the caboose, a restaurant. Half an hour later they had run back there, and take his place. Send collected the orders from the despatcher's Mack up here to me. Now, do you think " office, the way-bills from the yard office, you can do a decent job of flagging ? and soon the freight-train was swinging out Daily's tone was fatherly; but it came of the yards. Sargent lounged in the cu- hard to disobey his orders. Sargent went pola, where Daily joined him. with relief in his heart, for he liked little The train pushed steadily into the silent, responsibility. starlit desert. Sargent and Daily seldom "Now, we'll clean up this mess," said spoke. An hour and a half, and the sand- Daily briskly. dunes began to loom up on the right. He ordered out cables and flanges and • " It was about here the collision occurred, the other simple paraphernalia from ca- wasn't it?" Sargent finally asked. boose and engine, and they began pulling Daily nodded. His eyes still continued and hauling at the two cars that lay on to follow the path of the headlight. He their sides. They dragged them clear of stiffened suddenly and gripped his chair. the track, and left them. The track was The air-brakes went on with a roar that blocked up where the wheels had crushed boomed away and lost itself in the desert. through the ties, and the front trucks of Cars jammed together savagely, and one in the third car were pulled back on the rails. the middle of the train reared and plunged Daily worked his men deliberately, with clear of the track, dragging one or two hardly a glance at his watch, for it is not others with it. well to hurry men by reminding them just "Now, I saw that," Daily bit out as the how much time they have left. crash of cars ceased. Fifty minutes, and they were ready to Sargent arose, battered and shaken, from start. Sargent was called in and the train a corner of the cupola. pushed on through the desert. Daily and " Saw what, Daily ? " he questioned. Sargent hung over the railing of the rear " Saw a red light swing across the track. platform of the caboose and watched the Come on and let's see what kind of a job dunes steal softly by. that engineer did stopping us." " It's a God-forsaken country," said Sar- They dropped to the ground from the gent, shivering at a breath of chill air. caboose steps and hurried forward. Sar- " I'd like to ride through those dunes some gent was bruised and excited, and gasped day," mused Daily thoughtfully. " It must out eager, useless questions. be a queer place. I've ridden through the They found Dave, the head brakeman, mountains a great deal, but it never struck swearing indifferently at two cars turned me before that the dunes could be interest- over, and a third with the front trucks ing. Did you see that red light a while plowed deep into ties and dirt. Daily ago?" walked around the derailed cars and ex- III. amined the track by the light of his lan- tern. Sargent followed, barking useless TOBO recognized few gradations in the questions and giving useless advice. social stratum. The occasional Satur- " We'll have to cut loose the engine and day night dances given at the big railroad run in for help," he said. " Daily, this is hotel were attended by individuals from a bad spill." every walk of local life. Daily rounded on him suddenly. On a Saturday night, when Lobo fore- r "Why did you come out with me to- gathered to enjoy, Bert Daily lounged in a night?" he demanded. "Was it about corner of the hotel office, idly watching the these mysterious red lights?" crowd gather and reading a paper. "Yes, and to keep in touch with the He saw Ellis Sargent come in with Miss freight service," answered the chief clerk, Hood and Miss Harnett. Then the dance unconsciously using a phrase from Mr. started and Daily was lost for a time in his Hood's instructions. reading. He threw away the paper when Daily took him by the shoulder and faced Sargent sat down beside him, nodding him toward the rear of the train. somewhat gloomily. THE SECRET RED LIGHTS. 635 "Mr. Hood has decided not to investi- As the couple swept by him, Daily saw gate the wreck of your train the other night," that the man had dark skin and hard fea- " said the chief clerk. There have been two tures. For a few moments Daily felt that more trains stopped at that same place since something in life had gone wrong. then—both of them passenger-trains." "A Mexican!" He tried the word Sargent in his gloom was growing super- doubtfully. "A Mexican!" Then, de- ficial. Every one on the division knew this, liberately, "a greaser!" and knew also that this was but a small The smoky light faded and long shadows part of the trouble which has visited the sprang out of the corners of the room. The division of late. dancers whirled into a dim circle and dwin- Among other things, an engineer had pret- dled away, leaving a face with a straight ty well torn up his train stopping at sight nose and a gleaming smile, topped with of a rag effigy tied across the track so con- stiff, black hair, standing out like a por- spicuously that it was easy to see the ropes trait on a canvas. by which it was fastened. Cars left on Then the will that had driven a broken blind sidings had been run through the de- body from end to end on the division railing-switches; water-tanks and coal- gripped him and cleared his mind. chutes had been emptied on the ground by "A puncher from the south—or a gam- a mysterious hand, and a great many other bler," he decided more calmly. " Anyway, destructive happenings had occurred dur- I'm going to try to stop him." ing the week. Daily stepped forward quickly when the "What do you make of all this bad music ceased and stood before Glen Hood luck?" asked Daily, eying Sargent to see as she sat down. The first quick look of if the question was impertinent. doubt and estimate she gave him as he "Blackmail," breathed the chief clerk made his request hurt him more than any- as if his heart chilled at the mention of the thing else had hurt him in years. In that word. "We got notice this morning. It's glance she really took consideration of him from a gang that wants one hundred thou- for the first time, and judged him. Then sand dollars. They threaten to put this di- she accepted him, and the Mexican melted vision out of commission if they don't get away with his gleaming smile. it. Mr. Hood started east this afternoon to They danced twice together, then Freddy see the general manager. As I was coming Dyer, the second-trick despatcher, came over here, I got a message that when his and Daily strolled out to the veranda. train stopped at the Volcano water-tank As he turned slowly out of the doorway some one cut all the air-hose on the train he noticed, in the moonlight, four men and got away without being seen." gathered at the far end of the veranda. One Daily slid upright in his chair. leaned idly against the railing, talking in "Well," said he slowly, "it's a fight. low, insinuating tones with glinting teeth. You can't buy them off this time without Daily also recognized the back of Sargent. doing it again." The little group stood almost montionless, " That's what Mr. Hood thinks," replied listening tensely to the speaker. Sargent, " but what can we do in this coun- Daily paused doubtfully. A call-boy try of little civilization that is all desert touched him on the arm, holding out his and mountains? Either way there will be book. The conductor saw that he was to trouble." take an extra east in an hour, and signed " Sure," breathed Daily. " That's mostly the book. Then he strolled down the long what makes life worth while." veranda. ^. — The two drifted to the door of the dining- He heard the Mexican's low laugh, and room where the couples were dancing, and saw Sargent double up grotesquely in the Daily saw why Sargent had deserted the dancing light—saw him strike out passion- ballroom to talk to him. ately, blindly, an amateurish blow at the Glen Hood was dancing with a lithe, Mexican's face. black-haired man, and Daily gathered from Daily drew in quickly. The Mexican's the smiles some of the ladies turned on the nose streamed blood as he came upright with couple that something amusing had oc- a springy jump. Then he lunged at Sar- curred. He guessed that in a contest for gent, his arm stiff, a slender knife quiver- Miss Hood's favor Sargent had lost his head ing in the light. and his temper and had been vanquished. Back of Daily were three years of rough- 636 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. and-tumble fighting, of sudden blind rages the two men faced each other with quiet and quick attacks. As the Mexican lunged, eyes. Daily caught Sargent" by the shoulder and "All this clash and friction between us kicked savagely at the hand that held the has given me an inspiration," went on the knife. Mexican steadily, resting his- revolver com- The knife flickered into the sand and the fortably on his lap. " I'm going to take you Mexican spat out a Spanish oath as he stag- from your train at Volcano and keep you gered against Daily's fist. He stumbled with me for a time. I may kill you, but I back against the railing, holding his wound- don't think so. You see, I am trying to get ed hand in dumb pain, peering doubtfully this second-rate railroad to part with a at Daily. hundred thousand dollars to be rid of me, Then he squared himself on his feet, but, so far, it seems to be more inclined to brushed by them all, strode to the veranda- the company of both myself and the hun- steps, and out toward the railroad-yards. dred thousand." Sargent was trembling under the hand on Daily's eyes danced wickedly. his shoulder. He turned his white face, "So you are the fellow that's black- twisted into a smile, to Daily. mailing the division," he said softly. " Well, "Thank you," he mumbled. "The fel- I don't see just why you are mixing me up low is a blackguard." in this deal of dollars. All I did to you " That's all right," said Daily hurriedly. was to stop you from sticking a friend of " I must be off now." mine, and keep your own royal person alive An hour later his train was nosing its and free. If you had ever struck Sargent, way into the moonlit desert. you would have been out of it all by now." Fcr a long time Daily sat in his caboose " But, as you see, I am not at all grate- sorting way-bills. The moon dropped over ful," glinted the Mexican. " My kidnap- the rim of the sky, and when the conductor ing you will make the railroad sit up and climbed into the cupola beside Mack, his take a little more notice." " " brakeman, the desert was darkness. Just what are you going to do with me ? "Guess there's a tramp on board of us. asked Daily anxiously. I'm goin' up ahead to see," said Mack, and "Have you stop your train at Volcano, disappeared below. get off, then signal your train to proceed. Daily watched the brakeman's lantern There are comrades of mine there who know swing out over the cars and pause mid- I am coming. It is best to do as I say." way on the train. From the sudden rush of The many-toothed smile gleamed evilly sound and chill air, he was conscious that in the faintly lit cupola. Daily peered the caboose door had been opened. ahead into the darkness thoughtfully. He The next moment he was peering down saw that his rear brakeman's lantern still into the grinning face of the Mexican. spotted the darkness in the middle of the "Hallo!" Daily said abruptly. "How train. Then he turned to the Mexican de- did you get here?" liberately. " Your brakeman ran me this way, so I "I don't see the sense of it," he com- came in. Don't move, or 111 kill you. I plained. "Have you a cigarette? I sup- shoot as well with my left hand as with my pose you won't let me get into my own right! I'm going to climb up there to that pockets. Thanks. And a match? You seat on the opposite side of the cupola from take me away from my work and my pay you so that I can keep an eye on your brake- and do no good to yourself." " man ! Then you and I will talk ! The match flared. Daily held it to his The Mexican climbed to the seat and cigarette as he talked eagerly. peered ahead at Mack's lantern still twin- " If you go to stealing men instead of kling at the middle of the train. Daily eyed dollars you will have the whole State 3iim curiously, then settled back in his against you instead of the railroad. Don't chair, smiling quietly. you see that? Give me another match, "All right," he said, "talk your head will you?" off." Another match flared, and Daily puffed " I never dreamed of such luck as meet- hard at the cigarette. Then he argued on, ing you so soon again, when I hid on this leaning forward eagerly, his voice raised train," grinned the Mexican. somewhat above the roar and click of the The train pushed on through the desert; hurrying wheels. He held the Mexican's " r THE SECRET RED LIGHTS. 637 attention by tense tone and calm eye. As "Anyway, we couldn't see much in tliis he talked, the Mexican's smile became cold lantern light," Daily complained. "We and cruel and his eyes were , lit with a can't find him. That fall would have killed smoldering madness. a white man. This fellow has crawled out " You think you will talk your way to of the way and is most likely watching us, freedom and to life—for you fear death,," trying to decide whether to pot us or not." " ! he cut in coldly. You fear death "—he They tramped back to the caboose. The repeated, " and you'll fear it more before shadows played about their feet in the circle The narrow window at the back of the of lantern light. A light bobbed at the rear cupola rasped harshly in its frame as a of the train, and Dave, the head brakeman, rush of cold air struck in from behind. swung about to stride beside them to hear The Mexican's hands fluttered helplessly what had happened. to the arms of his chair. "Let him ramble now," said Daily, as In that second of his terror, two long they came up to the caboose. His lantern arms ending in two huge slabs of hands doubled in the air and the air-brakes whis- drove in on the cold air, seized him by the tled. "Dave, run forward and tell the en- shoulders and jerked him backward gineer to stop at the next station." through the little window. The chair was More track began to drone in the dark- broken from its one iron leg; the revolver ness behind them. Daily and Mack brood- clattered to the floor. ed silently in the caboose while the desert Feet scuffled on the roof of the car as whispered by. As they came to a stop at Daily sprang to the open window. As he Thunder Creek, the two swung off and thrust his head into the darkness, he saw walked into the office where the night opera- the Mexican, heaved clear of the car, tor idled away life at the telegraph-desk. squirm out of sight. "Ask the operator at Volcano if he has A pair of boots appeared on a line with noticed any punchers or armed man loafing the conductor's face, and he moved to one about his station this evening," said Daily. side to let his brakeman slide feet first The operator rippled a call; the instru- through the open window. ment chattered for a few seconds. "I knew the hobo was on the train some "Volcano says there's some cow-men, or place," panted Mack as he struck the floor. something like that, camped over by the "It took a lot of nerve for him to come in corrals, but they haven't any wagon with here and try to stick you up. I saw him them. Says one of 'em kept inquiring for when you struck the first match. What a telegram, and about nine o'clock this " was he trying to do to you, anyway? evening he got one from Lobo." Daily bit out short sentences of explana- "Tell the operator," said Daily, "to keep tion as he dropped to the floor and reached an eye on them, then you tell the despatcher for his lantern. that we are going to stop at Volcano for a "Here," he ordered, as he thrust the little time so he needn't lay anything out lantern up at Mack. "Stop her! We've for us. I want all the guns you have about got to go back there and hunt- -for that the shack." fellow." "There's the agent's sa wed-off shotgun " I couldn't help throwing him off," and his rifle over there in the corner. Mack apologized, as he wormed through the There's a revolver under the ticket-window, window. "He fought like a cat." and one here in my desk," the operator Mack's lantern swooped back and forth enumerated. in the quick half-circle of the "wash-out." " You fellows must be always looking for Some one in the cab saw the signal, the trouble," grinned Daily. " I'll take all but whistle screeched, and the brakes began to your revolver, and send them back to you to- nip the wheels. morrow." " Daily lit another lantern, picked up the Be careful of the shotgun," warned the fallen revolver, and swung off the train be- operator. "It's dangerous at both ends." fore it had stopped. The three took the guns and walked to He ran along the track to the point near the engine. In a few minutes the train was where the Mexican had lit and swung his moving again. lantern. Mack joined him, and they both Daily, Mack, and Dave swung onto the searched for half an hour, but found not so caboose and mounted to the cupola. much as a track in the sand. "It's funny what can happen in such a — 638 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. little time—ain't it?" said Mack, as he With that shot the firing ceased. Flying began to hum, " Will There Be Any Stars hoofs rang on the track and plowed away " in My Crown in a nasal buzz. into the desert. A man began muttering to "This cannon is bound to scatter shot himself. all over the country," complained Dave, Daily crouched for a little time longer " who had the sawed-off shotgun. You fel- in the shadow to see if any pain would de- lows will have to stay well back of me when velop. He felt nodiing unusual, so he I go into action. If you get into my line of reckoned that by some accident no buck- fire, you'll get your lights put out." shot had found him. The train swung into the yards at Vol- " Gosh ! " he breathed, and stood up. cano, and stopped with the caboose just out- He turned into the station to fetch a side the front windows of the station. lamp. The engineer and fireman dropped from The light showed one horse and two men their engine and walked through the yards down on the cinder platform. One of the toward the back of the depot. Daily jumped men raised on his arm and took a quick to the platform and walked to the office, shot at the light in Daily's hand and ex- leaving his two brakemen crouched in the tinguished it. doorway of the caboose. "Don't do that again," warned a voice. "Have you seen anything more of those "Daily get another light." It was the en- fellows who got that message from Lobo?" gineer. Daily questioned the sleepy operator. Daily got another light. The outlaw "They're over there by the corral yet, I surrendered his revolver to the engineer. guess," the operator mumbled drowsily. " Where are you hurt ? " asked Daily. " There's four of them." "All over mostly," answered the man, Some one outside called something and and fainted. Daily swung around to the doorway. A "Let's see where Mack and Dave are," second later, four men rode restive horses said Daily. into the light that streamed from the open Mack they found sitting close beside the window and door, one riding in close and caboose nursing his head in both hands. peering down at the conductor. He peered up at them round-eyed. i y'Do you belong to that train?" de- " Dave is around here some place," ne fended the man on the horse. told them. " I can't hear a thing you say. " Hands up all! " came Mack's excited The noise of that gun knocked me crazy. yell from the rear end of the caboose. It knocked Dave down, then kicked him A horseman turned in his saddle and twice after that." fired, all in one quick writhe of the body They found Dave on the flat of his back and turn of the wrist, that showed practise and the shotgun on top of him. in that exercise. They gathered up the wounded and took The bullet plunked into the caboose over them into the office to look them over. Both the heads of the brakemen who were crouch- of the outlaws were senseless. Dave opened ed behind the sheet of steel hung on the his eyes to the lamplight to ask for a drink, railing of the platform. The horseman and Mack walked the floor holding his fired twice again in as many seconds, and head. the horses danced and plunged. " This is an awful mess," complained Daily knelt down in the shadow under the engineer, who sickened at the sight of the lighted window, and fired at the man so much blood. "But they should have nearest him. Mack's rifle spat wickedly, known better than to tackle us," he added, and four or five guns blazed at once. and his face cleared a little. The operator seated in the window "Of course they should," said Daily seemed to be in^the greatest danger, but he briskly. " Send your fireman over to the was accustomed to such scenes, and quickly town for a doctor." slid to safety under his table. The conductor pulled the sleepy oper- With a roar that drowned all other sounds ator from under the telegraph table, and to mere cracklings, Dave let go both bar- set him in his chair. rels of the sawed-off shotgun. A horse "No need sending for a doctor." said snorted; a man yelled and cursed. Shot the operator, his fists in his eyes. "There ripped through the windows and bored ain't any. But there's whisky." into the station walls. Daily began scribbling on a pad of paper. THE SECRET RED LIGHTS. 639 "Tell the despatcher this," he ordered They spurred away into the silent waste the operator, pushing the paper under his and aching glare of the sun. It was like nose; "and ask him if we shall go on to riding into a furnace. Newpoint with these fellows." By eleven o'clock the trail had led them The operator reached for his key. After into the shadow of the mountains. At a few moments he looked up. noon it ceased in a rocky canon. " The despatcher says you had better go "This is his own country," said the on in with your train," he said, " then pick sheriff, as he looked up at the mountains. up the sheriff at Newpoint and come back "There's no use trying to find him here. to find the Mexican if you can. He says Daily, we've lost." there's no one in command now that Mr. " I don't like to think we have come all Hood has gone East, for Sargent is afraid this way for nothing," Daily complained. to issue an order. You are very likely to "Let's try a little farther. That fellow get fired whatever you do." may have dropped just around the next turn " All right," said Daily. " We'll go in." of the canon wall." "We may be riding straight into hell," IV. said the sheriff. "That canon is narrow and high, and once in it we're in a hole A N hour later, Daily was in Newpoint for sure. If the Mexican had won through pulling the sheriff from bed. all right he's sure to have picked up some "I've got a job for you," he told the of his men, and may be waiting for us." sheriff. " Shall we go in ? " asked Daily quietly. - He sat on the bed and talked, while the "Oh, I guess so," answered the sheriff, officer got into his clothes. and they rode forward. " I can get two men and enough horses They made the first turn, and the canon within half an hour," the sheriff said. lay there blankly before them. At the next "You get the train ready, and I'll meet turn it lost itself in the gloom of its own you at the station." towering walls. Another hour and they were careening "No good," said the sheriff sullenly. "I westward, racing behind a sleek little won't risk it further." engine to be on hand at daylight. In a " Do you see that black lump in the box car between the engine and the caboose shadow against the wall ahead there?" were four horses. Another conductor was asked Daily, pointing. "I am two-thirds in charge of the train, for Daily was to ride" sure it's a rock or a log, but I'm going to be with the sheriff. sure it isn't the Mexican. You stay here." "I am going to sleep like a dog," said He walked his horse forward for three Daily, as he stretched himself out on a hundred yards, found the lump to be a cushioned bench. mound of earth, and then he faced back. The sun was up when the train stopped He reined in as a rock clattered down the at the point where Mack had tossed the mountainside. Mexican from the top of the caboose. After A rifle spoke faintly from high above. a good deal of searching about in the sand Daily's horse sank to its knees with a tired they found where the Mexican had landed grunt, and die conductor leaped to safety. on his feet, bounded forward a few steps, The sheriff spurred for Daily. Then then plowed up the sand in a hard fall. two rifles spoke sharply from abo^e, and His trail began there, dragged across the the sheriff threw himself clear of his own desert, and was lost in the shimmering heat. horse as it went down. One of his men " Get out the horses," ordered the sheriff. was at his side in another moment. He " From the swing of his feet that fellow is hauled the sheriff up behind him, and the pretty well in towards the mountains by two horses clattered swiftly out of sight. this time. We have likely come too late; Daily was left alone. He cleared the but we'll give him a try." width of the canon in a swift sprint, sprang The horses were unloaded and saddled. up at a handful of dry shrubs, caught The four men mounted. them, and pulled himself up among the " You may as well run into La Salle and rocks, where he lay for a few moments. ask for orders," Daily told the conductor The marksmen above began to pester him in charge of die train. "We won't need with bullets that spat uncomfortably close. you any more." Daily glanced upward along the moun- 640 THE RAILROAD WS MAGAZINE. tain wall, then began slowly to climb tains swiftly. The shadows were become higher to a spot more on a line with the long and dark in the low land. marksman. His progress was followed by Why didn't he fire? His heart beat off the steady, persistent spit of bullets, and the seconds distinctly and audibly: One, it was an hour before he plumped down two, three. His restless eyes turned down- panting behind a huge boulder. ward in a racing glance. Then his caught The bullets pecked about him for a little breath went out in a long, slow whisper. while longer, then ceased. The impossible had happened. A sad- " Those fellows will about move around dle-horse, strayed from others belonging to where they can get me going and coming,'" the outlaws, came slowly down the canon, commented Daily, idly fingering the loose pulling at tufts of dry grass as it came. " stones, " and then where am I ? Three more heart-beats, and it was almost He scanned the bare walls above him, beneath him. He could plainly see the then peered out at the rocks which concealed bridle hanging from the saddle. the marksman. The range was too great Daily's eyes were pivoted on the gun- for his revolver, so he lay down and watch- barrel nestling at the side of the boulder. ed the mountains above and below. The top of a black head came in line with After an hour, he caught a movement the glowing steel, and Daily fired again. far to the left. A second later, a bullet The horse raised its head curiously, then threw dust in his face. Another bounced continued grazing. The top of die black from the rock a little above his head. head was withdrawn. Daily threw himself into a small niche, and Then the horse thrust out its nose, planted thrust his revolver forward. He fired at its feet, and snorted. It had come to the next puff of smoke, and for the next Daily's horse shot in the trail. few moments answered shot for shot. Daily bunched himself, rose, and leaped He played for time and darkness. He the boulder in front of him. He went to- reasoned that the sheriff would return by bogganing down the mountain, starting a daylight of the next day with more men to mass of earth and stones. Twice he turned rescue him. With the fall of darkness, he over to right himself and spit out dirt. He hoped to avoid the olitlaws. struck the trail, and went sprawling on. But the lone marksman on the mountain- He jumped to his feet half blinded, and side seemed intent that the sun should not seized the horse before it could elude him, set on Daily alive. He drew down nearer. ran a few steps as it shied past the dead A shot gently touched Daily's coat-sleeve. "horse, then swung to the saddle. The horse Daily crowded more of himself into the leaped forward in a few short, stiff jumps, niche, but the next shot came from a dif- then struck into a long, racing stride. ferent angle, and cut his arm. Guns began to sputter and spit from " " Ouch ! protested Daily. both sides of the canon. The saddle bow A dry, mirthless laugh came from behind was torn away under Daily's hand, a sting- a boulder. Daily watched the big rock ing wound in his side grew into an agon- with restless eyes, and when a gun-barrel izing ache. showed over the top of it, he promptly fired. The mountains began to careen and fade The rifle slid from sight, then reap- away, and the sky flamed and seethed like peared cautiously around the side of the liquid fire; but he set his grip on die sad- boulder. Daily fired again, but the answer- dle and swept around the first turn in the ing shot came close on his own. and a bul- canon, around the second, and away to let slit open the tip of his shoulder. the desert. Anxiously he calculated the distance to His burning, straining eyes photo- the boulder, and gathered himself for a graphed die iriotous scene as he looked rush. The blue barrel came slowly in sight backward. High on a sliver of rock, seem- again. Daily fired three times quickly, ing to move with the swaying mountains, and held still and tense waiting for the a slim figure, with a puffing revolver in stinging bullet from the rifle to strike. die left hand, was carved. Even after a Then, and no sooner, would he rush the filmy darkness settled down and blotted out man on the other side of the boulder. all else, that lone figure remained a darker In the pause his eyes swept the moun- blot against the blackness, ( To be conclud ed next month.) CHECK 7-87-45. BY EDGAR WELTON COOLEY. There Was Something Doing in the Baggage and Express Departments When Mr. Grimm Got Busy. 'RS. GRIMM arose suddenly us in the auto. You did not take a trunk from die dinner table and, with you, did you, Mrs. Grimm?" hastening into die adjoin- "I am fully aware that what you say is ing room, took from her true, Mr. Grimm," his wife replied impa- ample purse a brass bag- tiently, " but I have some baggage at the gage-check. station. It is a box, Mr. Grimm." " In the excitement of my home-coming, "A box?" James G. Grimm was evi- and of greeting you and the children, Mr. dently surprised. " Did you say it was a " Grimm," she said, " I quite forgot this; but box, Miriam? I wish, James"—Mrs. Grimm always used "A box," replied his wife severely. "A his given name in addressing her husband common cracker-box. You see," she ex- whenever she desired to' add emphasis to her plained furdier, Sister Jenevieve gave me remarks— " I wish, James, you would have so many things for myself and the children my baggage sent up this afternoon— I want that I could not get them all in my grip. to unpack it at once." So I put them in a box, put handles on the " Your baggage ? " Mr. Grimm looked at box, and checked it." his wife interrogatingly. " If I remember "How dioughtful!" said Mr. Grimm. aright, my dear, we brought your grip with " I shall have the box brought up at once." IF I REMEMBER ARIGHT, MY DEAR, WB BROUGHT YOUR GRIP WITH US' IN THE AUTO." 5 RR 641 " " — " V 642 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "Very well, James," replied his wife Other matters, however, "so intruded them- grimly. " See that you do." selves upon Mr. Grimm's attention during A half-hour later, James G. Grimm's the afternoon that he did not give so much auto stopped in front of the office of the as a passing thought to either Mrs. Fairfax Transfer Company, and Mr. Grimm's baggage or the inquisitive transfer Grimm, with such dignity as naturally be- clerk; but no sooner had Tie entered his came the president of the Security Savings home that evening than his wife greeted Bank, alighted from the machine and ap- him in an accusing voice. proached the desk, where a clerk greeted "James," she called down to him from him cordially. Mr. Grimm took the bag- the head of the stairs, " why didn't you have " gage-check from his pocket and laid it upon my baggage sent up ? the counter. Mr. Grimm paused and gazed up at her. " " I wish," he said pompously, you would "I did order it sent up," he replied. have that baggage taken to my house at "Didn't it come?" " once. My wife is in a hurry." No," replied his wife in evident ill hu- "Certainly, certainly!" replied the clerk. mor. " And James, the children are so anx- " " Is it a grip, Mr. Grimm, or a trunk ? ious to get the things Sister Jenevieve sent "Neither," replied Mr. Grimm. "It's them that the poor little dears won't give a box." me a moment's rest until the box comes." " A box ? " The clerk was gazing at him "Confound that talkative clerk!" broke curiously. in Mr. Grimm hotly. "If he'd ask less "A box," reiterated Mr. Grimm. "A questions and give more attention to busi- common cracker-box." ness—but just wait, my dear. I'll stir him ! " Indeed ? " said the clerk, a peculiar in- up as he never v&s stirred up before tonation in his voice. A moment later Mr. Grimm was in com- Mr. Grimm's face flushed. It had sud- munication, over the wire, with the Fairfax denly occurred to him that the clerk might Transfer Company. On the part of Mr. think he compelled his wife to check her Grimm, at least, the conversation was ex- belongings in a box. ceedingly animated while it lasted; but pres- " Of course, it is none of your business," ently the president of the Security Savings he vouchsafed rather curtly; "but I might Bank was compelled to temporarily discon- explain— tinue the transmission of vehement language "It isn't necessary," interrupted the for the reason that there was no one listen- / clerk. ' ing at the other end of the wire. " I might explain," resumed Mr. Grimm, The clerk was making an investigation " that my wife was visiting her sister in of the cause of the delay in delivering Mrs. Dalton, and wishing to ship this box home, Grimm's baggage, during which Mr. Grimm she had handles put oil it and checked it contented himself in scowling at the in- as baggage." offensive telephone and formulating, for " I see," smiled the clerk understanding- possible future use, a series of brand-new _ ly. " Nothing like beating the express com- remarks sufficiently tropical to blister at pany when you can, eh, Mr. Grimm?" ten paces. The clerk was a keen young man. Fur- Presently the clerk announced the result thermore, he was a brother of the local agent of the investigation. The reason, he con- of the express company which was one of fided to Mr. Grimm, that Mrs. Grimm's the heaviest depositors in the Security Sav- cracker-box had not been transferred to the ings Bank. Mr. Grimm began to feel de- Grimm mansion was because Mrs. Grimm's cidedly uncomfortable. cracker-box had not arrived at the station. "That wasn't the reason at all," he re- The transfer company, Mr. Grimm was turned. " You see, my wife didn't have her informed patronizingly, would keep a sharp trunk with her, and she had so many things lookout for the box and immediately it to bring home that she couldn't get them all arrived — " " in her grip Bali ! yelled Mr. Grimm over die wire. " I see," said the clerk for the second time. "Why don't you tell me the truth? Why For a moment Mr. Grimm continued to don't you admit that you forget to send a stare at the clerk; then he went his way, man after it; that you overlooked it, or some- feeling that he would give a good deal to thing like that? Why do you tell me it know what the clerk was thinking about. hasn't come; because, of course, it has!" " " CHECK^ 7-87-45. 643 " But really it hasn't come," persisted our poor children fretting for their presents the clerk. and of that box that perhaps is lost! Oh, ! " " Bah " exclaimed Mr. Grimm for the please) get it, James! ! third time. " Bah " And he hung up the Mr. Grimm did not waste further words receiver with a loud noise. on the unappreciative ears of his wife. In- "James!" Mrs. Grimm had descended stead, he hastened out to his automobile, the stairs and now stood facing him. " Did cranked the machine, and was soon speed- " he say the box hasn't come ? ing toward the station. A few moments "Nonsense! said Mr. Grimm explo- later he faced the baggageman at the Chi- sively. " Stuff and nonsense, my dear! cago and Missouri River Depot. That's just a subter- "Where," he be- fuge to cover ' their gan impressively, " is " ' own mistake ! my wife's baggage? I "But, James, sup- want it immediately." pose it is lost? Oh, The baggage -mas- why did you trust ter did not seem over- others to look after awed by Mr. Grimm's it? Why didn't you stern command. He go to the station had been in the rail- yourself?" road business for ten " Because the han- years, and had met dling of baggage be- many occupants of ing an important part the seats of the of the Fairfax mighty. He calmly Transfer Company's raised his eyes to business, my dear," those of the banker, began Mr. Grimm de- calmly held out his fensively, " I had rea- hand, and calmly re- son to believe that marked : they were competent " Let's see your to attend to the mat- check." ter; but I find I was "Check?" Mr. mistaken." Grimm gasped. The "Of course you fact that he did not were mistaken," re- have the check had plied his wife com- entirely slipped his plainingly. " You are mind. always mistaken. " The — the trans- You are always do- fer company has it," ing the wrong thing he stammered. " But de- can least tell when so much SHE HAD HANDLES PUT ON IT AND CHECKED you at pends on doing the IT AS BAGGAGE." me whether the box " right." is here, can't you? " ? " But, my dear," expostulated Mr. Box ? Did you say it was a box Grimm. The baggageman was regarding Mr. Grimm " James ! " Mrs. Grimm waxed impera- curiously. "It is? Well!" He fastened tive. " For goodness' sake, don't stand there his keen, gray eyes upon the president of and argue matters! Go to the station at the Security Savings Bank. "The freight once, Mr. Grimm, and have that baggage office is across the tracks." brought me immediately! Mr. Grimm's anger began to flare. He "But it's six o'clock," expostulated the had come to find out about his wife's bag- president of the Security Savings Bank in a gage, not to be informed on the location of weak voice; "and I'm hungry, Miriam." the various departments of the road. " — His wife favored him with a withering But it wasn't shipped by freight " he glance. began. "Why," she asked, "must you always "Well!" The baggage-master was still give so much consideration to your stomach regarding him intently. " The express of- and so little to other matters? Think of fice is up-town." " " ! 644 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. ! " But, confound it " snapped Mr. " belonged to emigrants. It would seem that Grimm, " I don't care a continental where anybody could afford a trunk. You can get the infernal express office is! The box a fairly good one for three ninety-eight." wasn't shipped by express! It was sent as Mr. Grimm plunged his hands into his baggage! Don't you understand? Bag- trousers-pockets and expanded his chest " gage. It was checked ! "No doubt," he said, regarding the bag- "Checked?" The baggage-master re- gageman savagely, " you would like to have garded him doubtfully. "Didn't you say it me go into all the details and explain fully was a box?" how my wife was compelled to check a box; ! " Yes " roared Mr. Grimm defiantly. but I shall not! I don't see that it is any of your business. I simply want " to know if the box is here ! " If you haven't the check with you," replied the baggage-master in a wholly unruffled manner, " perhaps you can give me the number of it." "The number? No, I didn't notice the number." " Then," replied the other, turn- ing his attention to a report he had been making out, "how can you expect me to give you any infor- mation? As we handle between five and six hundred pieces of baggage every day, it is not easy— "Of course,'' snarled Mr. Grimm, " I didn't expect you to give me any information! I never met a baggage-master who would I merely called because it seems to be the custom of passengers having baggage to make occasional in- quiries! But since you insist upon seeing my check, I will get it just to prove to you that I have a check. When I return— He paused in the 5oorway to glare threateningly at the bag- gage-master, .Avho never raised his eyes from his desk. When Mr. James G. Grimm again entered the office of the 'do tramps wear silk bats and ride in Fairfax- Transfer Company he " automobiles ? was not in a very amiable frame of mind. He was accustomed to " It was a box — a common cracker-box. dining punctually at six every evening, but " Didn't you ever see a box checked ? it was now six - thirty, and he had not had " I've seen boxes checked that had han- his evening meal. dles on 'em," admitted the baggageman; The night clerk was answering a tele- " but when they have handles they are phone call, and Mr. Grimm was compelled classed as trunks." to wait until he was at liberty. The delay " And who said my wife's box didn't have did not awaken any cheerfulness upon the handles?" snapped Mr. Grimm impatient- part of the banker. ly. "It has!" "Give me that check!" he roared, when " But, virtually, all the boxes I ever saw the clerk advanced to the counter. checked," resumed the baggageman calmly* The night clerk, not having been in the " " — " 1 CHECK 7-87-45. 645 employ of the transfer company to exceed "Who said it was freight?" roared Mr. forty-eight hours, was rather timid, and the Grimm, pounding the counter with his fist. sudden explosion upon the part of Mr. "Do I have to stand here stifling hunger Grimm startled him. while I recite for your edification a com- plete "Yea—yes, sir," he replied confusedly. history of that box ? Do I ? I won't I " Bag—baggage-check or bank-check, sir? I swear I won't! I came after that check, "Baggage-check!" thundered Mr. and I intend to have it! Now, young man, " Grimm, glad that at length he had discov- are you going to give it to me ? ered some one he could overawe by the im- " Ah, yes, the check—you want the portance of his personality. " The check check?" for my wife's baggage I left here this aft- "Do I want it?" yelled Mr. Grimm, re- ernoon." garding the other vindictively. "Heavens "Ah, yes! " The clerk nervously turned and earth! Didn't I say I wanted it? the pages of a big book. He was slowly Didn't I ask for it a half-hour ago?" recovering his presence of mind. " What is "But why do you want the check?" ex- the name, please? * postulated the clerk. "You certainly can- The president of the Security Savings not get the box until it arrives. Our men Bank regarded the clerk pityingly. He was meet every train, and as soon as the box wondering how any one couid be so densely comes— " " ignorant. Bah ! Mr. Grimm could scarcely con- "Grimm," he replied presently, with all ceal his disgust. " I know it lias come! I the impressiveness he could command know it has been here since eleven fifteen " James G. Grimm." this morning! If you think I am an easy "Ah, yes!" The clerk ran his finger mark, that I can be held up for storage down one of the pages- in the big book. charges so that the railroad and transfer- " Grimm, Grimm—ah, yes, here it is.! companies may divide the sp&ils, you are Check No. 7—87—45—was that the mistaken! For the third anddast time, I " number ? will ask you for that check!" " How do I know? " growled Mr. Grimm "Ah, very well." The clerk removed impatiently. " If I knew, I wouldn't be from a nail on the end of the desk a large here now. I would be at home enjoying a hook from which dangled numerous checks hearty meal, instead of standing here wait- and tags. These he ran over hurriedly, ing for you to make up your mind to give then returned the hook to its nail. me that check." "I am sorry," he said, "but the check is " " 7." Ah, yes ! The clerk's finger was fol- still in the possession of driver No. lowing a written line. "Ah, yes! Driver Mr. Grimm groaned and paced the floor No. 7 reports baggage not arrived." for a full minute. Then he turned to the "Young man," interposed Mr. Grimm, clerk. conscious of renewed craving in the region "And where," he asked, "is driver of his stomach. " Young man, I didn't come No. 7?" here after the baggage; I came after that " He is probably at —supper," replied the check. If you will be kind enough to give night clerk. " He lives " He removed a it to me, I will return to the station and get small book from a shelf and opened it. the box myself." "He lives at 4705 Pine Street." " " Box ? The expression upon the night Mr. Grimm groaned again and glanced clerk's face suddenly changed. The light at his watch. It was fifteen minutes of of comprehension glimmered in his eyes. seven. " " " "Did you say it was a box, Mr. Grimm?" Very well ! he said determinedly. I The president of the Security Savings am hungry. I have had nothing to eat since Bank sighed heavily. noon, but I never undertake anything with- " " Yes," he almost gasped ; it is a box out seeing -it through. I shall go to No. a cracker-box—it has handles on it—my 4705 Pine Street. I shall see driver No. 7, wife—?' and I shall get the check." "A box?" The young man closed the " I wouldn't," began the clerk sympa- big book with a bang. " I have been look- thetically.— " He can get the box as quickly ing in the wrong book. I was thinking you as you " ! were inquiring about baggage, but if it is But the president of the Security Savings freight— Bank had departed. " " " " 646 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. As soon as he could cover the two and "All right," said driver No. 7, glancing " a half miles that intervened, without vio- at his watch. I'm due at the depot in a lating the speed ordinance, Mr. Grimm half-hour. If you'll meet me there and get pounded upon the door at 4705 Pine Street. some one to vouch for you, I'll give vou A man answered the summons. the check." "Are you," began Mr. Grimm, "driver Mr. Grimm drew another long sigh. No. 7 for the Fairfax Transfer- Company? ""Very wen," he said resignedly, "And in You are? Very well! My name is Grimm the meantime—by Jove! I'll have time to —James G. Grimm. I left a baggage-check get a lunch." _ at the office shortly after noon. You report- On this particular occasion fortune was ed that the box had not arrived. You still not kind to James G. Grimm. Scarcely had have that check. You will please give it he traveled three blocks when a tire burst to me." with a loud and disheartening report. Mr. "A box?" Driver No. 7 was plainly— Grimm got out and ruefully surveyed the surprised. " Did I understand you to say damage. Then he glanced about him in "Stop!" Mr. Grimm " was breathing dismay. heavily. " It is a box with handles. It There was not a restaurant, or hotel, or was not shipped by either freight or express. store, or any place wherein so much as a My. wife checked it as baggage. She has a cracker might be purchased. Nor was there trunk—in fact, she has several trunks; but a car-line within five blocks! this is a box, a common cracker-box. Now "Heavens!" exclaimed Mr. Grimm; that I have supplied you with all the in- then he went in search of a telephone, which formation at hand, will you please give me he presently found. that check?" After some delay and much telephoning, "But," began driver No. 7 doubtfully, he secured a promise from a garage to send "how am I to know that you are Mr. a tire at once. A half-hour later—a half- Grimm? How am I to know that you have hour in which Mr. Grimm alternately paced a right to the —check? You see, the company the street and swore and sat on the curbing is responsible and gave himself up to bitter thoughts—the " " Heavens ! groaned the president of the tire arrived. Security Savings Bank desperately. " Must Even then, notwithstanding Mr. Grimm's I identify myself out here in a part of town urgent and oft-repeated demands for haste, where there isn't a soul that knows me? another thirty minutes elapsed before he Man, I'm hungry! I haven't had a bite could continue his journey. " since noon! When he reached the station and stormed " You're hungry, eh ? " asked driver No. into that portion of the depot allotted to 7 suspiciously. " Haven't had anything to transfer-men, driver No. 7 was not in evi- eat since noon, eh? And yet you would dence, nor could any of the otiier drivers have me believe that you are president of give any information as to his probable the Security Savings Bank, would you? whereabouts. Say, what's your game, anyhow?" "Well," declared Mr. Grimm violently, "What?" gasped Mr. Grimm, fairly " this is a pretty way to do business, isn't gnashing his teeth. " Do you think I'm a it? It's a conspiracy between the railroad tramp? Do tramps wear silk hats and and transfer companies, but I sha'n't be ride in automobiles? What?" held up! I swear, I sha'n't! I'll show ! "No," admitted driver No. 7; "but I 'em never heard of a bank president going hun- Mr. Grimm was hungry; desperately gry in a town this size. You may be Mr. hungry. His hunger was growing more in- Grimm," he added soothingly, " but, you tense every moment, but he pressed his lips see, I must comply with the company's rules. firmly together, climbed into his automobile, I am not allowed to return baggage-checks and once more sped to the office of the Fair- to strangers who have not been identified. fax Transfer Company. Anyway, the box hasn't arrived. It can't The night clerk was still on duty, and he come now until seven-thirty. You had bet- smiled a greeting to Mr. Grimm. Unfor- ter go home and let us deliver the box as tunately, he could give the banker no infor- soon as— mation. Driver No. 7 had not been at the " " No ! declared Mr. Grimm stubbornly. office since Mr. Grimm was last there. Re- " I shall get it myself." garding check No. 7 —87—45, the night —" : CHECK 7-S7-45. 647 clerk knew nothing further than that it must mulct me for storage charges. The transfer still be in the hands of driver No. 7. company refuses to surrender your check! Mr. Grimm visited his wrath upon the But I'll show 'em! I'll show 'em! I'll night clerk. Without reservatioL, he freely swear out a Warrant! I'll have an attach- expressed his opinion of the Fairfax Trans- ment issued! I'll— fer Company and every one connected with "James!" The wife spoke command- it, and, finally, after threatening sufficient ingly. "What in the world is the matter civil and criminal actions to have caused a with you, Mr. Grimm?" "i haven't eaten for a week! legal shark to hug himself to death, he "What's the matter?" Mr. Grimm was turned his machine homeward. pacing the floor like a wild animal. "It's " Every throb of his auto increased the in- your box ! They won't let me have it ! tensity of his anger; every whiff of gasoline "My box? Mr. Grimm, why will you added fuel to the flames of his overwhelm- persist in always working yourself into a ing indignation; so that, when he reached frenzy over nothing? The box is. here. his home, he was little less than a raging The transfer-man brought it a half-hour volcano. ago. It came on the seven-twenty express." Perspiring at every pore, he burst into the Mr. Grimm sank wearily into a chair and astonished presence of his wife. dried his moist brow. Presently he said " "Miriam!" he cried. "There's a con- Heavens, Miriam ! Is dinner ready ? spiracy to defraud—a deep-laid plot to I—I haven't eaten for a week!" VALUE OF AN APPRENTICESHIP. THERE is nothing that will ever take the place al training in our public schools may bring out of an apprenticeship. There is no trade- the talent, may display the genius, but the fra- school or training-school in the country that will ternities and sororities of our high school system turn out young men or boys who are capable of have made too many boys, who are natural-born entering a shop and competing with the average mechanics, " shun " the actual work, and dread mechanic ; while they may be taught considerable the thought of an apprenticeship, it not being in " book learning," their practical instruction must, keeping with the social and snobbish ideas gained of necessity, be limited. There is nothing that from the fraternities and societies while passing will take the place of practical experience. Manu- through high school. American Engineer. —) ! f WHAT'S THE ANSWER? By ike Quesiions Answered Ligk* of for the Lantern Railroad Men ASK US like to be as useful to our readers as we can ; but, because of the great popularity of WE this department, we are forced to impose certain restrictions. It is limited to the answering of questions of an informative, technical, or historical nature only. - Letters concerning positions WILL NOT be answered in this department. All letters should be signed with the full name of the writer, as an indication of his good faith. We will print only his initials. CAN you explain the path of the current from No. 4, then, if No. 3 is brought hear to No.' 2 the trolley-wire of an electric car through they will attract each other, but if No. 3 be the gearing, and how it produces speed? brought near No. 1 they will repel each other. O. McD., Yates Center, Kansas. W. Also No. 4 will attract No. 1, but will repel No. 2. Electric currents for railway purposes are gen- This shows that there must be some difference erated in a machine called a dynamo. The dyna- between the ends of the magnets or they, would mo is very much like a large motor in construction. act alike. This attraction and repulsion between It is driven by a steam engine and gives out a magnets is the principle on which electric motors current of electricity. The current flows out of are built. In fact, the electric consists of a " the machine at the positive or (-)-) end through stationary magnet or field,'" and a movable " the machines that are being driven, and back to magnet, or armature,"' attached to- a shaft or the dynamo, which enters at the negative or ( — axle. The field and armature are so arranged end. The path that the current follows, made up that they cannot touch each other, though" the of the dynamo, the trolley-wire, the car wiring armature can revolve very near the field. The and motor, the track return circuit to the dynamo, moving magnet is drawn to the fixed magnet is known as the circuit, also any path that the and just as it arrives the current is turned off so current follows is known as a circuit. that it flies past. For instance, the wiring of a car is known as the As soon as it passes the center of the field, the car-circuit, and the path that the current takes current is turned on again in the opposite direc- within the armature of a motor is known as the tion, so that they now repel each other. And sq armature-circuit. To describe simply the prin- on, as long as the current flows, the movable ar- ciple on which the action is based, it may be said mature is kept revolving. This turns the shaft that a magnet is a piece of iron or steel which and the shaft turns the car-axle. The main parts has the property of attracting other pieces of iron of a street railway motor are a field-magnet, which or steel. The two ends of a magnet are different. is stationary, and a revolving armature. The field- They will both attract iron, but if one end of a magnet is composed of an iron or a steel casting, single magnet is suspended by a string at the which has a certain quantity of insulated wire middle, the following facts will be noted: If we wound around it. The electricity passing through iron, call the ends of the first magnet No. 1 and No. 2, this field, or wire-coil, magnetizes the creating and the ends of the second magnet No. 3 and magnetic poles. 648 X BY THE LIGHT OF THE LANTERN. 649 The revolving armature is composed of thin leges and are approximately correct ; but it would disks of soft sheet iron, firmly bolted together and be assuming too much to consider them infallible. fitted on a shaft; this being the armature-core. We did not calculate them ourselves, and are glad This is dressed up in a machine-shop and wound that we did not, as life is most too short for such with a certain number of turns of insulated wire, elaborate research without the certainty of definite which are connected together so as to form one results. Nothing has been done so far—at least continuous wire, passing lengthwise around the we have not been so apprised—along the lines core. Before the armature is wound, the core is of computing the cost" of starting a train. thoroughly insulated with the best of insulating & material; this is a very important factor in the Construction of an armature, as defective insula- IF a locomotive is placed with right main-rod A just far enough past the forward center to tion would cause the windings to ground on the open the front steam-port and admit steam core, in which case the armature would have to in the front end of the cylinder, and then the back be stripped and rewound again. end of the main-rod be disconnected and placed The shaft upon which the armature is built against a solid post, the steam-ports on the left + furnishes both a support and a means of trans- side covered and the throttle opened, will the en- mitting the power of the armature to the wheels, gine move ahead the length of the guides pro- by means of its pinion meshing with a gear on vided that the post does not break off?—G. W. V., ' Douglas, Arizona. the truck-axle. The winding of the armature is the most vital part, as it is in this, as in the Yes, without a shadow of doubt. field magnets, that the current sets up the force that causes the motion of the wheels of the car. Garber, Missouri, and others. The When a wire, carrying a current, is brought in LE. — stand- • front of a pole of a magnet, a force is experienced ard code of whistle-signals on the loco- which tends 'to drive the wire sideways from the motive-whistle makes no provision for three short magnet, and this is what takes place in an electric blasts while the train is running, and no such sig- motor. When the windings of an armature, car- nal is embodied in the code of the New York, rying current, come in front of a pole-piece of New Haven and Hartford, the Erie, and many the field-magnet, they are forced away and the other prominent trunk lines, whose names need armature is kept revolving as long as the current not be repeated. Understand, however, that the flows. On the end of the armature-shaft is a standard code is by no means mandatory or in- pinion which meshes into a large gear-wheel keyed fallible, and there is no law to say that a rail- on the truck-axle. In this way an electric car is road cannot make any subtraction therefrom or propelled. There are, of coarse, many other de- addition thereto which it may desire or which tails which lack of space prevents. The general circumstances may dictate?" In endeavoring to subject is very interesting and is worthy of con- make these replies as concise and as accurate as siderable study "in view of the tremendous de- possible to cover general conditions, we are com- velopment which is so characteristic of electric pelled to quote uniform procedure if it exists. railways at present. You will readily recognize the absurdity of con- & fining to a single road. If the road or roads which you mention employ such a signal, although there S., Amhurst, Massachusetts.—A man of RD. is nothing to forbid, we can assure you that it is • thirty-four years is should convint-e you of our inability to reply to in that particular company's service haul up that such a question, notwithstanding our varied grade?—T. F. A., San Rafael, California. resources. 0* (1) The Mallet articulated compound loco- motive No. 1700, built by the Baldwin Locomo- M., New York City. To become an ML. — tive Works early in 1910, is the largest locomotive • expert telegrapher is dependent, of of that or any other type yet to be constructed. course, on one's- ability to learn. Before you can It has driving-wheels 63 inches in diameter, and send and receive with equal facility, -or, in other weighs, independent of its tender, 462,450 pounds. words, become qualified to assume charge of a The total weight including the tender is ap- small office, might require from nine months to proximately 350 tons. The boiler is 7 feet in two years. The average, time required is about diameter, works under a pressure of 220 pounds, eighteen months. It depends very largely on your- and has a total heating surface, including the self, no matter what painstaking instruction you feed-water heater, of 6,631 square feet. There may receive. The pay varies with the field, arc also 1,745 square feet of superheating and whether mercantile or railroading, with the pre- reheating surface. There are two high-pressure ponderance of favor inclining toward the former. cylinders, 26 inches diameter by 34 inches stroke, On all railroads, a rigid eye test is given on en- connected to eight coupled drivers, 63 inches in tering the service. The hours of duty are fixed diameter, and two low - pressure cylinders, 38 on railroads at nine hours, if the nine-hour law inches in diameter by 34 inches stroke. In all prob- is observed. The Order of Railroad Telegraphers ability this locomotive will not be exceeded in is the official organization. total weight for a very long time— if ever. The impression seems now current among prominent J? motive-power men that the limit has been reached HAS a wireless operator any more privileges with the big engine, and that a reaction is in- than a railroad telegrapher? Aboard ship, evitable. Those constructed since the advent of has he any more privileges than a seaman ? this locomotive, display a marked tendency to- —R. B. P., D. and H. R. R. ward reversion to a lighter type, and this will no doubt shortly follow. A railroad operator goes home when his trick (2) The steepest grade is on the El Paso is finished. He is free until it comes around and Southwestern Railroad, which runs from Al- again. You will, no doubt, grasp the point that mogordo to Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Some of a man in the same capacity on shipboard is it rises four feet in one hundred, and there is practically working all the time, so long as only one portion where the grade is five feet in the one operator is carried, which is usually the case. one hundred. It is also replete with any number The wireless man at sea must sleep in proximity of very short curves. We have no reliable figures to his instruments, so that he may be in readiness on the tonnage hauled. to handle any call which may- come in. His operating-room is fitted with a bunk, and there are various other conveniences for his comfort. CAN Westinghouse E. T., independent brake- The pay averages about $50 per month and board. valve be used on an engine equipped with There is no comparison whatever between this Westinghouse automatic D-6 brake-valve? work and that of a seaman. The wireless operator (2) If you break the main -pin on an eight- engine, to take the is well taken c^re of; has no menial work to per- wheel and have down main-rod on one side, would it be possible to take the engine form and his duties are light and pleasant. The to the terminal over level track under her own pay would not exactly appeal to some of us, but steam ? when" it is remembered that what is earned is (3) What type of engine is the tandem com- absolutely clear, it may not be so bad after all. pound, and ten-wheel connected with pony-truck The drawbacks are being away from home all and trailer, such as used on the Santa Fe in New the time, and being constantly on duty, but there Mexico ? are compensating advantages. (4) Does a trailer change the type of an en- gine?—J. L. W., Canon City, Colorado. (1) Yes, the independent brake-valve can be R., Chelsea, Massachusetts.—Write to EW. applied to the D-6 equipment with little change • B. Berry, Chief Engineer, Chicago, J. in that arrangement. Rock Island and Pacific Railway, Chicago, Illi- (2) In case a main-pin should break, or any nois, and he will no doubt take pleasure in sup- other failure should occur which would require plying you with the information desired in con- all rods on that side to come down, you can safely nection with the Rock Island and other bridges leave up the side rod on the working side of the across the Mississippi River. engine without causing any further damage, for J* the reason that the power is applied to that side of the engine only, and the pin must be either is the largest engine in the United WHAT above or below the center to enable the engine to States? What is its general description? move, they will all be sure to in one (2) What railroad has the steepest and move grade? How many pounds can the largest engine direction. This applies equally to any type of — 652 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. connected engine as well as the eight-wheel class. remain indefinitely for the other, as we under- No harm will result to the driving-boxes, and stand your question. If this understanding is in the wheels will trail all right on the dead side. error, we would be pleased to hear from you. This may he a slight deviation from general again. practise, but it will work, and will save taking J* down the side rod on the good side, in addition HOW---rnany miles of road 'is operated by the Atchison, Topeka and 'Santa Fe Railway? to giving the engine two wheels to come in with (2) How many engines have they, and instead of one. how many of them are Mallet compounds? Types of locomotives are now generally (3) (3) Give a description of the Santa Fe pas- designated according to Whyte's classification, senger-engine 14S5, and of freight-engine 1170. which has been repeatedly referred to and ex- (4) What other roads in Texas have as large plained in this department. It is based on a a passenger-engine as the Santa Fe 1200 class? combination of numbers representing the arrange- J. E. B., Justin, Texas. ment of the wheels. For instance, the eight- (I) miles, as compiled from the latest wheel connected engine which you mentioned 9,114 report which has come to hand from the Inter- above was formerly called the. American type but state Commerce Commission. is now '4-4-0." In other words, it has a four- 12) 1,611 locomotives on the Santa Fe proper, wheel truck, which explains the first number; 421 on the Coast Lines, and 2S2 on operated lines, four connected driving-wheels, which explains the total, 2,314. There are 45 Mallet compounds. second number, and no trailer-truck, so a cipher (3) Engine 1485 is the heaviest Atlantic is added. A tandem compound engine is or was (4-4-2) locomotive yet to be constructed. It generally built with a two-wheel leading-truck, was recently completed by the Baldwin Locomo- five connected drivers, and no trailer, hence tive Works for the Santa Fe, and weighs, in work- 2-10-0, and others, particularly on the Santa Fe, ing order, 231,675 pounds. With the tender in- were 2-10-2. The ten-wheel connected engine cluded, also in working order, the total weight with a pony-truck and trailer which you mention is 405,000 pounds. This engine embodies the is 4-6-2, or the now well-known Pacific type, peculiarity of outside steam-pipes from the boiler which is used very extensively for heavy passen- to the cylinders, and also an outside dry-pipe ger work. arranged along the top center line of the boiler - (4) The addition of a trailer changes the type from the steam-dome to the smoke-box. The of a locomotive through the addition of the third principal dimensions are as follows: Tractive number to the classification, a9 explained above. effort, 23,800 pounds; weight on drivers, 112,125 JS pounds; wheel-base (driving) 6 feet 10 inches; made WHAT is the fastest time that has been wheel-base, total, 32 feet 8 inches: wheel-base, Railroad between Chi- by the Pennsylvania engine and tender. 61 feet 1 inch; cylinders, com- cago and New York? pound, 25 inches, simple, 15 inches; stroke of (2) How much of the Pennsylvania Railroad cylinders, 26 inches; diameter of driving-wheels is double-tracked between Pittsburgh and St. over tires, 73 inches; thickness of driving-tires^ Louis, and also between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, J and Baltimore, Maryland? 5 /2 inches; diameter of main driving-journal, (3) What is the fastest time made by regular 10 inches; diameter of rear driving-journal, 9 Pennsylvania trains between Baltimore and Wash- inches; diameter of engine truck-wheels, 34JS ington"?— C. B., Andover, Massachusetts. inches; diameter of trailer-wheels, 47 inches; total boiler heating surface, 2,50S square feet ; number An eastbound eightecn-hour train, in the (1) and outside diameter of boiler-tubes, 273 tubes, summer of 1905, is said to have covered the dis- 2!4 inches in diameter, working steam-pressure, hours actual running tance in less than sixteen 220 pounds. time, a number of delays having occurred. The Engine 1 1 70 is a Mallet articulated locomotive Pennsylvania's eightecn-hour train began running with a rigid boiler, thus distinguishing it from 1905, and that of the Lake Shore and June 11, two others recently built by the Baldwin Works Michigan Southern and the New York Central which have flexible " boilers, so called. The one week later. total weight of the 1170 is 3657900- pounds, of (2) All of it. which 295,000 pounds is carried on the drivers. (3) Fifty-two minutes. The total weight of-the engine and tender in <£ working order, is 535,000 pounds. The principal PS., Pittsburgh.—The principal railroads en- dimensions are as follows: Driving-wheel base, • tering Pittsburgh from the east are the 37 feet 10 inches; rigid-wheel base. 13 feet S Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Rail- inches; total engine-wheel base, 56 feet 5 inches: roads. total wheel-base, engine and tender, 89 feet 3 49 inches; diameter of cylinders, high -pressure, 24 Kentucky. long as inches low-pressure, 38 inches ; stroke of cylinders, CE. L., Zion Station, —So ; • there is a positive meet-order between 2S inches; diameter of driving-wheels over tires, engines 1147 and 1150 ^t " G," there would not 69 "inches; thickness of driving-tires, 3J4 inches; appear to be much chance to raise a question of diameter of main driving-journals, 10 inches; any kind. The first engine arriving there must diameter of other .driving-journals, 9 inches; BY THE LIGHT OF THE LANTERN. 653 diameter of engine-truck wheels, 31 J4 inches; graduates You can learn then, direct, what total boiler heating surface, 5,126 square feet; benefit accrued to him. We can, of course, un- number and outside diameter of boiler-tubes, 294 hesitatingly remark that so long as these various tubes, 2J4 inches diameter; working steam-pres- schools teach the theory as thoroughly as they do. sure, 220 pounds per square inch. The tender they must have a considerable value. The science contains 9,000 gallons of water, and 12 tons of of various branches of railroading is not gone into coal. to any extent on the railroads with their em- (4) We do not know of any other roads in ployees and it is a mighty good thing to 'know. Texas using larger engines than the class men- (2) Railroad bi-akemen do not have to work tioned. in the roundhouse before going on the road, unless they choose to accept* some preliminary CN, South Range, Wisconsin.—The master employment therein. The two services are en- • mechanic you probably have in mind on tirely distinct, belonging to different departments. the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie J* Railway, is E. Foster, Assistant, Thief River Toledo, Ohio.— Simply Falls, Minnesota. The Chicago and Northwestern SF., address him as • superintendent of the Asbury Park, power on the train you mention is somewhat'lar- New Jersey, Street Railway, ger and heavier. and the letter will be de- livered. haven't his name. We cannot comment on the advantages of such We a course in this department. The average pay for J* an extra fireman, as we have frequently said, de- there a standard height for locomotives? In pends on the length of the run which he may IS other words, what is the extreme height from happen to catch. There is no hard and fast rule the rail to the top of the stack, dome, or about it nothing but mileage. Bring it up with ; whistle? 1 have been informed that 15 ft. 8 in. the next fireman you may happen to meet, and is the standard.— G. F. B., Shrcveport, Louisiana. he will be very glad to make it all clear to you. There is no standard. It varies with the clear- ances of the different roads. From our records OW many railroads operate in Alaska? we find that 15 feet 8 inches is the maximum, H (2) Is there any position for trainmen and this is permissible on the Norfolk and on those lines?— J. E. S., Grand Island, Nebraska. Western Railroad. On some roads it is as low as 14 feet 6 inches, measurement taken from rail (1) Tanana Valley, 45 miles, 3-foot gage, 4 to top of stack always. locomotives and 30 cars. A. P. Tyson, general & manager, Chena Alaska; Copper River and North- western, 131 miles, 4 feet SJ-J-inch gage, 15 loco- RE railway mail clerks carried free in the mail-cars when off duty?—O. S., Tiffin, motives, 289 cars. E. C. Hawkins, general mana- A J. Ohio. ger, Seattle, Washington; Alaska Northern 71 J/4 40 miles, 4 feet 8 -inch gage, 3 locomotives, cars. No. They are provided with passes over the Laberee, general manager, Spokane, Wash- O. G. line or territory of their route, as a rule, and Route, 1 IS miles, ington; White Pass and Yukon when deadheading, ride in the passenger-cars. 3-feet gage, 13 locomotives, 252 cars. A. L. Ber- doe, general manager, Vancouver, British Colum- I bia. JT, R., London, Canada.—The Pennsylvania (2) We have no information on this point. • Railroad system, including all leased and You can settle "the question readily enough by controlled lines, has a mileage of 11,128; locomo- corresponding with any or all of the gentlemen tives, 6,585 ; freight-cars, 256,481; passenger-cars, whose names are mentioned above, 5,585, and miscellaneous cars, 6,181; total num- ber of cars, 268,247. In regard to the train- mileage, and statistics on the passengers carried Eugene, Oregon.—Again we must repeat EH., annually, this will have to be secured from J. W. • that it is not consistent with the policy Lee, Jr., publicity agent of the Pennsylvania Rail- adopted to comment on, criticize, or condemn any road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. If he has not educational institution of the character to which the figures at hand, he will no doubt \be in a you refer. This is a very wise course, if you will position to direct you to where the information think it over, because, in the first place, we have can be obtained. absolutely no information concerning any of them, \» and it would be a manifest injustice to you if we should offer counsel, as the school which you RB, South Manchester, Connecticut.—Pas- have in mind might be just in the position to do • senger " trainmen, as a rule, are hired in a great deal for you. Your best plan would be that capacity. They replace the position formerly to write frankly to the principal, or whoever is designated as brakeman. The way it is generally in charge, and ask him just what he has to worked in the East, should they desire to aspire promise in return for a course. It would also be to a conductor's job, they will have to go on well to supplement this by a talk with one of the freight as a brakeman, and work up to passenger- — / / 654. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. conductor through freight- flagman and freight- the reverse-lever used for when they arc all the conductor. way around the quadrant?—C. W. U., Philadel- phia. (2) Two electric locomotives coupled together, single control, are used on the through but with ( 1 ) On the road. Commence as a fireman, or, trains of the New York, New Haven and Hart- if the master mechanic considers you too young, ford Railroad. try to get in as an apprentice machinist during ,* the interval. In all probability, after you have finished serving your time, you will forget your B., Fostoria, Ohio.—The Baltimore and EM. first intention. • Ohio Railroad has 3,446 miles of road, (2) From $3.50 to as high as $5.50 for the 1,915 locomotives; 83,335 freight-cars; 1,168 pas- hundred miles, depending on the agreement which senger-cars; 2,942 miscellaneous cars; total, 87,- his organization has with the company, .and the 445 cars. Engines 1700 and 1701 of the Atchi- class of power which he runs. son, Topeka and Santa Fe are the largest freight- (3) They are used to hold the latch of the engines in use. See reply to T. F. A., this month. reverse-lever in order that it may remain in any These two engines are over 100,000 pounds heavier selected place in the quadrant.^ The notches than the Baltimore and Ohio Mallet compound, from the center forward are all go-ahead notches, which works on Sand Patch grade in Pennsyl- and those from the center back, vice versa. As vania. This was the first engine of the type to the lever is gradually drawn up from the forward be constructed in this country. The 1700 and the corner, or starting point, as the engine gains in 1701 are about one year old each. " speed the steam cuts off " shorter ; in other words, it does not follow the piston so far in the Jt I cylinders before the valve closes the admission- seventeen years old and want to learn 1AM port. The remainder of the stroke after this locomotive engineering. Where would be the closing is effected by the expansive force of the best place to start? steam; thus a great saving in steam is over, (2) How much does an engineer get for a made regular passenger run of one hundred miles? allowing it to follow the piston at the initial (3) What are the notches in the quadrant of pressure to the end of the stroke. STORY OF A FAST'TRAIN. "T WAS lately on a train." observed the timid train at all. and were continually driving into J- passenger, " that went so fast it was dan- it at the crossings, but they didn't know«any gerous to look out of the window, as you were better before or afterward. It was thought that likely to have your eyesight broken off and carried lightning struck them, as they didn't know what away. Why, the very farmhouses looked like the else it was, and people along the line said th^ street of a village, they came so fast, and the hind train left a tunnel in the air which did not fill up car-wheels touched the rails only once in a while. for half an hour, while the air was hot from fric- " There was not a particle of noise to be heard, tion. If you would foolishly point your finger because the train got far ahead of it, and people out of the window at anything it would be taken along the track said the noise kept about a mile off as slick as a knife by the solidified air. We back. The dust didn't have time to get up and went through a- terrible rainstorm, but not a drop dust until the train had got far away, and the touched the train. It didn't get a chance. Sev- way it then got up and dusted was a warning. eral bolts of lightning went for us, but fell a mile The telegraph-poles were not visible, and the very or two short. sunbeams did not have a chance to get in the " The rear brakeman fell off the car. but the suc- windows, and, of course, the shadow of the cars tion kept him following right behind, and they kept something like a mile and a quarter in the reached out and pulled him in all right but quite rear. Our watches got all out of time, as we flew dizzy-headed. At one place a bridge had been westward so fast that we got clear ahead of the washed away, but that did not interfere at all, for sun. The friction of the air took all the paint we jumped the chasm and went on as if nothing off the outside of the cars, and hats were sucked had been wrong. The most wonderful thing about up through the ventilators. If you had dropped it was, that night we witnessed the phenomenon of a book it would not have touched the floor until the sun setting in the east, a sight never before it had reached the back of the car, while flies witnessed, we had traveled so much ahead of it. were dashed against the rear end of the coach and That was the fastest ride I ever took." Detroit killed. Of course, the people could not see the Free Press. DR. JOURDAN'S MYSTERY. BY C. W. BEELS. The Doctor Paves the Way for the Experi- ment That Is to Change Young Halliwell. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. RICHARD ROBERT JOURDAN, M.D., a stranger in New York, takes up his residence with Mr. and Mrs. Phelan, the former a police sergeant. The doctor, a young, studious fellow, has a pet theory in regard to his profession which he has not been able to put into practise owing to his poverty and obscurity. He is instrumental in saving Colonel Nugent, a Western mining man, from an accident, and, later, attends the colonel during his convalescence. He confides his theory ^to Nugent, and Jourdan discovers that the colonel is acquainted with Mr. Halliwell, one of the rich men of the city, whose young son is a cleptomaniac. A cure for this is part of Jourdan's scheme, and he secures a letter to the Halliwells which results in an interview with the father and a meeting with the daughter. CHAPTER V. The physician did not reply until he had pondered over the query a little. Then he The Doctor Explains. said: " I think not, Mr. Halliwell. I have tried ^HE dinner at the Interstate to tell you in lay language the theory and Club took place in a private method of effecting cures in cases allied with room! As most people know, that of your son. There is hardly anything the bulk of the members of more to be said, so far as I am concerned. the Interstate are men of af- There remains, however, your consent or fairs and millions. The ma- your refusal." jority are of ripe years. Every State in the The financier drummed on the table with Union is represented on the membership- his fingers thoughtfully. roll, hence its name. Where money and "Did I understand you to say, the other middle age are gathered there will be fine evening, that you had witnessed or actually feeding and good drinking also. It was so performed cures by means of this system in " in the case of the Interstate Club, whose which you seem to place so much faith ? dinners were famous, and whose chef Dr. Jourdan made a gesture of assent. " owned his own home and a touring-car. Dr. Have you any objection to relating some . Jourdan came to the conclusion that evening of such?" that he deserved every inch of his culinary "Not in the slightest, sir. After a year fame. of bacteriological study in Vienna, I went Nothing was said about the matter that to Florence, taking with me letters of intro- lay close to the hearts of the two men during duction to Professor Lurattini, of that city. the serving of the courses, but with the He was then engaged in investigations hav- coming of the coffee and cigars^ the host ing to do with this same subject, and it was signified to the attendants that he and his because of this that I went to him. I was guest wished to be alone. under his tutelage over eighteen months. "Well, doctor, have you anything addi- During that period I was privileged to see tional to say to me?" asked the financier as him turn a man afflicted with homicidal soon as the door closed. mania into a peaceful, law - abiding citi- Btgan In the April Railroad Man's Magazine. Single copies, 10 cents. 655 — / 656 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. zen; a hypochondriac into a wholesome- the first place, the subject has not reached minded, healthy individual; while a noto- that stage which would warrant my con- rious brigand, who came from a family of templating treatment. Our talk relative to professional robbers and cutthroats, was your son has been of a tentative nature transformed into an honest, hard-working only. You have said nothing that I could villager." construe into a promise of consent. Even " " All by this serum method? had you expressed your willingness to place " All by the injection of an appropriate him in my hands, I can assure you that I serum into the tissues of each patient. He should have made haste slowly. I should was greatly aided in his work by the Italian have subjected him to a proper period of government, who not only allowed him to observation and investigation before going select subjects from prisons and hospitals, further in the matter." but furnished him with those persons from Dr. Jourdan had a way of looking you whose blood, he wished to make serum- straight in the eye when he spoke, and in cultures." this instance there was something in his gaze, " Capital arrangement for the scientist, that matched the note of severe protest in but rough on the other chaps," laughed Mr. his talk. It did not escape the Halliwell. „ notice of Mr. Halli- " Hardly so. No person was operated on well. Like most very /rich men, Halliwell one way or the other unless his consent was was accustomed to defei^itial demeanor and first obtained. In the case of the prisoners, smooth speech from those with whom he certain privileges were allowed them in re- came in contact, especially if they were look- turn for their acquiescence. The patients ing for business or social favors at his in the hospital were there to be cured, and hands. they not only suffered no risks when in the It was a new experience, therefore, to hands of a man like Lurattini, but they had meet a man who talked to him fearlessly, an excellent chance of recovery." and who didn't hesitate to contradict him "Ah, a chance of recovery!" echoed the pointblank—politely, it is true, but direct- other. ly, nevertheless. He liked the young doctor " My dear sir," said Dr. Jourdan earnest- all the more because of his independent at- ly, "medicine is not and never will be an titude. absolute science. Only those of its members " You are right. Dr. Jourdan," he admit- who are charlatans guarantee a cure in ted. " I spoke hastily, and I ask your par- every instance through a given course of don for so doing. But will you tell me about treatment. No two human bodies are ex- other cases with which you came in con- actly alike in a pathological sense. Where tact? I wish to know more about this in- the difference is marked, the results of an teresting process." administration of a drug or a serum may, in The doctor's face cleared. Like all fine- each instance, be of a contradictor} 7 nature. natured men, he didn't nurse the remem- " Speaking in general terms, the specialist brance of an affront, real or imagined. is he who has learned to adopt a treatment " Certainly," he said, with a-smile. " But to a body, the former being based on the such cases were practically repetitions of physical and mental idiosyncrasies of the those that I witnessed in Italy. At Buda- latter. Yet, even the specialist is apt to err pest a money-lender, who had gone insane in his diagnosis, although in the majority on account of defaulting clients, was re- of cases the patient whom he treats has, stored to health and sanity by Professors as I have said, an excellent chance of re- Ruchman and Arnauld, the serum treatment covery." being used. The money-lender was a no- "Then, as I understand it, a clever torious usurer who grew rich out of the physician should study—carefully study profligacy of young men of prospective a new patient as a preliminary?" asked the wealth. After he left the asylum he closed, financier. his business and endowed a home." "Decidedly so." " For the benefit of his old patrons, I " And yet—if you will pardon my saying presume?" said Mr. Halliwell cynically. so—you were ready to begin treatment on " It would seem that way. In Paris I my boy right away?" came in contact with two examples of the "That is hardly correct, Mr. Halliwell," effectiveness of the method, although I did replied the physician emphatically. " In not witness the phases of cures. Dornon, — DR. JOURBAN'S MYSTERY. 657 Mauroix, and LeVeore were the physicians that these beliefs are not original with me. in charge of the patients, one of whom was They form the basis of all the investigations a nobleman who for many years had been a that are now being made by scientists on the notorious libertine. He is living a monastic lines that I have indicated. I have implicit life now. faith in them." " In Nantes and London I was afforded He paused. further opportunities for passing on the "Proceed, please." Mr. Halliwell's tone possibilities of the discovery. bespoke his impatience. " On my return to this country I had the "It is proper for me to tell you, though, great privilege of restoring to moral sanity that what I am about to state may not be al- and his parents a young Chicagoan who had together pleasant. I may offend you by my suddenly developed a mania for gambling frankness." and was ruining himself in consequence." "I hardly think so." "Have such cures proven, permanent?" "Well, then," Dr. Jourdan spoke slowly asked the financier. arid distinctly, " a mental malady is not in- "Yes, so far as I know," was the answer. frequently the outcome or the culmination " As I have stated, germs breed diseases of an hereditary quality or trait developed to mental or physical—in accordance with their an abnormal degree." type or species. The germs once eliminated He halted again, and the financier looked from the system in both classes of maladies, at him inquiringly. there is but little chance of their return, pro- " Because of the interest that I felt in vided that precaution is taken against their your son's case," he went on, " I took it upon securing relodgment." myself to inquire into your family history There was silence for a spell. Mr. Hal- through the medium of genealogical works liwell consulted a small memorandum- of reference, hoping that such inquiry would book which he drew from his vest-pocket. furnish me with a clue to the young man's "Dr. Jourdan," he said at length, "I am affliction. In this I was not disappointed. aware that gentlemen of your profession ex- "I find that Jabez Halliwell landed in ercise the right to surround your work with this country from Barnstaple, England, in a certain amount of reserve. No doubt you the early part of the eighteenth century, and have good reasons for this. Therefore I am established himself in New York, first as a not at all sure whether you will answer the genera] merchant, later as an Indian-trader. question I'm going to put to you."* In those days the business was highly prof- " If I can consistently answer, I certain- itable—for the trader. Indeed, there were ly will." not wanting those who declared that such "Well, then, why is my boy afflicted as trading was sheer robbery. Jabez had two he is ? There must be some antecedent rea- sons, Hiram and Seth. Seth went to Mas- son for—for—his unhappy condition. I sachusetts, where he became a farmer and have put this question to several members trader, and managed to exchange rum and of your profession, and none of them have gewgaws with the Indians for considerable given me a satisfactory answer—either be- of their land. cause they could not or would not. Can you " His real-estate operations finally created " — or will you reply to it? so much talk among the neighbors and trou- ble among the aborigines that die authorities interfered. He proved his title to land in his VI. CHAPTER possession, however, and stuck to it, although he does not appear to have undertaken fur- Getting Down to Facts. ther deals. The New England branch of the T~\R. JOURDAN felt a sudden throb of Halliwells is now" wealthy and socially influ- sympathy for the man whose millions ential?" were useless to him in the presence of a This last sentence was interrogative. father's affliction. The huskiness of Mr. The financier gave a nod of assent. Halliwell's voice told of the deep emotion " Hiram remained with his father. At that underlay his speech. the death of the latter he succeeded to the " I^you really desire to learn what my be- business. In the meantime he had married liefs are in regard to your son's case," he Margaret Dalton, daughter of a ship cap- said very quietly, "I can see no objection •tain, and one son—named Jabez for his to ygur so doing. But I would remind you grandfather — was bom to them. Now, 6 RR J 658 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. whether it was through fhe influence of his this country would speedily recover from the father-in-law or by reason of the tempting industrial depression brought about by the profits of the business is not related; but, Civil War, and so proceeded to take ad- anyhow, Hiram fitted out two, if not three; vantage of the situation. He purchased bank ships for the slave trade, all being under and railroad stock, real estate, -and the con- the general command of Captain Dalton. trol of certain commercial enterprises at the "The venture proved profitable, and the then depreciated values, and waited for the flood of guineas that resulted brought many inevitable boom. things to Hiram, among them proffered mu- " If I mistake not, he organized the Pur- nicipal honors. These he declined, possibly chase and Banking Trust, that bought for on the score that he didn't want anything to cash securities of all kinds from the needy, interfere with business. at prices so small that the trust was finally "During the first war with England he dissolved" by reason of the outcry raised appears to have converted his slavers into against it by the press and the public. The privateers, and although one of the ships gist of this cry was that the corporation was was destroyed he made money nevertheless. trading in a cold-blooded fashion on the A ' bloody flux ' carried him off just after desperate necessities of the community." the breaking of the nineteenth century, and He paused. ^ " New York acknowledged that it had lost one Am I not to be included in this—un- of the most reputable and distinguished varnished history of the Halliwells?" asked citizens. the financier, with a wry smile. "The family instinct for money-making " I should serve no purpose by so inclu- asserted itself in the case of young Jabez, ding you. What I have said will, I think, who took up the reins of the business. He illustrate my theory as to the cause of your bought new slavers, fitted out several priva- son's trouble." teers during the war with France, and later "And the theory is?" sold his ships outright to our government, " You have asked me to speak frankly, just prior to the war of 1812. He also Mr. Halliwell. I am taking further ad- loaned money to the government officials at vantage of your permission. Man is a preda- a rate of interest that did more credit to his tory animal. His conquests over nature and business ability than to his patriotism. The his fellows prove that much. Business is his tradition that he made big sums by selling predatory instinct, operating in more or less contraband supplies to the British does not legitimate fields. seem to be backed by sufficient evidence to " In many cases the so-called successful warrant its acceptance." business man walks dangerously near the Mr. Halliwell winced at this allusion to boundary that separates the criminal from an unpleasant episode in the family history, the reputable classes. Where this is con- and the doctor continued: tinued from generation to generation there " Your grandfather combined politics with will come a time certainly when this hered- his commercial pursuits, and, to use the itary trait will culminate in one or more of vernacular, played the combination for all his descendants giving it pajnful manifesta- it was worth. That his methods were fa- tion. We have, among other of such mani- vored was shown by the fact that he built festations, cleptomaniacs—those who have and endowed two churches and a hospital. no reason for stealing, but Who obey the It was also through his means that there was uncontrollable prompting left unto them by a general betterment of the jail conditions predatory ancestors." in the East. He spoke with the quiet solemnity of ab- "The government commission that was solute conviction. convened for the purpose of inquiring into " Then, you hold that the sins of the fa- all his alleged unjustifiable acquirement of thers will be visited unto ' children of the what had been held as public lands in west- third and fourth generation '?" he asked. ern Pennsylvania cleared him of the original "In a sense, yes. But you should finish ' charges of fraud and larceny." the quotation : And show mercy unto thou- Again Mr. Halliwell winced, while the sands of them that love Me and keep My doctor referred to a slip of paper that he commandments." That, to my mind, is drew from his pocket. equivalent to a promise that the cfk"se can " Your father, Mr. Halliwell, like some be extinguished by the moral and physical other shrewd men of means, foresaw that means at our command." : — DR. JOURTJA tf'S MYSTERY. 669 \Mr. Halliwell meditated. The doctor very special preparation for this treatment drew carefully at his cigar. is needed by the practitioner; also facilities " There is one aspect of your theory that that are not available in the case of the I cannot understand, doctor," said Mr. Hal- average doctor. liwell as he came out of his brown study, " The difficulties that surround the treat- "and—if you will pardon my saying so ment are such that it does not appeal to the it seems to me to be fatal to that theory. It M.D. who is given to easy self-exploitation, is this: on the one hand you tell me that and it has not and will not receive that that cleptomania and similar affections re- cheap and misleading popularity that has sult from hereditary tendencies; on the other, befallen many brilliant medical discoveries you assure me that they are due to germs during the early phases of their being." in the bodily system. How do you reconcile " Upon my word, doctor, you seem to have " these apparently contradictory statements? a satisfactory reply to every criticism of " "The reply is not difficult. I am glad your beliefs! that you put the question to me." "I am glad that you think them satis- Dr. Jourdan's tone was convincing. He factory," replied Dr. Jourdan. "I speak continued as I know." " As I have said, a majority of the so- "Have you any idea as to the time that called mental—or, if the term be more prac- would elapse before we could look for an tical, moral—diseases are due to the pres- improvement in our son's condition — if I ence in the system of the minute organisms placed him in your hands?" asked Mr. to which we give the name of germs, mi- Halliwell after another spell of meditation. crobes, or bacilli. They can only live and The young physician usually had him- multiply in a system whose condition is such self well in hand, but at the financier's that it is favorable to them. We have pre- question, charged as it was with possibili- cisely the same proposition in other classes ties for which he had hoped and dreamed of diseases, such as tuberculosis, gout, and for years, the room seemed to spin around cancer. To ise the lay phrase, these dis- him. It was a moment or so before he could ' eases run in families ' by reason of the reply. fact that infected ancestors are responsible "I cannot say. I must study him for a for a posterity whose powers of resistance little time. There have been instances where to the inroads of a given germ have been absolute cures were effected within a few weakened during the generations that pre- weeks; in other cases, many months elapsed ceded them. And what is true in the case before a recovery was made. I came in of tuberculosis is equally true in the in- personal contact with one patient in Paris stance of those subtler types of disease that who had been under treatment for nearly a attack our morality through the medium of year, and was only then on the road to our bodies." normality. She was an American young " The theory is at least ingenious," com- woman, an only daughter of a Western mented the other. packer who began life as cook in a cow- " I think that the term ' fact,' rather than camp. The daughter and her millions mar- ' theory,' would be more appropriate," re- ried an Englishman of title. He turned out torted Dr. Jourdan with quiet emphasis, to be a very decent sort of a fellow who did " inasmuch as its truth has been proven by all in his power to further the social ambi- experiments." tions of his wife, which were many and con- " Doesn't it seem a little curious that a stantly increasing. Her mania for ' smart- discovery so tremendously important to man- ness ' and her tuft-hunting propensities made kind, so far-reaching in its effects on this her socially notorious. and the generations that are to come, should " Her cravings for further distinction of be practically unknown to the world at the same kind dipped heavily into her mil- large and used only by a handful of special- lions, and finally broke her health. The ists, instead of the majority of medical titled husband insisted on her going on the men?" asked Mr. Halliwell. continent for a rest. While in Grunewald, "Yes—and no. Our profession is very she met Professor Delence, one of the fa- properly given to conservation. It does not thers of the new method. The professor ,readily indorse changes in its methods, es- diagnosed the wife's case as a form of exag- pecially when these changes promise to be gerated ego, or a mental malady induced of a radical sort, as in this instance. Again, and aggravated by her social ambitions. — - 660 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "With the assistance of the husband, he cation, companions, tastes, and he wanted a got her to Paris, and proceeded to treat her. minute answer to each query. " I had a letter from him a few months ago He is, I take it, conscious of regret after in which he tells me that his wife had set- the act?" tled down into a quiet home-loving wife, " Yes." who is adored by the tenants of their estates " Has he ever told you that prior to the in Somerset because of the way in which she act his conscience urges him not to yield to looks after their interests and lives so much the promptings of his weakness?" among them." "He has—on almost every occasion." "A most interesting case," commented the "When he is not quite himself in point financier. of health, is the tendency to—to acquisition, " Yes. It illustrates a belief that I have more marked than at other times?" long held, that an unreasoning desire for "Yes, decidedly so." social distinction—the cost not being count- " Is he especially attracted by articles ed—is a true mental malady, arising from that are bright or glittering?" causes that are clearly traceable to the lives "You speak as if you were entirely of the idle rich. familiar with his case. It is as you say." "The majority of our international mar- " Then let me tell you, sir, that his cure riages, especially when there is a title in- is probable, nay, certain, within a com- volved" —he checked himself, cursing his paratively short time." tongue for running away with his discre- "You speak positively, Dr. Jourdan," tion— "but I'm wandering from the subject said Mr. Halliwell, his eyes shining with- in order to ventilate my views on a pet hope. topic." " In cases of this kind, a patient invari- He ceaseJ with a laugh that didn't have ably responds to the treatment provided that much mirth in it. the obsession has not entirely destroyed or "Well," said Mr. Halliwell, with a slight ousted the moral sense. In the latter in- sigh. " I am almost of the opinion that you stance, it l.as been found that no cure is are right, wholly or in part. It may be that possible. My allusion to the bright objects a goodly portion of our larger ambitions are has to do with a peculiarity of the interme- based on a sort of insanity. Who knows? diate stages of the malady. The victim is, ' ' Great wit to madness —you know the quo- in a sense, in a condition of self-hypnosis. tation?" In accordance with a well-known law of The doctor nodded, but said nothing. He hypnotism, anything that shines or glitters was still smarting under his unfortunate induces this condition." remark. "As to your fee," began the financier, " And you are assured that no harm will after the men had drunk a mute toast to come to a patient through this treatment, each other. even if he is not benefited thereby?" "I would prefer that any remuneration "I am sure; that is, if the necessary pre- be deferred until your son's recovery," in- cautions are taken by the physician in at- terrupted the doctor. tendance." " If—and pardon the suggestion—you "I don't think I need ask if these pre- would like me to send you a check on ac- cautions would be observed if you had count, I shall be glad to do so. I can quite charge of a case, Dr. Jourdan," said Mr. believe that the expenses incidental to the Halliwell with a friendly smile. " And treatment will be heavy." I will place Harold in your hands. May "No, sir; quite the contrary. There is " God prosper your work with him ! no occasion Tor me to call on your check- " Thank you," said the other with a sin- book; although I thank you, nevertheless." cerity that carried with it the comfort of "As you like," said Mr. Halliwell, who, conviction. to tell the truth, was a trifle surprised at the "You do not mind if I ask some ques- young doctor's attitude in the matter, in tions regarding your son? " queried the doc- view of his preceding experiences with tor. " Your replies will be of help to me." medical men. "And now what is the first " "Ask anything you like," said the other thing that you propose to do? earnestly, " I shall be glad to answer you." "I want to have an opportunity to ob- The physician put a series of interro- -serve your son amid his usual surroundings gations relative to the boy's age, habits, edu- and under normal conditions. I do not wish " DR. JOTJRDA IS MYSTERY. 661 him to know that he is to be treated by me and received was significant of the good until I see fit to tell him. The treatment understanding that the evening had brought itself will be in accordance with what I into being. learn of his temperamental and other pecu- liarities." "Very well, doctor. A family dinner at CHAPTER VII. my home would serve your purpose?" The Halliwell Hospitality. "Nothing could be better. If you talk the arrangement over with other members T^HP:x colonel's congratulations were of a of your family, be good enough to warn breezy sort. Phelan, on being taken them not to mention it to your son." into the confidence of the Texan and the " Certainly; the hope that you have given doctor, shook the doctor's hand until that us will prompt us to honor your wishes. member tingled and ach«d, prophesying that God knows we want hope for our poor the day would come when he, Larry, would ! boy be proud to tell that 'twas in his house that The physician was touched by the tone the famous Dr. Jourdan opened his first even more than by the words. It was one office. of the first instances—although by no "Now, Phelan, I want your help in this means the last—in his professional career matter," began the M.D. when the enthu- that he was witness to the impotency of siasm had subsided somewhat. vast wealth in the presence of a great sor- " Count me in on anything, doctor, I'm row. In such cases it always seemed to him yours." diat human destiny was emphasizing the " I want you to put me in touch with two futility of riches in the matter of those or three professional crooks, moll-buzzers, things which are at the basis of true hap- dips, or hall-flams—but they must be old- piness. timers and .healthy." " " " A clock chimed midnight. Bless me ! The detective grinned at the use of thief cried Mr. Halliwell, "I'd no idea that it slang," for he had taught it to the doctor was so late. You have made me forget the himself. time, doctor." " That I'll sure do," he said. " The best "I appreciate the compliment," the doc- way will be to nail the guys the day that tor answered, " but I think that it was the they finish their bits in the jug, for after a topia- rather than myself that held your at- five or seven-year "stretch, they are as clean tention." as a gun barrel. The prison doctors see to The financier looked at his guest with that." misty eyes. " Do you think that there will be any "You are right," he said. There was a difficulty in getting them to submit lo a " catch in his voice. " And if you are ever a tapping ? father, Dr. Jourdan, you will understand "No; that is, if there is enough money how my wife and myself feel about this in it. A crook who has been doing a dear lad of ours, in whom we have centered stretch doesn't, as a rule, find the glad hand so many hopes and so much love. Cure and the open wallet waiting for him out- him and I will — " He_ stopped short. side the gates. The yarns about his old " And yet," thought the doctor to him- pals sticking to him and holding on to a self, " this man and woman are willing that percentage of the ' fall money ' to shove into their daughter should purchase a title at the his fist when he's turned loose are piffle. bargain-counter of the altar." Then aloud: " He's usually busted except for his back " You have my sincere sympathy, Mr. Hal- prison pay, and he drifts into the old game liwell. A parent's first thought ig naturally because he's got to keep body and soul to- for the well-being and future happiness of gether. Usually, the square guys are the his children." last to help him along." "That is as it should be," assented the Phelan spoke without irony. He was man of millions thoughtfully. For the simply stating die condition as he knew it second time that evening he sighed audibly. existed. " Mr. Halliwell wasn't without troubles of All right ! I'll rely on you, Phelan, and which the world knew nothing. thanks for your help. We needn't hesitate After arranging the dinner date, the men to spend money to get the right people. parted. The hand-grasp that each gave Anybody that you may select to watch out a — f 662 THE RAILROAD MAN' S MAGAZINE. can camp at Sing Sing, or anywhere else duced to Mrs. Halliwell and Harold by for the purpose, and be well paid/' the financier, a reaction set in that was in The detective consulted a note-book. direct contrast to his feelings of a few "Bull O'Brien will be out on the eighth moments before. His fitness put him at his —a week away. Thirty-five years old ; been ease forthwith, and it was not long before in and out of the mill ever since he was he was chatting with his host and the ladies fourteen; mostly for 'dipping,' which, I in pleasant fashion. needn't tell you, doctor, is picking pockets. Mrs. Halliwell was a tall and stately " Curley Simmons, who finishes a seven- woman, with gray hair, regular features, year bit on the tenth, is a ' gas-bull '— and a sweet, but rather tired, face. She fake inspector of meters, who swipes what- had many of the earmarks of the typical ever he can lay his hands on in the flat. aristocrat in speech and bearing. Dr. Jour- He's ' good people,' too. dan observed that while her manner toward " 1 George the Gent ' is George Waller- him was that of the cordial hostess, it was man, one of the slickest ' con ' men that ever tinctured with a suggestion that he was did up a come-on by the grab game. He outside the rigid social pale that encircled winds up on the tenth also. the Halliwells. " ' The Weasel,' who is Harry Toller, is It was not hard to see from which of her a beaut—one of the smoothest, softest parents Mildred inherited her expression or ' sneak guns ' that ever pinched a door-mat. her carriage. Jourdan came to the conclu- He comes out on the eighth. All choice, and sion that the girl was a reproduction of her lots more of them." mother, as she must have been in the days " I leave the choice of the men to you, of her youth. Miss Halliwell looked very Phelan. Whoever you may select, I want lovely in her dinner-gown, and her greeting brought on to New York and put in quar- to the guest was courteous and gracious. ters where they can be under surveillance Harold was a good-looking lad, who until I have done with them." strongly resembled his sister, yet he lacked "Leave all that to me, doctor. I'll see that well-bred positiveness that was one of you through this end of the proposition, or her characteristics. Tall, of fine carriage I'll never draw a penny of pension." and pleasant manners, his personality was A few evenings later, when Dr. Jourdan winning. Vet his glance, as the doctor alighted from a taxicab in front of the noted, was wandering—even shifty. When Halliwell mansion, he felt that his self- his attention was not concentrated on an possession, somehow or other, had left him. object or topic, his eves swept around the This quality is the outcome of a belief in room as if in search of somethings At other one's self and one's ability to hold his own times, a film of vacancy seemed to pass in anything he may undertake. It is a over his face and vision. During the eve- curious fact, however, that the society of a ning, the doctor noted this with keen dis- delightful young woman often breeds in a cernment. young man an introspection, that leads to When dinner was announced, Mrs. Halli- ~ self-doubt that is in striking contrast to the well was Escorted by the visitor; the daugh- comfortable self-assurance that had pre- ter by her father. Harold brought up the viously been his, and it was so in the case rear. Dr. Jourdan inwardly resented the of Dr. Jourdan. His discomfort was none social canon that called for this arrange- the less by reason of his realization that his ment. He had hoped that good fortune unwonted feelings were distinctly ridic- would throw him with Mildred as much as ulous. He had met Miss Halliwell but possible. once. That she was as far removed from Dinner was served in the dining-room of him in a social sense as she well could be. the mansion, the tapestry and paneling of was fully established in his mind. In spite which, as all New Yorkers know, are deco- of the promptings of iiis common-sense, he ratively and socially famous. The Halli- could not quite get control of himself when well plate was also in evidence, and the he pressed the bell-button of the Halliwell guest caught himself musing on the unex- front door. Something like a nervous shiver pected turn of the wheel of fate that had swept through him from head to foot. placed in his hands a knife and fork whose Once inside the house, however, he be- handles were griffins and violets of carven came his own master again, and in the silver and ivory. drawing-room, when he met and was intro- What is commonly called "society" . V ; \ DR. JOURD; N'S MYSTERY. 663 especially die women—live in a very small dinner progressed, and she joined in the world, after all. Tbey mix with those that conversation with a zest that astonished and are like unto themselves in most things; delighted the young man. they seek the same amusements, and they "Well, hardly that. The facilities for eat the same food as do their neighbors getting around nowadays are such that if a of " the avenue they " ; attend the same man travels light, he can go almost anv- churches, and they are clothed and deco- where at short order and little discomfort." rated by the same tailors and dressmakers " You mean that he mustn't have a wife and milliners; even their fads are shared by- and the trunks that go with her, I suppose," each other, and the monotony of it all leads said Mildred, with a rippling laugh. to affairs- with ladies of the stage so far as The doctor echoed the laugh—as did the men are concerned, and elopements with others. chauffeurs on the part of the women. " One must expect to be subject to the law Halliwells exception this " The were no to ) of compensation," he retorted. Perhaps it narrow rule of existence, and Dr. Jourdan, is as well that it interferes in our doings in being otherwise than themselves, came to be order to prevent us becoming cloyed with duly appreciated before many courses were the good things of life." " " served. Do you allude to the wife or the travel ? His breeziness and heart}' relish of life; asked Mr. Halliwell mischievously. his original views of men and things and " I can only speak from the latter point the out-of-the-ordinary experiences that had of view," and again there was laughter. been his, were in strong contrast to the blase The talk turned on the show places of demeanor and conversation of the majority" Europe, and Dr. Jourdan confessed that he of men that moved in the Halliwell sphere was not yet familiar with them. —and nobody noticed this more than Miss "You must have had a reason for neg- Halliwell. lecting them, I imagine?" Again itj was Dr. Jourdan, too, could talk about him- Miss Halliwell who spoke. self and his doings without letting you feel "Why, I have," admitted the doctor with that he was making an undue use of the a show of reluctance. " And I'm afraid first person singular—a gift .greatly to be that you'll think it a very stupid reason at desired. He was familiar with the section tjiat." of England that had been Mrs. Halliwell's " That is interesting. Mother, will you home, and he and she recalled some of the please persuade Dr. Jourdan to tell us why traditions that clung around the ancient he doesn't care for Bonn, or Monaco, or the " church of St. Katherines-o'-the-Wynd ; of Riviera, or Bournemouth ? the custom of " barring the bride " with As she asked the question, Dr. Jourdan ropes of flowers held across the road, which privately decided that her eyes never looked bars were not lowered until there was a lovelier than when lit with a spark of rail- scattering of flowers and small silver; of lery. the annual blessing of the apple-trees, and " He will tell us without persuasion, I am other legends. sure," came the modulated voice of Mrs. To Harold, he told a story or two of Halliwell. "Will you not, doctor?" cowboy life in Texas, for, once on a time, " If you wish me to, 1*11 do so; but you'll as he explained, he was bitten with the craze assuredly write me down a snob or a misan- for the rope and the bronco, and wore it trophe, I warn you, Mrs. Halliwell." out by a year or so of "punching." "And I shall follow mother's example," And when Miss Halliwell turned the con- added Mildred. versation on travel abroad, he, with a touch The doctor marveled all the more at the of diffidence, spoke of queer corners in the manner in which she had shed the hauteur Slav states; of a stay among the Bedouins that had enveloped her like a garment when in northern Arabia, and a marriage cere- he saw her for the first time. mony that he had witnessed in Morocco. "Well, then, it's because I don't like the " You have traveled extensively, and in people that one usually meets at these points. difficult places, Dr. Jourdan," said Miss For the most part, they seem to be there Halliwell, as he finished this last narration, simply because the place is fashionable. and the smile that accompanied the remark Their natural beauties seem to be absolutely was very friendly. The reserve that had at lost on this class of tourists. I may be first surrounded her gradually melted as the cranky, and possibly I am, but vacuous chat- " —" f 664 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. ter and insipid personalities spoil my en- her pretty mouth vouching for the humor joyment of an Alpine peak or the purple that she felt, "and so I am not going to and gold and carmine of a Mediterranean make any excuses for asking you whether Sunset." you are of English descent. Your pronun- Miss Halliwell looked at her mother with ciation of certain words suggests the ques- accusing eyes that sparkled over a smiling tion." mouth. " Yes, I was born in England." " It is you that are responsible for most "Now I understand why you are so fa- of our trips to these places," she said, " and miliar with affairs on the other side of which it is you must clear our skirts of the impu- the average traveler has no knowledge. By ' tation of belonging to ' the class of tourists the way, I remember—that is, I know jjf. a to whom Dr. Jourda-n so strongly objects." family of Jourdans in Leicester. One of " One moment, please," spoke up the doc- them, Sir Thomas Jourdan, a baronet by tor; "I only alluded to the people one usu- the way, was a famous physician. If my ally meets. Manifestly that does not in- memory serves me aright, he distinguished clude the members of this household." himself in the army." " " Adroit ! remarked Mildred. "He was practically the father of mili- " And truthful," retorted the physician. tary diet and hygiene as we now know it During this idle chatter Dr. Jourdan was that is, so far as the British army is con- not unmindful of the professional object of cerned." his visit. He observed Harold closely and Mrs. Halliwell turned, and appeared to the effect on the boy of the various phases be more interested. of the conversation. He took mental notes "Then you know of Sir Thomas, evi- " of his bearing, of his conversation, the way dently ? " she asked. that he responded to questions addressed to He was my grandfather, Mrs. Halli- him, and the type of questions that he ad- well," answered the doctor quietly. " " dressed to others. Bless me ! ejaculated the lady, startled While so doing, on more than one occa- out of the reserve of her class, while Mildred sion, he caught Miss Halliwell's eyes study- added, " This is highly interesting," and ing him, as it were, as if in an effort to Mr. Halliwell jocularly remarked that his establish an estimate of him. In such mo- wife would presently find that the doctor ments he had all his work cut out "to main- was a cousin many times removed. tain his equilibrium, personal and profes- " Sir Thomas had one son, I recollect. sional. He, of course, was your father? Toward the close of the dinner the doctor The doctor made a gesture of assent. felt that his object had been attained, so far " Your grandfather died the year after my as the lad was concerned. He had ob- marriage," continued the lady, " and then tained that glimpse into his temperamental and then— condition that would warrant the formu- "Our family affairs went wrong," said lating of the treatment. Nothing remained Dr. Jourdan bluntly, " and father decided now but to administer it. to come to America. Mother died about A sense of depression seized on him. The then, but left him free to follow his in- chances of future evenings like unto this clinations. He bought a ranch in the ^"est were over. In the future his intercourse and did fairly welL I inherited my inclina- with the family would be of a professional tion for medicine from my grandfather, and nature only. studied at intervals." " And how long have you been in prac- He paused and looked at Mr. Halliwell tise, doctor?" said Mrs. Halliwell. as if in appeal. Harold had left the room for the pur- The financier answered the look. pose of fetching some photographs from his " I don't think, dear," he said to his wife, den to show the guest. " that we have the right to ask Dr. Jourdan "Less than a year, madam; but I have for any more of his family history. We— studied medicine for a number of years in " I think, father, that Dr. Jourdan feels this country and abroad." that he is among friends who are not actu- " Since I have been the wife of Mr. Hal- ated by anytiiing but the kindliest of mo- liwell I have acquired a good deal of the tives in listening"~to what he has to tell us acquisitiveness that is charged against the about himself," said Mildred Halliwell American woman," she said, the curves of sweetly, and there was that in her eyes that — DR. JOURDAN'S MYSTERY. 665 made the young man's being thrill to its in- " Yet it does seem a pity that you allow a most fibers. title that has so many admirable associa- " Your father must miss you greatly," tions connected with it to lapse, as it were," ventured Mrs. Halliwell after a pause. objected Mrs. Halliwell. The doctor bit his lip and controlled himself with an effort. "I think not," he said in a low tone. CHAPTER VIII. " He died seven years ago. He was a good A Telegram Arrives. man who is doubtless tasting the happi- ness that awaits the good. There are no TV/TILDRED remained silent, and her fa- regrets or longings—there." tlier eyed Dr. Jourdan attentively. The emotion under which he labored was Both were thinking that the young doctor unmistakable. The eyes of Miss Halliwell was a person of an out-of-the-ordinary sort softened in a manner that was unusual to —and both liked him none the less for be- them. ing so. " I have to ask your pardon for touching " I am not so sure that I intend to do so," on a topic that is as painful to you as this he laughed. " If the time ever comes that must be," said Mrs. Halliwell presently, I feel that I have done something that war- " and I am sure you believe that you have rants the gratitude of the world, I will sig- all our good wishes for your future profes- nalize that time by budding out as a full- sional success." fledged baronet. Up to that period, how- There was a note in her voice that was ever, I shall remain a plain M.D." nob there previously. Dr. Jourdan did not " That's a happy resolve," declared Mr. let it escape him. It was as if the lady had Halliwell; "and, upon my word, doctor, I " put him on the plane of an equal. am with you ! " But—if I may ask—now that you have Mrs. Halliwell raised her finely penciled succeeded to the title, why do you not) use eyebrows in mute protest. it? I think it dates back some centuries, "Then for your own sake—and that of " does it not ? the title— I hope it will not be long before Mrs. Halliwell 's voice was persuasive I may address you as Sir William," she said almost pleading. Excellent woman though brightly. she was, it had flashed on her that it would "To which I add the hope that the re- be very pleasant for people to know that one covery of your son will prove the first step of the Halliwell family physicians was Sir in the direction of my success." William Jourdan. The doctor spoke with an earnestness that " It—the title—came into existence in the appealed to the mother's heart. time of the first James," replied the doctor. " Thank you," she said simply. From " It is one of the oldest baronetcies in Great that moment Dr. Jourdan had established Britain. As to my reason for not using it, himself in her regard. that is simple; Mrs. Halliwell. I am an Mrs. Halliwell gave the signal for rising. American citizen, in the first place; and I " You can go with your mother in the have a prejudice against a man making use drawing-room," said Mr. Halliwell to Ha- of a token of distinction that might have rold, who had returned in the meantime. been deserved by his ancestor, but to which " I want to speak to the doctor in the smo- he can lay no moral claim." king-room." " Then you don't believe in titles ? " The As the ladies retired, Halliwell led the question came pertly from Miss Halliwell. way to the apartment sacred to the goddess " In countries in which they are custom- of nicotin. ary they serve their purpose, I suppose. " Well ? " he said as he motioned the doc- In a republic such as this, I cannot under- tor to a chair and opened a cigar-cabinet. " stand the craving for them that exists in The condition of your son is much as I some quarters. I am merely voicing my expected. The formulation of the treatment own opinion, however. I have no doubt will, after to-night, be easy. It only re- but that those who yearn for titular epaulets mains to so administer it that it shall not can furnish good reason why they should be do violence to his temperamental peculiari- worn. But as a guarantee for the worth of ties. The lad is of a highly sensitive nature a man, why, I need not say that they are and will have to be carefully handled." often worse than useless." Mr. Halliwell nodded. GG6 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "When can you begin the treatment?" "Perfectly. And you need not fear that he asked. your son will not benefit by the outing." " In about ten days. I shall then have The men adjourned to the drawing-room. the serum ready, and have made arrange- As he entered, Dr. Jourdan had an intuition ments for the needed supply." that the ladies had been talking about him, "Then you have already taken steps to and that in a manner that was pleasant. that end?" Mr. Halliwell's tone expressed Being more free from egotism than the aver- his approving surprise. age young man, he felt gratified but not " Yes." inflated. " Good. And have you planned the meth- Harold was told of the proposed outing, ods that you are to use in connection with and was highly delighted. Arrangements the actual treatment?" were made, and the doctor told the boy one " In a way, yes. I propose—always pro- or two stories about crane roosts and fla- vided that you give your consent— to try and mingo islands in Louisiana, and there was make your son look upon me as a friend, in some general conversation. the first instance; and as a doctor, in the At length the evening ended. second. If he can be induced to place con- " Good night, Sir William." said Miss fidence in me in the former capacity, I have Halliwell with that liquid laugh of hers; " I little doubt but that he will in the latter. am anticipating, I know—but only for a lit- A suggestion from me at this point that I tle while, I hope." can cure him will free him from the nervous " I can almost forgive the title for the objections that he might offer if I ap- sake of the hope," replied the doctor. proached him as a medical man only and at So an evening ended that seemed fringed this juncture." with the hues of the rainbow. " I think the plan a capital one. But how Harold and the doctor went to the hunt- " are you to go about it? ing grounds two days later. For a week they "By asking him to share in some amuse- had a gorgeous time at the Hutchinson ment or occupation that will appeal to his quarters. There was scooting and hanging " taste. Does he use the gun ? around in the sneak-boats and behind " He did—some two or three years asm. "blinds" by day; skating on smooth ice by " But," he sighed, we have not thought it night—the moon being to the full—and well for him to mix in with our hunting tales by Amos, the guide, before the blazing friends of late." logs in the open fireplace of the bungalow. "An acquaintance of mine has a little These were tales of the times when whales place at Buzzards Bay. He has been try- were plentiful off Ammagansett and the ing to persuade me to run down and see him parts roundabout; of. marvelous flights of and the ducks, and bring somebodv along. ducks and geese; of ling and frost-fish, I think that his invitation is just the thing running ashore in such quantities that the in this connection." beaches for miles were deep in them. " "Will there be many in the party? Mr. Hutchinson came out of his shell of The meaning of the query was plain reserve to relate hunting adventures in the enough to the physician, and he hastened to Adirondacks and amid the swales and assure the other that the host, the guests, and sloughs of the Dakotas, and the doctor told the guide would be all that would pull of hunting gazelles with Arabs. trigger. Harold enjoyed himself hugely, and on Hutchinson—that's the name of my only one occasion gave way to his weakness, friend— is a cranky sort of old chap. He for the healthy outdoor life seemed to react is good as gold, but soured by false friends; for good on his mentality. so he hangs out all by himself during the Confidence in and regard for the phy- gunning season, and only flocks along with sician grew with the lad. Dr. Jourdan felt a few people whom he believes he can trust." this, and was exceeding glad in consequence. "And Harold will be welcome?" One day a telegram came from Phelan "Assuredly." worded thus: " I hope that your kindness will cause you " Good people get out to-morrow. What " no embarrassment," said the financier with about it ? The doctor knew that clever some hesitation. "You understand what I thieves were to be let loose. It behooved mean, doctor." him to act quickly, (To be c n t i n u e d . ) First Fight for a Railway. BY FELIX G. PRENTICE. THE ambitions efforts of the leading lawyers in the hearing before a com- mittee of the House of Commons in 1825 to prevent the construction of the Manchester-Liverpool railroad were only partly told in the first part of this article, published in our April number. This month the continuation _ of the cross-examination of George Stephenson is presented, showing other ludicrous stumbling-blocks that were put in the path of progress by the emi- nent attorneys who tried to prove that an engine " would slip backward while going up a grade and forward while going down! " that engines should be provided with covers to keep the steam from escaping! and that they would never supersede the horse as common carriers! Try to penetrate the mind of Mr. Stephenson in those days, harrassed and burdened by such opposition, knowing, as he did. that he was starting civ- ilization on a new era. But for his confidence in his work and his unshaken faith in humanity, the progress of railroading would have been materially retarded. They Didn't Want the Engine To Run Because It Might Frighten Horses, and Then the Passing Train Would Cut Off a View of the Valley. PART II. ^.V /jfR STEPHENSON was then Q. " There are some horses that will shy examined on a point that at anything; for that is what it comes to?" —seemed to have been con- A. "Yes. I can only say that there is a mm sidered of great impor- good deal of the mule in this particular tance, namely, the effect of horse." locomotives on horses. The Q. " Was it one of those horses that will following amusing dialogue took place: put its head into a hedge or a ditch if it " Q. "Are they formidable to horses?" meets anything? .4. "Yes. Something of A. "No more than a mail-coach. Not so that sort." much." Q. "It would shy at anything?" A. Q. " I suppose there are some horses "Yes; it would at a wheelbarrow." which will shy at a mail-coach?" A. "I Q. "-Joking apart, do you conceive that have seen the mare which this gentleman a well-broken horse would face one of the rode shy at a mail-coach." engTnes?" A. "It would. I have seen a Q. "Was it your own horse?" A. "It well-bred horse come close up to one." was." In answer to other questions, Mr. Stephen- " Q. I really thought it was a canal- son said that horses at plow in the fields horse.*' A. "A canal-gentleman rode it." took no notice of the engines; he had never 667 : 668 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINES heard the farmers complain, and the horses suddenly stop by a break upon the wheels, that he spoke of were neither blind nor deaf, which would disengage the weight behind but in full possession of their senses. instantly; so that, going at the rate of nine He considered it would be quite practi- miles an hour, everything would be safe on cable to build an engine that would haul a sudden stop. The wagons and engine thirty tons at the rate of eight miles an could be made to stop at the same instant. hour; and he had no doubt they might go This was done by means of a lever connected at the rate of twelve miles. with all the wagons and the engine^ The next witness examined was Mr. Momentum at Twelve Miles an Hour. Nicholas Wood, the manager of the Killing- worth Colliery, on the railroad of which the At this point the formidable Mr. Alder- experiments detailed by Mr. Rastrick were son rose and cross-examined Stephenson. made. The total length of the railroad was The cross-examination was long and tedious. 5 >4 miles. It had been laid down for about It was confined, at first, chiefly to the ques- twenty year?. It was designed originally tion of slipping, referred to in ^fr. Alder- to lie worked by horses; but, in 1814, loco- son's up. The chief part of the motive engines were first used. summing . examination with regard to speed was as The number of engines that had been follows employed on the road were four. They were Q. "What would be the momentum of all made by Mr. Stephenson, and were each a body of forty tons moving at the rate of of the power of eight horses. The number twelve miles an hour?" A. "It would be of wagons attached to each engine varied very great." from nine to twelve — each wagon taking Q. " Have vou seen a railroad that would fifty-three hundredweight of coals. stand that?" A, "Yes." A good, practical load for one of these Q. "Where?" .-1. "Any railroad that engines is ten loaded wagons, which, with would bear going four miles an hour; I the weight of the engine and tender, total a mean to say, that if it would bear the weight weight of forty-nine tons. An engine with at four miles an hour, it would bear it at four-foot wheels could travel with this load twelve." at the rate of six miles an hour, or a little " Q. Taking it at four miles an hour, do more occasionally. With three-foot wheels, you mean to say that it would not require it could make between four and five miles a stronger railway to carry the same weight an hour. twelve miles an hour?" A. "I will give an answer to that. Any man who has More Questions Regarding Speed. skated on ice knows that the faster he goes the better the ice will hold his weight. A rate of three miles an hour will, how- When a train travels quickly, the weight in ever, be sufficient for the purposes of the a measure ceases." coal work, the only use made of th« rail- Q. " Is not that U])on the hypothesis that road being to convey coals from the mine to the railroad is perfect?" A. "It is, and I the seashore. The greatest inclination in mean to make it perfect." the road was 1 in 330. The only accident Q. " I ask you whether if one rail were that happened to the engines was the giving to be out of its place a quarter or a half an way of the fire tube, by which one man was inch, whether that would not produce a com- scalded. plete negative to your proposition? Sup- Mr. Wood was then questioned: pose one of the rails were to slip aside?" Q. " Have you any doubt that a loco- .-1. "They cannot slip aside if they are motive could be made to take the weight of properly constructed." fort\ - tons, at the rate of six miles an hour, with perfect safety?" .4. "An engine may Load Would Not Overturn. go six miles an hour with forty tons—that is, including the weight of the carriages.*' * The committee then took up the exami- Q. " Have you any doubt that the power nation. In answer to their questions, Mr. of the engine might be so increased as to Stephenson said that if the engine were take that weight at any speed between six upset while going at the rate of nine miles and twelve miles an hour?" .4. "I think an hour with a heavy load behind, the load the power of the engine may be increased to would not be overturned. The engine might take that weight." " " FIRST FIGHT FOR A RAILWAY. 669 " Q. To what extent do you conceive the Qj—." Do you not know that if the snow is power of the engine could be increased to lying upon the ground, and the wind blow- take that weight of goods?" A. "I can ing transversely, the tunnel will fill ? scarcely state that to you. The power of A. "No; it must be a very long storm to the engine may be increased very greatly." fill it." " " Q. As much as double?" A. "I think Q. Would it not have a tendency to fill it might." it?" A. "That depends upon the state of Q. " If you had such an engine, in your the wind." opinion could it be made to go with perfect Q. " Suppose the wind to be transverse, safety twelve miles an hour, with relation and the snow lying upon the ground, what to the bursting of the boiler?" A. "Yes, I will there be to take the snow out when it think it might." has once filled the tunnel; it will then be Q. "At the rate you go at Killingworth, out of the wind? " A. " It will fall there." are the engines easily managed and easily Q. "And there it will accumulate?" stopped ? " A. " Very easily." A. "Yes." " Q. By what means is it to be taken " Cost of Construction. out?" A. You could not throw it out at the top very well; but / will throw it out at Q. " Is their pace easily slackened ? the two ends." A. "Yes." It was not till near the close of the Q. " Easily started again ? " A. "Yes." seventeenth day, after he had been more Q. " In short, they are easily manage- •than three days under examination, that able?" A. "They are." the questioning of George Stephenson was Q. "Do you think they could be made concluded. perfectly manageable to go at the rate of On the twentieth day, Mr. Harrison eight miles an hour?" A. "Yes; I con- opened the case on behalf of some land- ceive they might, at eight miles an hour." owners on the proposed line. His speech Mr. Stephenson, who had made an esti- was an elaborate and minute analysis of mate of the total cost of the construction, the evidence, in which he labored to show then submitted his estimate. He said that that the delays in the transit of goods from a bridge across the I r well River, one hun- Liverpool to Manchester were exceptional; dred feet, would cost $25,000, provided it that the railway company wanted a monop- had but one span. The counsel for the op- oly more stringent than that possessed by position objected most strenuously to such the canals; that the experiments with loco- a bridge, claiming that it would probably motive engines had not been fairly made; stop up the river. The counsel also seemed and that the scheme of the railroad was to entertain the idea that, in a snow-storm, crude, imperfect, and unsatisfactory. Of a tunnel would fill up, and Mr. Stephenson Mr. Stephenson he said : was questioned on the subject: Q. " What sort of effect would snow have Didn't Understand Stephenson. upon the tunnel at the entrance? " A. " Part " of it would get in, but it would depend in I declare solemnly, after I read his a great measure on the wind." evidence through, I could not understand- Q. " But would it not fall into this great it. He speaks of an embankment in one tube?" A. "If the wind blew longitudi- place, and of a level in another, and a nally, it would get the same quantity of cutting in a third. I will prove that it is snow in that part as would fall on the ad- impossible to lay the railroad across here, joining ground ; but if it blew a gale at unless he raises it nineteen feet above the right angles, it might then drift in more level which he has contemplated, unless he than the adjoining ground." carries it up to the top of those intersecting Q. "Did you ever go up Dunstable roads. Hill?" A. "Yes; I did." " If he' does not, in every flood that Q. "In the year 1814, the time of the comes into the Irwell River, this railroad, great snow?" A. "Yes." for one mile, will be very often six feet Q. "Supposing that to be the case?" under water. He must raise it to the A. " I could not calculate more than once height I have stated. Therefore, up to this in twenty years that such an effect would be moment in what situation do I stand? produced." " I am not enabled to say what this en- ! : : f 670 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. gineer means to do, and I cannot point out engine with wheels four feet in diameter, the injury that may be done, except that because, in an experiment or two, they may our engineers say there must be a great have been driven at the rate of six, that embankment, which must cover a large that is the average rate at which they can quantity of land, and which will interrupt carry goods upon a railroad for the pur- the communications between the different poses of commerce, for that is the point parts of the property, and cut off the road to which the committee ought to direct from Liverpool to Manchester. their attention, and to which the evidence " I am met here by the intervention of is to be applied. the section, which gives no information to " It is quite idle to suppose that an ex- any person, and I am only to be let into periment made to ascertain the speed, when such parts of the case as the engineer will the power is worked up to the greatest ex- explain, which are very few. tent, can afford a fair criterion of what " principles Unless, therefore, all the an . engine will do in all conditions of which the British legislators act upon are weather. lost sight of, this committee, I am con- vinced, will see that it cannot act on the Engine Couldn't Stand Damp Weather. evidence of this man; for he has not made up his mind how he shall carry into execu- "In the first place, locomotive engines tion a great part of this project." are liable to be affected by the weather. With regard to the powers of the loco- You are told that they are affected by rain, motive engine, he expressed himself thusly and an attempt has been made to cover "When we set out with the original them; but the wind will affect them, and prospectus, we were to gallop, I know not any gale of wind which would affect die at what rate; I believe it was at the rate traffic on the Mersey River, would render of twelve miles an hour. My learned it impossible to set off a locomotive engine, friend Mr. Adam contemplated, possibly either by poking the fire or keeping up the in alluding to Ireland, that some of the pressure of ?team till the boiler is ready Irish members would arrive in the wagons to burst. to a division. "A scientific person happened to see a " My learned friend says that they would locomotive coming down an inclined plane go at the rate of twelve miles an hour, with a tolerable weight behind it, and he with the aid of the devil, in the form of a found that the strokes were reduced from 1 locomotive, sitting as postilion upon the fifty to twelve as soon as the wind acted forehorse, and an honorable member, whom upon it. Therefore, every gale that would I do not now see here, sitting behind him produce an interruption to the intercourse to stir up the fire, and to keep it up at full of the canals would prevent the progress of speed a locomotive engine, so that they have no advantage in that respect." Can't Keep Up with Canal. On the twenty-first and twenty-second days, witnesses were examined as to the " But the speed at which those locomo- effect the railroad would have on the prop- tive engines are to e*o has slackened. Mr. erty of the landowners. One of these wit- Adam does not go faster now than five nesses had never seen a locomotive engine. miles an hour. The learned sergeant says Engineers were then called to prove that he should like to have seven, but he would Mr. Stephenson was all wrong. One of be content to go six. these, Mr. Giles, said, speaking of Chat "I will show that he cannot go six; Moss and, probably, for practical purposes, I may be able to show that I can keep up Would Go to the Bottom. with him by the canal. "Now, the real evidence to which alone "In my, judgment, a railroad of this you can pay attention shows that practi- description certainly cannot be safely made cally, for useful purposes, and to keep up over Chat Moss without going to the bot- the rate of speed continually, the)- may go tom of the Moss. It will be necessary, at something more than four miles an therefore, in making a railroad which is to hour. stand to excavate along the entire line of " In one of the collieries there is a small road through the Moss down to thirty-three FIRST FIGHT FOR A RAILWAY. 671 or thirty-four feet, and afterward to fill it what way the thing is to be carried into up to a height level with the banks of effect. the Moss. " In the first place, Stephenson answered " If Mr. Stephenson be right in placing me very curtly the first day. ' I shall cut the level of the railroad fifteen feet below my moss at forty-five degrees; it will stand the Moss, the ywould not only have to at that very well.' Be it so. I am content cut out thirty-four, but to build up the witli the answer. ' Of course,' I said, ' you other fifteen feet; and, unless that were will drain your road on each side ? ' 'I done, I do not think that a railroad would shall make ditches.' 1 How wide are they 1 ' ' ' stand. . ^ to be? Six feet.' How deep? 'Oh, "My estimate for the whole cutting they are to be five feet deep, or four feet and embanking over Chat Moss is nearly deep.' £270,000. " Now, I am sure the committee are well "No engineer in his senses would go aware that a ditch, if ever it is to come through Chat Moss if he wanted to make to a point at the bottom, and is to be five a railroad from Liverpool to Manchester." feet deep, cut an angle of forty-five degrees This witness estimated the cost of the on each side, must be ten feet wide at the line proposed by Mr. Stephenson at a mil- top. lion and a half. He was the projector of " What do you think of the ignorance of a new canal between Liverpool and Man- this gentleman, who chooses to have an im- chester, of which he said: possible ditch, which he wants to cut by " The description of boat which the the side of an impossible railway? Did canal would accommodate would be a you ever hear such ignorance? small, active, running boat—a pretty little "Whatever credit you might have been running fly - boat, that would run about disposed to give Mr. Stephenson before, it four or five miles an hour. It will per- is plainly shown now how utterly and to- form the trip in a much less time than a tally devoid he is of common sense ; for train, as I can make my canal thirty-five every one who knows that two and two or thirty-six miles from Liverpool to Man- make four would have known that that was chester without obstruction of tideway. an impossible ditch. " The small boats would be able to travel their distance in nine or twelve His Foolish Schemes. hours. I suppose we should want a mil- lion of money; but I will not finally esti- " But he does not stop there. When we mate it until I have carefully tried the come to inquire how Knowsley Moss is to foundation of the Mersey." be got over, he stated first that he was to Another witness, Mr, Palmer, went into have a channel for the brooks. I suggested an elaborate statement, founded on many to him that there were two brooks which experiments, to show the advantage of rail- run across the deep cutting of eighty feet, roads and canals. He claimed that at a and I wanted to know how he was to get speed of four miles and a quarter, or un- them from one side to the other. der, the advantage was in favor of canals; " He never had thought of them. He above that, the advantage was on the side said, in the first instance, he would make of the railroad. a channel by the side of the railway. How was the channel to be made? ' I do not " " ' The Ignorance of Stephenson. know.' How long will it be? Would it not be a mile? ' (which of course would On the twenty-sixth day, Mr. Alderson increase the expense). " ' made a long speech in summing up. Of ' No,' says he, I do not think a mile.' Mr. Stephenson he said: But suspecting he might be wrong there, " ' I say he never had a plan ! I believe he said, Then I will make a tunnel.' he never had one! I do not believe he is " I cannot bind him to any one point. capable of making one! His is a mind This is the gentleman who is called to perpetually fluctuating between opposite prove the estimate and the plan. He can- difficulties. He neither knows whether he not prove it. He makes schemes without is to make bridges over roads or rivers, or seeing the difficulties, and when the diffi- of one size or another; or to make embank- culties are pointed out, then he starts other ments, cuttings, or inclined planes; or in schemes which are exposed to ridicule. 672 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " Having said that he was to make a he, ' have embankments, however high the tunnel, he is asked how long that tunnel bridge may be.' ' How, then, will you get is to be; and he cannot tell whether it is over it? ' 'I will make two inclined planes, one thousand yards or one hundred. If he and the wagons will be wound up by a sort had not known whether it should be one of crank.' hundred or one hundred and fifty yards, " I asked him this question, ' Will vou I should not have said anything about it; stick to that plan ? ' In a rash hour he said, but how great is his variance, and this 1 I will.' through a moss where there is to lie a cut- " He was contented to stick to that plan. it " ting eighty feet deep ! He admits is Twenty-four hours had not elapsed be- material, in order to make a runnel, to fore he went back on it; for when "I was know the strata. going to ask him the question the next day "Now, let us see what happens next. with another object, an honorable member He says he has made no borings to ascer- interposed, and said. ' You asked him that tain the strata, and, therefore, by his own question before,! and, almost before the rule, he cannot make an estimate. His words were out of his mouth, it popped out own evidence is that he cannot make one. that he had discovered that embankments might be made. He Could Not Estimate. " Mr. Stephenson has given no direct evi- dence, nothing to which he will bind him- "Then the committee is to say, I sup- self, nothing to which he will stick; and yet 1 pose, Oh, it is not material there should it is upon his evidence that you are called be an estimate; we will make one for our- upon to pass this bill." selves; and though this gentleman, on The lawyer then entered into an argu- whom we are to rely, cannot make any esti- ment to show that a solid railway only was mate, we do not care. We will pass the bill practical through Chat Moss, and that many —estimate or no estimate, plan or no plan, of Mr. Stephenson's calculations were en- right or wrong, the bill shall pass.' tirely wrong. "My learned friends will not avow this, " I think you must come to the conclusion but the facts of the case avow it. Having that the advantages of the railroad are ex- got rid of that, Mr. Stephenson next says: tremely doubtful and problematical," he ' I will not make it a thousand yards long: said; "and if we are so circumstanced, I I will make it part tunnel and part open.' say that you will and ought to entitle me to "That is the third scheme. Then he your consideration. says: 'I will not cut or make any tunnel, 9 " but we will make inclined planes. We now Despotism " of the Liverpool Exchange. have not fewer than four or five different schemes to cross one moss! Here are five " If you must have a mere convenience schemes, from which he is successively for carrying cotton at the rate of twelve driven. What, then, are you going to miles an hour, which now goes at the rate vote for? of three, then I protest against the despot- " Mr. Stephenson has produced five ism of the Liverpool Exchange striding schemes, all resulting in one estimate; for, across the land of this country. I protest whether they are cuts, or channels, or tun- against a measure like this, supported by nels, or planes, there is the same sum of such evidence and founded upon such cal- £26,000 on which he retreats. If he had to culations." cut several million more yards, he has still Mr. Parke then opened the case of Charles the £26,000 to retreat upon. Orrell and Sir William Gerrard against the "That will be all expended long before bill. A summary of his address shows the he gets to Chat Moss; but. even supposing nature of the early opposition of land-own- he struggles through with this £26,000 about ers to railroads. his neck, what is to become of Knowsley "Mr. Orrell, a gentleman of respectable Moss, whether it is to have cutting or tun- family and considerable property, complains nel, or a part cutting and part tunnel, or of the intended railway as injurious both to inclined planes, no person knows to this very his estate and residence. Sir William Ger- day, including Mr. Stephenson himself. rard, the heir of a very ancient family in "Again, the first day he chose to have Lancashire, complains of the railways, not planes at Irwell Bridge. ' I will not,' says as affecting his residence, but as affecting FIRST FIGHT FOR A RAILWAY. 673 his estate, upon which there are valuable him from working. The railroad company collieries. are only to pay for the surface of the "When the grievances of which his clients ground, and the proprietor of the colliery complain are enumerated, in addition to is to receive no compensation for the value those which have been pointed out in the of the coal which he will be obliged to leave other land-owners' cases, the committee can- under the railroad. not pass the bill. "Mr. Orrell's and Sir William Gerrard's "It is a principle invariably adhered to coal properties lie near the surface, and it by Parliament, that private property is not will be necessary to leave a barrier to the to be invaded unless there be urgent public extent of forty yards on each side of the necessity. Mr. Orrell is the lord of the ma- railroad, beside that which is immediately nor of Parr, and he and his ancestors have under the railroad. " resided in their mansion upward of a cen- But that is not all. It is proposed that tury. Considerable sums have been spent in Mr. Orrell and Sir William Gerrard shall improving the property, with a view to Mr. not be permitted to construct any additional Orrell's continued residence there, if the drifts or cuts or other works under the rail- railway is not constructed. road, in consequence of which the commu- nication between the different parts of their " " Injury to His Residence. respective collieries will be entirely inter- rupted, and the consequence will be of great "The proposed railroad will pass within inconvenience and loss." two hundred and fifty yards of the mansion, and subject it to the nuisance arising from Opposing the Locomotive. the constant passage of noisy and smoky engines. By a clause in the bill, it may be On the twenty-ninth day the case of the brought to within one hundred and fifty trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater was yards of the front of the house. Can any- opened by Mr. MacDonnell, and a number thing compensate a gentleman for such an of witnesses were subsequently called to injur)' to his residence and estate, which support it. The cases of the proprietors of have long been in the possession of the the Irwell and Mersey Navigation and of family ? the Leeds and Liverpool Canal concluded "Mr. Stephenson's plans are so inaccu- the opposition to the bill. rate that the precise extent of the injur)' to The leading features of the opposition of this property cannot be ascertained; neither the three parties who collectively represent- the height of the embankments nor the depth ed the canal interest will be best gathered of the cuttings can be known. from the speech of Mr. Harrison, who " In some parts of Mr. Orrell's estate there summed up the case in their favor. will be embankments of the height of eight- " I now come to comment upon the loco- een feet above the surface of the ground. motive engines. I entreat the committee to Across the valley through which the Sankey recollect how this project has arisen. I will River runs there will be an embankment ask every honorable member whether any fifty feet high, which -will entirely destroy human being would have thought of setting Mr. Orrell's vice of the valley beyond the up a railway between Liverpool and Man- line of the proposed railroad. chester if that railway were to be conducted " In the case of the Tees and Weardale by horses? Railway the bill was lost because the line " I say it never entered into the imagi- of railway passed at the distance of half a nation of any one ; but, amid all this ma- mile from a gentleman's residence, while in nia that has possessed us— for we have been the present case it is proposed to bring the running mad after projects and schemes of railroad within two hundred and fifty yards all sorts and descriptions—locomotive en- of the petitioner's residence. gines have been patronized and supported by some people for the purposes of showing The Coal Under the Tracks. their ingenuity in writing essays and pam- phlets, and by others for the purpose of ber " There are also other injuries of which ing employed as engineers or otherwise. the petitioners complain. Mr. Orrell is the " To make the thing popular, not only do proprietor of valuable coal-mines which the certain ingenious gentlemen write pam- provisions of the bill will entirely prevent phlets, but some have written books. And 7 R R ! ! 674 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. we have not only books and pamphlets and " Is Lancashire a county free from rain ? essays without number, but we have beau- Have you no mizzling weather, no snow tiful pictorial exhibitions of locomotive en- there? I should rather suspect—and I do gines at full work, one of which is now ly- not mean to calumniate the county of Lan- ing before me. caster—that it is a county which has as "One ingenious gentleman has a beau- much rain as any other county on that side tiful impression of a locomotive engine, of England. with carriages and guards standing behind "Unless they can rarefy the atmosphere them, giving a description of seven or eight as quickly as the locomotive engines go stage-coaches, with trumpeters and guards along, the locomotive engine will have so and all the paraphernalia, galloping on at a many inconveniences to contend with that rate of several miles an hour. it will come down to the speed of a com- "Whether such speed ever will be made, mon horse. I do not know; but I think, when I come to comment upon that part of the case, many Water Tracks To Prove Moisture Effect. persons who have thought these prints very beautiful things will be sick of the experi- "Now, I ask, would any person step for- ment. ward to support this measure if the goods " The project of this railway was entire- were to be drawn by horses? But not con- ly founded upon the locomotive engines; it tent with goods, they are to take passengers was set on foot with a view to the expedi- Now, set them off with horses before them; tion which would be derived from the use set the proprietors of the railway traveling of them. All the pamphlets published on their own road from Liverpool to Man- about it give us twelve miles an hour as chester, in wagons, at the rate of four miles the rate at which they were to go. and a half per hour; it is impossible to state it without presenting something ludicrous to Fast as Mail-Coaches. the mind! " The committee will recollect that we " You were to gallop from Liverpool to had two or three witnesses to speak for the Manchester at the rate at which the mail- locomotive engines. We had Mr. Rastrick, coaches have tried to go but never accom- a man very scientific, experimental, and plished. well grounded in all the subjects on which "This expedition was to produce such he spoke, but he told you that he had never consequences with reference to the trade of seen a locomotive engine in practise; and I the two places as almost to unite them in showed that in that very experiment he one, so quick would be the change of the ought to have gone further than he did, in bags of cotton and other articles. All this, order to have ascertained the effect which in the natural order of things, produced rain might have produced! subscribers; it gave rise to all sorts of ca- " For instance, he might have watered the lumnious and untrue assertions, in pam- railroad to see what effect moisture would phlets and publications without end, against have had. If Mr. Rastrick had tried the the existing establishments. experiment as a man of science, I have not " I have a right to state— for no attempt the least doubt but that he must have ar- has been made to prove them — that the rived at a conclusion that locomotive engines alleged facts are utterly false; that the per- are utterly useless for the purpose my sonalities, which are of the worst descrip- learned friends wish you to believe they are. tion, have no foundation but in the mis- " But Mr. Rastrick knew that if this bill representations of self-interested parties'^ succeeded he would make engines for a line " All these promises of locomotives run- of railroad of not less than fort)'- four miles; ning at the impossible speed of twelve and by the time the railroads were in run- miles an hour will be surely blasted. You ning order the poor, gulled subscribers will find that six will be the limit. would have found that they had lost all their " Yesterday and to-day we find, in the money, instead, as they hoped, of putting a best weather and under the most favorable good deal into their pockets. Instead of circumstances, the expedition is diminished locomotive engines, they must have recourse to four or five; and whenever you come to to horses or asses — not meaning to say rain or mizzling weather or dampness, it is which reduced to two and three miles an hour. " Mr. Rastrick never attended to more — FIRST FIGHT FOR A RAILWAY. 675 than one experiment of any consequence. "To be sure, there was an engine with a Then he found that there was a considerable small weight that went at a greater rate, but difference in the strokes of the piston. Was that was not the ordinary rate, and that was he not bound to investigate from what cause the one on which they made the experiment. " it arose, and to see what effect was produced, Then, sir, what is the situation in which by a careful examination of all circum- we stand? I show that locomotive engines stances which could produce any effect upon cannot move at more than four and a quar- the engine ? ter miles an hour, at which you are reduced " If a man mean to arrive at a true con- to horse-power, and below that the canal has clusion, every circumstance affecting the the advantage; therefore, the instant they power of the engine should have been made lose the power of going above four and a the subject of careful investigation. What quarter miles an hour, which I have taken the effect is, you have heard from himself; from them, that instant the advantage is in after he tried the experiment and saw the favor of the canal. result, he never tried it again. " Instead of their having an advantage in "He felt that he had got into difficulty; bringing' forward the railroad, the power he satisfies himself, therefore, with putting stands with us. Their scheme is based on half a dozen people in the wagon, then start- deception and fallacy. They are fighting ing the engine. He finds that it goes at a for no public improvement whatever. It is certain rate. He wishes to lead you to the impossible, after the evidence which has conclusion that an average speed of five or been gone through, that my learned friends six miles an hour is to be obtained by these can ask of the committee to give their sanc- engines, so as to make them available as a tion to this bill." means of conveyance. The wrangling of the lawyers lasted for "I said.before, and I repeat it again, that thirty-eight days. Finally, notwithstanding any practical result which will enable you the opposition that became more ludicrous to arrive at a conclusion is worth all the as the days wore on, Parliament empow- reasoning and all the experiments of any ered the company " to make a railway from man, however scientific he may be. Liverpool to Manchester." "Scientific calculations are necessarily How childish and puerile the obstacles mixed up with so many uncertainties as to that were raised to prevent the building of render it impossible for any man to say that this road seem in the advanced and enlight- you can positively arrive at a conclusion; ened atmosphere of to-day! What would but you cannot be deceived when, after sev- such men say were they to return to earth eral years' service, those engines can never and Witness the outcome of the genius of exceed four miles and a half an hour. George Stephenson and Richard Trevithick? SOLID STEEL WHEELS. ' I TIE steel wheel is as logical a successor to the The absolute necessity of finding a wheel for m. cast-iron wheel as steel rails and ties are freight service with the strength and wearing to the old iron and wooden construction. The qualities of a steel-tired wheel, but at the same heavy loads which freight-cars are now built to time less expensive is, therefore, the real reason carry, demand a substitute for cast-iron wheels, for the existence of solid steel wheels to-day. and as this is distinctly a steel age, the natural Now that the solid wheel is here, it is gaining thing to do was to look to this material, which a place not only" under freight-cars, but in all possesses all the necessary attributes to meet the exacting classes of service. The only possible situation. That there is a limit to the utility objection to the substitution of the steel wheel of cast-iron wheels was the realization which for cast-iron in freight service is its initial cost, came with the more powerful locomotives, and which is perhaps three to five times that of a consequently, heavier tenders which became neces- cast-iron wheel, but in these modern days of sary to haul the gradually increasing train loads. exact accounting and careful investigation of costs The demand for a stronger wheel was first met over a sufficiently long period to demonstrate in this class of service by the steel-tired wheel, ultimate value, even this objection is sure to be and as the demands upon wheels in other classes either altogether removed or very greatly dis- of service have increased, the field of the steel- counted. Furthermore, in weighing the cost of tired wheel has broadened until it is now com- cast-iron wheels against that of steel wheels, the mon under passenger-train cars as well. It has item of loss resulting from wrecks due to broken never become common, however, under freight- flanges should not be lost. American Engineer equipment on account of its lextremely high cost. and Railroad Journal. « A Schoolboy's Descrip- tion of an Engine. N ingin is a great iron monster sumthin like er auto cause it don't need no horses to pull it. Ingins is made of iron and wood but durn little wood only the cab where the fellers sit and swap lies. I gess. Ingins all have great big iron wheels. I don't know how they would run if they didn't have em. Ingins run on a track same as a street car does. They has a tender I gess you calls it where they carries their water and coal. The coal is to make a big smoke with, and the water to put the durn thing out if it should catch on fire. There is allers to fellers in an ingin. one to look out of the winder and the other to blow the whistle. A ingin sometimes runs of the track and kills a lot of people, thats when the feller forgets to look out of the winder. Ingins get their names from the Ingins~"what lives out on the plains cause they both kin run so fast and fur. I would rather be a man wot runs an ingin than presdient of Washington. 676 HONK AND HORACE. BY EMMET F. HARTE. Their Return to Valhalla in the Hills Is Attended by Shooting Irons and a Band. HE " Powers " required at least for a raise instead of resigning, and let them two weeks' notice before they'd fire me. consent to my throwing up that I suggested that they get some good whit- famous lazy man's job at the tler to whittle out a wooden figure which Wakiekewa station. They said they could set up inside the depot window it would take that much time to act as station-agent should my quitting to rearrange the men along the line,/after demoralize the service. selecting my distinguished successor. I had A dummy no doubt could have transact- no idea my resignation was going to upset ed all the business at Wakiekewa very read- t^ie whole system like that, or I'd have asked ily—but when the div supe himself wired and wanted me to explain the plan more fully by letter, of course I gave up in despair. There wasn't any particidar reason why " BEAT IT BEFORE I Honk should stick around those two weeks, CLIMB UP AND though. I told him to pike on ahead and BUMP THE BUMPS " take charge at Valhalla, leaving me to fol- WITH VOU ! low him as soon as I could. But he abso- lutely refused to go without my sturdy form plodding by his side. '"We'll make our triumphal entry side by each," he proclaimed. "It was all right Serif, began In the November, 1908. Railroad Man's Magazine. Single cooics. 10 centi. 677 678 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. tp leave 'em, sort of on the instalment plan, upon turning our home-coming into a by degrees; but when we go back, my boy, comic opera, we migh^ fix up and give a we want to go in state. parade, Monday, at 10 a.m. sharp, along " We ought to haVe our new car and de- Eden Boulevard, in Fiji costume, beating scend on the town with an eye to the dra- tom-toms and singing ' Just Because She matic cffectj, with a fanfare of trumpets and Made Them Goo-Goo Eves.' That ought the flutter of flags. to thrill em." " It'll take about two weeks at the shops Saturday noon a malarial-looking person for them to get tjhe new medicine-house in alighted from the local and introduced him- shape. Then, Horace — ah, say! We'll self as the " new incumbent " of Wakickewa have 'em resurrecting that old ' Back from station. He said he'd been down in the Elba ' joke." swamps for a year or two, and that the cli- Wfnle we were waiting those two weeks, mate hadn't agreed with his wife, or he and Honk amused himself by sending messages his wife hadn't agreed about the climate, or to our friend Willie, the president of the something; anyhow, the company had gra- Transcontinental, and packing and un- ciously permitted him to transfer his agree- packing his seven or eight trunks and cases ments and disagreements to a more agree- of gimcracks. If I am not mistaken, it was able sphere. during this period that he conceived the He said his wife had gone to her ma's to idea of the electric gun that afterward stay until the baby cut his other two front brought us_ fame—and gray hairs. "teeth, and he then wondered if house rent Our old side - partner, Willie, kept in was very high in Wakickewa. touch with us, all right. Hardly a day Honk and I paid a glowing tribute to the dragged by that he didn't wire to ask for town. We assured our new friend—his news. Had my man showed up? Were we name was Ray Tucker—that Wakickewa all ready to take hold at Valhalla? Would was justj about the liveliest, most hospitable, we rather have such-and-such make of pho- and satisfying small place we'd ever been nograph ? Would five hundred of the latest con—er—permitted to abide in. records be acceptable for the same? We insured him a pleasant and profitable W illie's debt of gratitude to us for mend- sojourn in the place, made him a present of ing up a hole in his leg and feeding him our furnished flat, with all the privileges a iittle cheap chicken broth seemed all out and luxurious appointments thereunto per- of proportion—still, we couldn't very well taining—cook-stove, skillet, pie-pans, and discourage the man, seeing that we were the all—and then we bade him bon jour and objects of his beneficence. many happy returns, and caught the first One day, near the expiration of my fort- train we could inveigle into stopping. night's penance at Wakickewa, word came It was a freight, but that didn't mat- from Willie that the medicine-house had ter; most of Honk's baggage was freight, been finished up and forwarded to Val- anyway. halla to await us there. At the first station of sufficient impor- " Can you report without fail, Monday tance to afford passenger-train facilities we a.m.?" he wired. "Will arrange, as per piled off and waited for the flier. If we reply. Answer quick." hadn't I firmly believe we'd still be en route. I decided to chance it and wafted him the for thati freight we started on wasn't due in word that we'd be on hand if trains were K. C. till April 19, and it was three weeks running, although my relief hadn't hove in late when we left it, on March 30. sight. Honk grumbled a little because Skipping lightly over the hallos and hand- they'd sent the car on ahead of us. shakes along the line of the P. and P., when "That spoils the triumphal entry," he from t|ime to time we ran afoul of old cronies said. "Takes away fifty per cent of the like Fuzz Watts and Willard Sawyer and pomp and pageantry. It's like a circus others, Sunday evening at sundown found sending empty chariots and gilded cages us, travel-fagged and dusty, filled with the into a town a week in advance of the parade. fervor of youth and expectant—safe and It everlastingly upsets the psychological sound at Millardsville, with Valhalla moment and denudes the goddess Drama of twenty miles away. all her trappings." It so happened that we had a choice of- " I didn't know there was a goddess by fered us. We could stay all night in Mil- that name," I said; "but if you're dead set lardsville and go over to Valhalla on the " — " HONK' AND HORACE. 679 red motor-car in the morning which would put us at our goal at the rather late hour of nine- thirty— or we could ride the " jerk-water," a mixture of milk- cans, chicken-coops, and way- freight, which ambled over as soon as they got loaded that night, and was supposed to make the run in time to start back the next day. I would have preferred walking to the latter alternative, and sleep- ing in the Hotel Metropole in Millardsville to either, but Honk must needs take that freight-train or burn out a fuse. " We couldn't rest this close to the old town," he said. "We'll go on in to-night and see her couchant on the plain, spangled with the glitter from her thousands of street-arcs, resplendent with electric signs, and teeming with life! A city at night is a splendid sight — eh, Horace, don't you think?" " The darkness hides many a defect," I admitted. "But if we go on this train, everybody'll be gone tp bed before we get there. What about our triumphal— "Never mind," he said. "Perhaps the better way will be to enter quietly and take up the thread of progress where we dropped it, without ostentation or ado. 1 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, and "all that '— When he got that far I scampered up the ladder of the nearest box car and left him. Whenever Honk begins to elocute I take to the woods. MAHOGANY, AND AXMINSTER, AND RED miles Honk's baggage being many away, LEATHER CHAIRS " and as all the luggage we carried between us consis^d of a package of clean collars "Fall off'n that car, youse!" said the I'd received from a laundry in Sapulpa just con arbitrarily. "W'at you think this is? before we started, our exodus from Mil- A scenic route? Beat it before I climb up lardsville was not attended by any uproar, " and bump the bumps with you ! or clangor of baggage-vans, or bustle of "Take it easy, Jason," said Honk. porters. " Your feet are too big for climbing—you'd The train-crew spied us on top of the box make a better diver. How soon do we " car just before they got, the last crate and start ? barrel loaded. The brakeys broke into equine laughter The conductor instituted the inquiries at thatj point, and our big-footed friend and little informalities of a conversational scrambled up to where we were with blood nature usually indulged in when a couple in his eye. Honk calmly passed over the of stranded floaters are found aboard, while final tag-end of our trip-ticket. The con's the brakemen looked on with apparent en- lamp-globe was almost too dirty to read by joyment. All of them were strangers to —but the ticket served. Honk and me—they had come with the new " Better come in the way-car, men," he regime, no doubt. said. "Plenty of room to stretch out and — 680 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. smoke; and we'll have a game of pedro Honk seemed somewhat taken aback, so goin' over if you want to. We'll be pullin' I entered the breach. out in a minute or two." " Allow me," I said graciously. " I am We thanked him, and said we'd be glad the Bey of Beloochistan. My friend Ho- to play a few hands. Presently the engine henzollern and I would like to hold con- toot-tooted, and we were off. verse with the main squeeze." It was a fine, unostentatious, little ride. "Nothing doing," said the other. "You The hind brakeman and die conductor beat might find him_in the morning if you'd Honk and me four straight games of pedro happen around. He gets down about nine- during the first ten miles. Everybody being thirty if he's feeling well. But, say, 'twon't satisfied, the game broke up and Honk and do you no good to strike him for a job, for I ascended tojh.e cupola to watch for the he's leaving this dump to-morrow." first glimpse of Valhalla, nestjling in the "Ahem!" Honk remarked. But the shadow of the Mystic Hills. We thought youth was warming to his work. we ought to be able to see the lights when " Ye'eh," he continued. " A couple of the we rounded a certain curve. president's pets are taking charge. A guy- " I can't see a solitary glimmer," said named Simmons, or something, and I dunno - Honk, peering carefully. " I guess tjhe rum- the other'n's name. They'll find their work mies have quit lighting up the towers. That cut out for 'em, all right. one out by the reservoir had twelve big "His nibs has let everything go to the arcs on it. If it was burning, we surely blink. Fired the power - house boss last could see it from here." week, and there ain't been any lights in " Maybe it's foggy over there," I said. town since. Valhalla's going down even' " April is a foggy time of year; or they may day. She's- on the decline." be hiding their lights under bushel-baskets, I was just beginning to get interested in or something, for the sake of economy." the fellow's breezy style, when Honk ap- Honk occupied the rest of the journey by parently nailed an idea and hastily pushed confiding to me what we were going to do me out the door ahead of him. to resuscitate the town during the next fiscal " Here's where we get a move on us," he year. Shortly after ten o'clock we hit the said when he had led me a few paces along yards, and, with the help of the conductor's the platform. " If we can find Butch Po- lantern, which he kindly loaned us, groped teet, we'll go out, start die power-plant, and ' our way through the inky darkness to the light up things. Huh ! The town's going depot. down ' every day, is it ? ' She's on the de- A smoking oil-lamp in the station office cline,'' is she? We'll see about that^ We'll was all the illumination visible. The city show 'em how quick she'll revive when the was plunged in gloom. We opened the wait- right doctor prescribes! Hallo! By hoky! " ing-room door and peered in. The medicine-house ! A shadowy figure was sitting at tjhe table It was. We had stumbled on our fine inside the sanctum ticketorium. We bold- new coach, sitting dark and deserted on the ly entered, and Honk secured the man'? at- siding behind the freight-room. She was tention by rattjling the lattice. a glossy, brass-railed beautjy, and no mis- " " What's the matter with your lights ? take. he queried sternly. We shinned up on the awning-covered The young man at the table tpok his time portico and tried the door. It was locked, about replying. I admired his impressive of course. Then I peeked through the big, and trenchant style, his learned and concise bevel-plate window while Honk held the summing up of the matter, when he did re- lantern. ply. It was a very sweeping and compre- "Mahogany," I murmured in awe, "and hensive statemen^of the facts in the case axminster, and red leather chairs—" - in two words. My rhapsody was rudely interrupted. " " " They're out," he said briefly. Hey, there ! came the voice of the sta- "Are you the 'works' at this place?" tion understudy from die open office win- Honk asked with a fine sarcasm that was dow. " You bums chase yourselves away wasted. from that car. I'll get a cop down here in "Naw, I'm the Sultan of Siam." re- five minutes and have you pinched. Hike " " turned the voice from the blur. Anything out of here ! else you want to know?" The lantern sputtered and went out at the HONK AND HORACE. 681 same instant. Chastened and subdued, we Honk's idea was but little better. The ex- hopped hastily down, and, without a word, act spot by his reckoning, when found, was stumbled away in the darkness toward town. occupied by a sheet-iron shed full of hay There were very few pedestrians on the belonging to a feed-and-fuel yard. streets. Valhalla seemed like a sick-room "To thunder witjh him," Honk muttered. where everybody was treading around on " We'll go out by ourselves. I guess we tiptoes to keep from waking the patient. haven't forgotten how to start -a fire under We met a man some three or four blocks a set of boilers. ' farther on, and Honk paused to inquire the "On with the dance," I said. " I'm with way to Butjch Poteet's. The man said he'd you. We'll make a night of it/' It was never heard "of such a person. nearly midnight by that time, as I ascer- "we came out to fire up and start the juice-plant." Honk thanked him, and we continued on tained by consulting the regulator in the our triumphal—well, not exactly. I noticed glare of a one-thousandth candle - power that Honk still carried the extinguished match. lantern, and I made some epigrammatic al- I suggested that we might work to better lusion to his following in the footsteps of advantage if we had a light lunch—ham Diogenes. Honk sniffed and set the lan- and eggs, pie, cereals, etc.—before we es- tern on a gate-post, where we left it to it|S sayed our task, but Honk overruled the fate. motion. We thought we knew where Butch Poteet That power-house was the hardest thing had formerly resided, and steered a zigzag to find I've ever strained my eagle eyes course in that direction. The night was looking for. Several times we came very somewhat thick—not to say opaque—which near deciding that it had been eradicated may have confused us. from the face of the earth; but we couldn't At any rate, when we got to where Butch find the place it had stood on, so a lingering had made his place of abode. according_to hope remained. my recollection, it was a vacant lot—and Now and then we collided with some " — 682 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. obstruction, or stepped into a vacancy in 1he plant than a dynamo-room. Compressors, atmosphere, that jarred our back teeth loose, by cricky! What are we up against, " all of which made it very cheerful. I for Horace? one became so utterly bewildered that holes I opened my mouth to extend die usual looked like embankments and level pave- invitation for a personal search—but the ments like ravines. words were still-born. A hateful-looking, With some little exertion we safely thread- sour-visaged man, with a revolver that ed a maze of ponds, fell and slid along with looked as big as a turret-gun on the battle- an avalanche of tin cans down a dump, ship Iowa, riz up from behind a steam-chest climbed the side of a canon, ran into a fire- and took possession of us. He told us to " " plug, splashed several mudholes dry—and put up them hands ! I did so— then we found the object of our search. Honk hesitated, and bang! The bullet "Here we are," said Honk. "We'd whined by HonkVear, and—he put 'em up. ought to have followed the switch-track Within a minute after the shot, a second around from the depot and saved time." ruffian appeared on the scene with an addi- " To say nothing of the wear and tear on tional cannon. The opposing forces being the landscape," I added. " I wish I had a more evenly matched, we offered to arbitrate. change of clothes and a Dutch lunch ! Honk volunteered a line of explanations. "Cheer up!" he said. "The worst is "We came out to fire up and start the over." juice-plant," he said reassuringly. " I'm We groped our way along the damp brick Simpson, of the Transcontinental. Put up wall of the building, coming to a door after your artillery, gents; we won't hurt you." a while, which was locked, of course. They gave us the gloomy glare. " Maybe we can get in through the coal- " Search 'em. Bill," growled the mean- chutes," Honk said. We groped our way looking one, " 'n' see if they've got any to the rear of the place, where a coal-car shootin'-irons. We've been lookin' for you stood along the wall. two for some time," he continued, address- We scuttled up the side and over the top, ing Honk and me. " The Valhalla Packin' discovered a black hole, climbed through, Company's been havin' brass and lead pipe and dropped on all fours to a pile of steam swiped for some time, and they're gettin' coal, from which we made our way pretty tired of it! Now, you two just keep your — " well soiled, but still patriotic — into the flippers up and march where we tell you ! boiler-room. To make mince-meat of a lengdiy recital, I struck a match. they drilled us through a side entrance and In its momentary gleam, Honk surveyed along a loading - dock to a signalophone. the interior and I surveyed Honk. He was There Bill requisitioned the patrol-wagon a sight for the gods. and a flock of cops, while the other kept two " Now, if we can rusde a lamp or a light eyes and his armory trained on us, and of some sort," he said, "the rest'll be easy. studiously ignored all explanations, excuses, In a couple of hours we'll have this outfit alibis, _and pleadings for clemency. hollering for the union ! But, say ! They've "Tell your troubles to the judge," he made some radical changes around here, me- said. "He gets paid for listening to 'em. thinks. The place don't look natural." We don't." At that juncture he made a discovery. I climbed into the jingle-jangle wagon "What do you know about this?" he and sat down with a sigh of relief. A ride " " exclaimed. Fires banked ! He held a back over that dark road to town looked lighted match so he could see the steam- good to me. Honk, however, lost his tem- dial. And eighty pounds of steam ! What per, threatened to resist arrest, and—you was it that kid at the depot said? Hadn't know what happens when a fellow resists .had no lights for a week? There's some- arrest! Biff! Bim! Well, he thought thing decomposed in Denmark, Horace. better of it before it was too late. > Let's investigate this joint a little." So we rode back to town. We made our way quietly up a short At 2 a.m. by the clock over the sergeant's flight of steps, and through a little doorway desk, we were booked in the big book—our into what was presumably the dynamo- names were not familiar to anybody present room. — refused bail until after breakfast, and " Here's some more funny how-d'ye-dos," ruthlessly locked with a clang in an iron said Honk. "This looks more like an ice- cell that smeJled worse than I expected. — HONK AND HORACE. 683 Honk raved and gnawed at the grating. they passed in our allowance it consisted of I might have snatched a few minutes' a solitary sinker arid a tin cup full of sour repose if he hadn't took on so, and if I coffee. hadn't been so empty. I still contend that I went to pieces after that "breakfast. My Honk would have looked at the matter more tire was punctured. I had borne up bravely in the light of a joke if we had hunted up until then—but when the)' brought us that a restaurant and fed our faces before start- breakfast, Hope shrieked and fell frothing ing out that night. at the mouth, and Gloomy Forebodings fore- An empty stomach is a pessimist's best bet closed a mortgage on my soul. and a handicap to philosophy. At eight-thirty a big duffer with a key " Come on, sit down, and let your blood attached to a wooden paddle opened the cool off," I advised. "They'll apologize door of our coop. He then escorted us into and turn us loose in the morning as soon the presence of Justice, in the shape of a as somebody with a human brain shows up. slant-browed man with a cruel mouth and Why all this charging back and forth, Polyphemus? I'd rather be here than scaling ponds and wading dumps out there in the inky darkness." "But the humiliation, Horace! The preposterous, ridiculous, grotesque, plu- perfect asininity of the thing! We'll be the laughing-stock of the commu- nity. A fine reception for us, isn't it? "COME ON, SIT DOWN, AND LET YOUR BLOOD COOL OFF." Locked in the hold-over as suspicious char- tousled hair, behind a regulation bar of acters. Bah ! And we made the town what judgment. it is! Brought 'em up out of obscurity We were arraigned without having had a " for this! chance to brush off, wash the coal dust or "We'll have to stay in nights," I said, mud from our faces and hands, or tidy our- "or get us a guardian to look after us when selves up in the least. Whatever the charge we wander at large." might be, we looked guilty on general The chilly, dove-colored dawn straggled principles. through the grating of our cell-door after an " Feloniously entering and obtaining ac- interminable wait, but breakfast was a long- cess . . . with intent to pilfer and steal," the er time coming than that. clerk read sonorously. _ I. too, almost lost my temper. And when "Admitted to bail," snapped the judge. " " " 684 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "Two thousand dollars each; cash bond "Or send for Doc Pillsbury or J. Carter required." Finley," I added. " They know us. We're Honk cleared his throat and lifted a sooty the new— hand. The blare and boom of a brass band "Excuse me, judge," he said. "This passing along the street, drowned further Charge is all a ridiculous mistake. We can argument for the time being. The court re- easily prove our identity, but we want this laxed its dignity long enough to look out of thing kept quiet. It has been a very hu- the window. Honk and I, being near the miliating contretemps. I ask you to tele- same window, necked with the rest. phone the representative of the Transcon- A considerable crowd of citizens, in car- tinental and have him come here at once. riages and on foot, were out early engaged Hell vouch for us." in some kind of a demonstration. I caught The clerk of the court did the telephoning. a glimpse of several familiar faces, among He announced the result in a bored voice. which was Butch Poteet, large as life and "Witness states over the phone that two beating the bass drum in the band. men were hanging around the depot last " What's up ? " asked the judge. " Where night. They acted suspiciously and were are they headed for?" ordered off. Says the taller man was named " I understand," returned the clerk, " that Hohenzollern, and the short one gave a name two young men who formerly represented impossible to remember." the railroad company here are expected on The court tightened up his lip and fixed the morning motor. They're coming back us with a baleful eye. to take charge of the railroad's interests. "Make that bond— That's the reception committee— " " " " Just a-moment ! shouted Honk. That Lock these men up," said the judge. was an irresponsible boy talking to you. " I think I'll «o down to the station myself. Call the Transcontinental man. I tell vou!" Court is now adjourned." GUTTING DOWN CASUALTIES. The " Spfety First " Movement on the Chicago and Northwestern Meets with Promising Results. CASUALTIES to employees of the Chicago that are subject co the most simple remedies, if and Northwestern Railway have been re- the men themselves could but be brought to have duced during the last few months to the extent the proper interest in the matter. of fifteen per cent in the number of fatalities re- Working upon this theory, a systematic cam- ported, and ten per cent in the number of injuries. paign for safety was organized under the direc- Such a statement ought to attract attention. tion of the claim-departmerrt of the Chicago and Humanitarians will be glad to learn of the pro- Northwestern Railway, somewhat less than a year gress, and railroad officials, from the standpoint ago. It involved means for the education of of efficiency, will be interested to know by what officers and employees in the benefits that might means the good results were secured. Yet the be gained by following the watchword of the " plan is simple enough. movement, safety first,'* and means for securing Every one who has looked into the subject is the cooperation of the men in all the departments familiar with the fact that the lamentable totals of the road. to which the industrial accidents of the country The most recent development of the plan, and mount up, are due not so much to the great what has given the remarkable results mentioned catastrophes, the accidents of large magnitude in beginning our comments, was the organization wherein numbers are killed or injured, but pri- of safety committees. There is first a central marily the frightful aggregate is due to the many committee, of which Mr. R. C. Richards, general small accidents involving as a rule but one man. claim-agent, is chairman, and which is composed These minor accidents, in the vast majority of of two general superintendents, the engineer of cases, are due to ~ comparatively insignificant maintenance, the assistant superintendent of mo- causes; they are brought about by the failure tive-power and machinery, supervisor of motive of employees in some every-day matter, or the power and machinery, trainmaster of the freight- neglect of some elementary precaution. Care- terminals, and the assistant superintendent of the lessness or thoughtlessness, sometimes due to ig- car department. norance or inexperience, cause injuries in ways There is then' on each division a division sa/etv FIRST AID TO THE INJURED. 6S5 committee composed of the divisonal officers, and On these trips they divide themselves into sub- there is an employees' committee on each division committees, each of which gives especial notice to composed of an engineer, fireman, conductor, certain subjects assigned to it, going over the brakeman, trackman, station-agent, and switch- ground thoroughly. man, and a similar committee of employees for In this way, every detail of tracks, yards, sta- the shops and roundhouses. employees' The com- tions, roundhouses, machinery, and shops are in- mittees hold their individual meetings once a spected, and the faulty conditions either remedied month, they are given trips and of inspection over by the division officers, or reported to the supe- fteir respective divisions accompanied by the rior committee.— The Railway and Engineering division and some of the general officers. Review. FIRST AID TO THE INJURED. Valuable Instructions Issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad for the Use of Its Employees in Case of Accident. 'HE person in authority should take charge. FRACTURE. P,roken bones should be treated KEEP COOL. with splints, the splints secured in position by Send for the nearest physician give him as triangular and other ; bandages. The splints should near as possible the character of the injuries. Do reach from below the lower joint to the one above not wait to get a number of physicians; this can the fracture. Folded newspapers, pieces of board, be done later if necessary. heavy pasteboard, or anything sufficient to pre- Remove injured person from the wreckage, using vent movement of the broken ends of bones upon the utmost care not to further injure him. each other will answer. STRETCHER. The stretcher can be used as BURNS. Burns should be treated in the same a cot. It requires three men to place a person manner as wounds. Do not forcibly remove "cloth- properly on a stretcher. Set up the stretcher; ing; cut the clothes away, if necessary. Where place it alongside the injured person. The three there is much pain, common baking soda dis- men should then stand at the side of the injured solved in water may be used to saturate bandage. person away from the stretcher; one should place Don't use preparations of oil, as they are liable his hands under the head and shoulders, the other to cause infection. under the hips, and the third take charge of the SHOCK. Shock is a condition of almost com- injured part ; lift him up and lay him gently on plete absence of the signs of life, such as sighing the stretcher. respiration, pale, cold, clammy skin, etc. Don't KEEP THE CROWD AWAY, so as to insure give whisky, or any other stimulants, or drugs; plenty of fresh air. the principal requirements are internal and ex- EXAMINE the injuries carefully before doing ternal heat by means of hot coffee, hot milk, and anything. other hot drinks, and the application of heat by DON'T TOUCH open wounds with the hands, means_of blankets, hot water-bottles, hot bricks, nor attempt to remove dirt, nor apply unclean etc. In cases of apparent drowning and electrical dressings of any kind, as infection may be intro- shock, use artificial respiration as taught in First duced by so doing. Aid lectures. FIRST - AID PACKET contains two aseptic UNCONSCIOUSNESS. Persons unconscious compresses wrapped in oil paper, one cambric from any cause should be removed to a quiet place bandage, one triangular bandage, and two safety and laid upon the back. Keep every one away pins. In dressing wounds, place the compress on and let plenty of air get to the sick person. Loosen the wound without touching that part which comes the clothing about the neck and abdomen. If the in contact with the wounded surface, secure with conditions are like shock, use same treatment. the cambric bandage, and, if necessary, wrap the FITS. A person suffering from a fit should be whole with triangular bandage. This latter can kept quiet, on the back. Loosen the clothing about be also used as' a sling and to secure splints. Tf the neck and abdomen, and be careful he docs not the contents of the one packet are insufficient, use injure himself while in the fit. more. HEAT EXHAUSTION AND SUNSTROKE. HEMORRHAGE. To arrest hemorrhage, place In the former the skin will be cold and clammy, compresses on the bleeding part and secure firmly and the conditions will be the same as shock; the with the cambric bandage; if bleeding continues, same treatment will be required. In cases of apply more compresses and more pressure until sunstroke the body feels hot to the touch ; is dry. bleeding ceases. If this fails, tie a bandage Apply ice to the abdomen, head and other parts around the limb between the point of hemorrhage of the body by rubbing with pieces of ice, or crack- and the body, and twist tightly-, with a stick until ing the ice and putting it in cloths over the parts bleeding stops. Then secure bandage. named above. . The A. B. C. of Freight Rates BY JOHN C. THOMSON. IN the two articles which appeared in the January and February numbers of The Railroad Man's Magazine, we discussed freight rates from the standpoint of the land. In this article we will look at the subject from the standpoint of water competition and inland waterways. All that we know about freight rates to-day can be summed up briefly: i. That transportation by ocean, river, canal, and railroad is in each case a separate proposition. 2. That there is as much difference between a canal and a river as there is between an ocean and a railroad. 3. That all four have great influence on each other, but just to what extent no man knows. 4. That the railroad seems to have a closer connection with each of the three water routes than they have with each other. 5. That cartage through the streets of a city has a great and direct bearing on all four. Aside from Certain Conditions, Largely Established by Nature, the Making of Freight Rates Is Largely Guesswork, Based on the Elastic *' Per-Ton Mile." FART 111. (J^SjjpN the early days of the Interstate cars are under United States control—ex1 Commerce Commission that body cept those running on Canadian soil and endeavored to confine itself to across the narrow neck of land in Mexico rates on land alone, but soon from ocean to gulf. All the deep-sea ves- found, as it so well worded the sels are not under our control. Our coi»si^ matter, " water competition is ing vessels are, to be sure; but a ship like Banquo's ghost, it will not stay buried flying the British flag and running with and rises at the most awkward times.'' wheat from Portland. Oregon, to Liverpool, Through sheer force of circumstance, the England, is practically free of all our laws commission was compelled to consider water in regard to freight-rates. competition in connection with every rail- Yet this ship carries wheat in competi- road freight-rate in the United States. tion with our transcontinental railroads, What made this a very awkward matter and, therefore, it greatly affects freight- was that Congress, in its innocence about rates between ever}- town from Oregon to such affairs, practically forbade the com- New York. mission having anything to do with ship Keeping this fact in mind let us see, by traffic, directly or indirectly, but ships and illustration, how it works out in practise. freight-cars have a way of combining in We will say that the Interstate Commerce spite of Congress or commission, so, in time, Commission, the shippers all the way from both bodies slowly awoke to the fact that the Pacific to the Atlantic seaboards, and the the two would have to be considered together. railroads—hatf a dozen of them—have all Another trouble enters. All the freight- agreed on certain rates on all goods. 686 — " " THE A. B. C. OF FREIGHT RATES. 687 Wheat shall pay so much, lumber so So, when some local experts gather around much, shoes so much, iron ore so much, a stove in Podunk Center, and after agree- coal so much, and so on indefinitely. All ing that the United States can whip the is peace and everything is working smooth- world with one hand tied behind its back, ly, when suddenly this same English ship let them remember that Uncle Sam cannot multiplied by a hundred more—offers to dictate what an English ship owner shall carry lumber to Europe from Puget Sound charge for transporting wheat between any for less than we charge to haul it by rail to two ports in the world, unless both these New York or Boston, and then by ship to ports are under the Stars and Stripes. Europe. Such very shortsightedness is the cause", As we have practically no ships on any perhaps, of nine-tenths of all our freight- ocean given to commerce, the ship charges rate rows. As a weary freight-rate clerk from New York or Boston to England or writes in the February number of The Germany or France are made by foreign Railroad Man's Magazine, he is asked ship owners. Therefore, we cannot lower over the telephone a dozen times a day to the ocean rate from the Atlantic cities of explain in a few moments what is here America to Europe, and if we do not lower taking us many pages just to outline. our rates from Puget Sound to Europe on some part of the route, we get nothing to Clerk vs. Shipper, carry. It will all go in the bottoms of the British The line of conversation runs something ships. Clearly, we must cut the railroad like this: rate on lumber, or wheat, or whatever the Irate Shipper: "Say, you! You've cargo is, between-New York and the Pacific made a mistake. You've charged us $15 coast. more on this carload of lumber than you Right here our troubles all break out did on the previous, car—the one we shipped afresh. Where all was industrial peace all two months ago, and this car has 5,000 less is now confusion. It is much like a hive of feet of lumber in it, at that! Why can't bees, every one is happy putting up honey you keep your books straight, anyway? till some one from the outside world sud- Gone to sleep up there, or are you just try- denly smokes them out. ing to slip something over on us? What?" If the rate is cut on transcontinental wheat Weary Clerk: "Rate's gone up on lum- and lumber—as it must be cut if it is to be ber since the first of the month. Sorry, moved over our rails—then other rates must but your bill is correct." go up or else the railroad must go out of Irate Shipper: " Go chase yourself, son! business. I was shipping lumber over your road be- | That is practically impossible, so up go fore you were born ! You . can't tell me the rates on other goods, but down they go anything about rates on lumber! I know! on transcontinental, but not local, lumber That's my business, see? Now, see here! and wheat. Why has that rate gone up? Wasn't you Its Positive Effects. gouging us lumber dealers Bnough as it was ? Giving the screw another twist, eh ? This has two immediate effects. It puts Why don't you answer my question ! Why " a shoe merchant in Denver, say, out of busi- is the rate higher? ness, because he cannot pay the higher Weary Clerk: "Well, you see the trans- freight-rates on shoes and live, and it makes continental rate on lumber has gone down, the through rate on wheat from Puget and so we have to raise the local rates— " Sound to the Atlantic^ less than from Ne- Irate Shipper: Suffering cats ! Do you braska to the same port. mean that you have the nerve to sit there These two men complain, and their cry and tell me to my face that you've cut the is just, apparently. But what can be done rate on my stuff over a three-thousand-mile about it? All any one can do is to refer haul, and, at the same time, have raised me the Nebraska wheat farmer and the Denver between here and Chicago? Four hundred " shoe man to the owner of the British tramp- miles ? You've got to show me ! ship, and beg him to raise his rates on Weary Clerk: " But, you see, the Tramp wheat from Puget Sound to Liverpool. Steamship Line running from Liverpool The Britisher grins and remarks that to Seattle cut the lumber rate, and so we what happens is none of his concern. had to— 688 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Irate Shipper: "Now, see here, son! hands to fight with against the railroad's Don't you try to stuff me like that! Eng- one. land has nothing to do with railroad rates We are now beginning to see that many between Chicago and this great city of Po- things affect railroad freight-rates of which dunk—the city of homes. I'm going to re- the average shipper never dreams. port you to the Interstate Commerce Com- mission and write a letter to the newspapers. One Reason for Subsidies. I've got to pay you, of course, but it's rob- bery. English tramp steamer! Lumber If Great Britain, for instance, thinks that " from Chicago to Podunk ! Rats ! Germany might declare war in 1914, and Now, if this shipper would only get down that plenty of big ocean-going ships would his globe, take an A. B. C. course in phys- come in handy during a war, she increases ical and commercial geography, read a her subsidies. primer on economics, he might learn some- More ships are built. Entering the thing. Not only does the British steamship world's trade, they take lumber from Seat- owner have a great deal to say what Mr. tle to any port in the world where there hap- Podunk pays on his lumber by the carload, pens to be a market. but the French peasant—multiplied by a England does not ivant to bear the total few million—through the Bank of France, expense of building these ships, nor to have has a great deal more to say.s them anchored idle in her harbors, so they In other words, no town, be it in Ameri- get cargees at any old rate just to keep full ca or Europe, can escape the world-wide hv and moving, and the government at home fluence of interlaced capital. The minute foots the shortage as a war measure. that Mr. Podunk reads that some big Ameri- Against such competition as this, what can railroad has placed $10,000,000 more can the United States railroad freight-agent in bonds in the French market, just at that do? Nothing. Yet he is cussed and be- moment he should have learned the fact that rated daily from one end of the country to Jean, the gardener, planting lettuce for the the other for something for which he is Paris market, has a great deal to say about blameless. what he, Mr. Podunk, shall pay on his load We have looked on salt water only. Now, of lumber from Chicago to his home town. let us take a long ''look-see" inland, "where rolls the Oregon," where the Father Government Subsidies. of Waters flows, and where, incidentally, the Missouri gets on a rampage and changes Enough has been shown here. I hope, to state lines every year or two. prove that an English ship, on which the Stately ships with canvas spread to die French hold a mortgage, can and does affect zephyrs of Iowa corn-fields, great steamers every railroad rate in the United States. plowing" across the prairies of Nebraska, But there are other ships than those of loaded in Paris and unloaded at your door England. Germany has some; so has Japan. in Bismarck, Dakota, is not likely to come To make matters worse, they are subsidized to pass. by their governments. Small River Traffic. A subsidy is paid by a government to v help defray the running expenses of a ship. Before me, as I write, is a map issued by For instance, a certain ship costs $2,000,- the United States government, showing in 000 to build and $2,000,000 a year to run. red ink all the navigable waters of this The government pays, say, half the build- country three feet in depth or over. A ing cost, and $1,000,000 yearly toward run- glance at the map shows that considerably ning the ship. In return it has the right over one-half of the United States is as to use the ship in war. There are many white as snow; that from the Missouri other arrangements, but this serves our pur- River to the Pacific coast, navigable streams pose here. are about as rare as dodos. We have a ship earning interest on only The map also indicates tiiat, to-day, in- half its cost, and with this ship our rail- land water shipments are mostly limited to roads must compete. It would be bad enough die Mississippi, Hudson, and Columbia to fight against a ship that had to earn in- Rivers and their branches. terest on her total cost, just as a railroad River traffic on the Columbia is practi- must, but this subsidy gives the ship two cally nothing—not counting, of course, the — THE A. B. C. t>F FREIGHT RATES. 6S9 use of the river for the first hundred miles into fresh water and then adding salt till as the entrance of Portland's harbor. Traf- the egg floats. As applied to ships, this fic on the Missouri is even less valuable, means that a vessel loaded to draw ten feet so we are reduced to the Mississippi and the at sea will draw over ten feet in fresh water. Hudson as the only two river traffic-carriers If loaded properly in fresh water, then more in the United States. cargo must be added when salt water is Here and there some little steamboat puffs reached, or the reverse. along, but it is more local pride than any- The ocean is deep and propulsion is easy. thing else, and pleasure passengers pay most A river or a canal is usually shallow, the of the profits. bottom of the river is only a few feet below The connection of inland waterways with the bottom of the vessel, and a screw stirs railroad freight-rates is this: up the mud and causes bars to form. The Most of the tonnage — the amount of side-wheeler is the best form of boat for the freight hauled over our rails to-day—con- usual river, but they, are no longer com- sists of such material as coal, ore, lumber, mercially possible on the ocean. and grain, cheap, heavy material in regard Then, too, vessels large enough to pay to which speed of transportation is not of a profit on the sea are too large to enter immediate importance. Fruit or live stock most of our rivers, except, perhaps, in a few has to be moved as rapidly as possible, like cases at the very mouth. J. J. Hill says that passenger traffic, but iron ore can move five a vessel must be able to carry 16,000 tons miles an hour or fifteen miles an hour de- to compete successfully with the freight-car, pending on which speed is the cheapest and no 16,000-ton vessel is practical on and it matters little. inland waterways. The Great Lakes are It is suggested that a great deal of this not considered here as inland waterways; heavy cheap freight can be moved over in- we are dealing' with rivers and canals only. land waterways, thus saving the expense of shipping by rail, and leaving the railroad Full Cars Only. free to handle the goods that must move quickly. There is a vast difference between a river This is practically the sole reason why in- and a canal. A river rises and falls from land waterways are favored by many, al- one month to another, depending on the though there are several other indirect rain-fall and the melting of snow, often reasons. thousands of miles away, while the water A railroad, by its very nature, must be of a canal is practically of the same depth under one control; but the waterway, like the year round. Ice frequently closes rivers the common road, is'open to every one. and canals in winter. Thus it is said that with free waterways, The difference of the depth of water from competition will regulate freight-rates and time to time is of great importance. prevent the railroads from dictating rates. In the case of a canal a warehouse can In other words, if the rate by rail on coal is be erected at the very water's edge, and too high, then the coal will move by water, machinery installed to handle freight, but and, therefore, the rail-rate can never be in the case of the river, the warehouse must higher than the water-rate, while the freight ever be above the highest possible water line, is open to every one who wants to build and and this leaves the vessel considerably away run a boat. from the warehouse when there is low water in the river. Rivers and Canals. A river has a current, but a canal has none—except, perhaps, a very slow current To return to our ships sailing from Chi- hardly worth considering. Every one knows na to North Dakota by way of the Indian that it takes more power and time to go up- and South Atlantic Oceans, the Mississippi stream than down. It frequently takes from and the Missouri Rivers. This foolish idea two to five times as long to go up-stream has been actually suggested as being prac- as down. tical. We have seen the importance of regular The water of a river is fresh, that of the service, and full cars both ways in railroad sea is salt. Salt water supports a heavier practise. The same applies to freight-serv- load per cubic unit than does fresh water. ice by water. In a canal, the conditions are Any one may test this by dropping an egg similar to those of a railroad, but, in a 8 RR 690 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. river, the current cuts a vast figure if it is idea of what it costs to run one railroad as at all swift in places or at certain times. compared with another railroad and for a Then, too, sand and mud-bars are always hundred and one other comparisons. forming and changing in a river but not so If a man in Salt Lake City thinks that in a canal. the General Pacific Railroad is charging Inland waterways, it has been seen, are him too much for freight from Chicago, and divided into two parts—the river and the he goes before the Interstate Commerce canal. There is a closer connection between Commission with his_grievance, the railroad the railroad and the canal than there is be- man rises in open court and proves that the tween the canal and the river. The freight- General Pacific is "only earning one cent car is only a canal-boat floating on axle- per ton-mile compared to the Podunk and grease instead of water. Pacific which is allowed by the commission to earn two cents per ton-mile." Merely a Matter of Friction. So we see how important this "per ton- mile " is in railroad matters. In measuring Transportation, in the last analysis, re- freight traffic it is the same as the pound to duces itself to a matter of friction, and the the grocery-store, the foot-rule to the land car-wheel is related closer to the rail than it surveyor, or the second to the watchmaker is to the body of the car. There is but little —the standard of measurement. friction between the wheel and the rail, the However, the ton-mile has been severely friction all comes between the axle and the attacked as an unsafe and unreliable meas- wheel, and here the axle floats on axle- uring-stick. It is claimed that the very grease, just as does the canal-boat in the basis of the ton-mile is not sound—that to water. move one ton 100,000 miles is not equal to The canal-boat is cheaper and easier to moving 100,000 tons one mile, or 100 tons move because the friction on the water per 1,000 miles. pound of load is less than the friction be- In abstract physics, the amount of force tween the axle and the wheel. That is all (energy), is the same in each case, but the there is to it. railroad in our workaday world has many- Friction spells coal, engine-power, heavier other things to consider than mere physics. rails and bridges, lower grades; in fact, Loading and unloading, for instance. friction is responsible for nine-tenths of the cost of building and running a railroad. No Basis for Foreign Comparison. Therefore, just because the canal-boat meets with less friction for the same load, we To pull 100,000 tons of coal one mile have this great question of inland water- over level rails would cost, probably, about ways slowly coming before the public. half a cent a ton, or a total of $500, but to Here we come to one of the most uncer- load and unload that coal by hand would tain things in the railroad world, the fa- cost many times $500. In this case, the mous " ton-mile." ton-mile charge would be about half a cent, The ton-mile means this: Suppose a plus load and unloading charges of, say, railroad hauls 100 tons 1,000 miles. 50 cents a ton, or a total ton-mile cost of Another railroad hauls 50 tons 2,000 miles. 5 OK' cents. By multiplying the tons and the miles to- To load one ton and unload it at the gether, we get in either case 100,000 ton- end of its journey would cost, at the same miles. (100 x 1,000 or 50 x 2,000 equals assumed rate for shoveling, only 50 cents. 100,000 in either case.) The cost of moving a ton one mile would Now, 100,000 ton-miles is supposed to be half a cent, just as in the other case, but be equal to hauling 1 ton 100,000 miles, or this half-dollar loading and unloading 100,000 tons, one mile. This is the ton- charge would be spread so thin over that mile in theory. 100,000 miles of run that it could hardly be figured. The " Per-Ton " Mile. So we have 100 times a higher ton-mile charge in one case titan in the other, and the There are so many railroads, and so basis is supposed to be the same. many different lengths of hauls—in fact, So far as I know, there is no reliable millions of them—that some common basis basis for any comparison of freight-rates of measurement must be taken to get an between Europe and America. The ways B. ' THE A. C . OF FREIGHT RATES. 691 of bookkeeping vary widely in European it comes right down to actual facts, a letter countries—France figures one way, and is just as much freight as is an ounce of Germany another — the distances vary so coal, and what applies to the mail service greatly, the amount and character of goods in most cases fits equally well in freight hauled vary so greatly, and the laws regula- transportation. ting railroads and railroad construction are That our rivers run idle to-day is due to so. different, that the " ton-mile," as a meas- three possible reasons: urement between European and American First. Because no river or canal can railroads is hardly worthy of consideration. compete with the freight-car running from Although there is no basis of comparison, door to door. the ton-mile is often used to prove things Second. Because the rivers and canals one way or another—just as the prover would be of the utmost value if they were wishes. provided with suitable terminals, which, There is no " common ground " in figur- to-day, are lacking. ing the cost of operation of the railroads of Third. Because the railroads are the various countries. AH we can get is the keenest competitors of inland waterways. grand totals. These are of questionable value. Waterways Out of Date. Inland waterways from the standpoint of cost to build and operate as compared It may be true that the river and the canal with a railroad or the entire railroad service are as hopeless out of date as the stage- of the nation, is an interesting phase. coach, the ox-cart, and the pack-mule, but About the only comparison attempted so I do not know, and I do not believe that far has been with the ton-mile, and, as we any man knows. If he does, I would like have just seen, that that is not a safe guide. to learn his reasons for so thinking, provided Right here stalks in the "door-to-door" he does not base his conclusions on the ton- service of the freight-car compared to the mile or too much on averages. canal-boat, or the river-boat. By " door- "The vicious habit of thinking in aver- to-door " is meant that a freight-car can be ages " is well to keep in mind when one is loaded at a factory door in Battle Creek, considering freight-rates. A good mathe- Michigan, and unloaded at a warehouse matician or bookkeeper can play with a door in Denver, Colorado, thus doing away set of books about as he pleases. With his with the cost of all cartage through the journal and ledger he can prove almost any- streets of either city. thing and then turn around and prove just In the case of a boat on the Erie Canal the contrary. one might, or might not, be able to load the All that any unbiased man to-day knows boat at the factory door in Buffalo, and he about European and American freight- certainly could not unload it at a warehouse rates, compared one to the other, is that door in New York City. there seems to be no fair basis of compari- son. The European railroad, for instance, Cost of City Cartage. is maintained to a considerable extent as a war measure, like a fort or a battle-ship; So. while the ton-mile figure might be in America, all railroads, except the Union less by way of the canal-boat, when city Pacific, which was a war measure, are pure- cartage is added, the ton-mile charge leaps ly commercial concerns. This alone destroys far above that of the freight-car. Moving all possibilities of economic, commercial, freight is not simply from city to city, nor or financial comparison. Hence* concern- from depot to depot, but from " door to ing waterways, we cannot turn to Europe door," and this may, or may not, mean the for a guide with much hope of light on the often very expensive item of cartage through subject as applied to the United States. crowded city streets. One might as well try to measure real The "Belt Line" railroad circling Chi- estate with a rubber band as to prove any- cago saves that city millions of dollars year- thing concerning freight by the " ton-mile," ly in cartage charges. and, so long as this is true, inland water- Freight must be sorted and distributed ways will remain a matter of study rather just like letters in the mail. In fact, when than of definite conclusion. In (he fourth and concluding article in this series, which will appear in our July number, Mr. Thomson will discuss freight rates from the bookkeeping and financial point of view. CATCHING THE BOAT. BY GEORGE FOXHALL. Sad Schmidt Falls Heir to Great Wealth and Misses His Schedule. 'M a sort of Ancient Mariner, though Schmidt. I've been thinking it over ever the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry since in the constant glow of the tail-lights between Desbrosses Street and of missed trains, and I've come to the con- Jersey City is the nearest I ever clusion that Sad Schmidt is a contagious was to going to sea. Anyhow, like disease, a desolation, a pestilence, and a de- that poetic person, I've got a yarn praved liar. That is, provided somebody that I've got to get out of my system, and, hasn't ended his blighting career with a rope then you ran kill me if you like, or a gun by this time. It's now two years since I met Sad You'll notice how my paragraphs end with AUNT JOHANNA THOUGHT THAT WAS HOW PEOPLE GOT ONTO STEAMBOATS." 692 CATCHING THE BOAT. 693 talk about sudden death. Well, that's the come half a day out of my route to sell morbid condition to which Sad Schmidt has things to Jordan—so I meant to do it. driven me. You have probably gathered I showed him samples of all our latest that I hate Sad Schmidt. I do. Likewise grease-eaters. I scoured all his pots an' his present family an' his antecedents, unto pans, cleaned his filthy transom, polished the first generation. What did he do? the parlor mirror, an' then scrubbed down He told me a story. That's all. But, the counter. It was hard work, but he was say, that story has laid across my haunted as interested as a kid at a pig-killing, an' life like the ghost of a Welsh rarebit. I expected to get my day's wage out of him. Wait, an' Til tell it to you; not because I Just as I was rolling down my sleeves, I want to entertain you, but because I might heard the six-thirty at the whistling-post, but I only smiled philosophically. There was another train at eight o'clock, an' I knew by the pleased examination of Mr. Jordan that I was going to do business. I whipped out my order-book an' flipped the perspiration from my brow. " You shore have got a handy line o' goods," said the Boolabooer, " an' you shore are industrious at deemonstratin' 'em.'' "Why, that's what I'm hired for, you know, Mr. Jordan," said I with a happy, modest smirk; an' I slipped the cap from my fountain pen. " I suppose so," said Mr. Jordan, squint- ing admiringly along the counter. "Now, that there feller that; peddks for the Snow Soap Syndicate came along last week, an' he didn't do more'n just polish up a Lincoln penny, an' doggone me if I didn't sign a contract to sell nothin' but their goods for " ten years. What; a fool I was ! Nit! I saw that instanter. He was no fool. It was me. I slipped my pen an' book back in my pocket an' yanked out my watch. "I reckon I've missed my train," I said, calm and resigned. - " an' be rid of it; and as That's a shame," droned Job, calm an' pass the hoodoo on z " you'll observe, I'm a misanthrope with a resigned likewise. You'd orter watch that. grouch. But maybe you'd 'a' missed it, anyhow. I was once a happy, care-free, genial- Some folks miss trains an' boats by nature, hearted man. I carried through life a lend- no matter how they try. Now, there's Sad me - a - dollar expression. My temper was Schmidt there, sittin' on that bar'l. He good, an' my morals quite unapproachable. never caught a train in's life. Did you, If you had known me then you would have Sad?" loved me. "Nor a boat," moaned out the mournful- To add atmosphere to my general charac- est voice in the universe, an' I turned to ter, I will add that I am a traveling sales- see the forlorn an' haunting figure of the man for a soap house. Our matchless man who was to upheave my moral centers cleansers were the envy and admiration of an' send me thudding down the road of life our competitors. with three wheels on the rails an' the other Well, two years ago I made Boolaboo, scattering my fires of ambition as it bumped Texas, in the flush of youth an' optimism the ties of doom. an' the confident belief that I would sell a To call him sad was an insult to mel- bill of goods to a hypocritical Boolabooer ancholy. Hecuba an' the Wandering Jew were named Job Jordan. I hadn't much tune to and the guy who never smiled again compared with him. do it and make the six-thirty out, but I'd cheerful playmates 694 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. He was dressed in what were supposed staying home to Germany while the rest of -to be clothes, but they looked like he'd got the family got poor coming to America, an' 'em too late to do any good. The coat- never got rich when they got here. Some sleeves lacked a good four inches an' the five years since he felt he was beginning to pants a good seven. You . could see he get old, so he writ over, to my dad that he hadn't even a melancholy pride in his fail- 'lowed it was his intention that I should ings; but evidently Job was proud of 'em heir his wealth, but he would like to see for him, else he was covering his own four- me before he died. flushing. " However, he'd heeard that I wasn't fitten " No, sir," said Job, pretending to be en- to travel alone an' was a hoodoo, jn com- tertaining, " nor none of his family never pany, so he reckoned he'd just ask his caught a train. Did they, Sad?" brother or one of his two sisters to run over "Nor a boat," mused Sad. to Germany an' take my picture along, an' "I shouldn't think they could miss any then maybe he'd be content to die. boats in Boolaboo," said I. dropping into "Aunt Johanna 'lowed that he'd likely a creaky chair an' discovering how hard I'd be more'n content to die after he'd seen it. worked. She only feared that he might commit sui- " We've traveled," said Sad, turning up cide, though I couldn't see no sense in what another sod with his grave-digging voice. she said. "Sad nearly lost half a million dollars "Anyhow, she 'lowed she'd make the trip; missin' boats one time," said Job, " him an" an", as she'd been contemplating making a his family." visit to the old country, she figured she'd I wondered what Sad would have looked - take her whole family, seeing as Uncle like if he'd lost that half a million right Nabe was payin' the freight. " out, but I said nothing. I hadn't got my I reckon it was one of them female second wind yet. aunts that must have driv' it into the old " Tell him about it, Sad," urged the old man about me bein' so on trustworthy to Machiavelli. " It'll keep him from worry- travel, because them an' pop, too, being in' about his own train." just as bad as me, I couldn't see why I "It'll hoodoo him," droned Sad: " It sh'd be singled out, 'nless that was it. " alius does it to strangers. If he hears it. Of course, their reasons was to sour the he'll never catch a train again without old man on me in favor of their own off- missin' one before he gets it." spring, which was all young an' childish, Job laughed; an' if I'd known then what dad bein' ten years the aunts' seniors. " I know now, I'd 'a' choked him an' Sad Well, nobody objected. We 'lowed that Schmidt right there an' 'a" took my chances if Aunt Johanna an' her husband an' her on hanging. seven children could get to Germany, they " That's the only joke that Sad ever was the only nine members of the family makes," said he, "an' he's mightv fond that could get there, barrin' them that'd of it." never left, an' nobody c'd see what anybody " He looks like he's fond o' somethin" de- c'd do about it. pressing," said I, and because I was sick "Dad said it was all right, an' so long of the sight an' sound of Job I turned to as they were going to take a picture of me, Sad Schmidt. they might as well take a good one, so he "Narrate the narrative," I suggested, lowed he'd trust 'em with the big crayon reaching between his long legs an' pulling portrait in a frame in the parlor. Aunt an apple out of the barrel. Johanna confessed that she didn't want the He came right at ilj. He didn't cough, responsibility of that work of art. but dad twitch his collar, clear his throat, smile, nor said: " hitch his pants above the knee. He didn't ' Johanna, I c'n see clear through you. make any of the customary introductions. You're not goin' over there with them seven He just slid into that yarn like I'd dropped offshoots o' yourn without takin' somethiH' a quarter in his gas-meter, -an' he never that'll do my boy justice in the eyes of raised the pressure. His voice had the ex- Uncle -Nabe, an' it's that or it's nothin'.' quisite changes produced by an angry child " Aunt Johanna took one look at the assaulting his father's wooden leg. crayon, an' she said: "It was all along o' my father's Uncle " ' I reckon it just about does do him Naboth, who made half a million dollars justice, Carl. It 'bout looks like him. I \ CATCHING THE BOAT. 695 hadn't thought about that before. I'll be "When they got to Washington, they mighty glad to take it along.' found they'd left the crayon portrait of me "She laughed; but I couldn't see nothin' somewhere, an' it took three hours to trace to laugh at. Neither could dad. He just it. Then the feller said it'd take two more pulled his whiskers an' 'lowed that barrin' hours to get it, an' that there was a train an unfortunate looseness in catching trains, to New York ever}' hour, an' they c'd catch he was as smart as they made 'em, yet. the second one. "Well, they got their tickpts for land "Aunt Johanna wanted to see the Presi- an' sea, an' thev put the clock two days an' dent an' the Congressman what had -kissed half an hour ahead, an' they, started for little Freddie last year. They didn't see the deepo in plenty of time. 'em, but they missed the train. They got " But on the way, Cousin Willie cast a the next.' shoe 'cos he'd developed an ingrowing nail, "The conductor told 'em they'd just make an' before the} - c'd persuade him to walk it from the ferry to the dock if the horse- or be carried without him busting a blood cars was running all right. The cars was vessel, doggone me if they didn't hear the all right, but a horse died in the car they engine whistle. was in. ." Aunt Johanna grabbed an offspring "The man said they often did that, under each arm, but one of 'em slipped out though this horse had. only one leg an' one onto his nose, an' Uncle Ben tumbled over ear dead that morning, an' he had trusted him, 'an they was all down to once. The him to go right through the day. He seemed train went away. They waited for the next, disappointed. which was due four hours later, an' was "Well, they rushed onto the dock just as four hours late, but they caught it. the hands was starting to haul in the gang- : 696 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "'Throw 'em up, Johanna ! Throw 'em up! ' "Aunt Johanna thought that was how people got onto steamboats, so she picked up little William, swung him an' slung him. But Willie was always a cross-grained little cuss, an' he fell short an' dumped into the river. "When Uncle Ben seen it, he gave another yell an' dove. He got Willie all right, being a good swimmer, Mt both of 'em was wet, an' they missed the boat, an' little Freddie was on board. "Aunt Johanna began to scream, but a man came up an' told her they'd send him back with Pontius Pilate or somebody. She screamed some more at that, but the feller explained who Pilate was, an' she guessed it'd be all right, so she just gave Willie a lickin' for missin' the boat, an' later on she gave Freddie a licking for catching it, an' then they came home. "Well, after that Aunt Frieda 'lowed shejd go to Germany herself. What business had two fools with seven kids monkey- ing with time-ta- bles an' upsetting ever y body ? She reckoned that her an' the twins an' Tommy was just the right size of a part}', an' right ap- peal to sentimenta- lize Uncle Nabe to a frazzle. "We never heeard a great deal about Aunt Frieda's trip. We know she tried for two days to catch a train here, an' then she only got one by sleeping all night at the deepo. Anyhow her an' the twins an' plank. There was a gap between it an' the" Tommy slipped boat already, an' she was swingin' away. back into Boolaboo " Uncle Ben gave a yell an' picked little before a week was gone. Everybody ex- Freddie up in his arms, ran up the gang- pected it, so nobody said nothin' to 'an, plank an' jumped. He landed all right. except ma went over to borrow a sad-iron, Then he turned an' sang out to Aunt To- an' she said she noticed that little Tommy hanna stood up all the time an' seemed to prefer it. CATCHING THE BOAT. 697 ."Aunt Frieda brought the crayon portrait that the train they were to leave Boolaboo back in a> day or two, an' handed in her on was No. 13, an' she wouldn't take it. resignation without explaining, but I bribed It turned out after that it was the 32. Tommy back of the woodshed to tell me all They waited for the next, which was two about it. I bribed him with the promise of hours late, but they'd given themselves lots a knife, but I reckoned afterward that he of time, an' when they arrived at New York didn't need no knife. they had three hours to spare. " Well, it seemed that Tommy had been " They went for a walk, an' bimeby they reading all 'bout New York, an' he 'lowed came to a round building which everybody he wanted to see these streets what was seemed to be goin' in free, so they went made of tenderloin worse'n he wanted to go along, thinking to get their money's worth. to Germany. So he stowed hisself away on "Well, it was a fish orphanage, or a ferry-boat, an' they dragged most of the somethin'. There was fishes without noses, North River an' the bay for him, an' dis- an' fishes with bottle noses, an' fishes with covered nothin' but several other corpses noses four feet long, an' fishes that changed that didn't belong to Tommy, an' one or color, an' some that'd stare at you all day two disused ballot-boxes, but nothin' of no without ever changing color or wincing. value. "They were sure entertained, an' when "Then Tommy went to sleep, an' when the old man come to himself an' yanked he woke up he had pins an' needles in his out his timepiece, the boat had been due arm, an' he didn't know where he was, an' out some ten minutes, an' they were half an before he c'd remember he began to holler: hour away from the dock. ' ' Mommer ! Mommer ! and they found "They didn't say a word to each other. him. They just turned right around an' come "The boat was just docking from the back to Boolaboo. Supper was ready for sixth trip since Tommy disappeared. Aunt 'em, an' nobody said a word about it for Frieda yanked him out an' dashed up the three days. gangway without delay. A man said she "Then clad said to me: ' Son, it seems could make it if she run. She run. The like heaven intends you should go your- twins floated, Aunt Frieda swinging 'em self.' through the air an' only letting 'em touch " I asked the old man if he was sure of the ground every hundred yards. Tommy his authority, an' he claimed he was, so I brought up the rear, still looking for tender- bought me a new suit an' the family knitted loin. me ties an' socks an' sewed my name an' " When they rushed onto the dock the address from my hat to my shoes, an' I distance to the steamer was too wide to started off with a suit-case an' the crayon jump, an' it was gettin' wider. Tommy portrait of me. " found the tenderloin. He had it with him Well, it was too bad. When I got half- when he got home. way I remembered that I'd forgotten my "Well, ma an' dad sat in front of that pipe, but as I'd give myself plenty of time, crayon portrait of me for a long time that I went back for it. I'd got nearly to the eve'ing—holding hands—dad pulling his station again when I discovered that I put whiskers an' ma crying soft. the crayon portrait down to pick my pipe " 1 ' Ma,' said dad, that there gem of art up; so I had to go back again. I missed shall go to Germany to comfort Uncle Nabe, the train. I got one, though, later on. " an' to do justice to our son.' At Washington I had to change, an' I wish I c'd think so, dad,' said ma, somehow I got half-way to Florida before ' but somethin' tells me the boy ain't goin' I found out I was in the wrong train. I to heir that wealth. How can we get it got out an' went back. ' there ? "I had to wait an hour at Washington, "' I will take it myself.' but I did get a train, an' if I hadn't got " Ma screamed. ' You cannot go alone, on a tug instead of the ferry-boat, I 'low dad,' she said. I'd a got that steamer. " me,' said feller I wanted, an' ' We will go together; you an' "A asked me what dad; an' they draped the crayon portrait of I 'lowed I wanted to go to Germany. He me an' went to bed. admitted they wasn't goin' any further than " I reckon dad might have made it,, if Staten Island—an' they didn't. He said he'd left ma at home. First she discovered the fare for passengers was ten dollars, but G98 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "the steamer was too wide to jump, an" it was GETTpj" WIDER." " ' I "lowed that fifty cents would do him, an' ' Here's a telegram for you ! " he said it would. It was from dad. " "Two policemen showed me how to get ' Uncle Nabe says he'll bet me a hun- hack. They bought tickets for me on the dred thousand dollars to a nickel you'll be railroad an' another ferry. They said only one to catch the boat. Better miss it. they c'd get 'em cheaper than me, an' they Dad.' got me right across the island for two dol- " That's what it said, an' I sorter agreed lars. with die old man that a hundred thousand "Well, I heard the boat tooting as I here was better'n half a million hereafter. came up to the dock, an' I was determined I came home." by this time to get it. I jumped over two Sad Schmidt paused. trucks an' a feller selling vi'lets an' dashed "Did you get the hundred thou.?" I on as she was swingin' off. asked. " By this time Uncle Nabe had heeard of " I should've done, stranger, but there most of the attempts, an' I knew he'd be was one feller that didn't miss a boat. It relying on me. The boat was slipping went from Hamburg to Australia, an' the away, an' so was my chance at Uncle feller was the cashier in Uncle Nabe's bank. Nabe's half a million. There was just one An' now we are takin' turns in keeping way I might catch it. I climbed on a crowd Uncle Nabe. There's the whistle of the of piles, thinking I might make the jump eight-o'clock. I reckon you won't get it." from them to the boat, but by the time I I didn't. I ran to the station, just like got there she was well out, an' I was just the whole Schmidt family had done, but I makin' up my mind to swim after her when djdn't get it. I have never got one since a boy's voice hailed me. Avi th out first missing from one to ten. " 1 ' ' Hey, mister ! he yelled ; are you I m a hoodooed an' demoralized Ish- Lemuel Schmidt?' mael, but now that I've got this yarn out "' I am,' said I, waiting to dive. of my system, maybe the hoodoo is lifted. JAPANESE SMO KE-PREVENTER. FROM Japan come particulars of the inven- through the grate, meeting the supply of com- tion of a smoke-preventing furnace, in pressed air. By means of a reciprocating agitator, which compressed air is supplied to the fire the partially consumed fuel is caused to fall then through tubes forming an upper grate. The fuel upon a second grate of the ordinary type, where is first deposited on this grate and partly con- combustion is completed. One of the " smoke- sumed; the combustion gases pass downward preventers " is being sent here for examination. — — ; LULLABY OF THE WHEELS. BY J. EDWARD HUNGERFORD, Written for "The Railroad Man's Magazine." HEN you hear us softly clickin'. Don't it make your pulses quicken Don't it make you want to hum a little tune? When you're feelin' sad and weary Ain't our music kind o' cheery, Ain't there somethin' kind o' restful in our croon? Don't our smooth and rhythmic meter Make the weary hours go jleeter, When we're puttin' miles behind you on the fly? Ain't our measure soft, poetic. Like a soothin' anesthetic Don't it drowse you like a peaceful lullaby? Oh, it's spin, spin, spin. And it's work like sin; For we're racing with the seconds and they've got a show to win It's a swift old pace, And a reckless old race, But our only joy in being is to get some place! Oh, our days are mighty busy. And our mode of living dizzy, But it's seldom that we ever lose our poise; For a little slip in action Is a serious infraction. And it makes a heap of trouble for the boys; If we're weary and want resting. Then our song is shrill, protesting. And we screech along until we get release; But there's seldom much the matter. After all our kick and clatter. And we're silenced by a daub or two of grease. Oh, it's click, click, click. We're kept a-moving quick. There's no end of miles to cover and we've got to turn the trick; It's a swift old race. Yes, a dizzy old pace, But our only joy in being is to get some place! When the Con Was "Called." BY SAM HENRY. THE TRUE STORY SERIES. Nearly every raw recruit who joins the great army of railroaders has to take his share of ridicule from the old-timers. Sometimes, however, the fun goes a little too far, and unless some kind-hearted veteran steps in and takes sides with the new man, life is apt to prove anything but a bed of roses. That Mr. Henry " is still a clerk in Uncle Sam's mail service was due to an eagle-eye putting him wise " and helping him to call the bluff of a certain conductor. Turn about is fair play. TRUE STORY, NUMBER FIFTY-SIX. A Little Dr"ama, Enacted in a Mail-Car by Several Trainmen and a Dog, Which Was Suddenly Brought to an Unexpected Climax. l^rjT was not long after my appoint- When I started out from Bremond on ment as a relief mail clerk, with my first run, I noticed at each station that headquarters at Houston, Texas, the conductor and baggage-master kept hold- that one of Uncle Sam's mail- ing a consultation of some sort, and often sorters running from Bremond glanced in my direction. I was too guile- to Cisco was suddenly taken less to suspect anything, however, though I with what the chief clerk called the " home made the trip to Cisco, wondering all the fever," and I was sent to relieve him. way what they had been talking^ about. You have seen pictures of a Reuben Returning the next day, we were only about coming to town? Well, such pictures*might thirty minutes out when the conductor have been taken from real life of me at that opened my partition door, and seeing me, time. About the only thing I had ever trav- apologized for intruding, saying that he eled on was a Texas bronco. Just eighteen thought his friend Edgar was on. years old, right from the forks of the creek. It seemed that some one had given the I was as green as they make 'em. In conductor a very valuable dog at Cisco, and fact, I have often wondered how I ever got he had come to ask Edgar to allow him to to Bremond, one hundred and fifty miles leave it by the stove on some mail sacks until from Houston, without an escort. we got to Waco, his division point. Wish- Editor's Note: All the stories published in this True Story Series have been carefully veri- fied by application to officers or employees of the roads or companies concerned who are in a position to be acquainted with the facts. Contributors should give us the names of responsible persons to whom we may apply for such verification, in order that fruitless inquiries may be avoided. This condition does not imply any lack of confidence in the veracity of our contributors, but is imposed merely to give greater weight and authenticity to die stories. Scries began in the October, 1906, Railroad Man's Magazine. Single copies. 10 cents. 7OO WHEN THE CON WAS "CALLED.' 701 ing to be, agreeable, I insisted that he bring substantiate this remarkable story he brought his dog in anyhow, and I stopped my work in the baggage-master. to help him tie the animal, giving him every assurance that it would be well taken Accused of a Crime. care of. In about twenty minutes after the con- The judge became angrier than before. ductor left, the partition door was again He went into a long rigmarole about what opened—this time by a portly gentleman, the law would do to me, since I had been well-dressed, in a Prince Albert coat, and caught redhanded, with every witness against having all the earmarks of a Western law- me, and ended with the cheerful information" yer. He seemed greatly surprised, as the that he was a personal friend of President conductor had been, on seeing me there, and Arthur, and would see that I lost my job. also made profuse apologies-for disturbing He would leave the dog with me until we me, saying that he had thought his friend reached Waco, when an officer would take Edgar was in the car. charge of me. Knowing that I was innocent of wrong- Don Has Several Masters. doing, yet accused of a crime and with no one to defend me, I don't believe any one Edgar, he said, was a fine fellow, and was ever more miserable than I at that everybody liked him. Then his eye fell moment. Rather than face the disgrace of upon the dog. arrest, I had about made up my mind to " " Why, that's not you, Don ! he cried. abandon the train at the Brazos River, when Whereupon the old dog got up and wagged I heard a knock on die door next to the his tail. " That is Don. How did that dog engine. I opened it and found the engineer get there, Mr. Mail Clerk?" standing outside. He then told me that early that morning, He had a good-natured face that made me and before starting to the train, he had sent feel better at once. He came in and walked this very dog, which belonged to him, to over to the stove where the dog lay. school with his little girl. As the dog was "Well, Don," he said, "you are a great never known to leave her, he felt certain that old rascal." Then he turned to me. " Say, something terrible must have befallen his buddy, don't look so downhearted. Them child when the dog had been taken away. galoots are only playing a joke on you. That "Mr. Mail Clerk," he concluded, "in conductor and baggage-master are forever Heaven's name tell me quickly, how do you up to some monkey-shine. Now, buddy, if " come to have my dog ? you will carry out my instructions we will I explained how the conductor had give diem a scare they'll remember, and brought him in to me. The man ripped maybe it will break them of playing jokes. and swore. He informed me that he was Don belongs to that conductor, and he United States district judge, and that he wouldn't take a thousand dollars for him. would call the law down upon the one who " He can travel over the top of a string of had stolen his little daughter's protector. box cars as good as any braky, and I don't I tried to pacify him, telling him that believe he has missed a trip with that con- possibly the dog had strayed away, and that ductor in five years. Now, I am going to the conductor, knowing his value, wished to take Don up on the engine, where he is as take care of him. He would not accept my much at home as he is here. You put a explanation, however, saying that the con- lump of coal in this old gunny-sack, and ductor knew his dog, and he was certain that just as I slow down at the river, open the if he had seen him at the depot he would partition door and holler to the baggage- T have sent him home instead of bringing him master: Here goes that dog.' away. Finally he left, stating that he was going to have it out with the conductor. The Eagle-Eye's Plan. I felt very uneasy, expecting serious trouble between them. Directly they came " It will be so dark he can't tell what it is to my car together. The conductor seemed you are throwing out; but when he looks angry and denied knowing anything about around in your car and finds die dog is gone, the dog other than that he had seen me lead- he will run back to the coaches to tell the ing him down to the car, and he had noticed conductor. You had better bolt the door; that I had a hard time getting him in. To because that con is going to be some mad. — I 702 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Let them pound on it until they break it charges against you I will appear as a wit- down, if need be, but don't let them in. I ness for him." will be back as soon as I can get Don out After this little speech the conductor of sight." cooled down considerably, and after further I could have hugged the engineer for tell- thought on the matter he became very pleas- ing me it was all a joke, and was only too ant, and even tried to get chummy with me. glad to carry out his instructions. He was broken up over the loss of his dog. As we slowed down for the river I opened At our next stop he wired ba*ck to the the partition door and yelled to the baggage- agent at Fowler to hunt up the section-boss, master: "Here goes that dog; I'll get that who was a friend of his, and to tell bim much of the evidence out of the way." that when the train hit the curve at Brazos The baggage-master came to my door, River, Don, who had been standing close to looked in, and, seeing Don was gone, ran the door, had fallen out. The section-boss back for the conductor. I bolted the door, was to go to the river and look for the dog. as I had been told to do, and in about a He should have five dollars for his trouble, minute I heard such a pounding as no door and if he found him, ten dollars more. would stand very long. The engineer soon When we arrived at Waco, the end of returned, however, and, telling me to stand the division, the conductor came round to aside, he jerked open the door. In rushed try to persuade me not to report him. While the conductor, the baggage-master, and the he was talking the engineer appeared with judge. The conductor made a jump for me, Don, and the expression on that conductor's but the engineer caught him, and I never face certainly was a surprised one. heard such a " rolling " as he gave all three, He was so glad to get his dog back that of them. he took both of us to a restaurant and " You ought to be clubbed," he said. bought us a fine dinner. He begged us to " You have tantalized this kid all day un- keep the story quiet, for he said that he had til you have driven him to desperation, and been guilty of so many pranks along his now he's gone and thrown your dog into run that if diis were found out everybody the river. I was looking back just now and would have the laugh on him, so we prom- I saw something go over, so I came to see ised not to give him away. what it was. The tale got out somehow, in the course " The kid wouldn't tell me much about of time, and for quite a while, whenever it; but as I am on to your pranks, I am diis conductor would hit a station, he would certain it was Don. Don't you fellows know be asked if he had found his dog yet. It that this lad can have every last one of you even got to some of the officials, and a wag- arrested for interfering with the United gish despatcher, after issuing an order to States mails? That door is cracked where him, would often supplement it with the you tried to break in, and rf he prefers question: "Have you found old Don?" DUTIES OF A FIREMAN. THE fireman has certain duties to perform in duties, because if any failure of his to do these connection with firing the engine besides things was the means of lost time or complaint, the actual putting in of coal or feeding the boiler his services would soon be dispensed with. The with water. On a great many railways these examination of dampers and grates on the modern duties are specified by the working rules and locomotive is out of the question. On an engine regulations. The filling of oil-cans, getting stores, turned out ready for the train, the dampers are sweeping of the deck, and wiping off the engine «o longer under the control of die fireman, as or cab, though tending to show a man to be clean the engine gets its supply of .air above the ash- and tidy through attention to these duties, it is pan near the bottom of the fire-box. But there not always the case that such a man will prove is no doubt that it would assist a 'fireman greatly a good fireman. Of course, the getting of stores, in his work of firing if he were to make a pret- cleaning of lamps and torches, and the gathering ty close examination of the coal on the tender, up of tools, such as coal-pick, scoop, broom, etc., also note the condition of the fire to see whether are all very necessary items that a fireman must it is clean or not, or if it is clinkered, and this look after or be up against trouble on the road. before he begins to build a fire. Locomotive It is of no use giving advice on this part of his Firemen and Engineers' Magazine. — : — BAKER OF THE BAD LANDS BY W. T. PERCIVAL. There Are Times When a Man Would Give His Kingdom for Much Less Than a Horse. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. BAKER, a noted desperado, has held up the Pacific Coast Special, relieving it of bills amounting to $20,000. He makes his escape from the posse following him, steering his way for the arid and desolate Bad Lands where he hopes to hide himself. Coming to a little settlement of deserted huts, he takes possession of one and, after investigating his surroundings, finds he can stay comfortably in seclusion there until the hunt for him has subsided. He is startled one morning, however, by seeing a man coming down the trail. CHAPTER V. "Then, come down easy like," command- ed Baker, his right hand in the same po- " " Good Morning, Mr. Standish! sition. " Come down easy like, and keep your hands where they are." QPwSfc AKER .stood his ground and let The stranger did as he was ordered. - the stranger approach, In- Baker noticed that he was a youngish KMSC^ wardly lie cursed himself for man—perhaps not more than six and twen- mE-Jr* having ventured away from ty—with a sturdy frame, bright-blue eyes, ^mmtr his shack unarmed. It was a and long, yellow hair. His face wore the mighty foolish thing for a queer brown tan that quickly marks the man in his predicament to do, but he had blond men who seek the out-of-door life. He felt so very sure of himself that seemed possessed of a pleasant manner—in- This was no time for pondering over er- deed, the sunny disposition of the easily con- rors made; it was a time for bluff. Baker tented rippled in smiles over his good-look- was facing the approaching man, who, hav- ing face, notwithstanding the stern demands ing gained the hillside that led down to the of the desperate man who stood before him. deserted camp, now started on a trot. Baker He came down until he almost faced Ba- faced about and waited. ker, and Baker said: Not a muscle in his well-knit frame trem- "Now, walk ahead of me. Go into that bled. He waited until the stranger was with- cabin at the foot of this path—and we will in fifty yards of him, and then he whipped talk it over. Go ahead—don't turn around, his right hand to his hip-pocket and let it or I will not be responsible for my actions." remain there. He did exactly as the desperado ordered, The action was not without its desired walking straight ahead, looking neither to effect. Baker expected that his visitor would the right nor the left. With a lithe step he pull some sort of new-fangled weapon and entered the maison de Baker. let fly at him. Instead, he came to a sud- The lord of the manor quickly followed den halt, threw up his hands, and cried his trusty right hand on his hip—pulled up " Don't shoot!" a chair to the table, and ordered the visitor Baker did not remove his hand from his to be seated. hip-pocket. This formality over, Baker lost no time " Don't shoot," repeated the stranger. " I in annexing his six-gun. The newcomer mean you no harm." saw this operation and smiled. Began In the April Railroad Man's Magazine. Single copies. 1 cents. : — 704 THE RAILROAD MAN'S' MAGAZINE. " Only a bluff—that little game outside "I'll be perfectly square with you. Tell eli?" he said. me who you are, and I'll tell you who "I'm taking no chances," replied Baker. I am." " Sleep your hands upon the table. That's Baker was too old a bird to be caught by " it. Spread 'em out. Now, who are you ? such reasoning. His reply was this ques- " How about your putting your hands on tion: " the table, too?" said die other. "Let's • " Posse after you ? make it horse and horse." Standish looked quizzically. "I've got the drop," replied Baker, with Baker seemed to Wave waited an age a calmness that was more forcible than any before the young man answered: gun-play. " That's nine-tenths of the law. " Not that I know of." " " " Now, who are you ? He who hesitates falls into the trap At first Dick Standish was not prepared was writ large in the lexicon of Baker. to say. He, too, was in deep disgrace. For There was, or there had been, a posse a moment he pictured the card-room in after this man. Now to learn the reason Keeley's, the particularly brilliant cafe of why. Dunstan's Corners, some fifty miles back " What's your specialty—limited trains in the wilderness, where among the gold- or grub-wagons ? " asked Baker. diggers he was known as the slickest card- Dick Standish saw that it was useless to sharp of them all. _ parley further. He saw the gold and silver and chips He took a long breath and then purged on the table; he recalled the card that he his conscience with the awful truth. had deftly "palmed" from the discard to "Murder," he said, with set features. " fill his hand; he remembered Big Decker I killed—my man." jumping up and accusing him; he remem- Oh, the great glory of being able to say, " " bered having pulled his gun; the flash; the my man ! heavy thud of Decker's body as it struck Standish leaned back as if he were a the floor; the upturned table; the scattered real hero. He had sprung a bond of sym- cards and money—and the dash for free- pathy, he thought, that would easily wind^ dom that he made through the back door its tentacles in the heart of his inquisitor; with the smoking revolver still in his hand. but he had not reckoned the cold, calcula- He could still hear die men shouting as ting, keen, analytical Baker, in whom sym- he mounted the first horse he saw and rode pathy was the last sentiment to be into the night. The scurrying hoofs of his aroused. pursuers were still fresh in his ears. Just Just at that moment Dick Standish ex- how he had finally outwitted them he did pected many things to happen. He did not not know. All he hoped for was that he anticipate, however, the bloodless question was safe from the clutches of the law. that was immediately hurled at him by " Who are you ? " Baker repeated. Baker in the one word: "Pardner, I wouldn't like to tell—not "Where?" just now—if you don't care." It was too much for Standish. He had He smiled—and Baker seemed to begin looked for sympathy; he had been handed to understand that smile. This man was a stone. eidier a fugitive from justice or a detec- He jumped to his feet. A deep furrow tive on his trail. wrinkled his fair brow. Anguish distorted " I am unarmed," Standish went on. " I his face. He clenched his fists and stepped haven't so much as a cartridge on me. I back. Baker did not move from die chair am willing that you should search me." in which he was sitting. He just tapped " That's a queer way to be mousin' die handle of his six-gun in the most idle, around these diggin's, ain't it?" asked unconcerned manner, and let it go at that. Baker. "Who are you? Why do you want to " Like as not," Standish replied. " But know? Come—this isn't fair!" shouted it just happens that I'm without irons." Standish. " " Usually carry 'em, eh ? " Don*t get excited, my boy," said Baker, " I've owned some good ones." still unmoved. "Why did you come here?" "If you're a detective, out widi it! I'm Standish didn't answer. For a moment unarmed! I tell you, I haven't any shoot- " he looked at Baker keenly, and then said in'-irons on me! — BAKER OF THE BAD LANDS. 7-15 He seemed to be working himself into a he ask a question, not once did he ende&vor frenzy, and the calmer Baker remained, the to help the young man when he came to a more excited became the younger man. haltiag spot; but when Dick Standish had " If you'll just cut that out. come down come to die last chapter—where he ap- to facts, and tell me who you are, we will peared on the horizon of the deserted camp be able to reach an understandin' quicker," — Baker wanted to know no more. With a said Baker. "I'm not a detective—if that suddenness that brought the young man up will do you any good." with a start he asked: "Oh, thank you—thank you!" the "Why did you come here?" younger man cried in a great burst of "This is where they all come to," said anguish. Standish. He would have thrown himself on Baker's If he had been very quick he would body out of sheer joy had not that worthy have seen a faint, a very faint, smile play rudely pushed him off. around the corners of Baker's mouth. So, " Sit down now," Baker said, with a they all come here! Had he then found sternness that brooked of no refusal. " Sit only a hovel that was known to every high- down and behave yourself, or 1 11 have you wayman of the plain—had he put up at a doin' a dance to the music of this har- deserted hole known to every outlaw as a monica," and he tapped his six-shooter safe place in which to hide? with force. No—it could not be. The young man Standish sat down. As he did so he must be mistaken. However, the words wiped the tears from his eyes. They were took root in Baker's mind. It brought a there sure enough. Even the heart of the feeling of uneasiness to him many times highwayman is bound to quake under the that afternoon and night. strain of trouble. "So vou are Dick Standish?" said Baker waited until the young man had Baker. sniffled back a few sobs, and then he put " Yes," replied the other. " Do you " his pointed question with all the cleverness know me ? and directness of a trained lawyer examin- " Aren't you the chap who tried to pull ing a witness: off a case down at Quincy's a year ago "Who are vou, and where did vou come the night they brought a shipment of gold from?" from the East for the bank there?" The other braced his back for the or- Standish hesitated long enough to give deal. He hesitated just a moment to decide Baker a chance to answer for him. Baker whether he would tell the truth straight and did so in these words: untarnished or tinge the story with false- " You made a bull of that job all right." hood. " I should have got away with it," Stan- Perhaps it would be best to color the dish answered. distressing narrative that the armed man "If you hadn't been a kid you would across the table might not know that he have got away with it It was a fool trick was so desperate a character; but, as he for you to butt in where an older man looked straight into the eyes of Baker, he would have made his getaway-—and with thought he saw a friendliness, a comrade- the gold." ship, that he had not observed before. Standish did not answer. It was appar- ent that Baker knew him. The outlaw does not care to go into a history of his past or CHAPTER VI. a recitation of his deeds of daring, no mat- ter how clever they may be, unless he knows Baker's Greatest Problem. that the man who is listening is one of his rVCK STANDISH told his story. He kind. told it straight and true. He minced He sat sullenly for some moments, the no words; he omitted no details; he made picture of sheer desperation. Now he would it as picturesque and dramatic as he knew look at Baker with a despairing glance; how, and he did his best to let Baker think now he would scan die distance through the that he was not so much to blame— that the open door of the cabin, as if wondering shooting was partly justifiable. just how he could transform himself to the Baker listened without interruption. Not realms that lay beyond the serried whiteness once during the recital of the narrative did of the Bad Lands. 9 RR — ——! 706 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. At any rate, he and Baker could not re- Baker said no more. He only thought. main in die same place unless it was to be Again there was silence. Both men were on a plane of equality. He had told Baker occupied in some mental scheme. Baker was the untarnished truth about himself, and wondering just what he would do with Stan- dish. It would not to drive him from the now it was up to Baker to reveal his iden- do tity. place. Standish was not a coward. He had not It was evident that he knew too much shed tears during the narrative of his life about it. And Baker was not so certain that through fear or cowardice. He shed them Standish could be trusted. If he were sent because he was at the mercy of an armed abroad and captured, he might, in a spirit man. If Standish had been in possession of revenge, tell where Baker was hidden of the pistol—if he had even been armed and Baker had to hide. as Baker was—we would have had a much The shooting of a man in a mining-town different story to record.. over a card-game was of little consequence Standish was the first to speak. when compared with the hold-up of one " " Now, tell me who you are ? of the fastest trains in the West. Stan- He asked the question too abrupth dish's crime would blow over in a few rather too seriously. He had adopted Ba- months; Baker's would be the talk of keen- ker's tactics of examination. witted sleuths spurred on for months and The question didn't worry Baker in the years, perhaps, by the monstrous reward for least. Instead of replying, he started to his body—dead or alive. quiz Standish about the abandoned camp No, he couldn't afford to send Standish which both had selected as a refuge. away. Indeed, he couldn't even afford to " "What do you know about this place? let him go away of his own accord. He " Standish. would have to keep him there welcome or I It's called Gull City," replied — " ! " Ever been here before ? unwelcome, friend or foe. "Many years ago—when I was a little If it were elected that Standish was to fellow. My father came here with the gold be his sole companion in that lonesome ag- fever. We' settled in this place; but there gregation of huts and tin cans, what would was nothing doing." he do with the twenty thousand dollars? " " Where is your father now ? Would it be safe ? Could he trust Standish The young outlaw smiled and shook his with his secret? head. Would he dare to leave it out of his sight "All I remember," he said, "was that for even a second ? Would—great thunder we were loaded in a prairie wagon, and by —would he even dare to go to sleep at night ? the time that we came to some place out in Might not Standish kill him and make away Wyoming he left me to shift for myself. I with that glorious fortune? haven't heard fuom him since." "And why shouldn't he?" thought Ba- Untouched still, Baker went on. ker. "Wouldn't I do the same?" " You remarked that this place—Gull Men had been killed for a less sum than Cit) is pretty well known as a hiding- that. — " place for—such as you ? Yes, Standish was a problem. The more " You don't mean to tell me that you have Baker thought it over—with his hand on his " never heard of it? gun, and his eyes running the blond man's " I guess nobody knows these parts any length from hair to toe—the more his prob- better than I do," said Baker, " and I never lem narrowed down to two factors: First, heard of this place." he must make Standish his bosom pal; or. ''Why," said Standish, " whenever any second, he must kill him. of the boys makes a getaway he usually By the code that guided him, Baker dis- hikes for Gull City. It was the first place liked more than all else to take a human that I thought of."' life unless there was good and sufficient " If it's so_ well known," said Baker, reason. He knew the art of maintaining "aren't the sheriffs wise?" his position "and keeping the upper hand " They haven't found it yet. Why, them of a situation with a pistol within reach two fellers that robbed a bank down in the just as he was doing at this particular mo- southern part of the State hung around here ment—but he would rather have shared his for two years before they appeared. Then twenty thousand with Standish and let him they were forgotten." go his way than spill his blood. ! BAKER OF T] E BAD LANDS. 707 The soul of Baker was not the soul of a Standish turned quickly. The smile of coward. It was guided merely by certain boyish friendship played on his face. He psychological inconsistencies — phases of looked inquiringly. mental convolutions that are found in all "Sit down, old man." criminals unto whom one crime is right and As Baker spoke, he picked up his gun another crime is wrong. and thrust it between his trousers and shirt. While Baker was trying to solve this Standish returned to the table. He felt problem Standish was thinking of one thing that he would not have to a'sk the question only. that was uppermost in his mind again. His "Who was Baker?" first impulse was to hold cut his hand. He craved friendship then as he had craved it only once before—when his father had CHAPTER VII. driven away and left him to the mercy of the world. To Pass the Night. Standish took the seat across the table, C TANDISH arose and asked for a drink. and waited for Baker to proceed. Baker ^ Baker pointed to the tin bucket which was eyer ready to place himself on the de- he kept filled with water from the spring. fensive. He always managed to get in that Standish picked it up, and let a long draft position by asking questions instead of com- trickle down his throat. He set the bucket ing direcdy to the point. on the floor, paced to and fro for a moment, " Did vou ever hear of Baker of the Bad went over to the door, and looked out. As Lands?" he leaned against the door-jamb, with his "Many times," replied Standish. « " hands stuck deep into his pockets, Baker " Pretty bad record, eh ? took him in from a new angle. " He's considered a daring man. I would There appeared to be a streak of kindness not like to come up against him." in the young man. Around his eyes and "Well, you are!" about his mouth were evidences of a better Baker almost jerked the words from his breeding than usually comes to the average throat before Standish had time to think. outlaw. He had something of a kindly ex- Standish, his moudi wide with surprise, pression, something of genuine sincerity in looked into the face of the most noted out- his face and manner. law of the tune—the man whom he fre- Perhaps if he had not been deserted by quently had admired in secret, whom he a God-forsaken, unlucky fadier—perhaps wondered if it would ever be his good for- if he had had a chance to grow up among tune to see. Little did he dream that the good men, and had not been left to the meeting would be in such a place and under desperadoes of a forgotten country for his such conditions. mental guidance—he might have become a " You haven't heard of me for some good man with decent prospects. Thii more time?" Baker continued. Baker studied him, the more he became con- "No. It was thought that you were out vinced that he could trust him— to a certain of the country." point. "I was—out of the country; but I am Standish 's blue eyes took in the tiresome back again. It's a long story, Standish, and vista that he hated beyond words, until it I am going to tell you all about it. You are all seemed a mockery. He wished that some- here, and I can't afford to let you go. First j^liing might happen to blot it out of his of all, let us shake hands. We are both des- sight forever. * He wondered if beyond its perate men. I'm an old lad at the game. creamy expanse, which- the hot sun seemed " I've been through a score of battles, and to be making all the more disheartening, have come out with two things to my credit: there wasn't some place where a man might I am well over forty, and I have never live and be good—where he might go and killed a man—yet ! Secondly, I have never wipe the sins from his soul and start life been shot myself. There isn't a scar on my anew body. "Say, Standish." " You are only a youngster—hot-headed, Baker spoke. It was not in the sharp, foolish, romantic, and you play for small brutal tone to which the other man had be- stakes. Your kind stays a baby all through come accustomed. The words were rather life, and you're in diis game because—well, pleasantly uttered— for Baker. you gave the secret out yourself—your fa- 708 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. ther deserted you, and you were forced into must permit me to have my way. During it. You're brave, all right, but I wouldn't the day I can keep you in sight, and, re- trust you, Standish. member, I will. " I'm giving it to you straight from the "But I trust no man at night—not even shoulder, and you must take it. I wouldn't my own father. No, I wouldn't even trust trust you in the little scheme that I have in myself," and Baker brought his fist hard on mind. the table to emphasize the importance of this "While you and I are here it will be assertion. necessary for you to abide by certain re- " I haven't the smallest grain of faith in strictions—and always remember that this the highwayman at night," continued Baker. will never get beyond my eye or arm." " I don't care how honest he claims to be by So said Baker as he again tapped the pro- daylight, or how good a pal—at night he'd truding handle of his six-gun. steal the pennies oft' a dead man's eyes. I Standish eyed him with mixed curiosity ain't mingled with 'em for years without and pride. knowing 'em from the ground up." " I've got twenty thousand dollars here," There was a touch of resentment in the continued. He walked to and fro, face of Standish. Baker noticed it, Baker - and he and spoke with slow and peculiar delibera- drove home his argument all the more for- tion, now and then pFcssing his hand against cibly. that side of his body where the stolen money "Yes, I'd do it—and you'd do it. And rested in its leathern case. there ain't a man who makes his living by " You needn't worry where I got it. his wits who wouldn't do it. In the day- Think whatever you please. Some day I time he is a good fellow—but at night I rest may make up my mind to tell you ; but wouldn't trust him with a cent. assured that it is here, and in the kind of "Now, it comes to this, Standish. I've currency that goes anywhere. got to have sleep. I can't sit up all night " I came here because I was driven- here. watching you, and all you might say about I propose to stay here until the snow flies, being honest don't have any effect on me unless I am ousted by some objectionable while I'm asleep. visitors. It is a comfortable place. It will " This is the thing that keeps you honest, be pretty hot in summer, but then we will my boy," and once—more he sharply patted take it easy and will have to look only for the butt of his gun " but once you get this grub. shootin'-iron in your possession I wouldn't " I have fixed up all this," and Baker give a cow's hoof for your honesty or my pointed with pride to the changes that he money or life." " — had made in the old cabin, and its comfort- . I promise " broke in Standish. able appearance— " and there is a lot more "You promise nothing," interrupted that we can do to make it pleasant." Baker. " " Thank you—thank you ! said Stan- Standish was completely dumfounded. In dish, rising and holding out his hand. his heart he was willing to be honest and Baker interrupted him with a short ges- withstand temptation: he would try hard to ture. do so. But he couldn't help wondering "Not yet," Baker went on. "Wait till I just what Baker intended to do with him at have finished." night. He went to the bucket, refreshed himself with a drink of water, and then continued: " I have a proposition to make to you, CHAPTER VIII. Standish. If are willing to stay here you Something Missing. with me until the snow flies, if you will do as I say and obey me strictly, if you will T> AKER paced the floor of the cabin for play a square game, and act strictly on your some moments. His arms were fold- honor, I will give you one thousand dollars ed, -but his right hand was on the handle of when we separate, and you can go your the instrument that was the real master of way." the situation. Standish made another effort to show his He was in deep thought—he was plan- appreciation, but Baker's hand silenced him. ning the manner in which his partner by " There is one thing more— I will trust force would be obliged to pass his nights. you to a certain limit, but beyond that you Standish sat playing with his fingers, now BAKER OF THE BAD LANDS. looking at the floor, now looking at the erect, of choked with weeds. You go over there lithe figure of the thinking man. He wanted and pull die weeds out and throw them well to speak; he wanted to assure Baker with up the hill." all the fervor he possessed that he would Standish sauntered out to die patch of do just as Baker said—and that he would potatoes, and looked at the weeds with a be a good little boy at night. critical eye. Did you get away with any of that mon- He smiled to think of being brought to " ey in that poker mix-up ? Baker asked, such work; lie had never done it before in with his customarv abruptness. all his life. If it hadn't been for the little " Not a cent," said Standish. " The table white blossoms on the plants he doubted if was knocked over, and I had just time to lie could have told which were potatoes and get away." which were weeds. " How much was in the pot?" Finally he got clown on his knees and went "About three hundred." at the work with a will. . " " How much in cash ? Baker, sitting on the stoop, watched him " Nearly all of it." intently for a while, but he soon returned "And you were cheating?" to the question that was uppermost in his Standish didn't quite like or quite under- mind. Even if Standish declined his propo- stand the force or-the necessity of this cross- sition, he would have to be made a prisoner examination. at night until some disposition could be For a moment it angered him. One more made of him. question like that, he thought, and he would It now seemed to be well toward the noon spring at the throat of Baker, bang his head hour, and Baker knew that whatever he did against the wall, and get possession of the would require the greater part of his time pistol and the money. before darkness fell. Whatever happened, What right had this man, who would not he began to realize that he did not care to account for his own ill-gotten gains, to be so sit up all night by the sleeping form of Dick inquisitive and lordly? But these were only Standish. flashes of thought. The diplomatic side of Baker arose and walked over to one of Standish quickly got the upper hand of him, the deserted cabins, about a hundred feet and he replied: from his own. It was one of the best of " I admitted that when I told you my the array of rotting hovels of Gull City. story." Baker had given it second choice when se- There was a touch of irony in his voice lecting his abode. He opened the door and that Baker liked. He sought no further looked in. That would do pretty well. information from the younger man, but after Then he remembered that during his first a few seconds of silence he faced Standish tour of investigation about the place he had and said in measured tones, that there might seen a rusty anvil in the middle of one of be~no misunderstanding: the streets. He recalled that when it first " I am willing to carry out my part of the met his gaze he had said it might come in agreement that I have just made if you are handy some day. willing to be tied up at night." Now he wandered about until he found it "How?" was all the surprised Standish again. He leaned over to pick it up. The managed to say. sun had turned it too hot for immediate " I don't know," Baker answered. " I handling, so he dragged it to a shady place haven't made up my mind yet. I have to to let it cool. Finally he carried it without figure that out. It ain't so easy as it seems." much effort to the cabin which he had se- Then he walked over to the door of the lected as the " prison " in which Standish cabin and looked out on the vegetable should spend his nights, and set it in the garden. middle of the floor. "Standish," he said, "do you see diat " There," he said to himself. " Now, if stuff growing over .in that corner with the I had a chain that could be run through small white flowers?" that hardy-hole and then fastened to Stan- Standish walked over to the door and dish's leg, I would sleep at night—all right, looked in the direction indicated by Baker's all right. finger. "And if the hardy miners who tried to "That's potatoes," Baker went on. " It's make Gull City a populous and prosperous a pretty good patch at that, but it's kind center," thought Baker, " left anvils and " 710 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. stoves and tin buckets and all the things ise to live up to even-thing you ask; your that I have collected to make me comfort- money will be safe with me." - able, they must have left a piece of chain "Standish," said Baker, "I wouldn't somewhere." trust my own father in a game like this. If Standish would soon find out. he were here—and were "a minister of the Returning to the vegetable garden, Baker Gospel—I would treat him in the same way. called to Standish. The latter, who was still I could not sleep at night unless you were on his knees working with a will that sur- chained up." " prised even himself, popped to his feet and Well," said Standish, " if I prove to you " smilingly responded. that I am honest, will you quit this game? " " Standish," said Baker, I want a piece "That remains to be seen," responded of chain. Look around among these huts Baker. " But the chances are mighty slim. and see if you can find about ten feet or Remember, Standish—and I hate to keep so—and not too heavy, Standish." telling you about it—I need my sleep." Standish looked in the direction of the For a moment there was silence. Stan- dilapidated territory indicated by Baker's dish, his hands on his hips, looked at the sweeping hand. formidable array of anvil and chains; Ba- "And when you find it, Standish, bring ker looked at Standish. it to me. I will be in that cabin," and the " It's agreed," said Standish. ! hand again indicated the objective point. " Good " replied Baker, and the two Standish ambled away lazily. Baker re- clasped hands to seal the deal. turned to the cabin. There he stood in the As if guided by some hypnotic motive, doorway and saw the younger man idly Standish returned to the potato patch and kicking the dust with his feet, now stooping, bent over the weeds, and succeeded in pull- now picking up something, now looking ing up a few tomato-vines in the bargain. about gingerly. Baker turned his attention to the comple- He roamed thither and yon and then dis- tion of the Oregon boot. The heavier chain appeared behind one of the cabins. He must he ran through the hardy-hole of the rusty have been out of sight for some fifteen min- anvil. Bringing the two ends together, he utes. When he again appeared before Ba- ran the dog-chain through the last link of ker he had about four feet of rusty wagon- each end. At the one end of the dog-chain chain and a small dog-chain. was a ring; this served to form the end of a Baker's eyes gleamed with joy as Stan- loop. Finally the boot was finished. dish handed them over. The two men had dinner as the sun was "Just the things!" exclaimed Baker. going down. Just as the last rays of twi- " " Where did you find them? light were fading to the far shores of the Standish was about to give a minute de- night, Baker ordered Standish to make tail of the success of his quest, but evidently ready. Some old bedding was gathered Baker did not care to hear. from the other cabins and placed on the He threw the chains to the floor. floor. A bucket of water and,a chair were "Now, Standish," he went on, "here is placed hard by. All this was overlooked the point of my argument. Listen careful- until the last moment, and in the fast ap- ly, and let me know if you will agree." proaching darkness it had to be done He stopped as if to prepare the younger rather hurriedly. man for a life sentence. When all was ready Standish was ordered " I will give you one thousand dollars, to sit down on die chair. As he did so. Ba- as I said under the previous conditions, if ker picked up the unattached end of the you will agree to remain in this cabin every dog-chain in one hand and reached for night with that anvil chained to your leg. Standish's leg with the other. I am to see that you are made fast to it As he did so, a queer look came into his the last thing every night, and I will release face. He drew back to the middle of the you every morning." floor. He was suddenly puzzled. " I couldn't drag that very far," said Standish began to marvel at this change Standish as he viewed the makeshift Oregon in his jailer's attitude. boot with a smile. " Couldn't you make it Baker brushed the* cold sweat from his a little easier, old man?" There was a brow. "I can't make this work! I must tinge of sadness in his voice. " I will prom- have a padlock ! ( T o be c ntinued. ) " A Family Railroad BY DENNIS H. STOVALL. W. S. Barnum and His Two Sons, John and William, Fill Every Position on the Rogue River Line, from President to Track- Walker. HERE is a family railroad out a combination smoker, baggage and ex- in southern Oregon— a rail- press, makes two round-trips daily, con- road that pays big dividends, necting with the overland trains at Medford. and which is not only owned The elder Barnum is engineer, William is by one family, but also oper- fireman, and John is conductor, brakeman, ated by it in every department expressman, baggageman, and mail clerk. from section boss to general manager. It It would appear, at first glance, that John is called the "Rogue River Valley Line,*' has the hardest job on this train; but as and it extends from Medford to Jackson- the baggage is consigned straight through, ville. Medford is located on the main line and the express and mail is not distribu- of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and Jack- ted at way - points, the major part of sonville, the county seat of Jackson County, his duties is that of punching tickets and is six miles away. collecting fares. Jacksonville is the pioneer city of that Between each trip of the passenger-train, part of Oregon, and would have been a which is called the " Barnum Flier." a point on the Southern Pacific had the neces- freight-train goes over the road, on which sary bonus been forthcoming, but the in- the family fills the same relative positions. habitants had got along for forty years Then there is still another " train " on this without a railroad, and believed they could line. It is the " Benzine Special, and con- do quite as well for another forty without sists of a gasoline motor-car. It is the first one. They refused to raise the bonus, and over the line in the morning, and the last the Oregon and California Railroad, which in the evening. The motor-car was placed later became a part of the Southern Pacific primarily to carry mail, but was soon found main line, missed Jacksonville by six miles, a convenient method of getting to the county causing Medford to spring into existence, seat at an early hour in the morning, and which soon became the metropolis of south- of leaving it in the evening after the regu- ern Oregon; "but Jacksonville remains the lar train had left. county seat, in spite of every effort to re- The construction department of this fam- " " move it, and the family railroad thrives ily line is conducted as simply and econom- thereby. ically as is the operating department. At The Rogue River Valley Railroad does a odd minutes the older boy is shot over the big business in passenger and freight traf- road on the motor-car, stopping here and fic, besides carrying mail and express. W. there to slip a new tie under a rail or ham- S. Barnum and his two sons, John and mer down a loose spike. There is no wreck- William, supply the necessary brain and ing-train to replace derailed cars, for when- brawn to conduct the affairs of the entire ever die " Flier " or the " Benzine Special line, and they have the business thoroughly takes to the ditch the passengers are sup- systematized. The passenger-train—which posed to give assistance in clearing the block- consists of two cars, a passenger-coach and ade and getting traffic moving again. 711 — 712 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " - There is a depot at- each end of tiie line There's more money in railroading,' the where you purchase your ticket thirty min- engineer and general manager replied. utes before the departure of each train. "Are you and your boys really making " You cannot get it earlier, because the wages ? the curious one asked. ticket-agent is also the conductor of the "Oh, yes, fair wages," was the answer; train, and has not arrived yet. A local tele- " we usually clean up five thousand a year." phone takes care of all train despatching, It is doubtful if there is a railroad in the conductor merely yelling in the receiver, America that gives better returns, in pro- just before starting: "We're comin'!" portion to the investment, than this " fam- The office-work is done by the father and ily " line. The monthly balance-sheet would the boys in the evening after the trains are make some capitalists envious, and possibly run in for the night, as there is no service lead them to the belief that they have not after dark on this road. There are no idle a complete monopoly on keeping the figures moments for the Barnum family. Nowhere nearly all on one side of the ledger. on earth is there a harder working crew of The Rogue River Valley Railroad was railroad men. The three of them work, not built in 1891., and has paid its owners from because of absolute necessity, for the line $5,000 to 36,000 every year. It has never is a paying business, but because they find been tied up by snow blockades, wash-outs, real enjoyment in it. or strikes. Labor disturbances that are Not long ago, while the elder Barnum, often the terror of other railroad systems clad in overalls, his face besmudged with do not interfere in the least with operations soot and grease, was busy oiling the loco- on the Rogue River Valley line. motive, just before the "Flier" made its Two things worry the Barnums, however. regular trip, a curious passenger strolled up One is the fear that coal may get exor- and asked him in an offhand way why he bitantly high, and the other that their road did not quit the railroad business and go to must ultimately become a central link in a fanning. chain of railwavs across the State. FREIGHT-GAR HELD FOR A BIRD. Pere Marquette Conductors Secure Permission to Side-Track Domicil of Mother Bird and Little Ones. FIVE conductors of freight-trains in Michi- By the time the car returned to White Cloud, gan recently joined in a letter requesting half the men on the railroad knew about it, and the division superintendent at Saginaw to side- Conductor Willoughby, who hauled the car to track car No. 12,270 They gave their reason. Baldwin in train No. 210. was on the lookout When car No. 12,270 left the repair-tracks at for it ; and so was Conductor Hess, who brought Muskegon, after a period of enforced inactivity, - the car to Saginaw in train No. 56. Every con- and the " bad order " chalk-mark was removed ductor on the line by this U'me knew the number from its side door, Night Switchman Patrick of car 12,270 as well as a part of the freight it Hawkins told Conductor Stark of train No. 81 carried. that he wished the car could have remained a There was not a man in the employ of the little longer in the yard, for a sparrow had built railroad who would have hurt the mother-bird a nest in the car, and had a family of little birds or one of the little ones. Still, it was a perilous within. Conductor Stark had no discretion in the life for the little mother and the young, for the matter, so the car was hauled to "Fremont. mother never flew away for a worm with any cer- When train No. SI arrived at Fremont, the tainty of finding her nest where she left it. mother bird was found riding on the top of it. And so five railway conductors. Stark, Battema. Sometimes flying above it, and sometimes riding Burritt, Willoughby, and Hess, joined in a writ- upon the car, the sparrow followed to While ten report concerning the car and the family it Cloud, where the car became a part of train No. contained, and requested that the car be side- 101. But Conductor Stark told Conductor Bat- tracked until the little birds could fly. tema about the bird; and at Big Rapids, where Vardmaster Murray consulted the officers of < the car was dropped. Conductor Battema left the road, and issued an order that car No. 12,270 word with the trainmen about the sparrow. was not to be moved or molested until further Conductor Burritt hauled the car back to White ordersT" That order held good till the young birds Cloud, leaving the door open a little so that the were able to take flight Pere Marquette Monthly Sparrow could get in to her nest. Magazine. " 5 FEET 5 vs. 6 FEET 3. BY LILLIAN BENNET-THOMPSON. Campbell Was Blessed with His Share ot Courage, but Then He Was the Bigger Man. " 'OU can't come in ! a bully, you call me a coward and fire Campbell raised his pre- me without a minute's notice. occupied eyes to the burly "Come on, now, hit me if you like!" figure of the yard boss, he taunted recklessly, as the other, with who stood blocking the an inarticulate bellow, started toward him. doorway of the round- " I'm not more than half your size—or house. And Campbell was really angry. Wheelock 's. It's safe for eidier of you " "Why?" he questioned in surprise. to hit me— I can't hurt you ! " 'Cause you can't, that's why,'; was the Healey hesitated for a moment, then surly response. "We don't want no white- laughed contemptuously, yet somewhat livers in these yards. I ain't keeping on shamefacedly. half-baked apologies fer a man! And "I wouldn't touch you,'" he sneered. I ain't got no use fer cowards, neither." "Wouldn't dirty my hands on no such " He spat out the words vindictively. carrion. Git out ! - " That's all. You can git, ' he pontin- "Yet you're willing to back Wheelock ued. " What's more, if I catch you hang- up in the dirty game he is playing,'" flashed ing 'round my Nellie again, I'll break you Campbell. in two—unless Jim Wheelock sees you "Git out!" reiterated Healey, turning first. She's given her word to him, and from the door. " I ain't got no time to he won't stand fer no seclr fellers as you argue with you." trying to cut him out. It takes a man Campbell turned on his heel. " to do that. Beat it ! "All right,'" he flung over his shoulder. Instinctively, Campbell clinched his fists. "I'm going; you're the boss—here. But Then he thrust his hands into his pockets, if Nellie don't want to see me, she can tell pushed his cap onto the back of his head, me herself. I'm not going to quit on your and stared for a moment at the yard boss say 'so. I'll suit myself." without speaking. "You will, eh?" The doorway just He was a small man, somewhat below- vacated by Healey was suddenly filled by medium height, with light hair and mild the huge form of Wheelock. " Well, you blue eyes. Just now one of the latter was guess again ! You keep away from Nellie, badly discolored, and a large, livid bruise or I'll give you some more of the same marred his forehead. dope I handed you last night. " I suppose I've got Wheelock to thank "Ain't had enough yet? Nellie's my for this," he remarked slowly, looking the gal,- see? She don't want nothing to do yard boss full in the face. " I knew he with no down-and-out— was pretty low down, but I didn't give Here Campbell was informed in detail as him credit for being able to drag you to his pedigree, his present status, and his to his level. future destination. " I've done my work all right, haven't He made no reply. Indeed, there is no I? You know you haven't any kick about adequate retort that five feet five can make that. Healey. Just because I can't put up to six feet three under certain circum- my fists with that great hulking brute of stances, notably when the latter is only too 7i3 714 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. ready to back up his arguments with a their resources had been strained to the pair of fists the size of hams. utmost to send him to the local high-school Followed by a stream of abuse, Camp- and business college, he had scorned to ask bell left the yards/and walked moodily any help, but had plodded along alone, down the track. In spite of the unmistak- writing his usual cheerful weekly letter. able threats conveyed by Wheelock and There were times when he had gone hungry Healey, he was determined to hear at first to bed, but this he kept to himself. hand what Nellie had to say about the Nellie Healey had been the one bright matter. The girl had always been kind to spot in his dull and almost hopeless daily him, and he did not for a moment sup- routine. How Sam Healey had ever reared pose that she would concur in the estimate such a daughter was beyond Campbell's her father and the engineer placed upon power of comprehension. Pretty, gentle, him. and refined, the contrast between her and A few minutes brought him in sight of the big, blustering man she called father the pretty cottage where of late many of could hardly have been more pronounced. his evenings had been spent. Nellie was A pleasant friendship had sprung up sitting on the top step of the porch, indus- between her and the young oiler, and had triously peeling some apples. flourished until it had grown into a deeper Campbell opened the gate, and, at the feeling on his part, at least. Then his click of the latch, the girl looked up. For visits had aroused the antagonism of Jim an instant their eyes met. Then, without Wheelock, and he had stepped in and made a word or a sign of recognition, she picked this as unpleasant for Campbell as he up the pan, rose, and entered the house. could. "Nellie!" called Campbell as she van- The yard boss much preferred to see his ished within. daughter receive the attentions of the best The door slammed behind her. leaving freight engineer on the road, and the man the young man standing on the gravel path, who would some day, in all probability, cap in hand, speechless with astonishment sit on the right side of No. 7, the crack and dismay. passenger flier, than those of a penniless Nellie, too! For an instant he could young man, holding one /of the poorest- not believe it. Of course, her father had paid positions on the pay-roll of tie com- told her of the occurrence of the night pany, with no prospects of anything better before, but that she should credit his in the future. biased version of it. without giving Camp- Campbell had stubbornly refused to give bell a chance to justify himself— to con- in, with the result that Wheelock had demn him without a word—was a severe picked quarrel after quarrel with him, and blow to the young man. Replacing his had announced his intention of " breaking - cap upon his head, he slowly retraced his his face,' a threat which his superior size steps to the railroad, and. turning to the and strength would have enabled him to west, started along the ties. carry out with little exertion. Dully he wondered if fate had any more The bad feeling between die two men, thrusts in store for him. He had received fostered by Wheelock's covert sneers and a good education, had been carefully open allusions to Campbell's lack of brawn brought up in a small town in the Middle and initiative, to say nothing of what " W est, and, at the age of twenty-four, had Wheelock termed Campbell's " butting m held a good position in the office of the at Healey s, had culminated in a war of E. and C. in the city to which he had words, ending in Wheelock's planting a gone from his Western home. couple of smashing blows on Campbell's He had lost this position through per- face, which had sent the smaller man reel- sistent ill health, and somehow, since then ing to the floor, dazed and bleeding. things had never gone right for him. Of course, Healey had understood the Everything seemed against him. in league circumstances perfectly—had even egged to prevent his making a living. When his Wheelock on—but that Nellie should prefer last cent was gone, he had applied for the brutal bully who called a man a coward and secured the job of oiler in the freight- because he was unable to cope with a fellow yards of the E. and C. road. twice his size hurt Campbell's pride more He had been ashamed to let his parents than he cared to think. His mind was full know of his misfortunes: and feeling that of bitterness against the two men and the " 5 FEET 5 VS. 6 FEET 3. 715 girl—against the fate that seemed relent- There were no houses within a mile or lessly bent on grinding him down into the two, and the homes of the factory employ- gutter and starvation. ees were for the most part on the other side In his search for work there was, how- of the mountain. ever, one last resort. At the head of a spur Reaching the spur track, he observed a track branching off from the main line stood large flat rock, half hidden from where he the factory of Mallon Brothers Company, stood, and wholly concealed from the view manufacturers of boxes. It was just possi- of any one passing on a train a short dis- ble that he could secure a job there. It was tance up the incline. It would make an ex- not his intention to remain in the neighbor- cellent resting-place, and he decided to hood longer than was necessary, but before utilize it. he could leave it was essential that he save The gully was wide but shallow at this enough money to pay his railroad fare. point. A little farther on and it disap- A shrill whistle sounded behind him, and peared altogether. Gaging the width of the he jumped from the ties to the other side of gully with his eye, Campbell made a spring the deep gully bordering the track to wait for the other side. As his feet struck, a until the train should have passed. It stone moved under him—turned— rolled. proved to be a long freight, bound for He made a frantic clutch for the over- Mallon's, with Jim Wheelock in the engine- hanging bushes, but they slipped from his cab. As the locomotive puffed laboriously grasp, and he fell ta .the bottom of the em- up the grade past the young man the big bankment, one leg doubled cruelly under engineer leaned from the window, and, spy- him. He heard a sharp snap, and a sicken- ing the waiting figure, burst into a jeering ing pain shot through his right knee, his laugh. head struck a sharp stone, and he knew no " " Having the time of ycr life, ain't yer ? more. he remarked ironically. "Going far?" When his senses returned the October sun Blind rage seethed up in Campbell's was sinking in a blaze of autumn glory in heart. He shook his fist after the vanishing the cloud-flecked west. For a moment or locomotive as he yelled: two he lay still, trying to remember where "I'll have the time of my life with you! he was and how he had come there. Then I'll get you yet, do you hear? I'll get you a twinge of pain in his leg brought realiza- yet!" tion of his plight. Another burst of laughter floated back He tried to move, and fell back, gasping from the engine, now almost hidden by the in agony. Great, beads of perspiration thick trees that lined the track. A cloud of broke out on his brow. From the position black smoke slowly ascending the mountain in which he lay there was no doubt of the spur, at the. top of which the factory stood, truth —his right leg was broken below the showed Camp"bell the position of the freight. knee. He decided that it would be worse than A sudden movement a few yards below useless to apply at the factory for work un- him caught his ear. He opened his lips to til Wheelock had made his return trip; the cry for help, but with an uncontrollable im- big engineer would only hold him up to pulse closed them again without uttering a ridicule"" and spoil whatever chances he sound. might have. The one thing to do was to "There! " said a low, husky voice, which seek out some convenient spot near enough he perceived came from the tracks of the to the track to see the passing of the train, main line a short distance away. "When and await the return of the freight. Be- No. 7 comes along here I guess there'll be sides, it was some time after midday, and doings! he felt hungry and tired. " She's due in half an hour," came the His eye pained him a good deal, and his reply in a guarded tone. "Passes at 6.03. body was bruised and sore as a result of the We'd better mosey along and come back la- unequal encounter of the night before. He ter. I've got the spikes all right, and started the track, a there's trace of of the slowly along . keeping no anything out way. lookout for a likely place to sit down. The No one'll notice, but it won't do for us to trees grew thickly along the embankment, be seen hanging around here if any one and in some places the low bushes and run- should happen to pass. The track-walker's ning vines were so thick that he had to tear just gone. I seen him just before we come a way through them. up. Come along." — ! — — 716 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. The voices ceased, and Campbell could head. The freight was coming down the hear their owners moving off through the spur! woods. With a thrill of horror, he realized Campbell kne^w what it meant. The that they had removed the spikes holding freight, not the flier, would strike the track the rails to the ties—that they meant to where the spikes had been removed. It wreck No. 7, the east-bound flier, due, as would spread the rails and hurl itself into they supposed, in half an hour. Since the the ditch track-walker had passed, there was little And YVheelock—YVheelock, his enemy fear of detection. would go down with his engine, down to That the scoundrels were unaware of the death and destruction. change of schedule, of No. 7, which would Campbell laughed aloud in savage joy. bring her along an hour later than their YVheelock! The man who had called him calculations, mattered little. There were no a quitter—who had said he had a yellow other trains due in either direction, and no streak, and struck him down. He would one passed that way save an occasional die—die beneath tons of twisted steel tramp. Nothing could save the flier if she crushed—mangled struck the frightful trap they had set for her. But Nellie? The thought of the girl Campbell shuddered. Must he lie there, stilled die delirious laughter on Campbell's powerless and helpless, unable to prevent lips. Nellie loved Wheelock. whatever he the disaster? Shouting would avail him might be or might do. She had promised nothing. The factory was too far away for to marry him. any one to be attracted by his cries, and What would she say to the man who had it would serve only to bring down upon him let him go to his death—who had gloried in the vengeance of the two wreckers who had the suffering it had been in his power to just gone, and who would await the con- avert? The young man shivered. summation of their plans at no great dis- No! Wheelock mustn't die. He must save tance. Wheelock for Nellie. She loved him—she No! if anything were to be done, he must wanted him. She didn't want a poor devil make his way up nearer the factory until he of an oiler, who couldn't hurt a man twice could make some one of the men hear him his size. Well, it didn't matter. Nothing Could he do it? Already the torture of his mattered much, except that he wanted to broken limb and wounded head was becom- rest. Perhaps he had better rest a little and ing almost unbearable. then go on. His head drooped. He waited a moment, then took a long Above him the whistle screamed again. breath, turned over, and began to work him- The freight was coming! He must hurry! self along toward the track, dragging his Feverishly he began to crawl upward. His injured leg after him. hands were torn and bleeding from the sxav- The pain made him sick and dizzy, but el and stones; jagged splinters gashed his after what seemed hours of unremitting palms as he pulled himself along by the effort he had spanned the few feet that lay edges of the ties; but he felt nothing, knew between him and the rails at the top of the nothing but that he must stop the freight wide, shallow gully. before she reached the main track. Resting a moment on the narrow space The black bulk of the locomotive swept beside the ties, he gritted his teeth and into view around the curve ahead, running dragged himself doggedly on. A violent slowly, but already beginning to gather nausea seized him; his brain whirled. The speed. Campbell propped himself on his trees beside the track swayed in a mad, un- hands and raised a feeble shout. There was canny dance. Foot by foot he won his tor- no sign from the oncoming monster. An- tured way upward. other cry broke from his lips. Through a There was a strange singing in his ears; haze he could see a head poked through the lights flashed before his dimming eyes. cab-window. " " For an eternity he dragged himself on in Stop ! Stop ! Danger ! he cried with exquisite agony, then he sank beside the all his strength, waving his handkerchief track. The western glory had faded; twi- over his head. light was descending over the woods. Oh, The whistle sounded, but the engine did just to be able to rest—to rest not slacken its pace. Suddenly a whistle shrilled. The sound Horror seized upon the man by the track. penetrated his dazed senses; he raised his Wheelock could not stop! He must believe — ;! : " " — 5 FEET 5 VS. 6 FEET 3. 717 that this was an attempt on-Gampbell's part " Miss Healey will tell you what you want to " get him," as he had promised. He would to know, but you must be quiet and not talk not stop! to her," he said. He nodded to the girl and Nothing could stop him now. He would left the room. " go on to his death. And Nellie— If Wheelock ? " Campbell murmured as Wheelock should die Nellie turned to him again. Dully Campbell wondered if the engineer " Safe. The men were captured." " would stop for him dead, since he would not " And the flier—was any one hurt? for him living. "No one—but you." The girl's eyes With a last despairing effort he raised his filled with sudden tears. bruised and battered body half upright. " Don't cry, Nellie," Campbell begged her " Main track — spikes out — wreckers feebly. " Don't. I'm all right. Don't cry, Danger! " he shrieked. Then he flung him- please. I know you're sorrv." self directly of " Sorry Sorry " " across the rails in the path ! ! sobbed'the—girl. Oh, the oncoming train. if you had been killed! I —I He heard a wild scream of the whistle, a "Would you have cared if I had, dear? grinding of brake-shoes—caught a glimpse Cared?" he questioned anxiously. of a great dark mass sweeping down upon She nodded, unable to speak. him—and then a bottomless, black abyss. " But, my dear, I'm down and out. I When he opened his eyes again there were haven't a penny. I'm hurt— I've lost my roses above him—red roses on a white back- job. I have nothing to offer you. I'm a ground. He put out one groping hand failure—just a failure, Nellie." " something felt soft beneath it. Where was But it isn't true—none of it's true ! The he? He let his gaze wander about him. as superintendent was on that freight, Jack. He his brain slowly shook off the mists of un- had been up to see Mr. Mallon, and was consciousness. coming down in the caboose. He saw what He was lying in a small white bed in a you did, and he says when you are well long, low room. Sunlight streamed in the enough you are to have your old place in windows. A smell of iodoform permeated the office, with more money. Your salary the air, and beside the bed stood a table began the day you stopped the freight. Jim holding numerous bottles and small glasses. said—he said you were a hero, Jack." At the window, her back turned toward Campbell heaved a deep sigh of thanks- him, stood a slender, white-gowned figure. giving. Presently he said He made an inarticulate murmur. The fig- " The city will be awfully lonely, Nellie, ure turned and came quickly to his side. without you." "Nellie!" he whispered incredulously. The girl's head drooped a little, and a "Hush! You mustn't talk!" soft flush stole up over her cheeks. The soft voice seemed to him the epitome " You needn't be alone unless—unless you of all music. want to, Jack," she whispered. " — " Where—how " Somehow his tongue But Wheelock ? He said you—" halted curiously. "It was a lie!" she interrupted fiercely. "You are not to talk. The doctor said " I never cared for him—never said I did. so." The girl took one of the emaciated He told me things you had said about me hands that lay on the white counterpane and told me you were a coward, and I — stroked it gently. " You believed him ? " Campbell's voice " " How long have I been here? was wistful. She nodded again. "Nearly two weeks. But you are better " But now I know it isn't true. You " now. You must be quiet." didn't, Tack! You couldn't! " " I remember now." He was silent a mo- "Nellie! Nellie—dear ! " " ment, living over -that terrible time. The Hush ! she said suddenly, remember- door opened and a grave-faced man entered. ing the doctor's injunction. " You are not Campbell glanced toward him with a faint to talk, you know." smile. Campbell looked up at her, a wonderful " She won't let me talk," he complained. light in his sunken eyes. " Can't Iy There are so many things I want "Nellie!" he whispered. His voice was to ask about." so low that she bent over him to hear. He The doctor bent over, feeling the pa- put up one arm and drew her down until his tient's pulse with a practised touch. lips found hers. Ten Thousand Miles by Rail BY GILSON WILLETS, Special Traveling Correspondent of "The Railroad Man's Magazine." No. 12. — IN THE NEW SOUTHWEST. Garcia, the Intrepid— Game Lillian McKnight— Sara Rooke, a Real Heroin* What One Nite Opr. Saw—Some Ghosts That Meant Business. J, senor, it was the most big, large have many flat open cars of the straw for sacrifice of a man's self for the the burro-bed. most big, large purpose. Ah, but " Garcia he get off his engine to smoke that Senor Jesus Garcia was the the cigarito. Just then he see his brake- one locomoti/e aingineer with man light a cigarito also : and one moment, the one most big, large heart. two moment, later Garcia see the spark from And when he save the whole town the brakeman's cigarito fly over the straw in from the destroy by fire, he make the name the flat open car. And Garcia he speak in as the savior Si, senor, Inglis the of the town. the cry:' name of Garcia live forever as the most '"Fire! ' great hero among all these hombres and " Garcia he then run to that straw on fire,, senoritas of the railroads in the Mexico." and he begin beat out that fire with his Thus, my old friend, Florentine Romero, hands and his feet. Also he call upon his the veteran and scholarly telegraph operator brakeman to give the assistance; but the fire for die Mexican Central Railroad, began spread most quick. All Garcia can do is his story while we sat in the office el tele- hleester the hand and foot, while the flames grafo in the railroad station at Juarez, Mex- grow into most big. large fire, which soon ico, on the Rio Grande, opposite El Paso, reach those two cars of the dynamite and Texas. set diem on blaze. "The Senor Garcia," Florentino con- " By these time most three hundred of tinued, "he was the best aingineer on the the miners, die smelter men, and the Ameri- narrow-gage railroad that Tun from the Pi- canos gather by the fire to fight it. and the lares mine to the city of Nacozari. This senoritas stand by to do the watch. Nacozari «have the seventy thousand person, " But preetty soon Garcia speak Inglis and is most close by the Rio Grande, and and shout: " ' onlv one leetle way from that citv of Doug- Run ! I have the two airs of the dyna- las, in the Arizona. mite! The explode will keel mucha many. "That day Garcia run his tren de cargo Run, senores and senoritas! Run, queek! 1 (freight-train) into Nacozari and up to the "By these moment one thousand, two smelter of the Americanos in the meedle of thousand, citizens have come to these place. the town. When they see the two cars dynamite all " He stop by the warehouse. Right be- on the fire, and hear Garcia speak Inglis hind his aingine he have the two cars of the with the most grand excite in his voice, they dynamite: And behind the dvnamile he run avvav most fast. ' Series began in June, 1910. Railroad Man's Magazine. Single copies, 10 cents. 7 I8 ! ! — TEN THOUSAND MILES BY RAIL. " " All except the one senorita who is mucha And so, senor. that is all, except that bonita, and who cry out in the grand dis- the bonita senorita that gave the entreat to tress to Garcia: Garcia to run away with her in order to " ' Come, Jesus mio. Thou shalt come live—that senorita she polish her eyes with with us in order that thou shalt live.' the tears for the one year, the two years, " Madre de Dios! Garcia gather that after that explode. " senorita in his arms and keess her on the The town was save and Garcia was the one cheek and then on the other cheek and savior. And so I have come to the finish, ' say: ' Adios, senorita! senor." " " Then he leap into that aingine and push But what became of Garcia, the heroic away the machinery that starts that aingine, engineer? " I asked. and so, alone on his train, he take it away "Ah, senor, there was no funeral for toward the country that is open and on the him, because there was no body of Garcia desert. to lie in the service. They could not put "What you think Garcia think when he him down in the sand of the desert to bury. pull that train on fire with the two cars of Never, sehor, did they find one most little dynamite out of the Nacozari? Ah, he was small piece of that body of Garcia. We the one brave man, Garcia! He think the must entertain, senor, the suppose that whole town get the grand destroy unless lie Garcia was killed." pull that dynamite into the country that is the desert. The Girl Who Was Game. " Garcia run that train on fire out from Nacozari, and come to the section-house There was revelry by night in Roswell. where ees thirteen hombres of the section. New Mexico, for the reason that the parents " And then there comes one big explode of one of Lillian McKnight"s pupils were that dig the hole into the earth the thirty feet deep! " The roar of the ex- plode shake the city of Nacozari like the dog shake the rat. And the locomotive and the cars of that train of Garcia fly most everywhere through the State of Sonora, so that no one can find any two parts of that train of Garcia in any one place. " And that section-house on the place of the ex- plode ! It is not to be seen at all after the big ex- plode! And the thirteen hombres of the Mexico that were in that house become all dead " One leetle muchacho the twelve year in age son of the Americano. Senor Chisholm, who is the conduct of the train of Garcia—that muchacho was doing the play at two hundred feet from the sec- " ALL EXCEPT THE tion-house, one rail- when ONE SENORITA WHO - road tie, flying the three IS MUCHA hundred feet, hit the boy BONITA." and kill him : 720 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. giving a dance in honor of the engagement " She'll never again be seen walking with of the fair Lillian to Frank Miller, a loco- him, neither," observed one of Frank's fel- motive fireman. low firemen. Lillian was the youngest and most popu- "Fact is," said a third railroader, "I lar school-teacher that Roswell had ever reckon Lillian McKnight won't front up known ; and Frank was the handsomest and alongside of Frank Miller to get unionized best-dressed fireman on the Santa Fe system in marriage nohow nor never." in New Mexico. "Maybe you're right and maybe you When they walked down the street to- ain't—about the unionizing," spoke up En- gether, people turned and took a second look gineer Zieger with some heat. " Frank will at them—just because they were good to be out of the hospital in less 'n seven weeks look at. —and I allow that the school-teacher is That night, as Frank waltzed with Lil- some of a game girl and no piker." - lian, his engineer, Ben Zjeger, informed all Nearly eight weeks later Frank Miller the young folks at the party that Frank was was discharged from the hospital. Attend- a Beau Brummel and a Don Juan, and then ants helped him into a buggy that stood declared that Frank should have been a waiting at the gate. Frank took the reins, " " dancing-master instead of a shoveler of coal and with a Thank you, boys ! Giddap ! for a railroad. drove away. Before the revelry ceased that night Five minutes afterward a buggy pulled Frank took Lillian aside and said to her: up in front of the domicil of a certain wool- "Let's surprise 'em. Lillian. Let's cut grower and sheep-herder of Roswell. In the engagement short. Let's marry on the the vehicle sat Frank Miller. He was whis- q.t. to-morrow night. I've about a hun- tling a merry tune. A man appeared on the dred and thirty dollars saved up, and I front porch. allow that's enough for a start at house- " Good evening, Mr. McKnight," said the keeping." man in the buggy. " Is Lillian there ? Ask "Let's," replied Lillian laconically, but her to come out, please." •with a world of meaning in her eyes. Lillian flew out to the bu£«ry. "All right," said Frank. "I'll get in "Are you game?" asked Frank. from my run to-morrow night around six "Bet!" answered the school-teacher, but o'clock. You meet me at eight—over at her expressive eyes threw Frank a look no Judge Walter's. Meantime, keep the blinds less eager than on the night of the dance. drawn on that pretty mouth of yours." "Then get in," said Frank. The next evening,, just as Lillian was " I'll get my hat," she answered. about to slip out of the house to meet Frank "No. Come along without a hat," in- at the judge's office, her father came in. sisted Frank. saying Lillian stepped into the buggy, Frank "Bad news, Lillian. Frank was hurt again cried "Giddap!" and they drove to-day—over at South Springs station." away. "The poor boy!" cried Lillian, taking Half an hour later the strangest wedding off her " wedding " hat. " Where is he ceremony ever witnessed in Roswell took " now ? place in front of the house of Judge Welter. "In the hospital here." A buggy stood by the curb, and in it sat "The poor boy!" repeated Lillian, again Frank Miller and Lillian McKnight. By putting on her "bridal" hat with its "bri- the side of the buggy stood Judge Welter dal" veil. "I'll go to him at once. How reading the marriage-service. Round about did he get hurt?" stood a crowd of uninvited guests listening "Fell between the engine and his train." first to the judge's questions, and then to the "Badly hurt, father?" responses of the two in the buggy. " " " Go see for yourself, my daughter." Amen ! finallv said the judge. Meantime, over at the station Engineer "Giddap!" said Frank Miller—and he Zieger, Frank's cab comrade, made this drove away with Mrs. Frank Miller sitting remark to the railroad men who had gath- by his side. ered to hear the story of the accident: A buggy rolled into the grounds of a "I reckon that the school-teacher -will pretty little cottage on the edge of the town never again be seen dancing with Frank and stopped at the front porch. A Mexican " Miller, boys. Too bad, ain't it? servant came out wheeling an invalid-chair. : — TEN THOUSAND MILES BY RAIL. 721 He and the bride helped the groom out of station at Grande, New Mexico, and con- the buggy and into the chair. tinued northward toward Folsom, on the The groom was then wheeled into the Colorado-New Mexico line. house, and the electric lights in the cosily Folsom was eighteen miles away. En- furnished living-room revealed this inter- gineer Walter Druid had a clear track and esting spectacle a fairly easy grade, as grades go in that The groom's legs ended at the knees. mountainous region, and he allowed his But the groom's eyes were no less bright than they were at the dance on the night before he met with his acci- dent. "Frank!" cried Lillian, looking around the room with astonished eyes. "Why, here's more than a hundred and thirty •dollars' worth of furniture right in this one room."' " Surest thing you know, Lil. It cost me hundreds to fit vupJhis ranch." The next morning the Mexi- can servant wheeled his em- ployer down to the railroad station, and into the railroad restaurant. PEOPLE TURNED AND TOOK " Good morning, Mr. Mil- A SECOND LOOK AT ler," said the waiter behind THEM—JUST BE- THEY the counter. "How's the boss CAUSE WERE GOOO this morning?" TO LOOK " " How's business ? said the AT. boss. "Well, I'll be on the job myself every day now, and iron steed to take the bit in its mouth, as I'll run this business right. it were, and race along to make up lost My wife will be here every dav, time. - too." About a mile north of Grande station, Frank Miller was the proprietor of the however, Druid's fireman suddenly shouted: railroad restaurant at Roswell. "Shut her off! Stop her!" One of the first men to enter the restau- Druid's hands worked at air and throttle rant that morning was Engineer Zieger. as he said quite calmly: " " Congratulate you, Frank," he said, ad- "What do you see? dressing his former fireman. "Well, I al- "A man waving a red lantern," answered ways did tell the boys that the school-teacher the fireman. was some game of a girl and no piker. I The train, squeaking and grinding, came hear you outfitted that honeymoon cottage to a stop. The man with the red lantern something scrumptious on the very same it was an ordinary farm lantern with a red day you bought this railroad hash-joint. bandanna tied around it—came to the side It's now about first pie-time in the morning of the cab and said: " for me, Frank. Make it custard. Frank, My name's Cook. I'm a farmer. My die railroad must have settled with you lib- land is down here in the valley. But I'm eral." a son of a sea-cook if I know whether or not " Thirteen thousand spondulicks," re- I'll own anything you can call a farm at " " plied Frank Miller. Say, I ain't so worse ! sun-up to-morrow." Conductor Nichols, in charge of the train, The Disaster at Folsom. came running up asking breathlessly: "What's all this fuss about?" At 11.55 one night, a Colorado and "Let me introduce Mr. Cook," replied Southern train, an hour late, rushed past the the engineer. 10 R R 722 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "What's the matter?" asked Conductor "Thinking of what?" Nichols, turning to the man with the ban- "Well, that gal didn't say 'good-by.' danna-covered lantern. She said 'Farewell! ' And I'm just won- " "You're to go no farther toward Fol- derin', that's all." som," answered the farmer. " You're to " Druid," said Conductor Nichols, speak- " stand still." ing to the engineer, guess we better back "Well! Well?" down to Grande station." "The night telephone operator at Fol- All the rest of that night and the follow- som," the farmer said, "called me up 'bout ing day and half the next night that Colo- half hour ago and told me to get quick upon rado and Southern train, with its hun- high ground. She's all right, that gal is. dred and more passengers, stood at Grande I just naturally admire her spunk." station. Almost hourly came more and "You mean Sara Rooke?" asked, Con- more harrowing news of the disaster at ductor Nichols. "Why, all we boys know Folsom. her well. But how did you come to stop Nearly all the buildings in the town had us?" been carried away, many lives had been " She said I was to warn any up train," lost, hundreds of head of cattle had been- the farmer replied. "Said I was to warn swept away; crops in the valley had been you that all the bridges between here and cleared from the fields as closely as if Folsom are probably down, and for you to burned off; the rails of the Colorado and take no chances." Southern had been twisted like wire; the "But what's the matter? Great Scott, depot at Folsom had collapsed like paste- man! Why should the bridges be down, board; Section Foreman Guerin and his and why should you go to high ground in seventeen-year-old daughter had been swept the middle of the night?" away, with their house, while spectators on the high ground listened to their agonized Coming Down the Canon. cries. "And what about that plucky telephone "Flood," answered the farmer, helping operator at Folscm who called up so many himself to a chew. folks and warned them to get out of the " Why didn't you say so in the first way ? " asked Conductor Nichols of the place?" expostulated the impatient con- telegraph operator at Grande. "Does the " ductor. "Big flood?" wire say anything of her ? " Reckon ! That telephone-gal said that "You mean Sara Rooke? Sure thing! a wall of water thirteen feet high and a Hers was the most heroic stunt ever per- mile wide was sweeping down Cimarron formed by i a woman in the whole West Canon and was wiping Folsom out of ex- country. istence." " A little before eleven o'clock last night " But—hang it, man," exclaimed the con- she was warned that the wall of water com- ductor excitedly, " if that was the case then ing down Cimarron Canon would reach her —great Ca?sar! What about that telephone building in less than an hour. operator herself? How did she happen to "Did she fly? No; she utilized that be still at the switch? Haven't you done hour in calling up telephone subscribers in " anything to save her life ? the valley and warning them. Fort)' per- " Don't frenzy up like that," said Farmer sons have already publicly proclaimed that Cook. "You've .got all night to wait here. they owe their lives to her. Farmer Cook" What's the hurry? Well, that telephone- was the last man she called up just before girl says to me: the water struck her building." " ' Mr. Cook,' she says, ' you're probably "She's dead?" asked Conductor Nichols the last subscriber I shall be able to warm in an awed voice. I've already warned over forty of our sub- "No one knows. She hasn't been seen scribers to get to high ground. I hear the nor heard of." water coming near. They told me an hour At midnight on the second night, how- ago to leave '.his building—but I'm taking ever, news came from Division Superin- a chance in order to give notice to the folks tendent Shack^ saying that the last bridge in the valley.'" had been repaired and that the train could " Well, is that all ? " asked die conductor. proceed with extreme caution. " Yep. Except I'm thinkin'." 'About four in the morning that train TEN THOUSAND MILES BY RAIL. 723 pulled into stricken Folsom. One of the his bones froze stiff, his hair stood on end, first sights tiiat met the eyes of crew and and he thought that he was looking upon passengers was two-men carrying an im- the ghost of Darwin's missing link, provised stretcher on which lay a body cov- At four o'clock in the morning the flier "you've got all night to wait here, what's the hurry?" ered with a horse-blanket. Behind them from St. Louis, bound for Oklahoma City, came a long file of silent marchers, walking pulled into the station. Job went out into two by two with bowed heads. weather many degrees below zero, said " " One stepped aside and came close to the Howdy ! to the conductor, then retreated train-crew and whispered: to the warmth of his office. " It's the body of Sara Rooke, the tele- After the train had crawled away, leaving phone operator.'" Tulsa once more in its usual condition of "Where are they taking her?" asked vast peace, Job sat close to the stove and Conductor Nichols in a low tone. read. "To the town hall. They're using it At four-thirty, however, he stepped to the for a morgue." table by the window to get, his pipe. He "Where'd they find her?" asked En- happened to look out of the window. gineer Druid. " It's ' it,' for it's neither man nor wom- " Twelve miles down the canon—with her an," Job thought. headpiece still gripped to her ears." He tried to give vocal expression to the thought, but could not. The words con- Seen by the Nite Opr. gealed in his throat. Standing outside the window, with its Job Morrow, night operator of the Rock chalk-white face pressed close against the Island station at Tulsa, Oklahoma, had an pane, stood a white-clad figure. Its eyes experience on an arctic night in February, were fixed on the operator in a vacant stare. when, for a moment or two, the marrow in Its lower jaw was dropped, leaving the — 724 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. mouth wide open and giving to the ghastly further to command the crooked tree to face the appearance of boundless stupidity. shoot up straight. Job tried to step backward, but found- The voice mounded muffled. The words that he had become mummified. He couldn't were articulated rather than spoken. Job budge his feet; could not lift his hand to said to himself: " wave the thing away from the window; It can't be a ghost, after all. It's too could not so much as avert his eyes so as too solid for a spook. It looks like a man. not to see it. Maybe it's a drunk." Suddenly, however, the figure turned from The figure turned and looked down at a the window and glided down the platform tiny irrigation ditch that flowed past the eastward. platform. Job as suddenly regained power of move- " Stream," muttered the thing, " reverse ment and speech. Thrusting his head over thy current." the table and close to the window, he peered It waved its arm up-hill, to indicate the out, hoping to catch a last glimpse of the direction in which it wished the water to retreating thing. run. " It sure must be a ghost," he muttered, Seeming bored, however, by the perversity " because it moves as noiselessly as a rub- of the stream in continuing to flow down- ber tire." hill instead of up, as commanded, the figure Still peering out with his face close to now started up the platform toward Job. the pane, Job wondered why he hadn't felt "No," murmured the operator as the the usual rush of wind and rattling of thing glided along, "it's not a drunk. It chains that he supposed always accompanied walks too straight for that." an apparition of the kind. As the figure passed him, Job had the Just then the white horror reappeared, thought that perhaps it was a dope fiend. coming westward, and again stopped at the "And yet, no," he murmured, contra- window to stare with hideous eyes at the dicting himself. "Were he drugged, he night operator. would he lying down dead to the world." Job threw up hjs hand protectingly and As the figure continued on down the plat- side-stepped as if the thing outside were a form, Job further soliloquized: highwayman threatening him with a gun. " He's in a hypnotic trance. Some hyp- Only for a brief moment the figure paused, notist, maybe a thousand miles away, is then it glided down the platform westward'. directing this man's movements." Job wondered what he should do. A full The thing had come to a standstill, with two minutes he waited, expecting to see the one foot planted forward of the other, as if thing again return to the window. a marching soldier had suddenly become a " It's gone," he finally said to himself. statue. He tiptoed to the door, opened it cau- Job hastened forward to take a closer tiously, and looked out. A rush of icy air look, and reached the thing's side just in came in. He peered eastward and saw the time to see its lower jaw wagging again. white figure standing immovable at the end It said: of the platform, seemingly engaged in pro- " This train is running too fast. I can't found contemplation of a very crooked tree sleep. Porter, open the window at my feet opposite the station that was outlined by and throw me out onto a quiet strawberry the starlight. bed." Job put on his overcoat, seized a lighted "Rarebit fiend," Job softly assured him- lantern, stepped out, and stole down the self. "He's riding a nightmare." platform toward the thing in white. The figure now suddenly deigned to no- The thing now moved sideways, like a tice Job. Staring at the operator vacantly, crab. It faced the approaching operator, as when it had peered through the window, however, who now, by the light of the lan- it wagged its lower jaw to say? tern, perceived that it wore very thin white "Porter, there's a mule walking around pajamas and was in its bare feet. in my berth. Take him into the day-coach, The thing, staring at the crooked tree, its where he belongs." mouth still wide open, moved its lower jaw. " Crazy man," thought Job. _" He's mad. Out of its throat cam- the words: He's an escaped lunatic." "Tree, straighten thyself." The figure, now leaned against the wall It extended its arm skyward, "as if thus of the station and threw back its head. The " ; TEN THOUSAND MILES BY RAIL. 725 mouth opened still wider, the eyes stared " The last thing I remember," said the more vacantly than ever, and then — the overalled Mr. Janson, of New York, "was yawning chasm in its face gave forth a undressing in my berth in the Pullman of sound like the tearing of a sheet; then a the flier. I was bound for Oklahoma City. sound like the sawing of a plank; then a But when the train stopped here I must sound like the swan-song of a burro. have arose and sleep-walked out of the " I've got it," murmured Job excitedly. Pullman and let the train go on, leaving "He's a sleep-walker. He's a perambula- me- slumbering upright on your platform. ting somnambulist." The phenomenon is that while asleep I The operator held the lantern close to the didn't feel a bit cold—though attired only man's face and said in his natural voice: in a suit of madras." "Aren't you awful cold, old sport, in that suit of gauze?" But the figure in white snored on lustily. Job, holding the lantern still closer to the figure, no- ticed that it wore no less than three diamond rings. Job be- gan singing, "Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes." All of a sudden the figure stopped snoring and ejected from his open mouth, " I won- " der who's kissing her now ? "The mule!" shouted Job Morrow. The figure closed its mouth with a snap. It made a shud- dering movement. It seemed to feel the thrill of cold air it's 'it,' for down its spine. It shivered. MAN NOR Its teeth began chattering. The light of human intelligence came into its eyes and it spoke, saying: "Why are you poking that lantern into my face? " Search me," answered Job. " What you " doing here ? " Search me," replied the man. " Gee, but I'm cold! How'd I get here? What " am I doing here ? When the gray dawn began breaking " Come inside," said Job Morrow. through the window of Tulsa station a loco- Ten minutes later the erstwhile ghost motive whistle was heard, and Job jumped was hugging the stove in the Tulsa station, up, saying: now dressed in overalls, an ancient jumper "Here comes your train, Tom Janson. and a pair of shoes that Job had cast off. I wired ahead, ordering your clothes put He and the operator were laughing like off the flier at Oklahoma City. You'll find boys. your raiment there in the railroad station. "Tom Janson," said the night operator Don't fall asleep on the way over." to the thing, " you may be a salesman trav- eling out of New York City, as you say What the Southern Men Saw. and you may be holding down a good job, as you tell me you are; but all the same, It was a starless, pitch-black night in it's not safe for you to be traveling alone in August, the night following that on which Oklahoma. Know what you need? You the worst cyclone that ever swept through need a keeper and a trained nurse and a the middle West struck the yards of the night watchman." Southern Railway at East St. Louis. " 726 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. In the switchman's shanty in those yards, the door and soft-footed into the darkness at the hour of twelve, there were gathered a of what was then perhaps the darkest rail- number of the Southern's engineers, fire- road yard around St. Louis. At that time men, helpers, and switchmen, including En- there were no electric lights in the yard, nor gineer Powell, a man who knew no fear even switch-stand lights. As Powell crossed except in the presence of a " ghost." the tracks, nothing broke the gloom save the Present, also, was Harry Rigsby, now headlight of his own engine on track 10. employed by the Missouri, Moreover, the yard was Kansas and Texas Railway strewn with the wreckage of at St. Joseph, Missouri, cars, locomotives, and build- but at that time acting as ings representing, the devasta- a switchman for the South- tion wrought by the cyclone. "the space in which we had to turn was so narrow that we all went down— v em in die East St. Louis yard. It was Cars were piled one upon the other, and in Harry Rigsby who saw Powell's ghost with them, as Powell knew, lay the bodies of sev- his own eyes and lived to tell me the tale. eral men who had been killed. In the switchman's shanty, Engineer Pow- Meantime, the railroaders in the switch ell, after listening with wide-open mouth shanty were talking about Powell and his and bulging eyes to a ghost story that Harry fear of ghosts. One engineman said: Rigsby related, tiptoed to the door, opened " Those^ corpses out there are sure on it a crack, peered out, then closed it softly Powell's nerves." with a shudder. "Yes," assented Switchman Harry Rigs- " " " " Gee ! he exclaimed. It's spooky out by; if he sees anything queer out in the there." yard to-night he'll sure think it's a ghost." " It's time to bring out your engine, ain't Just then something happened that made it?" asked one of his fellow engineers. Rigsby's words seem prophetic. The door " Yes," replied Powell. " But—say, there was almost knocked off its hinges by Powell are a lot of dead men out there in the wreck- falling against it trying to get inside. He age left by the cvclone, ain't there?" reeled into the shanty and fell on the floor "Well?" in a dead faint. "Well, I just can't—say, Jim." Here His clothes were torn in several places, he turned to his helper. " You go bring his lantern-globe was broken, and he Bad a out my engine to track 10, will you?" scalp wound from which the blood was run- The helper went away, to return ten min- ning down his chalk-white face. utes later, saying: They poured water on his head till he " She's ready for you on track 10, revived. " " " Powell." Boys ! he cried in awed tones. I've Powell nervously and reluctantly opened seen a shost for sure ! — ' a TEN THOUSAND MILES BY RAIL. 727 " . " Nonsense ! answered Rigsby. You're cracked voice, speaking a strange language. just nervous, that's all." It sounded like the gibber of a female luna- "Nerves nothin'! I know a ghost when tic. The gibbering continued, too, till all of I see one. At first I heard funny noises. a sudden—they saw die ghost. I listened and heard the rattling of chains Yes, out from the wreckage forming the just the_kind of a noise that always goes temporary sarcophagus of five railroad men, with a ghost. Then I heard the tread of stepped the thing. footsteps—very soft footsteps. Rigsby said his heart seemed to stop "I looked—and boys," he continued, "I beating. tell you I saw a thing with bright eyes Toward the men, who stood rooted in and the thing itself was as big as a cow. It their tracks and all aghast, glided the ghost, had a white face, and it said something to dragging chains that clinked and clanked over rail and ties with frightful distinctness. It gibbered persistently, and it beckoned to the men, throwing out long, lean, lanky arms. "Yes," Rigsby told me afterward, "it was as big as a cow, as Powell had said, and its eyes were as large as dish-pans. There were eight of us in that bunch—ei?ht brave men ambushed by that ghost between two piles of wrecked cars. The eight of us, as if actuated by a single thought, turned to fly from the awful apparition. " The space in which we had to turn, how- ever, was so narrow that we all went down in a bunch like a football team. While each man tried to extricate himself from those on top of him, up came the ghost and walked round and round us, talking its gib- berish and laughing in cracked tones— IN A BUNCH LIKE A FOOTBALL TEAM." cackle that was simply appalling. " The first man to extricate himself from me in a shaky, shivery voice and in a lan- the football pile was Engineer Frank Wil- guage I didn't understand. I tell you, it son. He sat on the ground, and suddenly he was the ghastliest tiling I ever want to see. exclaimed: It a ghost. If think talking was you I'm 'V Well, I'll be hanged if it ain't a hand- through the armholes of my vest, come out organ monk, dragging its chain ! and see the thing for yourselves." " Just then, too, into view came the Ital- We decided to investigate. Armed with ian who owned the monkey. clubs, pokers, and rocks, we permitted Pow- "The meeting of that Italian and his ell to lead the way toward his ghost. monk was like that of a mother who has Suddenly, as they reached the spot where found her long lost child. It was only the the wreckage was piled highest, and under pathos of it that restrained Powell from which five men were known to be lying thumping that Italian good and plenty. dead, the crowd of ghost-chasers heard fun- " Say," added Rigsby, " if ever you hap- ny sounds. They listened and—yes, they pen to meet Engineer Powell in the East St. distinctly heard the rattling of chains. Louis yards, don't breathe a word to him "There!" whispered Powell with chat- about monkeys. On his scalp, to this day, " " tering teeth. Didn't I tell you ? Listen ! he carries a scar from the wound incurred All hands stood stock-still with cocked when he butted a coal-car off the track while ears. All plainly heard a voice— a hideous, beating it away from that ghost." If youc wheels are slipping it's time to be using your sand. Grit is the secret of grip.—Diary of an Old Engineer. THE MAN WHO LISTENED BY BENJAMIN RUSH THORNBURY The Portly Gentleman's Sequel Was a Tale that Not Even the Superintendent Ever Heard. (jgwpN the smoking-compartment of a ed in making the two streaks of rust and a west-bound train right-of-way one of the best paying little i Pullman on the HPjSjjl were three men. Two of them, roads in the country. one the Superintendent of the "He left the road when the Transcon- road and the other an Ex-Rail- tinental took it up, and went into business road Man, were engaged in con- for himself. I was a general utility clerk versation on the merits of railroaders in in his office at that time, my duties ranging general, and concerning those who main- from running down claims for dead stock tained their positions through official rela- to sorting the old man's mail. tionships in particular. The third, a well- " It was in the latter capacity that I came groomed, Portly Gentleman, sat quietly in across a letter, one morning, from Tom the corner, puffed a cigar, and listened. Goodell. Tom was a brother of the old "Railroading isn't a profession; it's a man, who had been in the lumber business science," the Ex-Railroad Man was protest- up north, but who had taken a sudden no- ing. " I've always maintained that these tion that he wanted to be a railroad man. relationship jobs are a detriment to the The letter was a request for a job. " service, and it's been my observation that, as Joe Kelsoe was trainmaster up at Cen- a rule, the incumbents never make good." terpoint at the time; and, having come up " I've known some exceptions to that the ladder from a cub operator, naturally rule; in fact, I have one in mind now. had some set notions, like~~yourself, about "I'll admit that it sometimes mixes up Tom's kind, and wasn't at all backward the service, as it did in Tom Goodell's case; about expressing them. The boys said he but, as I say, he was an exception to the cussed a blue streak when he got the old rule." man's letter ordering him to send Tom out He squinted reminiscently. The Ex- braking on the local to learn the road. Railroad Man crossed his legs and settled " Well, everybody knew at once what that back in his seat. The Portly Gentleman in meant, and there was a general howl all the corner regarded the face of the speaker along the line among the trainmen, not offi- intently for a moment, then calmly resumed cial, of course, but a lot of talk, and, as his smoking. usual, that's about where it ended. " " It was in the old days on the M. I. and About three months after that, Ed Bur- N.," continued the Superintendent, " before ton, a freight conductor with a through run, it came to be the fashion for general man- came within an ace of getting into a smash- agers to have anterooms to their offices, with up with an east-bound passenger on an or- brass-buttoned boys to bring in calling-cards der he misconstrued, and, of course, went on on a silver dish. the carpet. The old man was always mighty " Old Man Goodell had come down to square with the boys when they got Into Kensington from the So& io take over the trouble, and was disposed to be lenient with management of theToad; and while he didn't Ed, though he had known for some time havf p :;reat deal of style, he more than made that Ed wasn't a man_ to be running a train. " up for it in a system of his own, that result- He was oversensitive on the subject, as 72S THE MAN WHO LISTENED. 729 that kind usually are; so when the old man siding from die upper end, the engineer had offered to compromise by giving him thirty his train pretty well under control; so the days, and a gravel train when he got back, little-bump they gave that string of empties Ed flared up and quit, taking a pass back to did no damage. The switch had been Arlington, where he lived. thrown, and the light changed so that it " That was the only time I ever saw Ed showed white." to know him; and when he came through The Superintendent paused to relight his the office, looking as black as a thunder- cigar, and for a time the only sound was cloud, I surmised he had been having his the rhythmic click of the wheels over the troubles in the old man's little sanctum. rail joints. The Ex-Railroad Man shifted "Well, as everybody expected, two days his position uneasily. The Portly Gentie- later Tom Goodell got his train. man got up and went to the water-cooler, " I had been out on the road looking up then surveyed himself a moment in the long a claim on some stock that had been killed, glass and returned to his seat in the corner. and after a muddy, ten-mile ride across "As a rule," went on the Superintendent country north of Seymour, I got back to the thoughtfully, " trainmen are away above the station too late for No. 6, which was the last average when it comes to points of honor, passenger-train east; and there being no ho- but there are exceptions to that rule too, hu- tel in the place, I wired Kelsoe to stop the man nature being pretty much the same in night freight for me. every department of life; and sometimes, " That's how I happened to be in Tom when a man gets a deal that isn't conducive Goodell 's caboose on his first run out. I to brotherly love, he loses his senses. altered my opinion of Tom that night and " Anyway, when they found out about the haven't changed it since, for he proved to changed switch-light, the crew laid it to be one of the exceptions I spoke about. every cause but the right one. As Tom "He said he realized just how the boys jumped down from the caboose steps, how- felt, and hated to see them down on him ever, his quick eye had caught sight of a simply because he happened to be a relative man ducking around the end of the station of the old man. He wanted to be square that looked an awful lot like Ed Burton. with them, and was trying not to step on "He said nothing about this when he anybody's toes. He wanted to learn the came up where the boys were talking, but business and travel on his own merits. sided with one of the brakemen who in- " Well, after we had talked a while, he sisted that a tramp had done the work. The said-he guessed Twas tired and wanted to next morning, however, he and the old man get some sleep. He piled a lot of cushions were closeted for the better part of an hour. on one of the seats, and gave me his over- I could tell by his loud tone that the olc' coat, remarking that I might catch cold. man was considerably worked up about; " I found out afterward that the particu- something, for he always was a quiet sort lar seat I occupied was the conductor's own of a man. All the while Tom was talking bunking-place, and that Tom sat in the in a low, pleading voice, and now and then cupola all the way into Kensington. I could hear Ed Burton's name. " What occurred after that I did not "After a while they came out, and the learn until we reached the end of the di- old man took his pass-book from his desk vision, for I did not awaken until we pulled and filled out a blank. I could see his hand into the yard,_and then Tom only gave me tremble as he wrote. Tom took it, and the story in" a general way. hurried out, as I afterward learned, to catch "The night operator at Menden had No. 5. He dropped off at Arlington on the given him orders to pick up some empty- opposite side, from the station, and when he: stock-cars at Arlington, and I guess that's came back on No. 6 that evening, Ed Bur- all that saved us from about the worst wreck ton was with him." the road ever had, for we would have gone The Superintendent screened his eyes into diat open switch at a forty-five-mile with his hand, and peered through the win- clip. dow to see the switch-lights of the Center- "They usually went dirough from Men- point-yard twinkling in the darkness. den without stopping, that being a part of "Here's where I get off," he said. the run where they made up time. As it " I suppose Burton was a guest" of the was, they had slowed down for the stop, State for a term," pursued the Ex-Railroad and when they unexpectedly shot in on the Man, also rising. ; — 730 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "No, lie wasn't,"' denied the Superintend- in the shadow of the building. He was ent, putting on his overcoat. " The old man well able to take care of himself, but be was and Tom fixed it up between them to keep curious to know what the fellow was up to. the matter quiet and give Burton another Hastily crouching at the end of the high chance. platform, he saw a man steal down to the " He wrote to a friend of his somewhere track, cast a furtive glance about him, and out West that he wanted Ed placed, and in a then move cautiously to the switch-stand, week or so Ed packed up his wife and baby where he deliberately smashed the lock with and followed the letter. I never heard of a coupling-pin. him after that. Well, good-by; I'm glad to He had thrown the switch, and was turn- have met you." ing the light so that a white gleam flickered " Same to you. Guess I'll go to bed," re- to the rails, 'when the Portly Gentleman turned the Ex-Railroad Man, following him leaped upon him and pinioned his arms in out into the passage. a powerful grasp. The Superintendent descended to the The Portly Gentleman pushed him back- platform and walked toward the tall frame ward to the edge of the platform, where he building that housed the division head- lay moaning. He sat up presently and quarters. At the foot of the long stair he looked at his captor. halted a moment and looked at the big mo- " I must have been mad to think of such gul that was standing on a siding attached a thing," he said brokenly, with a helpless to a long train of all sorts and conditions wave of his hand toward the hill. " I've that made up No. 85, then turned and been slaving five long years to' make good climbed to die office on the second floor. to that little woman up there who believed "No. 85 going to get out on time?" he in me, and dien to get shoved out to make asked of the night despatcher, who was room for the old man's relations—I—it bending over die train-sheet at the long Oh, you can't understand! And now instrument-table. now, I suppose I'll have to go over the " She's following No. 3 out on time, but road for it." I don't know how long she'll stay that way, The strong arm that had held him in its with a green fireman trying to feed that Viselike grip now stole gently across his ten-wheeler. Kelly says Gordon's kicking shoulders, and die voice that spoke was un- like a bay steer at the M. M. for turning steady with emjition. his engine into a family kindergarten, and " Oh, yes, I do, my boy. I know all I don't blame him much, for John Sharkey about it, and I guess the only road you'll was a good man and had been with Gordon go over will be the Transcontinental, when going on three years. you go back West with me. I have some "Kelly says it's open gossip down at die mines out there, and a few miles of railroad roundhouse that the old man let Sharkey out that are all my own. I guess we can find just to make a place for his brother." a place for you where you can make good, " I can't say as to that." Officials can be all right. I'm visiting some friends here supremely noncommittal at times. " Better for a few days, arid we can get together give 85 a slow-up order past Camden and talk it over." there's two cars of dynamite on the siding The long, wailing shriek of a locomotive there," he concluded as he passed into his was heard far down the track, and the office. trembling gleam of a headlight transformed No. 3 stopped at Camden long enough to the rails into glistening ribbons of steel. permit the Portly Gentleman to alight from " Get down there quick and fix that die rear Pullman, and dien her red tail- switch, and then we'll go and find the little lights went blinking away like two baleful woman." eyes in the distance. The-JPortly Gentleman "My name's John Sharkey," said the looked up at the darkened station, down the man, as they moved slowly toward the hill. siding at the dim outlines of two box cars, "May I ask yours?" then scanned, with a quick turn of his head, " Burton," said the other shortly. the few scattered houses that had managed They turned and watched the train pull to get close enough together on the hill be- carefully by the station. The light from hind the station to call diemselves a town. die open fire-box fell upon the begrimed He picked up his grip and started toward face of a fireman shoveling in some coal. them, when he noticed a dark form skulking No. S5 was on time. — — : — : : — ' ' —' The Sunny Side of the Track. If You Think the Railroad Is Shrouded in the Seriousness of Hard Work, Look at These Rifts Where the Sun of Humor Shines Through. ' WANTED' A CORKSCREW. and said to the agent : H'h'has the Joliet train g'g'gone? ' JAMES J. HILL, at one of the Conservation ' Yes, there it goes up the road there.' Congress banquets in St. Paul, told this rail- " ' — road story. Does it s's's'top'p'p'p'p " 'Yes, it stops at Thirty-First Street.' " When sleeping-cars first came in," he said, " ' " Does it s"s's'top'p'p'p'p'a'a'ny— the bedclothes in the berths were very scanty. " ' Yes, it stops at Forty-Seventh, Fifty-First, On one of these early cars, one night after every- Englewood, and Blue Island.' body had turned in and the lights were low, a " ' s's's'top'p'p'a'a'anywh'wh'— berth Does it loud voice called from an upper " ' ' Yes, it stops at all stations. But what differ- " ' Porter, got a corkscrew ? ence does it make to you? You're not aboard.' " The porter came hurrying down the aisle. " ' J'just what I'm k'k'kicking about. it "-Boss,' he said, in a scandalized tone, 'we Does s's'top'p'p'anywh'wh'wh'where long don't allow no drinkin' in the berths. It's against enough so I could r'r'run and overta'ta'take it?'" Lippin- the rules.' cott's. " ' Oh, it ain't that, porter,' the voice answered. ' I just want to dig out a pillow that's sort o" worked its way into my ear.' " Des Moines HORSE AND HORSE. Capital. "T OOK here, sir, I've been standing before -*—' this window twenty-five minutes!" said TAKING NO RISK. the irate woman. VERY skeptically, - the terrace landlord sur- The agent, a gray, withered little man, an- veyed the prospective tenant. swered gently " "Do you play football?" he grunted. Ah, madam, I've been standing behind it The prospective tenant raised his eyebrows and twenty-five years." Boston Herald. replied in the negative. " J* " Nor referee? " GETTING AT THE FACTS. " No, nor referee," answered the P. T. " Why,? " 'Cos I'm taking no risks," explained the land- DIRECTORY CANVASSER: "What is '" " lord. The last feller that took this house was a your husband's occupation ? decision. referee. Gave a wrong Was thumped Mrs. O'Hoolihan : " Sure, an' it's a shovel in the back. Swallowed the whistle. After that engineer on a railroad he do be." good " he couldn't breathe without shrieking like a Directory Canvasser : You mean a civil en- " engine. Kept the neighbors awake all night. gineer, don't you? " Had to give him' notice." Mrs. O'Hoolihan : Faith, an' yez may be " Bad luck on the referee," commented the P. T. roight, sor. He's civil enough, Oi'm afther think- " " I don't know," returned the landlord. He in', but anyway, he shovels the coal into the got a good crib on a lighthouse. On foggy nights engine." Exchange. he puts his head out of the window and simply J* breathes. Noise enough to scare a navy off the SERVED HIM RIGHT. rocks. Soft job." Ideas. & A LARGE and pompous person, wearing a LEFT BEHIND. high hat, a long coat, yellow spats, and a congenital sneer, who was about to leave Wash- ""CSJXNTEST thing I've seen lately," said the ington for New York City, walked over to the candy man on the Rock Island subur- porter and said ban trains, " was the other day, when a man "Here, you; I am going to quit this town and rushed up to the Twenty-Second Street Station go back to New York, where I can get some 731 ——— — — — —— — 732 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. decent service. I want you to buy me two seats in it goes splendidly; and they take it to a drafting- a parlor-car on the four o'clock New York train. room and make a blue-print of it. But one thing Get me two seats, now, and meet me at the sta- I forgot—they have to make a boiler. One man tion with the tickets. I want one to sit in and gets Jnside and one gets outside, and they pound one to put my feet in." frightfully, and then they tie it to the other thing The tickets were delivered at the train just be- —and you ought to see it go!'-' Exchange. fore it pulled out. One of die seats was in Car J* No. 3, and the' other was. located in Car No. 4. Saturday Evening Post. AGAINST ORDERS. ,* " It's THE LADY : funny, but I've worked THE DIFFERENCE. in this railroad office three weeks now, and f haven't seen any of the men wearing these steel ""V^OU'VE got a pretty lot of citizens to allow ties I've read about. Maybe, because tkey are M. themselves to be charged at the rate of hard to tie?" Eric Railroad Employees' Maga- five cents a mile from here clown to the Junction zine. on a miserable one-horse branch road," said the shoe-drummer, bitingly. J* " I'd like ter call yer attention ter one fact LETTING HIM OFF BASY. before you go on usin' any more sech language," " "/"^OOD morning!" said the claim-agent answered the ticket-agent, calmly ; and that is, cheerfully to the patient with a broken that while it may be five cents a mile, it's only leg and head in bandages. thirty-five cents an hour." Post. " I have good news for you. Yes, sir. The Jt company feels sorry for you. It is willing to for- A WEIGHTY DIFFICULTY. give and forget. Soulless? Why, man, it's all soul." was on a suburban train. The,-young man IT " Ready to pay about five thousand ? *! in the rear car was suddenly addressed by " N—no, not exactly that. But I am authorized the woman in the seat behind him. to sign its agreement not to prosecute you for let- " Pardon me, sir," she said, " but would you ting yourself get thrown on the right-of-way and mind assisting me off at the next station? You blocking rush-hour traffic." Exchange. see, I am very large, and when I get off I have to go backward, so the conductor thinks I am try- J* ing to get aboard and helps me on again. He has JIM'S JOB. done this at three stations." Collier's. " TIM'S got a job as a cobbler at the railroad J* , shops." NEW ONE ON HIM. " Cobbler ? How the deuce do you make that out?" YOUTH from Calhoun County, Illinois, A " He fits brake-shoes."—Seattle Times. which has nothing but steamboat trans- portation, came over to Elsberry, Missouri, the other day to catch a Burlington train to Si. Louis. FEALEY MEETS HIS WATERLOO. He had never seen a train, and when the Hannibal FEALEY, transfer-agent, who has some- local came rolling in, he stood there gaping, JIM thing of a reputation for quick and accurate it watched hiss and steam, and finally pull out. N replies to all queries, went down -to defeat one " I thought you were goin' to St. Louis on day recently while checking No. which had that train ? " shouted die station-agent, thrusting 6, a large theatrical company from Denver to Chicago. his head through the window. The company disbanded at Joliet, each " I was," answered die youth, " but they didn't and member had his own baggage to look after. put down the gangplank." St. Louis Post-Dis- One handsome young woman, on being told her patch. " transfer would cost fifty cents, asked, " Or kiss? J* a Jim mildly replied, " No, just fifty cents, please." ENGINE. MAKING AN " Well, after a second look," said the girl, " I guess you are right—fifty cents is the cheapest." SHE had visited the 'Baldwin locomotive works silently retired amid the laughter the and, later, told some of her friends how a Jim of whole car. Santa Fc Employees' Magazine. locomotive is made. " You pour," she said, " a lot of sand into a lot of boxes, and you throw old stove-lids and WORSE THAN LATE. things into a furnace, and then you empty the molten stream into a hole in the sand, and every- APPARENTLY," said Subbubs, "the 7.34 body yells and swears. Then you pour it _out and is late this morning." " * let it cool and pound it, and then you put it in Worse than that," replied the station-agent. " ' a thing that bores holes in it. Then you screw I'm afraid it's the late lamented 7.34.' There's it together, and paint it, and put steam in it, and been a wreck up the road." Exchange. Coddling the "Old Girl." BY THADDEUS S. DAYTON. TT is not difficult to understand why an. engineer will pet and coddle his A engine and -speak affectionately of it as " she " or the " old girl." No other mechanism of steam and steel has ever been built that shows as many living, breathing, human characteristics as a giant locomotive, and con- stant association with one is apt to give rise to the feeling that maybe it has somewhere within its mighty make-up a will or spirit of its own. It is only natural that the engineer's unconscious recognition of an en- gine's ego, or personality, should grow into something akin to a feeling of fondness for a machine that obeys every command, or that he should view with distrust and hate one that is always acting badly. Mr. Dayton, who has gathered the views and experiences of a number of engineers on this subject, has left us to form our own opinions regarding the odd actions of " old girls." It is a subject on which there are many views. Strikingly Human Traits of Locomotives Frequently Cause the Wives of Throttle-Handlers To Become Jealous of the Place the Steel Giantesses Hold in Their Husbands' Affections. SK one railroad engineer, ask the engine he runs, trip after trip—his fa- another a third — in fact, vorite—is a great big warm-blooded friend, question a dozen if you like powerful to the highest degree, with intelli- —and you will find that gence and affection, but sometimes whim- there is hardly among them sical, obstinate, and contrary—as full of one who does not acknowl- moods as a pretty woman. Like her human edge that an engine is more human and more prototype, she can be driven best when full of the qualities and traits of a living carefully watched over, petted, and cajoled. human being than you ever imagined a mass Try to force her harshly to do something, of machinery could be. and she bucks at once. That is why engines, Nobody can tell why this is. It is one since the days of Stephenson, have always of the great unsolvable mysteries of engine- been " she " or " her " to the men that run building and of railroading. Among the them. Another curious thing is that the thousands on thousands of engines in this better the engineer, the more care and af- country there is not one that does not pos- fection he lavishes on his engine, and she sess its own individual characteristics, appreciates it like a true woman. which are developed to a greater or less This may sound a bit incredible to the degree just as they are in human beings. casual observer of railroads, to him who To the engineers who run them each has rarely sees a locomotive, except at the station its own peculiar personality—something where he takes his train and the one where that distinguishes it from all the rest. he leaves it. Every engineer expresses the idea in dif- His conception of an engine is vaguely ferent words, but the substance is this: that something that puffs acrid smoke, makes a 733 — 734 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. noise, and drags a train across the rails. she's not, you live in torment. It's as bad Another thing equally incredible and quite as being unhappily married, and it's about as worthy of investigation by societies for as hard to get a divorce from an engine that psychical research is this: has been assigned to you as it is from an uncongenial wife. No Two Engines Behave Alike. " A bad engine will annoy you by starting or stopping hard or with a jerk. She will Take ten new engines, fresh from the take a lot of steam—eat up a lot of coal shops, gay with paint and brass and lacquer and be contrary in a thousand different and shining steel. They are all of exactly ways. Some are treacherous. the same pattern, cast in the same mold, "They will run along for days as pleas- precisely alike in every particular, with ant as pie, and then all of a sudden, when every pin and bolt and screw identical. And you're least expecting it, they will fly into yet there is not one engine of the ten that a tantrum that may land you in the ditch. will run exactly the same as any of the Some will stay neat and clean with very lit- others. tle care, while others will be continually Drive them each a hundred miles, with untidy, no matter how much you may work ten equally competent engineers, and you over them. will find that each has a different indi- "My experience is that the engines with viduality and character. One or more will odd numbers—odd combinations of num- be " rogues " — locomotives that the engi- bers, I mean—like 999, or the four ones, neer's instinct will tell him are foreordained eleven ty-'leven, are unlucky. A good many for some bad end. others think the same way. I quit a West- Others will be sluggish, lazy, poor steam- ern road once where they made me run a ers, voracious in their 'appetites for coal; 999, because she had such a mean dispo- others will be so perfect, so amiable, so in- sition. telligent in every way, that the fortunate "An engineer who Avas running 992 engineer to whom such an engine is assigned same pattern—took out 999 next day be- will lavish upon her untiring affectionate cause his own engine was being repaired, care, and will even spend hours away from and 999 went off the track and killed him his family watching over her if she comes before he had gone twenty miles. I heard into the roundhouse die least bit out of per- she had one accident after another after fect mechanical health. that, and finally they took her off and re- "When she is happy," said the driver of built her—gave her another number, too. one of the engines that hauls a mile-a-min- ute train, " my ' old gal ' is the sweetest She Had Some Temper. thing you ever saw. She spins along so blissfully, nothing rattles, everything is in "-That didn't change her temper at all, perfect harmony, and stays that way. though, and I'll bet that if she isn't com- " Sometimes, though, she gets out of bed pletely smashed up by this time she's on her wrong foot foremost, and then I have to pat way doing mischief still." her on the back and humor her. Once in a " I know that 999 you are talking about," while I get out of patience because every- broke in another engineer who was standing thing goes wrong, I fume and cuss, but that by, listening to the conversation. " I had doesn't help matters; and then, all of a to take her out a few times when I was the sudden, she will come out of her sulks, and swing man on that run, and I was always actually seem to grin at me and start in afraid of her. running the prettiest you ever saw. "She's dead and gone now, glory be! I "I've handled a good many engines in saw a man yesterday who told me that she my over twoscore years of service, and when was in a head-on collision last week. After the time came to part with those I was fond she smashed, she toppled over and rolled of it always caused me a good deal of re- down a high embankment. She was only gret. When it comes to getting acquainted fit for the scrap-heap when they picked her with a new engine I go about it cautiously. up, but she was wicked to the last. She " You have to treat her with a lot of def- scalded her engineer and fireman so badly erence and respect at first, until you win her diat they'll be laid up for a long time. confidence. Then, if she's the right sort, " I've run a good many different engines, all goes well as long as you're togetiier. If too," he went on, " and there has never been — , CODDLING THE "OLD GIRL." 735 two of them alike. Just like people. Lots The changes that either of us made were, so of them I've thought so much of that when trifling that no mechanical engineer would they were about used up from hard work, say that they would affect her running at all and I was running some new, natty-looking but they did. gal just out of the shops, I'd go over to the " That set me to thinking, and the way I roundhouse or to the tracks where they were experimented with 468 was cruel. It's a working, every day or so, just to give them wonder she didn't lose her temper with me, a pat to show that I'd not forgotten them. but she seemed to know why she was being Many's the time I've done that. made to suffer the way she was, and she " I never cared to set eyes more than once never whimpered. on any of the man-killers I've known. You " I gave it up after a while, and if I told may believe it or not, but it's the truth that you what I believe about engines now you'd there are engines so evil-minded and dan- think I was crazy." gerous there's no living with them. They're The other engineers in the group nodded ~as treacherous as a man-eating tiger. They their heads gravely. " seem to take solid comfort in hurting people. I guess we've all been through pretty much the same thing," one of them re- Engine with Ideas of Her Own. marked. "We don't talk about such mat- ters very much, except among ourselves and "I honestly believe that there's engines our ^families, simply because other folks that are plumb crazy—engines that ought can't understand, and we'd hate to be to be in lunatic asylums. I knew one once laughed at. that seemed to have what the doctors call " But there's a lot more to running an a homicidal mania—she was always mur- engine than knowing the mechanism per- dering people. fectly and sitting in the cab and pulling the " If that engine had been brought up for lever—a lot of things that a man learns on trial before a jury of engineers I'll bet they moonlight nights when the shadows on the would have sentenced her to death on the track confuse one, or on the nights of fog scrap-heap without leaving their seats." when the signals aren't clear; lots of things " My experience has been," announced a a man can't put into words." third engineer, who had joined-the group "my experience has been that if I start out Watch 'Em Like Children. on my run in bad humor my engine gets cranky, too. If I'm sick she acts just about An engineer, especially one of the fast as bad as I feel. You'd think that she runners, is jealous in the extreme of his would try to cheer me up by acting right; engine. Go into any roundhouse where the but she's just that sympathetic that she big hundred-tonners with seventy-nine- can't seem to enjoy herself a bit when I'm inch drivers are being cleaned up after not feeling well. their return home, or are being made ready " I used to think that this talk about en- for a trip out, and you will find engineers gines having minds and moods was all non- standing about, carefully watching every sense. That was when I was a young man, move of the wipers and machinists and oc- though, and had my first engine. There casionally taking a hand themselves. was a pal of mine who had the run opposite An hour or two before she is ready to go me on the Rock Island in those days. He out the engineer himself goes into executive and I talked it over, and decided that we'd session, and spends his time tightening a see if there was anything in it. So we nut here or loosening a bolt there, inspecting agreed to make a trial of it with 468. He with his own eyes every atom of the great had his ideas about adjusting her, and I mass of complex machinery that he loves. had mine. His constant companion is an oil-can " Each of us marked the adjustments he filled with his own especial kind of " dope," favored, and I tried running her on his way for few engineers are content with the qual- of fixing her, and he on mine. He couldn't ity of the oil that the company furnishes, do anything with her, and no more could I. and each has his own secret lubricant which " She would buck all the time. Yet she'd he compounds himself, and which he guards run all right for him when he'd keyed her as jealously as the alchemist used to guard up to suit himself, and she was a hummer the formula by which he hoped to transmute when I took her out on my adjustments. base metals into gold. " — 736 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. The passenger engineer generally runs to hurry down to see if she is all right be- only on alternate days. When he is at home fore he can think of anything else. Some- and the man who runs opposite to him is times he will come back with a long face, out with his "old gal," he puts in his time as if some one was dead. as best he can until he hears her whistle. " If I don't ask him what is the matter Standing in the doorway of his home, watch I used to at first—he will say: ' She's feel- in hand, a mile away perhaps, he listens ing pretty sick this morning. I'll be gone with strained attention. some little time fixing her up. Don't know " There comes Dick and the ' old gal.' how' I'll ever get over the run with her un- Ninety seconds late! By George, she's less I do. She's getting old, and I have to coming in on one side! If folks knew what pat her on the (back a good deal to keep her they were riding behind they'd quit travel- up to her work nowadays.' ing. It's a wonder to me that they ever let " I feel sometimes like going down Uiere that man run an engine. and throwing stones at her. Yes, I am "Huh! didn't whistle for that crossing jealous of her. I wish my husband would until he was almost onto it. Took her emit railroading and get into some other around that curve on one wheel. What's business. die use of fixing up the ' old gal ' when they " It makes me laugh sometimes, though, let a man take her out that don't know how to see how jealous my husband is of Dick, to humor her? the man that runs opposite to him. Dick She'll be as mad and cranky as can be is just as jealous of my husband, too. They to-morrow. I'll go down to the roundhouse are friendly enough, of course, to each oth- to-night as soon as Dick is out of the way er's faces, but Dick's wife and I have often and look her over, and see if I can't patch compared notes about how they talk about things up." each other at home. Dick, by the way, is probably just as " Why, my husband has a lot of the bolts competent and as experienced as the man and things scored with tiny file marks to that runs opposite to him. The next day show just where he sets them—just how it is Dick's turn to wait, watch in hand, far they should be screwed up, in his judg- for his favorite to come in. He, too, criti- ment—and when he finds them disturbed cizes freely to himself the manner in which in the slightest degree he growls like a big his rival for the "old gal's" affectionate bear. Dick's wife says her husband is the regard is running her. same. Funny, isn't it?" Occasionally, when she comes in on time No engineer can explain the big ma- to the second, and the engineer's keen chine's moods—why she runs smoothly, or senses are unable to pick any flaws, with a why she is stiff, rheumatic, and contrary twinkle in his eye, he will slip his watch to the most vexatious degree on different back in his pocket and remark to his wife days. The casual stranger may inquire, " " as he goes into the house : She's all right and will receive a gruff answer, Weather," to-night. She's certainly a hummer, and or " Don't know," but to the man who the no mistake I engineer knows is in sympathy with him The engineer's wife shares with her he will theorize by the hour, and all his husband the belief in the almost human ideas will be based on the foundation diat qualities of the big engine that helps earn there is something human about the ma- their bread, for she pays the unwilling chine. No engineer has gone so far as to compliment of being jealous of her. assert diat epgines have souls, but most of " My husband thinks more of his engine them give their favorites almost even' other than he does of me and the children," she human attribute. remarks. " He's always worrying about The engine that consumes comparatively her. If one of the children is sick he little coal and steams easily is the fire- sleeps soundly enough, but when his old man's favorite. As soon as he becomes engine comes in with a sore throat or a dioroughly familiar with the mechanism tender toe he'll stay down to the roundhouse his discrimination between various locomo- half the night tinkering with her or watch- tives grows keener, and by the time he is ing the machinists. rated as an engineer he has joined the rest " There are lots of things he could do at of the brotherhood in dieir settled likes and home on his off-days, but there's no holding dislikes of the fickle or trustworthy giant- him when his ' old gal ' comes in. He has esses that he drives over the steel. AGAINST GREAT ODDS BY EARLE C. WIGHT. The Story of a Desperate Man of the Rio Grande Country. j^,HE newly appointed vice-presi- hunch led me to stay in the pot without any dent drummed on the desk cards to draw to." " with his fingers, swung around " Did you win ? on his chair until he faced the ""If jyoa call a bullet in the shoulder reporter, and smiled. The re- and saving fifty thousand dollars winning, porter smiled in return, for he then I won." was sufficient of a judge of human nature "That's the story I was told to ask you to know the vice - president's mind had about," said the newspaper man. gone way back in the past and that he The vice-president settled back in his was thinking of something decidedly chair. He was a big man with a bulldog pleasant. hitch to his right shoulder that had given When you strike a man in this sort of a him the name of "Fighting Bob." mood the odds are that you will get some- "Opportunity and hunch, my boy, and thing out of him. So the reporter took his note- book and pencil and pre- pared to write. "The Star thinks its readers would be inter- ested in learning how a man, once a section-hand at a- dollar and two bits a day, rose to be vice- president and general manager of three thou- sand miles of railroad." "It's mainly a ques- tion of opportunity," said Mr. West. " Opportu- nity and hunch. You know what a hunch is, I suppose." The reporter, having played more than one game of poker, defined it as " a feeling that led one to stay in a pot with only a pair of trays." Mr. West nodded. " You have pretty near- ' " ly hit it, except that my ACCEPT—YOU BLACKGUARD ! I HAVE A NOTION TO KILL YOU ! 11 R R 737 — 738 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. on him than a cat has lives. I always thought my- self a pretty good snipe, as we .called the section men out there, until I ran up against Superin- tendent Peck and the cause of our quarrel - the girl. It might seem funny to you that two men in such different positions should be courting the same girl, but this was in the early days in the West when one man was as good as another. At first it was a neck- and-neck race between Peck and me for her favor, then I began to draw a little bit ahead. Peck got sore, and things began to happen. As a first move he tried to have me fired from the road, but failed because the fore- man was a" good friend of mine and re- fused to do it without some reason. "Peck then quietly passed the werd to the roadmaster, with the result that next pay-day my full time came in together with my discharge. I don't blame the roadmaster; he was an old man with a large family, and Peck said that either he or I should go, but it was pretty hard on me. I was cut off in the dead of winter without a job, or any possibility of getting one, with little money. Ten dollars would have bought me, and I knew Peck would blacklist me so no other road would give "if anv of you want any of the same me work. " conditions, MEDICINE, LET HIM DROP HIS HANDS ! Under these there was but one thing to do. I packed my grip, kissed something to fight. For a winning com- the girl good-by, and went to San An- bination, those three are unbeatable. tonio, the nearest large town. There were Usually the impelling force behind the some shops there, and by changing my other two is a desire for wealth, power, or name I was able to secure work. a woman. In my case it was a woman, Everything was going nicely. I was the rest have come, too, but if it hadn't putting money in the bank each month, been for the woman, God bless her, I'd getting a letter every day to show that me," still be a section-hand." one had not forgotten and there was This is the story that the vice-president some talk of making me foreman. told: Then, one day, Peck happened to stroll A railroad man's life at best is pretty in. A week later they informed me that tough. There is room on top for just one my services were no longer required. No given, you, criticism to every thousand underneath, and if the reason was mind no man above takes a dislike to the one be- of my work, nothing—they simply did not low, lie has more ways of taking it out want me. I AGAINST GREAT ODDS. 739 It looked as though Peck would not be up? You are nearly broke and out of a satisfied until he had driven roe out of the job. Suppose I were to offer you any country. I had never done any work but section on the line except No. 314." railroad work, and with the superintendent This was the Red Oak section. able to get me discharged on every road " On_ what condition ? " I asked, sus- in the State, I saw nothing but Mexico, piciously. where his influence did not extend. Before "Can't you guess?" he asked. doing that, however, I wanted to go back to "No!" I snapped. Red Oak, see my friends, and ask the girl "It's easy enough to guess," he said, to go with me as my wife. looking everywhere but at me. "You can My temper is hard to kindle, but once have the yards at Forbestown, with a rake- started is harder to stop. For the second off on feeding the men, sell all the old ties time I packed my clothes because Peck had you take out, or, if that isn't enough, you the whip hand of me. can have an extra gang—all by keeping If any train ever deserved the name of away from a certain person in Red Oak." local, that train to Red Oak took first prize. I think I would have thrown him out It was composed of a switch-engine, a of the window then and there if my atten- baggage - car that looked like a lumber- tion had not been attracted by three men wagon, and two ancient day-coaches. who entered just then. The last car was divided in half, the There was something about them— rear portion being used as a smoker. To can't explain to this day what it 'was—that the rear I went. Lighting my pipe, I be- made me watch them intently. They were gan to smoke gloomily and cuss the super- different in face and dress from any other intendent. men in that part of the country. I didn't want to go to Mexico. I wanted Instead of wearing their guns where only to go back to Red Oak, marry, and everybody could see them, they were hid- settle down. den in their back pockets. What called 1 hadn't been in the smoker long when my attention to them was a black mask Peck entered. You would think that after sticking out of one man's pocket. a man had caused you to be discharged As they brushed past us, the one in the twice he would keep away from you. But lead slipped a note into the superintend- if he hadn't come in and sat down beside ent's hand. me just tiien, there would be another vice- Call it hunch, premonition, or what you president sitting in this office just now. like, I had an aching desire to see that Peck had a sarcastic grin on his face. slip of paper. Somehow I knew it affected He pushed my grip over, lighted a big, fat me and my future. Bending over with his cigar with a red band around it, to make back to me he pretended to take it from me ashamed of my pipe, and after he had his pass-book. He read it carefully, and, it going well, turned to me. instead of putting it back, he thrust it into "I suppose," he said, between puffs, his vest. When he turned to me expecting " you have been fired again." his answer I had it all planned out. " Yes, thanks to you." " Do you accept my proposition ? " he " It is too bad a young man of your asked briskly. " " ability can't stay sober long enough to hold Accept—you blackguard ! I yelled. " " a job,'' he said, looking at me out of the I have a notion to kill you ! corner of Ins eyes. I threw my arms around him, bending "So that's your game, is it?" I ex- him back on the arm of the seat until his claimed. " You intend spreading it around bones cracked. The car was instantly in Red Oak that I was discharged for drink- an uproar. Some of the men fought to get ing." out of our way; others to separate us. " It's what they told me at the shops Coming quickly in our direction were the in San Antonio," he replied. three who had last entered; but before they " " Then it's a lie ! I cried hotly. I could reach us my hand had slipped about was discharged because you said so." Peck's body and into his vest pocket. He edged away from me when he saw "Now you can go!" I said. my anger. We sat in silence for some I gave him a shove that sent him sprawl- moments, then he said: ing into the aisle. "Isn't there some way we can fix this The car quieted down again. Peck did . 740 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. not dare to lodge a complaint fearing that I stood up, intending to follow, when a I would repeat the conversation that had hand was laid on my arm. It was Peck. brought on the trouble. I took the paper " I want to apologize," he said quite and went out on the platform. frankly, holding out his hand. "We all It began without an address, nor did it make mistakes, and mine was a bad one. have a signature. It read: Here, sit down," he pulled me into a seat beside him. "Now if you are willing to The stuff is on the train as you said. We let bygones be bygones, I'm in earnest about do the job at McElvaney. Keep out and you offering you a section place get your share. any you want, not even barring Red Oak. We will fight If there were any crooked work to be it out squarely from now on." * done—McElvaney was an ideal spot. It There was such a change in the man was at the top of a steep grade, and the and in the proposition he made that I was road curved to within a hundred miles of dumfounded. It should have put me on the Mexican border. A hundred miles isn't my guard. After all the injury he had much ground, for a man to cover on a done me, to have him turn around and act good horse, especially if he could start the like a white man was too much. trip with plenty of water—and McElvaney "Who were those three men?" I asked, had a tank. still thinking of the paper in my pocket. " " Neither was it difficult to guess what the What three men ? " stuff " was. Red Oak and the adjoining I pointed to the one leaning against the town did not have banks, and on Satur- door. _ " " days they required considerable cash to Oh ! he said, and paused just a frac- take care of their cowboy and ranch trade. tion of a second. "They are linesmen. This was Friday, so by putting two and There is a telegraph-wire broken at McEl- two together, I formed a pretty good guess vaney, and the company has sent them- out of what was going to happen. Still I to repair it." might be mistaken. There was a chance There was just a flicker to his eyelid that the three men were railroaders; the that told me he lied. Before I could more "job" might be legitimate', and the "stuff" than brush him aside and step into the could easily be dynamite or tools. aisle, the train came to a stop with a I went back to my grip, found my re- grinding crash. volver, and slipped it into my pocket. Many of the passengers were thrown out Then I went through the other car, but of their seats, and before any of us were could find no more suspicious characters. aware, the man at the door, his face now This rather upset my calculations, as it covered by a black mask, had drawn two hardly seemed possible that three men revolvers. would attempt to hold up two cars filled Stand where you are ! " he ordered. with cattlemen, nine-tenths of whom were "Any man who moves gets a bullet! Put " armed. your hands up—quick ! The more I thought of it the more fool- The hands of every man in the car were ish it seemed, after calling myself an old thrust in the air—all except one. woman with a bad attack of nerves. The shock of the train when it stopped Three hours later it was night, but so had thrown me forward with such violence bright outside that you could have read a that it rendered me partially unconscious. paper. The moon was full, throwing its As from a long distance I heard the orders light over the gray desert like a silver cloth. of the bandit and the scramble of the men A slinking coyote barked at us from the trying to obey him. shadow of a mesquit tree. Cactus and When I came to, the car was absolutely sage-brush glided by like ghostly shadows. quiet, but for an occasional nervous cough. Presently we began to slow up as we I quickly took note of my surroundings. climbed the grade of which McElvaney My fall had wedged me in between two was the summit. seats so tightly that I could scarcely move. Suddenly the three men, as though In- My feet were the only part of my body vis- some preconceived signal, rose and walked ible from the end of the car. Above me toward the engine. Two continued on was a fat drummer and a farmer boy. both while the third stopped and turned his pasty white. back to the door as if he were guarding it. As quietly as possible I told the drummer AGAINST GREAT ODDS. 741 to move over so as to give me room to get my gun from my pocket. Holding my breath, I began to squirm slowly around. It was not bravery on my part — simply self - defense. I had worked too hard for that money, it meant too much to me, to give it up to the first man who wanted it. A commotion oppo- site me helped my movements. An ^ola" white-haired man, unaccustomed to the tiring position, dropped his arms. At the same instant a shot resounded through the car, and the old man toppled over, a crimson stain dyeing his shirt front. AFTER TEft MIN- " If any of you want any of the same UTES SLOW WORK medicine, let him drop his hands ! " roared I WAS ABLE TO PUT MY HAND ON the bandit. A SWEAT-STAINED Previous to this I had no intention of FLANK. ' doing anything but save my money, but with this brutal outrage committed without any reason before my eyes, I found myself see- ing red. gers in place of the robber that I had just So as not to attract the bandit's attention, wounded. I twisted myself around until my head was So he had thrown off the mask! There where my feet had been. could be no doubt now that the baggage- Revolver in hand, I leaned out. The rob- car held more than the usual amount of ber saw me—but a fraction of a second too money. late. The superintendent had learned this, and My bullet reached him just as squarely staking all on one throw, was risking not as his had reached the old man. only his reputation but his life. I jumped to my feet, and ran out at the If I had not caught him robbing his own rear of the car. company, I would have been content to get As I did so, one bullet, then another, away in safety with my money, but with whistled close to my head. Behind me the memory of those bullets whistling so " " some one was shouting Hands up ! Sev- close to my head and of all the other in- eral more shots were fired. I jumped nim- juries suffered at his hands, I determined bly over the railing and ran straight to a that I would pit my strength and courage pile of ties. against his. Crouching behind these I had the whole It was not longer a question of the rail- train in full view. Ahead by the engine was road ; but Peck and I had a little fight of a group composed of the conductor, en- our own to settle—with the odds seven to gineer, fireman, and two brakesmen, guard- one in his favor. ed by a bandit. One hundred yards away stood the water- There were two more in the baggage-car, tank—lonely and desolate—its water drip- one at either end of die first coach, another ping into the desert sand. standing at the forward end of the rear car, On every side as far as the eye could and—could I believe my eyes?—there reach stretched the prairie, broken only by was Peck himself, holding up the passen- the dwarfed mesquit. a ! 742 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. I saw what I had been searching for— Another followed, ancl another, until there dark figure that moved ever so slightly. were five strung out. Dropping on ray knees and keeping the pile The rear door opened, and Peck, with the of ties between me and the train, after ten revolver still in his hand, lightly vaulted minutes slow work I was able to put my the railing and joined the procession. hand on a sweat-stained flank. Seven They seemed to realize there were only two horses left, and the retreat became a foot-race for life or death. The man with the bag and Peck reached the horses first. Without touching the stirrups, they sprang into the saddles, and without even casting a look backward at the comrades they were deserting, turned their -horses' heads and galloped away. From one end to another the train began to blaze with shots. Two of the four re- maining men fell at the first volley, the others had little chance against that train- load of infuriated victims. Leaving them to their fate, I drummed on my horse's ribs with my heels and, swinging westward, started in pursuit of Peck and the man with EXCEPT FOR OUR the bag. CLOTHES, THERE There was no danger of being unable to WAS VERY LITTLE overtake them, for their were already DIFFERENCE horses BETWEEN US. half-blown, while mine was comparatively fresh. horses, saddled and bridled, were standing What I would do when I came alongside patiently with their bridle reins on the the two desperate, armed men, I did not ground. know. I was simply following my hunch. Four of them were still blowing hard, One hundred miles doesn't look much on showing in what manner the bandits had a map, a mere pin-length at most, a couple received their reenforcements. One by one, of hours ride on a train; but try it some I threw the bridles over their heads and time at night, the moon high in the heavens, slapping them hard, sent them back over the through an unknown country, where even- route they had come. Three remained—two tall cactus appears like a desperado await- that had been ridden and one fresh one. ing your approach with a death-dealing Mounting the latter, I followed the four gun, and every shadow a shapeless terror that had gone ahead. We followed a sort of trail, where the As I jogged slowly along, I saw what I sand was packed hard as macadam, and my had expected. A bandit with a heavy grip horse's hoofs rang loud in my ears. I rode in his hand dropped off the baggage-car and on and on without a sight of the fugitive?. raced for the horses. Mv horse was a good one and needed little AGAINST GREAT ODDS. 743 urging, yet by the time the moon had gone In the distance we could see the green down he could scarcely go faster than a trot. foliage of the trees marking the Rio Grande What condition the other two were in was — the border line of Mexico—and Peck's made plain by the marks of their dragging destination. footsteps and the drops of blood from their Seeing that he could not reach the line sides, where the spurs had been brutally before I caught up with him, he drew his used. gun and took a shot at me. Several times diere were marks where one The bullet whistled uncomfortably close. of the horses had fallen. I also found in I was half minded to shoot in return, but the middle of the road a hat with the initials the. desire to capture him alive overcame "R. H. P." inside. my fear, and I waved the bandit's sombrero As the moon sank below the horizon and about my head so he would think my inten- the dawn broke, my horse stopped his sham- tions were not hostile. bling gait so suddenly that it almost threw Luckily the hat was of a conspicuous me from the saddle. He stood trembling in color, white, with a red band around the every limb, and refused to move until I dis- crown, and this and my clothes gave Peck mounted and led him forward by the bridle. the idea I had intended—that I was the Then I saw the reason. Barring our companion he had rapped over the head path was a horse outstretched on the sand with his gun. and breathing heavifyC He permitted me to get close, but kept Close by was the sprawling figure of a his hand on his hip ready for trouble should 'man. It wasn't Peck. As I went forward, I prove vindictive. I rode up behind him, he sat up straight, staring at me stupidly. the hat pulled low over my face, my chin I disarmed him, taking two revolvers and a sunk on my chest, as though in pain. mask. "That was a nice trick you played on "Well," I said, when the fellow was able me," I growled, " hitting a pal on the head . to talk, "how did this happen? That isn't and taking his horse away from him." your horse? Where is Peck?" ""It's all in the game," he said, shifting "I was waiting for him like a pal should the satchel from one hand to the other. when he comes up behind me and hits me "Where did you get the horse?" over the head with life gun, tiien he takes "The same way you did. Took it from my horse and rides on. A nice pal he is," another man." the man said. I could see him looking at it with spec- There was only one thing to do. Peck ulative eyes, and knew he was meditating still had the money, and it was my duty to some plan to make an exchange. He must follow him. have made a quick decision, for he motioned The odds were now cut from two against me to ride alongside. one to even. As for the other robber, after " And give you a chance to hit me another studying him a few minutes, I hit upon a crack on the head? Not much." I pro- plan. He was about my build, both of us tested. were clean shaven, and except for our He shrugged his shoulders, and without clothes, there was little difference between us looking backward, rode on. " Get up and take off that coat and your Here was my opportunity. Gradually, trouse'rs," I ordered. foot by foot, inch by inch, I drew nearer. He drew sullenly back, doubtful of my My horse's head was on a line with his intentions. I had to thrust my revolver close horse's tail. It drew up to the other's to his face to emphasize my meaning. We cantle; it crept beside the girth; on to the made the change in silence. There was lit- pommel—and my hands were stretched out tle doubt the man would be there when I to seize the superintendent. returned. A posse was already on his track, Just at the critical moment he happened ahead were Peck and myself, on either side to turn and saw my white face not two feet lay the desert. He was as good as caught. from his own. It took but little riding to catch up with With an oath he jerked out his revolver. Peck. His mount was in a bad way, stag- Before I could withdraw my hands there gering from side to side with every step. came a stunning report like a dozen peals On seeing me Peck forced the poor brute of thunder rolled into one. into a feeble trot, which, however, lasted A terrific blow, and I reeled in my saddle. only a few hundred yards. Through a maze of smoke I saw his face 744 THE RAILROAD MAN'S, MAGAZINE. wrinkle into its old sarcastic smile. His He lay flat on the ground, arms and legs thumb was busy with the hammer, which extended to their fullest extent, scarcely seemed to be caught in some way. Between breathing. A trickle of blood from a.gash in me and eternity were only a few seconds. his forehead, showed the extent of his injury. I flung myself toward him. My right It was what caused the cut that made arm encircled his neck. The horses pulled me laugh. A fall from a horse on the soft apart and we crashed heavily to the ground. sand is not a dangerous thing, but Peck BETWEEN ME AND ETERNITY WERE ONLY A FEW SECONDS. When my senses returned., the sun was had struck his head on the lock of die high in the heavens, my shoulder burned satchel containing the stolen money. like liquid fire, and it was only by using "And so," said the reporter, snapping the stirrup of one of the patient horses that shut his book, " you recovered fifty thousand I was able to regain my feet. dollars for the railroad; they, in gratitude, I stared dumbly wondering how I had made you road-master, and from that you escaped, and then in spite of my suffering, worked up to your present position." - I laughed out loud. For once in his life "You left out the most important part," the superintendent had overstepped himself. said the vice-president, "I got the girl." If you don't see a stop or a slow signal once in a while, better suspect the signaling system. There might be a wreck and you might be in it. No man's luck is insured against interruption. —Sayings of the Supervisor. Record Runs of Millionaires BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAN. WHEN the average individual is in a hurry to get from one part of the country to another, he generally has to content himself with a Pull- man berth on a limited train. If, however, he is sufficiently endowed with dollars to consider the spending of a few thousands with the same degree of equanimity with which he might contemplate buying an ordinary mileage book, it is not unlikely that he will charter a special train and strive to break all records between his starting point and destination. In recent issues of The Railrqad Man's Magazine the record runs of the Jarrett & Palmer Special and Scotty's Coyote Special were described at length, but since these mad dashes across the continent other fast runs have been made which have made" distances shorter than ever before. Not all of these runs were the result of mere whims. Many were made tp reach the bedside of a dear relative before the arrival of the Grim Reaper. Whatever the cause, these contests with time are always interesting, and many of them have added dramatic chapters to the history of the great steel ways. No Matter How Thick the Traffic, a Clear Track Can Generally Be Secured for the Man in a Hurry Who Can Foot the Bill. HEN a man has the price not be procured immediately, but the Sun- k and finds it necessary set Limited was leaving in a few hours and to be whisked across the railroad officials agreed to attach the the country at the fast- " Ranger," Mr. Gates's private car. est possible speed, then Arrangements were then completed for look out for new rec- a special train to be made up and waiting ords! During recent years, a number of on his arrival at Yuma, Arizona, which rich Americans have found the regular would make the run across die continent schedules and the fastest trains too slow, or in the fastest time that schedules would die importance attending their journey too allow. great, and have engaged special trains to have the right of way over everything to get A Long Run to the Doctor. them to their destination. The most recent case on record is that of Charles G. Gates, a An engine, buffet car, and three coaches New York broker, who was suddenly taken for ballast, were standing on a side-track lost coupling ill in San Diego, California, and wanted to at Yuma, and no time was get home to New York as fast as steam the "Ranger" to them! could carry him—or faster. At half past five o'clock on Thursday, Mr. Gates hurried to the telephone and February 16, the special pulled out of the rang up die Southern Pacific Company's little Western town on its three-thousand- the office at San Diego. A special train could mile journey, while die wires beside '45 746 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. track hummed with messages arranging a Twenty-one minutes were lost on the Mo- special right of way over all the roads it hawk Division of the New York Central would traverse. between Syracuse and Albany, because of a It switched from the Southern Pacific to local train ahead getting into trouble. the Rock Island at El Paso, Texas, and left that city at 7 a.m. on the following Record of the Run. day for the run to Chicago. Just out of El Paso, it made one hundred The engineer who brought the train from miles in one hundred minutes. At Hutch- Albany to High Bridge was E. A. Clem- inson, Kansas, the special had. gained six ens, and the fireman was E. A. Cooper. A hours and forty-six minutes on the Golden change of engines was made at High State Limited, which left Yuma forty-six Bridge, when the electric locomotive in minutes later. charge of George Snyder picked up the train Near Volland, Kansas, just west of and brought it into New York. Topeka, it had its first set-back. A train This is the time-table of the train from _ ahead had been derailed, and the special Chicago to New York, as given out at the was forced to wait two hours for the block- offices of the New York Central: ade to be lifted. Mr. Gates fretted until they were under way again. Nevertheless, Arrived at Chicago 4.50 a.m. Sunday. Left Chicago, 5 a.m. Arrived Elkhart, when the train reached Topeka, at 2.22 p.m. 6.45 a.m. (100 miles in 105 minutes). on Saturday, February 18, its speed had av- Left Elkhart, 6.48 a.m. Arrived Toledo, eraged forty-five miles an hour since the de- 9.02 a.m. (143 miles in 134 minutes). parture from El Paso. At every stop John Left Toledo, 9.04 a.m. Arrived Cleveland, W. Gates, who was in Port Arthur, Texas, 10.41 a.m. (108 miles in 97 minutes). was informed by telegraph of the condition Left Cleveland, 10.45 Ajir. Arrived Buffajo, of his son, and Mrs. Charles G. Gates, a{ 1.52 P3i. Central time, 2.52 p.m. Eastern time.' her home in Madison Avenue, New York, (1S3 miles in 187 minutes). also received bulletins. Left Buffalo. 2.55 p.m. Arrived Syracuse, 5.29 p.m. (149 miles in 154 minutes). Left Syracuse, 5.32 p.m. Arrived Albany, Without a Stop. 8.21 p.m. (148 miles in 169 minutes). Left Albany, 8.28 p.m. Arrived New York, The special drove through Topeka with- 10.49 p.m. (143 miles in 141 minutes). out a stop, and got to Kansas City at 4.51 p.m. A fresh locomotive was ready, and When Mr. Gates paid his bills he found the train was off agaim at 4.52. The offi- that the trip from coast to coast had cost cials at El Paso had calculated that the him six thousand dollars, at the rate of train would be in Chicago between four about two dollars a mile. The cost of the and five o'clock on Sunday morning. True run from Chicago to New York was one to their predictions, it arrived on time, and thousand eight hundred and twenty-five left for New York on the Lake Shore at dollars, which figures up to a charge of five o'clock. two dollars for every minute that the special The nine hundred and seventy-four miles was on the rails. from Chicago to New York were covered in sixteen hours and twenty-seven min- New York to Chicago in Sixteen Hours. utes; the final lap of one hundred and forty- three miles from Albany being made Few runs have proved more thrilling than in one hundred and forty-one minutes. that participated in by Frank A. Vanderlip, This is the record from Chicago to New president of die National City Bank of New York, 'out it is twenty minutes slower than York, who during the early part of 1909 the time made by Frank A. Vanderlip's started from New York in a vain effort to train running west from New York to Chi- beat the Grim Reaper to Chicago, where his cago, in 1909. aged mother lay dying. The five hundred and thirty-five miles When at the point of retiring for the from Chicago to Buffalo were reeled off in night, Mr. Vanderlip received a telegram five hundred and twenty-three minutes, from his brother-in-law in Chicago, saying while the four hundred and forty miles that his mother had been prostrated by a from Buffalo to New York were covered in sudden and serious attack of pneumonia. four hundred and sixty-four minutes. Seizing the telephone, Mr. Vanderlip noti- RECORD RUNS OF MILLIONAIRES. 747 fied the New York Central authorities that The detailed schedule of the Vanderlip he wanted a special made up for him at special's race with death follows: once. , Left New York at midnight. Eastern time. Fifty minutes later the train pulled out Arrived in Buffalo, 6.39 a.m.—440 miles in of Central Station. the Grand It was com- 339 minutes. posed of four cars, Mr. Vanderlip's private Arrived in Cleveland, 9.27 a.m.—183 miles car and three empties for braking purposes. in 168 minutes. Six of the most powerful locomotives of the Arrived in Toledo, 11.23 a.m.— 108 miles in .New York Central and Lake Shore roads 116 minutes. were subsequently used, and the crews were Arrived in Elkhart, 1.23 p.m. — 133 miles in shifted at Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, To- 120 minutes. Left Elkhart, 1.26 p.m.—3 minutes lost ledo, and Elkhart, Indiana. in changing locomotives. Arrived in Englewood, 2.58 p.m.—95 miles Run Made History. in 92 minutes. Arrived at La Salle Street Station 3.07 p.m. The train-despatchers had received blan- railroad race with death ket orders to give the special right of way A that takes rank with over everything, and several passenger- the above occurred several years ago when Dr. W. Meyer nurses trains were side - tracked during the run. and two started from Every change of locomotives but one was New York in a record-break- ing run to tire scene of a the accomplished in less than a minute. At wreck on New York Central near Lyons, York, in Elkhart three minutes were lost through art New which Mrs. unavoidable delay. Newman Erb, wife of' the vice- president of the Pere The Vanderlip race against death should Marquette Railroad, had been seriously injured. live in the history of railroading. It estab- Accompanied by Mr. Erb's" lished the fastest time between New York son-in-law and his wife, the physician and and Chicago, the train reaching the La nurses left the metropolis on a special, Salle Street Station at seven minutes after composed of the fastest engine available, three three o'clock the next afternoon, sixteen day-coaches, and private hours and seven minutes from New York, a car. The special was ordered at seven o'clock in the morning, almost an hour better than the previous when the news of the disaster arrived, record of seventeen hours, and two hours and pulled out at ten minutes to eight. It was given faster than the schedules of the Twentieth- a clear track and whirled the Century Limited and the Pennsylvania Spe- up Hudson at the rate of a mile a minute. cial. The entire run of 965 miles was made in exactly 907 minutes, making an aver- 81 Miles in 74 Minutes. age of 1 .06 miles a minute. The special was brought into Chicago by At Albany, Dr. Meyer appealed to the Engineer Mark Floyd and Conductor James engineer and Conductor William Lewis for Wisher. more speed, and from Albany to Syracuse Throughout the race Mr. Vanderlip kept all records were broken, the distance to the begging the engineer for more speed. He latter city from New York being made in received no messages as to his mother's four and one-half hours. After a quick condition en route, and lived in constant change of engines, the train hurried on to fear that death would beat him to the Rochester, the eighty-one intervening miles bedside. being covered in seventy-four minutes. The run was all the more remarkable in view of Death Wins the Race. the fact that the engineer was compelled to slow down six successive times. When the train reached Englewood Sta- The special covered the 373 miles from tion he jumped into a waiting automobile New York to Rochester in 344 minutes, and started at top speed for his mother's breaking the record of the Empire State home in Madison Avenue. Express by one hour; but Death had beaten "Mother?" he asked as the door opened. the flying train by twenty minutes, and " She died at ten minutes to three," was Mrs. Erb had succumbed to her injuries. the reply—which was the very time the The race was the best piece of record work special had pulled into the Englewood in the history of the New York Central to Station. • that date. 748 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Late in March, a year ago, George W. his mother before she died, was another feat Perkins and his wife figured in a spectacu- which has attracted wide attention. Al- lar railroad dash from Stuart, Florida, to though he did not have a special, the crews Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Perkins's aged of the regular trains exerted themselves to mother lay dangerously ill. Receiving word their utmost in his behalf, news received by telegraph of the latter's critical condi- along the line of his mother's" steady decline tion while sojourning in Florida, Mr. Per- spurring them on to their best efforts. kins ordered a special to be made up for him at once, and within an hour the train, Hurrying to the Doctor. with himself and his wife on board, pulled out of Stuart. Last year the country was startled by the Chattanooga, Tennessee, was reached at dramatic endeavor of Charles Talmadge, a seven o'clock of the same evening, and Cin- Los Angeles millionaire, to reach Chicago cinnati at four o'clock the following morn- from Santa Fe in order to place himself ing, the night run of 337 miles between the under the care of a specialist. Mr. Tal- two cities having been made in 530 minutes. madge believed himself to be dangerously It took four minutes to effect a change ill, and was positive that his one hope for of locomotives at Cincinnati, and Mr. Per- life rested in an operation. kins implored the new engineer to do all in Mr. Talmadge was in Santa Fe on busi- his power to make better time, with the re- ness when he became suddenly ill. " He sult that the distance of 263 miles to Cleve- dropped an important real-estate deal that land was covered in 288 minutes. A wait- he had under way, ordered a special consist- ing automobile carried Mr. Perkins to his ing of two cars and a locomotive, and plead- mother's bedside, where he found that his ed with the engineer to break every railroad race from the South had not been in vain. record in history on the run to Chicago. The train-despatchers along the Atchison, He Wouldn't Wait for a Special. Topeka and Santa Fe were ordered to give the special a right of way, and the crew of On September 28, 1908, Frederic Thomp- the latter were instructed by the officials of son received word in New York that his the road to annihilate time in a way they wife was dangerously ill in Chicago. He had never done before. The race started, immediately telephoned C. F. Daly, one of and the distance from' the starting point to the vice-presidents of the New York Cen- Kansas City- was covered at a rate that made tral, to prepare a special for his use. a new record for the road. After a short delay, Mr. Daly notified him When Kansas City was reached, however, that it would be impossible to get up a Mr. Talmadge 's condition had improved so special for several hours at the very least, materially that the special was dismissed and advised Mr. Thompson to take the Em- and die rest of the journey was made on a pire State Express, which was scheduled to regular train. leave within the hour. Mr. Thompson, fear- Mr. Talmadge's race with what he be- ing that even the slightest delay might prove lieved to be death attracted unparalleled costly, told the official that he would leave attention in the West, and particularly in on the express, but asked to have a special towns tiiat lay along the line of the rail- in readiness for him at Buffalo. road. The news of the special's record- The vice-president assured him the special breaking run was flashed ahead, and~ great would be waiting, and the race began. On throngs of people gathered at the stations reaching Buffalo, Mr. Thompson learned by to cheer on its rapid flight. wire that his wife's condition was even more aggravated than when he left New York. To the Bedside of His Son. He boarded the special, which was made up of a locomotive and a single Pullman, and Of all the long-distance contests with the bade the engineer make the run of his life. Grim Reaper, one that stands out from Chicago was reached at the rate of a mile among the others is the run made by Henry a minute, and when Mr. Thompson got to J. Mayham. his wife's side, the turn for the better in While in New York on business, in Feb- her condition was already marked. ruary, 1897, Mr. Mayham received a tele- Ralph Modjeska's successful train-dash gram stating that his son was dying in from Montreal to the Pacific coast, to reach Denver. He left immediately on the Penn- RECORD RUNS OF MILLIONAIRES. 749 sylvania Limited for Pittsburgh,- and, on was reached in 231 minutes, and Albia, arriving there, telegraphed Division Super- Iowa, 100 miles farther West, in 347 min- intendent Howland, of the Chicago, Bur- utes. Red Oak, Iowa, a distance of 447 lington and Quincy, in Chicago, asking for miles, was reached in 507 minutes. On the a special car and engine to carry him on to straight stretches of track the rate of speed Denver. was a mile a minute and better; and even Arriving in Chicago at ten minutes after in Colorado, during the one-hundred-and- nine o'clock on the morning of February eighteen-mile climb from Akron, almost as IS, he left fifty minutes later from the high a rate was maintained. Union Station in General Superintendent Colorado was entered at twelve minutes Hessler's private car, coupled to a special to two o'clock the next morning, and Denver locomotive for the anxious father's use. at eight minutes to four Tuesday, February A second wire that reached him a few 16. But Death had won. Mr. Mayham's moments before the train pulled out in- son had died soon after midnight. formed Mr. Mayham that his son was sink- During the course of the run Mr. May- ing rapidly. He tearfully begged the offi- ham had sent numerous telegrams to his cials to get him to Denver in time to see his son, telling him that he was coming, and boy before the end came, and told them to asking him to keep up his hope. Two of spare no expense to aid him in his race. those telegrams were sent after the young Affected by his grief, the railroad men man had passed away. promised to get him to his destination with- When the special left Chicago a snow- in twenty-four hours, although the fastest storm was raging, and the rails were wet regular trains took thirty-two hours. and slippery. General Manager Brown, of A clear track jyas ordered for the special the railroad, said subsequently that the run all along the line, and during the course of might have been made in half an hour less the run fully half a dozen passenger-trains time had this not been the case. As it was, were side-tracked. The only person on the the distance of 1,026 miles between Chicago special with Mr. Mayham was Conductor and Denver was covered in 1,132 minutes, Murray. or eight minutes less than nineteen hours. At Lincoln, Nebraska, a traveling engi- The previous record for the fastest long- neer named Dixon entered the cab and re- distance run had been made on October mained during the rest of the run, urging 24, 1895, when the Lake Shore "Special each successive engineer to greater speed, and Flier " made the 948 miles from New York infusing him with sympathy for the father to Chicago in seventeen hours and twenty whose heart was breaking in the car behind. minutes. The race with death from Chicago Burlington, 206 miles west of Chicago, to Denver cost Mr. Mayham $1,000. STEEL MAIL- GARS ONLY. PROVISION was inserted in the post-office- also added. This gives the department five years A " " appropriation bill, prior to its passage by within which to work off the cars now in use, the House of Representatives, on January 24, that but it requires that the introduction of the steel the Postmaster General shall not hereafter enter cars shall begin immediately. These amendments into contracts for other than steel, or non-com- were adopted after a long debate, replete with bustible railway mail-cars. The stipulation that statistics and accountsjjf fatalities to railway mail after January 1, 1916, no wooden car shall be clerks resulting from the type of cars now used used in any way for the railway mail service was by the mail service. GOOD MILEAGE RECORD. SANTA EE locomotive 1415 has a remarkable till October 22, 1910, four years and almost six record for service. It is of the Atlantic months, before being sent to the shops for general type passenger-engine and operates out of Albu- repairs. During this time it had only one set of querque, New Mexico, on the first district. It flues, and traveled 241,335 miles. Considering was received from the Baldwin Locomotive Works the rough territory and the feed-water conditions in April, 1906, and on May 1 went into service, of that section, it is an exceptionally good record being in charge of Engineer G. W. Shade, and The engine was in charge of Mr. Shade all this Fireman I. L. Fouch. It was used continuously time. VANISHING RAILROADERS BY JOHN W. SAUNDERS. The Thousand-and-One ] ights' Tales of the Early Days of Railroading as Related by Old-Timers " CHAPTER XV. ' Did you ever hear that story about that trunk ? ' said old Perk. In the Trunk. "I said, 'What trunk? ' " ' Oh, 'shaw ! I'll tell you all about it.' ETE PERKINS paid out so " And old Perk told how one of the night much of his wages for spec- hands, named Tim, was always coming in- | tacles trying to make out the to the baggage-room to keep him company, numbers on the checks, that as he said. But Perk used sometimes to he gave up the job soon after fall asleep, and dream that Tim was ' going his eyesight failed, and I got through ' the trunks. it," said Dell Hawkins, the old baggage "Tim had a sneaking kind o' way. man. "Well, one night, when old Perk was "Before the old man died he used to part asleep and part awake, he thought he come down here quite frequent to sit with saw Tim try to open a bos. " ' me. Old Perk was fond of his pipe, and ' What are you doing, Tim ? never could enjoy it so well as among the " Tim said he was just tightening the trunks'. ropes round that trunk. "Well, one cold and stormy night in the " A few minutes after, old Perk was middle of winter, when it was about time aroUsed by a piercing shriek. for the lightning express to put in a show, "Tim, the trunk pilferer, had unlocked 1 took my lamp and went to find out how- a trunk and raised the lid. and while she was. stealthily feeling inside in the dim light for " I was not long finding out, for, as I what he could get, had drawn out a ghastly stood there, I heard an awful smash. human hand and arm, while a skeleton sat "The lightning express had run into a grinning at him in the box. switching engine at the east end of the yard. "Poor Tim! He could not drop ThTTrold " That made things lively for a little hand he held in his; it seemed to hold him time; but the wrecking gangs got the dam- like a vise. He fell on his knees, shivered, aged engines clear, threw the broken bag- and swooned away on the floor. gage-car on one side, coupled another en- " The medical student's box nearly cost gine on, and the train, with a very short poor Tim his life. The fright threw him delay, went on west, leaving the baggage into a fever, but I guess it cured him of piled up in this room, to be sent on by the opening other people's trunks. morning train. "When old Perk had finished, he fell " As I said before, it was a cold night, asleep. I began to feel uncomfortable. and when the work was through, I was" only The room smelled close. My imagination too glad to get near the stove and have was excited. another smoke with old Perk. He had "I looked at the trunk suspiciously, and made up his mind not to go home that had a vague idea that all the lightning ex- night for fear of losing his way in the drifts. press baggage contained grinning skeletons. Began in the February Railroad Man' s Magazine. Single copies, 1 cents. ! ! VANISHING RAILROADERS. 751 " Old Perk snored. To drive away un- gether we lifted the poor, stiffened young pleasant fancies I began counting how lady out of her prison. " many times he would snore before three ' Let me hold the dear creature on my o'clock. knee,' said Perk. " " ' He had snored just one hundred and ' No,' I said, I'm going to hold her ' seventy-three times when I thought I heard on my knee ! " 1 a groan. Let me warm her, then,' he said. "' " You might have knqcked me down with No,' I said; ' I'm baggage-master, and a pick—I mean a tooth-pick—I felt so I'm going to do all the warming necessary scared on this occasion.' " I shook old Perk rudely. " So I petted her fondly, and old Perk ' " ' Was that you, Perk ? Did you moan ? ran for water. Soon she began to talk a " ' I guess so,' he cried, and went to sleep little. You should have heard her. She again. was so full of gratitude." " Again I heard the same sound, only "How came she in the trunk?" longer. " She was an orphan—the adopted child " My hair stood up like bristles. of a rich, miserly old uncle. He wanted to " I felt a clammy moisture oozing through get her through to Cliff Valley without pay- my pores. ing her fare. He thought he could do it "'Perk,' I said, 'say that you groaned! by putting her in that box with a few air- Didn't you, Perk? If you did, say so, Mr. holes, as he was allowed one hundred Perkins! ' pounds of baggage free." "I shook him so that there was no fear "Did he claim his baggage?" he would go to sleep again. "Well, I guess not, sir. He must have " ' Don't make a noise like that, Perk,' been so scared when he found the box did I said; 'it's enough to frighten a man to not reach Cliff Valley that he dared not death ! You shouldn't do it Let's have ask for it." ' " another smoke ! "What became of the young woman? " I had not time to light up. A cry, " Well, stranger, that young woman is my quick and awful, knocked pipe, tobacco, wife, and as it's getting toward morning, I and matches out of my hand. guess I'll just ask you to go and sit in the "I darted toward old Perk. His face waiting-room. I want to go home and hold was blanched, and his limbs trembling with the baby while she gets up and cooks break- fright. fast." " ' ' The box ! The box ! he said, and fell heavily to the floor, scared out of his senses. "Remembering I had a bottle of spirits CHAPTER XVI. lock-up, I put it to Mr. Perkins's in the Old-Time Passes. mouth, and then, desperately- seizing a hammer, began to burst open the box on "TV/TY train was approaching the Suspen- which Perk had sat. sion Bridge near Niagara, some "Between each blow was a stifled groan. years ago," said the old con, when it came " "It was a hard box to open. his turn to talk. I found a young man "' Perk, hurry up! Get that iron bar! ' aboard who could not pay his fare. The " The old man came to like a shot. Be- poor fellow was evidently in the last stages tween us we loosened the lid. of consumption. He sat by himself, and "The moment we had done so, it flew his eyes were red, as if he had been weep- open ing. The laws of the company could not be " I expected a horrible sight—a grinning transgressed, and, as he had no money, he skeleton with a ^spiral-spring backbone, or must leave the train. No conductor knows something of that sort. But, bless you, when a detective may be watching him, so I from seat. there sat in the - trunk the loveliest young led him with a heavy heart his " girl, her long blond hair streaming over He was shivering with the cold, and no her neck and shoulders, her large blue eyes one moved or spoke until we reached the beaming with tears of thankfulness for door. Then a pretty girl arose from her deliverance. She tried to throw her arms seat, and with bright, sparkling eyes, de- round my neck. manded the amount of the invalid's fare. '"Lend a hand, Perk!' I said. To- '"I told her eight dollars, and she took 752 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. that amount from her pocket-book, and Rug went on as the boys relit their pipes, kindly led the sick youth back to his seat. and took easy attitudes for a long siege. "The action put to shame several men "There was a station in Pennsylvania who had witnessed it, and they offered to named Hanna," said Ruggles. "When we pay half, but the whole-souled .girl refused stopped there one day, my brakeman thrust the assistance. When our train arrived at his head inside the door, as usual, and ! the next station, the girl gave him sufficient called out ' Hanna ' loud and long. A money to keep him overnight, and send him young lady, probably endowed with the to his friends die next morning." poetic appellation of Hannah, supposing "What was her name?" asked the hind lie was addressing her, and shocked at his shack. familiarity on so short an acquaintance, "Well, as I said before, I felt a little frowned like a thunder-cloud and retorted, ' ' cheap over the part I was forced to play in Shut your mouth ! the affair, so I hunted her up, and on the "He shut it. first leisure evening, called to return the "There was a brakeman on the old Erie eight dollars. This she indignantly refused, who was called Ned. He thought he would but I subsequently persuaded her to accept turn in a joke on his conductor. The con of a suitable present." was collecting tickets one day from his pas- "Well, what else?" sengers, and all handed over their paste- The old con hesitated—and blushed be- board, save one old lady who sat next the fore he replied: door, near where Ned stood. " I finally persuaded her to take me, too, " She seemed to be reaching down to get and she's just the best wife and mother on something she had dropped on the floor. the road." When her time to pay came, she raised her Watson, the "country conductor," was head, and thus addressed the blushing con- the next to talk. doctor : " I was running a train that was freight " ' I always, when I travels, carry my one day and passenger the next. I was money in my stockin', for, you sees, nothin' brakeman and switchman besides. A couple can get at it there; and I'd just thank you, living at Le Mars, Iowa, a station on 'our young man, just to reach it for me, as I'm road, were anxious to have their child bap- so jammed in diat I can't get to it. I for- tized. One day I had a minister aboard, got to git a ticket at the depot.' and seeing him on the platform as we came "The con glanced at the odier passen- into Le Mars, this couple got on the train, gers, some of whom were laughing at his and the child was baptized while we were plight. One or two young ladies among going at the rate of thirty miles an hour. them blushed scarlet. He hesitated, and The happy couple got off at the next sta- finally beat a sudden retreat, muttering tion, and took the first train home." something about not charging old ladies. " You remember Pete Littlejohn, don't Anyhow, he was called on the carpet for you, boys?" asked Neal Ruggles. letting that passenger get by. "Yes; he's running somewhere in Cali- " My run leads into a temperance town, fornia," said the old con. which I will call Alesburg, division head- "Littlejohn was coming down the grade quarters. Nobody drinks there, and every pretty fast one trip, with his sweetheart man, woman, and child is an apostle of aboard, when die engine ran into a lot of temperance. Every citizen is a temperance solid beef, throwing her off the track tem- lecturer, and the bibulously inclined Avay- porarily, but doing no other damage. Frag- farer must get a prescription before he can ments of one of the animals came through get a drink. the window or door and lodged in sweet- " Prairie colic prevails there to an alarm- heart's lap. ing extent, and some men go about armed "'Oh, Pete's killed!' she screamed, widi blank prescriptions ready for immedi- jumping frantically to her feet, and sur- ate service the moment the first symptom ' veying the bloody reminders. Oh ! Pete's comes on. ! killed ! He's killed ' and she refused to be "Not long ago a well-known citizen of comforted until Littlejohn made his appear- Alesburg, somewhat noted for his crusades ance and took her in charge." against saloons, hunted me up in Chicago, "Tell us some more, Rug," the •boys which was several hundred miles from the yelled in unison. temperance town. He wanted to know if a VANISHING RAILROADERS. 753 I intended to take the train to Alesburg business, Mr. Stow. There's been a con- that night. spiracy against me.' " ' I told him that I did, and noticed that " Yes, I see,' replied Stow, scratching the symptoms of prairie colic were rapidly his head. ' Please raise that window a mo- developing. He had come with some of the ment, Spielman, and I'll punch your pass.' boys, he said, and, staying longer than " Spielman raised the window. The he had intended, his money had run out and train was in full motion. Stow, drawing- his friends had left him. small pocket pistol, put a hole through the " ' Very bad predicament, indeed,' I said, center of the pass. ' for a respectable temperance man of Ales- " ' How's that for a punch ? ' he said as burg; but I don't see what I can do for you he went on down the car. —the rules are very strict.' " On the same division on which the last " He replied that if he was made ac- incident occurred we had a telegraph oper- quainted with our general superintendent, ator named Billy Echart in the Burnett he could secure a pass. House at Cincinnati. Billy was very popu- " What entitled him to a pass I never lar with railway men, many of whom knew; but I told him I would introduce stopped at that establishment. Different him to the super at once, for I feared the influences were brought to bear, and he colic had him full force. He left me, and finally got a passenger-train on the old Cin- returned in about fifteen minutes with at cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, without go- least two more colics aboard. I accom- ing through the usual apprenticeship. panied him to the super's office and intro- " Ira A. Wood was general superintend- duced him. I noticed that my colicky friend ent, I think, though Echart had never seen handed the super his card. him. John Lincobi, who ' learned ' Echart " The super seemed much perplexed in the road, told him the company was a new his examination of that card. Finally he one, and very particular about its rules. returned it, remarking with a peculiar "Nothing would advance him so rapidly ' smile : Sir, there is some mistake. This in official favor, he was told, as strict ad- seems to be a prescription from Dr. Stig- herence to and enforcement of all rules. mole, asking a certain druggist of Alesburg Billy was unusually proud of his conduc- to give the bearer one quart of what I sup- tor's badge; and when he stepped on his pose stands for whisky—for colic' first train at the Cincinnati depot, he felt " I left my fellow citizen searching nerv- that he owned considerable stock in the C, ously in his pockets for his card—but I H. and D. never learned how he got home. "As he approached Glendale, he ran into " I want to tell you about the fellow that his first obstruction. This was a corpulent couldn't put it over Jack Stow. We had a individual seated modestly in the rear end very energetic tallow-pot named Spielman, of a car, without pass or ticket. Echart told who got in the bad habit of doubling on his him the rules were very strict, and that the pass. The boys on the main-line passenger conductor had no alternative. resolved to stop it by punching the pass " ' How long have you been on the road ? every time it was shown. Have you a card, sir? ' asked the passenger. " The consequence was, Spielman had to "'Yes.' Billy had a fresh bunch of make application for a new one. The boys, cards, just printed. He gave the fat man not at all discouraged, soon punched up one, adding that this was his last trip. pass No. 2. When Spielman got his third '"Ah, I thought as much! Well, sir, pass, he procured a piece of sole-leather my name is Wood; I am tjhe general super- the same size as the pass and about a quar- intendent of this road. Sometimes I carry ter of an inch thick. On this he pasted his a pass, but left it to-day in another coat at pass. my office.' "It so happened that he got on Jack " ' Sorry, indeed, sir. But; there are so Stow's train. Our conductor, intent on many with the best of excuses who are put ruining Spielman's pass, asked to see it. off. The company assures me that every The weighty article was brought forth, and one entitled to a pass will have one with the conductor's countenance dropped. The him. Excuses will not balance my account. tallow-pot saw his discomfiture, and said I do now know you, sir, and have no right with a smile: to know you without your pass.' 1 " ' " 1 think I have stopped that punching Young man, you are right. I am only 12 RR : — 754 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. going to Hamilton, twenty miles. The accomplishment as an evidence of genius, ' agent there is my brother. When we get in, but the general superintendent of that road we'll go together and see him. Here is my beat them all.. fare.' "When I came out of Indianapolis on "Echart took the fare with a trembling the return trip, my Hoosier friend was on hand, with a vague idea that he had gained the train in a double seat, books and all. So a victory, though what sort of a one he did it was for ten or a dozen trips. He was the not know. first to board the train and the last man to " Now, everybody in Hamilton knew old leave. One day I said to him ' " ' Yank Wood, six feet five in his stockings, Stranger, which way? weighing three hundred pounds; with a " ' Any way,' he replied, without taking nasal twang that could be heard for miles. his eyes off tjhe book. 'Any way, hang the ' "He was the agent. When they got to odds! Hamilton, Yank was on the platform, talk- " M mean, which way are you traveling ' ing to Ferd Jones, the ticket agent. ain't you in the wrong train? ' " " ' road, isn't it? Billy's passenger stuck to him ; and as Indianapolis " 1 soon as he got out, Yank and Jones rushed Yes,' I answered. " ' up to him with friendly greeting. Another Wal, that's my road; drive on.' moment, and Billy was formally introduced " Being a constant customer. I got ac- to the general superintendent. quainted with him. This was his expla- " From that time on Echart rose rapidly nation : " ' in the estimation of the company, and was You see, this road runs through the gradually promoted to a high position. Lin- old man's farm, down there near Lawrence- coln, for like fidelity to rules and regula- burg. When the fellers was buildin' on it. tions, was ^appointed superintendent of a the old man he fit 'em. He sued 'em, and branch line. the general super sent him a family pass "This was at a time when railway men for life, and I'm a-ridin' it out.' looked upon superintendents as a species of "I couldn't get itj through me at all; and deity to be worshiped and feared, and when we got to Cincinnati, I persuaded Echart's adventure was considered remark- him to accompany me to headquarters, able in its way." when I assured him the general superin- tendent would do the fair thing. An ex- pert there translated his life-pass, which CHAPTER XVII. read as follows: Good for Life. J. Van' Buskirk, Lawrenceburg: Don't disturb the men, as you value your "T WAS running on the old Cincinnati life ; let them pass through. Come or send and Indianapolis road, when I came one of your family to this office, and the queer customer a tall, awkward across a — matter will be satisfactorily arranged. Hoosier, who got on at Lawrenceburg with Conductors will recognize this as a pass. ' a heavy valise. I had not been on the road Gen'l Sttpt. very long, and, as Hoosiers were something of a novelty, I watched my passenger with " As nobody could read but a word here more than usual interest. and there of this scrawl, the fellow would " He took his valise to a double seat, and, have been riding to this day if I had not sitting down in one, emptied the valise in brought about that translation. the other. There were yellow-covered nov- "Many funny scenes occur in a tunnel, els enough on that seat to have started an only you can see nothing at all for the dark- Indiana bookstore. ness. At the same time, I am satisfied that " He found room somewhere for his feet, such scenes do occur. Once a gentleman, and,' taking up one of the books, was fixed fjjr some unexplained reason, undertook to for the trip. When I called for tickets he change the lower portion of his apparel dur- showed me a life-pass from the general su- ing those dark seconds, but made a wrong perintendent, written in the form of a letter, calculation as to time. and, of course, I thought my passenger was " But kissing seems to be the choice sport. a man of some consequence. All railway Kissing in a tunnel, think of that! I have superintendents in those days wrote illegi- been told that the charm is in the novelty of ble hands; they seemed to look upon such an the thing. It is the darkness, the rank bur- " ! — VANISHING RAILROADERS. 755 * glary; the nice calculation as to time; the a peculiar way. Jim had ruined two or sudden assault and desperate defense; the three trunks for a certain commercial trav- acute agony of the skirmish-line hairpins; eler whose route lay along our line, and the carrying of the outer works; the fierce who resolved to teach him a lesson. struggle, the sweetness of the surrender; the " This gentleman, who was in the hard- questionable honor of the victory. ware line, packed a carpet - bag full of "Then the horrid repairs, and the im- loaded revolvers, and handed it to Jim, possible attempt to appear serene before die who took it and, as the owner went away, other passengers. There's a short lifetime direw it against the wall of the car sav- in the kissing of a girl in a tunnel agely, then drew it on die floor and "I had a newly married couple oulj with stamped on it as usual. me on die Cincinnati Express. I have had " At about the fourth jump, firing began. a great many just such couples in my time, Forty-two revolvers went off in rapid suc- but somehow or other these youngsters at- cession, distributing bullets around the car tracted my attention. with disgusting carelessness, the smasher's "Young man, curly hair, of course; legs running against six of them before he young lady, blonde, you know, with that could get out of die car. sort of hair that when you and I were young " He rode upon the platform during the used to be called tow. Rosy cheeks, full whole of that trip; and when he did enter lips; well, I should say, a very sweet girl. the car he encased his legs in stove-pipe, ' • He was awful gone on her,' and she and ran an iron-clad snow-plow in front well, I thought; I could hear her saying: of him to push the baggage out. He is - ' James, be still ! Everybody's looking at running on our main line now, and I be- you.' lieve he smashes fewer carpet-bags than he " We were coming to the cavernous grove, did in the blissful past—much fewer—and and James became fidgety. It was plain he wears a melancholy air." that there was a conspiracy, and diat the A freight - train with a passenger ca- tunnel was tp be made a party to it. boose attached is called on some lines an " The girl was thoughtful and evidently " accommodation." It " accommodates" die unconscious. Then the wheels rattled and company rather than the public, and derives whirred louder and louder. In another its chief recommendation from the fact that second we were in the tunnel—James, his it "stops at all stations." This particular bride, and all of us! train has been sidetracked for the night; we "We came through all right. James find a number of the boys gathered in its was through, too—but the bride not quite. caboose. The wreck was fearful! There was very " As I was going through the car on my little of James's hair left on his head. run to-day," said Sayre, the con, " I saw The color had faded from one of her a lady smoking a pipe very industriously cheeks, and lodged on his nose. His neck- in the rear seat. " tie was swinging from her brooch. ' Madam,' said I as courteously as I " She commenced die work of reconstruc- knew how, ' we don't even allow men to tion, looking up at him under her uplifted smoke in this car.' ' " amis, as if to say, See what you have ' That is an excellent rule, sir,' she done before these people.' replied with the utmost coolness; 'if I see "James went for a drink of water. I any man smoking in here, I'll inform you saw him with one hand on the, nozzle of at once.' the cooler and the other on a flask. Half "Last fall," said Sayre, "Tom Holds- the hairpins were gone, and when she sat worth had an extra stock, east, on the main up straight, looking so wobegone and line. He stopped on the grade and Len friendless, I was rude enough to smile. I Bassett, a brakeman, went back to flag. couldn't help it. She saw it, and smiled In starting up, the train broke in two. in return, as if to say, ' You know how it Bassett, seeing diat he could not stop the is yourself.' train that was following, and gaining Sandy Burrell, of the I., B. W. and R. rapidly upon them, rushed for his own road, was the next. train, woke up his drovers, and jumped " I had a baggage-smasher running with diem out, saving a number of lives. He me once," he said, " who had his old-fash- then put on brakes and stopped his train, ioned idea of running baggage exploded in the result being but a slight damage to the " 756 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. way-car. This was an exhibition of nerve stopped. The conductor jumped off and that you don't see every day." ran on ahead a few hundred yards as rap- " Oh, I don't know as it beats Lucas idly as possible on the track, and com- much," said Lowry. " Brakeman Charlie menced swinging-his red lantern as a sig- Lucas saw a headlight one night coming nal of danger to the supposed approaching pretty close. He took his torpedoes and red train. light and went back. Arriving at the "After worrying himself out in running proper distance, he found he was flagging and swinging his light, he stopped a mo- a belated farmer who was hunting up stray ment, completely out of breath, and took a stock. There were no signs of any other square look at the fancied monster in front. pursuing train. Charlie's name has since Sam Young saw ' the man in the moon,' been changed from Lucas to looseness, and the truth flashed upon him that he though he never gets tight." was awfully bilked. "Do you know how near Bill Power " He hastened back to his train, and came to getting his foot in it?" asked told the engineer to go ahead, as the dan- " Pigeon." ger of a collision was more remote than he "Didn't think there was anything big had calculated. The engineer, fireman, " enough to hold it ! and brakeman discovered the mistake" be- " Yes, about ten years ago, he applied to fore the conductor did. Sam promised to Hammond for a passenger-train. stand treat for the next six months if the '"All right, sir,' replied the colonel, parties who witnessed the blunder would ' only one objection.' agree not to make it public, but the joke " ' ' What's that? asked Power. was too broad and too good to keep, and, " ' Require an extra coach to carry your in spite of the promises made, it leaked feet.' out." " Doc Merriman says he was coming "Cook, of the P., P. and J., went into down grade once to side - track for some Chicago and paid a visit to the Dollar train, when he saw obstructions on the Store. After making some trifling pur- track ahead. There were two or three chases, he offered the pretty saleswoman a inches of snow on the track, which made dollar for a kiss. The lady agreed and them more visible, of course. delivered the goods. " " He reversed, called for brakes, and ' Now,' says she, with a pretty foreign sent his fireman down to clear the way. accent, ' give me another dollar, and you Fireman returned, and said there was may kiss my mother.' Cook was delighted nothing there. ' Doc ' swore, and went with the adventure and paid over the dol- himself. After surveying the obstacles a lar. The girl went out and returned, lead- moment, he looked over to the switch, and ing in a wrinkled old blear-eyed female, there stood Patch. hobbling on crutches. " " ' ' ' ' Patch,' yelled Doc,' the next time ' Here she is ! " you cross the track in front of my engine, ' Not any, if you please, miss. The I want you to pick up your tracks. There fact is, I never mix drinks. I am a freight ain't an engine on the road can git over conductor on the P., P. and J. Send her 'em in three inches of snow.'" to the depot, and I'll bill her through at " ' I think I can couple on to that," said special rates ! " 1 Richardson, " and get ahead. Sam Young, Dutch ' Cooper was coming west on who was well known in Truckee, Nevada, 25, and wanted to stop in the hollow near is conductor on a freight running to Visa- Wyanet for water. Frank Avery, the lia on the Southern Pacific road. One brakeman, proposed to give him a lightning night when the moon was full his train stop right there, all by himself. was steaming over the broad plain near " It was a down grade, and coming from Visalia, just as die orb of night was rising. Princeton to Wyanet, Frank fell asleep and "The moon appeared like a locomotive failed to get out. The consequence was headlight in front of the train, apparently the)' ran by the tub, clear into Wyanet, at considerable distance ahead. The in- and Cooper was just screaming for brakes. stant he saw the light, Sam yelled to the He was mad, and backed up to the tub, engineer to stop the train. swearing like a streak. "The alarm was given, the brakes " In the meantime, Frank was scratch- whistled down in a jiffy, and the train ing his head and studying how he was to " — VANISHING RAILROADERS. 757 get out of the scrape. While Cooper was " Hank says, ' All right,' and rushes up taking water, Avery walked over on the the ladder and over onto the engine. Fog! engine and said: No, I guess not!' " ' Cooper, I like to broke my leg back "On arriving at the switch, Smith there.' whistles down brakes. I calls out from " ' ' ' How is that? asked Dutch.' the way-car and asks: ~ " ' well, I got out on top and tried to '"What's the matter?' set the brake, but the demed dog broke " Hank says, ' Extra ahead on one side- and threw me off. It nearly killed me.' track; engine disabled on the other.' "' Is that so? Well, I was pretty mad. "About that time I could hear No. 4 You broke vour leg? Yes? I feel better coming over the iron bridge, about a mile now.' away. I picked up the red light and ran " We had a smash-up down near Du back with the flag. I ran as far as I Quoin onvthe Illinois Central once," said dared; slapped down two torpedoes. Ran Old Pop Davidson, the veteran eagle-eye. a little farther, and could just see No. 4's " I don't know how much stock was killed, headlight. but the next day the supe got the following It seemed about forty feet in the air. letter: Could almost feel her hot breath, as she " ' I want you to cum yer at oncet theres came tearing along, anxious to make up bin a smashup i want you to bring six every lost minute. dollars to pay for mi hog. The hog " Si Honner was behind her, anxious for squeeled, but the engine wouldn't stop. the reputation of his better half, as he J. Cerample.'" styled his engine. Then Dick Hammond, an old Chicago " He was peering through die fog. When railroader, brought" the Arabian Nights to he saw the red flag waved across the track a close with this one: he whistled down brakes, and, without ' About the only thing a conductor fears waiting to shut her off, hauled her over. is the dense fog. I remember the day we "The rail being wet, she slipped, and were caught in one, and if you will let as he struck the torpedoes, he slipped out me spit it out in my own way, maybe you between tender and engine, and took a can understand. look at things. ' Hank,' says I to the brakeman, ' you " About that time his headlight shone go over and tell Smith—our engineer—to on the hind end of a way-car. You could keep a wild-eye. Second extra on No. 18 have jumped from the pilot to the back left Leland about five minutes ago. Look platform without much exertion. For a back pretty often, see if they're coming. minute Si looked like animated rigor mortis. Tell Smith to side-track at Sandwich and " A miss is as good as a mile,, and Si let No. 4 by. felt greatly relieved when he discovered " ' Tell him to get in out of the way that the only damage done was the wet- quicker than lightning, for No. 4 will be ting of the 28 all over with that peculiar whooping 'em up by the time she strikes mixture of coal-dust and water, for which die whistling-post. I don't want to drop the boys have an appropriate name. Be- any torpedo on her to-night' Si Honner lieve me, I don't like diose fogs. When I was at the throttle, and his engine, No. look back through all these years, and 28, had just come out of the shops and diink how near 28 came to hitting us he wanted to make a record with her. it makes me wince." (To be ontinued. ) The Railroad Man's Brain Teasers. HERE is a nifty nut to crack. It is from F. T. Montgomery, King City, California. (25) Three trains of different lengths and speed were traveling on adjacent tracks. At a certain time the tail-lights of all three trains were abreast. Ten seconds later, during which time Train No. 1 traveled her length, the headlights were abreast, and in another ten seconds the headlight of No. 1 (the longest) and tail-lights of No. 2 were abreast, and the headlight of No. 2 and tail-lights of No. 3 (the shortest) were abreast. At what speed was No. 3 traveling, assuming all speeds constant and that of No. 1 to be 36 miles an hour? From P. M. Monckton, Powell River, British Columbia, we have received the following juicy pippin. Go to it, boys: (26) Two cities, Boomville and Hustle City, are connected by-two competing railroads. A train on each line leaves Boomville at noon, and reaches Hustle City by the B line in two-thirds of the time taken by the A line, since the latter's train runs only half as fast as the former's. On the return journey, again, both companies start a train from Hustle City at the same hour, but this time the train on the A line runs twice as fast as that on the B. The result is that A beats B by 5 hours, also the speed run by A in the second case is the same as that run by B in the first case. What is the distance between the two cities by each route? One more good one by Fritz Gannon, Fort Collins, Colorado. a (27) A conductor on a fast run, being asked at what speed the " train was traveling, replied : For the twenty-fourth time since midnight the hour and minute hands of my watch are at right angles to one another, and when they are next opposite, the train will have traveled 54 miles farther." At what speed per hour was the train traveling, and what was-the time of day when the conductor made the remark? ANSWERS TO APRIL TEASERS. (23) Sixty-three empties picked up 31 loads. (24) At 2.10 ten-elevenths p.m.. No. 1 is 34 two-elevenths miles east of B, and No. 2 is 32 eight-elevenths miles west of B. Therefore, the trains are 66 ten-elevenths miles apart. 758 ! I ON THE EDITORIAL CARPET. Where the M. M. of the Magazine Talks With His Readers—and They Talk to Him. WE have just received our running orders for and their hardships, told by George Hyde, will be June. We hope they will look as good to of particular interest to all operators. " you in the finished product of the magazine as Help for Men Who Help Themselves," a de- they do to us just now. Every inch of the train, partment which has always been looked for with from the very tip of the pilot to the platform of eagerness by our readers, will be started anew in the observation-car, has been carefully gone over our June number. We have secured some ex- and put through the polishing process of our edi- cellent articles for this department. The first will torial system, and, in short, it seems to be just describe the inner workings of the claim office. the thing in prize specials. Aside from these more practical features, there The switch-targets of our fiction division shine will be the usual quota of articles dealing with with particular brightness. After a long absence, the funny side of railroading, such as " Tales in our old friend Spike Malone will again be with the Roundhouse," " Ten Thousand Miles by " us—and all you boys know that a Spike Malone Rail," and Queer Things on the Line," all new story bubbles with fun like a bu'sted steam-chest. and fresh and just the sort of stuff that one wants Sumner Lucas will contribute another yarn to read when the day's work is over and he needs about that interesting bo, Fate Johnson, and a few hours of recreation before hitting the hay. Augustus Wittfeld will be aboard with another of We have the " 19 " order for June. All aboard his humorous stories. " i Curtis the Coward " is calculated to make DO YOU people think who are attempting to invest their WHAT THINK? money foolishly. There will be the concluding part of Harry ACCORDING to the prominent technical jour- Bedwell's thrilling drama of the desert, which be- nals of the country, there is a strong move- gins in this number. ment on foot to abolish the time-honored " Johnson Lloyd Kenyon Jones will make his initial ap- bar " in favor of some more easily controlled pearance as a short-story writer in the June apparatus—one which will permit of more refine- number with a particularly interesting railroad ment in the adjustment of the valve-gear. From story. the birth of the locomotive in this country, as Honk aild Horace, having settled in Valhalla, we all know, the reverse has been effected through are again in some of the old mix-ups that made the reverse-lever working in a notched quadrant them and the little town of the mystic hills so and requiring purely manual effort for its manipu- famous. lation. Then there is a story about an engineer who For many years, at least half a century, during tried to turn his locomotive into a flying machine. which period there was practically no development And there are others. in the size and weight of the American locomotive, Among the special articles we will publish the this appliance effectually served the purpose for life story of George Stephenson, whose name will which intended. The weight of the various parts live as long as steam is applied to motion. June making up the valve-gear, links, eccentric-straps, is the one hundred and thirtieth anniversary of rods, rockers, and valves was light, and no diffi- Stephenson's birth, and no doubt there are many culty was experienced in pulling the lever over. who do not know the terrible obstacles against When unlatched, even with the locomotive at the which he had to fight before gaining the slightest highest speed, the engineer was not at all alarmed recognition. If you do know his story, it will be that it would get away from him, and, consequent- worth reading again. ly, it was used, as it was expected that it would The efforts of the railroads to look after the be, to adjust the cut-off to meet the requirements welfare of their employees is told in an article of load and grade. by Charles Frederick Carter. In 1895, or thereabouts, began the revolution Why some railroads and railroad men are always which has taken place in locomotives. Previous getting in trouble is the subject of another in- to that time the heaviest freight-engine weighed teresting paper. scarcely 120,000 pounds, but with the advent of The pioneers of the overland telegraph system the compound system this weight increased to 759 760 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. 145,000 pounds. Cast steel began to take the would be glad if sorrie enterprising motive-power place of cast iron for frames, driving-boxes, rock- chief would give it a fair trial. centers, and in a very few years, ers, and wheel J* say about 1902, a locomotive was not considered LET THE HEADLIGHT worthy of special comment regarding size unless ALONE. it tipped the scales at 200,000 pounds. This advance in general weight implied, of WE have noticed that the tendency exists on course, a proportionate advance in the weight of some roads to transfer the headlight from" the component parts. Eccentric-straps, links, etc., its well - known position above the smoke - box parts of the valve-gear which must be lifted by the in front of the stack to the front of the smoke- reverse-lever, became doubly heavy. No matter box door. We do not enthuse greatly over the what counterbalancing features were resorted to change. In some cases it is necessary with new in order that the movement of the lever might be and larger locomotives to preserve the proper assisted, it became realized in a vague sort of overhead clearance. In the face of such conditions way that it would no longer fill the bill. no objection can be urged, but we have particu- The engineers, especially on heavy locomotives larly in mind instances where headlights are be- at the head of high-speed trains, became rather ing relocated on old engines where an abundance afraid of their old friend. Many of them learned of clearance always existed. rather unpleasantly that it had better be let alone In explanation it is said that lowering the head- when once hooked up into the running-notch. light about to the center line of the engine serves Often when they would attempt to make a nicer to illuminate the track to better advantage, but adjustment, pull her up or drop her down a notch, when it is remembered that the oil-lamp is prac- the lever would have an awkward knack of twist- tically valueless to the engineer as an illuminating ing out of their hands, and whipping down into agent, the argument does not seem logical. All the corner with a bang, occasionally to the ac- it amounts to at the best is to give warning that companiment of a shower of notches pulled out the engine is approaching. of the quadrant, and maybe a broken eccentric- In its old position the headlight is protected. strap. So, gradually, the situation resolved into It is so high up that it cannot be struck by an one notch for the lever, and it was let severely object, and arranged on a board supported by alone, thereby defeating the adjustable feature of columns there is a free circulation of air between all valve-gears. it and the hot smoke-box at all times, thoroughly After the gradual appreciation of this fact, protecting it from burning. motive-power management was impelled to look As it is now, after relocation, it seems almost across the sea for a solution to the problem. There inconceivable how it can be protected either from they use the screw reverse-gear, in which the links fire or damage. The smoke-box door is opened are raised and lowered by means of a hand wheel every trip for netting examination and other well operating a threaded screw connected to the known routine roundhouse features, and it will reach-rod, and which unquestionably operates take considerable care to work a wrench on the with the minimum of effort at whatever speed the door button-nuts without doing some harm to the locomotive may be working. It appears to be headlight. The fact should also be recalled that more_ and more apparent every day that this ar- all doors are not in perfect condition. Many of rangement must be incorporated in American them are cracked, and it is no unusual sight to see practise. a red-hot door resulting from a fire in the smoke- Screw-reversing mechanism takes up little room box—which, of course, would mean no headlight in the cab. It can be wound to full reverse with in a very few miles. three turns of the wheel by one hand whether On the whole, we think that this is one of the steam is being used or not; and it permits of the things which had better be let alone. It can have very finest adjustment of the gear to meet the no other result than a positive increase in ex- varying conditions which are at all times arising. pense, not to mention a sad blow to the sym- - It is enthusiastically indorsed by the foreign metrical appearance of the locomotive. If an roads on which it is used; the engineers are loud electric headlight were under consideration, this in their praise. The only possible objection which comment might not apply, but the oil-light is far might be urged would be slow movements in better off in its present position in front of the switching, but it is not intended to advocate its stack. use for switch-engines. What is specifically desired is a valve-gear con- A WORTHY INSTITUTION. trolling mechanism which can be operated on high-speed locomotives without danger to the en- gineer; in which he will have sufficient confidence NOTICES have been sent out by superintend- to attempt to work. As we have said, the present ents of the various divisions of the Penn- reverse-lever largely defeats the purpose of valve- sylvania Railroad calling attention to the St. gears, whether shifting-link or radial, because, John's Orphanage, No. 1722 Rittenhouse Street, if it must be said, many engineers fear it. The Philadelphia. The privileges of this orphanage screw-gear offers an easy solution to this. We are for the daughters of men who have been killed ! ! —;; ! ON THE EDITORIAL CARPET. 761 while in the discharge of their duties in the service the " real inventor of the locomotive." Don't you of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and affili- remember the verse in that stirring poem, " The lines. St. ated The John's Orphanage was en- Engine-Driver to His Engine," by William J. dowed by John Edgar Thomson^Tate president of MacQuorn Rankine, which runs: the company. It is for girls who are taken under Put forth agreement, with the mother or guardian, and, free your force, my iron horse, with limbs that never of charge, are given a plain education, including tire; The best of oil shall feed your joints, and the household work, cooking, and sewing. best of coal your fire J* Like foaming wine it fires my blood to see IN EVERY TROOP LIBRARY. your lightning speed Arabia's race ne'er matched your pace, my gallant steam-borne steed Editor, The Railroad Man's Magazine; My blessing on old Trevithick! let his fame November Railroad Man's Magazine forever last THE For he was the man has just reached this far corner of Uncle who found the plan to make you run so fast Sam's possessions, and I take pleasure in His arm was strong, his congratulating you on the versatile make-up of head was long, he knew not guile nor fear; this number. There is just enough of the techni- When I think of him, it cal in the stories to pique the interest of a lay- makes me proud that I am an engineer man, and, like Oliver Twist, ask " for more." I have never been connected in any way with George Stephenson was the perfector of this railroads, but in some twenty-three years' service wonderful invention. He constructed his first lo- in the army I have had the pleasure of riding comotive in 1S14. It traveled a few miles on them, and, somehow or other, I six miles an hour. have always entertained a fellow feeling for rail- In the April and current issue of The Railroad road men the world over. Man's Magazine, in the articles " The First I assure you that the readers of The Railroad Fight for a Railway," you will read of the re- Man's Magazine is by no means confined to markable efforts that were made to prevent Ste- railroad men alone, as it can be found in every phenson from carrying out his plans. And in our troop library of the regiment.—E. S, R., Troop June number, to celebrate the one hundred, and " L," 2d Cavalry, U. S. A., Jolo, Jolo, Philip- thirtieth anniversary of Stephenson's pine Islands. birth, we will publish the graphic story of his life—one of the most interesting chapters in the great romance ANSWBRS TO CERTAIN SIGNALS. c of human achievement. We hope that you will not miss it. EE. T., Independence, Iowa.—If, as you say, J* • you have been a reader of this magazine Kampsville, Illinois.— for the past three years, you certainly could not FLANGBRYD, Thomas • Davenport, have missed " Casey Jones," which appeared in an American inventor, con- structed, in 1835, the first electric railway at our issue of July, 1910. Brandon, Vermont. It was driven by an electro- magnetic engine. He was born July 9, 1802, and WR. M., Monessen, Pennsylvania.—Under died July 6, 1851. » the conditions given, in wljjch it is stipu- «* lated that the man got on the caboose when the AMONG THE MISSING. latter was a mile above Belle Vernon, and alighted from the engine when the latter was at Monessen, CHARLES I. ROMAINE, Third and he therefore walked one mile, the length of the MR. Marion Streets, Leavenworth, Kansas, is train, and rode four miles, the distance between very anxious to hear from his son, was stations. who a former railroad man. Any «£ one knowing of this man's whereabouts will please notify his father. FG. H., Pitmau, New Jersey.—Richard Tre- • vithick was the real inventor of the loco- Mrs. Susan J. Chandler, Soldiers' Home, Lafay- motive. This worthy man was born in England, ette, Indiana, asks for news of her son, Ben April 13, 1771, and died at the age of sixty-two. Chandler. He was employed as lineman for a He was an engineer and inventor, and was called telephone company in Oakland, California, about " The Father of the Locomotive Engine." He two years ago. was the man who introduced the high-pressure J* steam engine in 1802. He effected improvements HEROES OF THE FOREST FIRES. in the plunger-pump, an indispensable adjunct to mining; later developed by him into a this was Editor, The Railroad Man's Magazine: double-acting water-pressure engine. In 1803 T N a recent number of a certain monthly, I read he ronstructed the first steam locomotive ever used A an article, describing the devastation by fire railway. This engine was a marked advance on a of the National Forest Reserves in Montana on all previous types, and it is on the strength and Idaho, and, also, picturing deeds of bravery of its performance that Trevithick was hailed as and life saving in the Bitter Root Mountains. : — 762 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. This article is nol at all exaggerated in the set a back fire, but he was too timid to stay and description of the fire, but when the author tells see that his orders were carried out. " of the heroes " it made he is certainly over- Mr. Anderson summoned all of the Japanese stepping the line. employed at the roundhouse,, and with Johnnie I am not writing these lines in malice toward Mackedon, who had returned to Avery; Charles those would-be heroes, for they are more to be Swanson, engine despatcher; Mr. Dclmire, the pitied than scorned. I am simply going to give operator at Avery, and Tom Huff, blacksmith to the world the truth through The Railroad helper, they started under Anderson's orders to Man's Magazine of what actually occurred during back fire on both sides of the St. Joe River. the fire in the Bitter Root Mountains, further- They soon had the fire eating its way up the more, the names of the men who honestly deserve mountainsides, and Avery was saved. These are credit. the heroes who deserve the credit for saving life On the night of August 20, 1910, word reached and property in the Bitter Root Mountain fires. Avery, Idaho, that the little town of Grand Forks, Most of the men are now in Avery, and will twelve miles east, was burning, also, the C. M. verify these statements. Harry Rusch, Avery, and P. S. depot at Falcon close by. There were Idaho. several hundred men, women, and children gather- ed on the platform of the burning depot when en- AN OLD ORDER. gineer Johnnie Mackedon, returning from the lop of the mountain with his helper' engine, was stop- ped by the frantic people. Editor, The Railroad Man's Magazine: They climbed on his engine, and hung on where- ALTHOUGH I am not a subscriber, I never ever they could get a grip. miss a copy of your magazine, as I am The cars on the side-track were burning, yet interested in railroading. My father was Mackedon switched an empty from them and left an engineer on the Old Colony Railroad in the Falcon with a load of human freight. Each per- States a number of years ago, also engineer on son was clinging to some little keepsake from his the Union Freight Railroad, in 1S76. His name burn big home. Mackedon carried those people was John H. Jennings. I grieve to say that he- to safety. was called to the home beyond a few months ago, Conductor Vandercook and Engineer Blondell but I would deem it an honor to hear from any also deserve credit for their bravery. one who knew him. To these two men, a well-known official of I treasure carefully an order he received while the C. M. and P. S. Railroad owes his life. This on the U. F. R. R., of which I enclose a copy: official, in his zeal to get all the people out of Union Freight Railroad, Falcon, was left behind himself. When Conductor S. C. Putnam, General Freight Agent. Vandercook missed him from the many who A. K. Grovenor. Agent, sought refuge in one of the tunnels, he and En- Office No. 3 Old State House. gineer Blondell decided to go back down the moun- Boston-, June, 19, 1876. tain for him. The huge timbers of the bridges To the Conductors and Engineers of the Union were burning beneath them, but still they kept Freight Railroad on until they had rescued the official from certain It is ordered, that in all cases before crossing death. a horse railroad track the engine will come to Their return trip up the mountain to the tunnel a full stop at least thirty feet distant from the was terrible. The bridges were all ablaze. After crossing. The conductors "will see that the flag- crossing them, they were compelled to stop and man is on the crossing ahead of the engine and extinguish the flames that threatened to demolish the engineer will not start his engine until he their caboose. receives a signal from the flagman that the way They remained in the tunnel eight day*, until is clear and Tree from danger. the bridges were rebuilt. A. H. Grovenor, Agent. Where were the government officials all this I trust that I have not taken up too much of time? They had beat it to safety. your valuable space. If any one who knew my When Engineer Blondell was asked about his father sees this, and wishes to write, my address isr experience he replied: Mrs. George W. Moore, " Why, all that you could see of a bridge was Cluny, Alberta, Ganada. a wall of flame—but we crossed it. I hooked her up, threw her wide open, and then we lay down on the deck to protect ourselves from the OLD TIME POEMS. heat. We expected that every minute would be our last on earth." 17 YER since we started this little corner of Those are the men who deserve credit for life- -L-' " The Carpet," which we call " Old-Time saving on the C. M. and P. S. Railroad in Idaho and Montana. Poems," we have relied largely on our readers to The women and children were taken to Teoka, supply us with its contents. To those "of you who Washington, where they were taken care of by the have taken from your old scrap books the tender good people of that town. and heroic memories of the rail which we have Ralph W. Anderson, the roundhouse foreman, already published, we extend our sincere thanks. deserves the credit of saving the town of Avery, We know you agree with us that it is well to per- and thousands of dollars worth of property be- petuate such golden gems of thought in The longing ,to the C. M. and P. S. Railroad. Railroad Man's Magazine. One of the forest rangers was asked about " back firing " to save the town. He replied that Perhaps there are others of our readers who he would give orders to shoot the first man that have old-time songs or poems hidden away, which ; ! ; ; — ! — ON THE EDITORIAL CARPET. 763 they can send us. Just at present we have had As lightning—but Joe saw me, and waved his " hand; requests for the following : Song of the K. C," he sat the " What is the Matter with the Mail? " " The Song On very last coal-car—how do you 'count for that— of George Allen," " The Face in the Locket He " " Wore," The Oscillator Branch," Killed on the That he was killed alone and the others saved, Line by the Night Express." when he Of course our readers know that only poems re- Was last inside the tunnel? Come, now, it couldn't lating to railroads go into this corner. Have you be. It's some mistake, of course; an old song which you would like us to publish ? 'twas the fireman, you'll find; Do you remember an old song which you would The engine struck the rock, and he was Just /be- like to see here? If so, let us know. hind J* And the roof fell down THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN. on him—not on Joe, our Joe ! I saw That train myself, the engine had work enough ACROSS the dull and brooding night to draw A giant flies with demon light. The coal-cars full of coal that rattled square and And breath of wreathing smoke black Around him whirls the reeling plain, By tens and twenties past our door along that And with a dash of dim disdain. narrow track He cleaves the sundered rock. On into the dark mountains. I never see those In lonely swamps the low wind stirs peaks The belt of black funereal firs, 'Thout hating them. For much they care whether That murmur to the sky, the water leaks Till, startled by his mad career, Down their sides to wet the stones that arch the They seem to keep a hush of fear, tunnels there long, As if a god swept by. So so black—they all may go, and much the mountains care! Through many a dark, wild heart of heath, I'm ! O'er booming bridges, where beneath sorry for that fireman What's that? I don't pretend A mighty river brawls; To more this. By ruin, remnants of the past, than I saw that train, and Joe at the Their lives trembling in the blast was end, very By singing waterfalls. The end, I tell you ? Come, don't stand here and mock The slumb'rer on his silent bed What! It was there! right at this end the tunnel Turns to the light his lonely head, caved—the rock Divested of its dream; Fell on him? But I don't believe a word yes, Long leagues of gloom are hurried o'er. — that's his chain, Through tunnel sheaths, with iron roar. And that's his poor, old silver watch; he bought And shrill night rending scream. it—what's this stain Past huddling huts, past flying farms. All over it? Why, it's red! Oh, Joe, my boy, High furnace flames, whose crimson arms oh, Joe, Are grappling with the night, Then it was you, and you are dead down in that He tears along receding lands, tunnel. Go To where the kingly city stands, And bring my boy back? He was all the son I Wrapt in a robe of light. had ; the girls Are very well, but not like Here, round each wide and gushing gate, Joe. Such pretty golden curls A crowd of eager faces wait. Joe had until I cut them off at four years old; And every smile is known. he ran We thank thee, O, thou Titan train, To meet me always at the gate, little That in the city once again, my bonnie man. We clasp our loved, our own. You don't remember him ? But then you've only ONLY THE BRAKEMAN. seen him when He rides by on the coal-trains among the other men, " the brakeman killed ! NLY Say, was that All of them black and grimed with coal, and cir- what they said? cles round their eyes, The brakeman was our Joe; so then—our Whizzing along by day and night, but you would Joe is dead feel surprise Dead? Dead? Dead? But I cannot think it's so; To see how fair he is when clean on Sundays, It was some other brakeman— it cannot be our and I know You'd think him handsome then; I'll have God! Joe. ^ — I forget ! Oh, Joe, Why, only this last evening I saw him riding My boy ! my boy ! and you are dead ? So young, past but twenty—dead The trains don't stop here often—go rushing by Down in that awful tunnel, with the mountain as fast overhead — — — ; ; — — ——— 764 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. They're bringing him? Oh, yes, I know; they'll Wide open, for your brother Joe is coming home. bring him, and what's more They said " " They'll do it free, the company! They'll leave Only the brakeman —but it is my only son him at my door that's dead! Just as he is, all grimed and black. Jane, put the irons on, A RAILROAD DREAM. And wash his shirt, his Sunday shirt; it's white; be did have one BY MRS. P. D. GASE. shirt for best, and proud he wore it Sunday White SITTING in a rail-car, flying on by steam. with a tie Head against the casement, dreamed a curi- Of blue, a new one. Oh, my boy, how could they ous dream; let die, for oh you Yet I could not think it a thing all ideal, For though very monstrous, it was very real! Only the brakeman! And his wage was small. The engineer First there came a gentleman in his patent leather Must first be seen to there in front. My God! it stands as clear Collar, bosom, wrist-bands, overcoat for weather; In the height of fashion, watch-key, hat, and Before my eyes as though I'd seen it all—the dark —the crash glove, The hissing steam—the wet stone sides—the arch And with air professional—spit upon the stove. flash above—the Near him sat a parson, telling how the Lord Sent the great revivals, blessed the preached Of lanterns coming—and my boy, my poor boy word lying there, But my dream discovered that he was not above Dying alone under the rocks; only his golden Honey-dew or fine-cut—spitting on the stove. hair Xext trader full of To tell that it was Joe—a mass all grimed that came a —pockets cash doesn't stir; Talked about the country going all. to smash; " " But mother'll know you, dear; 'twill make no War and Abolition did the Uiing, by Jove difference to her Tipped his wicker bottle—spit upon the stove. Then a jolly farmer, bragging of his wheat. be, your poor, How black with coal-dust you may Thought his hogs and horses nowhere could be hard-working hands beat perhaps; yes, yes; but no " All torn and crushed, " Like to sell his Durhams by die head or drove one understands Kept his jaws a wagging—spit upon the stove. That even though he's better off. poor lad, where " " he has gone, Paddy thought it was quare like to be setting I and the girls are left behind to stand it and still. live on All the whole goin' over bog and hill; "Twas a glorious country, sure, as he could prove As best we can without him! What? A wreath? Equal to his betters—spitting on the stove. A lady sent Witness, perfumed dandy, putting on his air passing through and heard Some flowers? Was Flourished diamond breastpin, smoked in forward 'twas felt sorry—well, meant car; poor Joe'd been the very Kindly, no doubt; but Talked about our arrav. " 'Twas too slow by first to laugh Jove "— flowers round his blackened face. You'll At white Twirled a carrot mustache—spit upon the stove. write his epitaph? Little boy in short coat, wants to be a man. What's that? 'His name and age? Poor boy! Following example as the surest plan; Watches gent and parson copies every move. Poor Joe ! His name has done — for his age, he was not And with Pat and trader—spits upon the stove. It's work in this life; ^ twenty-one. Soon, the flying rail-car reeks with nauseous steam Well-grown, but slender, far too young for such a Ladies almost fainting—children in a scream; but then place, Husband asking lady: " What's the matter, love? He wanted to " help mother," and to be among Have a glass of water?"—spits upon the stove. the men; On we go, still flying—not a breadi of air For he was always trying to be old; he carried Fit for Christian people in a crowded car; wood Sickening, fainting, dying, ladies make a move And built the. fires for me before he hardly un- Gent throws up the window—spits upon the stove. derstood Talk of ladies' flounces, ribbons, jewels, flowers, What a fire was my little bov. mv darling baby — Crinelin and perfume, gossip, idle hours: Joe— Put all faults together which men can't approve There's something snapped within my breast; I And' they are not a match for—spitting on the think, it hurts me so, stove. " " It must be something broken. What is diat? I Men will call us angels —wonder if they think felt the floor Such nauseous vapor angel meat aaid drink? .Shake; there's some one on the stop. Go, Jeanie, Wonder if they'll do so when diey get above? set the door Below' it would be handier—spitting on the stove. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION Vacation thoughts on heating Don't have your vacation marred by the spectres of old-fashioned heating methods. Don't put it off longer, but settle at once and for all time this most important matter of home heating and hygiene. The savings in fuel, repairs, doctor bills, labor, etc., will pay for your annual vaca- tion, and you will put balmy Summer warmth throughout the whole house on the most tem- pestuous of Winter days by using an outfit of By the use of IDEAL Boilers and Ideal AMERICAN Radiators the fuel bills American^ grow smaller; uneven heating and re- ii Radiators ^Mboilers pair bills disappear; ashes, soot and coal- gases are unknown in the living rooms; carpets, hangings and furniture are thereby given longer life; housework is reduced one-half, and the whole house is made a far better, happier, healthier place to live in. AMERICAN Radiators are made in a multitude of sizes and forms—to go alongside open stairs; to fit into corners, curves and circles: between windows and under window seats; with brackets to hang upon the walls— off the floor; with special feet to prevent cutting carpet; with smoothest surfaces for decorating in any color or shade to match woodwork, wall coverings, fur- niture, etc.; thin radiators for narrow halls and bathrooms; with plate-warming ovens for dining-rooms; big radiators for storm vestibules; with high legs for cleaning thereunder: with ventilation bases so air of room may be changed 1 to 4 times A No. A-241 IDEAL Boiler per hour and other splendid features which it would pay you .11 l 461 ol — sq. It. 38-in. AMERICAN RadlaK.rs. big to know. Our free book tells all about them (and all about costing owner 9216, were used to heat tbis cottage. IDEAL Boilers). You will need it to choose the models from. At these prices the goods can be bought ol any re- Be ready at the turn of a valve to flood the house with invigorating, putable, competent filter. genial warmth for the vacation-returning family. Prices in Spring This did nol Include cost usually rule the lowest of the year. In these less-hurried months ol labor, pipe, valves, you are sure to get the best workmanship. your property into right freight, etc.. which are Put etlra anil vary according heating condition now, ready for best living, renting or selling. Don't to climatic and other con- wait until you build, but investigate todm this big-paying building ditions. investment. Ask for free book— puts you under no obligation to buy. Public Showrooms Write to Dept. J in ai) large cities AmericanT^adiator Company Chicago In antwerlng thli Qdvcrtisemcnt II la SetirUltle tluit nun mention Tin. Haii.iiu.ih .Man's Macazi.vh. THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION BULLETIN BOARD % South 1 Scurf Watch Company jRatlfoait-fflatchJIn [YOU SAVE DOLLARS By South Bend R. R. Watch Insurance Plan wWe Bear the Burden of Changes in Time Service In nHSWerllig this advertisement it is desirable that yoii mention The Raii.boau MAN'S Magazine. — THE RAILROAD MANS MAGAZINE— ADVERTISING SECTION. You Save Dollars By South Bend R. R. Watch Insurance Plan We Bear the Burden of Changes in Time Service Think of It! Every Railroad Man in the country ihe Meaning Our Great will welcome our Watch Insurance Grasp of WATCH INSURANCE PLAN Plan—for it means a saving of dollars to you all. If you go from one road to another if the least is made in the From the time R. R. Watch Inspec- — change requirement of R. R. Watches—we tion was installed, there has been a give that will drain on the purse of the R. R. man, you a new watch meet the requirements, presentation of because of the changes in require- on our Insurance Certificate, ments of the time service. Watch which goes with every South Bend These changes have been neces- R. R. Watch. sary to keep in step with the closer There are no strings to this Watch running schedules of R. R. trains and Insurance Plan —it is an unequivocal for the protection of life and property guarantee to protect you against any , but, unfortunately, it has been you — changes in the requirements of the who paid the bill. time service. This hardship unavoidably im- Every new man in R. R. service posed upon the R. R. men was brought every man now in sendee who must forcibly to us when investigating con- buy "a new Standard R. R. Watch- ditions of the R. R. Watch business. should look ahead and provide for the And now, when you buy a South future. The South Bend is absolutely Bend R. R. Watch, we insure you the only watch ti'hich will protect you against any further cost coming as a against the cost of a nezv watch, if the result of any change in time service time service is changed. within five years from the date of pur- Cut out the Coupon and send chase, regardless of whether the new NOW for illustrations of our requirements demand a higher priced "Studebaker" R.R. models and S0UTH watch than the one you carry. detailed information. / bend Tne Studebaker Passed By All Chief Inspectors. WATCH CO. South Bend, Ind. Send mo all details South on your WATCH Bend Watch Co. INSURANCE PLAN MAKERS OF RAILROAD WATCHES Town & Stale South Bend, Indiana Name and Address ol my Watch Inspector In QiwotrinO ""'s THE RAILROAD MAN S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. S3 5 UNION SUITS SHIRTS AND DRAWERS ALL STYLES FOR MEN AND BOYS THE unique "Porosknit" fabric ,"«»•'»' is knit and cut to give a true . ••».....•;,••• • > ^ I II. 'I A fit with not the slightest bulki- ,.«• ••»»<•• f.\ ' '»,• Ml ' '•!»• ',' ness. Absorbent and ventilated for •••III' .V. ,..>••••• I i, health and coolness. Elastic for 1 1 «,•••• • ,•.7.7.7.7,'^ • I t I » I I • I freedom of movement. Firmly " •» sewed, durable, best trimmings, easily washed...... r - » . I • I » • f t * 4 1, it 1 1 * I • • 4 .1 "Porosknit" Union Suits do away with double thickness at the waist, and the downward "pull" of the drawers. No other union suits that © fit without binding have the light- ness of "Porosknit." They fit the hard to fit. Buy and wear a suit of "Porosknit" •ii. . . . '•i. today. That's the best to know • way what real underwear comfort is. "*•' Styles • i • • i • i . For Men All For Boys '•« •>•>•.•.•*••••••••.... '" Shirls and drawers t~y ^* , iim.i.Am,,,,,,! iljl 1 I ' /'.l .'/l'...... ,,„ V-'C nerper garment ^OC £7.7.7.7 Mj • • i • • < • . • For Men Union Suits For Boys ''•/if •' • •"* l.OO Any Style 50c #v.7.7$ On sale in practically all stores. 11' rite • • • us for illustrated booklet showing all styles. .', tySS " 'i.i. CHALMERS KNITTING CO. 43 Washington St.. Amsterdam. N. Y. Look for this Label on "Porosknit" In answering "'is advertisement il is desirable thai yuit mention The Kaiuioad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZIN E—ADVERTISING SECTION. TE,N DAYS The Art of Being' Certain The successful man doesn't guess— he knows because he takes the trouble to find out. " " When he is a bit out of fix " he says, Something may be wrong with my food." Then he proceeds to know by a ten days' trial — leaving off greasy meats, pasty, sticky and starchy half-cooked cereals, white bread and pastry, and adopting a plain, nourishing diet. Many men who really know use the following breakfast : Some fruit, a saucer of Grape-Nuts and cream, soft-boiled eggs, some nice crisp toast, and a cup of Postum— nothing more. The result is certain gain toward health. "There's a Reason" " Get the famous little book, The Road to Wellville," in packages of Grape-Nuts Canadian Postum Cereal Co., Limited, Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Battle Creek, Mioh., U. A. In mistccring this advertisement il is desirable that yju mention The Hailroad Man's Magazine. — THE RAILROAD MANS MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. 7?fo only TALKING MACHINE made by EDISON is the PHONOGRAPH Just loud enough for the home The Edison Phonograph lias just the right volume of sound for the home your Inline. Il is not brassy or .strident: not loud enough for a concert hall or a neigh- borhood . W hen you hear it demonstrated it will not echo throughout the store. The Edison reproduces sound—not noise. There is ah Edison Phonograph at ;i price to suit everybody's means, from the Gem atSlSto tneAmbernln at$200. The Sapphire Reproducing Point This is the secret of the Edison Phonograph's lifelike purity oftone; The highly polished, button-shaped sapphire exactly fits the thread on the sensitive was record in which it travels. It does not wear, does not scratch or wear the record and never needs to be changed. The sapphire point is a Feature of Ih.iii Anfbcrol anil Standard Reproducers.'; Amberol Records These Records, playing more than twice as long as ordinary records, (4 to 4J3 minutes), render nil of every character of entertainment, completely as in the original, and have opened the way to a vast amount of the very best of music and other entertainment hitherto impossible to obtain in record form. The Edison also plays Edison Standard two- minute Records. Ajiiberol fteeords. SO cents; Standard Records, 35 -cents: Crrand Opera Records; 75 Cent8,to $2- Making Records at home On the Edison Phonograph you, anyone, can make records in your own home— talk, sing or play—and reproduce it immediately, just as clearly as the Records which you buy. With this great feature, the Edison gives more than double the entertainment of any other sound reproducing instrument. Ask tli<> nearest I'Mison dealer to demonstrate this feature of the Edison Phonograph. Also ask your dealer for-tbe latest catalogs of Kilisou Phonographs and Records, or write ns« THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc., 92 Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N. J. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., is the new corporate name by which the National Phonograph Co. will hereafter be known. / " 'insirci inu this utlrcrtisnii' iil it is ttesinihle that you incntiov The Railroad Man's Magazixe. THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. (4 Yes Ma'm, we sell quantities of Post Toasties tt —they're fine with cream and sugar. CRISP—FLAVOURY—DISTINCTIVE "The Memory Lingers" Canadian Postum Cereal Co.. Limited, Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Windsor. Ontario. Canada Battle Creek, Mich.. U. S. A. in iinsiccrina "'(« advertisement " to tfe»fro|il« that you mention the railroad man's magazine. THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION Strops Itself it off forth on the strop strop then shave iITH the AutoStrop Razor you don't have to detach rhe blade or take anything apart or adjust anything. Ir's always as ready tor shaving as the head barber's razor. The most awkward can use u with his skill. The most wide-awake everywhere do use it. Are you one of the wide-awake? If so, you'll get an AutoStrop Razor oh trial today. If you don't like it, dealer will give you back your money He doesn't care, for our contract protects him S5 buys you one silver-plated self-stropping razor, 12 good blades and strop m handsome case One blade will often last six months to a year. That makes yourSS pay for years of shaves It's easy as A B C to get an AutoStrop Razor, if you'll phone or post a card for one to any dealer—now. AutoStrop Safety Razor Company, 361 Fifth Ave., New York; 233 Coristine Building, Montreal; 61 New Oxford Street, London Auio&trop In answering this oSvertitemenl it is desirable that ypn mention Tnt Raii-boad Man's Magazine —. — "! THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION " 1 7 Cents a Day" Offer Stirs the Nation! The Whole Country Applauds the " Penny Purchase Plan From a thousand ilifferenl directions comes a Typewriter, and you have an overwhelming total Slight)' chorus of approval, voicing the popular- of tangible reasons, for its wonderful success. ity of The Oliver Typewriter " 17 Cents a Day" Purchase Plan. A Business Builder The liberal terms of this offer bring the benefits The Oliver Typewriter is a powerful creative of the best modern typewriter within easy reach of force in business a veritable wealth producer. all. The simple, convenient " Peu'fly Plan *' has lis use multiplies business opportunities, widens assumed national importance. business influence', promotes business success. It opened the floodgates of demand and has Thus 1 lie aggressive merchant or manufacturer almost engulfed us with orders. can reach out for more business with trade-win- all classes Individuals, firms and corporations ning letters and price lists. By means of a '' mail- people are taking advantage of the attractive " of — ing list —and The Oliver Typewriter—you can plan and endorsing the great idea which led us annex new trade territory. to take this radical step Get this greatest of business aids—^6/- ij Cents the medium To make typewriting universal of a Day. Keep it busy. It will make your busi- igritteu co mm 11 n tea lion .' ness grow. Speeds Universal Typewriting Aids Professional Men The trend of events is toward the genera', adoption of beautiful, legible, speedy typewriting To the professional man the typewriter is an in place of slow, laborious, indispensable assistant. illegible handwriting. Tr)< Clergymen, Physicians, The great business inter- Journalists, Writers, Archi- ests are a unit in using type- OLIVER tects, Engineers, and Pub- writers. lic Accountants have learned II is just as important to to depend on the typewriter. can the general public to substi- The Standard Visible Writer You master The Oliver tute typewriting for "long- Typewriter in a few min- hand." For every private citizen's personal af- utes' practice. It will pay big daily dividends fairs are his business. of satisfaction on the small investment of /? Cents Our popular " Penny Plan '* speeds the day of a Day. Universal Typewriting A Stepping-Stone to Success Mechanical Marvel A For young people, The Oliver Typewriter is a The Oliver Typewriter is unlike all others. stepping-stone to good positions and an advance- With several hundred less parts than ordinary ment in business life. typewriters, its efficiency is proportionately The ability to operate a typewriter counts for greater. more than letters of recommendation. Add to such basic advantages the many time- Start now, when you can own The Oliver savins; conveniences found onlv on The Oliver Typewriter for pennies. Join the National Association of Penny Savers Every purchaser of The Oliver Typewriter for 17 Cents a Day is made an Honorary Member of the National Association of Penny Savers. A small first payment brings the magnificent new Oli- COUPON regular ver Typewriter, the $100 THE OLIVER TYPEWRITER CO. machine. 679 Oliver Typewriter Bids.. Chicago Then save 17 Cents a Day and Gentlemen : Please send your t pay monthly. The Oliver Type- Art Catalog and details Of "17-1 writer Catalog and full details of Cents-a-Day" offer on The C " 17 Cents a Day " Purchase Plan Oliver Typewriter. sent on request, bv coupon or let- ter. Xnme Address Sales Department The Oliver Typewriter Co. 679 Oliver Typewriter Bide. (91I Chicago. in answering this advertisement a h tieslrabte thai nun mcntiqn Tub Kailruah Man's Magazine. . THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. WANTED AGENTS SALESMEN Will Sharpen MANAGERS Every The Never-Fail I want a good man in every Razor territory of the United Automatic States -"as local agent for Safety Razor Stropper one county, or as general Old Slyl i- ftUHoliilelit porfccl agent for a number of coun- iind |i«wl|ivelj Runriuk- ties. This is a new propo- Ii-imI lo >li:u-|M'ti a n > V sition, and offers an oppor- I ii ii «I all l.iml- of -an-iS tunity, for you to make from .1 ml old ra/.nrs. $45 to $90*a week and on up Hi erj i in ii- is ii lit u - to $$,000 or $10,000 a year. mafic — -f • I r.:i«l ju-i lug perfect. Anyone Can I am organizing my selling operate ii. Anyone can force now and I want you obtain perfect retail ta to begin at once. Write for w ii ii it ii i experience, information today. l.nai :iiiI»mmI I or Hie. $45.00 TO $90.00 A WEEK This is the opportunity I offer lo a good man in every territory in the United States. No experience is necessary. The Never-Fail Stropper sells on sight. I want agents, general agents and managers. Anyone can do the work. No charge for territory. Grand, free advertising special introductory plan for agents on the most sensational selling article of the day. Every- man a buyer— quick, every call a sale. Send for reports of our men who are out in the field. Listen to their words of success. Learn of the money they are making. Get out of the rut. Young men, old men, farmers, teachers, carpenters, students, bank clerks—everybody makes 2- money. One man I Hiram Purdy) took orders first day out \ sworn statement : profit S/o.jo. 26 orders the next day. Once our agent, always a money maker, A. M. Clark, of Kansas, wrote : " I was out of town the other day—did not go with the intention of doing any soliciting, just got lo talking and sold 6 before I knew it." Profit $9.00. Sales roll up every day. 400,000 IN FOUR MONTHS I want general agents and managers lo handle big territories, employ sub-agents, look aflerdeliveries. advertise and distribute. I will offer you too per cent profit. I am orgauizing'my selling force now. ami I want you, if you want lo make money honestly and rapidly. Exclusive territory given —no charge made. Protection against others running over your field. Co-operation, assistance, personal attention to each man. Complete information free. Investigate. This is a new proposition. A positive automatic razor stropper—absolutely guaranteed. A thing all men have dreamed about. Perfect in every detail, under every test. With it you can sharpen to a keen, smooth, velvety edge any razor— safety or old style— a 1 1 the same. Handles any and every blade automatically. Just a few seconds with the Nevei-Fail Stropper puts a razor iu better shape to give a soothing, cooling, satisfying shave, than can an expert operator, hd matter how carefully he works. New idea. Men are excited over this little wonder machine—over its mysterious accuracy and perfection. They are eager to buy. Women buy for presents to men. Agents and salesmen coining money.' Field untouched. Get territory at once. I want a thousand men—young or old—who are honest and willing to work, to start in this business at once. Act today. Exclusive territory". Oue of our men started in selling in Louisiana. Became general agent, controlling extensive territory. At a single lime he ordered 50 agents outfits. This man started without any experience as a salesman : but the Never- Fail Stropper caught on so tremendously that he made more money than lie ever dreamed of making in his life. No talking is needed. Just show the machine to men and they want it immediately. No modern invention has received such open-avmed welcome. Please remember the machine is absolutely guaranteed. It is positively successful under every lest and trial. It answers the razor stropping problem of ages. It is a modern invention for modern times, modern perfection and modern men. A half-minute demonstration is all that is necessary. UKi >' our " ai"e and address upon a postal card and I will mail you com- q T? \fr\ TVT/"\ IV AT /*VTVTr*'\7' ^ T plete information, details, description of the business, sworn-to proof Sr*. I\l \ 3 | VI \ § 111 r T from men out in the field. I want you to know what this advertise- ment means to you. I want yon to lake a territory and make :qii the biggest year you have ever lived. All that I require is thai you stay on the job. keep things moving, and that you keep your promise to me and to your customers. Tlie possibilities are unlimited. Millions will be sold this* year. We teach you what to say, and how, when, where to say it. INVESTIGATE. It costs you absolutely nothing to learn about this opportunity. Don't delay. Territory is going fast. Write today, and give the name of your couuty. ADDRESS SECRFTARY THE NEVER FAIL COMPANY, 998 Colton Bldg., TOLEDO, O. In a Usui-rill y this advertisement it is desirable that aon mention The Railroad Man's Maoazixe. THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. "KODAK" Is our Registered and common- law Trade-Mark and cannot be rightfully applied except to goods of our manufacture. If a dealer tries to sell you a camera or films, or other goods not of our manufacture, under the Kodak name, you can be sure that he has an inferior article that he is trying to market on the Kodak reputation. If it isn't an Eastman, it isn't a Kodak. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y., The Kodak City. In answering Hits advertisement it is desirable that gnu mention Tin: It.iii.nuAi) Man's Magazine. — — THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION Just hark back to some of those sultry, hot days of last summer when your under- wear was sticky and uncomfortable, then you will be in a proper attitude to consider the newest advance in underwear making DRYSKIN Conductive Underwear The "DRYSKIN" fabric ac- Enjoy the utmost of summer quires a fineness and linen-like- tex- comfort. Equip yourself with ture that is 50% more absorbent than "DRYSKIN" U nde'r wear—you '11 any other underwear in the market. be cool and fresh during the hottest days. -DRYSKIN" Underwear is more than merely porous— it is Yet "DRYSKIN" Underwear "conductive." It does more than costs no more than the common- merely absorb the moisture— it gets place—50c the garment and $1.00 rid of it and keeps the skin always for union suits — in all forms, dry, even in raging hot weather. athletic, half-sleeve, regular, etc. Boys' sizes 25c single garment and Every pair of "DRYSKIN" _ 50c union suits. drawers is equipped with the new Adjusta-Shde, which affords in- If your dealer doesn't carry stant adjustment of the waistband "DRYSKIN" Underwear we'll no draw-cords necessary. send it direct. State size in ordering. NORFOLK HOSIERY & UNDERWEAR MILLS CO.. Norfolk. Va., and 366 Broadway, New York. In iimtctriny miy mtvertisement on this vayc it is desirable that yon miniiun The Railboad Man's MagaZin~b, THE RAILROAD MAX'S -MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. On Which Side ofthe Desk Are You? The man before the desk works with I housands of men, and women, too, in his hands and is paid for his labor. nearly every trade and profession date the beginning of their success to the day they The man behind the desk works with filled in this coupon. Why not you? his head and is paid for his knowledge. It costs nothing to find out. Take your It is merely a question of KNOW- ING HOW first step in your own advancement. The first step in "knowing how" is Mark This Coupon To-day simply a matter of cutting out, filling INTKKYWIOVU. ( Oil II F.SIMI \ IH!M K s< IIOMIjS Box 1003. Scrniiton, Pa. in and mailing us the coupon shown l'|p(i«c explain, without further otthsatl n my i»*rt, l«jw I can oiuliiv for the iiosHloii, trade or urofeuf fora which l h*v* below. umrked X Uenerul Foreman Electrical Engineer It. It. shop Foreman Machine Hefner In return we show you how to improve It. K. Traveling Euff. Electrician K. It. Tpuv'c Fireman .Ul til ne Engineer your position or to sec'irs a more congenial locomotive Fiielncer Mine Foreman Alr-ISrake Instructor Foreman Muehhilnt occupation and better salary, without loss of Alr-ItrnUe Inspector Chemist Air-IErakc Itcpniriiinn Assayer present work Mechanical F.nehicer Architect time, without neglecting your Mi >eh anicul l>rui'lHmun Hook keeper Construction Uns- stenographer or obligating yourself to pay more than you Supv eyor AiIvertlHinu Man Civil 1 Hi -in Automobile Knimlng can comfortably afford. RsTikloic Concrete Coital ruction No text-books to buy — ni> requirements Km pit •> i.'ii by it. r. beyond the ability to read and write, and city the ambition to succeed. In iinnwcritio iiiis atlvortisoment it It ttetitablt that ynu mention Tiria Railroad man's Magazine. — — THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Cox's Instant You can get a sub- Powdered Gelatine is the gelatine reliable grandmother used stantial, cam- —and the gelatine used by the famous era, which makes good chefs and French cooks to-day. It's pictures, for been good for 80 $^ years. >x*s M INS7 ANT POWDERED el&tine _ Cox s is concen- trated food. It makes soups rich and sauces tempt- ing. It can be used with milk. This makes it invaluable food for children, invalids and elder- ly folks. The New No. O Cox 's makes des- serts that are nour- ishing without be- ing too rich, heavy Premo Jr. and "stuffing." Dessertsthat every- It makes 1^ x 2*4 pictures body likes and that everybody. a very pleasing proportion. suit You should know It can be loaded in daylight in- more about it. stantly with a Premo Film Pack. It has automatic shutter for When buying, al- time or snap shot exposures, ways look for the famous checker- meniscus lens and two finders board box. Cox's a thoroughly complete camera, Manual of GelatineCookery providing anyone with a prac- 205 ways of using Cox 's Gelatine — tical, inexpensive, simple means mailed free for the of making good pictures. asking. Same camera for 9'j x 3 ! j pictures, $-2.00; 3> ^'ix+ij.Sa.OO; 4 x4'j, $*.U0; 4x5, S5.0D. THE Our handsome new catalogue is just off the COX GELATINE press. It describes fifty different styles and COMPANY sizes of film and plate cameras and the simple Premo Film Pack Svstem. Free at the dealer's U. S. Distributors for COX, Ltd.. or mailed on request. IMPORTJ ST— In J. & G. Edinburgh. Scotland. loritiny , ba sure to specify Premo Catalogue. Dept. M Rochester Optical Division 100 Hudson Street - Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester. N. Y. New York In 'iiiswaiiiil miy advertisement oh this pain il is ilesirablv Unit ynu mcntiOli THE Rau.SOAD Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAX S MAGAZINE—ADVER TISING SECTION. a bfetter job i£2£ Get B Are you "trying to make both ends meet" on a small, unsatis- 51 factory salary ? Are you one of the thousands of energetic, capable H men whose days are spent in work not suited to their natural talents? j| Then read this wonderful offer. We mean it and = there is a fine chance for you if you improve it. ^= If you lack the time and the means to stop work and take a course of training, the j^j American School will lend you the cost of the training you need and let you make your = own terms for repaying us. JjJ This is the greatest offer ever made to men who have "got it in them to rise," and we are prepared to help everyone who comes to us in earnest. Opportunity Coupon Check the coupon, mail it to us, and we will explain American School of Correspondence, Chicago, U. S. A. fully our "Deferred Tuition" plan, how we will lend Please send me your Bulletin and advise me how I can qualify the position for marked "X." r.r. MauV. ">-'I i you the cost of the tuition, and allow you to pay us back when the increase in your yearly income equals the ...Book-keeper Drnftsm.m ...Stenographer Arrhitt'rt of the loan. amount ... Accountant Civil Enpineer "(Militant Autnmotillp Operator No Promotion - No Pay — that's what our "Deferred ...Coal A . . .Sytti-mntuer Electrical Engineer Tuition" Scholarship means. 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Write Today for the following Booklets which will be Sent You Without Cost: 1. Contains an alphabetical list of over 3. "The Secret of the Shoe—An Industry five hundred shoes sold under a special Transformed." The true story of a great name or trade mark, made by the Good- American achievement. year Welt process. 4. "An Industrial City." Illustrated— 2. Describes the Goodyear Welt proc- descriptive of the creat model factory ol ess in detail and pictures the sixty the United Shoe Machinery Company marvelous machines employed. at Beverly. Massachusetts. UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY BOSTON. MASS. This 3 -Piece Mission Library Set —Desk. Book-Rack and Chair, made of selected solid oak—either Early English or Golden finish. Desk has 32x20 inch top, with large drawer for stationery and back shelves. Book-rack 44 inches high with shelves 17x11 inches. Chair extra solid, with 20x20 inch seat. Sent to Your Home for $1.50 Sent to your home on receipt of $1.50. If, This Mission made with ihe same taste and style distinguish after 30 days' trial, you find it at least twice sei is as all furniture. We furnished thousands of the best city the value you could get anywhere else, pay Hartman have homes through our great retail stores in the large cities— we have the balance of the special direct-from-factory 22 800,000 customers scattered throughout the country. price of $9.85 the rate of 75 cents a month. at Today, after ."fi years of business life, we are selling to people whose grandparents, when first married, started housekeeping with Hartman And remember, this is uot a special value- furniture. You can furnish your home in just the way you want it, at it is merelv a sample of the wonderful bar- prices you'd hardly think possible for such quality goods, and on terms we offer rn everything for home gains the to suit your convenience. So send today for your copy of our great bargains only made possible by otir tre- mendous business. FREE BOOK gag about home-fitting, illustrated with pictures of the articles themselves— many in color. Tells you how and why we can furnish homes better and more cheaply on our liberal open-account credit system. The most beautiful and comprehensive book on artistic home-furnishing ever issued. Write today for your free c"bpy. Hartman Furniture & Carpet Gu. Dept. 7, 223 Wabash Ave. Chicago, U.S.A. Largest, oldest and best known home- furnishing concern in the world Established 18SS—56 years of success -22 great stores— 800,000 customers In 'inswcriiig any nilvertiscinent «ii this jiayc it is desirable flint yon mtnlion The RArLHOAD Man's Magazine. J THE RAILROAD MANS MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Barcalo Beds Stand The Hammer Test And the Barcalo 35-Year Guarantee BARCALO Brass and Iron Beds are unbreakable. The Hammer Test proves that the corner— the weakest point in ordinary beds— is the strongest part of the Barcalo Bed. The Barcalo 35-year Guarautee means that if your Barcalo breaks you get a new bed. A twelve-ply English lacquer finish makes Barcalo beauty permanent—fresh and glossy for years. See the compre- hensive Barcalo line—so complete that you're sure to find the style and price you're looking for. GUARANTEED ) Choose springs as you do beds— inspection and test prove the quality 3: NOT £ of Barcalo Imperial Springs. ^ TO BREAKS? The trade-mark" Barcalo- Buffalo " is a positive identification of Bar- calo Beds. Insist upon its being on the bed you buy. Send for the Bar- %7c# calo Stvle Book. We'll send it free—also the name of your Barcalo dealer. Send ajprtritBnmrfeife ne^Style Book—FREE It Tells You How to Save Half Your Clothes* Money f#'W That's interesting—isn't it? And it is as true as it is interesting. We have established here, the largest custom tailoring business in this country—and it has taken us twelve years to do it. During all those twelve years, our motto has been—"Make better clothes and save every penny of your customer's money that you possibly can." Adherence to this principle has been rewarded—and w _ are now able, because of increased buying and tailoring facilities, to offer even a greater saving than ever before. We tailor clothes only to your individual measure at $ w a he SSLIi • 122? to 3022 |/prLl We have never had a stock garment in our establishment We guarantee to fit you as well, or better than the highest priced metropolitan tailor. Our woolens are selected both here and abroad by the best judges known to the trade They are ultra stylish and exclusive. Our self-measuring system is extremely simple, and absolutely accurate, and we guarantee not only_ to fit you, but to entirely please you. Money back without a murmur if you ask for it. New Edition of the Style Book is Ready —It's Free la it 5011 will find cloth enmiilca of tho very Inlost weaves for spring and Snm- lar fashion showing Intent —also plates tho London iiml New York Styles— und a I r m iluma of commendatory letters from men who know on r clothes and know how satisfactory they arc. The First National Bank off Milwaukee (our bankers —Resources. ?2i.n(H).("«> will tell yon of our PajtuusibilHy. Write at onen for detailed information and Stylo Book, which Is Free. Let us ho your tailors. Yon will be surprised at tho real beauty of our offerings—delighted ut the money ill savi Si.'Dd a puslal now KING TAILORING COMPANY 408 W.Watcr St.. Milwaukee,WU. /11 answering any advertisement on this vase it is desirable that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION pilMDIA CTGL0P£DL\ GTCLOFEIJft Darkest OCLOPEDIAQfCLOPOHA From CHUffllA CMB» Africa - voui VOUII VOL lit VOL.iV vouv V01A1 VOUV" niaBT-o-' IT**.*! l.VCi«J iHUnNDMl WENTWORTH MILITARY ACADEMY otnaww-* OUpJ^athW of it. It was a copy of MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE. I Every Engineer must read if he would progress thought you might be interested in knowing what a w ide circu- the biggest in the field can't tell — men go around lation your publication had reached. iug they but they can write it. what know— And you Yours truly. can read it—in our New Cyclopedia of Engineering SANFORD SELLERS. —the most valuable set of books ou this subject ever offered to Engineers. This Cyclopedia ha- reprint this letter as a mat- just been revised— it's right up to the minute. 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Please *eud act Cycl.i|>*.lU of Engineering for 5 d»>*' Tree cxaminatiou. wide influence must be powerful Alao Terhi ical World lot 1 year. I will ncud J2.00 within 5 dayrf and «?,00 a uinntli until I have paid '*i*.f.u for book* and magazine; or through the length and breadth of notlfv ypO to aeud for tlie boolu. Title not to paaa until fullv paid. R.K. Mau'a. S-'H its own land. The Frank A. Munsey Company AUDKH5S. . . . 175 Fifth Avenue, New York OCCl'PATION /h ansinrinp any advertisement on this parte it is desirable that (roll mention The I!aii.road Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION Ten Gi rls n Smiles of Colean's Chips Sing a song of five cents Ten pretty maidens A packet full of gum All in dainty frocks Ten wafer chewing chips Each takes a Colgan Chip In a liny drum. That leaves an empty box. 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Every shirt has two pockets and is cut coal style, making the Union Made SIGNAL COAT SHIRT the easiest shirt to take off or put on —a big advan- Trade Mark tage when you are sweatv, tired or hurried Vou have a pleasant surprise coining if you have never worn these shuts. Many extra coinfon features not found in highest priced dress shirts : Extra button at bottom of breast plait. 3 inch overlap to flaps, reinforced rip-proof sleeve slit, and many other advautau- - w-w-i , - .-v v-k - 1 1'rice Si. 00 aiid Si. 50 ac-oiriing to Try a Couple at Our Risk quality. ($1.00 i n- are $1.4 if i^^^^^^^— expressed West of Missouri River. ^^^^ | ^ Coat Sliirts, tell size, also Ask your dealer. If he hasn't Signal us his name and your which grade you want, $1,00 or Si 50, and we will express you a couple. Or write for folder showing styles. If you like them, pay express man. If not satisfied, return at our expense. HILKER -WIECHERS MFG. CO., 1252 Mound Ave., RACINE, WIS. ffemohGems Not Imitations A marvelously reconstructed gem the greatest triumph of the electric furnace. Looks like a diamond — wears like a diamond— will cut glass—stands filing, fire and acid tests like a diamond— guar- anteed to contain no glass. Reinoh Gems have no paste, foil or artificial backing— their brilliancy is guaranteed forever. Cue thirtieth the cost of a diamond. These remark- able gems are set only in 14 Karat Solid Gold Mountings. Sent on approval— your money cheerfully refunded if not perfectly RESTORES COLOR satisfactory. It will be well worth your while to get our De-Luxe Jewel Book To Gray or Faded Hair yours for the askiug. Cut out and mail the coupon below— or write a Removes dandruff, invigorates the scalp, and postal. Address stimulates a healthy growth of hair. Is not a Remota Jewelry Co., tii>. dye. Satisfaction promised or money refunded. 549 N. Broadway, St. Louis. Uo. SI. 00 and 50c at drug and department stores or direct upon receipt of price and dealer's Reinoh name. Send 10c for sample bottle. w Jewelry Co., Philo Hay Specialties Company, Newark. N. J.. U.S.A. 549N. Broadway, St. Louis, Mo. Send your De-Luxe Jewel Book. REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES HAY'S HARFINA SOAP is unequalled for the complexion, toilet, bath, red, rough, chapped hands and face. Preserves Mail This and beautifies and keeps the skin soft and drug department stores. Coupon Today healthy. 25c and In answering any advertisement on this paffe it h lICHmVte that you mention The Railboau Max's Mii.AziNE. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. DIAMONDS-WATCHES A*43 OyV CREDIT Gifts for the June Bride No. 185— Dinner Ring, fine Hlc solid I No. 160—Hk solid gold hunting case, gold, platinutn top. openwork, tf>AA I Osixe.extrn heavy buud carved, J -> encrusted with 9 fine diamond*. jfcMll finest quality Dinmond; Klgiii, JkA 4 Very .'-tyli^h and popular - - *r * v I Waltham or Rockford movbt. M* » Credit Terms: $9.00 a Month J Credit Terms: $4.30 a Month Catalog containing over 2,000 illustra- No. 18S Write for our Handsome 100-page. tions of Diamonds (new exclusive mountings, our own designs), Watches, Artistic Jewelry. Silverware, Novelties. Every article priced 10 to 20 per cent lower than oth- ers charge for equal value. We are di- THE OLD RELIABLE ORIGINAL DIAMOND rect importers, aud give our customers AN0 WATCH CREDIT HOUSE every advantage. Let ns send you n tine Diamond or Watch on approval, all churgea I0FTIS Dept. E 66 1 92 to 98 State St, CHICAGO, No. 160 .„ EX. prepaid . If satisfactory, keep it and solid us 1'ittsburn St. ouo-lifth price, HH BROS&CO. I8SB Iiranches: , Pa.; Louis, Mo. of the- babuicc iu eight equal monthly union nts. Writo today. F COURSE you buy an Indestructo for strength and safety. But you also buy it for individuality. The Indestructo is the one trunk that bears the individual, distinguishing name of the product—your protection. Indestructo Hand Luggage— the only American made leather goods that bear any distinctive name—means that you get the genuine in leather luggage always. The Indestructo Bag that is sold to you as seal is seal— riot every leather is exactly as described. You that protection writing. goat ; kind and grade of get in INDESTRUCTO Guaranteed Luggage The new Indestructo Trunk is one year better than it was a year ago. Corners are doubly reinforced—more bands around the body. Government Bronze finish trimmed —rust-proof. Silk canvas covered. Cedar lined. Five years' guarantee covers every part that possibly can break — not just the hardware. The same price everywhere. Like the Trunks, Indestructo Bags, .Suit-cases, etc., have ^^ii five vears' guarantee. Registered against loss—protected against theft. Exclusive designs—imported models. Bottoms made of three-ply Indestructo veneer meau unbreakable corners. If your dealer doesn't sell Indestructo Leather Goods, write A US. We will supply you direct. Write for lite fndeslruclo Trunk and flag Book mid your dealer's name. National Veneer Products Company Station E 35, MISHAWAKA, IND. No. 451 Deluxe Men's Bag In unamcriiig any advertisement on this payc it is desirable that you mi ntiOn The Railroad Man's Magazine. - — . THE RAILROAD MAX S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION Too Much to people who have GET $1200 never seen it. Write Brooksville Board OF THIS Florida of Trade for BOOK OF $500,000.00 Land Has FACTS, describing NEXT MONTH different kinds of Been Sold Florida soil. We $500,000.00 to change hands have no land to sell, One cent starts you. Any honest, industrious 'but want settler^- and man or woman can enter. investors to develop richest district in Flor- HURRY! HURRY! HURRY! ida, according to the State Dept. of Agri- culture ; not pine Thousands of dollars already distributed land, not sand, but high going on daily. Listen! and rolling with rich dark lop soil and clay IO people receive over $40,000 subsoil. No fertilizer, irrigation or drain- -i -_' mi 1 w.i 82 . 1 v«ek* we'nl to K room for only $lt,."iO : excels orhera .— uu.- Moo, AbolUbea uu.*. bowl,., bucket*, waih rag* and kihih^., Box 273 Brooksville, Florida Turns any room into ;i hath room with liol g- or colli run n in w ater. Thluli ol It 1 So euei - i water— one g*\\ou ample ; cleanae* atmoil automatically ; no plinnhiii::— no water works; >elf healing v JSttuaiennM ( ' h <'* cleanslngr. friction. maHSlige mid CrookedSpinesMadeStraight sliowor bath*. Hakea bathings minute opera lion. Dperattfx wherever water la obtainable. Kt>il? carried from room to room or packed In grip vvnen (ravel- in,; So Blniplea child can operate. Trnl.i lunrvol- oiib! A modern home-bathing without tin- drudgery. Inconvenience, annoyance, nine* of lugging water, inilnjj tnba,.einptyliiK, rleniiin^, puttinc away. Could any lb lot; be more popular, easier lo sell? Ag^pta, H'a eimpli irre*l:»tlble. Think o( million* who waii! hath rooum. ^questionably beit thing ev*t happened for agent*. lYIinl a Wlnner-«1 -i^ht p."ple .-v. Ulin — Iheiv. IM. -Mneninn there, that'* wlmi fy« iteeu loosing f-r \o rompp- lllfon. Patent new— field uu worked — demuini epormOtu — price in- significant — raaotoatitiR. dl&uiAed, exciting wnrk e \ erj I lii nir jnsl riglil lor an overwhelming business. * dempiistrated, nisantic SiicceM. you >••* nhai other* are making — why not yoiiraeir? ITscd by I. S. Hit* eriiiiieni. N- wnmici u.-.-iu writ..-; »• 1 averaged v $164.25 WEEKLY FOR 3 MONTHS. . ..,"„ . «la»9i linn 1(1 in :t himi s : Ungle; 8115 north tlie flrnl daj : ReeM follclledOO people—HUld SS. Wbv Hioulan'l Cnhun " ' ay: Men wlio rouliln'I sell your *uoil« coulau'l sell bread In it famine. 1 "i-«-ii-k, •• ""' Luck] i .Mweied ail : it's : ;r.-ai : mone, eoinlus 1 7 order, to worth will beabld family uiln a>«>on. "5 per ct-nt. pr-m v- yon. Kxpcrio.noc unueeessary* Use the Sheldon Method FREE SAMPLE AND CREDIT TO 30 Days at Our Risk. ACTIVE VOU need not venture the loss of a penny. No matter how AGENTS serious your ease, no matter what else yon have tried, the Ik' firm— get excliwive WghU—own n rlp-roarins bu«i- Sheldon Method will help you and probably wholly overcome Sliow the world Mint all you need I" a real your affliction. We are so sure of this that we will make a Shel- ••ppiirtuulty. i i. ,! t,, r yourown use anyhow. don Appliance to suit your special condition and let you decide, after SO days, whether you are satisfied. We make this unusual Make $6,000 this year. .Spare time offer simply because the 1G.000 cases we have treated absolutely meau* (is prove the wonderful benefit the Sheldon .Method brings to spinal One cent start sufferers, young and old. yon— a mere ooslal. There Is no need to suffer longer or to bear the torture of old- ColltalniitJC >«»ur name and fashioned plaster, leather or steel jackets. The Sheldon Appli- adtlrenb— that'!* all. Semi hi ance gives an even, perfect and adjustable support to the weak- money — investigate lirat. ened or deformed spine and brings almost immediate relief Send lo-day t>-r ama'.luc offer even in the most serious cases. It is as easy to put onortake —II'S free. Yon will for- off as a coat, does not chafe or irritate, is light and cool. The ever naaoolate this net with price Is within reach of all who suffer. You owe it to yourself, or seel loan I abimdaui prosperity; the afflicted one In your family, to find out more about it. Send \ low for our book free at once> PHILO BURT MFG. CO., 255 Fifth Street, Jamestown. N.Y. ALLEN MFG. CO., 3314 Allen Bldg„ Toledo, Ohio In answering any mfvertisement on this page it is desirable that you nn nfi»n The Railroad Man's Magazine. . » THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION Camp Guide! Fighting ^ Sent the Trust!! The Smashing Anti- FREE! Trust Fight Now On! Just your name and address on the Coupon below brings you the new 1911 edition of our famous Camp Guide, absolutely free. The most practical book on camp life ever written. Gives you practical information written hy experienced men who have spent Trust years in camps in 'i c\ part oi the country. This camp guide tells you everything you need to know about camping- it tells you how to camp successfully antj enioyably—gives you the information that you could riot possibly secure otherwise except Prices by actual and often disagreeable experience. Get Ready NOW for Your Eclipsed at Last! An absolutely first-class high- VACATION! grade watch at a price within the reach of the people—The Burlington Special The time for planning is growing short. Go Anti-Trust camping. You cannot find a more healthful or Watch. enjoyable way of using the time at your disposal The World's Masterpiece of watch manufacture—the public at its But when you do go-go right! Send for our new Camp Burlington Special—now sold direct to the Guide and Catalog the first thiiiff you do. You will find listed and rock-bottom, anti-trust price (and besides without described the largest line oi Tents, Camper's Supplies, Sails and middlemen's profits. Canvas Specialises carried by anv manufacturer in the 1 Fnited Stales. We sell direct from our huge factories to you. Yiiu are sure of gettinK the very highest qualities it is possible to old tin at We do not care what it costs-^'fc less than you would have to p.'y at retail for decidedly inferior goods. dependent line and so we are making the most sweeping, Look at these Wonderful baffling offer ever made on watches. Some trust-; are legal and somo are not. We do not say This 7x7 ft. that (lie uulrh trust Is Illegal; but we do say that the Values Wall Tent. methods of the Riant factories In making "contracts with made of the dealers to uphold double prices on watches is very un- very best quality 8-oz. Single fair—unfair to us and unfair to you. Hence our direct Filling Duck, cut and made offer on the Burlington at the very name priee the Whole- with the most extreme care. sale Jeweler must pay. A simply astounding bargain at only $5.45 Tliis is your opportunity— NOW—while this great Anti- trust; offer lasts—get the best watch made anywnere at Family Compartment Tent, one-third the price of other high-grade watches. Fur- light the Trust effectually, ft. Made of the best thermore, in order to most A 9x16.^ our selected quality of 10-or. Double Filling' we even allow terms of $2.50 a month on Duck. May be divided into rooms for eat- finest watch"—easiest possible payments—lents at the ^ ing'andstveping'tosuit convenience. Insures rock-bottom price, the identical price the absolute privacy, The Ideal tent. for fainilv Wholesale jeweler must pay. or small party. Specially priced at only $22.50 for our FREE Watch Book on request ^ Now Write Camp Guide and Now do not miss this opportunity. At least we don't bother with a letter just Catalog— — want you to know about N your name and address on the attached coupon will bring" you this WATCHES aud WATCH .»M d> great book by return mail. Whether vou intend g"ing camping: this PRICES. Write loday. year or not, you should be sure to get this free book at once. You Should certainly get our lowest" prices, our bed-rock factory prices, Be posted on the very finest line oi canvas specialties and camper's goods that Send a postal or letter it is possible to produce. or simply mail coupon without sending a letter H.Cnannon Company. iLCfoannonComparr/. aud get the free boot Department 1105 32 Market Stteet BURLINGTON 1105 Chicago / Market and Oipt. WATCH CO. Gtnfttmtn, Kindly forward me free, Randolph — Dept. 1103 W . Streets postpaid, your new 1911 Catalogue aud amp Guide 19tb and Chicago, 111. Marshall Blvd. J CHICAGO Don't Bothor with a Letter Send the coupi lor this 1-TUiE book letter just scud the coupon. No necessary ; V mention Kailkoad Man's Magazine. la answering any advertisement on t«is page it is desirable that you The 1! THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. '- ELGIN WATCHES credit « Special This Month $ 1 £50 ,m r g lo only — Jewel Genuine ELGIN 17- » case ± \J Free Trial ai Our Special ROCK BOTTOM WHOLESALE PRICE. ? Let me send you this ' Beautiful Genuine 1 7-Jewel Elgin Watch Complete In 2 O- Year Gold rilled Case— « the BIGGEST BARGAIN Ever Offered 1 $2.50 After Examination. $2 A Month TYou Assume No Risk Whatever in Dealing With Us MM Cuarant„ d for 20 Y .. rs . because before you buy or pay one cent, we place the watch right in your own hands and let It do its own talking. We ask NO SECURITY and NO I NTEREST—just plain honesty among men. Oar Elgin Watebss are to well known and our CREDIT PLAN bo easy, tliat no matter where you live or how small your vra^es, WE WILL TRUST YOU, bo that you and every honest man and woman can own a DIAMOND or Hi go-Grade Elgin Watch WATCH AND In a beautiful Guaranteed 2T> year Gold Filled Case and wear It while paying for it In Bueh small payments that you never miss the money. Write today tor our Big Froo Watch and Jewelry Catalog. It tells DIAMOND all about our eaBy credit plan and bow we send Elgin 19-Jewel B. W. Raymond and 21 and 23-Jswel Elgin Veritas everywhere on Free Trial, without security or one cent deposit, positively Guaranteed to Pass Any Book FREE Write For ?-'.»». HARRIS-GOAR CO. Dept. 95 KANSAS CITY. MO. It. The lioa»e that Sells Bore Ugla Vratchea than Anj uiner Firm la the World obbbsbbbbb^b Railroad Men, Attention Six Months to Pay Remarkable Watch Offer. Any 2 1 -Jewel Hamilton, Hampden. Elgin, isfaction or your money back. d n ffouil IU<- iiifin rlphl nun In yoar territory 1 - "-. Suits, Skirts. Waists, Petti- o bundle real estate Urs for \n experienre or I I ariioe' apiul 1 will the llrtl Estate Bu*l- LdUiea coats Hair Goods. Coats, necessary. u sea yon AUo Imnmrrri ,1.1-nn mid Kii<.in»>w Methods, I Dresses, Corsets, Millin- Underwear, iheu nppoinl yon repr«_-*«-n llif In your locality. I ery, « etc.. etc. r.a*y work: large profits. rite ior free boot. | Suits. Raincoats. Overcoats, MOItl>K\ I \M> it 1*0AX CO.. Mpil'c.men a Top Coats. Hats. Trousers. 4»4 Palace BI0e>, Minneapolis Minn. I Vests. Coats, etc.. etc. We Ship on Approval We were the first concern to offer wear- ing apparel on credit by mail. We have thousands of satisfied customers all over . the country. Our transactions are absolutely confidential. ^^DiamondS: at l/lO the cosl-IK SOUS GOLD KINGS This beautiful two- Send Your Name at Once acid tost and expert examination. Wo piece, all wonted, Stand for this beautiful Encyclopaedia of bar- them. See them first—then pay. Oxford era?, wit- guarantee gains. TifTany ring let J5.9S. strip cil. fashion, Special Ofler— lit I et. *6.9S. 14k Stud 1 ct. $4 So a lily tailored Ask for your free copy of Book No. GcnU rine 1 Sent 25 Ic.O.D. for inspection. Catalog FREE, shows Spring SuitSlO.35 Address The Cash with order iDIAMONDSl full line. Patent riae cause included. 10c S2.7S. Monthly WOOLF'S INCORPORATED Ksrodfi Co™ Dept. * 12 I.elaod A Dovar St.. Chiearo Payments.. S1.40 Dept. 940 Douglas Park Station, Chicago r white. IMPORTED riFuc I FRYING PAN . ^ ( VALLEY >JLn J from FRANCE Nn.gMCl E THEM BEFORE PAYING! ^ ' ATTAPHMFMT hese Gems are chemical white sapphires- attaching to any frying pan it does away with diamonds By Can't be told Irom except by an all "smell -smoke—smut. One of the greatest little in- Stand acid and fire diamond tests. W2J expert. ventions of tb» centnry. A simple attachment that So they can't be filed and will cut glass, bril- hard revolutionizes the cooking art. Send 25 cents for liancy guaranteed 25 years. All mounted hi 14 K. solid to day. Agents wanted everywhere. gold diamond mountings. Will send you any style riiiK, pin one or stud on approval—all charges prepaid— no money in advance. ARNAN MFG. CO. prices I Write (or Vr*m llliutrnted booklet, npcelal and riot measure. No. 29. City National Bank Building. Utica. N. Y. .WHITE VALLEY GEM CO.. 704 Sab Bids.. Indianapolis. Ind. - THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAjGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION No Hard Pedalling on a Motorcycle XHTS 4 H. P. beauty has abolished hard pedalling s t a r t > . Equipped with V Belt and Free Engine, you start in t//a stand. With clutch disengaged, the engine runs free, you mount and get away smoothly rand easily—just like an automobile is started. Controlled from the handle bar grip, you can start and atopauy where—uphill or level ground- without taking hands from bars;. Equipped with Mussel man Armless air-cooled brake — surest, strongest and simplest motor brake made. Anli- vibratorv spring seat post makes riding over rough roads pleasurable, A Flat Belt 1011 Model, with Idler, en- ables ruler to have tiglitCMcrfor belt con- The Hammer Never stantly at command. Both Battery and Magneto models can be furnished. Ma- Touches the Firing Pin terials: and worUmanship are fully our patents expire, every gua ranteed. When Writo forotir 1911 FREE Dluitrated Catalog, revolver in the world will have the famous It «v«Dlain:i tin- simplicity and perfection of thii Rncyclo clutch, nnd otli««r safety ana Iver Johnson Safety Action. Our catalog comfort features whuh malt-* the Racycte Motorcyclo the one roully desirable tells why. mac h in*? IVER JOHNSON'S ARMS & CYCLE WORKS THF. MIAMI CYCLE & MFC. CO. Sg 172 River Street,. Fitchburg, Mass. 24 Grand Avenue. Middletown, Ohio U. Si A. STAR TS .in. ill. it INlTH E STAN I 30 Days Free Trial and if wo haven't rd iieent in ynur city, we will sell you at wholesale agents' price, one 30 Days' FREE Trial! AMERICAN You Don't Pay a Penny if Not Pleased With Motorcycle or Bicycle Vs Your "America" Bicycle 1 New Special Offer 1 \nnd prepay Ihe freight. W rite for our in- Jtrorfucing offer and catalog, and Buy whether GUARANTEED 10 YEARS! want motorcycle or bicycle. Do it now. you , The ilooiilerBtreiisih "America Truss Frame j^^^o^^^'^n^^^M^^'^^ •• me r I can Molor C Bicycle " and America Conster-BrAlee Oiaiuniid Bi»\t cle."ih" creates! values in the history «>l i he bicycle, are now koW only I'roin f:ictorv direct In rider AT OTA.\'UFA€TURKR*S 1>KICKN Jobber*', wholesalers', distfibnters' j mnl lealer-' Fish Bite profit* being knocked »iri Shipped fully; equipped—1VO FXTHAN to buy—on npproval for free etamina- like wolves and keep you busy if yotigp hungry f ion and free t rial ! Money refunded if n«t satisfied. after them with mv wonderful fish-luring bait Manufacturers' factury-lO'rider prices allow ymi to own cle other MAGIC-FISH-LURE. l lie world's biggest bn\* viilue a! less enst Uihii wheels] ''America* 1 Bicycles are insured. (See Best fish bait ever invented. You catch a biff i « :- catalog. A postal or j . enectnl often with string: of fish while the other fellows are wait- letter catalog by refill ii mail. If H-ts but a |>viiiiy bnl saves dollars on ing for a bite. Price 85c. a box. Positively r guaranteed. Write for Free Booklet and my your wheel. Write today to special offer of one box to help introduce it. (3) AM 1 : ItH A GVCliK MM:. CO., Dept. LOS J. F. GBDGOBl'i Dept. Q, St. Louis, Mo .Wichigun Ave. (The oid-K-n ible Bicycle Houmj, ChicntfO. 111. IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and WANTED— RIDER AGENTS. exhibit a sample 1911 Model "Ranger* bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere arc making money fast. W>ite at onceforfull particulars and special offer. NO MONKY KKiill KKD until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the II. S. without a cent deposit in advance, prepay freight, and allow TEN DAYS' FREE TRIAL, during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any teat you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle *ou mav ship it back to us at our expense and you ivill not be out one cent. r QW We furn > s » the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make at one small profit FACTORYfiv wii 1PRICESiiivhw abovetheactu.il . factory cost. You save $ to to $25 middlemen's profits by luyimj direct of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or «t pair of tires from anyone at any Price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory Prices and remarkable special offer. wn you receive beautiful italogue study our super! models at VniB Wll I RC ACTHMIQUEfs en and I VU HILL. DC MO I UniOnCftJ the -wonderful low prices we can make you. We sell the highest grade bicycles .it lower prices than any other factory. We arc satisfied with J1.00 profit above factory cost. BICYCLE Df] A I .KItS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices. Orders fille-1 the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES — 1 limited number taken (n trade by our Chicago retail stores will be closed out at once, ftt $:i to $S each. Descriptive bargain list mailed free. TlpCC PnACTFR RRAIfE rear wheels, inner rubes, lamps, cyclometers, parts, repairs and everything In 'he I IIII.O 9 UUNO I tn UnHIVt. bicycle line at half usual prices. DO NOT WAIT—but write today for our Large Catalogue beautifully illustrated and containing a great fund ot interesting matter and useful information. It only costs a postal to get everything. Write It now. MEAD CYCLE CO. Dept. W 31 CHICAGO, ILL. in an»wtrlH9 any aiverUeemehi on this vuy<: W is tettHtpk iimi you mention xhh railroad man's magazine. — THE RAILROAD MAX'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. DIAMONDS ON CREDIT 20% DOWN—10% PER MONTH Why wait for your Diamond until you have saved the price ? Pay for it by the Lyon Method. Lyon's Diamonds are guar- anteed perfect blue-white. A written guarantee accompanies each Diamond. All goods sent prepaid for inspection. 10% discount for cash. Send now for catalog No. 97 J. M. LYON & CO., Established_1843 71-73 Nassau St., New York res W2380 2158 $30 ~ $25. oo PROFIT 27 In One Day Machine a sure money- WOA DAY if yon never sold a getter better EVEN — than a dol lar's worth of goods in mint. That's what Mr. your life, make to to Jill a YOU day — selling our made-to- J. R. Gray, of Pickens. order suits and pants. Miss., writes. This Is Your Chance to Make Money. We sell suits from i3 to ill) less The Wonder than other houses, give better tailoring, make better fitting clothes, with absolute guarantee. Cannon Camera You can undersell others: no work to take orders for us. Ton will do the same for you. It is the biggest can not fail—our line is the only line where you can give satis- outdoor money-maker to-day. Makes photo faction or money refunded. It buttons at the rate of S a minute. No ex- is a snap to sell Regal Tailoring. perience needed. Write at once for BIG MONEY—EASY WORK. We start you Free. Send for sam- Free Catalog ples now. We will back you with our capital and experience—you Be your own boss. Be independent on only a do not need money—we will in- $25.00 investment. This buys a complete outfit struct you and you can com- Wonder Cannon Camera, Tripod and Supplies to mence making money at once. make 400 finished photo Send us your name and address and an outfit larger than all others with newest buttons. Will ship out- now samples, large fashion plate, tape measure and fit upon receipt of S5.00 everything necessary will he sent you Free. deposit—balance C. O. D. You Can Get Your Own Clothes At Inside Price Don't waste valuable time to advertise us. Write today and receive exclusive getting started in this Big territory. If not interested show it to your friends Money - Getting Business. ms this is too good a thing to miss. The biggest { chance to make money. Fairs, street corners and all outdoor attractions offer big REGAL TAILORING COMPANY opportunities to hustlers. 191 Market Street, Dept. 635, CHICAGO Chicago Ferrotype Co. IVc use the I'nion Label on all our garments. Dept. A 26 Chicago, III. CAN BEaA SALESMAN EARN WHILE YOU LEARN "DON'T SHOUT We have Salesman's Positions open in which yon can ewure Practical Training and earn pood I hear you. I can hear now as well ai I money whilcstndyinsourcourse. Men equijiwd wllo our anybody. 'How?* Oh, some- syftemof Practical Traiainj: earn fromSl.200 tots .000 a year. Positions' ihina new—THE MORLEY now open. Address : C.J. Brown, President. PHONE. I've a pair in my eais CTICit. SCHOOLS Oh" S4.LBSH l\< K* Clereland,O..Uox IC4 Ft. Worth.! now, bul ihey are invisible. I would not know I had (hem in, myself, only lhal 1 heai all right." The Morley Phone for the An advertisement of this size would cost you DEAF S85.55 net in 1 he six Munsey Magazines, reaching 1,708,000 magazine reading homes monthly. Send malces low sounds and whis- lo-day for an interesting, illustrated booklet which pers plainly heard. Invisible, comfortable, weightless and tells about the extraordinary advertising service harmless. Anyone can adjust rendered by these magazines. it. Over one hundred thousand sold. Write for booklet and testimonials, THE MORLEY CO.. Dept. 76$. Perry Bldg., Phila. The Frank A. Munsey Company 175 Fifth Avenue New York V11 wis wiring any iflvcrliscmcnt on this page it is desinble that yon mention Tub Kailhoad Max's Magazine. — THE RAILROAD MAN S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION $18 Weighs but 4'A lbs. Standard Key- board 84 char- acters. Guar- anteed fully. Sent on 10 Days A Practical, Portable iji O Typewriter, only¥' O No excuse to «Mir be unbusiness-like in your Anchoi^^ndward correspondence, when you can always have the Bennett Typewriter with you. No larger, case and all, than a book. Takes a space only 2x5x11 'HE man who saves with an eve to future in. Writes letters or orders neatly and swiftly, and need must eliminate all risk as far as provides an extra copy. 84 characters same as big possible and investigate thoroughly his proposed machines, .with only a tenth as many parts— hence, investment. its low price. Quality guaranteed. Made in the A good investment to investigate is the six Elliott-Fisher Billing Machine Factory. per cent Realty Bond of the New York Central Realtv Companv issued in denominations 10 Days FREE Trial of 91000, $'500 and SI 11(1 It offers a high grade You need the Bennett for use on the of security, a liberal cash availability and an train, at hotels, home or business—every time you have 100 pa^cs typed, you interest earning of 6 % spend the price of a Bennett. Own a Writ© for booklet illustrating the methods of the Company, Bennett* be business-like and describing its bonds, their redemptive privileges and advantages save money. iUc us today that W over olher Really securities. you are ready to let the Bennett prove to you in person its practi- EVEHVBOor KNOWS US cability, neatness and speed. We will send you our catalog, sam- New York Central Realty Co. ples of Bennett work, and ex- Suite 1185. 1328 Broadway, New York plain fully our 10 day trial offer. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS *l 637 TOO HI B.R. Bennett Type writer Co. 366 Broadway. New York City ^ Bound Wumes^ §i AA L Munseijs Magazine 1 Those volumes contain from 800 to 950 pages of text and illustration. They are beautifully bourn] in green cloth and stamped in black and gold-leaf. Thev form a record of contemporary thought and literary achievement, replete with the best serials and short stones obtainable in the world of fiction. Their informative special articles cover ery department of human endeavor. Saw It in MUNSEY'S Years Ago" How olten you hear this Comment passed upon some notable article or some famous story. Why not have these volumes in your library? No other dollar's worth of reading can be so rich in entertainment, in information, in beauty of illustration. Let us know what year you want, and send us check or money-order for $1.35 (35c. to pa} - for carriage) and a bound volume will be sent you at once. If vou have any old favorite story in mind, let it's trace it for you, and send the vol tune containing it. These volumes are invaluable for schools and libraries. • The Frank A. Munsey Company, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York ii'i* ;»'«« it i* RAii In mitwuino "'(/ aWttfUfmntl on AMfaMIe tptt mention Thb nmn Man's mh..«im . THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. This Inch Advertisement in Munsey's Magazine Produced a Profit of $290.99 An advertisement of this size in MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE would cost you $29.69. In all six of the Munsey Magazines, reaching 1,700,000 magazine reading homes monthly, $85.55. Write for full particulars and free booklet. The Frank A. Munsey Company 175 Fiflh Avenue New York WE inserted this one-inch advertisement in a recent issue of Munsey's Magazine. It filled an inconspicuous place on a page of small advertisements. We charged our advertising department with $29.69—just what the space would cost any other advertiser. Thsre is nothing particularly clever about this announce- ment. It is a bare statement of our rates, but doubtless its plainness recommended it—for up to this date we have made a profit of $290.99 on the business received from this insertion. If we demanded any concrete demonstration of the "pulling power" of space in Munsevs Magazine, this instance would convince us. Certainly, it is pretty conclusive evidence of the produc- tiveness of space in The Munsey Magazines. Write for rates and literature THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY 175 Fifth Avenue, New York — THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION fgonfess .—Don't YOU feel a preference for te faces with the clean, clear complexion? f 1 POMPEIAN TUTS gives people a fresh, wholesome, attractive appearance because it pro- duces compkte facial cleanliness by taking the dirt out of the pores- soap simply removes surface grime. No one need have a sallow skin no one need feel the embarrass- ment caused by a dull, lifeless complexion, which robs the features of their natural beauty. Having a clear, fresh complexion is merely a matter of getting it w ith Pompeian's help. In other words ''Don't Envy a Good Complexion; Use Pompeian and Have One" Trial Jar and Art Picture, both sent for Cut along this line, fill in and mail today 10c. (stamps or coin) for postage and pack- ing. For years you have heard of Pompeian's The Pompeian Mfj:. Co. merits ami benefits. To get you to act now 171 Prospect St.. Cleveland. O. we will scnil a "Pompeian Gentlemen— Enclosed find ltlc. (stamps or coin) for postage and packing, for which please Beauty' ' Art Picture in ex- send mc a trial jar of Pompeian and a "Pom- quisite colors, with each trial peian Beauty" Art Picture. jar. This is a rare brier. This All Dealers "Pompeian Beauty" is very • Name. expensive ami immensely 75c 50c. popular. Clip coupon now. and $1 Address i: Gity State In antwtrrtnu this adverUscmint ii is desiraVlo that ymi mention Thh Hailiioad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD .MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Half Service Or Double Expense TWO telephone systems in one Neither system can fully meet town mean a divided commun- the needs of the public, any more than a single system could meet the ity or a forced duplication of apparatus and expense. needs of the public if cut in two and half the telephones discontinued. Some of the people are connected What is true of a single commun- with one system, some are con- ity is true of the country at large. nected with the other system ; and each group receives partial The Bell System is estab- lished on the principle of one service. system and one policy, to meet Only those receive full the demands for universal service who subscribe for the service, a whole service for telephones of both systems. all the people. American Telephone and Telegraph Company And Associated Companies in arunoertty) Wirt advertisement it fa desirable that you mention Tut raii.i:o.u> Mis s magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. There Is Beauty Improves Bad Complexions Good Complexions In Every cJar Preserves more all the „ 11}, en deep., T it . . nnVv skin attention small, dish W how ^ ""= complexion MILKWEED CREAM tome , « an* skin ^ ml)oi, ^^5^^ Cream 01. :y"»^„ wtiw us. sample free . $l- uu 1 a rge Size, Price, SOc-Larg Mich . Street, CO-,/~<^ R2 Tenth INGRAM 1 . . F F -jmfffr I Railroad Man's Magazine. i/ f« taimMe that wm '"•»""" The / (j „„„cerin„ ffti, arfrerHxment ' THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Instruction Book and Wood Finishing Samples FREE HERE'S the best book ever published on artistic wood finishing, the work of famous experts, illustrated in five colors. For a limited time, we will mail it FREE, postage paid, to- T rn* § v -#7r ~ gether with samples of " ~ yourself — can jS^fff& ICS * beautifully finish or ^^\^T ¥ 1 9 rerinish all furniture, wood- / \ WVI11IOVIIInntlQnn Q work or floors in the lat- /. . \ O est and most artistic -/uvV^\ C \ "|¥ T 1 • 1 '£.%-.tT r-^f^.'JA Wood rimshes expense - with Johnson's Wood Dye and Prepared Wax If you are interest- ed in craftsman- ship—if you want the correct finish on a new piece of furniture — if you are building or re- modeling — if you want to brighten up or change the color of any piece of furniture or of woodwork or floors —either ^— hard or soft wood— if interested in basketrj'—get this expert Instruction Book and FREE SAMPLES AT VOL R LEADIXG PAIXT DEALERS Johnson's Wood Dye is made in many beautiful greens, browns, reds, etc. It is not a mere staiu but a penetrating dye which colors the wood so deeply that if it becomes scratched or marred the natural color is not disclosed. It brings out the beauty of the grain without raising it, giving a soft, rich, pennaueir color. A coat of Johnson's Prepared Wax over the dye gives that beautiful, dull, artistic finish so much admired today. If you prefer a higher gloss than the wax gives apply a coat of UNDER-LAC over the dye ami then one coat of Prepared Wax. I ' s a tn '"' elastic spirit finish very much superior to shellac or varnish. It dries bar Tr^dfr-T" ar in less than an hour. Under-Lac is just what you want for your linoleum and oil- cloth ; it brings out the pattern, making it bright and glossy like new, protects it from wear and make- cleaning easy. It dries so the floors may be walked on in an hour. Go to your leading paint dealer for Free Instruction Book and Free Samples of Johnson's Wood Finishes, which we supply to him for his customers' use. If your dealer hasn't samples of our Wood Dye, Under-Lac and Prepared Wax, and the Books, we'll send them to you postpaid for the name of your dealer in paint. In writing mention shade of Dye want, and Instruction Book, Edition No. RM 5. S. C. Johnson & Son, " The Wood Finishing Authorities," Racine, Wis. In answering this advert ie* meitt it is desirable that you uuntion The Railboad Man's Magazine, ' Ik til Children Like m11 " Fairy Soap ,! 1S Its whiteness suggests its purity — and appeals to them. It floats always within easy reach — the youngster doesn't have to dive for it. The shape of the cake is oval — it fits the hand to a nicety. Being made from edible products, Fairy Soap agrees with even the tender skin of a babe, and cleanses thoroughly without irritating. Try Fairy Soap in your nursery and learn why — though its price is but 5c — it possesses more soap virtues than any other soap at any price. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY Have You CHICAGO a little 'Fairy inYour Home?