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That Mr. Willets gathered the following stories on one of his journeys around die country for The Railroad Man's Magazine, attests their authenticity. Whether or not the bo is frequently driven to his vagabond life by existing conditions is not for us tojlecide. but that he is a factor in human life to be reckoned with, we know. He doesn't care much to talk. But when he does, he usually has something to say. How the Engine Hostler Got in Jail—The Jungling Lumber-Jack—An — Inhuman Mother—Los Angeles Officials as Boes " Red-White- " and-Blue Bessie —The Killing of Ferrer, and Others. • Y cab dashed up to the South- express-car was empty save for my trunk, ern Pacific Station at San and that for some reason it was being Antonio, Texas, just as sent to El Paso, dead. the conductor of the Reaching El Paso. I went to the Shel- west-hound Sunset Ex- don Hotel. As I registered, the clerk " press shouted '"Board!" said : Railroad detective looking for It was necessary that I should cover the you. Here he is now." long haul in that particular train in order "Know you've been robbed?" blurted to be on time in joining a hunting-party the detective. "No? Your trunk, was at El Paso. So I thrust four bits into a broken open on the train and its contents porter's haud, and saw him toss my trunk ritled. I f you don't mind, I'll be present containing my hunting togs into a bag- as a witness while you overhaul what is gage express-car. left of your wardrobe." And he went Trainmen told me that that baggage with me to my room. 1 R R 385 ! — 386 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. hunting-boots, poncho, " " My corduroys, Right ! he answered, in a voice wo- cartridge-belt— in fact, all the chief arti- fully weak. " I'm a victim of circum- cles of my kit were missing — even my stances. I'm no stew-bum—no vag. May tobacco. "T'll have to buy a new out- I tell you my story from the very begin- " fit,'" I said, after I had signed a claim on ning? " " " the Espee, for I'm obliged to start out Two months ago," he began, I was with Bill Greene to-morrow for a hunt in employed as an engine hostler by the Illi- Mexico." nois Central Railroad at New Orleans. " Don't buy much," replied the detec- I earned ninety dollars a month. The tive, " because by the time you return I'll doctors said I showed signs of consump- have the stolen stuff, as well as the stealer. tion. I determined to get up to New It's a hobo job, and the rangers (mean- Mexico. ing, the famous Texas Rangers under " I'm a saving man. I had three Captain McDonald) will get that tramp months' wages in my pocket, yet I re- within a few days." solved to beat my way to New Mexico ~ like the tramps we often captured in the- ' Caught in the Sage-Brush. yards at New Orleans. That resolution led to—this," and he pointed to the iron- I was gone three weeks on the hunt. barred cells. " Reaching El Paso once more, I was con- I told no one of my plan ; and alone, fronted by that same railroad detective. in the night, I crept through the yards to " McDonald's men got him," he greet- a box car I had previously selected for ed me. "A free-rider? Yes, but not a my purpose, on a train going west. professional tramp. It was his first of- fense—tells a plausible story—but now, Lured by a Trap-Door. if you'll step around to court, you'll have " a chance to identify your property." I chose this particular car because it The court was held in a small room had a small trap-door, a sliding affair, in over a store. All my togs were returned the roof. The trap was for the passing to me, even the tobacco. " Well, your back and forth of lamps. I counted upon Texas Rangers certainly are the most ca- that trap-door to help me to get out of pable police I've encountered," I said. the car, in case some one should come " It was simple," replied the detective. along and lock the side doors. " The man was out in the sage - brush " I slept well the first night. The stop- without food or firearms. Nothing easier ping of the train in the morning awoke than to get a fugitive under such condi- me. It was stifling hot, and I wished to tions. He's around the corner— in jail." let in some fresh air by sliding open one " I asked if I might see the " amateur of the side doors. " hobo ; and the detective accompanied me But, try as I would with all my to the calaboose and introduced me to the strength, neither of the side doors would warden, who brought out the prisoner. open. Some one, evidently, had locked He was a sorry-looking customer. It them during the night. But, no matter was not merely that his clothes were in I had my trap in the roof. I would open tatters; it was his singularly emaciated that, just enough to let in some air—for appearance, his livid paleness, his bright, I had closed that trap the moment I en- staring eyes. His skin seemed drawn tered the car in order to minimize the tight over his bones, giving peculiar chances of detection. prominence to his features, especially to " Imagine my predicament when I tried his nose. to open the trap and found that it wouldn't budge. Not till then did I re- Starving to Death. call that such trap-doors in some cars could be opened only from the outside. " I know." I said. " I've seen men in " I was hungry and thirsty. Did I cry your condition before — thousands of out and bang on the door? Nix! Dis- them during the great famine in India. covery by the wrong person would mean,' You have been near death from starva- I supposed, arrest. I would wait a while. tion." Probably at some station men of the right ! — ROUGH-RIDERS OF THE KAIL. 387 sort, who would look the other way while a sound. The best I could do was to tap 1 walked off, might open the door. on the floor with my knuckles. No one heard. Hours passed. I guess 1 became The Heat Unendurable. delirious—then unconscious. " When I came to I lay in a hospital " Sleep was then the best way to pass in San Antonio, a mere shadow of a man. the time. I slept all day, till the gnaw- They told me that the car they found me ing of a famished stomach awoke me. I had been twenty-four hours without food or water. The train jolted frightfully. My bones ached. I was racked with pain from head to foot. " To cry out now would be useless. With the train pounding along, no one could hear me. The heat became almost unendura- ble, and the sand of the desert was drifting in, fill- ing my eyes and mouth. " In agony I cried out I realized how foolish I was to try this box-car riding. It seemed to me that my voice sounded ex- ceedingly far away; but I was not sure on account of the noise of the train. '' After that I must have fainted. Then I must have slept a long time, for when I awoke it was again day- light, though whether morning or afternoon I knew not. " Still, the train thun- dered and jolted on. Would it never stop so I could summon assistance? The third night passed. In the morning I found my- self too feeble to rise to my feet. I had been three ALONE IN THE NIGHT, I CREPT THROUGH THE YARDS nights and two days with- TO THE BOX CAR." out a bite to eat. " The train stopped. Now 1 would be in had lain unopened in the yards for two rescued, would be able to buy food and days and nights. That meant that I had get water. I was cold, though I knew I been without food or water for five nights must be in a hot country. I had chills and four days! ague. Now I suffocated. My tongue " No wonder f was merely skin and was swollen, my mouth seemed to be bones! No wonder that the sight of food tilled with a hot potato. now nauseated me, while the sight of " But the train was standing still. I water drove me mad. tried to call for help, but could not utter '' But I recovered, of course. They ! ! 3SS THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. discharged me from the hospital. Why " Not till then did I realize the mad- I was not arrested for riding in the box- ness of my act in again attempting to. car I don't know. I wish they had ar- beat my way. Was I again to starve? rested me then— it would have been bet- No! I was on a passenger-train. In ter. 1 wouldn't be suffering here. twenty-four hours I would be in El Paso. I resolved to have patience, to go hungry bravely for that time. " By nightfall I found myself suffer- ing acutely, both physically and mental- ly. Recollections of my previous expe- rience rushed through my head. I yelled and raved in despair. Food was my only thought. Food I must have. " Presently a wild idea came to me. Your trunk Maybe it Contained food. I seized one of the fish- plates, smashed the trunk open, but found no food. " A maniac indeed I then became. With a crazy notion of ending my life, I butted my head against the side of the car. " I knew no more till the next morning. There was the smashed trunk staring me in the face. There were its contents scattered over the floor in my wild "maybe it contained food." search for food. Now I'd surely be arrested, not only " Certainly, I must have been still for a vagrant, but for a common thief. weak in mind, though strong enough in " In desperation I tried the door. Im- body to walk, for I went deliberately agine my astonishment when I tell you back to the railroad yards with an insane that the door opened. determination to hold on to my money " It had not been locked. Here was and ride to El Paso free. light, air, liberty " The Sunset Express was' ready to " Quickly I made my plans. We were pull out. Next to the engine was the hi the sage-brush. At the first stop I baggage express - car, its doors slightly would leave the train, and take with me open. I looked in. It was empty, save some of the clothes from the trunk. I for a few fish-plates. I climbed in, un- would array myself in those garments, observed, and sat down in the corner far- bury my own, and no one would then thest from the door. recognize me. " That mad plan I carried out — all The Welcome Trunk. except the donning your clothes and burying mine. I seemed to forget why " Just before the train started some one I carried those stolen clothes. In the pushed the door open about two feet, and pockets of your hunting - coat I found shoved in a trunk. The train started. I tobacco and a pipe. I smoked. The heaved a sigh of relief—for the door was tobacco gave my stomach something to left open. The trunk was yours. work on—till the rangers found me. " On the outskirts of San Antonio the " You know the rest. I'm glad they train pulled up—and a man slammed the ran me down. For I was slowly starv- door shut, and I heard him lock it. ing to death in the brush. I hope, sir, ROUGH - RIDERS OF THE RAIL. 389 that I have convinced you that I'm no It's a bill of particulars of how I got lost common hobo. That is all." <>nce in a mop box car—car and all. Before 1 left El Paso that " free- " Some of us lumbermen travel same rider"—the name he gave was Jim Some- as those who never work. You'll find us body-or-other — was sentenced to thirty on freight-trains from the Atlantic to the days on the work gang. Pacific. My home's way back in Con- necticut. Some years ago. at the end An Army of Hoboes. of my season in a northern California camp as a swamper—which is trimming I " hit " Tacoma. Washington, in No- branches from trees and clearing a road vember. There I learned that a veritable through the brush— I wanted to go back army of hoboes was passing through the East and see New Haven once more. city on the way to warmer California. " I got down to San Francisco, where 'The calaboose, so railroad yardmen told I heard that a fast freight of only five me, was filled with a new set of Weary »cars was to go through to New York in Willies each night. six days. That was the train for me. It " The only room we've got for 'em is happened to be a very important, an un- so full," said the keeper at the calaboose, usual train—a silk-train, worth half a " that 1 can't even crowd in myself to million dollars. Each of the five cars use the phone. To-morrow morning we'll was filled with a hundred thousand dol- escort, the tramps to the Northern Pacific lars' worth of silk. freight yards and order 'em to ' hit the " But I didn't get out of California grit ' and put Tacoma far behind. Yet before the enemy discovered me and gave to-morrow night the calaboose will be me the boot. Then I worked eastward till full up with hoboes again. I got into Arkansas. There I ' changed " There's one man in there doesn't lie- cars.' I'd had enough of trucks. I want- long there," he continued. "It's that tall ed a nice, comfortable place to stretch chap with the red whiskers. He's a lum- inside of a car. And I got it—a car on ber-jack—not a real hobo, you know—yet a mop train, half filled with boxes of he and his kind, when they're ' jungling,' canned salmon. Say, wasn't that salmon live a regular hobo life. The railroad great ? police happened to round up that chap A Banquet on Salmon. along with the rest." i I determined to be a part of that escort " As soon as they locked me in all snug the next morning, and get acquainted with I knocked off the cover of one of the the tall, red-bearded lumber-jack. Be- boxes, used a nail for a can-opener, and fore daylight the patrolmen and myself began feasting on Columbia River salmon. escorted some forty " stew-bums," " vags," " On the second day something the very and general wrecks to the Northern Pa- queerest happened. Locked in, as I say, cific freight-trains : and while the un- I was not on to the game. The car feathered birds of passage scurried for seemed to rise up in the air and shoot i off means of flight. I annexed the lumber- sideways. Then it plumped down and jack and led him off to hot coffee and stood still. Then all was silence. I just ham and eggs, kept guessing the rest of the night and all " The Simon-pure hoboes detest us," he the next day, consuming canned salmon said, as he tucked a fried egg in its meanwhile till I was sick of it. " " entirety into his mouth. They won't . All that time, bear in mind, I heard have nothing to do with us. 'cause we trains passing my car, right beside me. 1 work. When we're jungling.' a lot of 1 had not been side-tracked, for there'd us get together, build a shack in the woods been no backing, no pushing, no slam- and live on the country-club plan. ming. Had the car been lifted bodily out of the train and placed on another track? Lost in a Box Car. I gave it up, and ate more salmon. " The second night, though, I heard " I'll tell you a story you can verify, if men come up a swearing all round my you want to. by writing to the Missouri car—a gang of 'em. Suddenly the car Pacific vardmaster, at (lurdon, Arkansas. got a move on, bumpity-bump, as if they : 390 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. were hauling her over the ties. In a automatically to the train. So much for minute, however, we rolled on smoothly, freak railroadin'. as if on the rails again. " Now for that part that made the yardmaster smile out loud. When that The Yardmaster's Smile. freight-train pulled into the yard at Gur- don the conductor reported all present " In the morning the car was opened, and accounted for and went home to bed. and a man began unloading it. I hid In the wee small hours a call-boy woke behind the boxes. When he went away the conductor and told him a car was for dinner I skidooed. I found myself in missing from his train. Gurdon, Arkansas. More curious than " ' Go chase yourself,' said the conduc- I'd ever been in my life to know what tor. ' Didn't I tab that car into the train? kind of railroadin' I'd been subjected to, Of course she's there.' I walked up to the yardmaster's office and " That'll be about all, mister, except asked for a job, by way of getting safely that I expect that mop freight conductor into a conversation. had to set up the soda-water good and " The yardmaster seemed daffy about plenty for that yardmaster. What's that? something that had happened in the yard," Did the yardmaster give~tne a job? Well, laughed like he was dippy, and mumbled now, he certainly approached me along something about a ' cock-sure conductor.' that line; but, you see, I had the New Then he turned to me and turned on the Haven bee in my bonnet, so I just sidled gas. And the long and short of his illu- away from that kind yardmaster." mination was this " As that night freight, of which my An Inhuman Mother. car was a part, neared Gurdon, what'd that salmon diner of mine do but jump Here's another free-rider tale—the in- the rails and slide to the left into a ditch. human act of a- young mother, that led to " Now. here's the freak part. As soon the rehabilitation of a human derelict. as my traveling restaurant cut herself At Los Angeles—in the same month of out, what's the caboose right behind me my visit to Tacoma— I saw more tramps do but roll forward and couple herself in the railroad yards than probably could be found in all the other rail- road yards of California. Los Angeles in win- ter is the hobo's paradise. In the Santa Fe Rail- road yard I talked to many of the arriving free-riders, and the story of one in particular has an unusual touch of pathos. "You fond of babies?" he said. " I am. Nearly lost my life two nights ago—for a baby. " I was at the fag end of my journey from Kansas — nearing. Los Angeles. Kicked off a freight- ' THE SIMON-PURE HOBOES train, I took a seat on the steps DETEST US." of the rear car of the Santa ROUGH -RIDERS OF THE RAIL. 391 Fe's crack train, the California Limited, " ' I don't dare move that child without hoping to ride into the City of the Angels authority. I'll telephone Constable Ruff.' " in grand style. While Mr. Mattock was phoning I " Just after we passed a place called took the baby once more in my arms. I Cucamonga—as I'm a living man— I saw a baby thrown from one of the forward cars of the train. I heard that baby's cries distinctly, for the train was not going very fast. What Memory Did. " In a flash I thought of my own . baby, now lying in a Kansas graveyard. Thoughts of how happy I'd expected to be with my baby now ran through my mind. My wife died, you see, and our baby lived several months. I took care of him myself. Then he, too, left me. " That discouraged me. I gave up. I drank. I lost all, pawned all. went down, took to the road, and here I am—a human derelict. " While all that I've told you flashed through my brain. I jumped. Now, when you say a limited isn't going some, you mean faster than a freight, but not fast for a limited. When I jumped I learned how fast a limited is going when it's going slow, for I can show you a body black and blue and just look at that swollen ankle. " i'm " — only a tramp ! " I limped, dragged myself, up the track to where the child lay in a mass billed and cooed over it. Then, when I of soft mud. It still lived, blubbering heard Mattock returning with the con- weakly. ' fiend has this What done awful stable, I kissed that baby, laid it gently thing?' I asked myself. in the mud. and then slunk away into the night, like the tramp I am. " A Helping Hand. Since reaching Los Angeles I learn that they got the fiend who tossed that " Would the baby live? I picked it up six-weeks' old baby from that car window and petted it. And then I exclaimed, —a young woman of San Bernardino. just ' as if some one was listening, I'm She hoped in that way to get rid of her only a tramp ! What if I take this baby child. Think of it ! She's under arrest. to the nearest house? Maybe I'll be The baby lived onlv a few hours after I arrested for kidnaping. No. I must left it. leave the baby just as I found it, and go for help.' Driving Them Out. " Just east of the track 1 saw a light in a window, I made oiy Way, painfully, " I believe that my experience with that inw ard the light—found it was in a ranch- baby lias had the effect of arousing in me house where lived a Mr. Mattock. I told an ambition to face the music once more Mr. Mattock of the baby by the track, and work for a living. I'm glad of these an. I how it got there. He wouldn't be- bruises. They make me think of my own lieve at first that any one 'could be so baby boy, and of how, maybe, I ought to inhuman as to cast a baby out of a car work for him even though he ain't here." window from a moving train. When we Free-riders at this time were pouring f«t< bed the baby Mr. Mattock said: into Los Angeles in such hordes on everj : : — : 392 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. freight-train that certain yardmen were " Glad to know your honors," prompt- put on extra duty, in the way of handing ly replied Idaho Red. " Permit me to the boes over to the police. Rough-riders introjuce me own self. I'm the Governor of the rail arrived in such big bunches, of California." indeed, that Mayor Harper and Police Just then a shack jumped into the car Commissioner Cole put their heads to- and said: " Dig up—every ging in here, gether and caused a sign to be placed in or out you all go." the railroad yards reading like this I do not mean to imply that brakemen on California trains are in the habit of making tramps dig up in return for let- Hoboes, stick to your Pullfnans and ting them travel in peace." I merely quote keep moving. the remark of one particular brakeman Long sentences in the chain-gang as I got it in relation to this specific given here. instance. Sixty to ninety days our specialty. Idaho Red dug up without a word. And the " mayor " and the " police com- 1 1 missioner " followed the example of the Notwithstanding these warnings, free- " governor." riders arriving at Los Angeles forsook The shack then left the three free- their " Pullmans " in such numbers that riders, with the tacit understanding that Sheriff Hammel was obliged to keep his he would not report their presence to the shower-baths in the county jail going con, and the tramps began an animated night and day in an effort to maintain powwow that continued during the re- cleanliness within his gates. mainder of the journey to Los j\.ngeles, Now, among the tramps who submitted the tall man and the short man plying with more than usual reluctance to the Idaho Red with dozens of questions con- sheriff's soap and water was one known as cerning the view-point of free-riders with Idaho Red—a free-rider whose arrival in regard to their treatment by the authori- Los Angeles had been marked by a most ties in the City of the Angels; amusing experience. Arriving in the Los Angeles yards. Idaho Red was snoozing in an empty Idaho Red handed his new friends this box car, when the train pulled up at a advice: " Now, beat it, for if youse linger, desert water-tank. There two other free- youse will get pinched sure." riders climbed into Idaho's Ted car one a tall, lanky man, and the other fat Make a Get-away. and very much sawed-off. The garments of the newcomers were torn and tattered The "mayor" and the "police commis- and covered with dirt and mud. Their sioner" made their get-away successfully; shoes were typical. Both were hatless. but, sad to relate, the " Governor of Cali- " Howdy? " said Idaho Red. " Youse fornia," less spry than the others, got goin' to Los? That's a awful town jist pinched before he left the yards, and was now for us unhappies. They pinch us taken to Sheriff Hammel's jail and sub- and parade us through the town in the jected to the indignities of suds and aqua. chain-gang. Got a chew?" Coming from the shower-bath with a look of reproach suggestive of the cat " I'm the Governor." that has just emerged from a rain-barrel, Idaho Red proceeded to relate the inci- All this time the tall thin man and the dent of his meeting with the short fat short fat man glared at Idaho Red with man and the tall thin man in the box car. expressions of - indignation, as if to say: When told that the short fat man was " How dare you be so familiar?" Pres- really and truly the mayor of Los Angeles, ently the tall man put his hand on the and that the tall lanky man was actually bare and touseled head of the short man the police commissioner of the city, Idaho and said Red's remark was " This is the mayor of Los Angeles. " Cert! Of course they were. Just the And I — I am one of the police commis- same as I was the Governor of California." sioners." But Idaho Red's friends were the offi- : — ROUGH - RIDERS OF THE RAIL. 393 " cials they declared themselves to be. Why I am a vagabond. I want to be a had they turned hoboes? Mayor Harper vagabond the rest of my life. I beg some- and Police Commissioner Cole had set out times, and I make in that way more than in an automobile to inspect certain public most laborers. I'm never sick— I'm happy works far out of the city. Out on the all the time. I'm better off than many desert their car became disabled, and they men who work. I travel and see new were obliged to foot it through rain and places, new faces—and the railroads carry mud for miles and for hours to the water- me free. " tank station on the railroad. That's all. An occasional thirty days in jail is just a period of rest. I've seen far more " The Lady Riders." of the world, enjoyed my life more than thousands of men who stick to their jobs From railroad men and others, in my and have homes. And, as you see, I've rambles about this country, I have heard saved as much money—maybe more than men who kill themselves in order to live. I'll probably be fined twenty-five dollars to-day for vagrancy. " I'll pay it, and then I'll meander down to southern Cali- fornia for the winter. Ride on the railroad? Certainly. Why, in half the towns in this coun- try, the authorities take us to the railroad yards and order us to make a "HOWDY?" SAID IDAHO RED. " YOUSE GOIN' TO LOS?" some strange tales of free-riders who sneak out on the first freight that comes were " rich," and of free-riders who were along." " females." A D. and R. G. man at Denver told In San Francisco a Southern Pacific me of a young hobo who was found in a man, having a run into Stockton, told me box car of a Santa Fe freight at Colo- of a free-rider who had been yanked out rado Springs, and taken into custody. A of a box car in the Stockton yards and startling discovery was made. That hobo Uiken to the lock-up. He gave the name was a girl. Her name was Bessie Boy- of Edwin Hess. When searched twelve ington. Her hair was cut short ; she hundred dollars in currency was found on wore boy's clothes; she was pretty. She his person. said she had been traveling about the " But why, with all this wealth," he country for a year—free-riding on the was asked, " do you travel in box cars railroads along with men tramps. " instead of Pullmans ? And she didn't mind talking about it. Edwin Hess made this extraordinary " I feel jim-dandy," she said. " I'm reply in perfect health, and that's more than : THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. ran he said «>f girls who have not the The woman hurried to the hospital, courage to turn tramp/' only to be told there that Joaquin Ferrer had died a few minutes before her arrival. " " " The Romantic Part. My poor Joaquin ! she cried. I wish this had come to me instead of to him." But. though I could not learn all the And Mrs. Ferrer showed that the love details, the most romantic part of the that passeth understanding exists among story of Bessie Boyington. free-rider, was free -riders just the same as among people that, when liberated from the jail at who pay railroad fare. Colorado Springs, she fell in with a New A free-rider of the lowest class fetched ( Yorker of some wealth, and married him. up in Tucson, Arizona, on the rods of a In hoboland, on the Colorado railroads, car of a Southern Pacific freight. In she was known asp Red-White-and-Blue broad daylight he jumped boldly from Bessie." the rods, directly in front of the Southern Another female free-rider I heard of in Pacific headquarters building. At that California. She was the wife of a team- moment a pretty girl happened to pass. ster of San Francisco. The teamster's The hobo looked at her once, twice, then name was Joaquin Ferrer, and he was a followed her up the stairs of the head- member of the Brotherhood of Teamsters. quarters building to a room on the second After the fire he could get no work. He floor. had saved not a penny, and he and his The girl was Miss Minnie Clauberg, wife deliberately turned tramps. telegraph operator, on duty from seven to After free-riding to Los Angeles and five every day in the week. Of a sudden, back he brought his wife some money. she looked up from her key to find the He pictured to his wife the allurements poorest semblance of a man staring and of free-riding; and Mrs. Joaquin Ferrer leering hard at her. The stranger asked declared that she herself would become a her a number of questions, none of which free-rider. Miss Clauberg answered. Finally, the They set out together in a box car. greasy man slouched away. having resolved to beat their way to Los Angeles. Arriving there, the husband Willing to Marry. was arrested, but the wife induced the yardmen to let her go. Next day Miss Clauberg found a bit A couple of months later a hobo, while of wood lying on the table in her office, " beating his way on a freight-train, near on which was scribbled these words : I Banning, California, fell asleep while want a certain pretty girl for a wife." riding the rods. He fell from the rods, She showed the billet-doux—which she was run over, and both legs were severed has to this day—to Chief Lineman Jack at the knee. They took him to a- hospital Shahan, who doubled his big hand into at Riverside, and "there found, in his what looked like a sledge-hammer and " pocket, an old card of the Brotherhood of said : You just wait, Miss Clauberg." Teamsters of San Francisco, bearing the Next day the free-rider showed up in name " Joaquin Ferrer." the hallway of headquarters, on his way evidently to Miss Clauberg's room. Jack The News Spreads. Shahan was right there, too. Biff—bang—thud ! Down and out Stranger than fiction, that same day a went the tramp ! When he reached the woman hobo emerged from a box car of bottom of the stairs he saw something the Salt Lake route, at Riverside. Cali- more than stars. He beheld Jack Shahan fornia, and was informed by certain male standing over him, saying hoboes—among whom such news travels " There's a freight pulling out of here fast—of the free-rider who had that day pretty soon. You better travel on it for been run over and lost both legs at Ban- your health." ning, and of how he had been brought He stood at the end of the depot plat- to the Riverside Hospital, and of how he form until it came along, and then he had been identified as a teamster of San deftly slid into an empty. But, thank Francisco. Heaven ! his kind is pretty scarce. RONAN'S FIVE MINUTES. BY ROBERT FULKERSON HOFFMAN. "~ ^ . An 111 Wind Blows Some One Good, High Under the Southern Gross. OU are accused of being And yet Mr. Amend was, of necessity, a mechanic. What have a man of fine discrimination. you to say about it?" While he had never until then seen the There was not a shade head of the house of Amend, Ronan knew of relaxation or humor New York—which is another way of says visible in the face of ing that he knew both men and manikins Philip Amend, senior member of Philip pretty well. Amend & Sons, contracting engineers. His calm eyes, therefore, made a swift He had turned abruptly in his chair and comprehensive inventory of the severe and launched this challenge into Ronan's but good appointments of the big room in lax senses as though he were casting a spear. " I will plead guilty to that," replied Ronan qui- etly and without a mo- ment's hesitation. " Well, it's worse than that," continued the cool and even voice of the se nior Amend. " You are accused of being a first- class mechanic, and it is said that you can handle men. What do you say to that?" Ronan, standing, hat in hand, in the quiet seclu- sion and rich plainness of Amend's Broad Street office, was not the figure of a man that a discrimi- nating person would se- lect to play with, even at long acquaintance. There was a poise of the head and shoulders, an upstanding alertness in his big, clean - cut body, and, most of all, a level steadiness of the eyes that forbade famil- iarity. SAT DOWN TO WRESTLE WITH HIS PROBLEM. 395 : : 396 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. the center of which he stood, fell hi cool arose ; but it was because of the unerring scrutiny that seemed to crumple as by- certainty with which the conversation had frost the look of calm superiority on the been launched and hurried to its evident face of Amend's secretary, and settled end, and not because of any elation at the back with definite purpose on the face of suddenly opened prospect. Amend, before Ronan answered He had done things with locomotives " To advance the case as a whole, what- in the busy hives along the Juniata. He ever it may be, I plead guilty to both had been captain of herders, as it were, counts." at the great, open - air engine corral in " Sit y down. Take this chair, Avon't West Philadelphia. He knew^also, things you?" sa^'d Amend, after a moment's si- that can be learned only at first - hand lence, indicating a position where the where Chicago—the railroad sun of this light of late morning must fall full upon railroad firmament—radiates fleeing, hur^ the face of Ronan. " You don't seem to rying locomotives to every point of the get rattled easily," he volunteered when compass as prodigally in proportion as Ronan had settled into the chair close at the^veritable sun projects its shafts of hand. " Perhaps we shall do well to get light. better acquainted. He knew the mountains and the plains " My son requested you to send in a and something of the peaceful valley work card, when you could find the time? Yes. of this land of endless railroads ; but in He did not say why or whither, I pre-, that other land—that land of manana, of sume? No. That was right, so far, and to-morrow, below the equator— What? now, no doubt, you would like to know He knew, by report, that ill winds have to re- way striking why we have ventured make that a of as from above ; that un- quest. toward things have a way of happening " 1 should like to have you undertake a there—where all except the white man do small matter for us in a big way, and all things to-morrow, and where he, too, leave here as soon after to-day as you can unless he be made of the sternest stuff, get your necessary belongings together." soon lapses into that fatal lethargy of " Where? " asked Ronan, concealing nianana. his surprise at the depth and intentness " In an hour I will return and answer," of meaning that the conversation had sud- he said, and, with brief adieu, passed out denly assumed. to the elevators and to the din of the " There," replied Amend. Avhirling the street. globe at his elbow with the swift touch of . "I thought so!" muttered Amend, long and constant use until his finger-tip grimly smiling at the little Peruvian si\-. rested lightly upon a spot below the equa- ver grotesque upon his desk, while the ex- tor. press elevator swiftly dropped Ronan to "As what?" questioned Ronan very the street level. " He will decide it to- quietly, while his eyes fastened upon the day—not to-morrow. He is our man." place indicated, and a dull flush of color It was something of a decision for a surged strongly into his face. man no older than Ronan to make. He " As master mechanic of three hundred was not yet thirty ; he was well-estabi and odd miles of Andean railroad, and lished in the railroad offices in a near-by first man in line for promotion," was the cross-street.; he had the usual substantial unhesitating reply. chances of slow promotion and meager Ronan searched the face of Amend for salary of the older Eastern railroads. a moment before he asked There was, of course, permanent or "The salary?" temporary relief by death or pension at " Eight hundred a month, gold." the end of the long run, according as the " plied Amend ; and you need not take the die might fall for him. trouble to go into your personal expe- In. sharp contrast to that, an ever-pres- rience or attainments. I know all I wish ent allurement looming large was the to know about your previous history just Western railroad field—that mightiest of at this time. When would you like to give industrial battle-fields, holding forth its " us your answer? tempting rewards of quick recognition, Ronan could not repress a smile as he place, money, -and power to the young, RONAN'S FIVE MINUTES. 397 BIG BEYOND BELIEF IN SOUTH AMERICA, WHITHER THEY WERE BILLED. clear-headed, and capable. The wander- mixed odors of sea and cargo along the lust was strong in Rohan's blood. He water r. fronts, had, from his first expe- had fought it at times as a man fights a rience of them, stung Ronan's senses. malady. The spirit of adventure and the But, like a stoic, he had held them all indomitable pluck that had sent his Scan- in check with a master hand. The gay dinavian grandfather pioneering into the enticement of the city's life, the call of great Northwest two generations ago had, the West, and, most insistent of all. the in turn, sent young Ronan adventuring call of the sea and of that mysterious land eastward. of manana, lie had put resolutely aside, From Altoona, as an Eastern begin-_ until now he had coine unexpectedly to ning, he had grown by slow and painful look upon a daring parting of the ways processes to a modest place in the official when he had meant only to pursue the line. He had come to know New York staid and conventional path to a common- when the flush of his strength was at its place success. highest — when the sullen roar of the Reaching the street, he thrust his way city's life by day and the pregnant silences unceremoniously through the fringe of of its nights thrilled him with a sort of yelling curb brokers that overlapped from exaltation at the mere fact of survival in the turbulent crowd in the middle of the that maelstrom of human life. A score street and obstructed the sidewalk. He of years, pethaps, woulcf pass before he threaded his way more carefully through could properly detest it and turn again to the gloomy and cluttered narrowness of the open. Wall Street, and, crossing Broadway, en- The sense of nearness to the pulse of tered the gate of old Trinity churchyard, the world, the far reaches down the bay and sat down in a favorite nook to wrestle to the open sea, the virile tang of brine- with his urgent problem. soaked shipping at the piers, and the rich, There was nothing in the expression-. 398 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. less marble slabs uf the churchyard to engines in the shadowy hold, and, of contribute to the answer, save that, fare course, there was no hint of it in Mr. forth however bravely and where they Amend's parting instructions. might, all men came there, or to a similar "Yes," said he, "I should like it if pass at last. But the chimes in the tower, you would go with the cargo. You may ringing out the noon-hour, sent a theme of be useful before you get them ashore, and, triumph and rejoicing down into the se- in any event, I have a theory that a man cluded churchyard and out into the roar who works for us down there is the better of the street. for going around the Horn or through Ronan arose from his seat and plunged Magellan and looking at his job at long into the northward current of Broadway. range going up the west coast. It gives He suddenly felt that he must get closer him a wider perspective. to the heart of the giant, complex life of " Then, too, if he is going to curl up the crowd once more before he could de- and wilt, he generally does it when he cide. gets his first sight of the Andes from the Shortly he was dropping from a car Pacific, and goes right on up the coast at Twenty^Third Street, and a few mo- and reneges by way of Panama. ments later he was seated in the glazed " Not making any forecasts in the pres- bay of a near-by cafe corner, where, him- ent instance, you understand, but—well, self unobserved, he looked out upon the it offers you a broader perspective, as I midday flood of humanity that hurls itself have said." impersonally upon the massivfe prow of " Certainly. I shall be glad to do the Flatiron Building and falls away that," replied Ronan. " That is," he ha- again into the divided currents of Broad- stily added in the tone of a man who has way and Fifth Avenue. no intention of reneging, " I shall be glad Ronan ate with the unabated hunger to go through with the locomotives." of youth and perfect health, and while Some days later the ship was threading he was thus engaged the matter somehow the crooked ways of Magellan, and Ro- shaped itself in longer and more compre- nan, looking from the icerhung crests and hensive perspective. Who would miss him rocky sides of its desolate mountains to a year hence if he dropped out now from the forsaken, inane faces of the Terra del that scurrying throng beyond the window- Fuegans crouching, starved, and half ledge? naked on their littered shores in the sod- He laughed quietly over his solitary den July midwinter, silently thanked meal for answer. Providence and Philip Amend & Sons Well, for the matter of that, who would that his task lay elsewhere. miss him if he dropped into a crevasse in In due time the ship, with its epoch- the Andes for a time, and eventually making cargo, covered the northward dropped out again? coastwise journey to the open roadstead in The answer was not so ready. front of that little city well below the A week later Ronan was looking into equator, where Ronan's real responsibil- the open hold of a vessel tied up at the • ity began. Spanish-American docks, just north of He wakened one morning to find the the Battery. He was carefully observing ship anchored and rolling in the sicken- the handling of numerous huge packing- ing swell of waters that are ceaselessly detachable parts of •whipped and i a some locomotives, big for their day and arctic winds ; and that widening of his generation, but big beyond belief in South perspective which the senior Amend had America, whither they were billed. The Toretold, and which had been progressing locomotives, stripped as closely as need apace since threading the straits, was be, were already safely stowed in the ca- greatly furthered when he turned his pacious hold ; and Ronan was booked to eyes shoreward in the early morning go out on the same boat, to have one of light. them later give him the worst five minutes From among all the days, weeks, and of his life. months of lowering leaden sky that fol- No hint of that, however, appeared in lowed while the Pacific arched its saving the repose of the big. silent hulks of the waters high upon the winds over the cor- — RON AN 'S FIVE MINUTES. 399 dillera to the fertile eastern slopes and mountain city's brave array of gay flow- left the sterile coast untouched of rain, ers, willows, and 'eucalyptus. All things that first morning was reserved and set centered in the Alameda, and between its aside for Ronan's welcome. rows of sparse trees and brilliant blooms While he stood gazing, spellbound, over many things, at one time and another, the dry benches of sand and rock which had their vivid inception, from the first rise magnificently, terrace after terrace, lambent glow of a pair of liquid, dark from the wind-swept shore—over the first eyes to the hasty making and the early de- grand uplift of the giant mountains to the struction of dictators and dynasties. They vast table-lands beyond—the dim, gray were planning the dangerous ascent of the background of the nearer heights was torn higher mountains with the new engines, asunder by a vagrant cross-current of the while distant Illimani caught the last upper air, and the distant, ultimate, upper golden glow of the sun upon its lofty heads of the second cordillera stood forth crest of snow and held its evening glory £pr a moment, pink, white, and tipped high above the circle of the surrounding with ice, fire, and gold against the im- heights. maculate blue of the sky. " Two tunnels—" Ronan was saying, That one glimpse of the mysterious when Verrill interrupted with an apolo- upper world of the mountains was brief getic wave of the hand. " as it was beautiful. The gray cloud-pall Three, Ronan ; three in less than the closed its brilliant rift, and Ronan's prac- length of a decent rifle-shot—and twenty tical mind came back, with an unconscious more tunnels, for the matter of that. But sigh of regret, to the rolling and wallow- three where we bridge Rio de los Animas ing ship and the chortling and swaying de Perditas at the highest, and three times lighter-cranes, which were already drop- we cross the river within a mile's length ping their tackle-blocks into fhe hold in of track! search of cargo to be lifted. " The channel there is in the form of a " Well," said Ronan to the first man big letter ' S,' sunk flat six hundred and who came abreast of him on deck, " a fifty feet deep in the solid rock." " man might fail here, or up yonder " Yes," Ronan quietly agreed. " There with a sweep of his arm toward the van- are three tunnels there, but two of them ished upper world—" but he ought to are tangent and west of the curved win. And if he failed and died, he ought bridges. They need give us no special to be able to die well in a place like concern. It is the tunnel of nineteen de- that!" grees curvature, opening directly off of " Oh, a man can win here," said the the first of those bridges—the bridge that experienced one to whom he had spoken. spans the canon from sheer wall to sheer " it wall is He can win ; but costs a price. It —that troublesome. always exacts something which he has not " The chief engineer declares that he offered, and — yes, men have died up will not consent, now, to working the new there." engines under their own steam across A month saw Ronan thriving in full those two bridges. Nor will he consent charge of motive-power affairs. His three to have them taken over coupled close to big locomotives, like himself, were safely a lighter engine. I put in this whole located in the railroad headquarters town, afternoon with him up there, and there is one hundred miles back from the coast and only one other way to take them across. " seven thousand feet higher in the moun- There he is now, Verrill ! Call him tains. The engines had worked their way over, and let us have it out with our- up satisfactorily thus far. and now Ro- selves. You say you must have the en- nan and the general superintendent, Vers gines working higher up until these lower rill, faced the task of taking them safely bridges are strengthened." " " up id their final assignment in the fast- Ho, Merrill ! called Verrill, as the nesses of the higher cordillera. engineer approached in the moving throng Thus, an evening in August found them beyond the first line of eucalyptus. " Will silling amid the wordy babble of the Ala- you join us for a smoke?" meda, near the extravagant little fountain A minute later the three men were deep of onyx that dripped and gurgled in the in the problem that confronted them. 400 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. •' No, I cannot consent," Merritt was flat cars, each with its pair of mestizo saying with fixed determination. " It trainmen manning the brake-wheels for would be criminal. The weight of the emergency—dubiously, but chattering in water in the boiler and the thrust of the excitement at the novelty of the thing. driving-wheels upon the rails, are the two Two hundred feet below, the Rio Per- things that I cannot guarantee the result ditas writhed and roared and tumbled in of, in addition to the dead weight of the its narrow bed ; and, above, the sheer engine. walls rose straight, four hundred and fifty " And to put two engines upon the feet to the ragged lips of the narrow bridge at once is, of course, quite out of canon. the question. The factor of strength re- Just ahead lay the last of the two maining would be entirely too small, and straight tunnels, with its grade of one I will not consent. hundred and ninety-five feet to the mile, :i Mr. Ronan, you spoke to-day of a and at its farther end the track again plan. Can we not consider it to-mor- crossed the Perditas upon one hundred " row? and sixty feet of open, curving- bridge, Merritt had been long in the land of springing directly from one face of the vianana. and almost unconsciously he perpendicular wall ' of the gorge to the spoke at times in the language of to-mor- opposite straight wall, and disappearing row. in the curving tunnel of nineteen degrees " To-night," replied Ronan. " Now, curvature and heavy grade. if you will. ' There, at the nearer mouth of the " The longest bridge there is one hun- curving tunnel, Ronan, with his hand dred and sixty feet. We have among our resting upon the first oaken -roller-fender, stores a one-hundred-and-seventy-five- well bolted to the face of the rock, stood foot hawser that will tow the empty en- upon the lofty steel webwork of bridge gine, and a little more, without its tender. and listened to the steady roar and echo " If Mr. Verrill will agree, we will of the laboring engine's exhaust. couple three empty flat cars behind to He looked far down upon the writhing supply hand-brakes, hitch the rope to the waters, and realized to the fullest that he new engine's draw-bar, and send one of had hung Ins reputation, and much more, the older, lighter engines ahead to pull upon that single straining rope that was her over the bridges and through the creeping toward him in the opposite tun- short, curved tunnel. nel. Shortly the working engine pushed " We have also some strong oaken its front out of the wall of the canon at rollers, which can be fastened by their the farther end of the bridge, and crept brackets vertically upon the short wall of over to where he waited. the tunnel's curve at points that will fend The plodding engine passed him slow- the rope from chafing upon the sharp ly, and the slant of the great rope, strung rocks after the live engine enters the tun- taut from its draw-bar, sheared its way nel. Once the strain of the rope is set-, beautifully to place upon the oaken guard- tied upon the rollers, they will be held all roller on the lip of the tunnel. The the tighter and safer against the rock, in working engine disappeared when the addition to the firm fastenings we can ar- front of the new engine was just showing range for holding them in the beginning." in the opposite tunnel's mouth and all go- Point by point, they went over the plan ing well. until it was complete in each particular, Then the dead engine loomed big in the and the following day witnessed the dull, gray light upon the frail bridge, operation in the late afternoon. responding to the steady, careful draw of Eleven thousand feet above the level the rope. The great hulk of her was of the distant Pacific the powerful little moving slowly across the middle of the locomotive was noisily dragging its giant lofty steel s|5an, with Ronan tensely substitute through the half-twilight of watching the smooth play of the rope deep Perditas Canon. Between the en- upon its fender, when the one thing that gines the big hempen rope stretched taut he dreaded occurred. over the straight bridge. Behind the dead The steady exhaust of the working en- and empty new engine trailed three light gine, now well on its slow way through RONAN 'S FIVE MINUTES. 401 FENDER-ROLL AT THE EL'S MOUTH RIPPED WITH A CRASH, the short, curved tunnel, suddenly broke An instant more, and it was done. to a muffled roar, and Ronan straightened Another sag, and the rope caught* unci c and stood clutching the rock like a man the fender upon the rock. The spinning struck deep and hard. His eyes were engine-wheels ahead caught hard upon fixed upon the big. straining rope, which the hastily sanded rail and took fierce suddenly seemed but a mere thread among hold. The rope drew taut with a snap the massive cliffs. against the first backward movement of While he stared, helpless to avert it. the dead engine and cars, and the strain- there came the fatal sag that lie dreaded. ing fender-roll at the tunnel's mouth The great rope sank almost to the bottom ripped loose with a crash. end of"the fender-roll, snapped upward • Twice the rope sawed upward upon the perilously, and sank again. jagged rock of the tunnel's curve, and The forward engine was slipping in then it broke with a great whip-like snap the drip of the tunnel! The sanding of and snarl that whirred and echoed the rail had- been allowed to fail! through the narrow gorge. 2 R K ! : 4'02 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. The backward half of it came writhing of the rock where they had tumbled off, and hurtling out of the tunnel, and, whip- pell - mell. The runaway was hurtling ping around the dead engine, struck a down the crooked canon, scattering its slashing blow above the heads of the engine trappings at every curve and too frightened trainmen. close shelf of rock. " " Set them ! shouted Ronan, before With one bitter execration wrung from the first backward movement was fairly him upon all the sullen, ceaseless menace " begun. " Set the brakes ! of Perditas Canon, Ronan stood watch- But they fell upon their faces and lay ing the destroying flight of the train there cowering, while the engine and cars down the steep and crooked grade, with rapidly accelerated Verrill's words of their slow back- the morning ring- w a r d movement ing in his ears and quickly disap- " I have a trip peared in the up the canon to- straight tunnel. day. I'll make it a Only for an in- point to be up there stant Ronan had with my car and stood paralyzed at another engine the sight of the when you make the men's inactivity, pull over the last " and then he leaped bridge ! out recklessly upon Poor Verrill ! If the cross - ties of he met that awful the bridge and bolt of destruction raced madly after hurling itself down the runaway. upon him in the So quick was his canon — and he start, and so cum- must, if it stayed bersome the train's on the rails but lit- first movement, tle longer that, in the begin- At the first sharp ning, he gained up- turn of the track, on it. He strained a few hundred feet forward in a heart- away, Ronan saw breaking, final ef- the wild careening fort in the tunnel, of the engine sweep and succeeded in off the stack, bell, touching the rapid- and running-board ly receding pilot- against the over- beam of the engine. hanging point of But it drew stead- rock. As the first ily out from under flying fragments his clutching hands lifted into the air and thre w him he thought the end prone upon his face had come, and held in the darkness. his breath while he He gathered waited to see the himself quickly, entire fleeing mass and ran on again topple into the to the lower end gorge. of the tunnel. Just But she righted outside he found herself, and shot the frightened out of sight, with train - crew, nurs- the flats, still dan- DASHING BATTERED HULK AND FLYING FRAG- ing their bruises, cing MENTS BACK AND FORTH, FROM - on ahead. huddled in a bay WALL TO WALL. Again he saw her : ! : K()X AX'S FIVE MINUTES. 403 flash into view, lower down, and toss shiv- it, dashing battered hulk and flying ered fragments high in the air and into fragments back and forth, from wall the gorge, while from far, .deep down, to wall, until the boiling waters far lie- almost directly beneath him, as it seemed, low swallowed them.. the feeble whistle treble of Verrill's spe- And then, while Ronan stood fixed cial engine floated up chokingly, strug- and staring from his lofty lookout, the gling for notice above the roar of the treble of Verrill's engine whistle came up river and the destroying runaway. again, more clearly, and the little engine, So it must be ! None but the Maker drawing the superintendent's car, shoved of the mountains could avert it now. Ver- its bright brass-trimmed front end round r-ill and his crew were doomed the lower point of the shattered curve. Ronan's mind flashed back in that in- It crept to a stop in a shaft of gray stant to the morning in Amend's New light, just short of the six hundred and York office, and his own words, then so fifty feet of spread track which the lost lightly spoken, rang in his ears like the engine had left, 'in its final riot, as the knell of doom only trace of the disaster. " " I will plead guilty Lo thai! 1 That ended what Ronan unhesitat- And what of this? It had been of his ingly calls the worst five minutes of his "planning, his execution—all his, but the life. And, to those who are so fortunate stupefying slip in the tunnel, against as to find him very comfortably, even which he had cautioned, first and last. luxuriously, at home in one of the many He saw His own life going out in dis- little earthly paradises of the Andean honored memory as the price of the lives •Cities, he will sometimes tell, especially of the men who would, in a few moments, if it be a newcomer who is inclined to die down there below him, almost within despair of South America, how he once his sight. sent in his resignation within sixty days He saw in ,his mind's eye, all that and after his arrival there, and how Philip more, in those few crowded minutes, and Amend & Sons would neither accept, then, for the last time, he saw the big nor seriously consider it. engine flash into sight again, stripped A very good while ago. that was. and of its cars, somewhere in the three and Ronan is of the higher executive staff & half miles through which it had mi- now ; but he can repeat, without refer- raculously staggered. ence to his musty letter files, just what Even then, it. was only a -scant mile the senior Amend wrote him upon that straight away from him, but far below, trying occasion of his first time out. and speeding along^the mountainside in This is it a* shaft of daylight that penetrated the narrow barrel of the canon. That scheme of yours evidently had its He saw her rush at the point of 'the weak spot. But. we can better afford a man lifetime, drops down last distortion of the canon wall that who. once in a $20,060 the canon, trying to do something to-day, lay in the line of his sight. She struck than to pay an everlasting tribute to mpMana. it with a furious lunge that sent rails Don't be too liberal with your plea of and ties twisting and whirling in the " guilty." Your first one was all right, but and, suddenly, her head end went air, 1 consider it my turn to render a verdict in down close upon the dizzy brink of the your case, and it is this:. " " gorge. Not guilty—but, don't do it again." Stay She threw her shattered cab crashing with them, young man. in a mass of splintered rubbish ahead " " of her into the depths, and leaped after And," says Ronan, I stayed." — LIFE'S RAILROAD BY WILLIAM GORDON HAMMOND. Written for "The Railroad Man's Magazine." ID you ever take time to consider The lives we are-living each day D Are we helping ourselves, and our neighbors Along the unballasted way? Is- our road-lied the best we can make it? Are the ties arid the rails all set true? Are the fish-plates secure and well leveled ? Are we always marked up. "overdue?" Are our road-crossings all well protected? Do our signal-lamps ever burn bright? Are our head-lights trimmed neatly, and burning, To show us our way through the night? Is our hand always gripping the throttle?. Does our fireman keep -up enough steam? Is our engine the mogul to pull us Up the hill where our hopes brightly gleam? Are there many up-grades we must double, And down-grades that call for the air, And stretches-quite long and uneven, That fill us with wo and despair? Are the agents at all of our stations Reliable, careful, and true? When our train blows the whistle for signals, Are we safe when they let us go through? Oh. let us take time to consider The lives we are living each day. So the special by which we are trav'ling, Will keep on our own right of .way. And when our last trip is completed. And we step down all covered with grime, The operator will send in his OS... And say that we got there on' time. m |5S mm 404 Express Thieves, and How to Catch Them. .BY CHARLTON ANDREWS. is HONESTY not only the best pol#cy ; it is the only one that will keep you outside the penitentiary, if you happen to be in the employ of an express company. These companies have so surrounded themselves with safeguards that dishonesty has absolutely no terrors for them, whether it be within the ranks of the company's employees or without. The thief, be he large or small, employee or working highwayman, may flatter himself that his trail is covered beyond possibility of discovery; that he may settle down to enjoy his ill-gotten gains in peace and security. At the very moment when lie dismisses fear from his mind. fate, in the guise of a special officer of the express company, or perhaps the surety company that guaranteed his honesty, may step in and tap him on the shoulder. The long arm of the law reaches across plains and over mountains and rivers. Distance is no obstacle, and time no consideration. Sooner or later justice overtakes the trembling fugitive, and he passes into the domain of the zebra stripes. ' The Express Companies Have Made Secure the Enforcement of the Eighth Commandment Against Dishonest Employees and the Road-Agents Who Once Infested the Mountains. since .express companies them practically immune k VER from depreda- were organized, their treas- tions by thieves within or without. ure-boxes have had a pe- So thoroughly is it understood by all culiar fascination for the men that robbery of an express company dishonest. carries in its wake a retribution as inevita- Opportunities i6r steal- ble as death itself that in these days only ing money in transit, only by bandits those intel- not _ below the average of criminal on the lonely roads, but also by em- ligence will attempt it. Trains and stages ployees, of necessity left unwatched for are held up nowadays only by boys whose many hours at a time with large sums in brains have been addled by trashy novels their custody, have been so exceptionally and cigarettes. favorable that the express companies' rec- The last stage robbery in Idaho was ord of losses by theft is not approached in committed two years ago by two boys aged tb^e history of any other business. eighteen" and nineteen, who had been Rut the eternal struggle for the sur- brought up on a lonely farm, and who had vival of the fittest evolved, as it always never seen a train until they were taken does, unusual remedies to meet unusual aboard one by a "Wells, Fargo & Co. se- conditions. 'Hie express companies have cret-service agent four days after their fought for self-preservation with an en- foolish exploit, on' their way to trial and ergy and skill that have at last rendered certain conviction. •I"5 406 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Stealing by employees now occurs only The vicissitudes of this war, which last- in extremely rare cases. The last instance ed from the earliest days up to 1895, of the kind occurred last August. An make up one of the most picturesque chap- agent of the Southern Express Company ters in the' history of the United States.. " had read newspaper accounts of the long It is also a notable example of how in- fight against extradition from Canada dividual enterprise " may be crushed by_ conducted by Greene and Gaynor, until corporate aggression. he became filled with the idea that he per- Some idea of the magnitude of this war ceived a legal device by which he could upon the highwayman may be gathered avoid extradition for jobbery. Accord- from the fact that in the 'fourteen years ingly he began to lay plans to test his from 1870 to 1885 Wells, Fargo & Co. theory. were robbed by highwaymen of four hun- He applied for leave of absence, an- dred and fifteen thousand three hundred nounced that he was going to Canada on and twelve dollars. Two guards, four a fishing-trip, obtained passes for the drivcrs, and four passengers were killed journey, and finally started ostentatiously in these robberies, and six guards, four for Montreal, helping himself to twenty- drivers, and two passengers were severely one thousand dollars from an express wounded. shipment just before he left. He had There were "three hundred and thirteen no difficulty in getting to Canada—and stage robberies, thirty-four attempted even less in getting back home again in stage robberies, four train robberies, four custody of a detective. It only required attempted tram robberies, and three hun- seven days to demonstrate that his theory dred" and forty burglaries of express of- about the weakness of the. extradition fices. Also seven horses were killed and treaty was all wrong. thirteen were stolen. On the other side of the ledger, five Coping with the Highwayman. highwaymen were killed in the act of rob- bing the express, eleven were killed while The story of the struggle of the ex- resisting arrest, and seven were lynched press companies to protect their treasure- for the crime of robbing the stages. The boxes is fascinating. There were two survivors, two hundred and forty in num- widely different classes of enemies to meet ber, were sent to prison for long terms — those on the outside and those on the at hard labor. Not one of the highway- inside. The outside enemy, the highway- men escaped -punishment. Much of their man, offered the earliest and the most dif- booty was recovered. ficult problem because the express compa- nies were young, and therefore poor in re- Costly Rewards. sources and experience, and also because the country was new and the machinery To even the score in such conclusive of the law was not yet in good running style cost Wells, Fargo & Co., in rewards, order. percentages on treasure recovered, salaries In the days following the discovery of of guards and detectives, and. expenses of gold in California, Montana, and Colo- arrests and convictions, the tidy sum of rado, highway robbery was an easy, prof- $512,414. itable, and comparatively safe vocation, The plan of campaign was neither com- rather extensively followed by persons plicated nor mysterious. When a stage with conscientious scruples against work. was held up, headquarters in San Fran- When the vengeance of the vigilantes cisco would be notified as promptly as made promiscuous murder and robbery possible, and an operator from the secret- somewhat dangerous, the holding up of service department would be sent to the stages by masked men became more and scene of the robbery. Often he had mere- more common until Wells, Fargo & Co., ly to lead a posse into the mountains on who practically monopolized the express a "man - hunt which quickly resulted in business in the Far West, were forced to the killing or capture of the highwaymen. take the lead in a war of extermination The celerity with which these hunts were upon highwaymen as the alternative to conducted is manifest in the court records bankruptcy. of California, Nevada, and Arizona. For EXPRESS THIEVES, AND HOW TO CATCH THEM. 407 example, George Adams robbed the stage this point that they stopped the stage of vrom San Luis Obispo to Soledad, Cali- their own accord and held up their hands fornia, on the 3d of December, 1879. whenever they approached the place. Twelve days later he was delivered at the After waiting a few moments, if no one California state prison to begin a long came for the treasure-box, they picked up sentence for the crime. the lines and drove on. Still quicker time was made -in the case Black Bart was always well dressed, of- James Casey, who found himself in always polite, and**he never fired a shot. state prison six days after he held up the Frequently he was so grateful for the stage from Grayson to Bantas on the 23d contents of the treasure-box that he of October, 1884. The usual time, how- dropped into poetry, which he signed ever that elapsed between the hold-up and " P.O.S," and left pinned to a tree or laid the Journey to the penitentiary ranged upon a rock at the scene of his exploit. from three weeks to three months, depend- The secret-service men were frantic, for ing on the time the courts required to they could get no clue to the industrious reach the case. poet-highwayman. But the pitcher went to. the well once THe Life of a Stage Robber. too often. At dusk on the evening of No- vember 3, 1S83, as the stage from Sonora In a number of instances the high- to Milton. California, reached the spot waymen eluded pursuit long enough to where it had been held up on July 26, hold up a second stage before their cap- 1S75, the familiar black figure stepped ture; Twelve men were active enough out from behind the same old rock,, and, to commit three highway robberies before in its accustomed style, drew a bead on their inevitable fate overtook them, four Old Bill Moore, the driver, with the usual held up four stages each* another was courteous request to hand down the treas- killed in the act of holding up his fifth ure : box. stage, and still another looted six express Once Too Often. treasure-boxes before the secret service gathered him in. Now, Old Bill* had been held up three Richard Perkins held up a stage from times before by the selfsame figure in the Los Angeles to Bakersfield on the 4th of black mask, and he felt that his forbear- December, 1 Sv 5, was promptly captured. ance was being imposed upon. » and received an eight-year sentence thirty- It made him mad clear through. How- fivt days after the crime. Not' being sat- ever, there was nothing to do but obey isfied with this experience, he held up an- orders, for the gentlemanly highwayman other stage within sixty .days after com- certainly had the drop on him. He kicked pleting his sentence. He succeeded in re- the box to the ground and received a cor- peating the performance six times more dial " thank you," coupled with permis- within the ensuing six months. Then sion to drive on. Wells, Eargo & Co.'s secret service got Old Bill went on his way until he liim and had nun .sent up for life. reached the bottom of a little valley a quarter of a mile beyond, and out of sight "Black Bait," the Champion Road-Agent. of the scene of the robbery. Then he did ^something which was in direct violation The record in highway robbery was set uf all the ethics of highway robbery. He by " Black Bart," whose right name was stopped, wrapped the lines around the Charles E. Bolton. Choosing the vicinity handle of the brakes, crept back up the of Yreka, California, as his favorite field road until he was within close range oi of operations, he held up Wells, Eargo & the highwayman, who was still wrestling Co's stages no fewer than twenty-seven with the lock on the treasure-box, and cut times in the eight years, three months, and loose at him with his revolver.' With seven days that elapsed between his first bullets kicking up the dust all around him exploit and his capture. ( )ne stage he held and singing about Ins ears, the highway-: up four times at the same spot. man departed with such extreme precipi- Californians declared that the drivers tation that he left one of his cuffs behind. got so accustomed to being held up at On the cuff was a Chinese laundry mark. 408 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. The laundry mark being identified, en- In the first six months of 1893 there abled Secret-Service Officers J.. B. Hume were twenty-one train robberies, the ex- and J. N. Thacker, of the express com- press-car being the object of attack in pany, accompanied by a couple of police- each instance. In the latter half of the men, a week after the robbery to enter year this form of robbery was even more the room of a quiet, well-bred gentleman frequent. The express companies were who lived within a block of Wells, 'Fargo in desperation and so were the railroad & Co.'s office in San Francisco with drawrr' companies. revolvers and request him to hold up his Meetings of the heads of both classes hands. of corporations were held to devise means The quiet gentleman readily admitted to stop the robberies, the matter was taken that he was Black Bart, the " P.O.S," and up in Congress, and widely discussed in that he had committed the twenty-seven the press. robberies. _ Guards on express-cars were doubled, He admitted other things which made and inventors everywhere busied them- Old Bill Moore madder than he was on selves with models of bullet-proof cars the evening of his last hold-up ; for he which nobody wanted, because bullet- declared that he had often held up stages proof cars could withstand dynamite no with an empty gun, and that on his last better than any other kind. adventure be had compelled Old Bill to deliver the treasure - box by pointing a Best Prices for Dead Robbers. fence picket at him. In the gathering dusk the picket looked enough like a rifle There was only one thing to do, and to serve the purpose. the expr.es's companies did it. They in- Black Bart declared that he had a hor- structed their secret-service departments ror of shedding blood, that he had never to bring in every man who took part in an hurt any one in his life, and that he would express robbery, regardless of cost, and have given up his profitable career of rob- to do it with a swiftness which would bery rather than fire a shot at a human make the industry of express robbing un- being. popular. Near the Office. The manner in which the express com- panies preferred to have their train rob- He had lived for years within a block bers brought in was indicated by the of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s office, had often standing offer of the American Express shipped booty stolen from the express Company of five hundred dollars a head company over its own lines to his home for dead express robbers and only one in San Francisco, and was in the habit of hundred dollars a head for live ones. This taking his meals at a restaurant much offer applied only to the common run of frequented by San Francisco detectives. train robbers. In aggravated cases the He was well educated, well informed on reward was greatly increased. current topics, a good talker, and even When the Dal ton gang, which in less after his arrest exhibited genuine wit. than two years robbed the express com- He had friends of the highest respecta- panies of three hundred thousand dollars bility, was cultured in manner, neat in and killed four men in doing it, was wiped dress, never swore, and never gambled. out at Coffeyville, Kansas, on the 5th of All this was of no avail, for he met the October, 1892, the express companies sent same fate that was so relentlessly meted six thousand dollars by telegraph within out to the coarser class of highwaymen twenty-four hours after the shooting to who were recruited chiefly from laborers, the men who did it. This was supple- miners, farm-hands, and cowboys. mented by an additional ten thousand dol- After the capture of Black Bart, the lars by mail a few days later. express companies had comparatively lit- C. S. Cox, the Wells, Fargo & Co. agent tle trouble with highwaymen until the who fired the first shot and brought down hard times of 1893, when there was a re- his man, was presented with a fine gold crudescence of the crime, more particu- watch and chain with an inscription com- larly in the region south and west of the membrating his deed, and Jim Spears, the Missouri River. liveryman who killed three of the gang EXPRESS THIEVES, AND HOW TO CATCH THEM 409 as fast as he could work the lever of his dishonest he is safeguarded in a way repeating rifle, was given a gold medal which has proved wondrously effective. in addition to his share of the money re- Every express-messenger must furnish a ward. bond from the American Surety Company Quite Remunerative. "of two thousand five hundred dollars to five thousand dollars, according to the In short, the hunting of express rob- importance of his run, and every agent is bers was' made so remunerative that very also placed under bonds ranging from five soon there were no robbers left to hundred dollars to five thousand dollars. hunt ; and for the last dozen years the This is not done because the express com- express companies have enjoyed an al- pany expects the amount of the bond to most complete immunity from stage and recoup them in case of loss, but because train robberies that has left them free to the American Surety Company has a de- perfect a system of protection from dis.- tective staff which is not surpassed in the honest employees. world. The prevention of theft by employees Capture Is Certain. presents a totally different problem from that afforded by highwaymen, and one If an employee steals anything from distinctly easier of solution. The salaried an express company his capture and pun- employee is higher up in the social scale ishment are as certain as anything human than the highwayman. Therefore when he can be. If the sum stolen is less than the goes wrong he is* easier to trace, and fam- amount of his bond, the surety company ily ties and old associations exert a far is notified, and the express company gives more powerful influence in bringing him itself no further concern in the matter. back sooner or later to the scene of his If the amount of the theft exceeds the crime, where he may be apprehended at a amount of the bond, the express company minimum of trouble and expense. detectives cooperate with the operators of The system of checking used in the the surety company in running down the express business is so elaborate that the culprit. disappearance of a valuable package is at Some curious notions are extant regard- once detected. To begin with, when a ing what takes place when an express money package comes into an express of- company is robbed. The popular idea is fice, it is receipted for and then sealed that if a messenger or other employee of by two clerks. Every man into whose cus- "an express company were to decamp with tody the package is given must sign a re- a large sum there would be agitated con- ceipt for it. ferences of officials, frantic messages, and wild hurryings to and fro of an army of Down to a Minimum. detectives who would sacrifice appetites and sleep in running down all sorts of If it goes from one principal point to impossible clues. another, it is placed in a safe with a com- The culprit always shares this belief, bination, lock. The messenger who has and acts upon it. He gets as far as pos- charge of the safe on the train never sible from the scene of his crime in the knows the combination, and therefore shortest practicable time, and for several could not open it without blowing it open. months goes into hiding that is often very The only money packages he handles are good. those destined to local points on his run, so even if he were inclined to be dishonest Impossible to Get Away. his opportunities are circumscribed. The chances given to a dishonest man What really happens in a case of rob- to steal are reduced to a minimum by a bery is as far as possible from the popular civil-service system by which all men in idea. If an express-messenger en route positions of trust are tried out pretty from New York to Chicago were to dis- thoroughly in subordinate places before appear from his train with fifty thousand they are permitted to handle money. dollars to-morrow the trainmen would After a man has been advanced to a notify his division superintendent as soon place in which he may be tempted to be as he were missed. When the absent mes- : 410 THE RAILROAD M^N'S MAGAZINE. senger's run was checked up at Chicago tice is singularly like that of a rabbit the exact amount of his shortage would be when flushed by the hunter. At first he known, and reported by wire with such scurries wildly away, then circles back to- other facts as were available to the general ward his starting-point until he is within manager in New York. easy gunshot. The general manager would order the A few examples may serve to show, message to be sent to the surety company perliaps, that the work of a detective is and dismiss the matter from its mind. more like the vigil of a cat for a. mouse The president of the surety company than like the Sherlock Holmes of fiction, would give the message a casual glance, who racks his brains over a partly burned send it up to the secret-service department, match to determine whether it was struck and apparently forget all about it. Such by a right-handed' or a left-handed man an event would be considered merely a and finally reaches the sagacious conclu- routine incident to be ground through sion that it was used by some one who the proper department, and that is all. wanted a light. When the matter was referred to the secret - service department, a description Without an Effort. of the man wanted would be sent to each of the twenty branch offices scattered at F. P. Beers,'. Wells, Fargo & Go.'s advantageous points throughout the coun- agent at Campbell Hall, New York, six try, with instructions to take him in if years ago took a shipment of four hundred found. If on investigation no really sat- dollars and disappeared. The case was isfactory clue were discovered, nothing duly reported and promptly forgotten by further would be done. All the operators every one but the operators in the secret- in the detective department would tuck service department of the surety compa- the description of the man wanted and his ny. Beers had never had a photograph crime away in a convenient corner of their taken, so the operators had only his de- brains and go about their business. Ex- scription to work on. Eight months after ecutive officers of corporations are seldom Beers disappeared, W. L. Johnson, one given to spending money unless they have of the surety company's operators, noticed a pretty definite idea that something is to a man on Broadway who had evidently be gained by the expenditure ; and cer- just arrived from the country, judging tainly the sending of detectives on wild- by the way he was staring about him. A goose chases is an unpromising invest- closer look revealed a face and figure ment. that tallied with the missing Beers. John6 Gets Within Gunshot. son stepped up behind the stranger, struck him a resounding slap between the shoul- Nobody does any worrying but the ders, and exclaimed " fugitive. Neither the express company Why, hallo, Beers ! Why did you nor the surety company is in any hurry take that four hundred dollars and leave to get the culprit back. In the first place, your wife at 'Campbell Hall?" haste is unnecessary : and in the second The man was so startled by the slap^ place, it is undesirable. The' moral ef- and the question that before he could re- fect of an arrest four years after a rob- gain his self-possession he blurted out: " bery is considered much greater than if 1 had to." made four weeks afterward. Then he realized that he had betrayed But perhaps the consideraton of great- himself, and followed Johnson shame- est weight is that in ninety-nine cases out facedly enough to meet his fate. of a hundred the fugitive will practically George Brooks, alias Hamilton McAai- arrest himself if given time enough. That ley, formerly a telegraph - operator, was is, he will either come back where he is Adams Express agent at West Hickory. certain to be seen by the operators.- or Pennsylvania, in .1888. His knowledge else he will betray his hiding-place by of telegraphy and the express business some clue so unmistakable that his arrest enabled him to evolve the most ingenious requires no effort beyond the journey to scheme in the history of the company for get him. robbing the safe of one of the messen- The conduct of the fugitive from jus- gers. : EXPRESS THIEVES, AND HOW TO CATCH THEM. 411 Taking a telegraph - instrument, he Every cent of his booty was recovered, and went to a lonely spot a mile outside of twenty-four days later he was sentenced Templeton, Pennsylvania, sent a message to three years in the penitentiary. purporting to be from George Bingham, the division superintendent of the express To the Antipodes. company, ordering Thomas Bingham, the messenger he knew would be on the run Paul Hume, a Wells, Fargo & Co. mes- from Oil City to Pittsburgh that day,, senger running between Sacramento and to turn his run over to Hamilton McAu- Redding, California, absconded with ley at Templeton and return to Parker three thousand dollars on the 7th of to' await orders. Then he cut the wires so March, 1893. He managed to get on the message could not be verified. Then board a vessel bound for Honolulu, and McAuley went to the station and waited after wandering aimlessly about from for Bingham's train. port to port in the Pacific, he reached As everything seemed regular enough, Brisbane, Australia, in September of the Bingham turned his run over to McAu- same year. Here he imagined himself ley in accordance with the fake telegram. safe. But in less than a month a man McAuley checked Bingham out in proper stepped .up to him in the street and said " style and went on to Pittsburgh. There Well, Hume, I guess it's about time he checked out, and while on the way for you to go home and take your medi- from the depot to the express office took cine." a package containing ten thousand dollars T. C. Valentine, an express agent at -and disappeared. Elgin, Illinois, absconded eight years ago with a shipment of ten thousand dollars. Finally Caught. He succeeded in getting to Bluefields, where, as he knew Nicaragua had no ex- He succeeded in getting to Brazil. Aft- tradition treaty with the United States, er the lapse of four years he concluded he thought he would be safe. that, as he had never seen any indications In six weeks an operator for the Amer- of pursuit, he might safely venture back ican Surety Company who had followed home. He was getting homesick, and, be- the trail he had so plainly left, found him sides, he was nearly out of money. He on a coffee-plantation in the interior. The returned to Oil City under the name of operator talked the matter over with Val- Clyde P. Hamilton, and was arrested on entine, saying that while he could not be the 1st of May, 1892, within twenty-four taken back against his will, the best thing hours after his arrival, tried, convicted, for him to do was to return, take his pun- and sentenced to four years. ishment, and begin, life anew. He had been recognized by an operator of the express company when he landed Getting Him Back. in .New York, followed to Oil City to save "delay in extradition, and arrested. The operator pointed out the obvious George T. Bagley, a United States Ex- facts that the country was extremely un- press messenger, running west- out of Chi- healthful, and- that even if he escaped the cago on the Rock Island on the 18th of fever he was among strangers who could November, 1892, took a shipment of one not speak his language, that his money "hundred thousand dollars, and left his car would soon be gone, and that he would at Davenport, Iowa. The trainmen im- have no means of getting more, that he mediately notified the division superin- was far away from friends, and that he tendent of the express company. Just had condemned himself to a worse fate eight hours after his crime had been com- than that which awaited him at home. mitted, Bagley stepped off a train in Chi- Valentine agreed to go back with the cago into the arms of an express company operator. They returned to the coast, and detective who was waiting for him. The while waiting for a steamer to take them detective had rightly concluded that Bag- home Valentine was stricken with yellow ley would hurry back to Chicago as af- fever. No one would go near him but the fording the best place for concealment operator who had run him down. He pending a chance to leave- the country. nursed Valentine tenderly till he died. 37-YEAR-OLD PASS STILL GOOD The Remarkable History of an Old-Time " Free Ticket " Issued by the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, and the Men Who Were Connected with It. BY C. A. BEEHN. IX Marshall. Texas, is an. old-time rail- partment. Good one way only. Not good road pass, which may prove interesting unless used within days from date. on account of its age and because the men And not transferable." connected with it are' now prominent in It is signed by John F. Dickson, general business in different parts of the United superintendent, and countersigned by W. H. States. Newman, G. F. and ~P. A. Its number is This old pass is the property of J. E. 514. Powell, familiarly called " Al " Powell, who Strange to say that, though this old pass is conductor on the Louisiana division of is nearly thirty-seven years old. all of the the Texas and Pacific Railroad. Mr. Pow- men whose names appear on it are. still ell has had it in his possession for twenty living and are prominent business men in years. Me values it highly. Through his various parts of the country. kindness, a facsimile is reproduced here. Floyd Shock, to whom the pass was is- When Mr. Powell first saw the pass, he- sued, was then a traveling man, and is now expressed a wish to own it. It was then in the Central National Bank, St. Louis, Mis- several years old. About a year later, when souri. the owner was traveling on the train upon John F. Dickson, who signed the pass as which Mr. 'Powell was conductor, he said: general superintendent of the Texas and "Al. you want this old pass very badly, Pacific Railroad, was the founder of the " don't you ? and when Mr. Powell expressed Marshall Car Wheel & Foundry Company, a wish for it, it was given to him as a and is now the owner of the Dickson foun- souvenir. It is in good condition yet. dry at Houston, Texas. The pass was printed in Marshall, in the W. H. Newman, who countersigned the Iron Age office, about 1S71 or 1872, by W. B. pass as general freight and passenger agent Clark, who then ran the print-shop on the of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, is the public square. The Texas and Pacific Rail- same Bill Newman " widely known in the . road issued it August 23, 1873', to Floyd railroad world, who. for many years past. Shock, ji-ho at that time represented Van was president of the New York Central Beek, Beuard & Tinsley, printers, of St. "lines, and is now a director in many of the Louis, and reads " From Marshall to Shreve- largest railroads in the United States, port. Account of the Transportation De- Mr. Newman, who began his railroad ca- - reer in Marshall, has gone up as high as any one could in his profes- sion, and is recognized as one of the greatest railroad men in the coun- &stZ.,- w (3tfo-c& %m try, still makes occasion-' From al trips to Marshall. To i6Sa^Ai^ The pass was never used, and is still good, because it bears no time limit. It is stated that the reason it was not used was because shortly after it was issued yel- low fever broke out in the neighborhood of ISSUED IN 1873, —AND STILL GOOD Marshall. 412 Observations of a Country Station-Agent. BY J. E. SMITH. No. 23.—Hiram Benson Lightful, the Cross- ing-Watchman of Pippenville—His Fancy Job, His Wonderful Whiskers Which Won Him a Wife, and His System Which He Alone Defied. soon as a village reaches a population of live hun- dred, it organizes into a town or city, elects a board of trustees, and puts on a few "airs. It gets a town marshal, with a star sometimes cut from the bottom of a tomato can. It gets a debt that will run into the next genera- It will now and then succeed in com- tion, and then proceeds to enact a few promising the matter with the town coun- ordinances for the regulation of its in- cil by installing an electric signal at the ternal affairs. crossing. Usually, the curfew ordinance comes This is a mechanical arrangement that first, then a pig ordinance, then a pedler gives warning of the approach of a train ordinance, then an ordinance compelling by monotonously tapping a gong, thereby the railroad to place a flagman at Main notifying all concerned lo " look out." Street where the railroad crosses. - The gong outfit is not always satis- There is nothing so satisfying to the factory to the town trustees, as it spends board of trustees as the flagman ordi- no money and adds nothing to the popu- nance. It gives the town the same metro- lation. The human crossing-watchman politan aspect that the bonded indebted- counts one, and his pay goes to the mer- - ness does. It advertises. . chants. When the passenger-train pulls over, Crossing-watchmen divide into two and the passengers see a flagman at the general groups. cussing, and get a fleeting glimpse of the One is provided with a "dog-house," Odd Fellows' Block up the street on the or " shanty." His working equipment corner, they cast up the place as of some consists of a lantern and a white flag. importance. When a train approaches, he sallies forth This is gratifying to the local pride, to the middle of the street and personally and doesn't cost the town a cent. stops the travel outfits that are about to A railroad does not always enthuse over cross the track until after the train the crossing-watchman proposition. passes. Series began (a the July. 1907. Railroad Man's Magazine- Single Copies, 10 centa. 413 — 414 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. The other kind is more aristocratic. He carries a white flag in one hand, He lives in an elevated house, and, by with which to wave the street traffic to a a simple device, raises and lowers an arm halt when a train approaches. or gate across the street without the neces- His whiskers are of Time's kindly- sity of going outside. He is the city frost, discolored by tobacco-juice. A man watchman. with amber-stained whiskers- will tell you In all the small town and country cross- all—any time—anywhere—and glad of ings only- the first-named are employed. the opportunity. Quite naturally, then, when the faith- I sat down in Hiram's " shanty." I do ful chronicler of the thoughts and deeds not know why such opprobrious names are of railroaders seeks to write of a job with given for a watchman's house as " shan- an active-personality connection, he tags ty " and " dog-house." the watchman who marches out into the As a rule, thoy are nice, neat, tidy little middle of the street, with motion, gesture, houses, with windows all around, a good and loud command, who seizes the reins chair, and one of those heavy little iron of high-stepping horses, who lays heroic stoves that radiates warmth to every nook. hands on some aged venturer, and who They are observatories, and they deserve violently .yanks some reckless youth from a more classic and dignified name. threatened danger. ^ The walls were decorated with dazzling That's a real crossing-watclnnan. pictures of beauties, near beauties, and The man who, from an elevated loft, semibeauties lifted from the wide selec- taps his bell a few tinjfs, then merely tion of pictorial advertising. Three cal- raises and lowers an arm over the street, endars stood out in bold reminder of the has no personal contact with the passing passing days, A crossing - watchman's throng. house always contains calendars. No one " That kind of a job's a snap." said knows why. The watchman is on the job Hiram Benson Lightful, when I men- every day of the year, and why he should tioned the cit^crossing- watchman. "They have occasion to mark the clays or the don't have to stand right out in the street months, since they are all exactly alike in all kinds of weather, and take a hand to Jlim, no one knows. in it, and git cussed and bumped around- But the beauties ! They were eying me and run over like we do. Any old woman with coquettish squints or open-eved inno- 1 can do. what they do. ' lie added contempt- cence from every angle. uously. " Where did you find tins collection t of I have wanted to write of Hiram and angel-faces, Hiram?" I asked. Hiram's job for some time. " Whenever I run acrost a purty one. If all the crossing-watchmen in the I git it and tack it up inside," he replied. land were mustered into one battalion, it " Them is some of the finest that ever would far outnumber the old Continental peeped out. All us crossin'-watchmens army. So they deserve a passing line in is old uns—and broken down. Maybe railroad literature. you never tho't of that. Everything else Hiram may lie pardoned for speaking gits old and stale to an old man except disrespectfully of the city watchman. except the face of a purty woman. When Perhaps the city watchman could put one I git so 1 don't care to look on them any over on Hiram if he were asked. We longer, I reckon there'll be some doin's might start something—say, the outside for the undertaker." " vs. the inside crossing-watchman ; but far How long have you been with the be it. company, Hiram?" I asked. " " Leave it to statesmen, clergymen, doc- Let's see," said he. What year was tors, and explorers to view one another it old Horace Greeley run for President? with distrust, ridicule, and contempt. If In 1872, wasn't it? I went to work on Hiram has a little of the same for his co- the section the year before that : makes workers, it is only a human quality. No thirty-nine years, doesn't it? Guess that's discredit to Hiram for it. it. Thirty-nine years." " Hiram is watchman at the Main Street Didn't they ever offer you anything crossing at Pippenville every day from six better, Hiram? Didn't they ever want to " to six. boost you ? ; OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRY STATION-AGENT. 415 "Me! Why. ding my hide! I didn't " I've always heard," I said mildly, " give 'em a chanct. Whenever they crowd- that the engineer is the man who is the ed me eny, I'd slow up. And I kept a git- ' High Ike ' on the life-saving stunt, and tin' slower an' slower until they put me that next to him is the train-despatcher. to watchin' this crossing." and next the telegraph operator, then the "we don't git no credit for savin' human life Hiram bit off a chunk of Dog - Leg section foreman, so that puts you, Hiram, twist. It inspired a new thought. along about •number five on the "list." " " Guess this is about where I belong. Section foreman ! Telegraph oper- " " I'll tell you, more of 'em don't go up eny ators ! exclaimed Hiram. Huh ! How they're too dumed lazy and careless, same, do they git in on it? " Hiram spat con- as me. Here comes the switch engine. temptuously into the corner of the shanty. Wait till I stop that mule team. " I ain't never seen eny section foreman " Watchin' a cros'sin' is one of the most or telegraph operators wearing eny of responsible jobs on a railroad," said Hi- them Carnegie -breastplates." ram, when the engine had gone by. " There isn't any such thing as the In- " Is it?" I replied. " I never thought ternational Union or the Amalgamated of it in that way." Association of Crossing-Watchmen, is " " Course you never hev. Nobody does. there, Hiram? If it wasn't for watch'n' 'em all the time, "They ain't no order of us," replied they'd be a lot of people killed on these Hiram, " 'cause they's no way we can git crossings. We don't git no credit for together. If we was organized, and c'u'd savin' human life, but there's thousands all go out, we'd tie up the road tighter'n of people who ort to thank us to-day that Mixing they air still on earth." " I can't figure that out," I said. 416 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " Can't, eli? Why, strike was ' on, a it's 'cause the law'd picketin' ! Do you git after them right think e n y b o d y a w a y. Crossing- would want to take watchmen is all this job and scab fixed by statutes. while 1 was doin' They've got to be. picket duty right and every day, too. ag'in' him? An' If they's eny miss, then the company the railroads 'ul git 'ud git soaked every soaked! You bet! day they wasn't a We'd have 'em, all watchman on duty. right. The law B e,f o r e a week, don't make eny ex- they'd be dinged ceptions on account glad to _ -arbitrate, of strikes. The rail' an' we'd all git a roads 'ud lie liable raise." every day until we H iram chuckled returned to work. as if the whole cam-, Ain't eny others got paign had been un- that kind of a holt dertaken and trium- on 'em." phantly pulled off. "But, Hiram." "Ain't everybody 1 protested, " they can watch a cross- wouldn't be over ing, and do it as it/ an hour and a half ort to be done," finding one to i some HE COMBED HIS WHISKERS INTO A FLOWING H ram continued. " take . your place. LUXURIANCE. I've been right There are hundreds here six years, and of old men everywhere who would jump I got a system, They wasn't eny_ system at the chau'ee of a life tenancy in this neat when 1 come here, It was two or three little bunga' and at the easy work you years before I got the people educated to have to do." my system. "That's what you say!" exclaimed " You can't watch a crossing by just Hiram with warmth, and bearing heavy posin'. You can't stand out there like one on the " you." " They can't git 'em, I- of them mile-posts.. You got to move tell you. Every time they s a vacant about, and see what's comin'. and calcu- crossing it takes a w eek or ten* days to find late velocities, and then motion 'em over some one that'll take it. They can't git or motion 'em to stop. 'em! Ain't easy work, either. You're " My idea was to teach 'em all to de- like everybody else that works on" a rail- pend on me— to watch trie. Not to rub- road. All the other fellows got a nice, ber up and down the tracks theirselves, easy job. I've heard 'em all talk. Never but to keep their eyes glued on me, and I heard one yet but what thinks he's got the give 'em the sign what to do. " worst of it, and everybody else's got it 1 know about all the teams, and about better 'an him. everybody that drives acrost. And they " When eny one tells me watch in' a all know me. They've learnt my system, Street-crossing is a nice easy job, I ask and they watch for me to motion 'em. "em f I id you ever do any of it? They say They all depend on me. " no. they haven't, but they seen it done. At first they didn't pay eny attention Then 1 tell 'em it's always easy secin' to me, but when I'd go up and grab the things done, and that they got the wrong horses by the bridle, they begin to take answer, and to guess again. No, sir! notice, and soon they was understandin' They couldn't fill our places. that here's a man that knows his busi- " You see, if we'd go on a strike, I'd ness." picket. I'd march up and down and The switch-en,, ne returned with a around the crossra' every dav while the string of cars, and Hiram sauntered out OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRY STATION-AGENT. 417 with his white flag to stand guard until "That's Widow Doud," said Hiram, it passed. with a sort of sheepish apology. " She He returned _to the shanty with a kind o 1 depends on me. She don't like to sprightly step. He took off his old cap go over unless I tell her it's all right. It's and substituted a respectable derby. Then part of the system I've built up of cross- he stood before an unframed fragment of in'-watchin'." a mirror tacked against the wall and Hiram took off his spff hat and hung combed his whiskers into a flowing ele- it up on the hook very carefully. Then gance. he put on his old cap, and eyed himself Then ^Re strode briskly forth to the in the glass critically. middle of the street again, and assumed, " You wouldn't take me to be sixty- as I thought, a rather heroic pose. five, would you?" he asked rather ab- There was no train in sight, but I heard ruptly. the rattle of an approaching vehicle. " Why, Hiram," I replied warmly, It came to a stop at a safe distance " you don't look a day over fifty. This from the track. kind of a life agrees with you. You are The driver was a red-cheeked woman of good for an even hundred on this job." " " fifty-five or sixty, and driving a cart Maybe so," said Hiram ; but some- loaded with the products of a truck-patch. times I git an idee I'll quit it. I git to Hiram craned his neck in both direc- thinkin'— That Doud woman ain't bad- " tions up and down the track ; then, step- lookin', is she? " ping nimbly aside, called out : All right, This sudden and seemingly irrelevant " Mrs. Doud ; come acrost ! turn of the conversation took me by sur- "Thank you, Hiram,'' said the wom- prise. " an, smiling expansively. Why, no, Hiram," I acknowledged. Hiram lifted his stiff hat and bowed a " She's a little broad across, but she has Chesterfieldian acknowledgment. a pleasant face." " That was very neatly done, Hiram," " She's a widow, and site owns a thirty- said I, when he returned to the shanty. acre truck-patch down on the river bot- " Still, I don't see why you should have tom. They tell 'me she makes three or been so overcautious." four hundred dollars a year on it, and J.Norman Lmwd' ' ' CHASED ME ROUND THAT VEGETABLE WAGON THREE TIMES.' 3 RR : ! : 418 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. does all the work herself. That's a nice " Ten years the tenth of last March. business—truck-patchin', when you re- This crossin' job ain't so bad for a single duce it to a system." man: I've salted away over three hundred Hiram parted his whiskers in the mid- dollars since I've been here'. Groceries dle, and gave them an artistic brush on air all-fired high now, ain't they? Do both sides. Then he went on you think two could live about as cheap " " I wasn't on this job more'n a week as one can board? but who should drive up but Mrs. Doud. Hiram didn't wait for an answer to They hadn't been eny system in runnin' that one, but made haste to add this crossin' before then, so she didn't pay " What you're speakin' about is right. eny attention to me, even when I made It's hard work to make people come to a motion for her to stop. your way of doin' things. They's a fellow " The local was just about to back out that drives a mule team for the rubber from the freight - house track, but she works that don't want to pay eny atten- never stopped ; so I just steps up in front tion to me. Some day he'll git his all of her old gray horse, grabbed the reins, right and brought it to a standstill all of a " Then they's a young fellow comes suddent. along here every once in a while in a big " The woman had just gotten up out of red automobile. He's a smart Aleck. If her seat, and was kind o' leanin' over to No. 21 would just toss him over into the see for herself if eny train was comin'. next county some day, they wouldn't be When I yanked the horse, she just went eny regrets from yours truly. on out over the dashboard and lit on her " They's some drivers that ort to git it. head. They don't care themselves, and they ort " When she got xvp, she was madder to be smashed up once in a while, and then thunder. She chased me around that that would help us to keep others from vegetable wagon three times before she bein' too risky." got out of breath. I tried to reason. I No. 76 whistled for the station, and I ' said : Madam, they's got to be system to walked out with Hiram to the middle of ' this crossin' business ! Then she just the street. hauled off and smashed me right in the A quarter of a mile away a red auto- eye with one of them ripe tomatoes of mobile was headed toward us and coming her'n. That riled me somethin' fierce, and at a merry clip. we had a heated argument right there. A "That's him!" exclaimed Hiram ex- big crowd gathered round to hear it. citedly. " That's that young upstart and " More'n a year that woman wouldn't his red devil I was tellin' you about. I'll look at me. Finally, when she got to un- git him stopped this time all right, 'cause derstandin' the system I had in runnin' 76 is comin'. He's got to stop. While this business, she come off her perch, and he's waitin' for 76 to pull over, I'll let we've been good friends ever since." him know they's got to be some system to I assured Hiram that in every depart- this hereafter." ment of railroading it is a hard struggle It was a question which would arrive to make people understand and appreciate first, 76 or the auto. Both were racing the things we do, and the provisions we steadily forward. make for their safety ; but that persist- It did not matter to Hiram how the ence and good nature would, in the end, race appeared. He had but one idea, and win, and that, when once educated, they that was to stop the auto and upbraid the are thankful to us for our efforts in their young fellow good and plenty for past behalf. recklessness. " " That's so ! exclaimed Hiram with Hiram went through furious gyrations " enthusiasm. She is ! She's told me so ! with arms and flag. She's told me that maybe I saved her life I noticed the young fellow bend slight- that time." ly forward and put on a little more power. " How long have you been a widower, By this time Hiram was whirling Hiram?" I asked by way of injecting a around like an air-motor in a hurricane, little human sympathy into the conversa- and yelling warnings at the top of his tion. voice. ! OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRY STATION-AGENT. 419 There was a sort of swish and a zip and tions himself immovably in front of the a red streak, and Hiram picked himself waiting engine, and they who pass slowly up twenty feet away, whither he had spun by — mourners, near mourners, and the like a monorail gyroscope. friendly curious—know that he would be Hiram shook his fist at the vanishing prostrated and mangled before he would destroyer in impotent rage. allow the engine to break the impressive- •' Hang him ! I'll git even with him ! rhythm of the procession. 1 b(WD . HIRAM HAD DEFIED THE SYSTEM. I'll steer him in front of the limited It pleases Hiram that the engineer, " I'll lead him- to it ! I will—so help me ! conductor, and other members of a trains " No use, Hiram," said I, in mollifying crew recognize him as they pass and give " tones. , That fellow will never stop to him the railroad salutation— a wave of give you a chance. He's one your system the hand. can't touch." Pie doesn't know any of their names, There are moments of pride and im- and he doesn't exchange a dozen words portance in Hiram's duties. a N month, but they know him, and he When a funeral cortege approaches, he knows them. takes down his red flag and holds up the " That's one thing I'd hate about quit- railroad traffic until the last carryall of tin' this job," he said to me. " I got so the long line has moved solemnly across many clost friends on the road. I'd hate the track. to leave 'em." He poses a little in this act. He sta- He has a bit of lawn surrounding ! 420 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. his shanty, which he has. given a gar- there was a new watchman at the Main dener's attention for many years, and Street crossing,.and Widow Doud's vege- which is trim and clean as a velvet carpet. table cart, with a new driver, approached Mrs. Doud, surveying it from the com- from down the street. fortable vantage of her vegetable-cart, No. 21 whistled for the crossing. complimented him on its neatness. The new watchman got out into the " These surroundin's make a man kind middle of the street and waved his white o' sentimental about quit tin' a job that flag once or twice in a listless sort of way. he's took a pride in so many years," said The new driver of the vegetable cart Hiram. "But I'm gittin' to an age gave his horse a cut, and came spurting where I got to begin to figure on some- forward, entirely ignoring the watchman. thing ahead. I've got to look out for Hi- The watchman grasped at the horse's ram a little, sentiment or no sentiment." bridle, but the driver, with an explosive He paused reflectively, then added: command, laid on the whip so vigorously " Meat's awful high. I was readin' in that the horse broke away and lunged- a paper the Pullman conductor throwed forward. off to me the other day that the Secre- The reader may recall what our reminis- tary of the Treasury or Interior, or Com- cent grandmothers tell about the shooting missioner of Patents or Pensions, or some stars of 1833. This time the pyrotechnics one high up, says it ain't goin' to git eny consisted wholly of turnips and cabbage. cheaper for a good many years. Hiram wasn't hurt much. He picked " Then, thinks I to myself, thinks I, himself up before the bystanders got to if meat keeps so high, people will haft to him. He shook his fist violently at the eat vegetables. Now's the time to go into new watchman. the vegetable business. Future looks good "Look what you done! Don't you for truck-patchin'." think I know this crossin' ? If you hadn't " Go to it, Hiram," I said encouraging- laid your hands on the horse, you dinged ly. " Opportunity knocks but once on the muttonhead, I'd a got acrost and 21 dog-house door. He's been a long time wouldn't a hit me ! I'll report you, I " finding -you, but at last he's tapped. Arise will ! You'll git yours ! " and follow ! Hiram had defied the system It was not a great while after that Isn't that human? STARTLING RAILROAD STATISTICS. THE most marvelous array of statistics The weight of the individual locomotives presented for some time past was that has increased 115 per cent, and the number offered by the Bureau of Railway News and 75 per cent, there being now almost 57,000 Statistics. These figures are so stupendous puffing over the United States. The increase that one can scarcely comprehend their real in the capacity of freight-cars has been ap- meaning as they staffd in orderly rows, di- proximately 120 per cent, making their pres- vided into groups of three by portly com- ent carrying capacity more than 71,000,000 mas. Figures are mounting up so rapidly tons. nowadays that the statisticians have to keep Perhaps the statistics giving the number of on hand an ample supply of ciphers. railroad employees are the most impressive; In ten years, nearly seven billion people nearly a million and a half people, an in- were carried by the railroads of the United crease of 67 per cent, are now on the pay- States, and in a single year, 1908, one and rolls of the United States railroads, draw- one-half billion tons of freight were trans- ing a compensation of a billion dollars a ported over the shining rails from one part year, an increase of 110 per cent over ten of the country to another. years ago. Theories are all right, but blue-prints build no bridges. —Growls of the Construction Foreman. A HEART OF THE NORTH BY GEORGE VAN SCHAICK. Pierre Meets Anne Marie, and Learns Why There Is a Great Tragedy in Her Life. CHAPTER I. were several large water-proof bags and a smaller one, holding an aluminum The Upset Canoe. cooking outfit. The fishing-rods, which were lashed to the side of the canoe, ]\HE roar of great falls began were allowed to remain there ; but the to boom through the mist gun, in its canvas case, was carefully of the morning, and became placed on the bags. louder with every stroke that Two paddles were crossed amidship of sent the birch canoe lustily the canoe, and, bending over, Pierre up-stream. Great boulders brought it up until it rested upon his lined both shores, and beyond them, in knees; and then, with a slight effort, hazy faintness, rose the serrated line of lifted it upon his shoulders. A small the forest-trees. tump-line fastened to the cross-bars was To Pierre Ferguson there was music in fitted upon his head, well forward, part- the drip of the paddle, in the tremulous ly on the forehead. sigh of aspens, in the song of the dark With the .left hand he steadied the water as it rushed by him, deep and dark, canoe and with the right picked up the bearing great ragged flecks of foam. gun, and, whistling to his dog, began the The crashing of the cataract came journey over the faint trail of the portage. nearer, and the water whitened with the It first led him up a sharp hill, cov- spume that was whirled in great eddies. ered with stones and of uncertain foot- Then the man saw the place where the ing ; and then down an incline into a portage began. It was a sandy spot, swampy bit where his high moccasins nearly at the foot of the falls, whose sank deep into the soft black ooze. Then heavy spray blew over it. once more into the woodland, where the Near it was an old camping-ground, path twisted around great mossy rocks surrounded by rotting tent - pegs and and fallen trees. brown with the dead successive layers of To the right he could hear the rapids, rusty fir-boughs that had formed the bed- hidden by the dense growth of birches ding of previous voyagers. Charred ends and alders on the bank. The clog was of logs marked the site of the fires that busily exploring nooks along the path, haxl been lighted there. which soon came out upon some burned A stroke of the paddle brought the land, where the solemn ghosts of great canoe along the side of the tiny beach, trees projected, twisted as if in pain, and Pierre stepped ashore, preceded by their gnarled black limbs, fantastically his dog, a rougli Irish terrier that began like strange, living forms, apparently sor- to search at once for a possible hare or rowing in the bleak solitude over the squirrel, barking in delirious joy at the graveyard of the once hale forest. number of lovely smells he alone knew But the bride was soon passed, the tall how to enjoy. green growth again reached, and a * In the meanwhile, his master began to glimpse of dark, placid water showed empty the canoe of its contents. There ahead. 421 422 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Suddenly, from up the stream, there posited the half-drowned creature on the was the loud crash of a gun, reverber- sand, and it was only then that he per- ating among the surrounding hills, and, ceived another human form lying pros- after a brief interval, a loud, shrill cry trate upon the rocks, higher up the river of distress. and partly submerged. It was a woman's voice, and Pierre, The moose was still there, struggling, throwing the canoe into the bushes along and he rushed to the place where he had the path, ran on, still carrying his gun, thrown down his gun, tore off the cover, leaping over fallen mossy trunks, sinking and at the crashing of the smokeless in black ooze, tearing through the drip- cartridge the great animal dropped heav- ping bushes that met over the portage. ily among the torn birch strips and He dashed out of the woods upon a broken cedar ribs of the canoe. sandy point jutting out into the river, Running up, he found an old Indian, perhaps a hundred yards above where who had partly dragged himself out of the water began to boil, and saw that a the water upon the rocks. As he pulled woman was being carried down the him out he noticed that one of the legs stream toward the boulder-strewn white was twisted in an unnatural position, torrent in its rush toward the falls. and the old fellow groaned with pain. Once or twice her head sank under the As he seemed to be breathing natural- swift water as she lifted up her arms. ly, Pierre placed him with the head and One glance farther up, before he shoulders resting upon a fallen tree- leaped in the river, showed him a great trunk and ran back to the woman. bull moose that was struggling amid the She had partly raised herself, lying wreckage of a canoe, with which the upon one hip, with her hands resting mighty beast seemed to be inextricably upon the sand before her, breathing with mixed up. difficulty. She looked up as Pierre bent Pierre was seized at once by the strong over her, and spat a mouthful of blood current. With all the strength he had he before speaking. " " swam toward the passing woman ; his Is he dead? she asked in her famil- fierce strokes soon brought him to her, iar French. and her long black hair met his grasp. In French he reassured her, telling her Then came the fight for two lives, and the man was living, but adding that he there was a lust in it, a fierce develop- looked very ill. ment of a passion of struggle, such as As he knelt by her, she stared at him. seizes strong men in the hour of strife. " The Manitou-ilno told of the white Inch by inch he neared the shore, foot man," she said, seeming tovspeak to her- by foot the white water drew him toward self, " and there is the little yellow ad- the rapids. It tore at him and clung to dom;' as she saw the terrier, who, in him. and pulled savagely and struggled great excitement, was attempting to ca- for the possession of his burden, as ress his master. though maddened with a longing for the She made an effort to get on her feet. blood of men. " Let me carry you," he said. He sank several times and emerged, She shook her head and arose, pain- gasping, yet always battling fiercely. fully and slowly, with his help. Hold- When one of his knees struck the bottom ing her hand to her right side and biting his breath had become a hoarse gurgling, her lip, with Pierre's arm under hers, she and his strength was ebbing away. Far- began to walk toward the old man in ther on in the more shallow water he silence, her short, gasping breathing managed to regain his feet, and the painful to hear. They reached the fallen weight of the woman, whom he had taken tree, and she attempted to kneel by the in one of his arms, helped to steady him, prostrate form ; but her strength was ex- while the water boiled around his legs hausted, and she collapsed by its side. as if seeking to tear him away. Her long black hair, bedraggled and Thus he made his way to the shore, full of sand, partly fell over a dark face now bearing the burden easily in the ex- of pure Indian type. She wore a man's ultation of a fight that was won. coat and a long skirt of some cheap When he reached the sand-bar he de- woolen material. On her feet were the ; ;; A HEART OF THE NORTH. 423 high boots of the savage. She seemed poles, and soon had the Indians' tent set slight of build and of middle size. up. Once more he went into the woods Pierre thought her age must be 'about and returned with a great load of bal- eighteen. sam-boughs, neatly packed on the handle The old man was grizzled and bent, of his ax, and proceeded to make a good and bore the^marks of a hard" life. A bed. trapper of the old days, before there were The old man was groaning at times, in sheet-iron stoves, provisions, and goodly a low, resigned manner. He was given advances from the fur posts, he had another drink of tea, and the young man known the meaning of hunger and of then decided that the injured leg must be biting cold, the peril of blizzards and treated. storms on great lakes. Now he seemed He slit down the high moccasin, which to be broken and apparently nearing the was nearly full of blood, and then cut time of farewell to the toil of living. through the heavy woolen stocking, and Matters had to be straightened out as saw, to his dismay, a sharp piece of bone soon as possible, and for the next hour protruding through an ugly wound over Pierre worked like a beaver. Neither of the shin. This he washed with water the Indians appeared able to speak, and boiled in the kettle. he decided that in order to do any good Pulling hard upon the foot caused the he would have to get his supplies. bone to return within the cut, which he Going to the shore where the moose covered with a linen handkerchief which lay dead, he found that one leg of the he wrung out of the boiling water. Then, great animal had gone through the bot- after much cogitation, the whole leg was tom of the canoe that had clung to him bound up with ingenious splints, in which by the spring of the cedar ribs. the broken blade of a paddle, some birch- A great jagged wound in the paunch bark, and strips torn from a blanket showed the Indian's shot, while a smaller played a prominent part. one just back of the foreshoulder marked During all thes*e manipulations the old his own. One or two bundles that had man had given some signs of suffering been placed under the cross-pieces were but generally seemed to be apathetic, as still in the canoe, and he dragged out a if under the influence of great shock tent that had been wrapped around a and as Pierre carefully lifted him and small sheet-iron stove and some blankets bore him to the tent, the poor old body with a bundle of traps. was very limp. It took a few minutes to Everything else had evidently fallen remove his wet clothes, and the young into the river and been washed away man wrapped him in blankets. Then he down the rapids and over the falls, or turned to the girl. was being ground to pieces upon the " Let me carry you to the tent," he rocky bottom. said. " You are shivering in this cold He then ran down the portage, hin- wind." dered by his wet clothes, and returned, But she refused again to let him help, bearing two of his bags with the tump- and rose with difficulty. In pain she line, passed over his forehead. pressed both hands to her right side and The first thing to do was to start the entered the tent. She glanced at the old kettle boiling; and then he covered the man, now resting quietly, and looked at Indiaus with his own warm blankets, Pierre with a shy expression of gratitude. hanging their own to dry. He managed " It is good," she said. " Thanks." " to make them swallow some strong tea Now let me see what the matter is and then returned for the rest of his with your chest," he suggested, after she things, leaving his canoe where he had had lain down. thrown it. On his return he found that But she waved him away impatiently, Paddy had remained near the girl, and her cheeks flushing red, and he had to was licking her hand with the nursing speak authoritatively, declaring that he instinct so strongly developed in some was a doctor. This was not quite true, dogs. for he had only a few years before at- Taking the ax, Pierre quickly chopped tended one course in medicine at Laval down some saplings for pegs and tent- University. 424 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. He was sprung from masterful people, Their provisions had evidently all been however, and finally gained bis way, the lost when the canoe capsized. Without girl faintly defending herself as he pro- his aid, they would certainly have been in ceeded to remove some of her dripping an awful predicament, badly hurt, with clothes. their canoe staved in beyond repair, food It took him but a short time to decide all gone, and their gun at the bottom of that at least two ribs were broken. the river. He went out of the tent and began to The girl did' not seem to be in a very dig in one of his bags, from which he bad condition—she was such a sturdy- pulled out a little box, in which some looking little " savage," notwithstanding things intended for use in case of emer- her apparent slenderness. He had no- gencies were kept, and took a roll of ad- ticed that the muscles of her arms and hesive-plaster. shoulders were those of an athlete—grace- He used it nearly all in a fairly cor- ful and strong. But, then, this spitting rect manner, dressing her hurts "so that of blood was annoying. Could consump- the movements of the injured side might tion, as with so many of her doomed race, be well restrained. have spread its grasping claws upon her ? But during; this time, with her chest With his fragmentary medical knowl- nearly bare and a red flush upon her edge, he managed to recollect that it dusky cheeks, the girl, obedient yet full might point to an injury of the lung of revolt, her modesty outraged, feeling caused by the sharp edge of one of the that she was forced to submit, suffering broken ribs. This worried him a good while realizing that good was being done, deal, but not as much as the state in looked at him with great dark eyes, in which the old Indian was. He had very which surprise, pain, and resignation grave doubts about that case. Compound were all shown. fractures were bad enough hi themselves, But Pierre did not look at her. He but the man was so weak, so prostrated, was busy, and to him she was but a suf- that surely he must be suffering from fering thing whose misery he must re- some grave internal injury. lieve as soon as possible. As far as Pierre could see, the problem He finished his work, and brought out before him was to look after them until a heavy flannel shirt, which he passed they could be left alone—to supply them over her head and put on her, and then with provisions, and get back to Lake his own coat. St. John as soon as possible and send " Try and take off that wet skirt," he them help. said, " and wrap yourself in the blanket. Now it seemed frightfully far away. You're shivering now. I must go and look From the mouth of the river to Tschota- after that moose." gama there were fifty miles, then over He went down to the shore, where the two hundred more to where the Peribonca dead animal was lying partly in the wa- divided into the Shipshaw and Manouan ter, which made it easier for him to turn Rivers. it while skinning, as it was nearly afloat. It was several days' travel up the He first went to work to remove the former — a wild, rough stream, hardly head for preserving, thinking he might be ever used by the Indians, since the Ma- able to take it back with him for the taxi- nouan was the direct and easy road to dermist. Then, the antlers were very the Grand Lac Manouan, above which good, and he estimated that they were were the great trapping-grounds. The well over fifty inches wide. In about a matter of provisions was the hardest to quarter of an hour he gave the last stroke solve, and the moose he was now cutting that severed the head from the spine. up would have to be their chief source of The really important thing was to save supply. as much of the meat as possible. While If the girl grew worse instead of bet- he labored with sheath-knife and ax he ter, the problem could hardly be solved. pondered over the situation. He could not expect to meet any parties Chance had thrown under his care two of Indians even after reaching the forks poor devils, neither of whom might prob- of the river. The trappers who winter in ably be able to travel for a long time. the upper reaches of the Peribonca^ had A HEART OF THE NORTH. 425 all gone up several weeks before, he had The energy of her youth and the im- been informed, and the great river-would passivity of her race did not permit her be deserted. to acknowledge how much she suffered. All he could do now was to cure moose She said she was all right ; but her quick, meat and smoke fish for them, to assure catchy breathing, and the expression she their subsistence until assistance could be could not conceal, belied her words. She procured. His own supplies had been seemed to be lying in an uncomfortable calculated to last eight weeks, of which position, and Pierre knelt by her, gently four were nearly gone, but with care they raising her head, and adjusted the fir- wbuld help a good deal. boughs with a deft hand. She had thrown So he hacked away at the great carcass, some of her wet clothing upon the ground, most of the time up to his knees in water, and he took it up and hung it to the ridge- and hung great lumps of meat on a pole pole to dry. under which a poky fire was lighted, to Supper -was the next thing to be at- save them from the attacks of meat-flies. tended to, and the teakettle was soon Toiling as never before, for the first time hanging over the brisk little fire. Pieces during his trip he regretted the impa- of moose meat were boiling away in the tience that had caused him to take this cooking-pot, and he fried some slices of 'long journey without guides. After he bacon. he had finished cutting up the moose he The dog looked on these proceedings divided the great pieces in smaller strips, with much interest, licking his chops and and built a staging of branches upon eying his master patiently, wagging his which they were placed, over a great stumpy tail, and whining from time to boucane. time. A search of the provision-bags re- Grimy and wet and smeared with vealed a good part of a loaf of bread, blood, and soiled with the rotten wood which Pierre had baked in the sand the he kept gathering for his smoke, he la- day before. bored on, scarcely feeling any fatigue, Pie was crouching by the fire, shading knowing that he was now fighting for his face from the heat with one hand, lives, and that all that had occurred be- while he held the stick he had fastened fore had been tantamount to play. to the handle of the frying-pan. The Several hours passed thus, interrupted _ girl could see him from where she was by frequent visits to the tent, and it was lying, and she wondered. nearly dark before he decided to stop She believed all that the priests had work, having packed most of the meat told her at Roberval, and knew that they in one of his big water-proof bags. He said that the practises of the Manitou-il- intended to take it out and smoke it again nos, the sorcerers, were sinful and un- on the morrow. It would be mighty poor holy ; yet they did wonderful things, and food, from a civilized standpoint, but one had told of the coming of the white would serve well to sustain life. man and the little yellow addom that had He went up to the tent again, glad to licked her hand. put his hands in his pockets and to suck Who was this strange individual, some away at his pipe, for he felt weary. of whose clothing was such as gentlemen " How is everything?" he asked. wear sometimes in the woods, and who The old man hardly seemed to notice had curious cooking things of a silvery him.' A queer, vague smile crept over metal she had never seen before, and his features, and one of the hands moved speaking, like the doctors and the priests, uncertainly; then he relapsed into the in good French, was all alone with his state of indifference which, to the young dog? man, seemed ominous. The girl, with a She could not make it out. It puzzled certain shy sullenness, said she thought her. She noticed that when he cut wgod her father was very ill. he was not very skilful, and that the fire - " I hope he will get over it." he an- he had made was just a little too big to swered. " He is very old, and it will cook comfortably by. He must have had take a long time before he is better. But people do those things for him, at other, how are you feeling now? How is the times, like all the gentlemen that came " pain in your side? to that country. She noted that he was — : 426 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. strong and tall, and dimly realized that " You were going back to Lac St. he had fought like a demon to get her out Jean?" of the water. He was surely a queer She nodded affirmatively. man. with his gentle, pleasant voice, and "Where were you coming from?" his masterful way of ordering one to do " From camp, far north, beyond Grand things, and his boyish manner of playing Lac Manouan." with the dog. " Why did you come down the Ship- She sought to rise when he came in shaw instead of the Manouan?" with a dipper of tea, but he made her lie She did not answer, at first, and fin- down again, with just a motion of his ally said it was nearer to their hunting- hand. She obeyed, and felt bashful at ground. But somehow he realized that the idea that a gentleman was waiting on she did not want to tell him the real her. She took the hot drink, and some reason, and went on with his questions. bread and bacon, and the young man was " I suppose you drifted down on the pleased to see that she could eat a little. big moose, suddenly, near the bank, and It was a favorable sign. your father shot quick, and he jumped He also brought food to the old man on you and upset the boat, eh?" some tea and a cupful of the strong broth Again she assented with a movement of from the moose meat, in which he had her head. also boiled a little rice from his provision- " Tell me, how- long have you been " bags. spitting blood ? Lured by the insatiable Indian thirst She looked astonished, and shook her for tea, the old fellow swallowed some head again. of the strong infusion, and appeared to " I do not spit blood," she asserted. " " relish it, but would hardly touch the soup But this morning ! or any of the other things. He tried a " Yes," she answered, and, averting few mouthfuls, but shook his head gen- her lower lip, showed him that it had tly, in a discouraged way, and relapsed been cut and bruised against her fine into an apathetic state. white teeth. He felt very glad that his Pierre wondered whether he would like fears were proyen groundless, for it to smoke, and, having found the Indian's simplified matters a good deal. pipe in the pocket of the wet coat he had If she was not consumptive and had removed from him, offered him tobacco. received no serious injury to her lungs The old fellow accepted it and puffed she would soon be well again and able away when Pierre held a lighted match to care for her father. He sought to for him. but after a few whiffs the pipe recollect how long broken ribs might fell from his mouth unnoticed. take to mend, but his memory on that " The poor old chap must be mighty point was hazy, and he could only con- ill," thought Pierre, who, like every one clude that it might take a couple of else, had never seen a live Indian unable weeks or more. to smoke. In the semidarkness, Pierre put up He sat down near them in the tent, his own little silk tent ' close to the while Paddy, at his feet, watched eagerly larger one, and cut up enough wood to for bits thrown at him from time to time. last over night. Finding that there was The young man was hungry as a wolf, nothing more that he could do for the and attacked his food almost as raven- two Indians he called the dog, that was ously. lying down near Anne Marie, and made While eating he began to question her. ready to enjoy a needed rest. 'What is your name?" he asked in As the terrier snuggled beside him French. Pierre looked at him, by the fitful light " Ou-memeou," she answered. " But, of the camp fire outside the tent, as he no—it is Anne Marie, I was baptized." had left the flap wide open, and spoke "What does Ou-memeou mean?" to him " It is the little gray dove, not like " You've taken a fancy to that little •• Wab-memeou. the pigeon. I am his savage. Paddy boy." daughter," and she pointed to the old The dog wagged his tail. man. Tired though he was, Paddy's master A HEART OF THE NORTH. 427 tossed about under his blanket for a long Two daughters married farmers and time. Suddenly, with a voice full of- were still living, while a third had be- conviction and marked with a certain come a nun. The youngest son was bitterness he uttered a sentence which, Pierre's father. Unlike others of his considering certain fairly recent happen- family he had had but two children, of ings, was not without a certain tincture whom one died in Montreal the year of of philosophy. the great smallpox epidemic. Pierre, " " The deuce take women ! was his re- left an only child, became as the apple mark. of his parents' eyes. The father had returned from a long journey in the Far West with much gold, CHAPTER II. which he increased and multiplied in trade, for he 'had the faculty of -smelling The Blood in His Veins. out money, just as a mink smells musk- "D EFORE falling asleep Pierre's rats or fish. thoughts wandered back to lands The young man tried for a profession. still farther north and to that ancestor Medicine was his- first choice, but he of his, Farquhar Ferguson, beyond gave it up after a year in favor of min- whom the family knew none of its fore- ing engineering, and left this to help bears. his father in his business ventures, for This first Ferguson was a dour Pres- which he also showed a keen nose. From byterian who had wandered to Canada an aunt on the mother's side he obtained in the trail of the fighters who con- an inheritance and bought interests in a quered the country for England. After pulp-mill, and then in a gold mine in some years of hard knocks he married, Nova Scotia, which chanced to pay good somewhere north of Winnipeg, an In- dividends^and in a fishing venture of dian girl who bore 'him a family of four, Labrador. and made a good wife to him until he Notwithstanding all this, he had con- was blotted out from among men in a siderable leisure which he spent, with an great blizzard. instinct that was probably an atavistic The inheritence he left consisted in a inheritance from the dusky wife of Far- couple of guns, a fine lot of traps, a quhar, in the woods, where he hunted tent, and the wages due by the Hudson and fished, and enjoyed the sensation of Bay Company, for whom he ran a small being drawn toward the North, toward post in the wilderness. the wild freedom that was to him like a This wealth made the woman a desir- better, purer breath of life. able person, and she succumbed to the This particular trip had been taken attractions of a warrior of her tribe, who for two reasons, of which the least was took in her wealth and her family, know- the fact that he had heard something ing that the latter would not long prove about a proposed railroad 'to James Bay, troublesome. in Hudson Bay, and that it would proba- The oldest child was a girt; who soon bly pass over a certain river. disappeared with a Cree Indian, but the Now this stream fell in the Shipshaw, other three, all sons, wandered away- a good day's journey above the point over various trails, and the further fate he had reached. An old Indian who had of one only was known, who took to wife traveled there had described to him, a a 'white woman of mixed Irish and few years before, something that must French - Canadian descent. His exist- have been a very mountain of asbestos. ence ended at the breaking of a log jam It was Avorth while looking into, since, on the St. Maurice and his family scat- if the railroad line -passed near it, it tered over the land. might acquire great value. It was , known that one of his sons But the chief reason was that he had went to sea and was never heard of met with a disappointment, and at the again, and that another was concerned in time felt so. hurt and angry that he had the Riel rebellion and had later disap- run away to the woods for consolation. peared after writing once from British His pride had been wounded, for he Cnlumbia. was young, and no cynic. 428 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE The trouble was all over a young lady. for so intensely civilized and worldly a Some clays at Cacouna, and others young woman. during which he followed her to Tadou- It did not take him long to decide sac and idled with her a golden week or that this was probably not the case, and two, had sufficed to give him the im- that he had simply been beaten in a com- pression that he was madly in love with petition for a prize by a man better fit- her. A florid and somewhat vulgar ma- ted for that particular contest. He did ma, and a father who, considered in the not dream of the probable truth, which light of an efficient provider, but other- was that Miss Fanny was really in love wise wholly insignificant, house-broken, with no one at all, and simply sought and subject to every whim of his fat to have as good a time as possible. spouse and slender blond daughter, did Pierre left on the steamboat for Que- not affect her charms. bec, told his people he was off for Lake She was certainly attractive, and St. John, and gathered up his camping flirted as she breathed, naturally and things and started on a trip he had efficiently. planned a year before. As the halcyon days floated by, Pierre The journey did him much good. had become certain that he could not There was comfort in the discovery he live without her and that he was going to gradually and reluctantly made, that he propose. This is a serious matter to a was not really wounded very deeply. In youth who means wQiat he says and be- fact it took but a few days before he lieves in the everlastingness of love. began to feel conscious that the whole But just before he reached a final de- affair might be one of those happenings cision, a white steam-yacht turned up the that leave behind them a sense of having St. Lawrence and anchored at the foot made a rather lucky escape. of the little cliffs at Tadousac, right at Strong and self-reliant, thinking he the beautiful mouth of the Saguenay. It knew what he wanted, he had been too bore a splendid-looking youth with much busy to become much of a man of the money and a very fetching manner, who world, and it was with some surprise was introduced by mutual friends, wJiere- that the feeling came that, after all, the upon Pierre felt himself rather neglected. whole thing might have been a false This had lasted but a day or two be- alarm, the awakening in him of the de- fore Pierre, feeling that insensibly his sire for loving companionship, but not a goddess was slipping away from him, de- disaster that could lead to the shatter- cided to cut the Gordian knot at once, ing of an existence. and proposed on the veranda of the For some hours he slept deeply, and hotel, one fine moonlit night, while the then awoke suddenly with every sense yachtsman was indoors playing billiards. alert, as happens to the wild things of In justice to the young lady it should the woodlands and to the men whom the be said that she ihad never meant to en- wilderness has called. gage in anything but a most innocent His last dream had mingled with the flirtation with a very pleasant young sound of voices, and in the tent near by man, and felt rather sorry for .him. She could be heard a low muttering, a slow was very gentle and kind, in the sweet- pouring out of indistinct words, that, at est possible way, manifested a sisterly in- rare intervals, were interrupted by the terest in his future welfare, and made softer voice of the girl. him feel, perhaps mistakenly, that the Pierre felt chilly, the fire outside the steam - yacht, or its owner, were para- tent had gone out, and one of Ins blan- mount in her thoughts. kets had been given to the old man. He Men take such happenings in many rose and decided to make more fire. It ways, and Pierre suffered from a sense was very dark. Great somber clouds of .humiliation that was at first quite drifted heavily overhead, and the noise intolerable. He wondered whether of the rapids came in a low, booming there might be about him something un- sound, interrupted from time to time by couth, a remnant left by the slight ad- the song of "the night wind blowing mixture of Indian blood in Ins veins, through the jagged tops of the North- that made him undesirable as a mate land trees. : A HEART OF THE NORTH. 429 The flap of the larger tent was opened, Placing his hand upon the old man's and Pierre went in. In the darkness, forehead, which he expected to find nothing could be made out but the two warm, it was a surprise to feel it very indistinct forms lying upon the ground, cold and clammy. and he spoke in a law voice. Remembering a pint flask of brandy " What is the matter? Is your father at the bottom of one of his packs, and " worse? thinking it might prove useful, he " He began to speak some time ago, and dragged the heavy bag within the tent says many tilings I do not always under- and gave the candle to Anne Marie to stand, and I fear he is very ill," an- hold, while he rummaged until he found swered the girl. what he wanted. The young man went back to his tent Pouring some of the liquor in a tin and found one -of the few remaining cup, he lifted the old man's head gently, candles, which he brought to the large and bade him drink. The sufferer did tent and lighted. not seem to understand at first, but fin- He knelt by the old man, whose eyes ally Pierre made him swallow it. followed the flickering light for a mo- Under the influence of the strong ment. But he soon paid no further heed draft, the old Indian "seemed to revive a to it and began again, in a low voice little. He looked at Pierre and then at that seemed to reflect all the sadness of his daughter, shaking his head gently. the wilderness, to mutter things that Their faces were illumined by the can- were unintelligible to, Pierre. dlelight, and he appeared to consider "What is he saying?" he asked. them with some surprise, but the vacant The girl listened for a moment and look soon returned and, giving a long said with accents that had tears in sigh, bis head sank down once more, and them he appeared to fall quietly asleep. " He says that the month of the fall- Anne Marie looked at Pierre with shy ing leaves, Uasteshiau Pushum, is com- gratitude. Surely this must be a good ing, and we must not stay long here. He man who was so gentle with her old says the morning will be here soon, and father, and she wondered again what he I must boil gum and seal oil to mend the might be, and how he Chanced to be canoe. Also,- he says, he feels a sick- alone so far up the great river. ness and is not well, and . will not be In some way Pierre realized that the* able to carry a heavy pack to-day, and girl would not sleep, and felt so thor- we must start early." oughly awakened that he did not think Pierre lifted the candle until the it best to lie down again. He lit his light fell upon the girl's face. The lids pipe and sat down beside her, in silence, were not quivering over the great dark having "blown out the valuable candle, eyes, and all the features were ' calm. but the chill of the night struck through But great tears were coursing down her him and brought a shiver. cheeks, and She was stricken hard, and The little cast-iron stove he had ta- bearing it like a brave, strong soul. ken from the wrecked canoe was near, He felt that her sorrow was touching, with several lengths of stovepipe packed and that her heart was speaking the within it, and in a few moments it was things which she could not have put in rigged up in the tent. After bringing in words. an armful of wood, a good fire was soon Looking again at the old man he was roaring, and it was pleasant to see the shocked to see how great a change had little flashes of red light Showing through occurred within a short time. The mut- the cracks. tered words issuing from his lips came He rapped his pipe on the heel of his faintly, yet with a certain quiet, con- boot, put it again in his pocket, and sat fident expression, that showed how far down on his bag, near the girl. away he was wandering througli bygone "How long have you been awake?" events of a long, hard life, and stumb- he asked. ling through a mental darkness that " A long time. I think I have not was" mercifully hiding from him the slept," she answered. " nearing end. " Much pain? 430 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " Some pain, not very much. But-I am redolent of mysterious things, as the doc- afraid; I am much afraid." tors that had power over death and evil, She shook her head and looked in the as the rich men who owned the sawmills direction of her father. Pierre tried to and the great hotel ? What might" he not reassure her, but somehow words of com- accomplish? fort would not come. The fact could not Pierre rose several times during the be hidden that he also feared that the old long vigil. Once or twice he gave the old man's life was fast ebbing away. It was man another sip from the flask, and re- hardly possible to deceive her, and the few plenished the little stove, that burned the things he managed to say were unable to wood up very fast. But when the first bring any change in the tense look of her faint light began to be distinct, even eyes. through the canvas of the tent, and while " You must try to sleep," he advised. still sitting up, with knees drawn up to But she shook her head; and he did not his chin that was resting upon his folded insist ; and they remained in silence with- hands, he fell asleep, and remained in in the tent, listening to the occasional that position for a long time, until the words spoken by the old man, who had sunlight showed high above the serrated {alien asleep, but frequently seemed to edge of the woods in the east. be dreaming aloud. When he awoke with a start the fire in From time to time Pierre opened the the little stove had burned itself out, and little stove to put in more wood, and a Che girl was still watching, lying upon red glare would become disseminated her injured side,, her keen eyes resting throughout the tent, to die out abruptly upon the old man, who still seemed to when the door was closed. sleep quietly under the blankets. Without, there was the great silence of "Are you cold?" asked Pierre. "I the wilderness, that is always accentuated have slept ; why did you not awaken me?" by little interruptions. The familiar She shook her head vaguely, and Pierre sounds of the night life that never ceases saw that all her thoughts were for her to pulsate recurred at intervals : the father. He did not know that as long as splashes of fish leaping on the water, the he was there the girl was satisfied, since intermittent distant hoots of a great she could call him in case of need, and horned owl, the rising and dying of the that she would not have awakened him breeze, the ill-defined scratching sounds otherwise ; for the sleep of a man, in camp on the gravel and sand of the tiny beach, as on shipboard, is a sacred thing, not to where muskrats were at play. be interrupted except for good cause. All these, whenever they ceased, seemed Pierre rose with a yawn, but in a few to render yet more profound the great moments was very wide-awake and stillness that, like some weird cover, splashing mightily in the water by the wrapped the world up in its folds. shore, with a cake of soap and a towel ly- Within the tent there was but the sound ing upon the bottom of his upturned of the old man's breathing, and of his canoe, his shirt-collar drawn down and occasional words, uttered in a very Ioav opened, exposing part of his great chest. voice, full of an inexpressible patience The sleeves of his flannel shirt were pulled and sadness, as of one who bore quietly up as far as they would go, leaving his some great ill inseparable from the hard white, sinewy arms showing in contrast life of the dwellers in the waste places. to the brown face and hands he was scrub- Some hours passed thus, and the girl bing hard. felt comforted by the presence of- the This over, he took up die ax and, go- young man. With the blind trust she was ing a little way back hi the wood, began beginning to repose in him as a white man to smite lustily, and soon had enough logs possessed of all manner of knowledge that for a good fire outside of the big tent, was hidden from her, she felt as if he upon which he put the kettle to boil, might, by the mere fact of being there, hanging from a stick driven slanting into prevent the dreadful calamity she feared. the ground. Was he not of the same race as the "What do you think you could eat?" Oblate Fathers who had taught her to he called to the girl, who was watching read, as the nuns whose very dress seemed him from the tent. V : A HEART OF THE NORTH. 431 " I am not very hungry," she replied. on the long end of the backlog, after re- " If you would let me, I might be able luming the plug. His complexion showed to cook for you. It is the woman's place." him to be a metis (a half-breed). He " You just keep still until I let you get was a man of great size and strength, with " up," he answered cheerily. I'm the cook a low forehead and a. taciturn, sullen ex- and everything else until your ribs get pression. mended." Nothing was said for a long time, while He took great interest in the breakfast, Pierre went on with his cooking, and the which would be later than usual, owing newcomer took note of the surroundings. to that last nap, and often spoke to the The flap of the big tent was down, and he dog,, who was looking on wistfully and could not see its interior. But the wreck whining with impatience, while his mas- of the canoe, the various articles scattered ter was sitting upon a big log, holding around, one or two familiar spots upon the long stick he had stuck in the hollow the tent, taught him a great deal, and handle of the sputtering frying-pan. finally he grunted, inquisitively, in " " Look at the dog ! suddenly ex- French : claimed the girl, upon whose face a "Old Michel?" strange look of fear had come. Pierre only then recollected that he had Paddy's hair was bristling, and he ut- not asked the old man's name, but an- tered a low growl as he dashed along the swered that an old Indian was within the faintly marked path that led over the tent, and that he did not know whether portage. or not he was called Michel. He stopped as a tall man made his ap- The half-breed looked at him suspi- pearance. The man was loaded with a ciously, and spoke again heavy pack, and walked carefully over " Anne Marie? " the rocks, the great muscles at the sides " Yes," answered Pierre. " Anne of his neck bulging with the pull of the Marie and her old father. They have tump - line that held up two hundred- both been badly hurt." pound bags of flour. Both hands were up He went on, unbidden, to give a brief over his shoulders, grasping the straps account of the happenings of the day be- and relieving a bit the drag upon his neck. fore, to which the half-breed listened in With the slightest possible motion of silence, only grunting once or twice dur- his head in Pierre's direction, he kept on ing the recital. toward the landing-place, where he put Finally rising and pulling aside the down his bags with an action of relief, and tent flap, the half-breed went hi, and quietly pulled out his pipe for a smoke Pierre felt that a big load had been taken while swiftly observing the wreck of the off his shoulders, for the newcomer evi- canoe, the marks of the moose-skinning, dently knew these people, and would and the scaffolding erected for smoking probably be able to help him out. the meat. There was no doubt that he would be Then he slowly came up to the camp- willing to remain there while the pro- fire, addressing Pierre, who had left his jected visit to the asbestos-mine was ac- seat in the tent and stood before it, with complished, a matter of but few days. the customary salute of the Montagnais: Then Pierre could take the girl back '•' Quey, quey." to Lake St. John ; or, better still, the half- breed could be hired to do it. There was also a possibility that Anne Marie might CHAPTER III. have friends or relatives trapping some- where, in the North, and that she might The Girl Sees a Fight. elect to go there. The old man, unfor- "DIERRE repeated the greeting, at the tunately, played no part in these plans, for same time handing a plug of to^~ it was too evident that his journey was bacco to the newcomer, who pulled his nearly ended. sheath-knife from his belt and proceeded Pierre's reflections were interrupted by to cut a pipeful. an exclamation from Anne Marie, and he This done, the man held a bit of birch- put down his frying-pan to find out what bark to the fire and got a light, squatting was the matter. 432 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. He was surprised to bear her talking the fire for a few moments, and then excitedly and angrily, while the old man poured out some tea. which he brought paid no heed to what was going on around to the girl, with food, on one of his alumi- him. The external world seemed to have num plates. disappeared from his ken, as with slow, He felt that he must ask the others nearly rhythmical motions he kept . on whether they would eat. They had un- picking at the blanket that covered him. doubtedly broken their fast earlier in the The features, in the brighter light of morning, but, Indian-like, would forego the morning, showed an even more drawn no opportunity to feed. The three sat and pinched expression than on the day down outside the tent and consumed vast before. quantities of tea with flapjacks and fried The half-breed was listening to the girl pork. with a careless, contemptuous expression, Pierre had meant to speak to them and now and then grunted some reply in about such arrangements as could be the Montagnais dialect. Paddy began to made to care for the girl, but instinctive- bark again, and Pierre looked out of the ly felt that something was wrong; that tent. their presence was distasteful tb her, and Down the path another man was com- he decided to consult with her first, as ing, bearing a canoe poised on his head soon as opportunity allowed. with the tump-line, while in one hand he The fact was clear that the half-bjreed carried a goodly bundle of traps. Like was an obnoxious individual. Anne the half-breed, he went on to the landing- Marie had spoken angrily, and he felt place and rid himself of his load with a that he was cultivating an intense dislike grunt of satisfaction before coming up to to him. the tent. From his darker skin and pure The Indian was but an ordinary speci- Indian features, he was probably a Mon- men of his race, strong, short of stature, tagnais, or perhaps a Tite de Boule. 'He with an impassive countenance, from nodded to Pierre and looked in the tent, which nothing particular could be made saying something in his Indian speech. out. Anne Marie uttered a low moan. After they saw that there was nothing " What the deuce are they bothering more to eat, the two men rose, said they that girl about?" Pierre asked himself were going back over die portage for the impatiently. He had taken an instinctive remainder of their things; and soon de- dislike to the two men, especially the parted, pulling away at their pipes and first, and entering the tent, which began swinging their tump-lines in their hands, to be rather crowded, inquired what was while Paddy sniffed at their heels sus- the matter. piciously. At first the girl did not answer. She As soon as they had disappeared, had partly risen, in a sitting position, Pierre went to the tent. He wanted an and was looking steadily at -her old explanation, and it was soon forthcom- father, who was still monotonously pick- ing. " " ing away at the blanket, interrupting this Come quick ! Anne Marie ex- now and then with slow rotations of Ids claimed as soon as she saw him. " Have " head, the eyes seeming to follow flying they gone? things visible to' him alone. She was standing. On her cheeks " This man, the savage," she finally there burned dusky red spots, and her answered, without looking up at him, black eyes were flashing. She seemed to " says that he once saw an old man who be in a passion of excitement, and was did these things just like my father, and trying to subdue it. The hand that was he lived but a very short time." She not pressed against her injured side was crossed herself and spoke again. " I fear clenched tightly, and moved tremulously. much it is a sign of death." "What are you going to do?" she Pierre's head bent down, and he made asked eagerly. " Are vou going to leave no reply, for he had during the long now?" night decided that the end must be very " Well. I'm' sure I don't know," he re- near. Going out to look after his cook- plied. " I had thought of giving than ing, he again held the frying-pan over money to take you back to Lac St. Jean, ' ; —" ; : — A HEART OF THE NORTH. 433 or perhaps you would like to go north to marry you, and that you hate him. again with them? Where are they going He can't marry you against your will. now?" Do vou mean that there's going to be a " " Back to the place we came from ? fight?" she replied quickly. " But I won't go The young man was beginning to feel with them, either to the south or to the rather belligerent. He disliked the half- north. I hate them. The half - breed breed's looks, and sympathized with the wants me for his wife! I would kill him girl's feelings sufficiently to make him first, and, if I could not do that, I would ready to take her part. " " " " rather kill myself ! A fight ! she exclaimed. Yes, he She had grown still more excited as would fight, but he Avould rather do some she was speaking. Her lips were trem- treacherous thing ! I don't know what bling. he will do." Pierre placed his hand gently on her Exhausted by the excitement, the girl shoulder. sank down again upon the blanket under " Lie down again, Anne Marie," he which she had been lying, and looked at said. " You may injure yourself' with all Pierre as if hoping that he could suggest that excitement. You shall do just as some way out of the trouble. He stood you please. If you won't go with them, there, wondering what kind of a mess he there is plenty of room in my canoe, and was getting into. I will take you back to Lac St. Jean " Tell me all about it," he suggested. after—" " I can't help you until I know what the interrupted himself suddenly, but row is about." He , she took up his words. " Yes, I will tell you. Sit down just " After my poor old father, is dead. outside the tent so that you may watch Yes, I know he cannot live. I will go the portage and see when they return. back with you, if you will be so good He is very suspicious. He must not see but how can I ? The half-breed will not us talking too much. I am afraid he will let me." do you harm. He will do nothing while " I don't see how he can prevent you," my old father is living, but afterward " exclaimed Pierre. " You say he wants who knows? (To be c ontinued.) LOAFIN' 'ROUN' DE DEPO'. JUS' a loafin' 'roun' de depo', lis'enin' Folks a comin' en a goin', sayin', " goo'- ter de sweet refrains by, how-de-do " Ob de " ding dong " en de " toot toot," Mos' ob dem a lookin' chareful, en made by deni dere " chu chu dey's some dat's lookin' blue. trains. Waitin'-room is nevah empty th'u' de Banjo make de sweetes' music, w'en night en th'u' de day. hit's 'comp'nied by guitahs Folks is alius dere a waitin', fer de But dere music ain' a patchin' to dat ob train ter take um 'way. de " chu chu " cahs. Dat fah 'way look in dere dreamy eyes Like tcr lounge upon de platfo'm, lub dey sit 'roun' en pondah de rum'lin'-noise en din; Dey ain' thinkin' "bout things dat's Like ter watch dem big black engines near, dere thoughts is 'way on pullin' out en pullin' in. yondah. Lub dc brakemen and conductohs wid Jus' a loafin" 'roun' de depo', talk er- dere caps en buttons bright, boul yo' life sublime. Swingin' ter an' fro dere lantu'ns. Dal ain't in hit wid jus' loafin' 'roun' makin' signals in de night. de depo' all de time. —John Ausciiutz, in Exchange. A R R A New Freight Giant. The Heaviest and Most Powerful Loco- motive .of Its Type, for Use on the Santa Fe. -~ - THE Baldwin Locomotive Works recently sup- plied the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- way with two passenger and two freight locomoiives, which are the heaviest engines thus far built for their respective classes of service. While differing greatly in their proportions, the two designs are alike in principle, and have many features in common. The engines belong to what is known as the Mallet articulated type, first introduced abroad, in the year 1889, by M. Anatole Mallet, a noted French engineer. In the Mallet locomotive, the driving-wheels are divided into two groups, and there are four cylin- ders, two of- which drive the rear group of wheels, while the remaining two drive the forward group. The cylinders are arranged on the compound sys- tem : that is. the steam is first used in the rear, or high-pressure cylinders, and is then passed through the front, or low-pressure cylinders, after which it escapes up the stack in the usual manner. This arrangement provides a locomotive with a large amount of weight on the driving-wheels, but the wheel-base, or distance between the front and back wheels, is necessarily Jong. Therefore, to en- able the locomotive to traverse curves easily, the front frames are pivoted to the rear frames. The forward group of wheels is thus able to swing laterally, and the engine traverses sharp curves as easily as a locomotive of the ordinary type. Locomotive No. 1700 (shown in the illustration) has driving-wheels 63 inches in diameter, and weighs, without Its tender, 462,450 pounds. This is the heaviest engine thus far built for any railway, and its total • weight, including the tender, is approxi- mately 350 tons. The tenders of both locomotives are similar, and are of exceptional size. Each is carried on two six- wheeled trucks, and has capacity for 12,000 gallons of water and 4,000 gallons of fuel-oil. The boiler is 7 feet in diameter, works tuider a pressure of 220 pounds, and has a total heating sur- face, including the feed-water heater, of 6,631 square feet. There are also 1,745 square feet of superheat- ing and reheating surface. There are two high-pressure cylinders, 26 inches in diameter by 34-inch stroke, connected to eight coupled drivers, 63 inches in diameter, and two low- pressure cylinders, 38 inches in diameter by 34-inch stroke, connected to eight coupled 63-inch drivers. The pull on the draw-bar maximum power is 54 tons. It is no exaggeration to say that these locomo- tives mark a new era in American locomotive prac- tise. And we beg the reader to turn to the article, " Progress in Locomotive Building," in this issue, in which this great subject is treated at length. 434 — "which one of us is the guilty party?" THE STOLEN TEN THOUSAND. BY D. C. FREEMAN. What Happened on the Night That Denver Joe Made a Haul in No. 47, the Hoodoo. ^#r""^LIT of the dispatcher's office at into the river some night. You wouldn't S&§s&imllk the barns came Shorty Saun- see me on her if it wasn't a case of hav- ff^H^^M ders, looking so sour that ing to." mijfesEw they all smiled at him. Half Peters and Williams started to pull out. VsJS^ a dozen of the boys who were " So long," they cried at the doleful mu- just taking out their cars for torman. " Keep an extra bucket of sand the rush hours greeted Shorty with vary- aboard, and watch her on the crossings ing expressions of cheer. He had just maybe she won't be your funeral yet." been removed from the waiting-list fol- Car 47 was in bad repute with all em- lowing a long, enforced lay-off imposed ployees of the C. and S. Every man in by the superintendent for a slip of duty. the service was familiar with her seeming ' " Well, Shorty," they cried, " you're inanimate devilishness, and they strongly 1 on again, off again,' eh ? What's the disliked to have anything to do with her. luck? Guess you won't be getting any The feeling was shared from Bozzon, more ' oversleeps ' for a while." the big Boer boss of the barns, up to the Shorty glumly shook his head. " That office of General Manager Phillips. Her chump's sure got it in for me," he burst career was marked by pranks—destruc- out. " He's given me the hoodoo for the tive, expensive, and unaccountable. In the owl -hours on Thirteenth Street. I call office of the general manager, the offenses that tough on a man who's had to stand a of the " queered " car had brought things lay-off, and the kid and the missus both to such a pass that whenever 47 appeared sick." in the reports it meant a wreck. " Oh, well, Shorty, you know the best Her reputation for mishaps, and for of men have to go on the carpet now and hurting her motormen and conductors, " then. Did they hand you a hard bunch ? too, dated back to the days of the single- " So-so. Old man Said I took too many truckers and the old rheostat. With the chances. I told him, as they hadn't put passing of the bobtails came the exten- air-brakes on 47, the old hoodoo would sion of the urban lines fifteen miles into get into a smash-up that would cost some- the country, and 47 was one of the first thing before they threw her out. Hanged double-truckers,) but there always seemed old trap ! I wish she'd go over the bridge to be some misfit about her. 435 . 436 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. She celebrated her initial run on the Nancy declared his ultimatum. He had new double-tracked balloon route by worked a controller for fifteen years, and bumping into a damage suit in which the he said if he was ordered out with 47 company was bumped for seven thousand again he'd quit the service and go to dollars. The complainant was a pedler ranching it. of sauerkraut and home-made vinegar, Shorty Saunders wished from the bot- pity for whose condition and calling and tom of his heart that he could likewise racked constitution led the jury to render have asserted his independence. But he a verdict which jarred the company con- could not. Through no particular fault siderably. of his own, he had been in some little In that instance the motor controller trouble ; he had had to suffer the penalty got stuck, and could not be shut off in of a long lay-off, while at home there was time to prevent the collision. an instalment indebtedness doubling up With all her misfortunes, 47 bore a on him, and the missus and the kid both charmed existence, even passing through a sick for a tune. big fire practically unscathed, while many- Shorty felt that Skinner should have modern new cars were destroyed. given him a decent run, along with the In the press of business and shortage of other old men of the service. Shorty was cars, 47 had to be brought out for extra ambitious, and wished to rise to the dig- duty. nity of a place upon one of the elegant One Friday—it was the thirteenth day new coaches of Pullman pattern with a of June—47 unaccountably got the bit in long run, automatic brakes, compressed- her teeth and ran away with a new motor- air-whistling apparatus, and everything man. She dashed down the steep grade erf else to make the life of the man on the Sycamore Street like an arrow from a bow. front end ideal. At the foot of the hill there was a sharp Life on the vestibuled suburban ap- curve. A block straight beyond this curve, peared to Shorty to be one unalloyed and below a forty-foot embankment, rip- dream of delight. There was better pay ples the river. Car 47 cut a swath in it.; overtime Was profitable, and there through Widow Maloney's ' garden, de- was less danger of collision than in the molished the fences, and—stopped on the down-town district. To be set back very edge of the bank, amid a shower twisting the old-fashioned ratchet-brake of dirt, broken glass, and twisty splinters. on a dead little cross-town stub branch Chris Knudson, a giant in stature, held was heart-breaking. the brakes until the brass handle was bent. Although Saunders remonstrated gen- He was the last man taken out, powerless tly to Superintendent Skinner, and repre- to utter a word, and fit after that for only sented that he was entitled'to better de- flagman's duty. serts, having served three years, the super After that, 47 went into retirement : but was not impressed. when the demand for cars was strong " You've got no kick," the cold-blood- again, forth came she in fresh paint, and ed Skinner growled. " We've given you with the marks of her last trouble cov- a nine-hour run, and it's dead easy. I ered up. They did not think, however, to can't give everybody a new car. I want change the number. to see if you can keep 47 on the track un- The repairers readjusted the trucks and til we can get 114 out of the shops. Then I'll installed a motor that would roll her along see. Take the run, or leave it I The " at eighteen miles an hour. She toted her waiting-list's full ! thirty dollars a day's worth of human traffic for a month. Then she left the II. - - track and destroyed Popcorn Jimmy's lit- tle mint near the ball-park, for which the Am bey Bennet, head of the Bennet company paid roundly. Lumbering Company, of Bridal Veil John Nancy was sent out with 47 and Falls, fidgeted in the smoking-car of an a trailer with a picnic crowd, and the hoo- incoming train. He was enduring a bad doo scared a hundred people into teetotal - case of nerves. ism on the way home by trying to peal -Mr. Bennet's irritation had been at the through the span braces of the bridge. boiling-point for hours. The up-country THE STOLEN TEN THOUSAND; 437 express, which should reach the city at Accordingly, as Bennet was more than 4.30 inj the afternoon, was behind time. anxious for a wind-up of the negotiations, Although he had a journey of 'less than he drew twelve thousand dollars from the fifty miles to make on that train on that office and decided he would personally Saturday afternoon, great odds depended bring the funds to the city. He did not upon his being on time. relish the task of carrying this sum with CHRIS KNUDSON^HELD THE BRAKES UNTIL THE BRASS HANDLE WAS BENT. him ; but, as he would reach the city in broad daylight on the afternoon express, and as he would be on the train a matter of fifty - five minutes, he reasoned that there were few chances to take. Late trains invariably get to be later A big timber deal, which had been before they arrive. Mr. Bennet fumed pending for fully a year, had only that abuse upon the railwa)' company as time day been brought to a head. Flegel, the wore on and the hour of his appointment company's counsel, had rounded up a slipped by. bunch of squatters, and had shrewdly per- Ten thousand dollars of the sum he suaded them to relinquish title in favor of carried was wrapped up in a neat, com- the syndicate upon a cash basis. That pact package of fresh currency, enclosed the claimants might not have time to re- in a leather case by rubber bands. It consider the bargain/ the lawyer had reposed in a secret pocket of Mr. Ben- sent a hurry wire to Bennet to come in net's light top-coat. from the mills with the cash. The Union Depot steeple clock showed — 438 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. close to six when the train rolled into the to assure himself it was there, pushed his terminal yards. The lumber syndicate way more aggressively than the rest. president irritably answered the remarks Denver Joe was close upon him. In the of the conductor as he was preparing to crush, the crook was shoved plumb against leave the car. He pulled from his pocket the hurrying magnate, wfcb.se coat became a yellow slip of paper, and read several unfastened. As they jostled along—-Ben- " times the lawyer's message : Must have net being too preoccupied to take note the cash by half past four to-day." one lapel was deftly jerked aside, and At the same instant that Mr. Bennet Denver Joe located the treasure his in- read the single line, a pair of lynx eyes, stincts told him was there. A PAIR OF LYNX EVES, JUST -BEHIND HIM, TOOK IN THE WORDS. just behind him, took in the words. The They emerged upon the plaza. As his inquisitive optics belonged to a low- besetting luck would have it, not one un- browed young man with villainous phys- engaged cab was in sight, and Bennet iognomy. cursed. The uncautious Bennet never dreamed Just then car 47, on her way down-town that an accomplished pickpocket and from the barns to take her Thirteenth house-breaker was a fellow passenger in Street night run, with Shorty Saunders at the smoking-compartment. the controller and an extra man, stopped Denver Joe's lynx eyes took in the pos- at the plaza intersection. Impatient trav- sible meaning of the yellow slip of paper elers menacingly shook luggage and um- of the prosperous-looking party before brellas at her. The crowd clambered " " him. All his professional instincts aboard ; the conductor rang the gong and were at once aroused. He soon made up coached them all to move lively. his mind that the old gentleman was nerv- In the confusion, a woman dropped her ous about the " cash " mentioned in the purse. There was mofe confusion as the despatch. woman grew excited, and as craning necks Scarcely had Mr. Bennet reached the and bumping craniums came together in door of the coach before the Denver crook the general endeavor to assist her. Den- had located the exact whereabouts of the ver Joe gallantly helped the affrighted money. woman. His hat was pulled low, and his Through the corridors of the station eyes were flashing brightly. In the midst two buffeting streams of passengers of the general jostling into seats, Mr. flowed aggressively along. Mr. Bennet, Bennet felt somebody butt into him. and " " pressing his precious package to his breast turned to murmur Excuse me ! to no- ! "! ! — THE STOLEN TEN THOUSAND. 439 body iii particular. Then one lightning I'm sure! See, here, my coat's cut! I " flash of the wrist did the business. Den- demand a search be made ! ver Joe's hand covered the wallet. In an In his intense excitement Mr. Bennet instant it was transferred from Bennet's laid both hands on the shoulders of the coat to his sleeve. Rapidly he moved conductor, alternately shaking him and forward to place several passengers be- expostulating. tween himself and Bennet. Shorty Saunders, noticing there was The car traversed a block, and Joe tried trouble aboard, stopped the car, ran the front door—it was latched from the around to the back platform and entered. motorman's side Car men have to fight one another's bat- If he could slip out by the front plat- tles; so, without waiting to hear the mer- form and drop off—-that would be easy. its of the case, or what it was all about, But to get out and away from the, car lie jerked Bennet away and hurled him without attracting general attention by into his seat, adding : " getting out at that critical juncture—that " Rough house, eh. old horse? was not easy. " Says he's robbed. Shorty," said Ex- Saunders noticed some one on the in- traman Stevens. " How much did you side wanted to leave the car. He .mo- have?" J tioned: " Back platform." "Ten thousand dollars!/ fumed Ben- Then Denver Joe cast his eyes through net, getting to his feet and rushing at the aisle and estimated his chance of Shorty, who. however, held him. " And escape. I Call upon these people to witness the A man leaned over and spoke to "Mr. treatment I'm getting. I'll hold you and Bennet. your company responsible.''' Two seconds later, the crook noticed " You've dropped your money," chal- that the lumber magnate passed his hand lenged Stevens. " into the side-pocket of his coat—the wal- I had it when I stepped on tin's car, let was gone you grinning donkey," said Bennet; " and Mr. Bennet half ros*e from his seat, some one on this car has it." gasping The passengers began to work them- Instantly, every eye was turned curious- selves into varying stages of indignation, ly upon him. He clutched himself con- amazement, and alarm. Men and women vulsively at various places about his felt for their purses and jewels, and clothes. looked generally uncomfortable. " That man's goin' to have a 'polexy 'Two police officers hove in sight. fit," shrilly cried a large woman. In a few and mostly incoherent words Immediately everybody drew away from the situation was explained by Bennet. Bennet, as if he were stricken with the The announcement of who he was im- plague. pressed the police and put an entirely "I'm robbed!" he shrieked. "Con- different face upon the matter. " " ductor ! Every one on this car must be de- The conductor stoically collected and tained," said an officer at the door. " Some rang his fares and looked incredulous. money has been lost by this gentleman. Bennet executed a frantic dance in the Any person who objects to displaying the aisle, and then, down on his feet and contents of their pockets will please step hands on the floor of the car, he groped off the car." and searched. " I'll sue the company," growled one The passengers stared at one another. individual. " What a humiliation," tear- " Their faces said : Which one of us is the fully announced a flouncing woman. " " guilty party? This is brainy police work," sneered a " My money's gone! " Bennet shouted, drummer. " Quite the regular procedure. turning red and white. " I'm robbed They ought to call the wagon, and cart us within the last two minutes on this car! to the station on suspicion." Conductor— Denver Joe sat still in his own corner " \\ hat's that? Robbed ! Are you cer- and smiled demurely. It was going to be tain?" a close pinch for him. As the searching " Certain I Certain, man ! Yes, yes process began an ingenious plan for dis- " —a 440 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. posing of the well-filled wallet flashed this crafty guy has a confederate— through him. woman." Working the packet from his coat- " Y'ou're making a big mistake this sleeve, he carelessly dropped it down be- time," said Denver Joe, with evident con- tween the seat-wall and window-casing, sciousness of innocence. " I'm an honest and watched the perturbation of the other working man, and— passengers during the polite examination, " it " Cut out—cut it out ! sternly com- as if it held no interest for him. manded the Slueeoat. " Now, you know Notwithstanding the murmured com- all about this, and you'll have to tell us plaints against this high-handed proce- where that money is." " dure, the passengers yielded up their pos- Not me. I can't tell ydu. You won't sessions to the gaze of Sergeant Anderson. get that out of me, because I know noth- Hand luggage was opened to the in- ing about it." specting eyes of the officer and Bennet. Mr. Bennet expressed his doubts about The practised eye of the minion of the the dishonesty of Joe, but he followed the it in officers law thought beheld Denver Joe a to the police station ; while car 47. suspicious character, and accordingly worth ten thousand dollars more than she took more liberties with him than with was a quarter of an hour before, rolled the others. on down-town. " " Hal-lo ! drawled Anderson, in a Denver Joe was put through the sweat- " tone that Denver Joe dreaded. Have, ing process for two hours, but the results you seen anything of this gentleman's were trifling. He told a straightforward " pocketbook ? story of his arrival in the city, claiming There was a rippling of smiles at the that he had not paid any attention to Mr. pleasantry- Bennet. Denver Joe's only fear was that they Taken in connection with Mr. Bennefs might have a picture of him in the rogues' own statement that he had boarded the gallery, and arrest him on general princi- car with the money and, a few seconds ples. Joe said he did not know anything later, missed it, together with the further about anybody's pocketbook but his own. apparent fact that the thief, if on that car, " What's vour name, and where are you had had no opportunity to dispose of the from?" roll, constituted, in the opinion of. the " Frank Thompson." chief, " a baffling case of robbery." " Well, Frank," good-humoredly re- The following morning, when Bennet marked the sergeant, " will you come with reached the station, the chief greeted him " us for a few moments? with the discouraging information that ^ " What's the matter ? What do you there were no clues. " want me for? "Unless," he added. " you have thought " Just want to see you, that's all," of some circumstances between the time soothingly said the officer, leading him you left the train and reached the street- away. " I think we can dig up a record car that would help to throw light on the of you. No harm, if your last clearance matter. I believe your coat was rifled is all right. Have you seen this man before you came to the car." before, Mr. Bennet?" " No," somewhat r.esentfully declared " " " No," replied the magnate ; not that Bennet. It was an extraordinarv emer- I can remember." gency. I carried my wits with me. I " Well, he came in on the train with know that I had that money with me " you, didn't he? when I took my seat in the i street-car. •' Yes—that is, I guess so." There was, as usual, a big crowd and " It may be that you did not have the great confusion and, knowing that it money when you left the train, then?" was risky, I was very careful." " Oh, no. I was too careful to forget " Don't advertise until you hear from it an instant, officer. I am certain that I me," said the chief at the close of the " had the wallet in my pocket when I board- interview. We'll keep this fellow un- ed the street-car." der surveillance after letting him go " Be careful what you say," whispered it may be he has a woman accompli'.-. the officer aside. The chances are that We arc apt to strike a clue that will — THE STOLEN TEN THOUSAND. 441 obviate the necessity for paying a large feeling that he was being watched by a reward. Besides," here the chief grew fly hound of the force. If he could " chesty, my detectives can find the mon- only locate number 47. in which re- ey if it is to be found." posed his golden, prize I A little piece of crooked wire and, he could soon re- III. cover that precious wallet. Joe found his way to the street end- The usual inquisitorial device and ing at the Union Depot. There he lin- promise of reward failed to move Denver gered for an hour, but 47 did not appear. Joe, who chuckled He fancied he to himself that he saw the conduc- was the real mas- tor on a passing ter of the situa- car, but discreet- tion. ly got out of Although in- sight before be- formed that the ing recognized. loser would pay He stalked up- a big sum for in- town again, ta- formation leading king a careful, as to the recovery of well as most un- the roll, besides usual, interest in insinuating im- passing street- munit'y from cars. prosecution. Joe " I'm a b i g seemed to know chump," audibly no m o r e than declared Joe to when first taken himself, coming into custody. to a dead stop. He knew the " Me out of this of the po- ways business ! Pshaw, lice. They were it's the Central "as unreliable as a and Suburban, w o m a n in the isn't it? An' me " lifting " busi- a fool to stand ness. He would here when I can have n o n e of hit the' phoney- them. The police wire and find out usually extracted THIS IS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.'' where 47's run is the important in- 1 to-night." formation from a poor devil in a jail Going into a dingy saloon, Joe asked cell with " boo—boo—the—pen— for permission to use the telephone. life " to him. " This is the car-barns," said a gruff Then they captured the booty, the voice on the wire. "What's wanted?" public approbation and the reward. " I want the superintendent." " When they did see fit to let a prisoner Who'd you suppose this is? I'm go free he got no consideration—not the man." even the price of an honest man's meal. "That's all right. This is the police Well, if that little roll lying between department." " the ribs of 47 ever got back into his " Well? " hands it would be his, surely! No ustr Where's car 47's run?" for him to tell the police where it was, "What d'ye want to know for? I for that would be his commitment to the s'pose she's smashed, something again penitentiary, beyond a doubt. and the newspapers are after it, eh?" On Monday afternoon, Denver Joe " That's the business of this depart- " was much surprised to find himself re- ment. Where is it? leased from the tank. " Oh, 47's on the Thirteenth and He wandered .up the street with a Montgomery Avenue branch. Good-bv." " 442 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " Good-by." "What do you want?" demanded Two hours later found Denver Joe Shorty. "' You're a ohump if you're trudging along the cross-town branoh. looking for dough on this run." " Car 47, he noticed, carried no con- None of your business what 1 want. ductor after 6 o'clock, and the revenue I've lost something inside, and I'm go- consisted largely of transfers. It was ing after it ! Just mind your own " merely an accommodation line and the affairs ! Stop her ! outer terminal was at the foot of Bea- "Not much," ejaculated Saunders, con Hill. It was only a short run-and, game to the core. as there were few passengers, his actions Not seeing any gun in the play yet, he would be all the more conspicuous. thought he could take his chances in a rough-and-tumble with his hold-up " pas- IV. senger. " You've got a funny way of looking It was a thick night, with a blanket of for things, friend. Lost articles can be fog pressing down on the town. The found at the office of the company. Let's tracks were slippery with half-frozen see your face. Maybe 'tis a joke." mist. The lights glowed dimly. The Suddenly, Saunders snatched away the damp cold, sweeping onto the vestibule, handkerchief. " Well, you're a bird— made Saunders quake to the marrow of The reply was a stout crack from his bones. The headlight of 47 winked Denver Joe's fist squarely- upon Saun- fitfully. The current flowed erratically. ders's jaw. The doughty motorman As he was proceeding out on the reeled backward against the window of 11.45 trip, the headlight blinked the vestibule, smashing the glass and through the fog and fell upon the fig- cutting a gash in his forehead. The ure of a man at the crossing. His hat blood streamed into his eyes. was set down over his eyes and, as he The sting of the cut brought Shorty's threw up his hand as a signal to stop, fighting blood welling. The controller it seemed uncanny. lever came off with a jerk. Shorty The car lurched forward over the un- swung it and delivered a smashing blow even crossing. Shorty pulled on the upon the highwayman's skull. ' Denver brake to stop her. Joe went down with a cry. He tumbled Just then the light threw a stronger backward off the platform. glare and revealed a white-cloth mask Saunders's senses were whirling. In over the chin and mouth of the figure on vain did he try to replace the lever on the ground. the motor-box controller. It fell from Saunders's first thought was of high- his nerveless hand. waymen. A misguided one he was, at all He sank fainting on the platform, and events, for the haul of a gun-metal 47, with rare intelligence and freakish watch and eighty cents, Shorty reflected, wisdom, shook off the burden of the body would not be lucrative for the calling of near a lonely crossing and ran on her way a first-class road-agent. untrammeled. A glance over his shoulder confirmed The course of the car was decorous his suspicions—the intending passenger enough until she approached the inter- was disguised. secting cross-tracks of the independent Shorty let fly the handle of the brake system. At this point an old, abandoned and threw the controller lever over al- switch connected with the double tracks most to full speed. The car responded of Montgomery Avenue. The rails were with a fierce leap ahead.. The black half submerged under dirt and gravel. shadow, however, caught the guide-rail They had not been used since the pioneer and hung on. His feet slipped and his line was constructed. head cracked against the corner of the When 47 struck the split-rail section vestibule of the car. His hat flew off, at full tilt, the flanges of the front exposing his face. wiheels took the old turn gracefully and " Curse you!" he roared, as he strug- threw the long unused frog over. gled on the platform. "Stop the car! With satanic perversity she rolled over " Oi I'll knock your head off ! onto the down-town track of the rival THE STOLEN TEN THOUSAND. 443 street - car system, the" spring switch dropping back into place as she started up the avenue on a five-per^cent grade. Fifty- yards away from -the switch the trolley-wheel slipped off and 47 stopped. Then the law of gravity asserted itself. She fjegan to' roll down grade. She gathered ""momentum quick- ly. Her brake-chains clattering free, she charged forward in the murky atmosphere as if seeking an enemy to destroy. The trolley pole bobbed and swayed and struck out menacingly in every direction. Fastenings were torn from poles. Wires tumbled. Guy SHORTY SWUNG IT AND DELIVERED A SMASHING BLOW. lines burned and sizzled. Louder and louder roared the motor cogs. Car A shower of splinters and glass filled 47 passed the turnout switches, careened the air as portions of the dismembered fearfully on the curves, but kept to the car demolished the fence. main track. Her trucks were curled up in hope- Telephone lines were set blazing as the less confusion. flying trolley-pole rasped live wires. Her brake-rods were rammed through Sudden blazes started, awakening and the mass of the wreck, while her motors frightening dozens of households. The lay in smoking pieces on the curb and fire department was called out. her entrails were piled up like flotsam of One of the motors exploded under the the sea. _ - the terrific voltage pressure of of sud- V. den contacts. Persons abroad on the streets were appalled by the remarkable About tour o'clock that morning, vision of the veritable chariot of fire Shorty Saunders was picked up, half winging its way recklessly through the dead from exposure and loss of blood, public thoroughfares. and taken to a hospital. At the foot of Montgomery Avenue, While lie tossed upon a white cot, the tracks curved onto the trunk line. fighting imaginary foes in fevered de- Here, there were cars from four direc- lirium, workmen gathered up the wreck tions, crossing and turning on a perfect of the hoodoo. gridiron of tracks. Into the network 47 In the last of a pile of window- plunged, the sparks flying from her frames and a section of the battered wheels, her motor - box ablaze, and the runaway was extricated, the next day, "a scrape of the flanges on the guide-rail leather package filled with currency. singing her death-knell. Bozzon, the barn boss, took a long She tore loose the curving rails and look when he examined the package. He then bounded diagonally to the oppo- wiped his eyes again and again as he ex- site corner—an elegant home of brown- pressed his astonishment. The money stone fronted by two large spruce-trees was duly turned in at headquarters and and a yard guarded by a neat fence. Her claimed by Bennet, but no one connected course was set unerringly for the first with the finding of the package could of the big trees, which cut her through offer the least explanation of how it as a knife. came to be in the wreck. " . 444 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. General Manager Phillips was per- lated and the missing treasure found, he plexed- beyond measure. This perplex- was willing to make a clean breast of it. ity was increased by two circumstances For a consideration, he would substan- while they were all waiting—and hoping tiate his story and show up in person. very earnestly—for the recovery of This seemed plausible enough, until Saunders. an investigation set afoot by the general Some days later the general manager manager cleared up the matter. On received an anonymous letter through the day that Saunders was able to come the mails. He threw it in the waste- down to the office of the general man- basket and, having thought about it a ager, a Pinkerton man corralled the second tune, dug it out and sent for the clever Denver Joe and he confessed. detectives. Superintendent Skinner had been in- The unsigned communication called clined to think Saunders had been drink- his attention to the fact that the man ing on the night of the runaway, and had guilty of the stupendous robbery of $10,- let 47 get away from him. This was 000 from the lumber magnate was the sternly denied by the general manager. motorman, who had picked up the money And Shorty sat up and took notice when it was lost and 'had hidden it in when Phillips said: the car. " Bennet, the man who lost this mon- Another circumstance that puzzled 'ey, has left in my hands a little remem- the general manager was a newspaper brance of $600 for you. You didn't article which professed to have inside know, of course," continued Phillips, knowledge of the plot of a great rob- with his keen eyes fixed upon the motor- bery that had been planned. The rob- man, " you didn't know that the man bers had been foiled, the paper said, and who lifted the roll from Bennet was on had seized a street-car to hasten their es- your car and, when about to be discov- cape from the city. ered with the roll on him, dropped it in Denver Joe conducted his anonymous the ribs of 47, as well as the tiny pair correspondence from an adjoining city, of shears with which the job was done. and announced he was ready to take his " The man had no tune to escape, and share of the reward for testifying against got rid of the money in that way. Can the thief. He gave as a reason for not you identify the man who tried to stop denouncing the thief at the time that he your car on Thirteenth Street the night " expected the motorman to split with him. you got hurt? Hearing that the car had been annihi- That I can," declared Saunders. "BLONDIE" REYNOLDS MADE UP TIME. HP HE New York Central's fast train from Conductor Thomas Lawlor and his right- -I- New York to St. Louis arrived on hand man, Charles Scanton, " held the train schedule time, says the St. Louis Globe- on the track," and in a few minutes after Democrat, and after a loss of thirty-five min- leaving Mattoon the passengers were on their utes was made on the eastern division, it was feet in the aisles with' the trainmen, watches up. to the Mattoon division to make up for in hand, cheering as each mile was gained. the lost time of the twenty-four-hour run. At Granite City a shout went up. " Blon- " W hen it became apparent that something die Reynolds had done the seemingly im- had to be done, the New York Central offi- possible. He had not only made up the cials sent out a call for Engineer " Blondic- thirty-five minutes, but he had put the big Reynolds. He was out on the line, but was train twelve minutes ahead of lime. When soon under way to Mattoon, and when the she struck the maze of the terminal tracks west-bound train steamed in he was ready to he was fifteen minutes ahead, but there was receive her, grim determination in Iris face a little loss in getting into the station. as he climbed into the cab. Not enough, though, to lose the day. There Then began such a feat as will go down in was still eight minutes leeway when the ob- the history of fast trains for many years to servation-car shot under the roof of the come. He and his fireman held the engine. L'nion Station. — Possibilities of the Gyroscope BY C. F. CARTER. THE present curiosity among railroad men. incited by the publicity that has recently been given to the gyroscope or monorail car, leads us to ask Mr. Carter to write a fair-minded and conservative article based on the adaptability of this new contrivance to railroad service. Many railroad men have been led to believe that the Brennan and Scherl inventions are destined to revolutionize present railroad conditions. Such is far from the case. Although they certainly rank with the greatest inventions of the day, they are far from being taken seriously, and no railroad man need have any fear that the near future will be altered by the principles of gyrostatic balancing. The two-rail system will be in operation for some time to come. How the Gyroscope Monorail Car Operates. A Principle That Is Not New. What Some Experts Have to Say About It As a Practical Railroad Issue. ~1P3^^J\ YER since Louis Brennan ex- Undoubtedly it is one of the most re- hibited in London last fall markable inventions of this or any age ^^ScMM a car which runs upon a but is it practical and will it pay? ^S^IP* single rail, and is prevented This is a question that must be asked ^^r|||\iW from falling to either side when anything new is brought out that is by the resistance of two intended to make a complete revolution gyroscopes carried on the car, and Mr. in established principles. Richard Scherl. of Berlin, exhibited a From what we can gather, it is evident similar contrivance, much has been pub- that, speaking in the kindliest way, the lished to make the traveling public be- answer must be, "No." lieve that the day of the two-rail track is The case of the gyroscope car was ad- about over and the era o| the monorail is mirably summed up in six sentences in about to dawn. the Engineering News of May 30, 1907. Indeed, the inventions of Messrs. Bren- after Mr. Brennan had first exhibited his nan and Scherl have been heralded so invention and had made such extrava- fully that the humble track-walker has" gant prophecies concerning its future de- been led to believe that the day is coming velopment. As a prominent consulting when his weekly wage will be cut in half mechanical engineer and the operating because he has to walk along one rail in- vice-president of one of the trunk-lines stead of two. told me substantially the same thing, The car propelled by gyroscopic mech- though at greater length in expressing anism is far from being 'anything but an their views on the matter, in the month experiment, and as yet is so infinitesimal of January, 1910, the briefer statement a factor in changing the standard princi- may be worth recalling. Here it is: ples of railroading that its future is ex- " That the feat is a scientific marvel of tremely doubtful. the first magnitude will certainly be 445 : 446 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. agreed to by all. Turning now to the car will naturally come to us, and we, projects for the practical application of as well as the inventor, will be benefited." the invention, we confess ourselves unable to see any prospect of the use of such a For Military Purposes. system of transport as a competitor of the ordinary two-rail railway. Mr. Berg's views are sound and con- " Granting all the claims of the in- servative. He thinks it not unlikely that ventor, it appears impossible that any the first practical application of the gyro- such system could seriously be consid- scope monorail system may be for mili- ered for a high-speed line, since it would tary purposes. Next, he thinks it might be inherently more dangerous than the be found peculiarly adapted 'for subway ordinary two-rail system. The proposi- construction. In a close-fitting tube the tion of the inventor to operate cars of thing simply couldn't fall over, if it extraordinary widths on this system may tried. Finally, he is not certain but what also be set down as an absurdity. The it may be found to have speed possibili- chief practical field for the invention, if ties. But he makes no predictions. the claims for it are substantiated on fur- Mr. Berg has acquired" the habit of ther investigation, would appear to be taking improbable things in hand and for the construction of very light, cheap making them work. He was concerned lines for handling traffic of small volume. in the manufacture o£ the first automatic " Some form of transportation line pistol, the first successful automobile, the which can be built and maintained at first submarines, and he took up the busi- small cost is needed in a thousand places, ness affairs of the Wright brothers, the such as mining and logging railroads, first manufacturers of flying - machines, pioneer and military lines for contractors' when they went to Europe. use, and on ranches and plantations." The Scherl gyroscope car, which Mr. Berg brought to America, was exhibited A Conservative View. in Brooklyn in January. It was a work- ing model, 18 feet long and + feet wide, Hart O. Berg, who brought the Scherl weighing 5,000 pounds. It had seats for car to America, takes a conservative view four passengers and a motorman. It was of the invention which will go far toward mounted on two trucks, each having two restoring the confidence in it that has small wheels, tandem. been sacrificed by oversanguine enthusi- The wheels had double flanges to keep asts. He said them on the single rail. The car was " We are not advancing the gyroscope driven by ordinary motors, taking the monorail car as a perfected invention, current through shoe's in contact with but only as an idea that is worth devel- copper wires on each side of the rail. oping. We have brought the car over here to get it before American engineers How They Work. to let them get their wits to work upon it. " We are not going to form any stock The interest in the car, of course, cen- companies, and we are not going io build tered in the gyroscopes, of which there any monorail lines yet. We have had were two suspended inside the frame of several inquiries from parties who want- the car beneath the seats. The gyro- ed a line on our system for A'arious pur- scopes are simply tops consisting of poses. steel disks about sixteen inches in diame- '' We'll build them all right if any one ter, mounted on vertical axes, and hence' wants to pay the price, but our prices are revolving in horizontal planes like any not framed to invite business. Instead, other tops, but enclosed in steel vacuum we always cordially recommend the pres- chambers. The gyroscopes made up 5.5 ent type of two-rail line. per cent of the weight of the car. " As we hold the basic patents for the The descriptions of the apparatus were gyroscope, we can affofd to play a wait- "more remarkable for what they omitted ing game ; and that is precisely what we than for what they revealed ; for the de- are doing. Any one who invents an im- tails are guarded secrets at present. provement of any kind for the gyroscope- Each gyroscope was driven by an ; POSSIBILITIES OF THE GYROSCOPE. 447 electric motor of three- tenths of a horse- pursues its course, was the first to an- power, mounted directly on the shaft. nounce his discovery, and he was able to The gyroscopes turned in opposite di- obtain a patent on the plan for enclosing rections at the rate of 7,000 revolutions the gyroscope in a vacuum chamber. a minute, as was shown by speed-indica- Mr. Scherl and his collaborator, Paul tors in front of the motorman. Froelisch. however, got ahead of Mr. .At first the inventors tried running the Brennan when they discovered that the gyroscopes in the open air. This re- gyroscope needed a little help. This was quired 27 amperes, at 110 volts; but provided by an apparatus which they when they tried a vacuum two and a half called a " servo-motor." amperes sufficed. When the car leans to one side and the gyroscope tries to pull it back, the Its First Application. " servo-motor." by means of a delicately adjusted series of brass levers enclosed An interesting feature was that the in a glass case, automatically feeds itself gyroscopes were pivoted crosswise of the some electric current which generates car, so that they would tilt forward and power, by which a pull is exerted by backward freely ; but could not move means of levers and reach-rods on the sidewise. gyroscopes to tilt them farther over, and The peculiar gyroscopic principle, thus intensify their action. which enables a top or wheel set to spin- As the car returns to an even keel, the ning in a given plane to hold to that current is automatically shut off from the plane, regardless of the laws of gravita- servo-motor. The gyroscopes are con- tion, has been understood and utilized nected by means of toothed quadrants, for a good many years. so that they both tilt together at the Foucalt, the French physicist, made same angle. use of it in an experiment half a century ago to demonstrate the rotation of the Props for Stops. earth. Soon after L. Obry. of Trieste, France, There are props on each side of a car, invented a steering-gear for torpedoes, in which are put down to support a car which a gyroscope was used to control when a stop is made. the rudder and hold the torpedo on a The operation of the gyroscopes is en- predetermined course. Obry's invention tirely independent of the running of the made the torpedo an effective instrument car. They keep right on spinning, no of war, and it is still steered by his ap- matter whether the* car is running for- paratus. ward or backward, fast or slow, or is In 1S56 Professor Piazzi Smyth used standing still. Their function is solely the, gyroscopic principle in a device in- to keep the car upright. tended to secure a steady support for an Their axis of rotation is normally at astronomical telescope at sea. right angles to the track. If the car tips to either side, the upper ends of the gyro- Used on Ships. scopes rotate slowly in a circle, just like a spinning-top, in an effort to bring their Dr. Otto Schlick used a gyrostat in an axes of rotation parallel to the mono- experiment in 1905 to diminish the roll- rail. The circle described by the top ing of ships. Although the experiment grows smaller until it disappears. This " was an unqualified success, no vessel has kind of movement is called preces- yet been equipped with a gyrostat. sional motion." It is a law of gyro- Finally Louis Brennan, ?t England, scopic motion that, if precession is and August Scherl, of Germany, work- hastened, the body rises in opposition to ing independently and unknown to each gravity. other, tried the gyroscope as a means of The gyroscopes, being rigidly attached maintaining the equilibrium of a mono- to the car, are practically a part of it rail car. Mr. Brennan, who, by the way, and the servo-motor by accelerating pre- is the inventor of a torpedo* which is cession causes the depressed side of the steered by wires, which it unrolls as it car to rise promptly. As it rises it causes 448 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. even keel on reaching a tangent. In other words, the gyroscopes did for the monorail car what superelevation and easement curves do for two-rail trains. That the gyroscope will con- tinue to revolve from its own momentum after the current is shut off, was proved when a fuse burned out as the car was being taken out on the floor. It made the circuit of the rink and returned to its stall with current supplied to only STANDARD TRACK MONORAIL TRACK Courtesy of the "Scientific American." ° f the gyrOSCOpeS. On reacll- old and new method of rounding curves. ing the stall one gyroscope was making its usual 7,000 revolu- a precessional movement in the opposite tions a minute, while the other was only direction, which checks any tendency to making 4,500. But they held the car oscillats. steady. This process had an uncanny effect. When the car was brought out on the Noise and Vibration. track that had been laid around Clermont Skating Rink, in Brooklyn, and left The humming of" the gyroscopes makes standing empty, it would sometimes sway a loud roar, which sounds much like a slightly to and fro like a man who had planer dressing, a knotty board. They celebrated not wisely, but too much. also cause a vibration that to a passenger The weight of five or six men always possessed of nerves is intolerable. Until had a sobering effect, however, and the the fearful noise and vibration are elim- car would make the circuit of the rink inated the gyroscope car can hardly be steadily enough, always leaning inward considered desirable for passenger traffic. in going around a curve in proportion to Many preposterous claims for the gy- load and speed. roscope monorail system have been made in print. Whenever they are questioned Heavy Side Rises. the doubter is reminded that all sorts of dire failures were predicted for the rail- If one or more of the passengers threw road less than a century ago. But the themselves on the side of the car, instead circumstances are totally different. of upsetting the heavy side would rise. The world did not know anything at When running empty the car would all about railroads in the second decade lean in farther on curves than when of the last century, and may therefore be loaded, always straightening up on an pardoned fori failing to grasp at once Courte^v^pf the " Scientific American." VIEW SHOWING GYROSCOPIC MOVEMENTS. If the table I representee platform at car) be tilted transversely, the cyroscopic fly-wheel will tilt fore or aft accordinB to the direction of its rotation, and there will be develcped a strong resistance to the move- ment of the table. This fore-and-aft movement is called the precession. POSSIBILITIES OF THE GYROSCOPE. 449 their possibilities. But a great deal has been learned since ; and while a great deal more remains to be learned, certain elementary things are so well understood that there is no excuse for not recognizing the limitations they impose. To begin with, the monorail car is wholly dependent upon the gyroscope to keep it upright. While a well-built gyroscope is perhaps no more likely to break down than any other well-built machine, it is certainly not less liable to do so. It must, there- fore, be considered as an added element of danger not possessed by the two-rail road. As for the extravagant claims for great speed that have been made in behalf of the gyroscope car, it must not be forgotten that there are certain obstacles to overcome in maintaining high speed that are always the same, whether the car runs on one rail or on six. One of these is atmospheric resistance. For moderate speed this is relatively unimportant; but on getting up to sixty miles an hour or more it becomes a thing to be considered. ^ At 110 miles an hour the atmospheric resistance is nearly four times as great as at 60 miles an hour. To drive a car, 30 feet wide and 10 feet high, at the rate of 200 miles an hour (which has been soberly pro- posed as quite within the bounds of possibility for. the monorail) it would be necessary to over- come an atmospheric resistance of 60,000 pounds, which alone would require 32,000 horse- power. It has been claimed that the monorail car can go around phe- nomenally sharp curves. As a matter of fact, the ordinary two- rail car is hauled around curves on wharves and docks, in city streets and elsewhere, quite as sharp as any the monorail is al- leged to be able to negotiate. 5 R R 450 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. But these curves are taken cautiously and been explained by those who talk of run- at slow speed. ning from 120 to 200 miles an hour. The fascination which the monorail Climbing the Grades. has exercised upon the imagination of inventors is one of the most curious The tendency of a monorail truck, things in the history of the railroad. Al- traveling at high speed, to go straight most from the very beginning men have ahead on striking a curve, is not likely sought to improve the railroad by taking to be any less than that of the ordinary away half its rails. truck. The single wheel will be just as prone to cliinb the rail and land the An Old Story. train in a corn-field as two wheels travel- ing side by side. Thomas Telford, the great Scottish It is rather difficult to see just how engineer who played so conspicuous a the gyroscope is going to enable mono- part in developing internal improvements rail cars to climb any steeper grades in England and Sweden, first proposed than are possible for ordinary cars. the monorail as long ago as 1831. Since A car cannot go beyond a certain limit, then a continuous succession of inventors no matter how many rails it runs on or has patented various forms of single-rail how its wheels are arranged, unless one railways, all of which were to revolu- of the wheels happen to be a cog-wheel tionize the world's transportation sys- traveling in a rack. tems, but none of which has done so. The steepest grade climbed by an ad- In 1877 F. I. Rowan read a paper be- hesion locomotive on a railroad handling fore the Society of Arts in London, ad- miscellaneous traffic was ten per cent. vocating the building of monorail lines That feat was accomplished on a tem- as pioneer railways for undeveloped and porary track on the Baltimore and Ohio difficult countries. in 1S52. The achievement has not been In 1883 Charles Lartigue, a French duplicated since, and no one wants to engineer, built primitive monorail lines duplicate it. in Algeria and Tunis that were operated Railroad men are not lying awake by horse-power. nights studying out ways to build lines F. B. Behr took up Lartigue's idea, with steeper gradients ; their one idea is building an experimental line near Vic- to reduce the grades they have, and they toria Street, Westminster, in 1SS6. Two are rendered unhappy by a grade of one 3'ears later he built a short line from per cent. Listowel to Balh/bunion, Ireland, which was operated for several years. Calling on Imagination. In 1897 Behr had an exhibition mono- rail at the Brussels Exposition, running Even if, by the magic of the gyroscope, cars 60 feet long, 10 feet 10 inches wide, cars could be enabled to climb abnormal and weighing 70 tons. On one occasion grades, the feat could be accomplished he claimed to have attained a speed of only at an expenditure of power out of 83 miles an hour. all proportion to the results. As for the proposal to bridge wide- And There Are Others. chasms simply by stretching a cable, upon which the monorail is to cross like a Lartigue and Behr's system was real- slack-rope walker, with the gyroscopes ly not a monorail, but a five-rail arrange- instead of a balancing-pole to maintain ment. The principal rail. Jrom which its equilibrium, no engineer will take that the weight of the car was suspended, was too seriously. placed 4 feet above the ground, at the And. no matter how -many rails a train apex of A-shaped supports, one meter runs on, the imperative necessity of being apart. able to stop quickly, as well as to get up On either side of these A-shaped sup- speed, remains unchanged. Just how the ports were two guide - rails, on which braking power of a car is to be increased wheels ran to prevent oscillation. There by robbing it of half its wheels has not were eight vertical double-flanged wheels : POSSIBILITIES OF THE GYROSCOPE. 451 4 feet 6 inches in diameter and 32 small side winds, and curving track. Upon guide-wheels. seeing a practical demonstration of this fact, and submitting the car, as the An attempt was made to build a Behr writer recently did, to various severe monorail line between Manchester and and 1 successfully endured tests, it is nat- Liverpool in 1901, on which the usual ural, in the first moment of enthusi- miraculous speed—which seems to be an asm,, to predict an immediate and wide- inseparable feature of all monorail spread application of the system, or schemes — was to be maintained, but even the eventual abandonment of the nothing came of it. present two-rail track and trains in Behr also tried to get up a company in favor of the monorail type. 1906 to build a monorail line from New Sober second thought, however, must convince any thoughtful and practical York City to Coney Island ; but that mind that, in spite of the brilliant re- also fell through, and since then nothing sults of the recent demonstration, the further has been heard of his system. mojiorail gyroscopic car, in the nature of things, can have only a more or less Other Systems. limited application under present day conditions. On the outskirts of New York City a It seems to us that if there is a future monorail line, three miles long, is being for the new system, it will be found in built from Bartow to Belden Point on the construction of pioneer railways through undeveloped City Island. While the weight of the country, and particularly through mountainous and car is actually carried on a single rail, it hilly country where the line must of is really a three-rail system. In order to necessity be very circuitous. The self- maintain the car in an upright position, adjusting qualities of the car enable it two light suspended rails are carried on to run around curves which would be supports above the track. altogether impossible for a two-track' Wheels bearing against these balance railroad. The monorail track could be the car, and also serve the purpose of located around a hill or bluff, through trolley-poles. which a two-track railroad would have to pass with heavy and expensive ex- The Tunis system, as it is called, is cavation. Moreover, for this class of very similar to the E. Moody Boynton railroad a much lighter car would be system, which was extensively exploited practicable and extremely high speeds in 1899, but which, nevertheless, met the would not be demanded. This decrease usual fate of the monorail. in weight and speed would mean a The only true monorail system in ac- great reduction in first cost and subse- tual operation to-day is the Langen sus- quent cost of maintenance of the pension line from Elberfeld to Barmen, system:. If Germany. It is an elevated structure, the new type should demonstrate in service of this kind its commercial from which cars 38 feet long are sus- practicability, it is quite conceivable pended from a single rail instead of run- that it would be gradually applied to the ning on two rails above the structure. more important lines of travel, and If the monorail, having the moral eventually to the main trunk roads. support of the gyroscope, can succeed in living down such a past as that, it will Opinion of an Engineer. be welcomed by engineers and railroad men alike. S. L. F. Deyo, chief engineer of the Interliorough Rapid Transit Company, What an Authority Says. said, after seeing the car in operation " I do not think the monorail car has The Scietitific American, in a recent passed out of the experimental stage yet, editorial, says: but that is not saying that I do not be^. lieve that some clay it will come into use Brcnnan and Scherl, each working in- for certain kinds of travel. If there were dependently of the other, have recently collision, for instance, monorail proved that a car containing a pair of a and a gyroscopes can be run upon a single car were derailed, it would probably turn rail and maintain its stability under turtle. In such a case I would prefer to varying conditions of eccentric loading, be on board of a two-rail car." A tie is the shortest distance between two rails. A section-boss is the gang's substitute for a dictionary. " " The last spike is the signal for repairs to commence. The president of a railroad is the public's idea of " the easiest way." A section-hand is a man who is quite indifferent to rain, shine, or work. Rolling-stock is what a railroad always has either too much or too little of. An air-brake is a thing used by newspapers on which to place re- sponsibility. Railroads are helpless institutions, devised to give legislators a chance to become popular. A right-of-way is a strip of private property, trespassers on which cannot be prosecuted. A block is that forbidden space of track lying defiantly between a passenger and his dinner. Rails are things made by the steel trust for the purpose of indicating the prosperity of the country. A suburban smoking-car is a helpless corporation's retort. It fore- shadows the wrath to come. A train is the maximum of speed multiplied by the maximum of safety, producing the minimum of commendation. A railroad commission is a party of inquisitive gentlemen commis- sioned to pick up a few of the rudiments of railroading. They never do it. 45-' : ; HOW KOMO BILL WENT EAST BY WILLIAM DAVID BALL. He Made Up His Mind To Quit the Cattle Country—and He Did. iHE fall round-up was over. told of Komo's new plan. Komo him- The last drive of a thousand self was absent—gone to the ranch, six steers had been made to miles away, to see the foreman. The cook Wolcott, the shipping point. related what had passed between himself Komo Bill, night-wrangler and Komo Bill, and also gave his opinion for the T. Y. outfit, sat on about the matter. his heels near where the cook was wash- " Komo'll never get to Chicago with- ing dishes, and stared moodily into the out he rides a box car," he said. " He camp-fire. can't borrow no money, an' the cattle- " Say, Chub," he began, by way of trains has all gone. What's he goiir to opening a conversation, " don't you ever do?" get tired a cookin', an' a washin' crock- Various plans, of more wit than sense, ery?" were suggested by the sympathetic lis- " Naw," answered Chub; "I'd rather teners. They were used to Komo Bill's " sling chuck than get shook up the way lay-offs," as they called them ;' but till you do sometimes. What you got on now he had manifested no desire to travel " your mind, Komo? farther east than Denver. That he should Komo looked up gloomily. " Tired, start for Chicago or New York furnished that's all," he answered. " This bucka- good material for comment and amuse- rooin' life is gettin' stale." ment ; but it scarcely caused surprise. There was no comment from Chub. " You listen to me, boys," said Petey Komo resumed his watching of the fire. Johnson; "I'll stake my last bean that Presently he got up with an air of weari- Komo'll make good. He's got brains." ness, kicked a loose sage-brush into the In the morning Komo Bill started for fire, and again addressed the cook: Kremmling on a horse borrowed from " I'm goin' East, Chub." the outfit. The farewells were said cas- "That so?" said Chub, mildly in- ually, and consisted for the most part of, quisitive. "So long, Komo!" and "So long, ole " " Yep. Take the stage from Kremm- man ! Kn' on Tuesday; probably go to Chicago As the night - wrangler rode over the or New York." nearest butte, his comrades caught a few The cook's face lighted up with a sud- faint words from one of their favorite den thought. songs " Say, Komo," he laughed, " you ain't Oil, I'll sell my horse an' I'll sell my got the rest of the boys is no money, and saddle • Where'll you get the cash?" " broke. I'll ride no more for the T. Y. cattle. Komo smiled a superior smile, and glanced at Chub patronizingly. " You Komo Bill stood in front of the Texas leave that to me, Chub. I'll get there." Steer, the largest saloon in Kremmling, Komo Bill, with the air of a man about and watched the stage as it lumbered up in order out his private car, sauntered over to the post-office and general store. One to where the horses were corralled. Around passenger alighted — a slim, well-knit the camp-fire that night the boys were man of medium height, who walked 453 454 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. quickly up the street and entered a res- " This is the hardest proposition I ever taurant. tried to rope," he grumbled, as he fixed Komo watched the newcomer with in- his eyes meditatively on the restaurant terest. His clothes were perfect. They windows. " Guess I'll take a walk and reminded Komo of the East, and also that think it over." to-morrow was Tuesday—the time he had The one thing lacking thus far in the set for his going. present problem was opportunity. This As yet he had failed to raise the money was to come in the person of the stran- for his fare. He had borrowed eleven ger who had just alighted from the coach dollars from Jake, the sheriff. Eleven and whom Komo Bill-had keenly noticed. "j HAVE A SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT JOB ON MY HANDS." dollars. Komo figured, would just about A settled gloom darkened Komo's. pay his stage fare to the railroad station. face. He growled an unintelligible an- It would be the height of folly to start swer to the bartender's friendly greeting, with such a ridiculously small sum. The and passed to the rear of the saloon. The roulette-wheel in the Texas Steer had ta- two private card-rooms were unoccupied ken the eleven dollars, and Komo had — or, so Komo thought. He entered the taken a walk to see the stace come in. first and sat down at the table. The door " a HOW KOMO BILL WENT EAST. 455 between the two rooms was partly open. ness. His saddle, chaps, and spurs he had Presently he heard voices. already entrusted to Jake, with minute in- " Jake, and that dude feller," he com- structions as to their welfare. He sat mented without interest. He half rose down, crossed his feet on the window-sill, from his chair to shut the door, but sat and briefly reviewed his plan of cam- down again quietly with his head bent paign. forward. At two o'clock he would interview the The stranger was speaking. stranger in the private room of the Texas " yes, you see I have a somewhat diffi- Steer ; at four o'clock, if all went well, cult job on my hands," he was saying. when the stage from Steamboat passed " The kidnaping occurred ten years ago through he would be on his way to the far at the wharf in New York Harbor. This East. Joe Borden has had plenty of time to But during those two hours the sheriff change his appearance. He is described must be absent. By some method or other as tall, well built, with brown eyes and he must be put out of the way. Komo Bill hair, and a slight limp in his left leg. smiled broadly ; he had devised a method. " At the time the affair made but little A knock on the door. Komo turned stir ; now, however, legal complications his head and grinned at the door-knob. have arisen in the will of a rich New The knock was repeated. Some one de- York man. The relatives want Joe Bor- scended the stairs. den. Information has come to headquar- " Must be 'bout two o'clock," said Ko- ters that he is here at Kremmling, or in mo, as he peered through a slit in the the near vicinity. I want your help, window-shade. He saw the sheriff cross sheriff, your cooperation— the street, enter the post-office and after " I'll help you, stranger," the sheriff a few moments come out hurriedly. interrupted, " but hold your lines a min- " Campin' on my trail!" exclaimed ute till I get my memory goin'. Seems the delighted Komo. He craned his neck like I've heard a friend of mine tell of until the sheriff disappeared around a Joe Borden, an' if, I recollect right he corner. said Joe Borden was dead—died in New A moment later, " telescope " in hand, Mexico, I believe. he walked into the post-office. " But I ain't certain about it at all. " Sheriff is looking for you, Komo," Your man may be right in town now, -for said the storekeeper. all we know. Say, I'll be busy from now There was a general laugh from the till along 'bout two o'clock, but you stick men standing around. Every one knew around an' I'll bring my friend so's you of the friendship that existed between can talk to him yourself." Komo Bill and Jake. Komo Bill quietly let himself out the "That so?" queried Komo blandly. rear door. His face was radiant with " I'm lookin' fer him, too. You know ' smiles. Jimmy of the ' four - bar - four — I met " Joe never did talk much 'bout his him this mornin', an' he says he saw wild and frivolous boyhood," he mused, Duck Flinn, the rustler, 'bout three miles " but I never knew he was that bad. east of Yampa. If you see Jake, let him Anyhow, I got brown eyes an' brown know." hair—an' I guess I can limp, too, when it The news started a commotion. Two comes to a show-down." of the men rushed out and sprang to Komo Bill's preparations were quickly their horses. Komo Bill followed, wa- made. Alone in his room, he put on a ving aside the eager questions and ex- black suit ; it was somewhat faded and cited demands for further information. wrinkled, but still it was a black suit— As he entered the Texas Steer he saw the mark of respectability. He buckled on two horsemen turn the corner in pursuit ln's belt and made sure that the big .45 of the sheriff. Colt's worked easily in the holster. The hands of the clock above the mir- Carefully he locked the door and ror pointed to a quarter past two. Bill pulled down the window-shade. A few set his " telescope " down near the door clothes and trinkets thrust into a battered and hurried to the room where he knew " telescope," and everything was in readi- 1 1n? detective waited. : — 456 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. He opened the door and stepped in. " Gun-play?" suggested Komo, as he The stranger, with his hands clasped be- threw one leg over the back of a chair hind him, stood looking at the pictures and rested his gun on his knee. " No, on the wall. At the noise he turned. you can't ask just now. You're a detec- " For an instant the two men faced each tive, ain't you? other. Komo Bill gave a quick start of The question came sharply, but the alarm, and whipped out his revolver. His stranger did not move. His voice was eyes shone with fierce questioning from low and even as he answered beneath the tvide slouch-hat. The stran- " I don't see just how that concerns ger looked calmly at the black muzzle you, but I don't mind telling you that I pointed at his breast. am not a detective." " " There was no fear—not even surprise Oh ! said Komo. There was a world —in his eyes. of relief in his voice. " Sit down," said Komo in a low voice. He slipped his revolver back into the " Put your hands on the table." The holster and went on to explain. stranger obeyed. " Mostly I can tell a detective by in- When Komo spoke again there was less stinct, but sometimes I get off the trail. strain in his voice. Detectives have a way of snootin' around " I reckon you ain't had much expe- in things that don't concern them. Now, rience with the business end of a gun. some folks thinks I'm dead, which of People in this here country generally course ain't nobody's business, but I ain't throws up their hands." carin' to have no detective tie on to it." The stranger laughed. The stranger's dark eyebrows lifted " Oh," he replied, " you see when I slightly. His next question came in a know that the man with whom I am voice even smoother than before. " dealing is on the square, I take chances." " What is your name? Komo smiled at the compliment, but Komo's smile was genial and confiden- did not relax his vigilance. The man at tial—in fact, there was a trace of silli- the table leaned on his elbows and in- ness in his smile—as he answered : quired smoothly: " They've called me Bill—Komo Bill " Might I ask the reason for this little —ever since I came from New York, —eh—" about, oh, about nine or ten years- ago, I guess." Again there was an almost imperceptible upward twitching of the dark eyebrows. Komo took no notice, but turned and walked to a small table in the corner. The stran- ger's eyes sparkled there was a slight but unmistakable limp in Komo's left leg. " Let's have a game of pitch," said Komo cheerfully, picking up a deck of cards from the table. He turned to confront the muz- zle of a revolver held within a foot of his head. His teeth came together with a click. " "people in this here country generally throws up I guess I ain't their hands." takin' no chances this " HOW KOMO BILL WENT EAST. 457 time," he remarked dryly, as his hands er sharply. " You go because you are went up above his head. wanted ! Now, to business ! As I un- "Right about! Face!" snapped the derstand it, the stage for Wolcott starts stranger. Komo pivoted on his heel. A at four o'clock. We leave then. If you light hand removed his gun and deftly have any clothes to take, get them at felt his pockets. once. Ordinarily, I handcuff my man, "why don't you fix it now?' " " " You may face this way ! The stran- but in the present case —he paused and ger was seated on the table with his feet ran his eyes over Komo's muscular frame on a chair. " You are going back to New with an air of mild contempt—" in this York with me, Joe Borden," he said, case 1 feel safe in allowing you to travel watching Komo with narrowed eyelids. almost as if you were my companion. But " The quick start and sharp intake of remember, I am quick with a gun ! " " breath that greeted this announcement I guess you got me dead to rights ! were admirable—admirable because they murmured Komo. were not overdone. They suggested great The stranger put his revolver in his emotion restrained with difficulty. hip-pocket, and pointed to the door. There " " To New York ! gasped Komo. were no customers in the saloon. The " Besides, that ain't my— bartender had taken advantage of this " " [That's enough ! interrupted the oth- unusual state of affairs by going to sleep. . 1 : •. : 458 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " Let's have something" said Komo, as Borden. You know Joe's dead. Ten they neared the bar. Suddenly the gal- minutes' telegraphin' to Albuquerque will loping of a horse sounded in the street. fix things." A fiery little bronco dashed up to the "Why don't you fix it now?" cried hitching-post. The sheriff swung from Jake. the saddle. " Sh !—the explaining got to be done Komo Bill groaned, and glanced fur- at the other end. Can't you see?" He tively at the rear door. lowered his Voice impressively. " I'm " " " Stage comin' ! shouted some one goin' East ! ifrom outside. The stranger appeared in the -door, The sheriff entered the saloon. The suit-case in hand. The sheriff grinned. stranger caught Komo Bill by the collar Holding Komo by the shoulder, he pushed and pushed him forward. him roughly toward the door. " You " " " Here, hold this man ! he cried in fool ! he whispered in Komo's ear. " quick, incisive tones. " I'll return in a " Why didn't you let me in sooner? " moment ! As the stage-coach, occupied by the The sheriff swore as the detective Eastern detective and the night-wran- sprang past him and through . the door. gler, rolled away, the Sheriff of Kremm- He turned to Komo Bill. ling pulled his long mustache. " What. do you—" " I wonder now," he mused, " how " Don't give me away, Jake ! Don't am I ever goin' to get even with that cuss give me away now. He thinks I'm Joe fer this Dick Flinn business?" CARS AND LOCOMOTIVES BUILT IN 1909. THE number of cars and locomotives built 96,419 cars, which is 23 per cent more built during the past year is but a than the number built in 1908. These figures little greater than the 1908 figures, in spite include Subway and Elevated cars, but not of the improvement in general business con- street railway and interurban cars. It must ditions during 1909, says the Railway Age- be remembered also that the output of rail- Gacctte. However, it has really been but a way companies' shops is not included. few months since the railways came into the Of the cars built in the United States, market with substantial inquiries ; and de- 84,416 were freight-cars for domestic serv- liveries on orders placed at the beginning of ice, 2,435 freight for export, 2,599 passen- this movement did not begin until this fall. gcr-cars for domestic service, and 150 pas- Returns from 14 locomotive builders in senger-cars for export. the United States and Canada (estimating Of the freight-cars, 63,763 were of steel, the output of two small plants), show a or had steel underframes ; of the passenger- 1 total of 2.SS7 engines. Of the 2.653 built in cars 1,650. Canada built 6,66r freight-cars the United States, 2,362 were for domestic for domestic service, 58 freight for export, •use and 291 for export. These figures include 99 passenger-cars60,806for domestic service, and 16 electric and 1 19 compound locomotives. one passenger-car for export. The Canadian engines, 234, were all for In 1908, Canada built 8,598 freight-cars . domestic service. and 79 passenger-cars. Comparisons for the last seventeen years The following table shows the cars built are given in the following table during the past eleven years Year. Freight. Passenger. Total. No. No. No. 1899 119,886 1,305 121,191 built. Year. built. Year. built. Year. 1900 H5,63I 1,636 117.267 • •*5.49i , ' IS93- 01 1899. • -2.475 1905. 1901 136.950 2,055 139,005 1906 . . .*6,952 1894. .. 695 1902 162,599 1,948 164,547 • *7.3<52 1895.. . . 1,101 1901. ...3,384 1907.. 1903 153J95 2,007 155.202 ."*2 1S96 1908. • -1,175 > 342 1904 2.144 62,950 . .*>,887 1897.. ..I.25I 1903. .. -5.IS2 1909.. 1905 165,45576.555 2,551 *i68,oo6 1898.. ,.1*8/5 1904. - .3.441 1906 240.50393-570 3,167 *243,670 1907 284.188 5457 *289,645 During the past year 53 car-building 1908 1,716 *78,27i companies in the United States and Canada '909 2,849 *96,4i9 * Includes Canadian output WHAT'S THE ANSWER? By tke Questions Answered Light of for the l^aniern Railroad Men ASK US! E like to Be as useful to our readers as we can; but, because of the great popularity of this department, we are forced to impose certain restrictions. In future, we w shall be compelled to limit its scope to the answering of questions of an inform- ative, technical, or historical nature only, Letters concerning positions WILL NOT be answered in this department. WHAT is the length of the snow-sheds and as an example of engineering and an on the Southern Pacific in Nevada? illustration of ingenious and substantial con- Describe the bridge-trestle, or (2) struction there is nothing comparable with - fill, over Salt Lake, giving length, saving in it anywhere. It was opened November 28, miles, time, etc. J. A. D., Bristol. Pennsyl- — 1903, and took two years to build. vania. It sweeps away 43-77 miles, eliminates 3.919 degrees (1) There are forty miles of snow-sheds of curvature, and 1,515 vertical feet of on the Southern Pacific, tip through the grade; cuts down the running time of the Sierras. In these sheds are seventy-five fastest train two hours, and through its million feet, or thereabouts, of lumber. practically gradeless route increases the ton- Every year five million feet of lumber is nage movable per horse-power almost be- used for repairs and renewals. The cost of yond power to calculate. the sheds, for lumber alone, is $30,000 per The figures referring to curvature and mile. It is said that, up to date, the total grade may be rendered clearer and more cost of installing and maintaining these in- interesting by a little elaboration. Each de- dispensable structures has been $30,000,000. gree of curvature represents the segment of (2) The Great Salt Lake "cut-off" be- a circle, and there are 360 degrees in a gins at Ogden, Utah, and, after crossing the circle. Put these degrees of curvature to- lake, follows the bed of another prehistoric gether into circles, and it will be seen that lake to a junction with the old line at Lucin. between Ogden and Lucin there were 11.88 Nevada, It was built to take the place of circles, and that every train of the old route the long serpentine route between the same not only covered the air-line distance, but points, which passed around the north shore ran around the 11.88 circles besides. The of the Great Salt Lake, and over Promon- number of vertical feet disposed of was tory Mountain, where, on May 10. 1869. the I.5I5. last spike was driven in the all-rail line In, order to overcome this grade the train, from ocean to ocean. by the old way, was lifted above the road- From dry land to dry land the "cut-off" bed of the " cut-off " to a height equal to covers twenty miles of pile construction. 1,515 vertical feet. Calculate the weight of J 59 3 460 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. a loaded car at 66.000 pounds ; calculate that (7) How does an oil-burning locomotive it takes one horse-power to' raise 33.000 work? pounds vertically one foot per minute, and (8) Why is the rolling stock of European railways built different that, therefore, it would require two horse- from ours? Do you think that electricity will power to raise the loaded car vertically the (9) take the place of steam? same distance per minute multiply hy the ; (10) Will the monorail -take the place of • feet of grade disposed of; multiply 1,515 the two-track system ? the car by the number of cars in the ordi- (11) Where can I get a book naming the nary length of train multiply the train by employees which ? ; make up a railroad —C. F. the number of trains represented in the E., New York City, New York. vast yearly business of the road: add the (1-2) The high-speed, which embodies the aggregate of friction, and you will have an quick-action, is in general use approximate idea of what the Great Salt on passenger- trains; the quick-action on all trains. Lake " cut-off " means in the economy of The term " automatic " applies to all air-brakes in the road's operation. There are other fig- present use for train control. ures equally interesting, and here they are (3) Straight air-brakes, supplied elec- in a nut-shell. by tric pump. The road rubbed out was 146.68 miles (4) No, the Eames Vacuum Brake is in long, the "cut-off" is 102.91 miles long. general use in passenger Twenty miles an hour was pretty good service, at least in England, and to some extent in freight time on the old line, and never a train toiled service. over it without a monster helping engine (5) The New York Air-Brake Company. at its head. By the new way, there are no Not in the present stage of devel- helper engines, and now hours of running (6) the opment of steam-power, or in the conditions time are saved. It seems incredible, but it is under which it is employed. true, nevertheless, that the cut-off, of 102.91 (7) The oil leads from the tender to a miles, is but 1,708 feet longer than an air- burner in the fire-box. and, emerging from line, and this in a mountainous country. the mouth of the burner, is vaporized with Pacific. J. C. Young, Omaha, Nebraska; come adapted to their peculiar requirements. Oregon Short Line, E. W. Newcomb, Ogden, (9-10) No, to both questions; at least, Utah. ^ not in season to occasion any concern (o those who operate the locomotive. (11) We don't know of any. Past issues WHAT form of air-brake is in general of the magazine containing the self-help use, high-speed or quick-action? feature have covered thoroughly the various the term "automatic" (2) Does departments of the railroad, but there has. apply equally to the above ? of course, been no compilation of all em- ( ) What kind of air-brake is used on trolley-cars? ployees in a single article. Is the Westinghouse brake used in (4) J* Europe as much as in America? ('5) What other good company besides WHAT are the qualifications and duties Westinghouse makes air-brakes ? of a train auditor, and what does it (6) Can there ever be a thirty-hour .train pay?—L. S., Verona, Mississippi. between New York and" San Francisco, or an eight^hour train between New York and They are called collectors in the East, the Chicago? designation you mention applying largely in : BY THE LIGHT OF THE LANTERN. 461 the West and Middle West. Their duties Assuming " M. P. H. " to represent ten are to collect the tickets, and look after the miles per hour, at which speed these models " transportation generally, in order that the are usually run ; and for P," 127 pounds conductor will be left unhampered to run pressure, on the common rule of 85 per cent his train. As a rule, however, you will riot of boiler pressure for mean effective pres- find them on a train unless the travel is so sure, and substituting these values in the " " heavy that the conductor cannot work it formula we have properly between stopping points. For in- stance, on the heavy trains of the New Ha- 36 x 4 x 127 x 10 ven road, out of New York, it is necessary = About 35 horse- x to have a collector to assist the conductor 14 375 power—an absurdity. until New Haven is reached, after which he Locomotive design must be gingerly ap- goes with his train alone to Boston. The proached, whether in models or actual prac- same thing applies on many Erie trains out tise, and we think that the best thing you of Jersey City, the conductor being unable can do is to correspond with some of the to get all the tickets unaided before the firms who manufacture parts for model lo- first stop. We are in doubt as to what com- comotives, and they will set you right re- pensation they do receive in the West, but in garding* the proper dimensions. You might this section the pay is about $75 or $85 a take the matter up with the Sipp Electric & month. They are promoted from baggage- Machine Company, Paterson, New Jersey, masters or trainmen. who deal extensively in working locomotive models. JS. N., Wichita Falls, Texas.—Fifty- • five and one-half miles in fifty min- Mount Vernon, New York.—It utes from Atlantic City to Camden. New RG., • would be impossible in the space Jersey, is the fastest regular scheduled limitations imposed through the crowded short-distance train in this country, and it nature of this department to list all of the is made every day in the year by the Read- railroad systems in this country and Cana- ing Railroad. We can't find any record of da, especially as you also desire the com- such time on the road you mention, but if ponent roads of each system or group. correct, it is on a par with the above. Would suggest that you refer this to the editor of the Railroad-Age Gazelle, New T T OW much horse-power, or fraction York City, who may be able to send you Xi thereof, will a miniature locomotive an issue of that journal wherein the infor- develop that has a boiler' of 12,000 mation you want has been compiled. cubic inches capacity, or is 4x1/2 feet? The two cylinders are 6x4 inches, and the two driving-wheels are 14 inches in diameter. whom will I write for a position as The boiler is built to hold 150 pounds pres-. TO fireman on the New York division of sure. Please tell me what you think of the Pennsylvania such dimensions, and state improvements Railroad? (2) Has the Wabash an engine with a that could be made.— R. W. B., Newmarket. cylinder larger New Jersey. than others of the simple type ? The dimensions which you give are all (3) Has the Santa Fe an engine with wrong for the best results. Presuming that four cylinders, and both pistons working together on the same ? your figures for the size of the cylinder cross-head —A. J. E. should be reversed, viz. : 4x6. instead of (1) F. A. Smock, M. M„ Meadows, New 6x4 inches, then the stroke is too long: the Jersey, can start your application on the driving-wheels are too high, and the diame- right track. ter of the boiler is disproportionately large (2) We don"t know exactly what you to its length. Still in order to give the in- mean. The cylinders of their compound formation asked regarding horse-power, engines, if they' have any. are, of course, of based on your figures, it is necessary to re- a larger diameter for the low-pressure than vert to the following formula : for the high-pressure, but if we are to view 2. your question that the Wabash has a sim- C x S x P x (M. P. H.) ple engine with the largest cylinder diameter, = Horse-power, in irrespective of compound practise, the an- D x 375 which ( swer is. no. The New York, Susquehanna C is diameter of cylinder in inches. and Western Railroad's No. of the S, length of stroke in inches. 140, simple P. mean effective pressure at given speed. type, has cylinders 28 inches in diam- M. P. H.. miles per hour. eter and 32 inches stroke. This is the D, diameter of driving-wheel in inches. V largest diameter for that type of which we — ; 462 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. have any record. This engine is at present (1) They are the two forms adopted by in helping service out of Avoca7 Pennsyl- the Standard Code for the transmission of vania, and leased to the Erie Railroad. train orders by telegraph. (3) The Santa Fe, up to a recent period, (2) It would depend entirely on the visual at least, had several engines of the type in- defect for which the glasses were worn. It dicated. They represent the original Vau- is not likely that a fireman would be pro- clain four-cylinder compound, arranged with moted under such conditions, but instances the high and low pressure cylinders one above can be remembered where old engineers have the other, and both piston-rods connected to been allowed to assume them and kept at the same cross-head, using one set of guide- work. bars. There are many of these remaining (3) This engine was built in 1906, and has on various roads throughout the" country a total weight of 229.000 pounds. At that which have not been changed to simple time it was exceeded in weight by other Pa- engines. cific type engines as follows: Erie, No. 2511, weight 230,500; Northern Pacific, No. 4* 2175, weight 240,000; Atchison, Topeka and San- you know of a railroad under con- ta Fe, No. 1800. weight 248,200; and Lake DO City, Utah, struction from Salt Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, No. 4724, to known as the West- San Francisco, weight 233,000. You will note that the ex- ern Pacific? Where are the general offices amples of heavier engines are confined to located, and who are the superintendents the type represented by Baltimore and Ohio with authority over the portion running into Calif ornia ?—G. H. T., Texuco, New Mex- 21 17. There were many freight-engines at ico. that time on various roads with a much greater total weight than hers. ' Xo operating department has as yet "been (4) It appears as an independent railroad organized on the Western Pacific. The between the points mentioned: 5 miles long, office of the president, E. T. Jeffrey, is at standard gage, 2 locomotives, and 778 cars. 195 Broadway, New York. The construc- M. H. Taylor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is tion work is being actively pushed under the president. following division engineers : Charles Harlowe, Cobre, Nevada; T. J. Wyche, Salt B., Barrackville, West Virginia.— Clio. Cali- Lake City, Utah ; J. Q. Jamieson, EM. • The officials of the Chesapeake and fornia; Emery Oliver, Orovilk, California, Ohio Railway, with headquarters at Hunting- and J. T. Williams, San Francisco. ton, West Virginia, are : C. P. Snow, division superintendent; H. R. McLaughlin and E. E. Winters, train-masters ; F. S. Rockwell, chief Sheridan, Wyoming. — You are AR., train despatcher; C. H. Terrell, master me- • somewhat mixed in regard to the chanic : C. B. Harwood. foreman painter telephone system of despatching. The R. S.. Rogers, foreman car department; scheme provides for operators on the line R. W. Turney, foreman machine department; to receive the orders, the same as by tele- T. J. Bullock, road foreman of engines; graph, and they are not handled from the M. I. Forbes, division engineer, and T. W. engineers or conductors except wire by the King, supervisor of bridges and buildings. under exceptional conditions. The nine-hour law, so-called, is intended to limit the hours of operators, and not road crews, who come T A. P., Cleveland, Ohio.— (1) A freight- under the sixteen-hour law. If circum- • conductor certainly occupies a high- stances should arise making it necessary for er plane in the service than a passenger- trainmen to use the telephone after being brakeman, or trainman, as they now desig- on duty nine hours, it would not appear that nate them. any law is violated, as they are sixteen-hour (2) Brakemen must begin on freight, on men. At all events, there are provisions in the majority of roads, otherwise they can- each law covering emergencies. not reach the position of conductor, in either freight or passenger service. If they start as passenger trainmen they may in time be- are "31" and "19" orders? come collectors or train auditors, but. as a WHAT _ (2) Can a man be an engineer if rule, the only road to the conductor's berth he wears glasses? lies through the freight service. No. 2117 of the Baltimore and (3) When (3) Age requirements vary on different Ohio was built was it the largest engine in roads. Twenty-one years is generally re- / the world at that time? garded as the minimum for employment. (4) Where is the Pittsburgh and Moon It is impossible to even give an ap- Run Division of the P. and L. E. R. R.? (4) long F. B. S., Monessen, Pennsylvania. proximate average regarding how a BY THE LIGHT OF THE LANTERN. 463 man must brake before promotion. The mentioned is not worn down to a point where latter is very slow, at least in the eastern the brass itself will run on the journal section, and it might be five or seven years, without the interposition of an anti-friction if not longer. metal. Ninety per cent, we believe, of hot- (.5) The average pay of brakemen may box troubles arise from lack of care, as be said to be $2.25 per day, or one hun- the existing appliances are thoroughly ade- dred miles, and for conductors $3-5°- but quate. these quotations are really of little value, as the scale shifts tremendously, dependent on W., Rockport. Illinois. For books the section of the country and the strength LH. — • on air-brakes, address either Raihvay of the existing agreements. and Locomotive Engineering, or Railroad Age-Gazette, both New York, N. Y. . B., Knoxville, Tennessee. — The Si WT.• way you picture the occurrence it affect the lead of the valve seems to put the blame for the train getting WOULD of an engine, if one would bend by squarely on the day-man, and that is the the eccentric-blade either up or it looks at this long range. But it is way down ? I mean would it affect the lead in the venture always extremely hazardous to even same way as turning the eccentric either an opinion concerning responsibility for er- ahead or back on the axle, or hooking up or ror unless in full possession of the material letting down the reverse lever? gathered during the investigation. (2) How can I calculate the horse-power of a boiler by knowing the heating and grate surface? (3) Is the Valentine monorail system un- is the average heat which is at- WHAT der construction, and where? tained in a hot box? Is there any Is the air line electric railway between device on the market to eliminate the (4) New York and Chicago completed? trouble?—H. S., Detroit, Michigan. (5) What is the average price of a 200.- 000 pounds locomotive? W. M., Natron, There is no strictly reliable data for this — Oregon. temperature, as it would be largely dependent 011 the composition of the soft metal which (1) Bending the eccentric-blade, as sug- forms the liner for the brass proper, and gested, would have no effect on the total on which the journal runs. The metal ordi- value of the lead; that is, the sum of the narily employed for car brasses is specially omission-port opening at each end of the hard babbitt. stroke. It would simply serve to distort the This will start to run, or fuse, at about motion by rendering unequal the leads on 400 degrees F. This temperature is. of either side of the valve, and the exhaust course, abnormally high for a hot box, would likely beat "out of square." and would imply a melted-out brass. The maximum travel of the valve is fixed The term, as you no doubt are aware, is by the throw of the eccentric, which is per- freely applied, and may mean only the pack- manently keyed to the shaft, and the proper ing on fire, with the bearing relatively cool. length of the eccentric-blade is that which In regard to special devices to minimize will permit the valve to move an equal dis- hot-box troubles, these are confined to slight tance on either side of an imaginary line differences in the interior of the journal- drawn through the center of the valve-seat. box, which encloses the journal of the axle, Hence the length of the eccentric-blades the jowwial bearing and key, and which holds should be regarded as really permanent. the packing for lubricating the journal. They are never changed except to correct That any one of these departures is any inequalities in the valve travel mentioned. more serviceable in the long run than the Moving the reverse-lever on the quadrant American Railway Master Mechanics Asso- simply lengthens or shortens the valve travel ciation journal-box, which is in general use. on the seat, without interfering with the is largely speculative. The idea on which equality of the travel, provided the eccentric- these patented devices is based, is simply to blades are of the proper length. keep the oil-soaked packing in more uniform (2) You cannot calculate the horse-power contact with where it will do the most good. of a boiler from the grate surface only. The best safeguard is, of course, to give You might allow ten square feet of the total the boxes the necessary attention, which they heating surface to each horse-power, which fail to receive more than any single item is a rough-and-ready rule. about the railroad, viz. : See that none of (3) Have no record of the system named. the lids have been lost, allowing dirt to (4) The New York and Chicago Air-Line enter ; that they contain sufficient packing Railway is not completed as originally pro- to take care of (hem, and that the soft liner posed, but this is the extent of our knowl- 464 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. edge concerning it. We think that the line All the points which you make are very at present extends from La Porte, Indiana, good, and represent, in the main, what has to the outskirts of Chicago, but of this even long been our personal idea of the proper we are in doubt. arrangement, although you are the first to (5) This year, from present indications, bring them to our attention. We regret that the average price of a locomotive embody- lack of space forbids reproduction of your ing the total weight mentioned will be about interesting letter this month, but it is held $i$,ooo. provided, of course, that there is with that end in view for the future. no radical departure from existing practise, -J* and that not less than ten are contracted for. There is no reliable estimate for a single A. J., Lowell, Massachusetts.—From locomotive; twenty-five per cent more, at Boston to New York, either the all events. New York, New Haven and Hartford, or the Boston and Albany. The fare is $4.65 over each road. The Baltimore and Ohio, out of All rail- N.. Brooklyn, New York.— New York, seems to cover the other points SJ.• hearing test roads demand an eye and better, as its main line passes through Wash- although for road men entering the service, ington, D, C, and there are liberal stop- to the actual on several this is confined over privileges, but we can't say about stop- semaphores, lights, and flags used in the overs being allowed in the intermediate operation of the road. points. Philadelphia and Baltimore. You could J* continue over this same road from Washington to Chicago, which latter is usu- H., Brooklyn, New York.—A pros- GC. ally regarded as the starting-point for a San • pective fireman should be twenty-one Francisco trip. The fare from New York years old. The time he will be called upon to Chicago is about $18. and $50 should cover to fire before promotion may range from the remainder of the journey. four to ten years. They pass from the extra board to regular freight service and to passenger. On some roads they thence JS., Austin, New Mexico.— It does not return to firing freight for the thirty days • appear particularly that anything prior to their final examinations. The pay would be gained by 'an indestructible seal for ranges from $2.25 to $3 per hundred miles, freight-car doors. The idea of the existing dependent on locality, agreements, and serv- seal, as you no doubt understand, is to indi- ice conditions. cate that the car-doQr has been opened, and. not to oppose other than an ethical obstacle to such entrance. If the seal of which you CH. R., Albany, New York.—The list of write can be opened without destroying it, • chief train-despatchers on lines west it would be the natural inference that it of the Mississippi River, even if available, is far too long for our columns. could be restored to its primary condition as readily after the car had been entered. The <* cost of the existing car-seal is insignificant, and any device would D., Wayne, Pennsylvania.—After new not impress in GH.• a careful review of late construc- that direction. In regard to improvements in mail cranes, best address the chief tion we cannot locate any Mallet articulated or division engineer of some compound locomotives built for the Chicago large railroad. and Alton Railroad. Engines of this type are particularly adapted for hauls over heavy grades, such as in mountain railroading, or ASSUME a one-horse-power engine, with 200 pounds of steam, and an- in -helping service. They have not as yet other of two-horse-power, of the been employed, to any extent, in regular same size, but with one hundred pounds of service on low-grade roads. steam; which engine will do the most work? —H. M. W., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Virginia.—Wc question is involved, CK. D., Elkins, West Your much and we" • think that the company yo.u mention ..doubt if the answer will be exactly what you does hold the necessary patents giving the are looking for. The confusing feature is exclusive rights to the peculiarity in air- that you have already defined the engines pump construction which reverses the posi- as one and two horse-power, respectively. tion of the cylinders as in the Westinghouse Then, of course, -the second will do twice practise. This, however, could be deter- the work of the first, but, if we are to con- mined through direct correspondence with clude that the second engine only develops them, and this we would advise you to do. two horse-power with two hundred pounds S — BY THE LIGHT OF THE LANTERN. 465 of steam, it is only at half its capacity at Andrews? We know that a photograph one hundred pounds, and both engines are was taken in 1864, of the engine actually the Northern therefore equal. The formula for calcula- seized, by a photographer in army, and is now in the government ar- ting horse-power is pressure (mean effective chives. This shows a type of locomotive made pressure for stroke), multiplied by length of during the late lifties, whereas the "Gen- of piston stroke in feet, multiplied by area eral " resembles a locomotive of days subse- of in square inches, multiplied by number quent to the Civil War. Moreover, the working strokes per minute, and the whole name of the locomotive photographed in divided by 33,000, the result equaling 1864 is said to have been " Hero."—I. S., horse-power. You will thus note that the Fishkill Landing. New York. pressure is the controlling factor in the formula, as will be readily evinced by work- We have never heard a question raised re- authenticity relic. ing it out for a number of pressures in garding the of this prized connection with the same engine. If this The editor of this department was on one does not explain, let us fiear from you again. occasion roundhouse foreman on the South- ern Railway, with Chattanooga at one end J* of his jurisdiction, and is quite familiar with we the old engine and its history. Certainly if DR. S., Altoona, Pennsylvania.—As • have frequently intimated in this de- any rumor of doubt were afloat, he occu- partment, the dimensions which .we receive pied a position of such proximity that it from the locomotive builders covering then- could never have escaped him. We are recent types of construction do not, unless glad to reproduce your letter, as, if there is in the point, this is the surest in exceptional cases, give the total length anything way of locomotives, information being confined to bring it to light. to the length of the rigid wheel-base; the -JC / total wheel-base of the engine, and the total wheel-base of both engine and tender. VVe TP. W., South Framingham, Massachu- correctly quoted in the February number the • setts.— (1) Firemen on all roads total wheel-base of Southern Pacific No. have to pass an eye and hearing examination, 4000. engine and tender, at eighty-three feet and, on some, the Baltimore and Ohio, for six inches, as the longest recorded. No instance, a, physical examination as well. To doubt your figures, viz., one hundred and be able to read and write will serve for eleven feet ten and one-half inches, for the mental qualifications. corresponding dimensions of Santa Fe Nos. (2) No. Go on the road and learn how 1700 and 1701 is correct, but this does not to fire. imply that No. 4000 is not very much longer (3) Twenty-one years is now generally than eighty-three feet six inches, when the regarded as the minimum age for an appli- overhang at each end is reckoned with and cant. added. As a rule, the length over all, from the nose of the pilot to the extreme rear por- tion of the tender frame is difficult to esti- IS it proper for an engineer finding a dis- mate, unless, of course, access may be had tant signal-light out at an interlocking plant to come to a full stop ? The dis- to the elevation prints of engine and tender. tant signal on this road is used as a caution The total wheel-base is an important dimen- signal only, and in no position indicates whether existing turntables sion, to 'know stop. —F. A. Ml, Emporia, Kansas. will take care of the engine, but the total length is relatively unimportant. Unless the night is sufficiently clear to .St allow the position of the blade to be seen, a stop is in order. If passed at full speed in G., Charleston, South Carolina.- EB, the danger position, it would fail in its • The only absolute protection wc mission as a cautionary signal on the home. know of against the robbery of car brasses You no doubt have local rules covering this is to police the freight yards and watch the condition, which necessarily must be ob- cars. They are bold enough these days to served, independent of any opinion here. jack them up and haul the brasses out. These lights al times become extinguished, There are no recent improvements in jour- and some roads insist that a full stop be nal-boxes. made and the position of the semaphore be closely scrutinized before proceeding. It is then required that an electric signal failure WISH to ask whether the " General," I report be turned in by the engineer at the which you mention in the February first telegraph office. The best is al- Light of the Lantern," as 011 exhibi- advice tion at the Union Depot, Chattanooga, ways to err on the safe side, especially in a Tennessee, is' the actual locomotive run by matter of such importance. 6 R R WITHOUT LIGHTS BY J. AUBREY TYSON, Author of "The Man of Straw," "A Railway Pizarro," "The Man Who Lost Himself," etc. A Man Runs Blindfolded On a Strange Track and Against the Semaphores. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. FRED ERSKINE has received a letter from the general superintendent of the Chicago, St. Louis and Western Railroad—Andrew Warrington—who was formerly fireman on his father's engine. He has helped put Fred through college, and, upon his graduation, writes him to call at his office in Chicago. Upon arriving there, Fred finds Warrington in great trouble. It appears that bonds to the extent of $500,000 have been stolen from the safe of the company, and the only ones knowing the combination are the treasurer, War- rington's son, who has been lately speculating wildly, and the general superintendent, him- self. Warrington, the father, has had some differences with Henry Burbridge, the presi- dent of the company. The directors, siding with Warrington, were disposed to compel Burbridge to resign, and elect Warrington his successor. On account of the gambling and speculating of his son, Warrington is compelled to suspect him, but at the same time imagines it may be a plot of Burbridge's and the treasurer, Stanvvood, to implicate .his son, and thereby discredit him, causing him to resign from the company. An Englishman. Montresor, who is on friendly terms with Warrington's wife and daughter, is supposed to know more than any one about the disappearance of the bonds. The proposition made to Fred is that he is to trace the bonds, find out who was instrumental in their disappearance, working independently of the detectives already engaged, and without communicating in any way with Mr. Warrington during the time, return the bonds within thirty 'days. It is a stupendous task. Mr. Warrington requests him to call that evening and escort his daughter, Louise, to the opera, as he has reasons to believe that she is going to meet Mon- tresor, and he wants Fred to be in a position to know all the details. Instead of going to the opera, Louise has secretly ordered the driver to go to Lincoln Park. Here Louise accuses Fred.of being a spy, and tries to escape from the carriage. Fred follows her, and is accosted by a man who wishes to speak to him privately. He follows the man, and, while speaking to him, receives a blow on the head that knocks him senseless. CHAPTER V. With a low-muttered oath, the Altoona man rose from the ground. Passing a Side-Tracked. hand over his hair, he found that blood was issuing from a scalp wound at the EVERAL minutes passed before back of his head. a realization of his situation " Well, the old man was right enough," began to dawn upon Erskine's he muttered. " Montresor's trail and mind ; then he feebly raised mine have crossed. My eyes were closed, himself to a sitting position however, and he. got me foul, and now- and looked around him. He Andrew Warrington's enemy is mine. Un- saw that he was alone. The til I get this fellow Montresor on his back, carriage that had brought him and Miss his trail and mine are one." Warrington to this spot had disappeared, Retreating farther into the shadow of as had also Montresor and the unseen the clump of trees, he seated himself on man who had struck him down just after a rock and, leaning back, he clasped his the Englishman had assaulted him. hands over one of his knees, Began in the March Railroad Man 's Magazine. Single copies, 10 cents. 466 ! WITHOUT LIGHTS. 467 " " Now, where do I begin? he mused? sibility. He knew now that, young as he Frederick Erskine came of good old was, the turning-point of his whole career fighting stock, and the most dangerous was reached. Though he loathed the task fighter always is the one who keeps his that had been forced upon him, it was im- head. Though anger still smoldered possible for him to shirk it. dully in his eyes, the young man made a For years he and his father had beea determined effort to review the situation under obligations to Andrew Warrington, calmly. This was difficult at first, for it and now Warrington, in distress, had ap- was only gradually that he recovered pealed to him for aid. He had under- from the effect of the blow that had ren- taken to recover the bonds, and. hopeless dered him unconscious. as seemed the task, he must do so. Be- He asked himself how it had come to sides all this, he had an account of his pass that Montresor so soon had recog- own to settle with Charles Montresor. nized him as an enemy. Then he remem- But where was Montresor to be found? bered that it had been Louise who had It now occurred to him that, in view of first revealed the fact that his relations Ilis loss of the three thousand dollars with her father were known to others. which had been given to him by War- How had she come to believe that he was rington, lie would have to draw on his a spy? own funds for several days at least. In In a short time the situation grew clear- another week, perhaps, he might achieve er to him. Louise had entered the library something which would enable him to while Warrington was in the act of giving confess his loss to Warrington with a bet- him the photograph of Montresor, and ter grace. this fact doubtless had excited suspicions .As this thought came to him, he halted which she had communicated to Montre- suddenly. The extent of his own funds sor, either by telephone or a special mes- consisted of little more than a hundred senger. dollars, which he had carried in a card- Tins theory was, in some degree, veri- case in one of the pockets of his vest. To fied by the manner in which Montresor this pocket he raised his hand instinct- had demanded the surrender of the pho- ively. tograph. With a more rapidly beating This, too, had been taken from him heart, the young man thrust a hand into while he lay unconscious! In a pocket the inner pocket of his coat. The photo- of his trousers were several silver coins, graph was gone, but this was not all he however, and, clutching these, he resumed had lost. his way with quickened steps. " " Lie had been robbed of the envelope Fair means or foul ! he muttered, containing the three thousand dollars repeating Warrington's injunction. which had been given to him by Warring- " Well, the first blow in the fight was ton struck by Montresor, and it was foul. Bewildered, baffled, and thoroughly un- More than this, the man already has strung by the suddenness with which this proved himself to be a thief. If it takes series of unfortunate incidents had oc- a rogue to catch a rogue, I'll learn his curred, Erskine rose weakly and looked game and play it. I have my orders, and ahead of him with unseeing eyes. For sev- I'm going to take the old man at his word. eral minutes he stood motionless then, By fair means or by foul, I'm going to ; " with shuffling, stumbling steps, he issued land those bonds—and Montresor ! from the clump of trees and followed the Walking on now with steady steps, course of the roadway. Krskine began to formulate a plan of ac- He had proceeded only a few paces tion. It was doubtful whether he could when he came to a drinking- fountain for find Montresor again without dogging the horses. There, with shaking hands, lie step' of Louise Warrington. Well, he this, washed his wound ; then, after drying it would do then. Beautiful as she with his handkerchief, he continued on was, she had lost his respect, and had in- in the direction of the lake front. spired his resentment. From this moment Frederick Erskine was young, and this on he would work only in the interests of was the first time in his life that he had her father. But, in order to do this, he come face to face with a heavy respon- would require funds. He must write to : " ! 468 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Warrington, and tell him of the misad- skine was about to seat himself upon it, venture that had befallen him. and was in the act of. drawing his cigar- Upon leaving the park, the young man case from his pocket when he heard, in boarded a car which took him to his hotel. the distance, the deep, sonorous stroke of Arriving there, he wrote a letter to An- a bell. This stroke was followed by oth- drew Warrington, describing briefly what ers, and when he had counted eleven they had happened. This he despatched by a ceased. " " messenger to Warrington's residence. I a Eleven o'clock," he mused. If she an hour he had his answer. has not already returned, she— From an envelope Erskine drew a sheet He started suddenly as he became con- of paper, in which were enclosed ten one- scious of the fact that in the air about him hundred-dollar bank-notes. On the sheet was the odor of tobacco-smoke. He had of paper was written the following note been gazing abstractedly into the dark- ness that lay over the lake, but he Dear Belleville : now Enclosed herewith find §i,ooo. When turned abruptly to his left. There he saw you require more, inform me of the fact something that was moving slowly toward at once, but spare me all accounts of him. your troubles. I desire no explanations. It was the faint glow of a lighted cigar Get to work and keep your confidences to yourself. Burn this note at once. The note was unsigned. Erskine ap- CHAPTER VI. plied a lighted match to it, and then The Man Behind the Cigar. dropped it into an ash-receiver. When the paper was consumed, he left the room "ANOTHER signal, eh?" Erskine " and summoned a cab. muttered. Shall I run it, or " " Lake Shore Drive," he said as he pre- slow down? pared to step into the vehicle. To his ears now came the soft, meas- "What number?" asked the driver. ured crunching of gravel, and the sound " Put me down at the beginning of the warned him that, in the darkness, it would drive," directed Erskine. " But get there be difficult for him to make a noiseless as quickly as you can." retreat. He decided, therefore, to remain When the Lake Shore Drive was where he was. reached, Erskine directed the driver to The cigar which Erskine already had turn into a street about half a block south taken from his case was between his teeth. of the Warrington residence and there He drew a match across the boulder on await his coming ; then, when the cab which he was seated, and raised it to the moved off, he walked deliberately along weed. by the sea-wall until he arrived opposite The sound of crunching gravel ceased, the street in which he saw the cab drawn and the glow of the cigar became station- up at the spot which he had indicated. ary. Keeping an eye over his left shoul- Assured that the cabman was acting in der, Erskine lighted his own cigar and accordance with his instructions, Erskine waited. retraced his steps for a little distance " Damp evening," the ; young man said. then, glanetng around to satisfy himself There was no reply, but a moment later that he was unobserved, he climbed over the gravel crunched again, and the glow- the sea-wall and dropped down to the ing tip of the cigar drew nearer. beach. " Who the deuce are you? " growled the As has been said, the night was moon-, stranger. less, and the stars which, before, had been Erskine hesitated. The voice was visible, now were obscured from view by heavier than Montresor's, and he won- a mist which, for the last half-hour, had dered if it was that of the man who had been drifting over the lake and settling struck him after he had received the blow down over the city. A faint breeze was from the Englishman. stirring, and this was charged with the " Well, it's a little dark for the ex- dampness of the great lake over which it change of cards just now, I'm afraid," had swept. he said. Finding a large boulder near him, Er- Again the stranger halted. " If you're " " —: WITHOUT LIGHTS. 469 one of them I'm takin' you for, I guess bunch of money—that's all," Erskine an- you're pretty much at home in dark swered carelessly. places," the newcomer retorted. " Robbed ye of a tidy bunch of " " Indeed ! Erskine exclaimed. money!" exclaimed the stranger, and " Would it be too much for me to ask who there was a note of incredulity in his " it is that you take me to be?" voice. 1 guess you're just a little bit " Oh, one of Montresor's tribe, I sup- o£E on that, ain't ye, mister? Montresor pose." replied the other surlily. is about as rank a scoundrel as ever wore " Then you are not a friend of Mon- the devil's brand, but highway robbery tresor's, I take it," said Erskine, puffing well, 1 reckon he'll sort of keep above that thoughtfully at his cigar. for a while— if he can. Where did it " With a muttered curse, the stranger happen ? slouched slowly past Erskine, who, watch- " In Lincoln Park." " ing him warily, retained his seat on the " When was it. mister? boulder. " To-night." " Don't be in a hurry," the young man The stranger drew nearer Erskine, as protested, as the other was iu the act of he asked: " You was walkin' through the " moving away. The stranger halted. park? " What has caused you to think I am " I had been riding in a carriage, but I a friend of Montresor's? " Erskine asked. had a disagreement with the person with "Well, you know him, don't ye?" whom I had been sitting, and I jot out. asked the man, who spoke in the tone of As the carriage moved away, Montresor one who expected an affirmative answer. and a companion attacked me, and did For a moment Erskine hesitated. Was me up. When 1 recovered consciousness this man an enemy of the Englishman' s, my money was gone." " " or was he one of his confederates? If The deuce it was ! the stranger mut- he was an enemy, it might be possible to tered ; then, after a pause, lie added use him to advantage. If he was a con- " Well, mister, you ain't the only one federate, Erskine wanted to see him in Montresor robbed to-night." the light. If he were not dissembling, it " What do you mean? " demanded Er- was plain that he had some grievance skine, vainly striving to see the outlines against Montresor, and that he had some of the other's face in the darkness. " reason to suspect that Montresor or his 1 mean he robbed me of my job," friends had some object in lurking in the the stranger answered sullenly. " vicinity of the Warrington house. Indeed ! What kind of a job was " I met Montresor for the firstvtime, to- that?" night," Erskine answered quietly. " The " Until two hours ago I was coachman meeting was quite accidental, on my part, for Mr. Warrington." " however, and I will frankly confess that Erskine started. You were the coach- " it was not altogether to my liking. From man of Andrew Warrington ? he ex- the way you have spoken of him, I should claimed. judge that you know rather more of him " Yes, sir," sighed the man. than I do. Erskine rose slowly from the boulder " If you have a grudge against him, on which he had been sitting. " Then I'm in a mood to help you to get even. you drove the carriage from which I If you can persuade me .hat .e really— isn't stepped only a moment before Montresor a bail fellow, why, then, perhaps assaulted me." lie said. " You're in' a mood- to help me to get " Hey! What do you mean by that?" even, hey?" muttered the stranger the stranger muttered. " thoughtfully. "Well, I hadn't thought 1 mean that the carriage from which anything about tryin' to get even, and it I stepped was Mr. Andrew Warring- wouldn't do me no good, as far as I can ton's." " see. Snake-killin' ain't in my line when There ain't no carriage or. horse of there's better business to be done. What's Mr. Warrington's left his place to- Montresor done to you?" night." " " < )h. he and one of his friends Come, come, my— man—you're wrong. knocked me out and robbed me of a tidy At half past seven 470 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " At half past seven o'clock to-night something that makes me think that Miss Mr. Warrington's carriage, with me on Warrington has little likin' for that the box, was in front of the house, waitin' sneakin' Englishman." to take Miss Warrington to the Audito- For a minute neither spoke. Erskine rium : but Miss Warrington weren't was the first to break the silence. there. She'd gone off in another rig what " From the way you have spoken, I drove up before, and then— But, Lord should judge that you were well disposed love us, mister—you ain't the gentleman to Miss Warrington," he said. —the gentleman Mr. Warrington said "I'd fight a dozen husky chaps at once went with her instead of him ! It weren't at a single word from her, sir," replied disagree- the Miss Warrington you had that former coachman ; then, after a pause, " " ment with before you left that carriage ! he growled : And if I didn't lick 'em " Yes," Erskine answered shortly. they'd have to take me away in an under- " " Where is she now? asked the stran- taker's wagon, for I'd die without a ger in a voice that shook a little. whimper if I thought I was savin' her " She drove off while I was being at- from enemies." tacked by Montresor." " What's your name, my friend?" Er- " How did you know it was Montresor, skine asked. " sir? " Barney McGrane, sir." " I had his picture in my pocket. But " What" were your wages while you were now let me know a little more of your- working for Mr. Warrington?" self. You have been discharged by Mr. " Forty dollars a month." " Warrington, you say ? " I will give you fifty." ; ' " Yes, sir—after servin' him for twelve What to do, sir?" years." " To help me land this infernal scoun- " " Why did he discharge you? drel, Montresor." '* " Because I had been takin' Miss War- McGrane hesitated. " Perhaps you are rington's orders too faithful—drivin' her a detective," he said doubtfully. " to houses of Montresor' s friends, without Not a professional detective ; but it tellin' Mr. Warrington afterward, and is my purpose to do a little detective work sometimes takin' messages from her to on my own account- for the next two or Montresor." three weeks, and Montresor is the man " Where did you deliver those messages I am after." " to Montresor? You are going to get back your money " " Sometimes he or some of his friends if you can? would wait for them here." " No. I'm afraid the three thousand " Do you know where he lives?" will have to go by the board. Montresor " No, sir. He's too foxy to let any one has got away with a far bigger sum than know that. I don't believe that even that—a lot of bonds that belong to a Miss Warrington knows where Montre- friend of mine. Those are what I am sor lives." seeking now, and I think that you can There was a pause ; then Erskitje aid me in my effort to recover them. In- " asked : Miss Warrington seems to be cidentally, 1 think that between us we pretty fond of this fellow Montresor, will be able to get Miss Warrington out " does she not? of the clutches of Montresor ; for it " Why, I can't say much as to that, seems clear enough that he has some sort sir," returned the other doubtfully. " She of hold over her. Will you help me?" meets him pretty often, and she sends him " Well, I don't know, sir," McGrane " letters ; but, somehow, when they are to- replied doubtfully. How long have " gether she's as cold as ice to him, and he's you known Miss Warrington? the only one I ever saw her snappish to. " I met her for the first time to-night." She's a fine young lady, sir. and what use " And Mr. Warrington knew that you she could find fer a feller like Montre- were going with her to the Auditorium," sor I never could quite figure out." He said McGrane thoughtfully. " r paused ; then, speaking abstractedly, he V es. I have known Mr. Warrington " added : There's something queer about for several years." the thing, and no mistake, sir—but there's " Well, that's good enough for me," ! WITHOUT LIGHTS. 471 McGrane replied. " Mr. Warrington sounds of voices and . footsteps had sud- wouldn't have 'et her go off with you if denly ceased. he didn't think you was all right. But " Want to hear what they're sayin' ?-" what was- it that you and Miss Warring- asked McGrane, after a pause. " " ton disagreed about ? Yes. Let's get a little closer to " Montresor." them," Erskine answered. " Then, she was going to meet him in " Where the devil's the boat? " a voice the park. That's the reason she had that only a few paces distant asked querulous- other rig call for her before 1 had time ly- to get around." Erskine and McGrane instinctively " it looks like it, Barney." sank to their hands and knees. McGrane " I'm with you, sir. When do you tapped his companion twice on the shoul- want me to begin?" der. " . Right now." " " Yes yes ! Erskine whispered. " — " What I am Jo do? Both had recognized the voice of Mon a " You are to follow implicitly all in- tresor. structions, that I may give you. More- " I'm afraid that you're going a bit too over, as I am pledged to secrecy in this far this time, Monty," growled another affair, you are to ask me for no explana- voice. " tions other than those which may be nec- Have to do it, Slevin," Montresor essary to enable us to work in harmony replied in a tone of gloomy conviction. " with one another. Will you agree to The fool's streak of yellow is growing " this? so strong that every hour finds him more " Yes, sir." dangerous. It's ten to one that he will " Let us shake hands on it, then." blow the whole thing to the old man be- As their hands met in the darkness, Mc- fore the night is over. The girl half sus- Grane started and drew back suddenly. pects the truth already, and if she learns " Get your heel on that cigar," he whis- it all there will be Hades to pay." " pered. But she played into your hands all "What is it?" Erskine asked as he right to-night, Monty," protested the oth- dropped his lighted cigar to the ground er in shaking accents. and placed his foot upon it. " She had to," Montresor retorted sav= " " " Hark ! agely. She failed to meet me afterward, Then the youiig railroad man heard it, however, and for the last three days it too—the low-speaking voice of an ad- has looked to me as if she had the bft be- vancing man tween her teeth. The way she gave the " It's some of the Montresor crowd," old man the slip to-night is going to bring whispered McGrane, as he laid a hand them into another clash that is likely to on one of the arms of his companion. be the worst she has had with him." " This is one of their meeting - places. " Well, she weathered all the others," Let's move on a bit until they stop." Slevin said. " In a way she did, but it seeiris to me that he already has her on the run. It's CHAPTER VII. clear enough that she let something out of the bag.' If "she On the Shoals of Indecision. hasn't, how does it happen that the old man has hit my trail ? "YVHTH a more rapidly beating pulse, How did it happen that that fool sleuth * * Erskine turned to the left, and. had my photograph in his pocket? Why followed by his companion, he moved did the old man send him off with her? cautiously along the beach in the same In some manner or other he got wind of direction in which the unseen newcom- the fact that she was to meet me some- ers were proceeding. At length he halt- where, and he wanted the sleuth to get a ed abruptly as the hand" of McGrane line on me and follow me if he could. clutched his sleeve. Oh. the game was plain enough." " " " Wait! whispered McGrane. They To the ears of the listeners there came have stopped where we were standing." the sounds of several muttered words, As rtrskine listened, he found that the which, however, were unintelligible. A : " 472 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. long pause followed, then the man who For a moment Warrington seemed to had been addressed as Slevin spoke. hesitate ; then, with a rapid movement, " The InterrState's got the paper? " he he swung himself over the wall and down asked. to the beach. " Yes." A score of warning voices now seemed " But it doesn't deliver at Tacoma." to be sounding in Erskine's ears. Not " It transfers to the Dale at Wapiti for a moment did he doubt that the men Falls. If we leave at six we can beat it whose voices he had heard were medita- out." ting some act of foul play against the There was another pause ; then Slevin young man who was preparing to meet asked them. " " Are all the eggs in one basket ? It was essential that young Warring- " All in the machine-box. But why in ton should be warned, but how was this the deuce doesn't the boat— to be done without revealing the fact that " " Hark ! Slevin exclaimed in a voice the words. of Montresor and his compan- that barely reached the ears of Erskine ion had been overheard? and his companion, who, though they lis- If the nature of this conversation was tened intently, failed to hear the sound revealed to Warrington, would he give or sounds that had startled the speaker. the story credence? If this should not For a moment all was still ; then Er- be sufficient to shake his faith in Mon- skine and McGrane heard the sounds of tresor, was it not probable that he would retreating footsteps. acquaint the Englishman with the fact "What's the game?" whispered Mc- that his conversation had been overheard? Grane. If he did this, there might yet be time " " Hush ! Erskine cautioned. to effect some change in the plans which From out of the darkness that con- had been partly disclosed by the conver- cealed the waters of the lake came the sation in the darkness. low, measured click of oarlocks. A mo- And so Fred Erskine found himself on ment later two low whistles sounded from the shoals of indecision. He must decide the beach. These were answered by two quickly, and he must stand or fall by rea- whistles from the unseen boat, then all son of the action which, with only a few was still. moments for reflection, he must now de-. " Come—let's follow them," Erskine cide to take. muttered. Joe Warrington's feet had scarcely They had taken only a few steps, how- touched . the gravel of the beach when ever, when they were brought to a stand- Erskine strode quickly toward him. still by the sudden flare of a match about Young Warrington, hearing the sounds fifty paces in front of them. of his steps, turned sharply. " They've stopped," said Erskine quiet- " Montresor ? " he queried in a low ly. " If we—" voice. Startled by the sounds of quick foot- " Yes— Montresor," Erskine answered steps near the sea-wall above him, Er= in a low, tense voice. skine allowed the rest of the sentence to Scarcely had the Altoona man spoken die upon his lips. when his right fist shot out and, crash- Though the beach was so dark that it ing against the side of Warrington's head, was impossible for Erskine to see the sent him reeling to the wall. Quickly features of his companion, the light from following his staggering victim, Erskine a lamp on the drive enabled him to see struck him two more blows that felled the outlines of the face of a man who now him to the ground, where he lay uncon- leaned over the wall. scious. McGrane grasped the arm of his com- A hoarsely muttered oath behind him panion. caused him to turn suddenly, and a mo- " " Joe Warrington ! he exclaimed in a ment later he dodged a blow winch Mc- warning voice. Grane aimed at his head. Moving quickly closer to the wall, Er- " What devil's game is this you're play- skine and McGrane watched the man who ing?" demanded the astonished coach- was bending over it. man. " " " WITHOUT LIGHTS. 473 " " Hush ! commanded Erskine, and as The coachman made no reply. Er- he spoke he gripped McGrane's wrists. skine, listening intently, heard the sounds -It was in vain that the coachman of retreating footsteps. As these died strained every muscle to regain his lib- away, McGrane slowly returned to where erty. his companion awaited him. " — " What's your game, you infernal " Now, what does all this mean, sir? McGrane began. the coachman asked. "Stop it!" Erskine muttered. "We " It means—" Erskine began, and have no time for explanations; and you stopped. promised to ask for none. We have saved From that part of the beach toward this man's life, and it is now up to both which Montresor had retreated came a of us to keep him from losing something low, scraping sound, and a sullen, mut- that is still more valuable. He will re- tering voice. This was followed by a cover presently, and when he does we silence which was broken at last by the must see to it that he believes that he was click of oarlocks. struck down by Montresor." " It means that the body of this young From the point at which the flare of man will not be weighted and dropped the match had been seen only a moment overboard from that boat to-night," Fred before, came the sound of a low whistle. Erskine finished. Erskine and McGrane stood silently be- side the inanimate body of Joe Warring- ton. CHAPTER VIII. At length the whistle was repeated ; The Philosophy of Ananias. then Erskine heard the sound of advan- cing footsteps. A LOW groan, followed by a faint " " You there, Joe ? came a voice. clattering of stones, indicated that " Steer him off," directed Erskine, ad- the prostrate man was stirring. dressing McGrane. " Tell him it was you " Now, keep your head, Barney, and let who just came over the wall." me do the talking," cautioned Erskine. as The coachman muttered something un- he knelt down beside Warrington. " der his breath ; then, after a brief hesita- All right, sir," the coachman assented tion, he advanced slowly to meet the un- gruffly. seen speaker. As Joe Warrington rose to his elbow " I ain't the man you're after, Mr. Erskine's hand fell on his shoulders. Montresor," McGrane said doggedly. "Are you feeling better now?" the " What the devil are you doing here, man from Altoona asked. " McGrane? " Who—what has happened? " faltered " Same as you, I guess," the coachman the bewildered victim of the assault. growled. Then, as his thoughts grew clearer, he " " " Did any one send you here? asked sharply : Is that you, Montresor?" " No. I ain't takin' no orders from no " No, it is not Montresor, but a friend," one to-night." Erskine answered dryly. " Was that you who just got over the ' " But it was Montresor who— " wall?" Yes—yes— it was Montresor who put " I couldn't have got down here with- you where you are," explained Erskine, out gettin' over the wall," the coachman who, acting on the theory that the end grumbled. would justify the means, found fiction " All right, Barney," returned the other, better adapted to his purpose than truth. more civilly than he had spoken before. With an oath young Warrington rose. " Are ye lookin' for young Mr. Wars " Well, who are you? " he asked. rington ? " the coachman asked. " There are two of us," Erskine an- " No—no—not particularly," Montre- swered. " I am a stranger to you. The sor answered quickly. " I've met him j«an who is with me is Barney McGrane." — " " here before, you know, and I McGrane ! Warrington exclaimed. " Yes— I know," McGrane answered " Yes, sir," spoke up the coachman. bitterly. " Your father was just after firin' me " Well, good night, Barney."- when I picked up with this here gentle- : : — 474 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. man, and he had the kindness to offer me have little difficulty in running down the a job of—" men I am after, and restoring the bonds " Of helping me drive off the chaps to the' place from which they were ta- who had just assaulted you," put in ken." " " Erskine quickly. " If it wasn't for the You are a detective? Warrington assistance of McGrane, your friend, Mon- asked. tresor, and two or three others of his "No. I am a special agent of a per- kind would have had you in a boat that son who is scarcely less interested than put off from the shore just before you you are in the restoration of the bonds." recovered consciousness." There was another pause ; then War= "They put off in a boat!" muttered rington asked " Warrington wonderingly. " In whose interests are you working? " Yes. Before you were assaulted, " In your own." " however, I overheard a little of a conver- " Who has employed you? sation that they had here on the beach. " I cannot tell you." From what they said I had some reason A muttered oath fell from Warring- to believe that they distrusted you and ton's lips, and he addressed the coachman : thought it best to put you out of the way." " Barney, who is this man? " he demand- " They did, eh? " growled young War- ed. rington. Then, after a pause, he added " Never heard his name in my life, but " " Was that all you heard? I think he's right when he says he's a " No. I heard enough to cause me to friend of yours, sir," replied McGrane understand that if you don't make a dubiously. prompt and vigorous effort to get out "Did you hear any of the talk that tins of the trap into which they have led you, gentleman says he overheard, Barney it would have been much better for you if Montresor's talk about getting me out you had remained in their hands and been of the way? " Joe asked. cast overboard after they had rowed you " A little of it, sir, but no names was well out into the lake." mentioned, and I didn't suspect that it " You mean that I would be better was you they was puttin' up a job on," dead?" the coachman replied. " Exactly." Joe muttered something in an under- " Then I am afraid that I have small tone and began to move slowly in the di- reason to thank you for getting me out of rection in which Montresor had retreated. their hands," said Warrington gloomily. Erskine stepped quickly after him and " On the contrary, I think I may earn laid a restraining hand on his arm. at least a small measure of your grati- " It will be better if you should give tude, for I believe that I can put you in me your confidence, Mr. Warrington," the way of saving something that should Erskine said quietly. be more valuable to you than your life." Joe turned quickly. " No, confound " " Indeed ! And what is that? you, I'll give no man my confidence " Your honor—and your father's." after what has happened to-night," he For a while the silence was unbroken, growled. " If what you and McGrane then, in a hoarser voice, young Warring- have said is true, I've got a bone to pick ton asked; with Montresor, and the ,sooner I get to " " What do you mean? work the better." " The return of certain valuable bonds " True," Erskine assented, " and if which recently disappeared from a place you can be made to understand that your to which you had access." interests and mine are one in this affair Again a silence fell. Erskine heard you will learn that you can work better the heavy breathing of the man he was with my aid than without it." addressing. Warrington's hand fell heavily on Er- " You know too much," Warrington skine's shoulder and shook it angrily. grumbled. " " Come, now—speak out ! he ex- "It is little enough." Erskine answered claimed. " What kind of game is this " easily. Still. 1 think that with the you're playing? You say you have saved knowledge that I have obtained I will me from Montresor, and in return you : " " WITHOUT LIGHTS. 475 demand my confidence. Why? You ap- " Yes, you are to understand just pear to be an absolute stranger to me. that." What interest have you, then, in my af- For a moment young Warrington was " silent then, fairs? ; in a voice that shook a little, I am interested in your affairs only he said so far as they have to do with mine. Less " You have been assigned to this case " than twelve hours ago I applied for a po- by my father? sition in the service of the C, S. L. and " I have told you that I am working in W. I was told that my employment by the interest of your father—and yours. the company was conditional upon my That is all that I can tell you now." ability to recover 'the bonds which disap- Again Warrington hesitated. " You peared five days ago from the office of have said that you have a line on the the company's treasurer. I have under; bonds," he returned. " Do you mean taken to restore these bonds to the place that you know in whose possession they " from which they were taken, and I will are now? do so—with or without your aid." " Yes." " You have a line on them, I suppose," " You suspect that Montresor has " said Warrington sarcastically. them ? " If I had not a line on them, I should " No. I know that they are not in the scarcely have appeared here so oppor- possession of Montresor," Erskine an- tunely for you to-night," answered Er- swered quietly. " " " skine shortly. If you want me to fight Not in the possession of Montresor ! you, as well as Montresor, I'm ready to exclaimed Warrington, with some sharp- take on the game. If you will aid me in ness. getting those bonds back to the vault in " No. He parted with them to-day. A such a manner that no one will know how few days hence he will have them again, they got there, you will have everything unless— to gain and nothing to lose." " Unless—" put in Warrington, eag- " You mean that you will cause them to erly. " be returned by stealth ! exclaimed the Unless they fall into our hands," astonished Warrington. Erskine explained. " " " — Exactly ! And you think that—that you " But how?" faltered young Warrington. " That will be your affair." " I have told you that I would get " You mean that you will give the them," Erskine answered firmly. " Am " bonds to me ? I to have you with me or against me?" " Conditionally—yes." Joe hesitated for a moment, then he " And what are the conditions? " turned to the coachman, who, standing " There is only one. The bonds must apart from the others was ignorant of be returned to the vault in my presence, the subject of their conversation. " and when this is done you must leave the MxGrane, you have said that my place with me." father discharged you from his service " After which you will report that you to-night," he said. " What was his rea- " found me with the goods," Joe retorted son for doing so ? skeptically. And now it was the coachman's turn " No. So long as the missing bonds to hesitate. " Because I disobeyed his are returned to the place from which orders," he replied. they were taken, it matters not to me who " Was that disobedience in regard to " was responsible for their disappearance. any matter that had to do with me? " If they are not returned within thirty No, sir, but it had to do with Mr. days, the exposure and punishment of the Montresor." thief must follow." "With Montresor?" " Am I to understand, then, that if " Yes, sir—Mr. Montresor and Miss the bonds are returned within thirty days, Warrington. Mr. Warrington told me no effort will be made to expose or pun-, to report to him whenever I drove Miss ish the man who took them from the Warrington to houses at which I had vault?" reason to believe she met Mr. Montresor. " 476 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Miss Warrington told me not to do so. be done quickly. The trail is Hot to- I did as she told me, sir, and so dis- night, and by the time the sun is up two obeyed Mr. Warrington. To-night he of us must be several hundred miles from found me out, and then he fired me." here." The words that fell from the lips of As he finished speaking, Erskine clam- voung Warrington were so low as to be bered to the top of the sea-wall. A mo- unintelligible. For a moment no one ment later he had disappeared. spoke, then Joe said: " Barney, did you ever meet that chap " It served you right, McGrane." anywhere before to-night?" Joe asked as •' I think it did, sir," replied the he and the coachman prepared to mount coachman penitently. the wall. Speaking huskily, young Warrington " Never, sir, but there's something about addressed Erskine. " Does my father him that makes me feel as how he's like suspect that—that I—" he faltered, and to prove a good friend of you and Mr. stopped. Warrington." " " He has not said so," the Altoona " Did he see my father this evening? man replied. " Yes, sir, and Mr. Warrington told " Do you think it would be better for him to take Miss Warrington to the me to go to him? " Joe asked. opera, but Miss Warrington got him into " No. Under the circumstances, I a carriage that was sent by Montresor, think it would be better to give your con- and a few minutes later Montresor laid fidence to me." that fellow out in Lincoln Park. That In the darkness Erskine felt a trem- shows, I guess, that Montresor knows— bling hand close around his own. " You he's dangerous, and is afraid that he shall have it, then, but not here," he an- With an exclamation of pain and swered, in a low voice. amazement, the coachman started back, Erskine knew that his relation to the then, with a loud, hoarse cry of rage, elder Warrington was suspected, but he grappled with a dark body that that what Joseph Warrington had to tell had flung itself upon him in the dark- him was not for the ears of Barney Mc- ness. A keen pain darted through his Grane. In the game that was to be left shoulder, andx a moment later his played, however, the coachman must sinewy thumbs sank deep into the yield- have a part, but he must be kept in ig- ing flesh of a human throat. But it was norance of its full significance. not from that throat that issued the long- Erskine thought quickly. " I have a drawn shriek that reached the ears of carriage waiting only a few steps from Erskine and caused him to halt abrupt- here," he said. " Follow me to it, but ly on the sidewalk oil the other side of " ~~~keep well behind me. What we do must the Lake Shore Drive, (To be co n t i n u e d . ) Silence isn't a sign of brains, but it's an aid to thinking. —Chief Despatched Motto. Sand is a fine thing, up hill or down. Keep plenty in your dome. —Sermonettes by the Old Man. An engine with a cracked bell may have sound cylinders. Some drawbacks don't matter. — Ruminations of the Roundhouse Foreman. A Night in the R. P. O. BY WILLARD D. EAKIN. PERHAPS the most romantic, but. at the same time, the most difficult position on the cars behind the steam-horse is that of mail-clerk, especially if it be a cold, windy night, and the train is making up time. " In this article the author has described just such a run on the Line and Bill R. P. O." It took half a dozen engineers to make the trip, but the mail-clerks had to stick it out. Talk of cold and hunger— Just light the pipe and hook onto this yarn. What One Man Encountered Sticking Letters and Throwing Papers in a Fifteen Hours' Run on a Car with a Broken Coupling, Fourteen Hours Late. is a long run from Lincoln to were scheduled to arrive, but we were Billings, and we mail-weigh- often so late that our twenty-hour lay- MT ers and the colored Pullman over in Billings was greatly shortened. porters were the only ones As one old weigher expressed it, we fre- " » who made it. It took five quently nearly met ourselves coming or six engineers to cover the back." trip, and there were three division points Everything went wrong on this par- where the conductors and brakemen ticular trip. In the first place, when we changed. went to our car that day we found an Edgemont, South Dakota, divided the old-time-r with oil lamps and no steam " east end " from the " west end " of from the engine taking the place of one the " Line and Bill R. P. O.," and here of our modern cars which had been the weary mail-clerk who had been stick- burned up in a recent wreck at Aurora. ing letters and throwing papers through- We were in the habit of bringing out the fifteen hours' run from Lincoln along bacon and eggs or similar raw gave over his responsibilities to a fresh materials for our meals during the thirty- clerk, who would carry the run on hour run, depending upon the little gas- through to Billings. stove, with which each modern car is But we weighers went on at two in equipped, to cook them. the afternoon, in the yards at Lincoln, Without the stove, the prospect was where the mail-car stood until train 43 that we would have a serious famine be- took it out of town at six, and we were fore reaching Billings, for the most on duty during the thirty-four hours un- edible article in our grub-boxes was raw til we reached Billings at midnight, the eggs. Then it was in February, and the second night out. "That was when we prospect of keeping the atmosphere at 477 478 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. a comfortable temperature was not en- jacketed " register," wrote it up in the couraging. book over the clerk's signature, and " At Germantown, the first station out chucked it into the " Chey and Spoke of Lincoln, the engineer started up too pouch. suddenly for the fourteen cars he was The oil lamps had begun to play out, hauling and broke the front draw-bar of and by this time only one little flicker- our car. Then they fastened us onto the ing flame was left, at the upper left cor- rear end with a chain, and as 43 always ner of the letter-case. By its light I got ran local on the east end, we had an in- Crawford tied out with numb fingers. teresting though not pleasant series of From the station-agent there, I got some sudden stops and starts. oil to replenish my lights, but did not have time to fill the lamps. Some Work to Cook. Between Crawford and Edgemont there were two " catch stations," where That night we managed to boil some the pouches were hooked in from a potatoes and eggs by hanging a bucket crane by the catching device in the mail- inside of the Baker heater, but in doing car door. this we used up all of our kindling to Such a station is not viewed with very make the fire hot enough, and during much joy by a mail-clerk at any time, the night the fire went out while the and they would be especially hard for clerk and I were working at the far end me to make that night. We were four- of the car. teen cars away from the engine, and ow- At Grand Island, we laid over eight ing to the wind it was impossible to hear hours while the track was being cleared the whistles indicating our approach to of a freight wreck, and the next day at the stations. three we plowed into a blizzard at Alli- It was necessary, therefore, to keep a ance, breakfastless, dinnerless, cold, and constant lookout for the lights. These without kindling. could not be seen far through the stormy The clerk had been on duty for near- night, and I had to keep both side doors ly forty-eight hours, having taken a open and cross to each one every few friend's run for him, and as he had to minutes. double back at Edgemont with only an hour's lay over, he decided he' could At Catch Stations. sleep if he couldn't eat, so he made up his cot on the rack and rolled in." The wind had been blowing in for some As the R. M. S. had lost its romance time I happened across a package in the and become a sad reality, he viewed mails with one end open, and, strange to with no alarm the prospect of being dis- say, it contained a thermometer. I took charged from the service, and, therefore, this out and found that it registered four had no hesitation about allowing me to above zero. " work the mail over his slip," thus ta- I was soon chilled to the bone. The king the responsibility of my errors. wind swept cinders and fine, hard snow As soon as he decided to sleep, I through the big open doors. initiated myself as a mail -clerk, being I did not know which side the crane glad of the opportunity to get the ex- was on at Ardmore, the first of the perience and hoping that having some- catch stations, but, as I remembered that thing to do would make me forget my there was only a station-house and a hunger and the cold. water-tank in the town, both of them at a safe distance from the track, I tied On the Job. one^- catcher in place before we reached the crane. While I was crossing the car So while he snored away in his im- to raise the other catcher arm, the pouch provised berth on the paper - rack, I slammed. into my trap, and Ardmore was worked the local from station to station, off my mind. " exchanged pouches, weighed them " on But at Dewey, the other catch station, " and off." and recording the results on I couldn't do this. Only three days before my weight blanks. At Crawford I got a I had seen a catcher arm straightened A NIGHT IN THE R. P. O. 479 back alongside the car from having two cars. I stepped over the iron gate hooked into the Dewey cbal-shed. into the vestibule of the Pullman and That coal-shed was the bane of the found the brakeman asleep in the smo- mail-clerk's life on the " Line and Bill." king-room. Setting so close to the track that the mail- "Where are we?" I asked when I car could not pass it with the catcher arm had succeeded in waking him. raised, and so near the crane that the arm had to be raised the moment the shed was passed, it made Dewey the hardest catch on the run. I had to keep an almost constant lookout ahead for Dewey, as she would whiz past and disappear into the stormy darkness behind. It was an hour's run from Ardmore, I knew, by schedule, but against the storm we were not making anything like schedule time. W hen I had waited an hour, during which time I took advantage of the opportunity to fix up my lights, I had no way of telling how much longer it would take to get there, so I stood in the door and strained my e}"es for a yellow light, waist-high and close be- side the track. Thus another half hour passed by, but only some red and green switch-lights were seen. As I had never given any notice to these be- fore, I was unable to identify them and so de- termine where we were. But as I knew that there would be no others within at least a mile or two of them, those of THE ENGINEER STARTED UP TOO SUDDENLY. Dewey would not show up for a few minutes, and I left the door " Well, now, how do you suppose I to consult the rear shack. know," he said, " when I've been asleep As I unbolted the front door of the for the last half-hour?" car and opened it, a blinding swirl of I told him about the switch-lights, but snow and wind nearly carried me off the he couldn't identify them from my de- platform, as I stepped across the clear scription, so I clambered back into the space that the chain allowed between the mail-car and resumed my watch. 480 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE This mental pro- "WHERE ARE WE?" I ASKED, WHEN cess was performed 1 SUCCEEDED IN WAKING HIM. HAD with a smile that seemed to crack my frost-stiffened face. But just when I had decided to give it up and close the doors, after taking a last hard look ahead, the light of the crane burst out of the storm fairly upon me. I had just time to raise the catcher w h e n the pouch slammed into it. My troubles were not over, but it was good to have the doors shut again, and, after running up and down the car to get warm, 1 clawed through the "local" for Edge- mont, got her tied out, and awakened the clerk just as we = were pulling in to that station. We were fourteen hours late, and run- Twenty - four hours without food or ning hard to make up time. If .1 leaned sleep, blue and chattering with the cold, out and got my ear to the proper angle, 1 was pessimistic enough to predict that there came now and then a feeble grunt the " west-end " clerk, knowing nothing from somewhere up ahead through the of our situation and counting on the regu- storm, seemingly miles away, which might lar steam-heated car, with its gas-stove, or might not be the whistle of the engine. would have only potatoes, bacon, and eggs in his grub-box. My pessimism was Cold and Mighty Hungry. proven, except that he had steak instead of the eggs. That the engine was ahead was made But a ray of hope came to me when clear by the fusillade of cinders that I heard the brakeman say, as he passed pelted me in the face. My eyes inflamed our door going up ahead, something about and smarted as if they were freezing turning the mail-car. with the lids held open. I could feel They w: ere going to turn us around and my limbs getting blue and stiff, and the couple us up with the good draw-bar at. flapping of the thin trousers against them the other end of the car, so as to dispense in the wind made a friction which, I re- with the chain connection. member, seemed welcome for the warm- ing sensation it gave. Hustling for Grub. .Several times I felt that I had reached the limit of physical endurance, but I I reported the happy prospect to the was determined to make that catch or clerk, asking the significant question, how freeze in the attempt, though I was so long it would probably take to turn the hungry that I wondered whether I would car around, in the hope that he would freeze >>r starve first. make the prospect even more happy. A NIGHT IN THE R. P. O. 481 " Good idea," he said, " and if you're Deadwood and Edgemont train, known so all-fired hungry as you say you are, to mail-clerks as the " Dead and Edge," why not run up-town- while they're turn- was on track No. 2, and they always ing the car — it'll take about a quar- waited for us before they left town, as ter of an hour—and get some eatable stuff they depended upon 43 for all their pas- at the bakery" that won't have to be sengers and express, as w^ell as all mail cooked? You're not supposed to leave matter. the car, you know, but maybe I'll want a I looked back to the station just in bite myself before we get in, and I'll not time to see the truckman fling the last squeal on you." tie-sack of paper-mail into the compart- As I was hungry to the most absolute ment-car, and the engineer was climbing degree, I fell for the proposition at once. into the cab. Again 1 made a dash for I hurried up-town, bought the eatables, the depot, retaining the pies and beans, and charged back down to the depot, and startled the con in the act of giving with a pie under each arm and a can of the highball. beans hi my pocket. " Did 43 turn his mail-car? " I gasped But when I turned the corner at the anxiously. " station- and began the final dash for the Not yet," he replied ; they're going " train, I saw that the traek was empty. to turn her out at the ' Y.' About a half mile toward Billings were "How far out is it?" I asked, while the rear lights of 43, getting dimmer the engineer looked back for his signal every second. I was left. That was all. to get out of town. Would the clerk weigh up the mail and sign in for me at Billings, and persuade the other clerk to sign me out and do my work on the re- turn trip, or would I be found out for having left the car and dis- charged from the service? And would the penalty stop even there? What was the law in such a case? Was it not a criminal of- fense to go off buying pies and neglect the care of Uncle Sam's mail. But, as usually happens in such a case, I was perfectly calm, and resigned my- self to fate. I couldn't help feeling that pos- sibly I hadn't fully realized the serious- ness of my situation. Meanwhile, how- ever, I would drop back up-town and have a good, hot sup- per and a comfortable bed for the night at the railroad hotel. T "can you catch 'em? i've " had gone half a block got to make it ! when a hopeful idea struck me. The 7 R R — — ; 482 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " Couple o' miles—out by the river." yard time, crashing through the South " Can you catch 'em? I've got to make Dakota corn-stalks like a deer. it," I told him, and quickly explained. Meanwhile the engine was running in " Maybe," he said simply. " Get on, on the " Y," coupling up with the car anyhow, and we'll try." by the chain, running it back to the stem I'd have given that conductor a pass- of the " Y," then out onto the main track port to heaven if I'd had it. I've often and sticking it onto the rear end of the - wondered whether he really went ahead train with the good coupler. and rode in the cab on my account, and I had come nearly half a mile, on 'a if the suddenness with which that town day-empty stomach, through a corn-field, vanished behind us was brought about for and had nearly a quarter left to run. my sake, or if the fact that the train was The engine pulled away from the tram, twenty hours late had anything to do passed the switch, backed out onto the " " with it ; but the surest thing about it was Y again, switched back, and was ma- that we flew. king the home-stretch to the head of the When we whizzed into sight of 43, train as I reached the right-of-way fence. they were throwing the mail-car in on I used the last of my strength to climb the " Y." The tracks had separated some into the mail-car door, just as a whistling distance back, and were now more than rush of air and a clank underneath the half a mile apart. car told that the engine had coupled and The " Dead and Edge's " air went on, the air was connected. and in about two car lengths we slowed "Well! Great jimcracks, I didn't ex- " down so much that when I jumped I only pect to see you again ! was the mail- made three revolutions on the sloping clerk's greeting. " But I'm glad you " side of the embankment before I got up came. Have you got the pies? and started to run. I had. They were badly smashed, but Then I did a Marathon in twenty- welcome enough for all that. IN A PULLMAN GAR. THERE is one who will always re- In fancy I see her still, slender and member me fair, W herever the Fates may call her, As she was in that long ago May^ No matter how splendid her fortune time, may be When her dark lashes curled and the bronze of her hair N Or how heavy the ills that befall her. Turned dusk at the close of the day- I gazed on her first as we thundering time. - sped Oh, I dreamed of her grace as we I and the beautiful stranger thundered ahead With faith in the man at the throttle When troubles no longer beset me; ahead. Her cheeks may be faded, her gladness And never a thought of danger. be dead. But I know she will never forget me. that I looked at her often and wished I know that whatever her future may we two be, Might journey forever together. Whether lofty or lowly her station, With never a care when the heavens She will - never forget that occasion were blue when we on our far destination. And blithe in the stormiest weather. Journeyed to Though I never may clasp her in happy Her lashes were long, her expression embrace was sweet, And never may tell her I love her. She must been twenty or nearly have She remembers, I know, for I stepped Though I know not her name, though on her face. we never may meet. When I crawled from my berth I know she remembers me clearly. above her. S. E. Kiser, in " Book of the Royal Blue." " DONNELLY'S HUNCH BY ALFRED H. GIEBLER. Between Premonition and Prevarication, a Fireman Manages To Get Just What He Is Looking for. ' pj-J^KHINR 808, pulling the divi- been burning— the wind to make time. JByg§§|v«k sipn superintendent's spe- What is the SMy\MU 'i'il iHiarli, "Magnolia," V» "Oh, don't tell me your troubles," Taj^^y^ stood on the siding at Stout- said the operator languidly. "I'm not JE^|j|ffV land Junction. Engineer responsible for, the way this old turn- Tom Collins, who had pike is run." brought her here, was stretched out in Francis grinned at him, put the order the office of the local doctor, a victim of in his cap and went out to the 808. aoute indigestion. Donnelly, the fireman, leaned out of the At the station, Ed Francis, the con- cab. ductor, stood over the telegraph operator. "What did they say, Ed?" he de- " Tell the despatcher," he dictated, manded eagerly, as Francis came up. " " that Collins is down and out, won't be They said for us to wait till 32 gets able to finish the run. Tell him the Old here and then to take Pete Horn off the Man. is asleep in the car. and that if 64 to finish Collins's run. I thought they'll let me pick up a fireman here and they'd let you take the run. Matt. What use Donnelly as engineer we'll get out is it they've got against you?" " in ten minutes and he'll never know it." Oh, it's because I come, off the Jerk- The operator with a nonchalant air water," said Donnelly, all the hope and of having division superintendents' eagerness gone out of his face. " specials tied up at his station every night Well, you'd make as good a run- in the week, worked away at his key a ner as they've got." Francis yawned few minutes, then, after listening to the and stretched his arms. " I didn't get answering clicks, he turned to Francis. much sleep last night," he continued, " " Nixey," he said, " PS says if the I'm going in the office and pound my .Old Man found ^out that Donnelly ear till 32 gets here. Sorry they wouldn't wasn't a regular engineer there'd be let you take the run. Matt." for to keep " Oh, it's all right," said Donnelly -Sam Hill to pay ; says you " your shirt on a few minutes and he'll lightlv, I'm used to gettin' the short give you orders what to do."' end of it." " Well, any time to-night," growled " It's a shame, anyhow," said Francis, " wakes, Francis, if - the Old Man as he turned away. there'll—" The St. L., M. and E. Railroad is al- The operator held up his hand for most a bee-line through Missouri till it silence. strikes the Ozark foot-hills ; there it " There's your dope now," he said, makes a wide detour, skirts the mountains grabbing a pad of order paper. He to the southwest, then swings back toward wrote rapidly for a few seconds, then the Mississippi, while the D. and K., or tare off one of the yellow sheets and the Jerkwater, that branches off at Stout- handed it to Francis. land Junction, dashes boldly up and over " For the love of Mike," Francis the rugged knobs, comes down their west- snorted, when he read the order, "this ern slopes, cuts across lots, as it were, and means a fifty-minute lay-over, and we've intersects the St. L., M. and E. again at — 484 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Jacksonville, the southern terminus of py again when they were living in the both roads. little cottage they had planned. The D. and K. is not taken very se- Thus he had dreamed, waiting for riously by its stronger rival. It is con- Francis- to come back, and then his dream sidered as a sort of burlesque railroad. had been shattered. Tears of anger Its engines are said to burn hay for fuel, welled up in Donnelly's eyes. He had and passengers on the one mixed train spoken lightly to Francis, spoken as a day that puffs and jerks over its forty though he did not care, "but that was the crooked miles are supposed to be able to Irish pride in him. He did care—he did alight at any point along the way to re- care! Bitter disappointment and black lieve the tedium of the journey by walk- rage filled his heart. ing. The waiting-room of the Stoutland The Jerkwater had been a cradle of station was only a few steps from where industry to Matt Donnelly. He had Donnelly sat in the cab of the 808 started as water-boy on a construction brooding over his wrongs. A child came train, and then, after he had worked as to a window, saw the engine and dis- wiper, hostler, fireman—mastered every appeared, and in another moment was branch of the service that leads to en- at the door dragging a woman by the gine running, and was as good and safe hand. an engineer as ever pulled a throttle " There's a train," said the child, he had come down to the main line. " let's go to papa on that train." But according to main-line standards The woman hurried to the engine. nothing good could come from the Jerk- "Where does this train go?" she water. He was not given an engine, but asked, lifting a tear-stained face. " Does " put to firing. it go on the branch? " It's all right," said Donnelly, " I'll " It doesn't go anywhere for a while, get a chance some day to show them that ma'am," answered -Donnelly, " the en- I can handle an engine as well as the gineer took sick and we're waitin' for best of them, and they'll give me a run another." " fast enough." He believed this, and he I wanted to go to Cowan," said the told it to Katie Mullins, and Katie be- woman. " I missed the train, and there lieved it, and so they were married. won't be another till to-morrow." But Donnelly did not go up on the " V couldn't ride on this train if it ladder. He was made a fireman when was goin' to Cowan," said Donnelly, he came to the road, and a fireman he re- " it's a superintendent's special." mained. Five years had passed, and " No. it'd be too tony for the likes there was a pathetic stoop to Katie's of me," replied the woman, with a smile shoulders as she bent over the sewing that was more of a ghastly grimace than she took In to make both ends meet in anything else, as she turned away. their growing family. She was a poor bedraggled creature The lilting Irish songs were stilled on with all the marks of poverty stamped her lips, and Donnelly had almost given on her dress and features. There was up hope, but to-night when Collins was something about her wobegone condi- stricken, he thought his chance had come. tion that touched Donnelly. It was the He would take the special to the end mute resignation of the poor—the phil- of the run, and he would be so careful osophy that reasons that theirs is a mis- that the Old Man sleeping away in his ery that cannot be cured and must be en- palatial coach would not feel a single dured. He called her back, intending to bump to his precious bones. give her a word out of the abundance of He would show them thai he could his sympathy. run an engine as well as any man on the " Was it very important, what ye road, even if he did learn the trick on wanted to go to Cowan for?" he asked. the hay-burners of the despised Jerk- She turned on him fiercely. water. " I'd give my soul to get there to- Then he would get his run at last, ana night. My husband's there, and he's Katie—ah, Katie, with her patient, wist- dyin', he's askin' for me and I can't go ful face and tender eyes—would be hap- to him." DONNELLY'S HUNCH. 485 "don't tell me your troubles," said the operator. " Maybe it's not that bad," said Don- descendant of kings. He gave not a nelly kindly. thought to himself, his immolation was The woman looked up at him, a blaze completed. It was an Irish Don Quixote in her eyes. that climbed down from the cab. " " He's dyin,' I tell you, he's dyin' ! I You wait here a minute," he said to drove him away and now he'll die and the woman ; then he ran to the rear of never know I've forgiven him and want- the special coach, climbed up on the ed him back a thousand times." platform, opened the door carefully and The poor creature was half crazy with tiptoed along a narrow aisle to the smo- her grief. king-room where the porter was having an " He's dyin', he's dyin'," she kept re- audible dispute with Morpheus. peating the words, her wild eyes fastened " That's good," said Donnelly, listen- on Donnelly's face. He was the only ing a moment, " it's a sign the Old Man person that had spoken kindly to her that is still snoozin'." day. She appealed to him, lifting her He ran back, led the woman and child hands pitifully. " Oh, why can't I go to "to the front end of the coach and helped him?/' them up. Donnelly's heart was very soft. All " Go in there," he said, opening the his own troubles were forgotten in pity door and shoving them in. " Don't for for the woman, but he could not stand the life of ye try to go in the other part of just the terrible look in her face. the car ; stay here till I come for He turned his head aside to escape her ye. If a porter comes and asks ye what stare. He looked out of the cab win- ye are doin', tell him ye are takin' a ride, dow idly. and if he bothers ye, tell him Matthew And then—Donnelly became a true Donnelly'll knock his head off!" — — 486 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. He was gone before the woman, be- runaways, for, as every one reasoned, wildered by the turn events had taken, there was no telling what direction a could say a word. He ran to the switch crazy fireman running amuck with an that led to the Jerkwater, swung the tar- engine would take. The thing to do was get around, then back to the 808. to keep the track "clear and avoid collision " They can take their dirty job and if possible. keep it," he muttered to himself as. he The languid operator at Stoutland reached for the throttle. The engine be- Junction was roused to quick action for gan to move. It crept along the rails once in his life. with care and caution like some great • Francis put in the time walking up beast that was escaping from its master, and down the room, wording a letter of the end of the main-line rails were resignation he meant to write when ho reached, the ponderous drivers of the 808 should feel a little calmer. gripped the lighter steel of the Jerk- In the midst of things, the operator water, and on they went, past the cluster at Swinton, a station fifteen miles south of houses, past the coal-chutes. of Stoutland, broke in on the wire, and Then Donnelly gave her more steam a hundred miles of railroad held its and they whipped around the curve and breath and hung on every dot and dash out of sight. of his message. Conductor Francis found his couch A farmer had telephoned that there an unused corner of the telegraph table was a wreck on a piece of the road that —an uncomfortable one, and he did not ran through his field. pound his ear more than twenty of the Then consternation took a hand in the forty minutes of the wait till he rose. game. The despatcher ordered all the He addressed a few uncompbmentary, doctors in Swinton to go to the wreck, and more or less profane remarks about and two Italian laborers—one with the sleeping accommodations of- the of- bumps on his head and one who had fice to the operator, and getting only un- lost a piece of skin the size of a dune intelligible grunts in response, went to were hauled to Swinton in automobiles the window to see how Donnelly and the with ten surgeons attending them. 808 were getting along. The wreck was that of a belated He looked out of the window once, work-train that had run past orders to rubbed a clear spot on the glass and meet the special at Lomax, a blind looked again. Then he ran to the door siding a few miles out of Swinton. and stared up the siding to the north Donnelly knew every foot, every curve and down the siding to the south. He and low joint on the D. and K. Its one called the operator, and. together, they train a day had long since made its looked up and down the track, and round trip and he had a clear track. He Francis even took a look up in the air. whizzed the 808 through the little towns They returned to the office and spent a at a rate of speed hitherto unknown on few seconds looking solemnly at each the Jerkwater, and yet he was as care- other. ful as if Katie and Maggie and Ma- The operator opened his key, and for lachi, the twins, and little Francis the first time in the history of railroad- Xavier, who was but two months old, ing clicked the news that an engine and had been in the special car behind. a special coach bearing the august per- Most of the stations on the line were son of the division superintendent had dark. At one place a belated agent disappeared—had faded from the sight came out on the platform and stood with of man. bulging eyes at the unusual sight. Of course everybody thought Donnelly 'Cowan, the town the woman wanted was crazy, and no one thought of the to reach, was twenty-three miles from Jerkwater. The despatcher asked a thou- Stoutland Junction, and, in exactly sand questions, most of them unanswer- thirty*-seven minutes, which was not bad able. He gave a thousand orders, most- time, considering that Donnelly had to of them impossible of execution. do his own firing, he slowed up at the All stations on either side of Stout- deserted station. He stopped the engine land were notified to look out for the and ran to the coach. DONNELLY'S HUNCH. 487 " Here ye are," he said, opening the He gave three or four ear-splitting " door, here's the end of yer journey." J)lasts of the whistle to announce their The woman began tugging at the arrival, slipped quietly down from the child that had gone to sleep on the floor. cab and sought his boarding-house by Donnelly picked up the youngster and the most unfrequented path he knew. followed the woman as she climbed down He was glad Katie was at the other the steps of the car. end of the road, it would delay the tell- ^" Wake somebody up in one of them ing of the bad news that he was out of houses," he told her. work for a few hours. She tried to say something, she began He went to bed with a heavy heart. sobbing hysterical thanks, but Donnelly The first thing he did next morning THE PORTER WAS HAVING AN AUDIBLE DISPUTE WITH MORPHEUS. was in the cab before she had said half was to pack his few belongings. Not a dozen words. considering his job worth resigning, he " Good-by," he"shouted, as the train went to the office and demanded the moved away. money that was coming to him. The rest of run was made in forty- " Can't do anything for you," said four minutes, and at 10.05 the 808 and the cashier, " got orders to send you over the " Magnolia,", with its' calmly sleep- to the general offices as soon as you ing occupants, steamed into the Jerk- show up here. The Old Man wants to r water yards at Jacksonville. see you.' There was a switch connecting the The Old Man was the last person in two roads, and Donnelly might have de- the world that Donnelly wanted to see, livered the special to the St. L., M. and but there was no way out of it, he would E. station, but that would have entailed have to go on the carpet before he was publicity, and that was something for allowed to draw his money. In the ele- which he was not looking. vator on his way to the Old Man's of- 488 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. fice he heard the first news of the wreck. an enforced ride over the Jerkwater, Two men were talking. eh?" The Old Man adjusted the glass- " Everybody thought the fireman was es to his near-sighted eyes- and leaned crazy," one of them was saying, " but forward to get a better look at him. it looks as if there might have been " Yes, sir," said Donnelly, because some sort of method in his madness. A there was nothing else to be said. work-train ran past a meeting-point, and The Old Man sat and stared at him. then went in the ditch on a spread rail then he took his glasses off and polished near Swinton. If the fireman hadn't ta- them carefully, put them back on his ken the special around on the Jerkwater nose and stared again. He had the repu- they would have found the spread rail, tation of being hard, and many a man or smashed into the work-train." had quailed under that glare, but not " Funny how things will happen," Donnelly, who was thinking of the said the other man, " enough to make words he had heard in the elevator; he you believe in fate." wondered if the Old Man knew. His This news took Donnelly's breath next words satisfied him on that point. away. He wanted to ask the men more " Well, what have you got to say for about it, but their floor was reached yourself? What made you do such a " before he could collect his scattered wits. crazy thing? " He kept turning the words over in his Ye wouldn't believe me if I told ye," mind as he went through the anteroom said Donnellv, " ye'd think it was fool- of the superintendent's office. The Old ish." Man was sitting with his back to the " It was foolish," roared the Old " door. He turned as Donnelly entered. Man, slapping the desk ; the biggest "Well, what's your trouble?" he fool thing I ever heard of. But what snapped. have you got to say? Out with it?" " Ye wanted to see me," said Mat- " I took ye over the Jerkwater to keep thew. " My name is Donnelly." ye out of the wreck. If I'd told ye be- " So you're the man that took me for fore there was goin' to be a wreck, ye'd 1 YE COULD HARDLY CALL IT THAT. MORE LIKE A HUNCH." DONNELLY'S HUNCH. 489 have laughed at me and- said I was All the harshness was gone out of his crazy." voice when he spoke again. Donnelly spoke with assurance. He " Do you mean to tell me that you looked the Old Man square in the eye knew this was going to happen, and with the perfect candor of a child. that you took me around the Jerkwater " " What wreck? " cried the Old Man. to avoid it ? " The wreck last night," said Don- " Yes, sir," said Donnelly, with be- nelly, " the work-train that ran past its coming modesty, but gulping a little meeting-point." over the enormity of his prevarication. " Wait a minute." The Old Man The ( >ld Man turned to his desk for grabbed a sheaf of telegrams that lay on a few seconds. When he turned to Don- the desk. It often happens that a divi- nelly again, he held out a paper. " sion superintendent is almost the last Take this to Effinger. It is an order man to hear of an accident, the news be- to give you a regular run as engineer. ing, kept from him till the details are A man that can take me over forty complete. miles of the kind of track they've got on " This tells me," he said, shaking a the Jerkwater and never wake me up, paper at Donnelly till it made a crack- and can look far enough in the future ing noise, " that work-train No. 40 ran to prevent wrecks, is too valuable for by their meeting-point "at Lomax and the service to lose." then went in the ditch at a point two " Thank ye, sir," said Donnelly, as miles north of there." Donnelly nodded he took the paper. He started to go, " his head. I take it, then," resumed but the Old Man held up a hand. the Old Man, " that if you hadn't ab- " I want you to tell me something ducted me and gone over the Jerkwater, about this feeling you had. Was it a we would have either hit the work-train presentiment, a sort of premonition?" or found the spread rail ourselves." Donnelly looked as wise as an owl. " That's it, sir," said Donnelly. " Well, no, sir," he said, rubbing the The Old Man wiped his glasses again, stubble on his chin, " ye could hardly blinking his eyes rapidly as he did so'. call it that. It was more like a hunch." FIGHTING FIRES ON THE PENNSY. Employees Extinguished 321 Conflagrations During 1909, Saving the Company Thousands of Dollars. THE annual report of the insurance de- Pittsburgh in 1909, in order that the em- partment of the Pennsylvania Railroad ployees may realize that their efforts to mini- shows that the company's own employees ex- mize losses from fire are appreciated, and tinguished 321 fires during 1909. These further, that their attention may be called fires occurred on property valued at more to the number of fires occurring from pre- than $9,000,000, yet "the loss from them ventable causes. amounted to only about $20,000. During the year 1909. there were 929 fires The report derives added significance from on the entire system, involving a loss of only the fact, says The Railzvay and Engineering $402/515, which was exceedingly small, com- Revietv, that during the past year additional paratively, as the value of the property was equipment for extinguishing fires has been more than $260,000,000. Forty fires, entail- placed at available points. The road's own ing a loss of $11,079, started on adjacent organization for fighting fires has been fur- property. Spontaneous combustion was re- ther developed by special training of em- sponsible for a loss of $10,315, from 21 fires. ployees, and additional locomotives in yard Two fires resulting from careless handling service have been equipped with special ap- of lighted cigars, cigarettes, and matches, paratus for use in case of lire. caused a loss of $60,395. Nine fires were due A circular is to be issued by the insurance to tramps, with a loss to the company of department giving the causes of all fires on $1,270. and 28 fires, with a loss of $28,670, the Pennsylvania system east and west of were of incendiary origin. ; HELP FOR MEN WHO HELP T H E M S E LV E S — N U MB E R 30. (The Rogers Group. No. 1.) THE RAILROAD APPRENTICE. BY ROBERT H. ROGERS. THE editor of this magazine has received scores of communications from young men in all parts of the country, asking how they may become apprentices in the big railway shops, the conditions there, the pay, and similar questions. We are going to answer them in a series of five articles, which we have selected Mr. Robert H. Rogers to write, for the reason that Mr. Rogers has the twofold ability of being a railroad mechanic and a writer. This is the first article in the series. We are publishing them in our popular department, "Help For Men Who Help Themselves." because there is no more appropriate place in the magazine. They will be distinguished as " The Rogers Group," however, and will run consecutively until completed. This series is no less valuable than it is interesting to the young railroad aspirant, the beginner in the work- shop, the man who is on his first job firing; in fact, all men who are looking to the railroad for their future. What Some of the Great Railway Systems Are Doing to Educate Young Men to Cope With the Improvements in Railway Construction. VERY feature in railroad ser- It is true that a long and rocky road vice, animate or vice versa, must be traveled to reach this preferment has its development from a but, with very few exceptions, as an . very small beginning. A apprentice is where they all began, and pile of castings, billets, and from this humble capacity will continue boiler-plate results present- to be recruited all the guiding hands and ly in a complete locomotive ; and the awk- master minds of the future. ward boy. whom you may notice in any All of them, in the old days, chipped shop, choking his hammer and pounding refractory castings full of burrs, swept his hand oftener than the head of the the shop, and spent unavailing hours in chisel, may become the head of the mo- the quest of impossible and preposterous tive-power department. tools. It was a hard school. A great Scries began in the August. 1907, Railroad Man's Magazine. Single copies. 10 cents. 490 THE RAILROAD APPRENTICE. 491 many will bear witness to this, even if we Frgak T. Hyndman, of the New York. have pulled out of the rut, but the game New Haven and Hartford Railroad, was was worth the candle, and it may be en- running an engine on the old Pittsburgh couraging for every beginner to know that and Western, between that toM'n and the big job can be his, if he honestly gets Chicago Junction, within the ken of the into it and tries. writer, who was roundhouse foreman at During one of the recent mechanical the Glenwood terminal, where Mr. Hynd- conventions in Atlantic City several.well- man's engine put up. known motive-power chiefs met for an A. Stewart, of the Southern Railway, informal lunch at the Marlborough-Blen- swung a hammer for many years in the heim, after a morning session wherein had U. P. shops before he saw his way to the been profoundly and resourcefully dis- top. cussed the all-important matters of cut flanges, leaky boiler - tubes, high - speed All Were Poor Boys. steel, and automatic stokers. Perhaps the close attention necessary Many of the older employees of the to intelligently follow the learned papers Erie Railroad recall when T. Rumney, which had been read resulted in these sub- now general mechanical superintendent, jects being tabooed after adjournment, in had charge of the rod-gang in the Sus- favor of less exacting topics ; but, as quehanna shops of that road, and it hasn't railroading must be talked by its incum- been so long ago either. bents of whatever grade, whether on the He rose from machinist, no matter ash-pit at Jersey City, or in executive through what changes of management the session in the Railway Exchange, it could road passed in the meantime. When a not long be evaded in this instance. better job opened up in his particular The form assumed, however, was a field he was always the logical candidate genuine treat to the writer, who was the for consideration, and always approved only auditor, and no less a rare occasion, by his superiors, whoever they might be. because the superintendents of motive- These men were poor boys—plain, power became reminiscent concerning every-day apprentices at the start. They their individual advent into the business, had to work for a living, and they chose in which now, in their line, they stand at railroading. With possibly a single ex- the head. ception they did not have the benefit of They are taciturn, too, these high offi- college training, or even theoretical cials. They possess to a transcendent de- groundwork in their future duties, but gree this peculiar attribute of veteran what they have since acquired in that di- engineers, and it is pretty hard to get rection is astounding. them to comment on their early days. The effort oh their part, which result- ed in literally " picking up " advanced Big Men Who Began Low Down. knowledge, in the face of the terrific pace set by their daily work, must have been It transpired that E. T. White, head tremendous. Yet they succeeded, and are of the eastern district of the Baltimore to-day among the top-notch motive-power and Ohio, had been an apprentice and a men of the country. wiper, in the historic old Piedmont shops, Whether based on fact or not, it has when Sam Houston held forth in that often been remarked that the brightest quarter asjnaster mechanic, and to whom, minds in railroading are to be found in with Andrew J. Cromwell, the B. and O. the motive-power ranks ; and it need not is indebted for the advanced mechanical be wondered at, because interest naturally ideas which, in the time of these men, centers in the spectacular. Mammoth placed it ahead of its contemporaries. engines, a giddy race with time, shops Mr. White had good schooling in the replete with wonder-working machinery, railroad game, but he was a good pupil, terminal roundhouses, with all their pic- too. Through ability only, and without a turesque detail of personnel and environ- single push behind him, he passed through ment—these attract a young man. oil the grades leading to his present posi- The locomotives suggest their crews tion. And the end is not yet. and all the stirring stories which have " 492 . THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. been written about them, and which will Fifty of these general foremen will continue to be written until the end of become master mechanics, and five of the time. latter will be heads of that department, The Trades Taught. mechanical superintendents, or superin- tendents of motive-power, call it what you The shops appeal to the ingenuity and will. the mechanical instinct, maybe dormant, This may seem a bit discouraging to but nevertheless inherent in us all, and the the aspirant for honors in this attractive smoky roundhouse interests through the field, but remember always that deadwood concentration of energy and human re- is inimical to and inseparable from all sourcefulness, which the veriest tyro can- callings. There is naturally a weeding- not but admit must be housed within its out process in the evolution of a future battered and windowless walls. superintendent of a department so- vital, That the ambitious young man of to- and those who fall by the -wayside can day finds all this just as appealing, is generally, and without a strained retro- shown by the fact that the Erie Railroad spect, unearth the true cause of their un- has on file some two thousand applications doing. from young men who wish to enter as Without a reference to the pluck of apprentices. those who years ago learned the business, The Baltimore and Ohio can pro- it would be unfair to comment on the duce as many more, and the Pennsylvania tremendous advantages possessed by an double the number of either. These are apprentice of these days. applications for machinist, air-brake in- No more striking contrast could possi- spector ( which is now taught as a separate bly be imagined than between these fa- trade), blacksmith, boiler - maker, tin- vored individuals and those who served smith, pipe-fitter, electrician, car-builder, their time in the so-called " good old cabinet-maker, carpenter, pattern-maker, days." When these two contrasts are laid and molder, all of which are necessary in side by side, it seems really astonishing modern car and' locomotive building and that every beginner of the nineteenth maintenance. v. century is not head of his chosen profes- The majority of these applications are sion at first hand. for machinist apprentice, in.the propor- " tion of at least four to one. This is un- The Good Old Days." doubtedly the most comprehensive of all trades. From its ranks are recruited a To learn the machinist's trade twenty, larger number for supervising and official or twenty-five years ago, meant a degree positions than any other. of hardship inconceivable almost in this It is, of course, impossible to provide age of progress. The general plan of for all of these applicants; but on the training, say up to 1890, was to start the larger roads, at least, about five hundred apprentices in the roundhouse for a year, boys take up the work annually, and of and to regard them merely as extra this number seventy-five per cent finish pairs of arms and legs to do the bidding out their allotted time of three or four of anybody connected with the " knock- years, dependent on the requirements of about " gang. the trade which they are to learn. This gang, composed of a boss, two machinists, two helpers, and one or two Future of 20,000 Youngsters. of the green boys, contended with all the hard work of removing "and applying What of the possibly twenty thousand driving-wheel tires, dropping wheels in young men who every year are given the the pit for new boxes, and changing chance to learn a trade? The carefully springs, all of which, with the crude ap- compiled statistics of the writer, extend- pliances then in use, were very laborious ing over many years, ^indicate that one. operations. thousand will become sub-foremen, or, in It should be added that a roundhouse other wr ords, gang-bosses; two hundred in which tin's work is done is rather a dis- and fifty will be foremen, and seventy-five enchanting proposition to a novice at all general foremen. times and on all occasions. In summer ; THE RAILROAD APPRENTICE. 493 the thermometer frequently climbs around The doors didn't fit. There was always 130 degrees, and the boss would gener- a gap under them of from one-half to ally find a place to put the new boy where three inches, and it required all the waste he- would have no difficulty in - appre- bagging which we could beg or steal from ciating the temperature. the oil-house to stop the crevices. He would, no -doubt, think of happy There wasn't a whole pane of glass ' school-days and the cool quiet of his anywhere. How the wind did whoop it country home, while lying over the high up when the wind was blowing right. " boiler of a hog," with all the lagging Then the boys would put in many hours in burned from under the jacket ; and lag- the cold and damp pits under the engines, ging, in those days, was simply boards. chipping away the ice so that the bolts He would be trying to pack one of those could be uncovered to loosen the nuts. throttle-valves arranged on top. the skin The drop-pits on which this work was peeling off his fingers from contact with done were not the quick-action affairs of the network of red-hot pipe, and half the present, operated by an hydraulic or strangled by the smoke from his open air jack with a minimum of labor, but, kerosene torch. on the contrary, they were extremely primitive. " " Some Fancy Jobs. The entire machinery for lowering the table on which the pair of driving-wheels There were other jobs, too, which even rested while being dropped consisted of the writer cannot recall without a tremor. a jack-screw in each corner, turned by a Many~\vho read this have not forgotten wheel taken from the brake-staff of a the problem of the disconnected throttle, freight-car. winch rigging always came apart at a Of course every new apprentice was point under the shell of the boiler, about assigned to the unenviable job of oper- six feet in the rear of the dome. ating one of these wheels. Unenviable is There were a good many things in those without reservation, because there are boilers—stays, crown-bars, and Avhat not tricks in all trades. The older hands on and after the dome-cover was off and the the other three wheels had the art of run- throttle-box removed, it became the time- ning their own down in unison finely de- honored job of the thinnest and smallest veloped, leaving the apprentice to lower apprentice to be lowered by his feet, head practically all of the weight, to the ac- first down the dome, and make his way companiment of blistered hands and a over the crown bars to the seat of the lame back. trouble. It was no trouble to replace the pin, Hunting " John Murphy." the loss of which meant the disconnected throttle ; but it was an awful job to worm There was another feature, too, '"hat " " one's way back again to where welcome was raw," and so raw " that its n. .ji- hands would seize his feet and haul him ory lingers through all of these many out. years. It is remembered in this connection that That was the innocent, but none the Joe Brady, once an apprentice with the less disheartening, " kidding " to which writer, but now probably general foreman every new boy became the logical victim. of the B. and O., at the Riverside round- He was sent off in a hurry, and always house in Baltimore, be'came stuck in the on a long journey, for some impossible boiler of the 806, on his return trip fol- tool. For instance, a machinist in the lowing this feat. " knockabout " gang would opportunely They claim that if a man loses his nerve discover that the progress of the work he swells when in such environment, but at hand must be held up until lie could " it is nevertheless a fact that they thought secure the loan of a half-round square." the boiler would have to be cut apart this impossible tool being the property of before Joe was finally released. a certain " John Murphy." Winter in these old roundhouses was " John Murphy " was always farthest not much of an improvement. They were from the gang which the limits of the ramshackle affairs at the best, all of them. shop would permit, if, indeed, he were —: 494 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. not equally as mythical as the tool itself. The " bounty " was a great institution, The apprentice would be instructed to and it is a pity that it has passed away. ' borrow this appliance from Mr. Murphy, It meant that from each and-every day's and not return without it. pay eight cents would be deducted by the Fertility of invention worthy of a bet- company, to be paid in a lump at the ter cause was displayed by the mechanics expiration of the apprenticeship. of those days in creating these errands. This amount, usually $100, was a pretty The boys were hustled after " straight good stake for a boy getting " free." Of hooks,'" " left-hand monkey-wrenches," course, there were certain tithes on this " whistle-tuners," and " smooth files." amount, .but enough remained to buy a They carried bogus orders to the store- good kit of machinists' tools, and more keeper for " white lamp-black," and to cash at one time besides than the boy ever the blacksmith to temper a " lead-center saw. punch," carefully filed into a semblance After they were " but of their time," of the steel article. and received their " bounty," they gener- ally drifted away from the home fold to Sent for " Blast." secure experience. Boys who started as apprentices long ago gave value received There is, indeed, an instance on record for the trade they learned. It was simply where an apprentice spent his entire din- a case of the survival of the fittest straight ner-hour in begging the foreman of the through, and represents the school in iron-foundry for- a bucket of " blast." He which those whose names are mentioned was anxious to please the machinist for at the beginning of this article acquired whom he was working} and that worthy their knowledge. had informed him that a great favor The trade had to be picked up largely would be conferred if he could possibly from the mechanics in the shop where the beg or borrow a bucket of " blast." boy worked, and the result was almost Tins is a part of what happened to the entirely dependent on the desire of these big boys who went to learn a trade in mechanics to impart information. There those " good old days." because there was was little disposition on the part of the an infallible precedent to sort the new- shop supervisors to teach any apprentice. comers in two classes, big and little. The foreman thought his duty done when The big ones had their initiation in the he placed the boy as helper with a good roundhouse, while their smaller brothers mechanic, or in a position where he might were assigned to the machine-shop, until pick up what was to be learned. they grew up strong enough to stand the roundhouse and its vicissitudes. Seeking Information. It cannot be said that they fared any b ^r either. The machine-shops of those The old apprenticeship system was days wouldn't bear much comparison with wofully weak in this particular feature, what you may now see at Reading or because it lacked the spirit of cooperation. Hornell. There were no gear-tables on Before the advent of the shop instructor the lathes ; and if you wanted to chase —who is now paid to instil the ideas and an eight or a twelve thread you ' had to best procedure in the mind of the appren- cover the whole machine-shop floor with tice through practical demonstration figures, and many of these figures had as the apprentice, when placed on a machine, little bearing on the matter at hand as the asked a mechanic how to do a certain job. " whistle-tuner " on the device to which He had to ask him, as there was no it refers. other way. The mechanic would say This first year of apprenticeship was " You will have to learn that the same r the real test of a boy's staying qualities. way that I did." If the boy went to the If he survived it there was good stuff in foreman for information, he would usual- him ; the remaining three years didn't go ly find him so loaded with other duties so hard. He received his reward in the that he would not have any time to devote shape of a " bounty," now a thing of the to apprentice education. past, and a clearance into the full-fledged The result was that the machine did machinists' ranks. not turn out the work, and unless the ap- r THE RAILROAD APPRENTICE. 495 prentice proved to be an unusually good technical and practical instruction to " sticker " he became disgusted with his young men who enter its service as ap- trade. prentices. It has established apprentice So much for what used to be ; but what schools at Meadville, Pennsylvania ; Hor- a revelation for some of those old foremen nell, New York; Susquehanna, Pennsyl- if they could walk through one of the vania, and Dunmore, Pennsylvania. perfectly appointed apprentice schools of^ These schools are free to apprentices in the present day ! all departments, and attendance is com- pulsory. Instruction in the classes covers The Difference To-Day. the fundamental rules of arithmetic, com- mon and decimal fractions, proportion, They would see classes presided over simple problems in interest, tables and by competent and well-paid instructors ; weights, the elementary principles of drawing-rooms, with all implements fur- plane and solid geometry, mechanical nished free of cost to the apprentices. In drawing, practical and theoretical me- the shops it would be noted that the boys chanics, and instructions pertaining to work on a defined schedule ; that they are the construction of cars and locomotives, changed from machine to machine, or as well as lessons in their successful and from operation to operation at stated economical operation. times, and not allowed to remain two years Apprentices seeking employment in the on a bolt lathe. shops of the Erie (and. the same require- The slow boy is shifted in the regular ments apply practically to the other roads routine, so that the quicker boy who is to maintaining these schools) must not be follow him may have the full time al- less than sixteen, nor more than twenty- lowed upon the machine. A slow boy, one years old, and have good general who does not show decided improvement health. after three or six days of instruction, is taken off the machine and put on special Making Application. work for which he is better suited. He is told that the company cannot Preference is always given to the sons afford to reduce the' output of that ma- of employees. All applications for ap- chine. prenticeship are made to the master me- Some boys learn quickly, and others chanic, or officer in charge of the shop, slowly. The quick boy often makes mis- and the applicants are sent directly to the takes, while the slow ones, when the idea instructor of apprentices, who examines is grasped, seldom forget it. For this them as to their general education. reason every effort is made to study the If he finds that they are qualified for dull boy and bring him up to the standard the position sought, he so certifies to the before removing him from a machine. proper officer, and the applicant enters the service. Improving the Shops. The rules and regulations of this and Other companies are based on a specified In order to meet the demands made on course of four years as the maximum time their shops, many railroad companies, to be served. Time lost by apprentices is within the past four or five years, have not allowed, but each apprentice must put practically renewed all shop machinery. in three hundred days, or the number of Additions to shops, power-houses, round- hours a day which the shop works, before houses, and roundhouse machine - shops he is entitled to advancement to another have been built to keep in good condition year. the motive power and car equipment. To Those who complete the course, as in- derive the greatest possible benefit from dicated by the award of a certificate of this investment, it is certain that the com- apprenticeship, are given machinists' rates panies must have trained, skilled, and in the shop in which they are employed, careful workmen. the rate being based upon ability and In keeping with this advanced move- merit. ment the Erie Railroad has created an Apprentices in this department are organization for the purpose of giving given a general knowledge of the differ- : . : 496 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. ent classes of work within a specified time Months. used on the various classes of work of three years, as indicated in the follow- in the different departments of the ing schedule shop ...... ; :-rf...>v... 5 Machine-Shop. Aih-Bkake Months. Room. I Lathes (bolt-lathe first, then general Overhauling and applying brake-rig- work) 6 ging 3 Planers . . . 3 Air-pumps 4 Shaper 3 Lubricators, engineers' valves, inject- Slotter _. 2 ; ors, etc 4 - Boring-mill Reducing-valves, cut-out cocks, steam Vise work on rods 3 and air gages, globe-valves, water- Vise work on motion work, pistons, glass, and steam-gage cocks, pops etc cross-heads, 4 and whistles, and all work handled Erecting-Shop. in this department 7 Frame work, shoes and wedges, Total 3 years. wheeling engines, putting up spring- rigging, engine-truck work, expan- For the Boiler-Maker. sion-gear, etc. 6 Work above running-board, consist- The course for the ing of hand-rails, pops, whistles, boiler-maker ap- boiler mountings, and all similar prentice in these shops is no less compre- work 3 hensive. It is a four-year course, three motion work, setting Putting up v years of which to be spent on the follow- valves, lining guides, pitting in pis- ing schedule tons, applying steam-chests, etc 4 Boiler-Shop. Total 3 years. Mouths. Heating rivets, and helping at light fourth and last year is spent, when The work on punch and shear, scaling the appren- possible, on work with which boilers, etc. 4 tice is least familiar. Ash-pan and netting work, also as much miscellaneous sheet-iron work as Not Included. possible 6 New fire-box work, reaming, and tap- ping stay-bolt holes, running in, set- and airbrake depart- The tool-room ting and cutting off stay-bolts, etc... 4 ments are now no longer included in the Helping to scarf, roll, fit, shear, apply course given above for the machinist ap- rivets, and calk new fire-box or new sheets 6 prentice, but are treated specially, and a Setting flues 3 of apprentices are> kept in these number Helping on flange-fire. -. 3 departments, with the understanding that Working with boiler-maker on gen- they are to become specialists in this par- eral work, such as flanging, riveting, applying new sheets, bracing and ticular work. And no more important stay-bolt work ' 10 item exists in modern locomotive practise than the air-brake. Total : 3 years. The tool-room and air-brake depart- ments in the large shops of the Erie are The fourth year of this apprenticeship of sufficient size and capacity to profitably will be spent principally in the back -shop employ, at all times, from four to eight on patches, half-side sheets, door sheets, apprentices, and these positions are filled back-and-front flue sheets, smoke-box ex- by capable young men. Apprentices in tensions, liners in smoke-box, and general these departments are given a, three-year work in this department. course, as follows: One apprentice will be selected from those in the fourth year of their time at Tooi.-Roo.Ar. this trade for instruction in laying out Months. work from drawings. He will work with Handing out tools 2 instruction in Operating tool and drill grinders 2 and under the of the man laying-out table. Shaper 2 charge of . the Milling-machine 3 The term of service in this work will Lathe 4 be at least six months. At the end of Vise work on die-sinking, making and general repairs to such tools as are • three months another apprentice will be : THE RAILROAD APPRENTICE. 497 assigned to laying out, so that when the euce in this work. A third-year appren- first apprentice retires the second will be tice, in charge of the rod job, repaired able to take a third, and so on. thirty-two main rods, ten pairs of front- The Erie Railroad Company announces, end brasses, and eighteen pairs of back- in connection with its apprentice schools, end brasses. He also made two sets of that the movement has for its primary front-end brasses. All of this work was object, not the making of mechanical en- done in three weeks. gineers out of shop workmen, but the At the Oswego shops an apprentice, making of first-class skilled mechanics, so with but three-months' experience with that the shop forces may be sure of men a helper, ran the link job successfully trained and educated in Erie standards during the temporary absence of the regu- and Erie methods. lar foreman. At the Elkhart shops a Those who prophesied a few years ago third-year apprentice laid out a new drop- that the new apprentice system which was pit jack for the roundhouse from a blue- being established on the New York Cen- print. tral lines would deteriorate and die a natural death as soon as the first excite- In the Drafting-Room. ment passed off, must be glad to learn that they were badly mistaken. At the McKees Rocks shops two fourth- After three years those who have fol- year apprentices had full charge of a pit, lowed its progress closely are convinced with an engine for general repairs. The of the principles on which it is estab- boys ordered all parts, made sketches for lished. new bolts, lined up the guides, laid off the The New York Central has now ten shoes and wedges, wheeled and trammed schools in connection with its shops—at the engine and set the valves. Beech Grove, Indiana ; Collinwood, Ohio ; A fourth-year apprentice took complete Depew, New York; East Buffalo, New charge of erecting a new engine, includ- ing the jobs : York ; Elkhart, Indiana ; Jackson, Michi- following leveling and gan; McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania; squaring the frames, scribing and chip- Oswego, New York ; St!. Thomas, Onta- ping the saddle, laying off the shoes and rio, and West Albany, New York. The wedges, and wheeling and tramming the last report indicates a total of 564 ap- engine. prentices enrolled. The Union Pacific In connection with this mechanical and the Santa Fe have also fallen in line, training, boys are used in the drafting- and are organizing apprentice instruction room both before and after graduation. schools in their various shops. Before graduation those best fitted for the work spend three months making blue- What Apprentices Have Done. prints, drawings, and tracings. After graduation those specially adapted may The wonderful susceptibility to me- be used as regular draftsmen. chanical development induced by this When rushed, the head draftsman often systematic course of training is well illus- takes drawings to the apprentice class- trated by the following instances, taken room to be worked up or traced. Ap- at random from some of the shops of the prentices assist the drafting-room in ma- New York Central lines king numerous tests, such as indicating In the West Albany shops a first-year engines, dynamometer car te'stSj coal tests, apprentice, with only two-weeks' experi- etc. ence, bored twelve eccentrics in thirteen ^Debating clubs give the boys an oppor- hours, and five eccentric straps in seven tunity to write and talk on mechanical and one-half hours. subjects. Speaking in public makes and A second-year apprentice, with helper, develops initiative, and the ability to do set the valves on an engine in seven hours. this is due to classroom instruction. Club He also set valves on two other engines in socials and picnics bind the boys to their good time. A second-year apprentice, fellow workmen and build up valuable with helper, lined up two sets of guides friendships. The boys learn to under- and coupled pistons, all in six hours. stand and respect their superiors, but not This boy had only three months' experi- to fear them. 8 R R — 498 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. The cause of this striking movement in limit has been reached in both directions, the interests of advanced education, brief- and the only thing which can be done ly summarized, is due to the tremendous now is to improve the efficiency of -the strides in the development of the locomo- machine within the present limitations. tive in the last twenty-five years, and to To cope with these requirements, per- little else. plexing problems are presented, and be- fore they can be successfully combated A Perplexing Problem. each and every man in the mechanical department must be specially trained to In 1876 the standard passenger-engine an appreciation of the difficulties. in use throughout the country had cylin- This explains largely why we have ap- - ders sixteen inches in diameter and twen- prentice schools. They were not needed ty-four inches stroke of piston, a toy com- in the old days, because the track was pared with the present passenger-engine bigger than the engine, but now the loco- of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe motive dwarfs the track, and all that can the 1300—which would pull ten such be done is to enhance its power within engines as those of the centennial year, itself. and their trains also. The early locomotive builders had this Thinkers Are Wanted. advantage : The established gage of track —4 feet 8^2 inches—was larger than This is why the railroads want their their ideas. While their ideas progressed boys to think, and they are willing to- slowly, the extension of railroads pro- spend any amount of money to encourage ceeded tremendously, until 100,000 miles them, because the greenest among them of track was laid in this country—and all all may stumble on something which at that gage of 4 feet 8y2 inches. Not might mean a revolution. until this mileage was down did the fact They pay their apprentices well, too, dawn that the locomotive was outgrowing when compared to the old days. The a gage now too late to change. writer put in his apprenticeship at sev- It is certain that this will remain the enty cents a day for the first year, with standard width of track for all time to ten cents a day added for each succeeding ~ come, as it is certain that no more than year. fifteen feet will remain the limit of over- It is not unusual for to receive now head clearance. eighty cents the first year, $1 the second, During the past thirty years the weight $1.25 the third, and $1.50 the last year. of the locomotive has increased on this This~may be an unwritten chapter in 4-feet-S 1/o-inch gage from less than 40 railroading, but it is true in illustrating tons to upward of 100 toils. Engines the effort which all roads are making to have become higher and wider, until the develop men. In the next article in this series, which will appear in our May issue, Mr. Rogers will describe the occupation of a railroad machinist. THE GREATER LOVE BY BENJAMIN RUSH THORNBURY. Sam Selkirk Proves that the Victory of Love Is as Great as that of War. pyHE gaunt frame building that sure to find some reason for running that had served as division head- varnished wagon of his out on the line quarters at Centerpoint for to play shuttle-cock with the schedule. the past quarter of a century, It's a bad night to keep things moving." trembled and creaked in the He was addressing no one in particu- grasp of the blizzard. Every- lar, but the superintendent wheeled body down in the yard, who could leave around from his desk—in the corner and his work, had been driven to the shelter faced him. " of roundhouse and train-shed by the fury Speaking of the Old Man," he said, of its blinding gusts. " did you notice that drunken bum that " Even the snorting little switch-engine, just went out? that had* just finished making up an extra, " No," he snapped, " I've been too busy crawled under the leeward side of the keeping half a dozen hog-trains from coal-chutes to keep itself warm. The 'running over the Old Man's special to big ten-wheeler that hacT backed down notice anything. What's- he got to do " and coupled onto the long line of empties with the Old Man ? was panting a protest at being dragged " Nothing, now, but there was a time out on such a night, its breath freezing about ten years ago, when the Old Man upon its black sides as it fell. \ was a strong factor in his life." The A shaft of light shot across the yard superintendent hitched his chair over to as an upper door opened and closed, the table and cocked up his heels. " and the form of a man came out upon Just a moment. I'll get "this extra the landing and staggered down the out of town and then eat my lunch while creaking steps that flanked that side of you talk." interrupted the other. the gaunt building. " It isn't a long story," began the su- It moved slowly across the half dozen perintendent as he lighted a cigar and tracks and disappeared through the open carefully studied the burning end. " That door of a box oar that stood in the out- drunken bum is Sam Selkirk, at one time going train. the smoothest operator on the M. I. and A lamp waved a signal from the ca- N. Copper-plate copy and all that, and boose and was answered by two short his Morse came so clean that even Fatty blasts from the engine, -and with a clank- Dalton out at Elba would not break him, ing of draw-bars that sounded sharp and that's saying a lot, for Fatty was the above the storm, the extra pulled slowly worst ham on the division. down the yard. That was before the consolidation and " It never sitows, but there's a blizzard just after they brought Mr. Goodell down out here," grumbled the night despatches here from the Soo to be general man- bending over the train-sheet at the long ager. The road never saw such times instrument table in the center of the room, as that, before nor since; for he was the- " and that applies to something more than best all-around operating manager they the weather chart, too. Just let us get ever had. a heavy run of stock, and the Old Man's " Well, Sam blowed into the general 499 500 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. offices one day, they were located at crooked roots you know, and they never Kensington then, and hit the Old Man showed in his make-up until Sam raked for a job. I guess no one ever knew off some of the dirt by taking up with where he came from, as that was before Fanny O'Keefe. the days of the pedigree system, and a " Somehow, Fanny never told Sam man got a job for what he could do and that she and the chief had been thick up not what he had done. north. From that moment, the chief be- " Beyond the fact that he could pound - gan throwing it into Sam and never let brass, the Old Man never asked any up until he finally got his scalp. questions. I was a clerk in the office at " Things went on that way until Sam the time, and I remember the expression and Fanny concluded to tie up. She on the Old Man's face when Sam sat was buying her wedding things, and Sam down to that key. He did love a -com- went around with the glad hand out to petent man, no matter what branch of everybody. The boys used to say that the service he happened to be in. even his " OK " sounded like a ' God " You can bet there wasn't any bulled bless you,' and many a lonesome lad up on messages in that office after that, and the west got an hour off when Sam knew things went on as smooth as the road-bed he ought to have been doing his work. for about six months, until one day Joe " He paid no attention to the malice Kelsoe came in on No. 2 and an- of the chief, and took a good deal off nounced that he needed a despatcher, and him for the sake of peace. He always did needed him bad. his work, and everybody liked him, from " You never knew Joe, did you? Well, the Old Man down. he was the littlest man with the biggest " About that time the Transcontinent- heart you will find anywhere ; and when al bought up the line and there was a it came to getting trains over this hun- general shake-up all around. The gen- dred and _ forty-four miles of steel and eral offices at Kensington were, abolished, cotton-wood, his peer wasn't born. He s and the road made a part of the St. went down East when the road was gob> Joe branch of the Continental. They bled up, but he was train-master here in wanted the Old Man to go down there Centerpoint at that time. as general superintendent, but he was " The Old Man knew, by the way Joe too good a man to sub to any of those cut his eyes around at Selkirk when he Wall Street importations, and as good as made the announcement, that he might told them so. Besides, he was tired of as well look out for a new operator, for the game anyway, so he resigned and what Joe went after he usually got, and moved over into Illinois and went into so the next day Sam was ordered to re- the real estate business. " port here for second trick work. That I never did know just how it hap- was the beginning of Sam's troubles." pened, for I was in St. Joe at the time, The superintendent paused to relight having been moved down there along his cigar while the night despatcher with the other office fixtures, but it seems marked up an " os " on No. 3 on the that the chief had some kind of a pull train-sheet and said " gn " to the oper- with the powers-that-be that we didn't ator. know anything about, and the first thing " Of course there was a girl in the I knew, he was carded up as superintend- case," continued his chief, " and the girl ent of the division. in Sam's case was Jim O'Keefe's daugh- " Just one week from that day Sam was ter. Jim was road-master; the Old Man fired for cause. Of course it was plain having brought him and the chief des- to everybody that the cause was under the patcher down with him from the Soo. new superintendent's hat, but you don't We had no superintendent here in those need a Gatling gun to kill a mosquito, days, that work being divided between and Sam wasn't much more than that in the chief despatcher and the train-master. the Transcontinental eye. " The chief was a good man, all right, " He came down in a day or two to or the Old Man wouldn't have had him, get his time, and I never saw such a and we all thought he was straight as change in a fellow. I started to open the a die, but a lot of straight trees have subject of his trouble, but he shut up like " : " THE GREATER LOVE. 501 a clam ; didn't have a word to say against The night despatcher had fallen limp anybody, only that he guessed he would in his chair, and the haggard face he go out West and grow up with the raised to his chief was like death. He country. pointed silently to the open order-book. " That was the last I saw of him until Order No. 127. he drifted in here to-night on>this bliz- zard, and I never learned the whole story C. & E. Spcl. West, Glendale Jet. until the chief was raised from superin- C. & E. Second Ninety-seven, Bradford. Special west Eng. 1091 and Second tendent to general manager of Western Section Train No. 97, Eng. 4250, wtfl lines and I came up here to take his meet at Deanley. W. B. place." J. OK. Un. 1 1.4S p.m. "Our general manager?" exploded OK. Br. the night despatcher. " " Our general manager," pursued the I got that train of empties over to superintendent. " It seems that what- the junction for them and then gave them ever the charge was, he queered Sam with that meeting-point with second 97. They the girl as well as the company, and in left there ten minutes ago and Bradford six months married her himself, and I just said 97 had run his signal board and guess it was that, more than the loss of had gone over the hill. His light was his job, that put Sam all to the bad, and out." he must have gone to the bottom, for I He was speaking calmly now, but his didn't know him to-night until he told slow, deliberate sentences came with a me who he was. metallic ring. " " " He wanted me to place him, but I That means." he continued, that in couldn't do anything for him, for the about twenty minutes from now that train Old Man had seen to it that he is on load of hogs will be going down Deanley the black book of every general manager hill -at a forty-mile clip, and about five minutes later she will land on spe- in the country, and it would have been — that worth as much as my head; i have a cial, and " " wife and two little ones that must come And no night man at Deanley ! first. The superintendent groaned. , " " " I offered to stake him though, but Yes," affirmed the other, Price goes he straightened up in a semblance of that home after No. 11 passes. And the old imperious way of his and said he Old Man's wife and daughter with him " wasn't looking for charity, he wanted a too. What's that ! he leaned toward job. I told him then that 'the Old Man the sounder, which was clicking rapidly. was coming through to-night and that if "What is it?" asked the superin- he would wait, I would see if something tendent. rt " couldn't be done in the matter. He turned Wait ! The word cracked like a on his heel and went out. I never saw pistol - shot, then he began translating murder in a man's eye, but— slowly " " DS, DS, DS—BR." > Don't worry up there DS, I'm not the " The night despatcher opened the key operator here, but I got that report BR. to answer the call, and the superintendent just sent and have put a glim on the went quietly back to his desk in the cor- bulls-eye; it'll stop the one that gets here ner. He was 'about to ask how the spe- first and—" cial was coming on, when he heard a The circuit went wide open and did not sharp exclamation behind him and close again, leaving the two staring at turned to see the night despatcher stand- each other in helpless amazement. ' " ing rigid in front of his key ; his face was Sounds like a message from heaven," as white as chalk. said the night despatcher in a whisper. " east pulled at Great Scott, man ! I've put secotid 97 Extra up Deanley tank head-on into that special!" and the fireman crawled over the ice- " What do you mean ? " gasped the covered tender to let down the spout. A superintendent, springing to his side. brakeman jumped down from the caboose " his Speak, man ! For heaven's sake say steps, pulled cap over his ears and " something ! started toward the engine. — — 502 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE *f Tell Dave to get a move on there, him ! Hang him ! And he'll die like we don't want to lay out that special," the dog that he is ! If she was only there " called the conductor from the cupola. too—she—she ! Oh, my Fanny ! He delivered his message and was re- A mighty passion shook him, then slow- turning when he saw a tattered shoe pro- ly, as the light breaking through a storm- truding from the door of a box' car. cloud, his features relaxed and the fire " Here. This ain't no Pullman Lim- illumined a transformed face. " ited. Clear out o' here ! he called rough- Like a madman he flung himself ly, and giving the foot a jerk, the form against the frail door and burst into the of a man struck the frozen ground and office. Tearing open cupboard and locker, lay in a heap. The brakeman swung to he at last found the lantern and hugsedop the steps of the passing caboose, and the it to him with a little inarticulate cry. tail-lights glimmered around the curve. In another instant he was at the stove The man rose to his feet and steadied again, wrenching off the globe as he ran. himself with an effort, then staggered Insensible to the pain, he grasped a" across the snow-covered platform to the blazing coal and held it to the wick. It door of the station. It swung open against flickered and went out. He flung it back his weight and he fell prone across the and picked another, and was successful. floor of the little waiting-room. A ruddy He replaced the globe with shaking glow from the smoldering fire came hands and darted outside to the plat- through the open door of the stove and form, Avhere he hooked the lantern to the petted the white upturned face with little signal-board. Stumbling, he groped his caressing touches of color. way back to the office and sank into the ( For half an hour he lay thus, with no chair at the instrument-table. sign of life save the quick rise and fall Outside, above the howl of the increas- of the stiffened coat at his chest, when on ing storm, a locomotive uttered a single the other side of the lattice partition shriek, which was echoed by another far an instrument began pounding rapidly. up the - track, and a moment later the The man stirred uneasily and raised two panting engines came to a shuddering himself upon his elbow, his eyes fixed stop with their frosty noses almost touch- in a glassy stare. He was listening in- ing. A glimmer of ruby light fell softly tently. Suddenly he struggled to his feet upon them from the swinging lantern. N and stood with fists tightly clenched. His Inside, they found the corpse of a man. face was the face of a demon. his stark fingers clutching the key of a " " At last," he sobbed. At last ! Hang telegraph instrument. FATAL COURTESY. JUST A HABIT. AGUILELESS rustic, wishing to be em- ANUMBER of railway men were once ployed on a railway, emerged from the discussing the question of accidents. examination-room and informed his father " The roads in Scotland," said one official, he had failed because he was color-blind. " used to have a bad name, indeed, in re- " " But you can't have ! said his father. spect to accidents. No one thought of em- "You're no more color-blind than I am." barking on a railway journey unless he had " " I know that, feyther," he replied, but provided himself with an accident policy. it's all through bein' polite." " The famous Dr. Norman MacLeod was " What do you mean? Explain yourself." once about to set" off on a long journey " Well, feydier. I went into a room, and a through the Scotch country. Just as the chap held something up for me to look at. train was pulling out the clergyman's serv- 'This is green, isn't it?' ses he. 'Come, ant put his head through the window and now, you're positive it's green? ' quite plead- asked: ing like : and, though I could see plain "'Ha'e ye ta'en an insurance ticket, sir?' " 1 enough that it wor red. I couldn't find it in I have,' replied the doctor. " ' my heart to tell him so. So I agreed with ' Then,' continued the servant, write him. and they bundled me out. No more ye'er name on it and gi'e to me. They ha'e " perliteness for me. It don't pay ! Pear- an awfu' habit of robbin' the corpses on this son's (London) IVcckly. line.'" New York Times. Letters of an Old Railroad Man and His Son. BY HERMAN DA COSTA. No. 5.—THE SCHEME OF A REAL WINNER. Breezy Secured a Job as Office -Boy and, Although He Incurred the Everlasting Enmity of the C. C, He Learned Something New About Railroading. JIM TO THE OLD MAN. had been a fruit-train, and I'd told them to hold it for regular movement the next EAR DAD : Of late, I've been day. having a pretty hard time Connelly went up in the air about it. of it at the office. I was It seems that they had intended this train pretty well discouraged. to be delivered in New York the follow- The reason I got discour- ing morning, and were going to put on aged was on account of a extra engines and give it the right of way little trouble I had with T. F. in order to get a big piece of traffic from Martin, T. F.'s secretary, had been the south. homesick, right along, and I've done all When T. F. came out, of course, he of Martin's work. Of course, Mr. Con- had to be told what had happened. Then nelly did some of it too, but when the the general traffic manager came in, and fruit season opened, Connelly had his he had to be told; and then, as if to add hands full attending to his own work, so insult to injury, the third vice-president that I had to do all of the work by my-, strolled in, and the whole blame thing was self. gone over again. One day a rush wire came in asking You have been telling me a lot, dad, what should be done with a train of about how T. F. can cuss. I know, all peaches that was to be delivered us from right, now. If there wasn't a cuss word the S. G. and Q., at Fredericksburg, that that he didn't know, it was because he'd afternoon. never heard it. I expected every minute I'd been watching the fruit movements that I'd lose my head. I would have, too, for some time ; and as that was a part of if it hadn't been for the S. Q. and Q. Martin's work, and Connelly and T. F. offering to let us use their engine to haul to re- it were very busy, I wired our people through ; and, by some good luck, we ice the cars at Fredericksburg, and hold happened to have a pilot down there who them for regular movement the next day. took the engine over the road. Late that afternoon, T. F. was out talk- That was mistake No. 1. About two ing with Connelly, and I heard Connelly days after 1 was fixing up a lot of passes, tell him that there had been no fruit- and, in going out to lunch, left two books, train that day. After T. F. left, I went which had been countersigned by Con- over to Connelly and told him that there nelly, lying on my desk. When I came Scries began In December, 1909. Railroad Man'i Maraftne. Single copies. 10 ceats. 503 ; 504 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. hack they had gone. I didn't think any- ed a letter the next day. by Connelly, thing of it until five o'clock, when I in which the general superintendent, couldn't find them any more, and then I through his C. C, politely and gently in-, told Connelly about it. formed us that we were drunk. Coming so soon after the other trouble, Then, for a couple of. days, little things it made things look pretty badly. The happened. They just seemed to flow worst of it was that we hadn't taken a along as if they had determined to flood - record of the book numbers, and so me under. I got so that I was afraid to couldn't tell which books were missing in shake hands with anybody for fear they order to take them up when presented. would drop dead. I felt as if everybody had it in for me just because I happened to run into a lit- tle streak of bad luck for one day. And. somehow, when I get in that shape, I'm not worth my bread and butter, so far as work is concerned. There are lots of people in this world who get down in the mouth one minute and up in the clouds the next. But you know I'm not orie of that class. Still, when things begin coming at all like the way they did recently. I just can't help feeling blue. I have often thought it really doesn't amount to anything, for in two weeks' time I would forget all about it and perk right up again ; but I get in the dumps once in a while, and when I do, I stick. I'm not going to make you blue, however. I'll get over it, I guess, in time. Martin is still sick, and I'm still with the railroad. Nothing much on hand now. They're ordering a lot of new cars, and, though times look hard, nobody seems particularly worried. Can't you get mother to w.TfT take her picture, and send it to me? Get yours taken with her, so I can put it up BREEZY HEARD SOME ONE ENTER—THE OFFICE. — on the mantel in my room. Give Miss Pesnelle my love, He passed it up, however, although he and ask mother to write soon. Affec- was supposed to report it to T. F. tionatelv. Jim. The next day I made a mistake of iwelve hours in reporting that 97, the fast freight, had run late on a trip, and it THE OLD MAN TO JIM. wasn't until after a hot letter had been written to the general superintendent Dear Jim: Before you start reading about it that we found out it was a mis- this letter, pick a nice easy chair, with a take. good light over your shoulder. Of course, it was too late to stop it You said, in your last letter, that .you and T had the pleasure of being "hand- got discouraged with your work. I want ! ! " LETTERS OF AN OLD RAILROAD MAI* AND HIS SON. 505 to tell vou about a voung friend of mine cars of chicks to go on 97. Hold 97 one who used to work in the superintendent's hour if. necessary* then switch the cars out office on the New York division twenty with her." years ago. The boys called him Breezy. "Hold 97! Why, Mr. Darrell—" He was, too. He was as breezy a sight So the bluff worked !- Danny's throat as ever blew down the pike. almost burst in his endeavor to speak One day the superintendent was sitting more gruffly. " I said hold 97 one hour. in the inner office when he felt somebody Isn't that plain enough?" " was standing before him, and looked up. All right, sir." D. O. rang off, grum- It was a boy about nineteen, with hair bling. like red ink and a face full of freckles. Then Breezy did some more quick " " What is it? asked the superintend- thinking. The crack fast freight of the ent. B. and D. R. R.— No. 97—was due " How are you? " asked the boy hi a to leave at 4.30 p.m. It was now 3.30. kindly voice, holding out his hand. Thirty minutes to load and send the The superintendent shook it. chicks down to the station, one hour to " " I came after a job," explained the load them in the car; that made 97 thirty boy confidentially. minutes late " What job>" Just then the phone rang. Breezy " " Office-boy." jumped for it. " Well? " After talking to the boy a while, the " Superintendent's office? " " superintendent called in his chief clerk. Yes, sir ; what it is? Swidges, and told him to give Breezy a " Those five cars of chicks— job as office-boy. Nothing was heard of "Well?" '•' him for about four months ; then one day We can't get any empties. No en- Breezy was in the office by himself when gine to switch a car." It was the freight- the telephone-bell rang. He hustled over house. to it. Breezy groaned, then had an inspira-. " This the B. and D.;? " he heard. tion. " " Yes, sir. Who's this? " All right, I'll attend to that. Tele- " Adams & Co. We've five cars of phone me when the cars reach the plat- " chicks for Chicago. Can you take 'em? form and when they're loaded." Then he " "Breezy whistled. The C. C. wasn't rang _ofE , and called again : D. O.. " down, but he had accidentally heard once please." Then, after a little wait : Hul- that the company had been trying to get lo, D. O.?" Adams & Co.'s business for a long while. " Yes, sir." He did some quick thinking. "This is Mr. Darrell. Run a switch- "Well?" came impatiently over the engine out, quick, to the east yard, to take wire. five empties to the west-bound platform. "Give me your number; I'll ' let you Telephone me when it leaves. And do it know in ten minutes." Then he called quick!" Breezy's voice was command- up the freight-house. ingly deep. " " Anybody down there? " All right, sir." " No one but the watchmen and two Then he called up Adams & Co. " Are day men, sir." those chickens loaded?" Breezy scratched his head. " Hold the " Yes, all ready." " day men. This is the superintendent's Send 'em down, then : we'll take 'em office. There will be five cars of chicks on 97." out to-day from Adams & Co., for Chi- The man at the other end was silent cago. Get the empties from the yard and for a moment. " Who's this? " he asked. put them alongside the freight-platform. Breezy modestly gave his name. " We Hustle won't forget you," assured the other. "Exchange, give me D. -O.?" he Breezy thanked him. then rang off. " asked. " This the train-master's office? D. O. rang up. " No engine in service " " Yes ; who's this? but 97," they reported. "The superintendent. Mr. Darrell." " Take that." he ordered desperately. 1 1 is voice grew gruff. ".There'll be live Then he sat down and drew a deep ! 506 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. breath. He was in, all the way over, and It was hard for Breezy to keep still, he might as well see it through. however. - One day he suggested to In three minutes the bell rang again. Swidges that, by a change of stenog- " Those chicks just arrived," reported raphers on different desks, they could save the freight-house. " Two men on the the salary of an extra man. The C. C. wagon are helping us load them." told him angrily that he wasn't put there • " " How long will it take? to make suggestions ; the next time he " About an hour, sir." did it, he would be fired. " All right. I'll give you thirty min- Then a long report was made to the utes. The engine will be there then." president, the /general manager, and the " We'll try. It's pretty quick work, general superintendent of the delays to " though." trains on all divisions. Breezy saw where The next thirty minutes Breezy lived the reports could be cut out and a daily in suspense, and when the telephone-bell morning report made which would not " rang he almost jumped for it. " Yes? only be up to the minute, but only take he asked eagerly. a few minutes to make. " Ninety-seven is just leaving," he He told the train-report man about it, heard. " They've, got the chicks." w ho told the C. C, generously giving Breezy heard some one enter the office Breezy the credit. The change was made, and stop behind him, but resisted the de- but the C. C. called Breezy up and told sire to turn. him that after this he either had to attend' " You did very well," he gruffly spoke. altogether to his own work, or quit. " Thank you." The other fellow rang That kind of thing would have dis- off, Breezy turned to the newcomer. couraged anybody with feelings, but and , It was the chief clerk. Breezy apparently didn't have 'em. "Who was it?" asked Swidges. The temptation to have a hand in run- • Breezy explained matters to him. The ning the road was irresistible. One din- C. C. went up in the air. He was a hard ner hour, when the freight-office called man, and had never forgiven Breezy for up to get the routing of a car, and every- going over his head to get a job. He body was at lunch, Breezy, who had been finished by telling Breezy he would report shown how to get routes "by the routing the whole thing to the superintendent, clerk, after hunting diligently, gave the Mr. Darrell. The next morning the necessary instructions. superintendent came out of his office to Three days later the traffic department the C. C.'s desk, and Breezy prepared for called up the superintendent's office. The a storm. chief clerk answered the phone, and, after " That was pretty good work of yours quite a lengthy conversation, went in the vesterday. Swidges," he said. superintendent's office. \ The C. C. glanced up. " What's Then he came out again, called the that?" routing clerk, and retired with him to the " Those chickens on 97, yesterday," sanctuary again. By this time the office answered the superintendent. was listening wide-eared. Breezy, was Breezy's heart jumped. Now for the wondering what it was all about, when storm the echoes of a heated argument came " Oh, yes," answered the C. C. care- through the door of the superintendent's lessly. " I had to figure pretty closely office, followed by the routing clerk, ' on it, too." flushed with anger. " The traffic department called me up The train-report man, who was an old vesterday evening, and told me about it," friend of his, stopped him as he passed. explained the superintendent. " They " What is it?" he asked. say it'll give us a big lot of trade in the The routing clerk was still angry. commission field. You did splendidly." •' That fool Swidges," he loudly declared. He walked in his office again. " He wants to tell me I sent a trial ship- Then Breezy understood that the C. C. ment out of route. Green <& Co. gave us hadn't told him the truth, but he made up a trial shipment. for C. V.' delivery, and his mind to keep quiet. Just because he told us to hold for special instructions. did, Swidges disliked him all the more. Now, Swidges wants to tell me that I " " LETTERS OF AN OLD RAILROAD MAN AND HIS SON. 507 THIS BOY HAS DONE MORE TO DESTROY OBEDIENCE THAN ANY MAN WE'VE EVER HAD." sent it without instructions, and we're go- ever had-up here.' I think it's time to let ing to lose all their competitive business." him out." Breezy suddenly remembered the car Breezy pulled his arm away and his he had routed a few days before. He face flushed, but he did not answer. The was up in a second, and hustled inside superintendent looked gravely at him for the superintendent's office. a moment. Then he spoke. The C. C. was just getting up to come " Who told you to route the car that out. The superintendent was facing the way? " he asked. door. " Mr. Swidges," said Breezv. " I " No one was in here at lunch-time but did that." myself," he explained, " and the freight- " Did what?" house called up and said 97 was made up " Routed that car, B. and D> and with this car, and they wanted a routing, C. V." as she would leave in ten minutes, and I " " You ! exploded the chief clerk. told them to send it via Cumberland Val- Breezy nodded. '* Everybody was out ley." of the tfffice," he explained, " and the The superintendent looked at the chief freight-house— clerk. He shook his head. " The traffic " " I don't want your excuses ! The department are in the air about it," he G. C.'s voice shook with anger. He said. " It's not his -fault, in a way, but— grasped Breezy's arm. " Mr. Darrell. The telephone rang, and he broke off. " thi« boy lias done more to destroy obe- Ves, yes ; this is Mr. Darrell," they dience in this office than anv man we've hcarct. " — 508 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " Mr. Green? Oh, yes: Green & Co." somehow, nobody had been able, to/get it That was the firm that had shipped the away from the P. F. R. R. car. What was coming now, Breezy won- This year, however, the B. and D. got dered. after the ' business. The result of the " We are very sorry, Mr. Green traffic department's work was a request what?—delivered? No, I didn't know on the general superintendent to run a that. They called me up. All right. daily train of two cars of peaches over Thank you. sir." He hung up the re- the B. and D. There wasn't any profit ceiver. running two cars special, particularly to .'"That was Dan Green," he said to New York markets, to which point there Swidges. Then he motioned to Breezy was always a heavy run of traffic—unless to leave the room. the traffic department could guarantee When the chief clerk came out from that the amount would increase. the inner office he said nothing to Breezy , The traffic department very politely or the routing clerk, who was still smol- declined to guarantee anything more than dering at his desk. Tie began dictating, two cars. Finally the papers drifted and Breezy got up and went to his desk. down to the New York superintendent for " — Say, Mr. Swidges schedule over Iris division ; and he, after " Go to your w ork," said the chief clerk talking it over with his men, declined to harshly. offer anything but movement on the regu- The next day Breezy heard the full" lar local, when connection could be made. story. The shipping man of Green & Naturally, the question was talked Co. had called up the traffic department about a good deal ; and Breezy, out of to give them instructions for routing, and curiosity, got the papers and looked them when he was told that the car had been over. They contained a lengthy state- shipped by another route he immediately ment, of existing conditions, written by notified the traffic department that it the traffic department, and also a sched- would mean the loss of their entire com- ule of Southern connections given by the petitive business, whereupon the traffic commercial agent at Atlanta. department had called up the chief clerk Breezy, after reading the correspond- and notified him to that effect. ence over, decided that his road was be- Almost at the same time. Green & Co. ing robbed of traffic that rightly belonged had received notice of the delivery of the to it. That made him mad, and gave him car to the C. V.. and the time, three days, an- idea. was so startling that the head of the firm He went out on an unofficial inspection had called up the superintendent and traf- of the P. F. R. R. Then he saw his fic department, and, after congratulating friend the train-report man, and got him them, promised them all their business. to make up a schedule of special move- While the results were good, the in- ment over the New York division. creased dislike of the chief clerk rendered As the peaches were delivered at Wash- Breezy's position almost unbearable, and ington, practically the entire movement he was more uncomfortable because the lay with the New York division, except routing clerk wouldn't let him come near for forty miles ; and, remembering what the routing desk again. It drove him to the commercial agent at Atlanta had said, spend much of his time in the yards, Breezy showed his friend that the where he got a lot of valuable experience peaches could leave Anacostia Junction, that he would never have learned in the just outside of Washington, and -where office. they were delivered, on $1. in time to con- The peach season came on. For ten nect with a special, and make early morn- years the P. F. R. R. had cornered all ing delivery in New York—something the the peach movement from the South, P. F. R. R. bad not done for six years, though their service was generally poor, and meaning practically forty-eight hours their facilities rotten, and they steadily from the South to New York. refused to improve them. Then the B. and D. had a big pier, The Southern peaches amounted, in practically unused. The P. F.'s pier season, to as high as fifty cars a day, and was too small to accommodate all the the revenue was a nice little sum ; but, traffic. Breezy explained that he had seen : LETTERS OF- AN OLD RAILROAD MAN AND HIS SON. 509 that himself, and had heard the buyers from the grinning buyer a promise that complaining about it. Another advan- if he got other names to the paper in his tage was that the B. and D. pier was near pocket, he would give in his signature. the commission district, well lighted, and The next day he went to see another man. with first-class accommodations for the When Breezy told him his name, the man produce trade. Wouldn't his friend help? thought a moment, then said He had an idea. " Didn't you take some chickens for us x His friend, the train-report man, be- to Chicago some time ago? I'm Mr. came enthusiastic when^He heard the great Adams." " idea ; and helped him to make up not Yes, sir." "i WON'T TELL YOU WHAT I THINK OF YOU." only a statement of existing conditions, " Well, we owe you something for but also a statement of guaranteed forty- that. What can I do for you?" eight-hour movement from the South to Breezy explained his plan. The man New York City on the part of the B. asked him question after question ; and and D. when Breezy produced the schedule that With the caution to him not to tell any his friend the train-report man had pre- one, Breezy slipped out. He went to the pared, Mr. Adams promptly signed his auction sales, and followed the largest name. buyers and commission people to their Bidding Breezy wait, he dictated a let- stores. Then one day he came down to ter, which he handed to Breezy, telling work dressed in his best suit. During him to give it to the first man he had the lunch-hour he disappeared, as usual, seen. That gentleman, after reading the and went to one of the men he had tracked letter, looked over Breezy curiously, and, down. after talking to him a little while, added He talked with him earnestly, con- his name. vincingly, and forcibly; and after a for- When Stjreezy showed the train-report iv- five-minute conversation, extracted man those two names, that gentleman " " " 510 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. gasped. The great idea was making a hit signed to it. Then he whistled. " By " " at last: George ! he cried. Whv didn't I think " The next day Breezy got two of the of this before? " largest commission men, who signed when Why didn't any of us think of it be- they saw the names he had secured. fore? " said the G. S. " No, the boy has Then, the following day, he got two got sound common sense." Then his more names—both of them first tele- voice sharpened. " Mr. Darrell, explain phoning Adams & Co.—and the great to your chief clerk what vou want him work was done. They were the control- for." ling members of the Produce Exchange, The superintendent turned, to the C. and with them for a lead, every small C. j who was already shrinking. buyer would follow. " How many passes have you sold " Breezy determined to make it sure, since you have been with us, Swidges ? however, and on the sixth day he landed he asked suddenly. the president of the Produce Exchange. The C. C. turned as white as a sheet. He returned to the office fifteen min- He tried to speak, but couldn't. 'The utes late. The C. C. called him over. superintendent produced a paper from his '' This makes the fifth time you've been pocket. late this week. You can go." " We've found two hundred here, so Breezy looked puzzled. "Go! Go far. Maybe you can add to the list." where? " he asked. He turned to the G. S. " By the way," " Go anywhere ! You're fired." he said, "do you remember- that Adams Breezy looked at him in amazement. & Co. gave us all their business on ac- " But, Mr. Swidges— count of some chicks we moved for them " ' I don't want any excuses! Get out! some time ago? interrupted the C. C.. and, turning to Ins " Well, they telephoned me this morn- stenographer, began dictating. ing that this boy was the one that ar- Breezy stared at him, still dazed.— ranged the movement for them." "Mr. Swidges, I've got the names here He indicated Breezy with a wave of his The C. C. looked up. " Haven't you hand. " gone yet ? Do you want to be put out ? " Yes," answered the G. S., " I know Then rage suddenly entered Breezy's that, and a lot more." He turned to " heart. " I won't tell you what I think Breezy. " How old are you, Danny? " of you ! he exclaimed ; and ere the sur- he asked. prised C. C. could gather his wits. Breezy " Twenty, sir." seized his hat and departed hastily. The G. S. thought for a moment. He walked home with his head up. " I'm going to take this boy, Darrell," he Discouraged? Not he; he was just mad said. Then he turned to the C. C.—but —mad clear through. After all he had the C. C. had disappeared. done— Then the dust bothered his eyes, The superintendent glanced inquiring- and he rubbed it out hastily. ly at his chief. Let him go," said Then he took his case in his own hands. Thomas. " Maybe the poor fellow— The next day he called on the general Then he stopped, and spoke to Breezy superintendent. again. " I want you to report at my of- " I want to show you a paper in my fice to-morrow, Danny." possession." he said. Do you know where Danny is to-day? " Sorrv to hear vou were fired," said He's third vice-president of the B. and the G. S.' D. , and I guess you see him almost every "' So am I," replied Breezy, smiling. day. If he'd allowed himself to be dis- "Let's see your paper?" Breezy pro- couraged, where would he have landed? duced it. The G. S. looked at it. His It's the fellow who climbs over the rocks eyes opened wide. He handed it to Dar- in the road that gets where he's going, rell. " We've been trying for ten years and not the man who sits down and weeps in get that traffic, and this boy stepped in when he runs into anything that looks a and got it in five days." little hard. The superintendent read the names Affectionately, Father. (To be continu ed. ) THE LOST HORSE, LIMITED BY J. R. STAFFORD. Old Purdue Drove Crippled 96 to Her Des- tination After a Braver Man Had Jumped. drowsy engine crews, Suddenly the despatcher and t OU.R the su- cursing at the unex- perintendent of the division to the East pected summons of the burst into the room. The two eyed the caller, lounged sleepily enginemen a moment, and then the des^ in the despatcher's of- patcher said: fice at Crags. It was a " Men. I have called you all, for E little after midnight. The air was pun- want a crew to volunteer to take a fast gent with the smell of burning pine, engine and two cars up to the Lost and the men coughed as the bitter smoke Horse Mine. One car will be loaded bit their lungs. Behind the eight men with Italian miners, the other will carry there skulked a great hulking fellow tools and dynamite. I will not order whom none of the rest seemed to notice. any crew to go, nor any man. The for- : : —! : : : : —; 512 THE -RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. est along the whole sixteen miles is on blinked like those of an animal threat- fire and burning close to the tracks. The ened with blows on the face, and his snow-sheds along the slope may be burn- lips opened and closed without a word. " ing now. It is a dangerous trip ! There was something piteous in his atti- He paused, and there were sleepy tude. The superintendent spoke not un- curses in comment. He eyed them again, kindly : and again spoke slowly " Purdue, the caller only brought you " 1 ask for these volunteers because because I forgot to tell him there was there was a cave-in at the Lost Horse no use." \ Mine an hour ago, and the whole night- The coarse hands of the giant fluttered shift is entombed ! The day-shift is de- for an instant and then he found his moralized, and the dynamite that should voice have been put oft' at the siding there " I'd like to have the chance." last night is in the yards here ! With- The superintendent smiled in spite of out it, the work of rescue cannot be himself, and Masterson snorted with done ! They are perhaps only dagoes vast incredulity but they are men. Now, who will go?" "Old Purdue!" Gallipel, the oldest of the engineers, The gravest and most sympathetic lifted his voice smiled ; the others roared. " And you want some of us fellers The superintendent recovered his to go up there and git blowed up in the equanimity and studied the frightened snow.-sheds. eh? Well, I won't go." face of the man before him. Then he Certain of his position with the su- said slowly perintendent, Gallipel stumbled out. His " Purdue, you have been eligible for fireman followed him. Jones, the next an engine now for fourteen years. You oldest and trusted -engineer, stepped for- know your record as well as any of us. ward : As a fireman, you jumped half a doz- " I'd do it in a minute, sir, but you en times when there never was a wreck. know my wife's an invalid and there is You never could have an engine on a all -my kids." regular run under me. You could not " I wouldn't want you to go, Jones," have this one if there was any one else the superintendent answered. Jones and to go. his fireman stood, aside. " But we have promised the manager Masterson, the daredevil of the divi- of the Lost Horse the men and powder if sion, stepped forward. we could get a crew to pull the train. Find "I cain't go! I won't go up against you a fireman inside of twenty minutes, a thing where they hain't no chance and remember that if you jump this Leave off the giant and I'll pull her." - time, you will never go back to the 1 " " But the giant must go, for the train roundhouse even as a wiper. v goes to save the miners in the cave-in. Old Purdue tottered out without stop- We are not sending up there to add more ping to ask his favor of any of the fire- to the number that now sit round and men present. As he passed, they saw hold their hands!" The superintendent his face was white as chalk and that he spoke sharply. Maste'rson, with a self- was trembling from head to foot. satisfied smile, stood aside with his fire- The outcome was pleasing to the man. crews that had refused to go. It would Parkman, the last of the four, stepped have to be developed by Old Purdue out. hung his head, and stammered: the grotesque and farcical Old Purdue " I ain't agoin'." the man who hadn't sufficient nerve . to The superintendent said nothing, and fire the engine on a work train. Parkman and his fireman stood with the It was a joke to be enjoyed beneath others who had refused. the noses of the superintendent and the The hulking giant who had skulked despatcher. behind now shambled forward. He tried The superintendent listened to them to square his shoulders, but they drooped for an instant, and then his voice cut like quickly : he tried to hold up his head, a knife but lie only jerked his chin. His eyes " And when it is explained why no : : : " IHE LOST HORSE, LIMITED. 513 help came to the entombed men, it will dow he can see the fire licking away at appear • that even a coward like Old the spruce next the snow-sheds ! Hurry, " Purdue would have pulled the train; or the debris will block the way ! but all other enginemen were greater Without more ado the whole party cowards, and he could not get a man dashed down the stairs to the platform to give him steam." outside. The night was thick, but over Masterson sprang forward with in the east there was the red glow of clenched fists and angry face and cried the fires, and every now and then a puff " If he'll give me steam I'll handle of wind brought clouds of pungent her." smoke and heat. The superintendent ran to the door Down by the roundhouse, an engine and called Old Purdue. He came, 'and gave two warning blasts, and then stood frightened, with his cap in his hand, dashed up to the platform on which they as if he feared permission had been stood. It paused, and, leaving a car, given to some one else. passed on. " " " Masterson has agreed to handle the The dynamite ! the superintendent engine, Purdue, if vou will fire for him? muttered. Will you do that?'" The engine shot by them, backing Old Purdue's chin shook, and his hands down on a switch, and a moment later worked nervously as he an- swered : " I'd be glad to fire for Masterson. He's a braver man than me." The comparison struck the risibilities of the crowd, and all guffawed save Masterson. Masterson was mad. He growled " And I'll let you fire for me, because you are a blun- derin' ass— and because I might make a man of you! And if you open your head ag'in here in this crowd like " that, I'll punch it for you ! What might have resulted in horse - play was side- tracked, for the superintend- ent lifted ay warning hand and cautioned the men to remem- ber that this was an expedi- tion to save the lives of men. The swing to the gravity of the occasion was accom- plished when the despatcher, who had gone to the key for a moment, returned with .the word "All hope of rescue from the other side is gone ! The bridge over Buffalo River has burned! Carriton Siding reports that the trestle over Carriton Creek is likely to DROP THAT SHOVEL, catch fire at any _time, and or i'll brain vou ! he says that from his win- 9 R R 514 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. came tearing forward again with another turned to the crouching and fear-struck car, through the rude windows of which volunteer, and thundered: " there gleamed faint lights. That was Old man ! it's a race fur life ! Give the car containing the miners. Then her steam ! Give her steam ! Give her all from down at the roundhouse came a there is in her, for I'll use it all ! And mighty wail, and the steady tolling of if you start to jump, I'll brain you!" a bell, and all murmured " Old 96." He turned and steadily opened the An instant later 96 came rumbling throttle to the last notch and the speed down the switch, paused, and backed became terrific. Old Purdue looked out down to the coupling with the rescue into the flying night, and it seemed as if THE SPEED WAS FANNING THE FLAMES. train. Masterson grumbled some sort -the old desire to jump would master him, of thanks for the best engine on the but the shame and contumely of the past division—the heaviest and fastest of the held him back with a stronger hand. heavy and fast for which that mountain Mechanically he got the shovel going division was celebrated—and then clam- and fired carefully. The dread of death bered proudly to his seat. had passed in Old Purdue—he had suf- Old Purdue climbed in mechanically, fered its acutest agonies. He fired as and did not turn his face to them. Masterson had never seen a man fire be^ In response to the throttle. 96 swung fore. slowly ahead, but Old Purdue did not Old 96 leaped along like a thing gone look out, nor did he notice the men who mad until she took the grade. There cheered Masterson. the steep ascent cut down her speed, but When the la*t frog had rattled be- she was flying with the swiftness of an neath the pounding drivers, Masterson express. Masterson. reckless though he :. : — : THE LOST HORSE, LIMITED. 515 was, eased down the throttle notch by work should give way as he advanced. notch. He thought of the possibility of the The steam in the gage showed 160, powder-car catching fire, and opened the 180, 190, 195. By live-pound advances sand pipes to give him greater speed. the hand went round until 250 showed The pilot entered the flaming portal, and Old Purdue mechanically shoveled and Old Purdue slipped over behind the in the coal and mechanically swung to the fire-box and began shoveling coal. He door with lightning-like precision. Mas- counted eight shovels, and, looking up, terson leaped across the cab, and yelled saw no walls, of flame about the cab. like a madman He looked again to the mounting "Hold up! Can't you see the gage? gage and then clambered onto the ten- You'll bust her b'iler ! We don't need der. He got the water-bucket and, fill- steam going down! Drop that shovel, or ing it, crawled out onto the top of the I'll brain you!" car containing the men. Old Purdue leaned against his side of From that position he saw that the the swaying cab and took, a deep draft roof of the car behind was blazing in of the smoky air. He looked forward two places—and the speed was fanning and, for the first time saw the fire ahead. the flames. The glow in the sky just over the grade He balanced his bucket, ran nimbly was just what he had seen when the along the reeling deck of one car and prairie burns by night. In an instant, leaped to that of the other. At the first they had topped the grade and were flame he spilled most of the water and * dashing down. put out the fire there. He went back Ahead there was an arch of leaping to the other and fought that with his flames that swung like a low-flung ban- hands. ner squarely across the tracks. On either When the last ember was gone, he ran side, as far as the eye could penetrate, back again, but even -as he leaped to the lurid palls of fire leaped and^iurled the deck of the miners' car, a gust of upward and billowed in vast waves of flame swept up between. smoke like a tempestrswept, infernal sea. He stumbled across the tender and With an oath, Master-son threw on the shut down. He filled his bucket and air, and, reckless of the consequence to once more ran back and this time clam- 96, threw her over into the reverse. Old bered to the ground. As he stood by Purdue, aware of. what was going on, the blazing trucks that threatened each reeled back from the boiler against breathless second to ignite the terrible which the shock had thrown him and, cargo above, he beat on the end of the hesitatingly yelled car ahead and cried " " "Ain't you goin' on?" Out there ! Out—and help ! "Not on your life! A man would In a moment the ground around him be a fool! I'll back her. in home to was swarming with the frightened. Ital- Crags." ians. He fought the fire with his bucket, Old Purdue shifted his feet as the en- coming back each time with it replen- gine slowed down and then on a sudden ished, certain that each time would be he threw up his head and hand : « the last before the explosion ivould end " I volunteered to take the train—and it all. And then, seeing he could make " the train is goin' ! With that he threw no headway alone, he ran to the cab and *her over into the forward, shifted the seizing the coal-hammer, drove the cow- air and opened the throttle with a jerk. ards to the work and made them beat Masterson struck once and ineffectual- the flames. ly at him, and, with a frightened glance When that was done he drove them at the burning sheds, jumped. back into their car. Then with reeling Old Purdue leaped up to the throttle brain he crawled into the cab, dimly side and, craning his head far out, conscious of the fact that 96' was leak- studied the blazing bow toward which ing steam at joints that never had been he was hurling. As yet no timbers were known to give, and that her safety-valve sagging, nothing prevented his safe pas- was roaring louder than the flames. sage through unless parts of the frame- He opened her throttle easily, fearful ! 516 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. of the high pressure against the half- crippled train dragged its way. The cooled cylinders. She moved off slowly timbers beneath cracked and some of and for •some unexplained reason did them fell down, sending up embers and not gather speed. He threw the throttle clouds of sparks ancL-sullen sounds. The open wider, but she only took the pace heat grew terrific, the cab was full of the of an old freighter. smell of blistering paint, and the roar of Purdue looked at the gage and saw the flames was mighty. that the steam was down to a hundred. But Old Purdue, who had passed the He looked far ahead and saw that the fear of death, mechanically shoveleoTcoal. trestle over Carriton was a mass of flame. At length, crawling, crippling, and W ithout pausing, he bent to the task thumping with her one cylinder, 96 of making steam. Shovelful after shovel- gained the far approach—she groaned ful he scattered in, until a little more on a little farther and the train was clear. would have choked the draft. Old Purdue shut down and went back Then 96 began to take on life again. again with his bucket to put out the fire Old Purdue was glorying in her speed. that he knew would be burning under He looked forward again. The trestle the car of dynamite. It was there, and was close at hand. His heart leaped as again he fought it. Time and again he he saw that the rails lay true the whole dashed to and fro. The strength of the way across and that none of the ties man's body was gone, but the will of Old were burned off. Purdue drove him on. He pulled at the throttle, striving to All the profitless life of the man was open it beyond its limit, and just as focused in this pressing moment to accom- the thing seemed done, there came a plish what other men might not accom- splitting crash and 96 trembled from plish in years. peak to pilot, and her left-hand cab- Suddenly, from the lurid darkness be- side vanished. side him, the mining crew began sham- She jolted for a hundred yards or so bling near. He heard them. and came to a stop. But this time Old Purdue did not Old Purdue knew that keys came out need the coal - hammer to drive them. of drivers, and that when they did, con- He had gained a quality, he had be- necting - rods, spinning like windmill- come a man to lead and to command. sails, demolished whatever they touched. He shouted and they ran to him ! He He looked at the flaming trestle, and, bawled his orders and they faced death with a torrent of oaths, got crowbar and to do them wrenches and once more summoned the When the fire was out he made them men. They came forth, gladly, all of pinch the right-hand drivers over far them. They loosened the nuts as he enough to let her have a head of steam. directed them, and they helped pry the Before he loaded them into their car, connecting-rod loose. he selected a strong fellow to shovel coal, He ordered them to get in again, but and again they crippled on. they ran away. About forty minutes later, Old Pur- Old Purdue heaved a sigh that was due whistled into the siding at the Lost half relief, and again he crawled into Horse Mine, and more dead than alive the cab of 96. He made more steam and sat down in the shanty where the opera- slowly opened the throttle, but she was tor was ticking away to tell how the on center—the other cylinder was dead. train had arrived in charge of the man He got down, and with his crowbar who had started out to fire the trip. Aft- pinched her a little way, enough to give er a long interchange of ticking the tele- her head. grapher handed him a paper. Again he clambered to his ' seat and It was a message of thanks from the gave her steam. She took it like the superintendent. He was glad that there. cripple that she was and hobbled off. He was' such a man on the division, and all watched her carefully and saw her that. Old Purdue didn't make much fuss gathering speed and then he made more over it, however. What was greater than praise adulation steam. . all the and was the Out onto the quaking trestle the knowledge that, at last, he was a man. — Progress in Locomotive Building. BY JOHN T. WALTERS. THE improvements that busy minds are devising to make the American locomotive faster and stronger rank well *up in line with the best achievements of to-day. Since the old eight-wheel, or American type, in 1876, the steam-engine has gone through successive stages of betterment, until to-day we have the marvelous greyhound of the rails, with her Walschaert valve-gear, super- heated steam, improved superheaters, and other new things ; and the end is not yet. Let him who thinks that the time of the locomotive is on the wane, read this—and change his mind. We are indebted to the American Locomotive Company for some of the information given in this article. The Past Thirty Years Has Been the Period of the Locomotive's Greatest Development—The Importance of the Walschaert Valve- Gear and Superheated Steam in Recent Construction. BEFORE 1876—the year of the six coupled driving-wheels and a two- . Centennial Exposition at wheel leading truck, and the consolida- k Philadelphia—American lo- tion type, which was a development of I comotive practise had be- the former by the addition of another pair come, to a certain extent, of driving-wheels, were generally used. standardized ; and certain At tins time the eight-wheel type had types had been generally adopted for the attained a total weight of seventy - five various classes of service. thousand pounds, and the hauling of For fast passenger service, the eight- three hundred and thirty-six tons on a wheel, or American, type was almost uni- level road at an average speed of thirty- versally used at that time. This type was five miles an hour without stops was con- also used to some extent in freight serv= sidered a very good record in passenger ice. Where the requirements demanded a service. greater power than could be provided With When we compare such engines with the four coupled wheels of the American those built by the American Locomotive type, the ten-wheel type, with six coupled Company, weighing two hundred and driving-wheels and a four-wheel leading twenty-six thousand pounds, which to-day truck, was employed. handle the Twentieth Century Limited This latter type was also extensively the eighteeu^hour train between l*few York used in freight service, and, as at the and Chicago—and maintain a speed of present time, was considered a very sat? sixty miles an hour over a level road with isfactory type for mixed service—that is, a train of six hundred tons, we realize the either passenger or freight. tremendous growth of the locomotive In freight service, the mogul type, with during the past thirty years. 5'7 — 518 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. In the ten-wheel mogul and consolida- The two cylinders on each side were tion types, weights of 84,000, 80,000, and placed one above the other, and both pis- v 100.000 pounds, respectively, were com- tons were connected to the same cross- mon. To-day the American Locomotive head. The steam distribution to the two Company is building a freight-locomotive cylinders on each side was controlled by for the Delaware and Hudson Company a single hollow piston-valve operated by which will weigh 441.000 pounds. the ordinary form of Stephenson shifting- link motion. Ten-Years' Development. A device was provided, consisting of a three-way cock operated by the engineer, From 1876 to 1886 there was a great by means of which, in starting, steam from increase in the weight and power of loco- the boiler was allowed to pass from one motives. The development was along end of the high-pressure cylinder to the well-established lines, there was little de-. other, and thence through the valve to the parture from standard practise, and no steam end of the low-pressure cylinder. new principles were introduced. A large number of locomotives of this This period, however, saw the intro- type were built, but the economies ef- duction of a new type of wheel arrange- fected in coal and water consumption ment—the decapod, so called because it were offset by an increased cost of main- had ten driving-wheels. Like the con- tenance due largely to the use of a single solidation type, the decapod had a two- cross-head for the high and low pressure wheel leading truck and was merely a cylinders. development of the former type to meet As the power in the cylinders was not special conditions and provide greater equal, the cross-head was subjected to un- power without overloading the rails. equal strains, causing in many cases fail- About this time, however, a very dis- ure of that part and making it impossible tinct departure was .made from existing to keep the piston-rod packing tight. locomotive practise by the introduction of the compound principle. Hitherto, The Vauclain Four-Cylinder. American locomotive designers had given * little attention to improving the efficiency Because of these objectionable features of the locomotive; but now the demand of design, the Vauclain four - cylinder arose for greater economy in operation. compound is but little used to-day; but Compounding was universally used in it was among the first compound locomo- marine and stationary practise, where tives to meet with any success in this high duty and great economy were de- country, and constitutes one of the most sired, and this principle had also been important steps in the development of employed in locomotive practise in Eu- the modern American locomotive. rope with more- or less success. In the same year that the Vauclain In the effort to satisfy the demand for four-cylinder compound was introduced, saving in coal and water, locomotive de- the Schenectady Locomotive Works signers in this country, naturally, turned brought out a two - cylinder compound their attention to the development of a engine, built under patents granted to compound locomotive adapted to Ameri- A. J. Pitkin. can conditions. In 1889 the Baldwin The feature of this system of- com- Locomotive Works brought out a com- pounding was the intercepting - valve, pound locomotive, built after designs which was so designed as to admit live by S. M. Vauclain, of that company. steam at reduced pressure into the low- pressure cylinder in starting, and prevent The First Compounding. the pressure backing up against the high- pressure piston : and to automatically This system of compounding was first change to the compound position when applied to an eight-wheel engine built the pressure in the receiver-pipe, located for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in the smoke-box, reached a certain and employed the use of four cylinders amount. a high and low pressure cylinder on each This system also included a so-called side of the engine. separate exhaust-valve, operated by the PROGRESS IN LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. 519 engineer, which permitted the exhaust up " the reverse-lever. To overcome these steam from the high-pressure cylinder to difficulties it became necessary to evolve he diverted directly to the stack and the some new design of valve, and the cylin- locomotive operated as a single-expansion drical form, commonly known as the pis- engine with materially increased power. ton-valve, in which the pressure on all One of the first examples of this type of sides was equal, giving almost perfect bal- compound was huilt for the Michigan ance, was introduced. Central Railroad, and its performance Although the first instance of the use was very satisfactory. Like all the earlier of the piston-valve on an American loco- types of compounds, however, it has seen motive antedated the introduction of the of this type are now compound, its first successful its day,' and few application huilt. was in the case of the Vauclain four- Another type of two-cylinder compound cylinder compound locomotive, where it engine was scon after brought out by the was necessarily employed. Richmond Locomotive Works in which On two-cylinder compound locomotives the Mellin system was employed. the piston-valve soon came into general The Richmond compound was iden- use. tical in principle with the Schenectady compound. but differed essentially from Making Engines Simpler. the latter in the design of the intercepting and separate exhaust-valve. From the In the application of this type of valve standpoints of simplicity of design and to simple locomotives, the Brooks Loco- operation, economy of fuel and water, motive Works took the lead of other loco- and low cost of maintenance, it has motive-buildere. proved very successful. The many advantages of the piston-, Though, as applied to two-cylinder en- valve over the balanced slide-valve, par- gines, the use of the Richmond or Mellin ticularly its nearly perfect balance and its system of compounding is at the present adaptability to any type of valve-gear, time limited, this same system is a dis- have led to its general use at the present tinctive feature of the Mallet articulated- time on simple as well as compound en- compound locomotives built by the Amer- gines, although some motive-power men ican Locomotive Company, which type still prefer the latter type, the design of will be considered later. which has been improved so as to give more perfect balance. The Compound's Future. About the time that the early types of compound locomotives were being devel- The introduction of the compound en- oped, the requirements of passenger serv- gine may be considered largely responsible ice had become so severe that they had for another important improvement in almost outgrown the capacities of the then American locomotive design—namely, the favorite types of passenger-engines. use of the piston-valve. In 1893, the eight-wheel passenger-en- As the locomotive increased in size and gine had reached its highest development power, and larger cylinders were used, in the class represented by the famous the valves controlling the distribution of locomotive No. 999, of the New York steam to the cylinders were necessarily Central Lines, which was exhibited at the made larger in order to admit larger vol- World's Fair in Chicago. umes of steam. As the speed of passenger-trains in- At this time the .flat side-valve, even in creased locomotives were required with a simple engines, had reached such propor- larger steam-making capacity than could tions that difficulty was experienced in be provided in the eight-wheel ,type. In perfectly balancing it. The unbalanced this type, with the larger driving-wheels weight of the- valve put a great strain on required for high-speed service, the fire- the gear, causing the parts to spring, if box is necessarily placed between the not to break, and also made it hard to driving-wheels, and the amount of grate handle the reverse-lever. area available is consequently limited. The combined effort of the engineer Not only is the grate area limited, but and fireman was often required to " hook also the heating surface. S20 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE, In order to secure a larger boiler and predecessor, the Atlantic type, on most of sufficient grate area to provide for the the roads in this country. large fuel consumption required in fast During, this period, locomotive design- passenger service, a new type of wheel ers had been endeavoring to improve the arrangement was introduced in 1893 by compound locomotive. the Baldwin Locomotive Works. This The two-cylinder type had not met with was called the Columbia type, and had a the success anticipated, and although the two-wheel leading truck, four coupled Vauclain four-cylinder type~^vas quite ex- driving - wheels, and a pair of trailing tensively used, its faults were clearly rec- wheels, over which the fire-box was ognized. placed. In 1900, the Schenectady Locomotive Works brought out a four-cylinder com- Advantage of Trailers. pound in which the two cylinders on each side were placed one ahead of the other The advantage of the use of trailing or in tan/iem, and the two pistons were wheels in this design was quickly recog- mounted on a single piston-rod connected nized. They permitted a large grate area with its cross-head. in a satisfactory design of wide fire-box A similar arrangement of cylinders had adapted to burning soft coal by placing been" previously introduced by the Brooks the fire-box over these wheels. The Co- Locomotive Works in 1893, but had not lumbia type, though not itself extensively proved successful, owing to certain com- adopted, was the forerunner of the types plex features of the valve arrangement. of engines which have since become the In the Schenectady tandem compound, favorites for high-speed passenger service. these faults were corrected. By setting Soon after the Columbia type appeared, the cylinders tandem the power of both the Atlantic type, with a four-wheel lead- cylinders was exerted along the same line, ing truck, four coupled driving-wheels, thus overcoming the most serious defects and two-wheel trailing truck, was intro- in the Vauclain four-cylinder compound duced, and soon became popular, super- —namely, the connecting of two cylinders seding the eight-wheel type. of unequal power and in different hori- In 1901, the Brooks Locomotive Works zontal planes with the same cross-head. introduced another type of high duty pas- A number of this type of compound senger-engine, having a two-wheel lead- were built, but, as has been the case with ing truck, six coupled driving-wheels, and all the earlier types of compound engines, a pair of trailing wheels. The first exam- it has been superseded by other and later ples of this type, called the Prairie, were types. built for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, on which road it be- Increase in Weight. came the favorite type of passenger-en- gine. The period from 1893 to 1904 saw an Owing to the fact that most motive- enormous increase in the weight and power men consider a four-wheel leading power of both passenger and freight en- truck essential to safety for an engine run gines. A comparison between the engines at high speeds, the Prairie type was never exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago very extensively employed in passenger in the former year and the locomotives at service, but is largely used in freight serv- the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in the ice. latter year showed that during these When the weight of passenger-trains eleveji years the average total weight of outgrew the power that could be pro- passenger-engines had increased fifty-one vided with only four coupled driving- per cent and the weight on driving-wheels wheels, the design of passenger - engine thirty-three per cent. In the case of known as the Pacific type was introduced. freight-engines, the increase in the aver- This was a development of the Atlantic age total "weight was forty-six per cent, with an added pair of driving - wheels. and fifty-four per cent on driving-wheels. This type is, to-day, the favorite for the During this period, the Consolidation most severe passenger service, and, it type had become the standard heavy might be said, has taken the place of its freight-engine, and had reached its pres- PROGRESS. IN LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. 521 ent limit in power in two locomotives built adapt this design to meet American re- for the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad quirements. in 1900 by the Pittsburgh Locomotive This type is practically two locomo- works. These_engines had a total weight tives combined in one, and employs two each of 250,300 pounds, and the cylinders sets of engines under one boiler. There were twenty-four inches in diameter and are four cylinders compounded together. thirty-two inches in stroke. The two pairs of cylinders are connected Where the conditions required a greater to independent groups of driving-wheels. weight on driving-wheels than could be The rear group of wheels, which are provided in the Consolidation type with- driven by the high-pressure cylinders, is out overloading the rail, other types of carried in frames which are rigidly at- wheel arrangements were introduced. tached to the boiler, to which the cylin- Notable among these was the famous ders are also secured in the usual manner. Santa Fe type, so called because it was The front group of wheels with the first used on the Atchison, Topeka and low-pressure cylinders are, however, car- Santa Fe Railroad. This type has a two- ried in frames which are not rigidly at- wheel leading truck, ten driving-wheels, tached to the boifer, but which have a and a trailing truck. center-pin connection with the rear group, It reached its highest development in being thus, in effect, a truck which is capa- the class represented by the tandem com- ble of swiveling radially around its pivot. pound locomotive built for the Santa Fe by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, ex- Weight Equally Distributed. hibited at the" St. Louis Exposition, which had a total weight of 287,000 pounds. The advantage of this type of construc- The Mikado type, having a two-wheel tion is that it provides a locomotive with leading truck, eight coupled driving- a short, rigid wheel-base, capable of easily wheels, and a two-wheeled trailing truck, passing through curves of very short ra- was also developed to meet special service dius, with the weight distributed over a conditions, and is now quite extensively long total wheel-base and a large number used in freight service. of axles, so that an enormous total weight On roads having long and steep grades, can be provided without excessive weight the increase in weight and power of the on the individual wheels. standard freight-engine had, at this time, The first engine of this type was built created conditions which it was hard to for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It meet with the existing types of locomo- had twelve driving-wheels, arranged in tives. two groups of six each. Its enormous weight of 334,500 pounds exceeded any- The Mallet Articulated. thing that had previously been dreamed of as possible in a single engine. In order to pull a train up these grades, At first, railroad men spoke of it as which the road engine could easily handle " freakish " and " monstrous," and pre- over the remainder of the road, it was dicted all kinds of failures for it. Con^ often necessary to use several helpers, or trary to all predictions, it has proved suc- pushing engines, which entailed both ex- cessful from every standpoint, and was pense and delay in moving the traffic. the forerunner of what, to-day, promises To meet these conditions, the American to be the most efficient freight-engine of Locomotive Company, in 1904, introduced the future. the Mallet articulated-compound locomo- On the Baltimore and Ohio, this engine tive. This type of locomotive, which de- soon earned the nickname " Maud," for# rived its name from its designer, Anatole the famous mule which could move any- Mallet, a prominent French engineer, had thing it went up against. been successfully used in mountainous The articulated-compound type lends sections of Europe for several years to itself very readily to the concentration of meet conditions analogous to those exist- enormous power in a single engine, and, ing in this country. since its introduction, a large number It remained for the American Loco- have been built for various roads. motive Company, however, to modify and The record for weight established by 522 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. the Baltimore and Ohio engine was soon cess, as he was ahead of his time, and the exceeded by the construction, for the Erie American railway world was not then Railroad, by the American Locomotive ready to adopt a new valve motion. Company, of three engines of the articu- As the locomotive lias increased in lated type having sixteen driving-wheels weight and power, the parts of the valve- and a total weight of 410,000 pounds gear have reached such proportions that each. there is hardly room enough between the The Baldwin Locomotive Works, as al- frames of a modern heavy freight or pas- ready mentioned, have recently built two senger engine for the accommodation of engines of this type for the Southern Pa- a satisfactory design of Stephenson valve- cific having a total weight of 425.000 gear. pounds ; six more are under construction With the Stephenson valve-gear, the by the American Locomotive Company, parts are so crowded together between weighing 441,000 pounds each. the frames that it is almost impossible Although originally introduced for for the engineer to give them proper in- helping or pushing service, the articulated spection or lubrication. type of locomotive has proved itself very The application of the Walschaert efficient as a road engine; and offers the valve-gear to the Baltimore and Ohio possibility of increasing the capacity oi Mallet engine again directed the attention a. division and moving the greatest amount of American locomotive designers to it as of traffic over the line at the least oper- a means of meeting present-day condi- ating cost. tions. Being located outside of the frames, What Walschaert Gear Is. this type of gear is perfectly accessible for inspection and lubrication, so that it is The introduction of the Mallet type of much more easily maintained than the locomotive led to another important in- Stephenson gear. Moreover, by remov- novation in American locomotive prac-. ing the valve-gear from between the tise the of the Walschaert frames, a better opportunity is afforded ; namely, use valve-gear. to introduce a strong system of frame- In the Mallet type of locomotive, the bracing, thus tending to reduce frame flexible receiver-pipe between the high and failures. low pressure cylinders being located be- The principal difference in action be- tween the frames on the center line of tween the two types of gears is that the the engine, it was impossible to use the Walschaert valve - gear gives a constant ordinary Stephenson valve- gear. The lead at all cut-offs, while with the usual Walschaert valve-gear, which is located construction of the Stephenson valve-gear outside of the driving-wheels, was, con- the lead increases as the reverse lever is sequently, applied to the Baltimore and " hooked " up. Ohio Mallet engine. The superior advantage of the Wal- This type of gear, which derives its schaert valve-gear over the Stephenson name from the inventor, Egide Wal- link motion in the matter of accessibility schaert, was patented in Belgium in 1844, has led to its use on all of the most im- and soon became the standard type of portant' American railroads, and, to-day, valve motion on the railroads of Europe, it has almost taken the place of the Ste- even as the so-called Stephenson shifting phenson gear as the standard type of valve link motion, which was invented in Eng- motion. land about the same time, was adopted in America. Another Improvement. Although William Mason, one of the most prominent of early American loco-, About the same time that the Mallet motive-builders, had attempted to intro- articulated - compound locomotive ap- duce the Walschaert valve-gear into peared, another important advance was American locomotive practise in 1876, made in the development of the American and had .exhibited an engine -equipped locomotive by the introduction of the with that type of gear at the Centennial four-cylinder balanced compound loco- Exposition, he did not meet with any suc- motive. PROGRESS IN LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. 523 In all reciprocating engines, some pro- engine the four cylinders are placed side vision has to be made to counteract the by side, usually with their centers in the disturbing effects of the horizontal mov- same horizontal plane, the two low-pres- ing of reciprocating parts, such as pis- sure cylinders being outside the frames tons, cross-heads, etc. In locomotives and the two high-pressure cylinders in- having two crank-pins and main rods, this side. is accomplished by placing a certain The cylinders are cast hi two parts, amount of weight over that required to with " half-saddle " as usual, each part balance the revolving parts in the driving- containing a high and low pressure cylin- wheel counterbalances opposite the crank- der with their valve-chest above and be- pin. tween them. Except when the piston is at either end Steam distribution to the two cylinders of the stroke, this excess weight exerts a on each side is controlled by a single vertical force due to the centrifugal ac- piston-valve, operated by a single valve- tion, which increases or decreases the nor- gear. In the earlier engines of this type mal pressure of the wheel on the rail ac- the Stephenson link motion was employed, cording as the counterbalance is below or but many of the subsequent designs have above the center of the wheel, causing been equipped with the Walschaert valve- what is commonly called the " hammer gear. blow." The vertical force of this excess weight In Opposing Motion. is greatest when the counterbalance is at the top or bottom quarter of its revolu- The main rods of the high-pressure tion. In the modern high-speed passen- cylinders connect to one of the axles, ger-engine, with its heavy reciprocating which is cranked for that purpose, while parts, this vertical force is frequently ex- the two low-pressure cylinders are con- cessive, and causes serious injury to the nected to crank-pins on the driving- track. wheels in the usual manner. To overcome this difficulty, European The cranks of the driving axles on the locomotive designers had developed the same side of the locomotive are 180 de- four-cylinder balanced compound loco- grees apart. In other words, when one motive in which the driving mechanism is of the pistons is -at the front end of its so arranged that the reciprocating weights cylinder, the other piston on that side is balance each other. at the back end of its cylinder, and the This type of engine also provided all horizontal or reciprocating parts are thus the advantages of the compound prin- in opposing motion, and, consequently, ciple in the way of increased capacity and balance each other without the need of improved economy, and offered the means excess balance in the wheels. of meeting the increasing weights of In the ten-wheeled or Atlantic type trains and severe requirements of service engines, the inside main rods are usually- without increasing the weight and size of connected to the leading axle, while the locomotives, the limit of which seemed to outside main rods are connected to either have already been reached. the front or second pair of driving wheels, as may be preferred. No Increase in Size. In cases where 'the leading driving axle is so close to the cylinders that it American locomotive designers conse- is impossible to connect the high-press- quently directed their-efforts toward mod- ure cylinders to it without making the ifying and adopting the European de- main rod too short, as in the Pacific and signs to meet conditions in this country. Prairie types, they are connected to the In 1902, the Baldwin Locomotive second driving axle. Works brought out a four-cylinder bal- In such cases, either the inside cylin- anced compound locomotive built after ders are inclined at such an angle that the designs of S. M. Vauclain. The first the main rods will clear the front axle, engine of this type was a ten-wheel loco- or else the main rods are constructed motive built for the Plant System. with a loop of bifurcation which em- In the Baldwin balanced compound braces the leading axle. 524 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Two years after the appearance of the tant advantages ;. and it would seem that Baldwin balanced compound engine, the the further development of the passen- American Locomotive Company intro- ger-engine will probably be along the duced a compound engine in which the line of the four-cylinder engines—either balanced principle was employed, built the balanced compound, the balanced after the designs prepared by F. J. Cole, simple, or the articulated compound type. consulting engineer of the company. In this connection it is interesting to In this type of compound, the low- note that the American Locomotive pressure cylinders are outside the frames Company has recently built two Atlantic and the high-pressure cylinders are in- type passenger-engines for the Chicago. side, but located ahead of the low-press- Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, hav- ure cylinders, following the arrangement ing four simple cylinders arranged on employed in the famous De Glehn bal- the balanced principle and using super- anced compound locomotive which had heated steam. been so successful abroad. Simplicity of construction has always been the keynote of American locomo- In One Casting. tive practise. The complications in de- sign resulting from the application of Separate valves are used for the high the compound principle to locomotives and low pressure cylinders on the same is one of the main reasons why the com- side of the engine, but these are mounted pound locomotive has not met with the on a single valve stem operated by a sin- success in this country that it has abroad. gle valve motion. American railroad officials, however, Both high - pressure cylinders, with are alive to the necessity of improved their respective valve-chambers, are in economy, and the effort to effect this and one casting : while the low-pressure avoid the disadvantage of the compound cylinders, with their valve-chambers, are principle has led to the introduction ~bf cast in pairs with " half-saddles," in the another important principle in American manner usual in single expansion en- locomotive practise. gines. The valve-chambers of the high- pressure cylinders are in exact line with Superheated Steam. those of the low-pressure cylinders, the two being connected together so as to This principle is the application of form a continuous valve chamber. superheated steam to locomotives. Super- This arrangement of cylinders permits heated steam is nothing more nor- less of balancing the reciprocating parts and than very hot steam. It is steam of a also of dividing the application of higher temperature than that which it power between two driving axles with attains in the boiler in being -raised to the least change from the usual construc- the boiler pressure. By separating the tion of single expansion engines. steam from the water from which" it is By placing the high-pressure cylin- generated and passing it over very hot ders ahead of the low pressure, the in- surfaces, additional heat can be added side main rods can be connected to the to it. This is what is done in a loco- leading axle in all the present types of motive. passenger-engines and a good length of When steam enters a locomotive cyl- majn rod secured without increasing the inder it becomes cooled by coming into length -of the wheel-base. contact with the cylinder walls and it This al-o involves a corresponding in- becomes further cooled by performing crease in the length of the boiler and work in the cylinder. If the steam is flues, which latter course must be fol- of ordinary temperature, a large amount lowed to obtain the same results where of it is turned into water because of the four cylinders are placed abreast, as this cooling process, and passes through in the case of the Baldwin balanced the cylinder without doing any work and compound. is, therefore, wasted. Although it cannot he said that the . Every 'engineer knows that, besides four-cylinder balanced compound has doing no work, this water in the cylin- been generally adopted, it offers impor- ders is dangerous, and, if not released, PROGRESS IN LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING. 525 causes broken cylinder-heads, bent pis- With this arrangement, the hot gases ton-rods, etc. The use of superheated direct from the fire are utilized to super- steam offers the means of preventing heat the steam and high temperatures the steam being turned into water, or are obtained, by which only can be se- what is commonly known as cylinder cured the greatest advantages that are to . is condensation ; since all the heat that be derived from superheated steam. added to the steam may be given up before it is cooled down to the point Improved Superheaters. of where it becomes water. By adding sufficient heat to the steam, In the latest form of the American therefore, all the loss of power which Locomotive Company's superheater, otherwise occurs can be prevented and each of the large tubes "contains four a great saving in coal and water effected. superheater pipes which, as they emerge Superheated steam has another im- from the tube, are bent around horizon- portant advantage, inasmuch as its tem- tally to meet the header or steam boxes perature is increased, its volume is also which are located in either side of the increased, so that it will take a less smoke-box. These headers are divided in- weight of steam to fill the cylinders if to two compartments, and steam from the the steam is superheated than if it is throttle enters one compartment and at an ordinary temperature. A further passes into the superheater pipes. saving in coal and water to do a given It flows over the hot surfaces of these amount of work is thus effected. pipes, from which it receives additional Although the advantages to be de- heat and is carried back again to the rived from the use of superheated steam other compartment of the header, from were fully appreciated by locomotive de- whence it enters the cylinders. signers, and although numerous attempts Two forms of this design are in use, to apply it to locomotives were made in one gives a very high degree of tempera- the early days of locomotive building, ture and the other a moderate degree. it is onl}' comparatively recently that Superheated steam has been used on this principle has been successfully in- the Canadian Pacific Railway to a much troduced into locomotive practise. greater extent than on any other Ameri- can road. The present standard super- Recently Introduced. heater on this road is also of the fire- tube type, of the design known as the In 1897, Dr. William Schmidt, of Vaughan-Horsey type, after the names of Germany, invented a design of super- its inventors, H. H. Vaughan, assistant heater which was applied to two en- to the vice-president, and A. W. Horsey, gines on the Prussian State Railway. district master mechanic of the Cana- In 1904, the American Locomotive dian Pacific Railway. Company brought out a superheater aft- Following the introduction of the er the designs prepared by F. J. Cole, Cole superheater, the Baldwin Loco- who was also responsible for the four- motive Works brought out a design of cylinder balanced compound built by superheater of the smoke-box type, in that company. which the waste gases in the smoke-box This design was applied to several en- are utilized to superheat the steam. As gines, and considerable saving in fuel the temperature of the gases in the and water effected. Since that time over smoke-box are not sufficiently high to 300 locomotives equipped with super- give*very much superheat, comparatively " heaters have been built by that company. little economy is. effected by this type of All of the superheaters applied by the superheater, and the most approved American Locomotive Company have practise, here and abroad, is to use the : been of the fire-tube type ; that is, a num fire-tube type of superheater.' her of ordinary boiler tubes are replaced The application of superheated steam by larger tubes, in which are placed the to locomotives is fast growing in favor superheater pipes through which the in this country, and promises to be one steam has to pass on its way from the of the most important developments in throttle to the cylinders. present-day locomotive practise. THE DAUGHTER OF THE IDOL. BY JOHN MACK STONE. Help Gomes in the Nick of Time and All's Well That Ends Well. CHAPTER XXIII. " The people do not care to hear you." " The law says a condemned man may How the High Priest Died. have his say," the high priest said in a loud voice. " Dare you deny me the HE came over to rne, took me in rights of the aitu's law?" her arms, and kissed my lips. In the face of the announcement, Welch " Save Uncle Dick," I whis- could not refuse. The high priest walked pered. " You may escape in within the circle of shells, and spoke. time." " When you entered the aitu's temple " There is no way," she said. last night, and desecrated it by your mad- " Be a brave boy, Roland, and ness, I and my priests were at council. go back to the United States and tell your " You took me and my brethren from story- Perhaps some one will listen to the temple, and called us condemned. We you, and you can have these people pun- wer-e not condemned before the sacred ished. You must live, for you have your aitu, and therefore an execution on this whole life before you." sacred altar will be a profanation. We " And what will my life be, when I have served you long and faithfully, and know it was gained at the cost of my this is the way you forget. Shame, my uncle's life?" I asked. children! Where is your reasoning?" " " " You must be brave," she said again. Enough ! Welch cried, afraid the " Show that you are a little man." sentiment of the mob would change. Then she kissed me again, looked'long " I will go on," the high priest declared. at Uncle Dick, took the captain's hand, " I am here to save the aitu from further then turned and walked back toward the profanation. My people, in searching the guard and away from the altar. law, we found that in a case such as this As she left us we heard chanting, and there-is a way the aitu may be purified. turned to find that the doomed priests " The law says that at any time there is were entering the clearing under guard. the slightest doubt of the aitu's sanctity, They came forward quickly, and stopped it may be made pure by the execution of just outside the circle of shells. a priest upon the sacred altar. The law " What is the meaning of this?" the further states that all the brethren, as- high priest demanded. sembled in council, may select by silent "It means," said Welch, "that the lot the priest so to die. If it is your wish people will not stand by and see the great that the aitu be preserved sacred, we will aitu desecrated again. It means you return to the temple and go through the lacked the courage to attend to the duties ceremony in the presence of the aitu. of your office." " After the execution of the priest these " I acted in wisdom and fairness," the prisoners may be rightfully condemned high priest said. " I call upon you now and executed without incurring the aitu's to stand aside, and allow me to address displeasure, and our temple will be sacred the people." again and our land safe from distress." Began in the November. 1909. Railroad Man's Magazine. Single Copies, 10 cents. 526 ' THE DAUGHTER OF THE IDOL. 527 " " it is ! " No, no— not the law Welch would refuse, unless he be a coward ! the cried. high priest replied. " It is the law," the high priest said. "I'll show you I am no coward!" It is peculiar how the sentiment of a Welch screamed. mob will change in the twinkling of an His hand came from beneath his robe, eye. Here was their high priest, a man holding a revolver. The weapon spoke, they had respected for years, standing the smoke drifted to one side, and the clothed in the dignity of his office, speak- high priest lay upon the floor, blood flow- ing with the voice of wisdom. The re- ing from a wound in his breast. And action was at hand. Welch, waving the revolver in his hand, " Let us preserve the sanctity of the dashed for a side door. " " aitu ! they cried. To the temple ! To Then bedlam broke loose again. The the temple ! Let the priests ballot ! What other priests ran to their fallen chief. " " " differs it? These men must die! He is dead—dead ! they moaned. In vain, Welch tried to stpp them. He "The high priest is dead— is dead!" knew how the balloting would result. the people screamed. They surged forward to kiss the garments They rushed for the door through which of the priests. The procession was formed Welch had disappeared. Like angry beasts again, and we made our way back along they went through in pursuit. .the forest path, up the broad avenue, and " He killed a man in the presence of " " to the temple. We were taken to the room the aitu ! they screeched. The aitu is " of worship and placed under guard. defiled again until he dies! Then, in the silence of death, the high In time all of them were gone. The priest prepared the ballots. One by one guards had forgotten us in the face of the priests stepped forward and selected this great tragedy. Only the priests re- one, and marked it. Welch did not dare mained, surrounding the body of the one speak, for the law said a word meant who had been the head of the temple. death during the ceremony. And as we watched they lifted the body When all the ballots were marked, the and bore it into another room. " " high priest placed them on a golden plate, _ Now is our chance ! Captain Haw- and put the plate at the aitu's feet. Then son cried. " the chant-began, and candles were burned. We cannot leave the temple," said ? In the presence of them all the high priest Ruth, " for they will see us. As soon as counted the ballots and put them back at they have dealt with Welch they will the feet of the idol. Then he walked remember us." across to Welch. " Then we can hide within the temple," " The aitu claims your life, brother," the captain said. he said. " Through your death it will He ran toward one of the doors, and become purified." we followed. Through a great corridor " " It is a trick ! Welch cried to the we hurried in the darkness and into an- people. " They are killing me because I other room, and from that to another took your side last night. Don't you see apartment in another part of the temple. it is a trick? I returned the aitu to you There was a window in the room, and from a foreign land. I have done many- we looked out. The mob surged about things for you." the square. They had taken Welch easily, The high priest silenced him. and were carrying him down the avenue. " My children," he said to the people, " Not to the execution ground," some " the brother looks at the matter in the of them were crying. "JVe cannot slay wfong light. He. is not condemned be- him there, for we are not priests." " cause of a fault ; he has been chosen to Then get the priests," others an- have the greatest honor possible to one jn swered. the priesthood. What greater honor could While some held Welch under guard, there be for any of us, my children, than others ran back toward the temple. In to L;ive up our lives that the aitu may be a short time they emerged again, two of blessed?" the priests with them. And then the " " [t's a trick 1 Welch cried again. crowd hurried on down the broad avenue, "It is an honor no true son of the aitu on the way to the execution-ground. ; 528 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " ! "It is not safe to remain here," the The cruiser is here " the captain Captain said. " They will search the tem- cried. " " ple and find us." Thank Heaven ! Ruth exclaimed. We left the apartment and went tljrough Then the firing in the square became another dark corridor, making our way a regular battle. The bugles rang out to the first floor of the temple, and emerg- loud and clear, and mingled with the ing in the worship-room behind the aitu. howls of rage and fear from the fanatics Adjoining the main worship-room was were the cheering cries of the marines a -mailer apartment used by the priests. and bluejackets as they fought their way It had but the one entrance, and only one toward the temple. window, which was high up in *he wall. "Here. Roland!" the captain cried We hurried into this room. from beneath the window. There were weapons there, and we He helped me to his shoulders,, and I seized them gladly and saw that they were stood up and peered_out into the square. properly loaded. Then the captain and In regular formation the men from the Uncle Dick carried heavy furniture across cruiser were* advancing on the temple, the room and piled it against the door. driving the fanatics before them. The Then we waited for their coming. air was filled with smoke which half ob- scured the scene of battle. The fanatics were not cowards—they fought bravely CHAPTER XXIV. enough—but no -body of untrained men. no matter how large, could stand up How It All Ended. before the splendid discipline of .Uncle T-JTALF an hour passed, and we heard Sam's navy. the mob approaching the temple, Foot by foot the fanatics gave way chanting and screeching. then they broke and fled from side to side, " It will soon be over now," the cap- throwing away their weapons, screeching tain said. - at the top of their voices as they rushed I sat in the corner, saying nothing. It for safety to the jungle. And the men was not a pleasant predicament, to say from the cruiser rushed for the temple the least, and the future looked dark. doors. Uncle Dick and Ruth Holland were "If they are only in time!" Uncle standing near me. in each other's arriis. Dick said. " These men will kill us now, We heard the mob start to enter the as soon as we are found." temple, 'heard the frantic people rush I got down from the captain's shoul- from room to room below, searching for ders, arid we crossed the room to the us, crying to the priests and demanding door. The crowd was in the main wor- what had become of us. ship-room now, looking into all the rooms There was a great crowd outside in the that opened into it. The din was deaf- square, waiting for us to be captured and ening. We could not understand what taken out. Their cries were fearful. was said. Suddenly, as we listened, we heard the Then the assault upon our door came. tone of their cries change from anger to We placed Ruth in a corner, and the surprise, heard loud shouts and com- three of us stood in a line, each with a mands, and the sound of firing. weapon handy, ready to sell our lives as " They must be fighting among them- dearly as possible and reach the sailors " selves ! Uncle. Dick said. alive if we could. " Pray Heaven such "is the case," the The battering at the door continued. captain answered. " That will give us The cries grew louder. The battle raged another respite." suddenly in the temple-room, for the sail- " " Listen ! I cried suddenly, so loud ors and marines had reached there. that the men in the temple must have " I wish we were out there," Uncle heard me. Dick cried. For I had heard something other than " It is safer in here at present," the the howling of the mob. The others captain said. heard it, too. Volleys of shots sounded in the temple- It was the shrill note of a hugle. room. We could hear the sailors cheer- THE DAUGHTER OF THE IDOL. 529 ing; could hear the fanatics giving their in the midst of us, staggered to the door. peculiar battle-cry. The smoke was not so thick that the ma- Winch side was conquering, we did not rines could not cheer when they saw us. know. The fanatics could not stand be- And then we began our battle to reach fore the marines in the open ; but in the the temple entrance. temple, in the presence of the great aitu, 'There were fanatics still in the room, it might be a different thing. firing wildly at the sailors and at each Again the cries of the fanatics changed other in the smoke. Before we realized in tone, and now became cries of fear. it, we were hemmed in by marines, and a There were cries of fear in English, too. midshipman was issuing orders in a loud 11 " What can it be ? Ruth cried. voice. We made our way slowly across The captain had gone nearer the door, the room. and was trying to hear. I felt my head swimming, felt my "They are crying 'Fire!'" he said. lungs growing sore. The flames were all " Some one must have set fire to the tem- about us. Once I turned to find that " ple. It will burn like tinder ! Captain Hawson and Uncle Dick were Outside in the large room there seemed carrying Ruth between them. " " to be a stampede. But the battering at On — on ! the midshipman was " the door continued, and in time it was shouting. " We are almost there ! forced open a little. Another moment, and we had reached " " Stand ready ! the captain cried. the entrance. We staggered down the " Give it to them ! We must fight our steps into the midst of the sailors and way through ! Don't forget Miss Hol- marines who had remained in the open. " land when the time comes ! As we reached the monument in the The battle in the temple-room still center of the square, there was a great raged. Now we could hear the crackling crash behind us, a cloud of smoke and of the flames. The door was forced open flame shot into the air, and the roof and a foot, and the thick, black smoke poured walls of the temple fell, burying the hi upon us. great aitu in its sepulcher of ruins. " " To the floor ! the captain cried. The fanatics who remained unscathed " " Crawl toward the door ! fled in terror into the jungle. We threw ourselves on the floor. The It was the work of only a few minutes smoke filled the room, and poured to bring Ruth back to consciousness ; and through the one window into the open then we received the captain of the air. We could see flames in the temple- cruiser, who had come ashore when the room, could see the figures of men dash- heavy firing began. Captain Hawson ing through the smoke. They were com- told his story as quickly as possible. ing nearer. " I have sent men to see about this "This way! Get Them out!" some man Welch," said the commander. one cried in English. As he spoke, his men returned, and a He was answered by screams from the midshipman stepped forward to make his fanatics. Half a dozen men showed in report. Then his superior turned to us the smoke just outside the door. In a again. moment they were sprawling over the " Welch has found a grave in the land furniture we had piled there. he tried to despoil," he said. In another moment the furniture had Then we marched down the broad ave- been hurled to one side, and some one nue to the shore. The cruiser lay at an- sprang in upon us. I raised my revolver. chor a short distance out,' white and buff Captain Hawson threw my arm upward shining brightly in the sunshine. Old as I fired, and the bullet went wild. Glory was fluttering in the breeze at the " " It is one of Uncle Sam's men ! he stern. cried. Half an hour later we were on the " Where are you?" came the cry. deck of the cruiser. "Here!" "What shall I do about your ship?" " Out, all of you ! Be quick ! The Captain Hawson was asked. " roof will fall in a few minutes! He faced . the cruiser's commander We sprang to our feet, and, with Ruth bravely. 10 R R " ; 530 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "Send a shell into her!" he said. " Then he was made to believe that " If I returned to another port, I would I was really going to marry Welch, that have explanations to make. And from I had been playing with his heart. We this time on I lead an honest life, and I met in California, at a resort, a few days cannot do it on a dishonest ship." before I was abducted. The two captains clasped hands. " That was when I left you alone in " It shall be as you wish," said the San Francisco for two days, Roland," my cruiser's commander. uncle explained. We stood on the bridge while one of " We had a quarrel there," she went the great guns forward barked, and on. " Your uncle wanted me to marry watched as the shell struck. There was him, and I refused, because I knew the a roar, a crash, and the Faraway sank. fanatics would seek us and try to carry Then the cruiser sailed from the tiny us back to death. He thought I refused harbor and started back across the Pa- because of Welch. He went away angry cific. The commander had promised to I was angry, too. land us at Honolulu. " When he saw me aboard the Fara- " When I make my report," he said, way he thought I had told the fanatics " I shall treat Captain Hawson with where to him that I find ; had betrayed charity, inasmuch as both Mr. Engle and him to his death ; that I was seeking re- Miss Holland do not wish to prosecute venge and trying to help Welch at the him for his part in their abduction. He same time. But it is all clear now." has won their regard by Tiis bravery. " I tli ink you were both very foolish," But this boy, Roland Burke, must have I exclaimed. " I thought all the time it a grievance against the captain, too. Of was something reallv important." course, if Mr. Burke wants him prose- "Roland! Roland!" cried Ruth, cuted— laughing in spite of herself. " It was I felt my chest expand when he called important—very important—to your un- me mister, and Ruth's silvery laugh rang cle and to me." out. For answer, I stepped forward and Uncle Dick kissed her fondly. The took Captain Hawson by the hand. executive officer of the cruiser, who was " i guess that settles it," said the com- on the bridge, looked the other way. " " mander. On the bridge ! hailed Captain It was evening, and I was standing on Hawson from below. the bridge, when Ruth and Uncle Dick "Well, sir?" asked the executive offi- came to me, hand in hand. cer. " We are going to be married, Ro- " Kindly tell that pair of lovers up land," Ruth said. " We wanted to tell there that they both need rest, and that you first of all." their cabins are prepared for them. " I had almost guessed it," I replied, There'll be plenty of time for spooning with wisdom beyond my years. " But after they reach Honolulu." " " there is one thing I'd like to know. What Aye, aye, sir ! laughed the executive was it that made Uncle Dick dislike you officer. " so when first he met you? " And tell that boy, Roland, to come Her face clouded for a moment, but down here to me immediately. I want when Uncle Dick put his arms around to talk to him. He's got fighting-blood " her the smiles came to her lips again. in his veins ! " " He thought," she replied, that I Then we all laughed, and I went down was in league with Welch." and up to where the captain was sitting. " I do not understand," I said. There we sat and talked until my eyes "He thought—or rather was made to would stay open no longer. Captain Haw- believe — that I had conspired with son put one of his strong arms around Welch to steal the aitu, and that it was me. I felt myself lifted tenderly and taken aboard the cruiser instead of the carried toward the cabin. yacht by mistake. Your uncle respects "It's been a terrible experience," I all religions, and has no love for one heard him mutter. " But it has made a who would despoil a temple. man of him." (The end.) THE TRUE STORY SERIES. Mistakes will happen—even in the best-regulated railroad yards —but seldom has a mistake been recorded that caused quite such a scare as this story relates. The Eagle Eye and his mate who swings the diamond spade must have had a double- distilled shock when she began leaking like a—well, read it, and just imagine what you would have done under similar circumstances. Why Jim Daley and Bill Markley Hustled to a Convenient Spot Behind a Hill and Waited for "the Explosion Tha* Never Was Heard. TRUE STORY, NUMBER FORTY- THREE. \ HERE goes old Dutch " Yep," I replied. Cheese." " Did you ever hear how she come to " Thus Bill Markley spoke be christened that name? to me as we sat on a truck " Nix," says I. at the Kourtland depot " 'Twas 'bout nineteen one or two," he one June evening, as one began, refilling his pipe and lighting up, of the oldest engines of the road wheezed " just after the Gee Grook branch of this and spluttered by to pick up a train. here road /was built. It run independent Editor's Note: All the stories published in this True Story Series have, been carefully verified 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 the stories. Scries bc«»n la the October, 1906. Railroad Min'i M»e»r!ne. Single Copies, 10 teat§. 531 — 532 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. then, and the company operatin' the same comes runnin' up and wants ter know ' was broke a'most. The line was earnin' what's wrong. Says I : Jim's gone crazy. good money all right, but it was too heavy Jumped and run ! There ain't nothin' in debt. the matter, only we can't seem ter keep The Only Engine. up steam enough ter git anywheres.' " I hadn't no more'u got the words out " ' They only had one engine, with no of my mouth afore I heard : Jump, Bill ' name or number, ter do the freight and jump ! She's goin' to blow up ! passenger bus'ness of the whole nineteen " Then, fer the first time, I seemed to miles of road. I was firm' then, and our hear a sizzlin' an' foamin' goin' on inside run was from the east end of the road at that engine which didn't sound right, and Cinnatus to the west end here. Nineteen there was a white fluid just boilin' out all miles and two round trips every day. over her. It didn't take me long ter go " The company had put up a big water- after Jim, then, you bet, and the whole tank at Cinnatus, and then found out they crew followed suit. We got over behind a was too poor ter buy power enough ter hill and waited fer the explosion, but pmnp her full of water. They fin'ly fixed there was nothin' doin'. " it with the milk-station people next to it After about an hour we screwed up to fill the tank from their wells by their gumption enough to go back. Ev'ry- big pumps. thing was quiet, and no -trouble seemed " Our leavin' time fer the first trip out iq .exist about the engine 'cept she was of Cinnatus was 8.02 a.m. About seven- coated over with some white stuff, and forty-five, one June morning, Jim Daley, the sizzlin' had expired. my engineer, backed the nameless power- plant to the tank, and I filled the tender Just a Mistake. to the brim. " Everything was workin' right that " We sat round fer a spell tryin' ter mornin', until we got ter pullin' up the make out the cause, but liobody seemed grade at Whytes Mills, when I discovered ter have any explanation. Fin'ly, Jim the steam was fallin' off. My fire was got up on the tender and lifted the tank burnin' great, but I couldn't no ways seem covert He stood lookin' in a minute, and ter make that steam-indicator show right. then motions me up. I took one look " I turned on the blower, and there and shut the cover down, remarkin' ter ' wasn't hardly enough power left ter blow Jim : It won't do nobody no good ter the fire. say anything about that.' " Well, we struggled along until we " It wasn't until after the engine had got 'bout to East Freeville, when I heard been ter the shops that any of the crew Jim yell and seen him jam on the air, and learned what the real trouble was, but then jump. they did joke us some after that about " We weren't runnin' fast enough ter her stomach being full of Dutch cheese.'*' do any particular damage by leavin' the Bill sat back and puffed a while in si- track, and we sure did jump regular those lence. I gazed at him, wondering how days with that poor-ballasted road. I the cheese got into the boiler. He, evi- stepped to the side of the engine and dently reading my thought, continued : looked fer Jim, but all I seen was his back, " Yep, 'twas Dutch cheese, and one on and that was fast fadin' inter the per- me. You see, the milk-station people had spective. pumped our water-tank full of sour milk " I stood there wonderin' what had by mistake, and I had filled the tender hit Jim, when Al Kemp, our conductor, without noticing the mistake." A semaphore-arm doesn't go up merely because somebody pulls a lever ; it goes up because there is danger. There's a real reason for most things.—Cautions by the Boss. ; DE BERGERAG OF THE BOES. BY AUGUSTUS W1TTFELD, He and Monk Hastily Desert Their Auto When They Get a Jack Binns from Geraldine and Her Mollycoddle. ,JK|S£ "JVATE, having nothing else " He requested me to awaken him should ^j^KSvl? on hand, engineered an- an auto bearing his crest put in appear- iJfjps^F other meeting between ance, and was soon pounding his auricular y^Sjjj&jSg^ Monk and the individual appendage on the herbaceous hummock, with the watery eyes.' Aft-, while I listened to the sighing of the er an interchange of cour- wind in the branches and mused on the tesies, the individual with the watery mutability' of things in general. Lazily " weeps inquired : Have you had any I watched the passing autos, and envied more of those remarkable adventures since the favored sons of the ennui class who " I saw you last? are handicapped by the burden of wealth "Have I?" queried Monk. "Why, and the responsibilities of rank. There's I've had the time of my life. I've been nobody to flash a red at them and chase hobnobbing with the Harriman of the them along a siding until the perishable highways. Doing stunts in an automo- produce goes by. bile with the only and original auto hobo " There's nobody to worry them except of America." the bucolic burgomaster who penalizes "If you can relieve yourself without them seven-fifty for flirting with the un- crossing the Rubicon of truth, I believe I dertaker on the only decent mile of- road can pose as a willing listener without re^ within the burg. sorting to anesthetics," commented the " As I lolled and dreamed, a machine watery-eyed one. came along, traveling slowly. As it drew " The last time we met," retorted near I noted that it contained but a single Monk, " you cast aspersions on my verac- occupant, evidently the chauffeur, who ity by inquiring whether Ananias did not appeared to be on the lookout for some grace the upper branches of my genealog-s one. I arose and sauntered leisurely for- ical tree." ward. " I did," replied the watery-eyed one - " The only occupant asked me whether " but with all due respect to Annernias." I had seen an individual meandering " In that case," replied Monk, " I will around who looked like an imitation of overlook your seeming irrelevancy, and Richard Mansfield. give you a leaf from the log of my ad- " I asked him for specifications as to ventures with this motor marauder. One the character in the great actor's repertory afternoon I was doing the at-home stunt the meandering Mansfield assumed. He 'neath the shade of the old apple-tree, replied that he was not long on histrionic when a stranger hove in sight, wiped his characterization, but he thought it was feet on the ' Welcome ' mat, and proceed- Markham's ' The Man With the Nose.' ed to ingratiate himself. I entertained " I associated his meager description him with a recital of one of my adven-s with the personality of my guest, and tures, after which he announced his de- informed the proud pleasure = pilot that sire for sleep." the great Cyrano~was doing the by-by act " Very natural," interrupted the weepy 'neath the pippin-tree. He asked me to one. awaken the Rostrand replica and inform Ignoring the remark, Monk continued : him that his auto had arrived. ' ' :- J 534 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. " ' Say, sport,' I answered, ' desist your avalanche, bent on a mission of oblitera- dippy discourse. Whoever heard of a tion —you cannot appreciate the sensation weary wayfarer along Handout Highway I experienced on my first automobile ride. possessing an automobile? ' v- "I abandoned myself to the novelty of " The chipper chauffeur did not deign the situation, and thought of the many to reply, but strode over to the slumberer times I had traveled in a more primitive and shook him. De Bergerac awoke and way. Brake-beams and empty freights cast his optics over the moving-picture are all right, but the auto is the aristocrat show. Then he indulged in a conversa- of conveyances. zione with the haughty- autoist, who final- " De Bergerac certainly knew how to ly handed him some bills and took his de- handle -that car, and he kept her going parture. until near dusk. We put up for the night " I watched him hoofing it down the at a farmhouse, where it happened that pike, and wondered what I was up against. the host was an enthusiastic autoist, and Then I approached the guest of honor, De Bergerac so won him over by letting and, by judicious questioning, I elicited him talk about his machine that he forgot the information that the auto belonged to to make any charge for our entertain- him. -menl-. " Say, pard, I've heard of pan-han- " We made an early start, after an ap- dlers pushing toward the Stygian dark-, petizing breakfast, and De Bergerac said ness on proud plugs, but that was the first Ave would take a run up to Lake Nocopo, time I'd been up against the auto-hobo a swell summer resort. I saw more scen- combination. Just imagine an intelligent ery on that trip than you could see in a itinerant mastering the mysteries of me- week traveling in the old-fashioned way. chanics or getting up energy sufficient to We finally reached the lake, and had our turn the hurdy-gurdy crank of an auto first view of the classy resort from the so as to get a tune out of the engine. lower end. Around the hotel, which we " I expressed my doubts as to his abil- could barely discern in the distance, there ity to run the auto, but he assured me that did not seem to be much evidence of life, he was an expert. Said he was a meander- the guests evidently being at breakfast. ing mechanic—an M.D. of the autopathic " De Bergerac brought his machine to school—and made real money doctoring a stop, that we might enjoy the witchery the afflicted autos of the rich. Then he of the scene. Coming across the water asked me to take a ride, and when I put toward us was a canoe, containing a up the bluff that, like the ballet-dancer, young man and a young woman. The I'd nothing to wear, he dug down into feminine end of the combination was fur- the hamper and produced a couple of auto nishing the motive power, while the Chol- rigs, which we put on. Then be started ly-boy seemed to be content with looking the engine, and we climbed in. Say, sport, picturesque and puny. did you ever take your affinity to one of " On they came, gliding over the wa- those gladsome groves where every one ter, when suddenly that mollycoddle mas- " indulges in the abandon of amusement? culine made a fool move and upset the questioned Monk. birch bateau. The girl came up first, " Do I look like one who would lure and, grabbing the struggling shrimp by a lady to a luny park?" resented the the back of the neck, she swam with him watery-eyed one. to the overturned craft. " Weil, there's no use negotiating the " The physical-culture girl seemed to altitudes," retorted Monk. " I meant be handicapped by the swimless swain, nothing impersonal. If you've never been and made no effort to right the canoe. to any of the hilarious haunts, you do not " De Bergerac, realizing her predica; know the fascination of shooting the ment, remarked that it was evidently up chutes or gliding over the undulating sur- to us to do the heroic-rescue act. face of the scenic railway like a streak " '"How do you propose to capture the of greased cosmoline. If you've never Carnegie -compensation ? ' I inquired. leaped along the level ways, or climbed " De Bergerac thought for a moment, the incline like a ricket—if you've "never then he jumped from the car and got busy shot down the declivities like an Alpine detaching the tire from one of the wheels. : : : DE BERGERAC OF THE BOES. 535 " ' Say,' I protested, ' those capsized ca- " ' Miss Pendelton, may I have the noists are doing a Jack Binns. Don't honor of saving your life? ' you think you'd better let your repairs " Fair Geraldine smiled her assent, and wait until we have rescued them.' De Bergerac righted the canoe. Then, " ' That's all right,' he answered, as he' while I steadied it, he assisted her to re- sprung the tire from the wheel. ' Here, embark. Then he climbed in, and asked get busy and pump this up tight.' me to pass him the paddle, which was " 1 got onto the job, wondering wheth- floating a short distance away. I secured er the harrowing scene had affected his it for him, and he directed me to lash the mentality. As I finished, he sprung an- two life-preservers together. I did so, other tire from its wheel and proceeded and he made them fast to the canoe. to inflate it thoroughly. Then he picked " ' I say, De Bergerac,' remarked the up the tire and made for the lake, bid- De Trop party, 'going to leave me here?' ding me to do likewise. When he reached " ' As there does not seem to be any the water, he jumped in, and I realized chloroform in the purser's cabin,' replied then that we were rushing to the rescue De Bergerac, ' I think we had better pro- with improvised life-preservers. ceed as we are.' " I followed De Bergerac into the chil- " De Trop attempted to remonstrate, ly water. I'm no woolly water-spaniel, but De Bergerac swung the paddle, and and I don't fancy scorching over the we started on our triumphal journey to water on a personally conducted auto- safety. The girl looked happy but humid, mobile tire. After about ten minutes' De Bergerac looked heroic and hopeful, hard work, we reached the distressed while your humble servant and the too- damsel and her companion, and De Ber= much individual looked like a couple of gerac instructed them as to the method inanimate automatons stuck in crullers. of putting a life-preserver on straight. " We proceeded shoreward, guided by " When the pocket-edition of mascu- the skilful strokes of the versatile volun- linity had gotten himself comfortably en- teer, and eventually landed. De Berge- sconced in his life-preserver, he fumbled rac quickly replaced the tires, and, bun- in his coat-pocket and pulled out-his card-, dling the rescued resorters into the auto, case. With difficulty he opened it and drove swiftly to the hotel. took out a damp card. He handed it to " When the guests heard of the heroic De Bergerac, saying rescue, they lionized that Carnegie hero." " ' I feel that the conventionalities " I suppose," ventured the individual should be observed before we proceed fur- with the watery eyes, " that your friend ther. Permit me to introduce myself.' with the histrionic handle married the " De Bergerac glanced at the card, and water-nymph and lived happy ever aft- " said erward? " ' Mr. de Trop, I am pleased to meet " No," replied Monk, " fiction may you. Unfortunately, I have left my card- flourish, but truth will prevail. As a case in my auto. I am known as C. chronicler of facts, I have no other re? de Bergerac. This is M. Hausen.' course than to announce the union of the "The drawingrroom hero acknowledged house of Pendelton with that of De Trop, the introduction with a porpoiselike bow, though what she could see in that scion muttering, ' Chawmed.' of immobility surpasses understanding. " ' Miss Geraldine,' he said, turning to " What became of the chauffeur with the girl, ' allow me to present Messieurs the courtly name ? " asked the individual de Bergerac and Hausen. Gentlemen, with the lacrimose' lamps. " Miss Geraldine Pendelton.' - The auto hobo is no more," replied " Say, sport," commented Monk, " I've Monk. " He has forsaken the open road been up against social etiquette in all ifor the closed shop of servility. He is now quarters of the earth, but blow me if that chauffeur - in - chief to the house of De wasn't the first time I'd participated in a Trop. I was offered the position of but- deep-sea drawing-room function. ler in the same institution, but as I know " After the formalities had been ob- nothing about butling, I declined. If you served, De Bergerac approached the fair can spare me a match, I'll light up and maiden and said say good-by. Merci bocoo." — — — THE MAN FOR ME. BY LESLIE CURTIS. Written for "The Railroad Man's Magazine." MAY be only a chorus girl, but I know a thing or two. If you've got a moment to while away, I'll put you wise to a few. Seems strange for me to be resting here, with never a thought of care, " When I ought to be with The Moonlight Maids," swingin' my feet in the air! I've traveled all over this blessed land—know every burg on the map; And you can take it from me, straight. dope, it isn't much of a snap. It's the lonesomest life in all the world, forever and ever io roam. Especially so for a girl like me, who's crazy to have a home. Say, that's phony dope about millionaires hanging around the stage; Those guys ain't lookin' for song-birds to put in a legal cage. They want the girl with the champagne taste—the one who can kick so high But the decent girl with the shabby dress! Why, she gets the icy eye! That's a great old joke about virtue being its own reward And whenever a well-meaning dub says that, I laugh and swallow hard. Sounds funny when I've starved and froze, because I was on the square So me for a large-sized, healthy hunch that the world ain't playing fair. 536 —— ; — ; THE MA"N FOR ME. 537 One morning out in Lonesome Tank, while waiting for a train, We were tired and cold and hungry, drenched with a driving rain. When it came at last—two hours late—and I ran out to see A kindly face in the engine-cab looked down and smiled at me. The cars were full, but I found a seat and managed to sleep a while; And into my dream came the kindly face and the sympathetic smile. Then all at once a crash—a pain—and scream that followed scream! I tried to wake—I couldn't move—I thought I was in a dream! At length I came from that awful sleep in the arms of the engineer; He'd pulled me out of the wreck, they said, and then he sent me here. He never asked any questions; but one day, as he stroked my hand I told him the whole of my miserable life, for I knew he'd understand. Say, you can have all the millionaires, but I'll take Bill Jerome; For, while I'm lying dreaming here, he's fixing up a home. It's never again to pike around, to starve and fear the cold For under his greasy working clothes there beats a heart of gold. It's ihix on the guy that owns the road, or the son of a millionaire They hand out bottles of Hell's First Aid and bunches of stale hot air. But the man who is used to the world's hard knocks is the one to bless a home And when I get well, it's a lead-pipe cinch, I'll bet on Bill Jerome! The Evolution of "Almost." BY HORACE HERR. 2. — HE IS PRESENTED WITH ANOTHER MEDAL. A Trestle Over a Crack in Arizona Catches Fire, and " Almost" Proves That He is Made of Real Hero Stuff When He Rescues Jimmy Bailey. AVING nothing much to do every engineer and scoop-pusher in helper but wait for pay-day and service began to take notice of him and maintain the dignity neces- help him along. sary to a " general fore- Of course, some of them took liberties man " at Hulbrook, I at times, especially " Smoke " Kelley. found quite a chunk of " Smoke " liked to have his little fun time in which I could drop grains of wis- every semioccasionally and Almost put dom in Almost's vicinity. It was a reve- in quite a bunch of time hunting left- lation how near human he was. handed bell-ropes, and on one occasion In less than a week after I made him put in half a day polishing the bell to chief clerk he could dump a grate and improve its tone. pull a fire as artistically as any tallow- But when " Smoke " liked you he pot on the pike. He even knew the in- showed it by every sort of a practical jector from the air - valve, and got over joke, and as he was always showing the looking at the steam-gage to see what boy little things about the engine he time it was. i added his share to the general educa- In another month lie knew every part tional donation. on that engine by its first name, and There were times when Almost ap- Series began in March Railroad Man's Magazine. Single copies, 10 cents. 538 THE EVOLUTION OF " ALMOST." 539 peared hopeless. He insisted on letting a way that I knew without guessing twice an empty coal-car down from the coal- where Almost was attending night school. chute, and as a result -he built a little Less Title; More Money. church out of a flat car which was stand- ing in on the coal-chute track, about fifty Of course, it was bound to come. I yards away. couldn't stand the climate very long. Aft- Almost didn't stop at the same time the er six months as general foreman I de- gondola did. He knocked two boards cided that I would take less title and off the sand fence which stood a good more money. twenty feet from the siding. Outside of About the only thing to break the si- that he was all right, and insisted that lence at Hulbrook was the sound of Jed " he almost had it stopped when it hit." Latroupe's wooden leg pecking along the There was one great thing about Al- ties as he came to the station every most, when he started something he al- morning to spring an old joke of his about ways hung around for the finish. Of it ' bein' awferl dry this year,' and the course, it was up to the general foreman rumble of the trains as they passed by. and the chief clerk to make the needed I wasn't cut out for the simple life any- repairs on the gondola and the flat, so how, not for long at one time. Almost had a chance to take a lesson I wanted to get over into the train or so in box-car physiology. service, as I had had a little taste of that Knowing, as I did, that digging clink- in years past and liked it prejty well, ers from a grate, polishing wheels, and better than feeding coal to a double- banking fires, with putting in a brass doored hog, or pulling a throttle at the now and then as an extra amusement, head of a long string of empties or full wasn't exactly conducive to intellectual tonnage of loads. progress, I was rather surprised that Al- It looked as if the T. M. would never " most began to show signs of book stop off at Hulbrook, and when he did l'arnin'." come the little entertainment kept us Caught with the Goods. He was mighty careful to hide the traces, but I caught him with the goods one day, under the engine in the pit, with the time-table spread out on his oily knees, and he was spelling out the names of the stations along the pike. He had the letters down fairly well, but what he called some of those towns would have made them pretty sore if they had heard it. It wasn't more than a month after that that Almost came into the box-car office one afternoon about four o'clock and handed me the list of cars, initials, car numbers and all, the regular report I had to send into the terminal office every night. I looked it over and you could really read the thing. Of course, I didn't want to embarrass the boy, so I just thanked him as if he was in the habit of doing it every clay. From that day on he did, which left me nothing to do but let my salary accu- mulate, and look out for Almost. Finally Maggie Mahorney informed me t hat Almost was taking a daily newspaper from Albuquerque. She said it in such ! 540 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. so busy that I forgot about hitting him J. K. suggested that we advise the ter- for a job. minal office, and Almost again 'lowed as It was along in the afternoon, when how about the only thing down that way every one in Hul brook took their " shut- what would burn was that stock-train eye." An extra stock - train pulled up which had pulled out about twenty min- at the station for orders against the pas- utes before. " senger-train, and J. K.—we all called Then we'll order the wrecker from the trainmaster J. K. when we didn't Winslow," remarked the trainmaster and call him something else—dropped off the began to write out a message using -the caboose and wandered up to the station. side of the box-car station as a desk. But Almpst had not been watching the An Air of Industry. red ball freight and the varnished wag- ons roll by, day after day, longing to be Jed Latroupe was whittling on his out on top of the string, swinging a high wooden leg, and I saw the old man com- ball, or wishing that he was the man on ing, so I got busy making out a bogus re- the rear platform with the blue uniform port. An air of industry around a station and the brass buttons, to let such an carries a lot of weight with an official. opportunity as this pass by without ma- The stock-train pulled out, and J, K. king an effort to land. remained to take up a few little matters of business, including an investigation of Getting in Line. the accident at the coal-chute when Al- most went coasting in the empty gondola, He couples into the trainmaster with I told J. K. just how it was, and he told the suggestion that the wrecker would be Almost just how it was, and assessed a long time getting over from Winslow, fifteen brownies against his personal and there was a pusher engine down on record. As fifteen brownies didn't de- the pit track, an old derrick on the spur, crease his pay a bit, Almost stood for and two full water-cars near the coal- it, and went back to his stall in Jed chute. It would only be a matter of Latroupe's livery - stable to change his switching them out and hitting the grit, clothes—for Almost had two suits now, to get over there. one suit of overalls, and another of hand- If the fire was nothing to mention, then me-downs from Albuquerque, which he there Avas no harm done. If it was a insisted on wearing every Sunday whether wreck, and a string burning up, then, we had company or not. after all, haste was the first demand. J. K. fell for it. Almost put himself The Cry of " Fire in motion toward Jed Latroupe's livery- barn, where the helper crew had just About fifteen minutes later, Almost turned in for a little shut-eye. came rushing into the box car puffing like In five minutes they were down on the an engine on a heavy grade. engine, which still had a fair head of " Somethin's on fire over yonder," he steam, and then with me in the role of exclaimed. engine boss, with J. K. and Almost Avork- And of course, realizing that a fire in ing the field, we switched out the cars a place where water don't grow is a we wanted. Then we went it wild for mighty serious thing, J. K. and I did a the cloud of smoke, leaving word with * handicap free-for-all for the door. It was the station-agent to hold the board on a dead heat and we jammed. everything until we' got back. When we finally got out on the plat- form, a couple of miles down the track At the Scene. and around a curve, we could see a big bank of grayish smoke rolling up. It " Smoke " Kelley had the throttle on looked as if it might be the bridge over that old teapot, and according to Al- the Little Colorado, but Almost 'lowed most " he shore did crack the whip with as how the only thing on the bridge that them four cars." could burn was the ties, and that there The closer we got to the smoke the was too much smoke for that. surer we w'ere that it wasn't a barbecue " THE EVOLUTION OF "ALMOST." 541 or an Old Settlers' picnic, and when we " came around the Aztec curve, " Smoke threw the big hole into them and even then we only stopped a few inches back of the dog-house. Of course, the first move we made was to see how many of the crew was in sight. " Humpy Jamison, with one side of his face hanging in ribbons, came running back toward us, as we hastened ahead. It wasn't the Lit- tle Colorado bridge that had burned out, but it was a wooden trestle over one of those cracks in the ground which you find all over Arizona. Some of them you can jump across, but they will be as much as fifty feet deep. This one was about eighteen feet across and forty deep. Jamison went the air route, and landed on his face on the other side of the canon. His fireman beat it to the brush be- fore they went in, and was all to the good, but OUTSIDE OF THAT, RIGHT. the head shack didn't HE WAS ALL clear the wreckage, and Avas pinned under a car. They had got htm free of the wreck- But then that has nothing to do with age and had him lying back on the desert. the 1 178 report. Just about as fast as men The rear brakeman was all to the good, ever worked, Kelley drifted into the rear except that when Jamison threw the air of the string, coupled onto the caboose, into them, the brakeman tried to butt the and we cut the string off behind the cars front end of the cupola away, and really that were derailed and pulled all those did a good job of it too —laying his head that were on the track back about a mile. -open for a few inches or more. In the meantime, a terrier digging af- But they were all alive and kicking ter a rat could not have been more busy except the captain of the ship, Jimmy than Almost. He had grabbed an ax, and Bailey. He was missing. The rear the way he was making holes in those shack said that the last he saw of him stock-cars, and the way the sheep were he was coming over the string toward the coming through those holes—well, it was dog-house, about midway of the train. really good to see, except that the fire kept No, I don't care for any more mutton. coming back toward him and he kept Not since that day, and every time I hear working closer to the fire. the ba-ba it gives me a spell of chills. Five cars of mutton went into that ditch He Was Heat-Proof. with the engine, and they took fire, three more cars turned over and two others were I suppose living in Arizona most all derailed, and if a-human being can pro- his life made him heat-proof, for I know duce a more agonizing cry than some of I tried to get in and help him a little those sheep did— well, just count me out. and couldn't stand it. If some one sue- 542 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. ceeds in convincing me that Hades is just a little, and twice more he swung that half as hot as that place was, I'm going ax, dropped it, bent over, and when he to be an awful good boy all my life. straightened up, his clothes burst into Heroism is all right in its place, but I flame, and — so help me ! he had Jim- never could see the virtue of risking your my Bailey's body in his arms. one life, er—for sheep, say—so I began to yell at Almost to climb out of it. J. K A Fast Ride. came running over and helped me cuss the idiot. He climbed out of that mess, staggered Then Jamison came up, and the rear from one piece of wreckage to another, shack would have been there too, if we and fell his length in our direction. hadn't sent him over to see how the other Jamison, J. K., and myself reached brakeman was making it out there under them in a jump. Jamison grabbed Bailey's the shade of a cactus. Almost didn't body ai\d dragged it out to the side of the even look up. track, while J. , K. and I beat the fire He was chopping away like a man gone which was eating the boy's clothes. wild. I was sure that he had suddenly Bailey's left 'arm told the story. lost what little sense he had; in fact, I It had been pinned in the wreckage was ready to admit right there that he had so that it was held fast, and the only way had none to begin with. that Almost could ' get him free was to His hat was gone, his brick - colored cut it off. Those last two blows had done hair was singed, you could see the blisters the work. raising on his face, the fire was leaping Conductor Bailey still has one arm and about him, the inhuman screaming of the a mighty good body, which he says he sheep penned in the burning cars, wreck- owes to Almost, but just how completely age and blood every place, and him stand- he owes it to Almost no one knows any ing there like a fool boy on the burning better than I do. deck eating peanuts. I've ridden a few fast ones in my time. Then I started up after him, but it There was the time Skinny Farris took wasn't any use. Now, I don't claim to be me from Torreon to Jimulco, there was the real hero, but no one ever accused me the time Paxton rolled me down the big of having yellow stripes along my spine. divide when Ave expected the crown-sheet to drop every minute, but I never rode Almost Is Busy. quite as fast as " Smoke " Kelley pulled us that evening in the dusk from the I've helped pick them up in baskets wreck to the terminal and the nearest and off of boiler-heads. I've faced, the surgeon. big works a couple of times myself and That night Bailey and Almost occu- didn't let out a whimper, but to see Al- pied neighboring cots in the hospital- most up there, cutting kindling wood with ward and it looked for a time as if neither an ax, while he was literally burning one of them was going to have much use alive ! Well, I guess there were a couple for ozone before long. Almost came out " of other fellows who said : Now I lay of it first. me down to sleep," and wasn't ashamed of it either. In the Hospital. He seemed to be cutting a little hole in between two cars which had telescoped. The trainmaster was there, so was the We finally couldn't see him more than doctor, and they let me hang around, half the time for the smoke and the fire. seeing as how I got hostile when they Finally he stepped down into the hole tried to put me out. Almost came to he had cut. I saw him grab a brake-rod his senses, and raised" a bandaged arm to and bend it back out of his way and the a more bandaged head and asfted, "Where thing was so hot you could see the smoke am I at?" from his burned hands when he took hold " You're in the hospital, young man, of it. and you want to keep real quiet for a time. Once down in the hole to his waist, We'll take those bandages off your eyes he shoved aside a board and bent over the first thing in the morning." THE EVOLUTION OF "ALMOST." 543 Then the details must have come back and Jed once I told it four hundred and to him. He let out a sickening groan, eighty-seven times, but before I started in the kind a fellow gives up when he lays on them I hunted up Maggie Mahorney, down to die and knows he's been a big and while we sat in her little 'dobe room failure. I told her the story, and Almost didn't " Oh, yes," he says, " I almost got lose anything on account of me being his him." John Alden " either. '•' I ALMOST GOT HIM." " " Almost got him? chuckled J. K. in Of course, the story got out among the the boy's ear, or right near where his boys. You might hide a candle under a ear ought to be. "Almost what?—you basket but it won't cover a burning train. sure got him, boy. He's here in the hos- And when they got wise to the real dope, pital with you." there was nothing to it but a medal for "That'll help a little," replied Al- Almost. most, and a few minutes later he drifted I wondered what he would do with a off into a troubled sleep. medal in Hulbrook where there was no one to see it, but the boys thought that Whittled in Two. was the thing to do, and as they didn't consult me they went ahead and did it. They both got well'. Of course, the They sent to' Albuquerque and had a sure next day I had to hurry back to Hul- enough gold medal, with a blue ribbon brook, for the general foreman and the on it and a nice epitaph inscribed. chief clerk couldn't be away at the same time, and when I got back there I found On a Strike. the town all but gone to the bad. The post-office had been closed ever Maybe it wasn't an epitaph, but it was since the news became known. Jed La- something of that kind. In the mean- - troupe had whittled on his wooden leg time I got hold of the trainmaster, told until he whittled it plumb in two. him that every night I thought I heard If I told that story to the station-agent sheep howling down at Hulbrook and my : : : —! 541 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. nervous system wouldn't stand the strain, ers fer your railroad, an' tryin' ter earn and suggested that I quit and that he use them forty-five pesos every month, but his influence to get Almost the job as I'll be durned if l'm-going ter trot around general foreman. that town a wearin' a breastpin like this," He said he would do it. I quit and and he produced the medal. they sent another man down there to fill I talked it over 'with Almost, and it in until Almost grew a new crop of skin. seems as if he really wanted a badge, but Well, there was a tangle in the red he wanted a stinger's badge—he wanted tape some place, and before they got to be a real shack. He wanted the priv- around, to making Almost general fore- ilege of eating cinders on the smoky end, man he went out on a strike. When he chewing sand on the desert, and digging went back to w@rk as chief clerk and for switches in four feet of snow. ex-officio guardian of Uncle Sam's post- That's all the reward he wanted, and office, the boys sent a delegation down to he did want that powerfully bad. I sug- present the gold trimmin's. gested that perhaps Maggie Mahorney The very next day he came into the would like to have the breastpin, and I terminal, hunted me up, and I was advised guaranteed to get him the brakeman's of the wherefore and why of the strike badge, a switch-key, and a lantern, for I at Hulbrook. Taking Almost's own words knew how the trainmaster felt about the it was after this fashion ungainly chief clerk at Hulbrook, and " Now, Mr. Thomas, I don't mind as this proved almost satisfactory to all cleanin' ash-pans, and diggin' out clink- concerned the strike was declared settled. In the final instalment of the story of "Almost," next month, Mr. Herr tells how he earned the right to sign orders. SI GNAL-SERVI GE. (Read the foot-notes for the last line of each verse.) TIME-table! Terrible and hard Heck Junction—Here she comes! Fft! To figure! At some station Whiz! lonely A scurry—and the train has flitted We see this sign upon /the card: Again we look. We find it—viz. ' * H < Civ eye We read thee wrong; the untrained Through hieroglj'phic seas we wade Does not see always witli precision. Print it so cold and so unfeeling. thought travel The train we to by The train we wait at Neverglade y% ir Again, undaunted, we look at hungrily the sheet scan. The hieroglyphs, and as a rule a Now we with travel, thirsty, weary, Small double dagger shows us that Grimy And then nothing is sadder than t — And when we take a certain line On Tues., Wednes., Thurs., Fri., Yet, cursed as is every sign, Sat., or Monday, The cussedest that we can emote is We're certain to detect the sign This treacherous and deadly line 2 *** • Train 20 : Stops on signal only. || Trains does not stop where time omitted. tSuns only on Northwest Division. 11 Connects with C. and T. at Wheeling, t Train does not stop at Ashtabula. No diner on till after Erie. § $10 extra fare excepting Sunday. «*« Subject to change without our notice. —Franklin P. Adams, in Everybody's Magazine. n n9n 4 yyjiffl «UJSv Recent Railroad Patents. BY FORREST G. SMITH. It Is Apparently Such Little Things as These That Have Made the Railroads of the United States and Canada the Wonders of Industry. EQUAL BRAKE -PRESSURE.— As a result, the wheels of a heavily loaded Oue of the greatest difficulties experienced car will be nearer their respective brake- in the operation of trains, and particularly shoes than the wheels of an " empty," and as freight-trains, is the equalization of the the pressure exerted by the brake-shoes in- brake-pressure on the wheels. In order to creases in ratio to the approach of the wheels simultaneously apply the brakes to the to the shoes, greater braking pressure will wheels of every car of the train, it is custom- be applied to the wheels of the heavily loaded ary to maintain an air-pressure of about cars than to the wheels of the " empties," se- twenty pounds to the square inch throughout curing the above-mentioned result the entire brake system, and when the brakes are operated this pressure is exerted equally against the wheels of empty cars as well as AIR-BRAKE RELEASE. - W h e n against the wheels of heavily loaded cars, the brake mechanism of any car of a train which vary greatly in weight, according to becomes inoperative, the train is stopped and the character of the load carried. one of the trainmen must crawl beneath the This pressure, applied to the wheels of an car and cut out the brakes of that particular unloaded car, will stop the wheels entirely, car. This method results in the loss of and cause them to skid on the rails. It will considerable time, to say nothing of the dan- not only wear flat places on the wheels, but ger involved. will cause the cars of the train to bump To obviate this disadvantage, Simon P. against each other, which is very damaging Cota. of Dickinson. North Dakota, has pat- to the draft-rigging, as well as lo the body- ented, No. 943.769, December 21, 1909, a re- structure of the cars. lease for air-brake apparatus, which may be To overcome this disadvantage of the ordi- operated from within the car to which it is nary brake-systems, Frank D. Thomason, of applied. Chicago, has patented. No. 944,058, Decem- The device is embodied in a valve which ber 31, 1909, a brake-equalizing mechanism, is interposed in a branch pipe leading from which is so constructed that the weight of the train-pipe to the brake-cylinder, and the each car of a train will result in the wheels stem of this valve projects up through the of its trucks being moved toward their re- floor of the car a short distance, so that it spective brake-shoes a distance or degree may be opened or closed from within the proportionate to the weight of the car. car. 11 RR 545 546 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. As the" valve-stem is turned to close the of the casing for the switch, in order to valve, an exhaust valve for the auxiliary adapt it to a right or left hand curve, as the cylinder is opened at the same time, so as to case may be. relieve this cylinder of pressure. It can be disposed between the said mem- ber and a bracket upon another wall of the casing to obtain the opposite result. "- STREET «». • V- CONTROL FOR .. j^X / CARS.—A novel brake-control system for RAILS.-Devices for " pay-as-you-enter " cars is shown in a pat- CREEPING preventing the creeping of railroad rails ent. No. 945.964, January II, 1910. issued to have usually been embodied in clamps or Frederick H, Lincoln, of Philadelphia. As plates similar to the ordinary tie-plate, but it is customary in this class of cars to keep such devices are generally too expensive for the doors closed when the car is in motion, extensive use. and only open them to allow passengers to One of the simplest means yet devised for enter or leave the car. this system will pre- this purpose is shown in a patent, No. 946,411. vent numerous accidents which might other- January 11, 1910. issued to Edward T. Train- wise occur. er, of Portsmouth. Ohio. Mr.. Trainer forms Motormen on such cars have acquired the in the base-flanges of the ordinary rail, at habit of first starting their car and then the proper points, openings for the passage closing the door, and it not infrequently of spikes of "the ordinary construction, and happens that just at this moment a person through these openings are driven extra will attempt to either leave or board the spikes, which serve to hold the rails in fixed car, forgetting that no foothold is afforded relation to the ties upon which they are when the door is closed or partly closed. supported. Conductors on such cars, due, we must say, The ordinary spikes are also, preferably, to the necessity of taking on and discharg- employed, although their- use is not abso- ing passengers as rapidly as possible, have lutely necessary. become careless in guarding the exit doors so that persons may leave by these doors while the car is in motion. TUBES.-Now that sub- The system of control devised by Mr. SMALLER Avays are coming into general use, improve- Lincoln, while electrical in its nature, is ments are being made which tend to cut very simple, and renders it absolutely im- down the initial expense of the construction possible for the motorman to start his car of the way itself. while any of the doors - are open. As there To lessen the height of the tunnel on even are exceptions to all rules, however, a switch a short road, would mean an enormous sa- provided which may be thrown, in case is ving. Antoine B. du Pont, of Cleveland, of emergency, to permit of the car -being Ohio, has managed to accomplish this result started while the doors are open. without a counter-expense. It is true that he contemplates a change in the construction of the cars used on suc"h lines, but the EASY SWITCHING — A decidedly change does not mean an increase in the cost advantageous switch construction is shown of manufacture of the cars. in a patent. No. 946,391, January 11, 1910, The car devised by Mr. du Pont is of the issued to Archie K. Murray, of Johnstown, ordinary construction, except that the trucks Pennsylvania. It has been adopted by one are located beyond, the ends of the car in- of the largest switch manufacturing com- stead of beneath the car, as is customary. panies in this country. In other words, the car-body is supported As is well known, right and left hand near the ground between two, trucks located switches differ materially in construction, the one at each end of the body, and, as a result, parts in one arranged the reverse to the the height of the car is"- reduced to a degree parts in the other. Consequently, two sets equal to the height of the trucks usually of castings must be made. employed. patent, how- Tn the switch disclosed in this J* ever, this is obviated, and a single casting of each part is all that is necessary to con- CAR- TRUCK FRAME.—A radi struct either a right or a left hand switch. cal departure in the construction of car- Tn this switch construction, the switch-rod trucks is disclosed in a patent, No. 944,820, carries a member which may be reversed, December 28, 1909, issued to Theodore W. ami the spring for normally holding the Remmers, of St. Louis. In this truck, the switch in one position or the other may be connection between the journal-boxes at disposed between this member and one wall each side of the truck is in the form of a RECENT RAILROAD PATENTS. 547 frame above which the bolsters of the truck of their way and test it thoroughly. If it are positioned. On the journal-boxes are does the work better than present devices formed guides, in which the ends of the and is not too expensive, you will find no bolsters are guided. trouble in disposing of the rights. If this Springs are arranged between the bolsters method proves too costly, a small working and the frame connecting the journal-boxes, model placed with a large railway company and serve to support the bolsters in the usual will probably do the work equally as well. manner. As a result of this arrangement, (2.) There are numerous agencies of this the bolsters are prevented from moving in character now in existence, and many to the a- direction lengthwise of the car, and are sorrow of the inventor. The usual scheme guided in their up-and-down movement, due is to collect a certain sum for advertising, to the yield of the springs, in a true vertical which may or may not be given, depending direction. upon the reliability of the concern. In any event, the chief motive is to get the money for either newspaper or correspondence ad- In a switch-point SWITCH PIVOT.— vertising, neither of which are of any avail pivot, the principal wear is at the pivot and to the inventor of railway appliances. The on under side the of the switch-point or method mentioned above, with a few excep- tongue. Heretofore, it has been difficult to tions, is the best and only reliable one to take up this wear, except by tightening the follow. pivot, which, as a matter of fact, only com- pensates for the wear of the under side of the tongue. HR.' R.— Is it advisable for a patentee A switch-manufacturing company has • in this country to apply for patents adopted a patent, No. 946,349, January tx, in all foreign countries? 1910, issued to Heenan S. Goughnour, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which covers a No. The general rule in such matters is switch construction in which the wear of to apply only in the countries in which the both of these parts is automatically taken up. device is liable to be in actual demand. Fur- In this switch there is a tapered projec- thermore, devices which would be useful in tion on the floor of the switch, which fits into railroading in this country would be worth- a similarly formed recess in the butt end of less, as a rule, in other countries. Of course, the switch-tongue, but this recess is of a there are exceptions, but they are few, and depth greater than the height of the projec- definite advice can only be given regarding tion, so that, as the pivot wears, the tongue specific questions in this line. settles and the wear is taken up. It will be understood, of course, that the J* projection and the recess in which it is re- The Patent ceived affords the pivot for the tongue. SB.— Office procedure is as • follows : Applications for a patent must be made in writing to the Com- ANSWERS TO PATENT PROB- missioner of Patents. The applicant must also file in the Patent Office a written de- LEMS. scription of the invention or discovery, and of the manner and process of making, con- Every reader who has a problem relating to structing, compounding, and using it, in such patents is welcome to the services of this de- full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to partment, and a letter addressed to Mr. Forrest enable any person skilled in the art or science G. Smith, or to the editor, will receive atten- to which it appertains, or with which it is tion as early as possible. most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same ; and in case of a machine, he must explain the principle Cleveland, Ohio— (1) How FR. S., thereof, and the best mode in which he has • should an inventor proceed in dis- contemplated applying that principle, so as posing of his patent on a railroad device? to distinguish it from other inventions, and (2.) Is it advisable to place a patent for particularly point out and distinctly claim sale with a patent selling agency? the part, improvement, or combination which he claims as his invention or discovery. The ( 1.) The best method is to have some com- specification and claim must be sighed by pany place the device in use on a short line the inventor and attested by two witnesses. Sum men wil sleep w'en-Gaybreeal blows his wissel ; tho' the boss ses I aint no aingel.—The Call Boy's Complaints. " ' STUNG ! BY HECK ! BY EMMET F. HARTE. Bub Spivens Sold the Farm to Nate Fisher and Deftly Settled an Old Grudge. INHERE ain't no gettin' " You know, when old Jed Spivens died round it," remarked Smi- last fall, aged eighty-one, without a rela- ler Tillery, local hog tive on top of the earth anywhere, he left buyer and shipper, as he a will. Squire Brown drawed it up, as > sat on a nail-keg in Scud- you all know without me tellin you ; and der & Son's store at Mud you all know, besides, that Bub, who took Lake. " Bub Spivens is a slicker. They care of the old man the last ten years or talk about us farmers bein' green, and so, and was a mighty favorite of his too, makes jokes in these here funny papers heired all old Jed had, which wasn't concernin' how we bite greedy as get out much, as it turned out. at everythin' that comes along, but none " Bub never was adopted according to " of that applies to-Bub Spivens, by jinks ! court by old Jed, but he always went by " What's Bub been up to? " asked Un- the name of Spivens, just the same. What cle Henry. Hatfield. The rest of us, in is Bub's real name, Uncle Henry?" solemn conclave assembled, waited for the " Well, now," said that old gentleman, answer. taking off his glasses that he might wipe 1 " Bub's sold his farm, ' asserted Smiler. them with his blue bandanna, " I'll have " " Sho ! to calc'late a bit. Bub's ma was orig- " " Git out ! 'nally Susy Whittington ; she married " He ain't, neither." Steve McCoy when she was sixteen, about. "Who to?" I recollect the winter they married was Whieh comments would indicate that the hardest winter we ever seed in these Bub Spivens had pulled off an event of parts. Froze ice four foot thick on the more than passing interest. river, and snow kivered all the fences. 1 " It's a fact," maintained the witness Seth—aw, what wuz his name? A'ter- stoutly. " And, what's more, he sold it to ward wuz sheriff two terms, an' .a mighty Nate Fisher, down in K. C." good one, too—Jennin's, that's it. This further insight into the subject " Seth Jennin's driv' a team o' mares he having provoked another chorus of re- had right smack over the snow-crust an' marks, incredulous and otherwise, Smiler ice on the river into Atchison, by hoky fired his last shot, which was a stunner. Thet wuz a slatherin' fine span o' mares, " to climax to the fix- too they'd be wuth, to-day— And, cap the — put ; " iri's on the whole business," he said, Yes ; but what about Bub's pa's " Bub got ten thousand dollars in cold name?" interrupted Smiler. " That was " hard cash for her. I seen and helped heft what I ast you, wasn't it ? the money." "1 wuz jest gittin' to it, blame ye!" There are occasions which cannot be said Uncle Henry testily. " When Steve met by the mere futility of enunciated McCoy died, Susy had two or three small words, and this was one of them. Smiler chillun ; but they wuz all girls, accordin' had floored the bunch. Even Uncle Hen- to my recollection. They growed up an' ry was knocked speechless, which was married. One married J edge Carter's some business, as they say in Mud Lake. second oldest boy ; one ether'n married Smiler. elated, began his story: r Art Peterson, an'—let me study! What 548 — " ! STUNG I BY HECKI 549 went with thet uther McCoy girl? Seems "As I was about to say," resumed " she died, by hoky ! I'm sure she did Smiler, what Bub heired didn't make " She died the fall we had such a slam- him rich, though old Jed was once pretty bangin' crop o' fruit ! Why, apples rotted well off, and about a week ago he took a on the trees thet year, what didn't fall off notion he'd go down to Kansas City and an' rot on the ground ; couldn't sell 'em see if he couldn't get him a job in a at no price. Charley Walker had the old wholesale house or something. Lemuel Martin place rented, an' he told " He come to me Thursday, a week me himself " ago, and wondered what chance he'd have _"Shet up, or tell who Bub's pa wuz, gettin' to go down some time on a pass if ye know," broke in Major Jeffries im- when I was shippin' a car or two o' hogs. patiently. " ' Best in the world, Bub.' I said. " by the name of Fugue or ' around Monday, and I'll fix you A man . Come Pugue moved here fr'm Kentucky," con- up. Want a pass for both ways?' He " tinued Uncle Henry, unruffled. An' allowed that he didn't ; he guessed he the follerin' year this man Pugue's cousin wasn't calculatin' on comin' back for a come out an' rented the Martin place I spell if he could find anvthing to do. wuz tellin' ye about. His name wuz '"All right,' I said; 'I believe I'll Baird. He got to comin' to see the Wid- run down myself. You come along about der McCoy thet fall, an' about Chrismus six o'clock Monday mornin', and we'll go they up an' got married. A tree fell on together.' Baird an' killed him a'terward, an' Susy " He was on hand, all right, luggjn' finally married thet good fer nothin' Bill his grip, and we piled into the caboose Dittrick. Bill Dittrick wuz as onery an and hit the trail. old slip-scutter as ever breathed—whut " ' Smiler,' he says to me, ' kind of did ye say, Smiler? Yes, thet's right. watch around after me the first hour or Bub wuz this Baird's boy— two when we get to the city to see that " " " ' ' " —" 55" THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. I don't get run over by one of these auty- it couldn't be proved on him, by hoky I mobiles or somethin'. Ye know I'm a said Uncle Henry. " Nate Fisher would mighty green customer away from home. rob his own ma an' her down bed-fast. Atchison is the biggest place I ever .was Why, I recollect once when he swin- in,' he says. dled me out of a span o' mules— " ' Don't you fret, Bub,' I told him. " Yes, Nate had a little office with a ' You'll be all right, with me to watch sign on it that said, ' Real Estate,- Loans after you. K. C. streets ain't so wide but and Insurance,' " Smiler resumed, " and what you can get across;' safe and sound.' he was standin' in the door. ' Come "Well. Bub and me got off- the train over,' he said to Bub and me. We felt down in the yards, and while they was to see if our money was safe hid in our switchin' the stock around to where they inside pockets and went over. Nate was belonged we went over to a restaurant as friendly as all get out. and got dinner. Bub left his grip there, " ' Well, well,' he went on, when we and we started out to find a boardin'- got inside and took chairs in his little house for him. He said he had about ten office. ' I ain't seen anybody from Mud dollars in money to tide him over till he Lake for a year of- Sundays. How's struck some kind of a job. everything? Still clerkin' in the store, " We looked into two or three places Smiler?' I told him I was buyin' and on the way up-town, but they didn't seem shippin' a little stock now and then. He to suit Bub for one reason or other. He allowed that was a good line of busi- allowed they were too dark and stuffy, ness. and he didn't intend to risk his health " ' How's old Jed Spivens stackin' up, Staying in no such unsanitary rookeries as Bub ? ' he ast. ' I 's'pose you an' him them. He said he'd pay five dollars a week are still operatin' the hundred and fifty before he'd do it—" - .acres down on the river ? " Thet wuz jest right, too," interrupt- " ' Jed's dead,' Bub told him. ed Uncle Henry. " Look at Mace Jor- " ' Well, well,' he said, mighty sur- dan, thet went down there to study den- prised. ' A right nice old man Jed was. t'stry. Roomed in a three-dollar-a-week You was his sole legatee, wasn't you. boardin'-house, an' come home with the Bub?' " ' consumption. Died inside o' six months How's that? ' ast Bub, puzzled. and— " ' You- heired what he had, didn't " Bub fonpd a place he liked d'rectly, you? ' and paid a dollar down to hold it till he " ' Yes, but—' brought his grip, when he was to fork " ' Sold the old farm yet, Bub?' Nate over the other two and a half. Then we broke in without waitin' for Bub to fin- went down-town to see the sights. You ish what he started to say. ought to seen Bub countin' the stories in " ' Nope,' said Bub. the tall buildin*s. He shore enjoyed 'em. " ' What'll you take for it?' Nate " ' Smiler, just think of the money it come back with. ! " ' ' took to build these here stores.' He Aw ' Bub kind of grinned. I pointed out one ten-story buildin'-, and wouldn't want to swindle— you. That said he'd pretty near bet that it hadn't there farm of mine is 1 cost a cent less than a thousand dollars " Never mind,' said Nate. ' I know to build. I just laughed at him. what she is. Of course it's run down " Just about then somebody hollered an' all that, but it's good bottom land acrost the street at us, and who'd you an' well watered, bein' on the river 1 — " ' reckon it was but Nate Fisher Yes, it is,' Bub agreed. " That low down cur," said the Major. " ' I'll give you fifty an acre for her. " That Nate Fisher skinned everybody Bub,' Nate said. ' Sight unseen, take it round here he ever had dealin's with. We or leave it. What d'ye say?' all know that he raised that note he held " 1 Aw, say, now, Nate,' Bub com- on old Jesse Winthrop fr'm a hundred menced. I saw Bub appeared to be kind dollars to nine thousand, an' made the of confused, so I butted in. — ' widder pay it " Give him time to think it over, " Yes, an' all thet saved him wuz thet Nate,' I said. ' Fifty an acre is a fair ' — : STUNG! BY HECK! 551 price, but there's lots of land round Mud ter be goin' ? We're just takin' up Nate's Lake sellin' for as high as seventy-five time for nothin'.' an acre now.' " 1 Bub, I'll give ye ten thousand dol- " ' Yes, but them kind of places has lars in cold cash for that farm,' said mighty good improvements,' he said, Nate, as we got up to go. Bub studied ' and you must remember I'm offerin' it over a minute. spot cash. I'll write you my check for " ' Have you got the actual cash here, the total amount right now. What d'ye say, V Bub?' " ' Of course,' he went on, ' it's under- stood that you can give me a —clear title to the place " ' Yes, that part's all right,' said Bub. ' I've got the will an' all the papers in my pocket right now. There they are. But—" " Nate was anx- iouser than ever when he'd looked over the will an' seen that Bub was the sole heir to the farm. ' No buts 1 goes,' he said. I won't hold this offer open, Bub. You take it now or it's all off. What do ye say? ' " ' Well, to tell the truth—-' Bub looked like he hated to tell the truth just then ' I've had a better of- fer than that, Nate, so I can't do noth- in' for you,' " i'll set up the sardines if " That s e t Nate it wasn't in yellow boys afire- right away. [and greenbacks." 'Why, I've turned / down sixty dollars' an acre for it once,' Bub went on. ' I where I can look at it? No check, you wouldn't be likely to take ten dollars know,' he said finally. " ' less'n that just 'cause it was you, would No, but you come along with me I ? ' And Bub never cracked a smile. to the bank an' I'll get it,' Nate said. " ' That stumped Nate for a minute, in You bet ye ! It won't take ten minutes. fact it stumped me. I was beginnin' to Smiler can wait here an' amuse himself suspicion that Bub was foxier than he in the office watchin' the crowd go by looked, so I kept still. Nate raised his till we come back.' bid to sixty-five but Bub didn't show " Well, in a quarter of an hour they much interest. Finally, he kind of come back with some sacks and pack- yawns and says to me ages, and 111 set up the sardines to the " ' Come on, Smiler. Hadn't we bet- crowd if it wasn't ten thousand dollars — " — ! 552 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. in yellow boys and greenbacks. Bub comments when Smiler finished.- Even had chose what he could carry handy the major unbent himself enough to ex- in gold and the rest in big bills. I had to press his satisfaction in no half-hearted heft it once in my hands just for luck, by terms, and Uncle Henry Hatfield laughed George.' It was some money. I say. until the tears dripped from his chin. " Then we went in next door to where He had once dealt with Nate Fisher in a there was one of these fellows that makes horse trade, and revenge was sweet. out deeds, and Bub signed over the farm One man in the company did not join to Nate, shook hands, and away we went in the hilarity. He was a traveling sales- with the money, all we could lug. man from Saint Jo. ' " ' Wasn't you ashamed to do it, Bub? "What is the funny part of it all?" I ast him, as soon as we'd put fifteen or this person queried. " Wasn't the farm twenty blocks between us and Nate. any' good? What the— J ' ' I would've been, if it hadn't been "Don't ye ketch on?" Uncle Henry- ' " for one thing,' he said. Once, when I said. This here farm o' Bub's wuz was a little kid, I lost a five-dollar bill swallered up in the hungry maw of the the only money I had, an' I'd been savin' Mizzoury River durin' the last two June it up by nickels an' dimes for three months rises. Ever' bit of 'thet farm is caved into to do the fair with. An' Nate Fisher th' river. Ther' ain't enough of old Jed " found it, an' kep' it. I know he found it, Spivens's place left to plant a turnip on an' I'm shore he kep' it.' "Where'd Bub go to, Smiler?" asked " ' Le's go somewheres,' he said, the major. ' " where we can buy us some dollar seegars The last I seen of him, he give me a an' hire one of these autymobiles to take hundred-dollar bill to keep to remember a ride around town in.' And that's what him by and got on the train for Seattle," " we did, you bet.'.' said Smiler. And he was togged up There* was an uproar of laughter and like a banker too, I say." EDUCATING SIGNAL-MEN. WHILE it is, perhaps, too much to say intervals, the men within reach assemble for that each successive development m general work in certain fundamental sub- the " art of signaling " demands a higher de- jects and for open discussion of their prob- gree of technical knowledge and skill on lems and the methods of solving them. the part of the average signal-man. it is Others are more in the nature of indi- true, nevertheless, that the general improve- vidual instruction, such as the examining of ments in quality and increases in quantity one man on his knowledge of a text-book of signal and interlocking apparatus occur previously given him to read, or upon the so rapidly that the signal-man's responsibili- rules of conduct in certain cases and the ties are constantly becoming greater. reasons therefor; or, perhaps, a series of The growing demand for books on signal- private lessons in a prescribed subject given ing and allied subjects, and for other means by a superior officer. of individual study, is evidence, however, In all cases the methods employed are that^he is preparing himself to meet the those best calculated to meet the existing new conditions. conditions. The comparatively large pro- Of great interest in this connection, are portions which some of the educational the methods which various signal depart- movements have attained speak well for the ments are adopting to place educational fa- signal-man's appreciation of his opportunity, cilities within reach of their members. Some and the railroad's realization of the value ••if these take the form of class instruction, of a better-equipped employee. The Signal conducted at some central point where, at Engineer. A yard engine can make a flying switch better than a mogul. Each to his job.—Remarks of a Hostler. OLD-TIMER TALES-No. 3. The Record of 999. BY REMSEN CRAWFORD. I T is seventeen years since engine 999, of the New York Central, reeled off what was then the fastest mile on record. With one exception it is still the record. We have built heavier engines, that would pull longer trains at a higher rate of speed for more hours than would the 999, but that wild dash for the world's record, has been " gone better " but once. Naturally, an engine built for speed, and made to produce it day in and day out, could not be expected to last long at that sort of work. Old 999 served her time as a thoroughbred, and dropped back to the cart-horse class for a time, finally~finding a comfortable place among the family dobbins of the rail. She is still to be found in the latter class, receiving the reward of a long and useful life. Career of the Engine that Established a New World's Record for Speed in 1893, which Has Been Beaten But Once Since That Time. LITTLE while ago I min- them had a story to tell, and they were gled with the throng of trying to talk, all at once. happy home-comers, flock- Presently, there came a distinct peal ing like migratory birds from a bell —more nervous, more earnest, from the Thousand Islands wilder than the rest. It carried the un- of the St. Lawrence River. mistakable expression of a locomotive en- The little town of Clayton, New York, tering a city after a wearisome journey, nestling close beside the upper , neck of and soon the massive form came in view Lake Ontario, was literally filled that day at the head of a train of passenger-cars, with its annual pilgrimage of summer like a black giantess with a string of toys. tourists. Nearer, clearer came the wild warning, Like a veritable army, they came on clanging tone, as the giantess pulled in lake or river craft, and crowded about the and glided to a halt alongside the plat- railroad station, clamoring for baggage- form. checks, chattering like magpies, and dri- ving the ticket-agent to madness with a Meeting an Old Friend. million questions. Out in the railroad yards the engines I began to run my eyes over the perfect were holding high carnival, their clang- form and figure of the great iron creature ing bells and coughing smoke-stacks before me, a habit I formed years ago sounding for all the world as if each of when my duties threw me with machinists Series began in the February Railroad Man's Magazine. Single Copies. (0 cents. 553 ! 554 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. and railroad experts. There was some- traffic, pulling a train of cars on the thing familiar about this colossal engine Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Di- —familiar as a letter from home. vision of the New York Central, between I was wondering where I had seen her Syracuse and Clayton. " before, when there shone forth from her Plow are the mighty fallen ! was my shielded breast that historic, magic name first thought, and I looked with a sort" of —999 sympathy upon the handsome creature, I had found an old acquaintance in the which seemed to speak like something crowd. Thirteen years ago I had been near human, with her air-pumps groaning introduced to her in Chicago by Charley and breathing as if winded and worn out Hogan, the daring engineer, who loved by the journey she had just made through her as he would his bride. Even then I the clover-covered hills of northern New had not felt as a stranger in the presence York. I wondered what had become of of 999. for who had not heard of 999, this world-famed locomotive all these re- with her record of a mile in thirty-two cent years, when nothing has been heard seconds ? of her. She it was that revolutionized railroad- ing : that set a new pace for express- JVlr. Vanderbilt's Orders. trains ; that brought Chicago nearer to New York, and became the pet of the I was anxious to get accurate, reliable plutocrats who owned her, the pride of information about her history in detail, the nation which adored her. Yes, I and determined to put myself in commu- knew every chapter of her life. nication with all those who have been her Like thousands of others, I had read keepers and her associates since she was of her birth in the smoky shops of the first led out of the West Albany shops to New York Central, in April, 1893 ; how awaken the world. she had been hailed as a creature of From W. O. Thompson, division super- destiny, fashioned as she was for the mis- intendent'*- of motive power of the New sion of mocking at all the records of York Central at Oswego; John Howard, speed; how she had gone forth, and with the superintendent at New York; and greatest ease torn these records asunder Charles H. Hogan, now division superin- on her first trip, sending word to Cornelius tendent of motive power at Buffalo, and Vanderbilt to put on the dream of his formerly her engineer, who was with her life—his twenty-hour train to Chicago. when she broke the world's record, I have I knew how she handled that train in gathered the full story of 999. the years that followed in a way to scatter Engine 999 first glided out of the rail- consternation among the Britishers, with road shops of the New York Central at their East Shore and West Shore flyers, West Albany one morning in April, 1893. by settling upon this country the cham- One of the Vanderbilts had given orders pionship of fast long-distance travel. for an engine to be made that would travel faster than anything under steam had Her Last Days. traveled. He had watched the advances in rail- I had seen her there at Chicago on ex- roading and locomotive construction in hibition, in the heyday of her triumph, England and at home. He had a keen where thousands of World's Fair visitors sense of the competition that was increas- thronged about the pedestal where she sat ing every day among the railroads of like an enthroned queen of iron, twirling America. her great drivers. I had seen her flying He had studied the nature of Americans, through country towns. and knew that they were a people of great I had seen her in the Grand Central haste and impatience, willing to take risks Station at New York, when mechanical beyond all other peoples of the world to engineers and all manner of men of con- gain a point. He knew that the compe- structive genius gathered around her for tition of great American trunk lines for study. the future was essentially a competition And here she was, at last, lost in ob- m speed. livion to the great main line current of Besides, that was the year of all years THE RECORD OF 999. 555 for the great Vanderbilt system of trans- pressure,- and the power such pressure lines' showing. It would engender. was thoroughly in- portation , to make a He was a festival year in the progress of formed as to the inward nature of this the American Republic—the year of the new departure in locomotive construction. Chicago World's Fair, the greatest ex- All that remained was for him to get the hibition of things industrial ever known. work out of 999. With a feeling of pride, he sprang into Cutting the Time to Chicago. the cab and flung himself on the seat be- side the throttle. Shining in the sun like " We must bring Chicago several hours a jewel, 999 glided as gracefully as a closer to New York." he said repeatedly sprite over the side-tracks and\onto the at meetings of the directors of the New ponderous steel rails of the main line. York Central. We have spent millions Charley Hogan touched the throttle to make the road-bed safe and sound. again, and the massive engine bounded What we want now is an engine that will forward, sensitive as a lender colt under go the gait. the lash. On and on she sped at a swift " Have one built at any cost. Put clip, each time smarting under a pull at drivers on her big enough to cover a good the throttle, and hissing like a wild pan- jump at every stroke of the piston-rod, ther with each flush of steam. and put enough steam into her cylinders Now and then Hogan closed the throt- to keep those drivers busy." tle by degrees, and saw that 999 slackened The order went to the master mechan- her speed quite as obediently as she had ics, and they set to work. The outcome picked it up when the throttle was opened. was 999, a greyhound of iron. He tested her brakes time and again, and When she rolled out of the West Al- saw that they would warrant him in ta- bany shops that April morning, Charley king the bridle off if he chose, but Hogan Hogan was there to take her in hand. He didn't choose to that day. was an experienced engineer, a man of nerve and determination, whose whole The Real Thing. life centered in his work, and who, on many occasions, had shown himself ready His stop-watch had told him that 999 when danger lurked about his path of was already a record - breaker, and he ' duty. wanted to hare something up his sleeve " Take that engine and break the in the way of a surprise when the time world's record," was the order Hogan came fur him to make the real public run. received. He did not 'get all out of her that he " Give her to me just one day ahead of knew to be in her on that trial trip; but the test," he replied. " I want to take her when he took her to the. roundhouse at for a gallop all on the quiet, just to see Syracuse, that night, he had established how she behaves herself." a record in her- favor of one hundred and two miles an hour, and he knew by the " " A Warming-Up Canter. way he saw her bound ahead at the slight- est touch of the throttle that she would go He was told to take 999 for as long a faster. time as he wanted to make the tests prior It was on May 11, 1S93, that the real to putting her on record publicly. So test came—a race against every locomo- the first day out was all for Charley tive engine on the face of the. earth. Char- H Oman's personal benefit and satisfaction. ley Hogan was ordered to take 999 to Hogan looked at the great driving- Syracuse, meet the Empire State Express wheels, taller than himself, and knew that there, couple onto the train, and take it with their seven-foot diameter they would to Buffalo as fast as he could. cover twenty-two feet of rail at every By this time it was generally known stroke from the cylinders. He examined that this new engine was out for the all the machinery and gear, and noted scalps of every engine in service. Specu- wherein it differed from other engines he lation ran high in railroad circles as to had ridden. whether the locomotive could do what had He knew the laws regulating steam been mapped out for her. 556 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Hogan had kept his little joke all to a meeting.^and waited for the news from " himself. He knew that 999 could de- 999. When it came, they voted to put on liver the goods." the twenty-hour tram between New York He played with her a trifle after the and Chicago. They also determined to city of Syracuse was behind him, just to put 999 on exhibit at the World's Fair, see if she was in the same humor as»when and Charley Hogan was sent along with he first tried her out. He saw that she her. was. If anything, she seemed all the The engine and her master were greet- more anxious to be turned loose, but Ho- ed there by thousands, and 999 became al- gan held her down to an easy gait, and most a household word. She had estab- made Rochester on the minute. lished a gait of 112.2 miles an hour, which had never been dreamed of, and which has A New World's Record. been excelled but once since* when the Philadelphia and^ Reading ran a train 4.8 He knew his road-bed better between miles in two minutes and thirty seconds Rochester and Buffalo. He gave the near Egg Harbor, Pennsylvania, in July, throttle a nice little squeeze, and 999 1904, which is equal to 115.20 miles an sprang forward like a nimble horse. Ap- hour. proaching the town of Batavia, she was Afterward, 999 was brought back East rushing along at an easy gait. and put in service as the star engine of Hogan touched the throttle again, and the Empire State Express, Charley Ho- held his hand there while he watched his gan still at the throttle. On various occa- timepiece. Then it was that 999 shook sions he turned her loose, each time show- herself with a tremble as a racehorse does ing that she was true to the record she when a jockey digs the spurs into its had set. flanks, gave the cars a suggestive jerk, Her service for several years also and settled down in earnest. proved that the public notion that she She equaled the world's record with was built as an advertisement only was great ease, making a mile in thirty-five false. The engine did excellent service seconds; and Charley Hogan looked at in pulling with safety and at great speed the fireman and smiled. He pulled again heavy trains of cars on both- the New at the throttle, and murmured to himself : York and the Buffalo divisions of the line. " Now, then, we'll go after that record, and set a new pace for the world." Hauling a Milk-Train. This seemed to be what 999 had longed for all the time, for never before had Ho- As travel increased, however, the de- gan pulled his throttle wide. Her great mand for a more powerful engine grew, drivers sped round beneath her with mar- and the type now in use for pulling the velous rapidity, each tune they turned Empire State Express is much heavier, throwing the great mass of iron twenty- much stronger, and also very speedy, two feet forward. Charley Hogan was though the record of _999 has never been all eyes then, for he had to keep a view equaled by any of the newcomers. of the track ahead and watch his time- Strange as it may appear, neither of her piece too. The other timekeepers on the twin sisters, 8SS and 777, equaled the train were all busy with their watches. speed test that 999 bore so easily; and Telegraph-poles multiplied in Hogan's equally strange it is that, although Ar- vision as they had never multiplied be- chie Buchanan, Ed Chase, and half a fore. With a buzzing of air, the engineer dozen other crack engineers have han- vaguely saw the mile - post ahead, and dled 999, she has never consented to show fixed his eyes upon his watch. The mile her speed with them at the throttle as she had been covered in thirty-two seconds. did to Charley Hogan. The world's record had been beaten for After she had been replaced by stron- a single mile by three seconds, and Hogan ger locomotives on the main line, 999 was sped on at the same gait to Crittenden, put to hauling a milk-train. In this ludi- many miles farther. crous role, she became tjhe target for the That very day the executive committee bright and witty fellows of the press, and of the New York Central Railroad held one of them printed a very pathetic in- THE RECORD OF 999. 557 terview with the old engine, which he handles the train in a highly successful said she gave him on a side-track in the manner. The engine is practically the freight-yards of the New York Central. same now that she was when she made her Her wheels were cut down from eighty- record-breaking run, except that she has four to seventy inches, and she was sent a little smaller driver and a new boiler. to the R., W. and O. Division for use. Charley Hogan, her favorite engineer, Division Superintendent of Motive-Power has been promoted to division superintend- W. O. Thompson thought too much of ent of tlie Buffalo Division of the New her to give her an ordinary task, and she York Central, with headquarters at De- is now pulling what is known as the Syra- pew, New York. He frequently gets let- cuse and Clayton Club train, which is ters from all parts of the world asking ordinarily composed of a buffet-car. three him about 999, and how he felt when she parlor-cars, and two first-class coaches. took him over that mile in thirty-two sec- The schedule puts a speed on her of onds : but Hogan is a modest man, and about forty-five miles an hour, and she hardlv ever talks about the incident. PRIZES FOR APPRENTICES. Grand Trunk Shows How It Appreciates the Motive Power of a Special Reward for Superior Work. THE winning of a prize, however small, prizes as stated above, there is a capital prize has a fascination and stimulus entirely offered of $25 for each subject. This is com- out of proportion to the value of the reward. peted for by the apprentices obtaining the " There is a sort of " glory of conquest in highest averages in drawing and practical bedting everybody else to a fixed goal that mechanics at their respective stations. appeals to human nature, especially to the " These apprentices are given a trip to young. The Grand Trunk Railway takes ad-' some point on the system where the final vantage of this instinct among its appren- examinations are held, and the one receiving tices. Every year, in every shop, it offers the highest number of points in each subject prizes for excellence, says The Railway and receives the amount stated. ' " Engin eetfrig Review This, added to what he has received at " The annual competitive examinations is his station, will make a total' of $29, $33, or always conducted by the company's chief $58. if he has been successful in all subjects. draftsman from Montreal, and has just been " After the season has closed, the boys at completed at all the large shops along the some of the large shops hold what is termed system. Prizes arc awarded to the appren- " apprentice night.' This is the social event tices obtaining the highest average in their of the season. Each one makes a drawing, respective years. which is neatly gotten up and inked in. " These prizes amount to $40 for each shop, " This is placed on exhibition, and the and arc distributed over the different years prizes are awarded for each year of appren- of apprenticeship, thus : The apprentice ob- ticeship. These prizes amount to $2.50 for taining the highest average for his first year the first prize, and $1.50 for the second prize. in mechanical drawing gets $4; the highest " There are also prizes offered for special in practical mechanics $4 also. So it is possi- colored drawings amounting to $3 for first ble for one apprentice to obtain both prizes. prize, and $1.50 for second prize. This may "A keen interest is taken in this examina- be competed for by any apprentice, irre- tion, which takes the form of a contest be- - spective of his year, and considerable interest tween the various shops. In addition to the is manifested by those of artistic ability." : ALWAYS A RAILROAD MAN. BY E. A. SPEARS. An Old Eagle-Eye Talks Aboyt Business Systems in Railroading and Why It Is Hard to Quit When Once You Have Eaten Cinders. ' ' np HEY.'VE got railroad bookkeeping up from the bottom and has a deep- regard -I- down to a fine point." said an old for every man on the road. Any man with eagle-eye. " For example, ' they can turn a grievance can carry jt straight to Brown to their records and learn just what an en- and he will listen. gine has cost to rim, and how much the " The men would do anything for Brown. engine has earned. It makes all the difference in the world " If my engine needs a flag, I am ordered how the boss stands with you. While I to get it, and it is charged up against the was working on another road, there was engine, and the company knows that I got one boss we all liked. When he asked us it. They know how long it takes for an to do anything, we did it speedily and cheer- engine to earn back what it costs. They fully. But the other fellow 'would try to can figure out how much a depot is worth, boss us about as though we were slaves. and when they build a new depot they know " When he was out of sight, we'd loaf. how long it will be before they get back When I got ready to quit, I quit gladly. what they have spent. " Speaking about quitting, a whole lot of " In old days, if a car jumped the track, railroad men are just ready to q'iiit. They the crew would lay it to the bad road-bed, keep .saying, ' Well, I'm going to quit.' But and this department would lay it to the they never do. There's something fasci- crew. To-day it is different. There is nating about railroading. You come home more team work and a greater desire to dead tired and swear that you'll never go help one another. back again, but there you are,~just as sure " Now, according to the rules, a brake- as fate. An engineer I know says that man is not supposed to shovel coal for a every trip will be his last, but it isn't. fireman ana a fireman is not supposed to " I said once to a fireman who was talk- disconnect an engine for a brakeman. when ing about quitting: " water is being taken, but in an emergency, the ' Why, man, you're earning four or five brakeman is doing the proper thing if he dollars a day. What would you do if you helps the fireman to shovel down coal in quit—you are too old to learn anything the tender. One trainman I know was else?' fired because he delayed a train twenty- "He said: 'Well, I guess I can do car- five minutes by just such a refusal. He pentry, just as I did before I came on the wasn't cooperating. road.' "Speaking about cooperating, did you " He thinks he could, but he couldn't. ever read a statement on the subject, post- He has forgotten a lot of carpentry, and, ed in the various roundhouses and depots besides, he would be twenty years behind on the New York Central ? President the times, n Brown is full of the idea. It isn't just talk, " I know a conductor who got fired. He but he means what he says. He is one of was earning good money, but now he is the friendliest of men you ever knew. cleaning streets. Another man works in " We railroad men would be sitting a brewery. Another works about a hotel, around and Brown would come walking in. and I know quite a number that have jobs Everybody would be quiet as a mouse. which pay about a third what they got on Brown would say the road. They left too old to learn some- '" ' You needn't be afraid of me, boys,' thing that paid as well as railroading, and then fie would commence to talk in a " If they have saved, they may start a friendly manner. Before long he would small business, but they will not be up-to- get deep into the subject of railroading, date in that business. Railroading is hard and he would tell what the road is trying work. It pays well, and there is something to do. about it that makes it hard to cut loose " When he gets interested, he almost from it. Once a railroad man, always a cries. Every one likes Brown. He worked railroad man." 558 — " BREAKING THE COMBINE. BY WILLIAM S WRIGHT. When Men Are Bound Together for No Good Purpose, It Is Well To Interfere. CHAPTER V. " We get all the news that" we want," snapped Ely, " and — I don't think we Greek Meets Greek. want any advice on the subject. As a, committee of ways and means, this crowd, BOUT ten minutes later the up to date, is satisfied with itself and its fire gong clanged. To methods of doing things. Give-me three Leigh's astonishment, no cards, Cronson." man rose to ascertain " Keep your hat on, Ely," remarked the location of the fire Allen. " You forget that Billy's a stran- by consulting the signal- ger to us, and that in consequence he's got book. " Four—nine—three," he said, as a right to ask questions. As a matter of the gong beat out the signal-numbers for fact, we do let a bunch of news give us the the third time. "If I recollect aright, go-by every day, just because we're too that's at Atwood and River Streets— tene- lazy or dopey to grab it." - " " ment house district, with the Folsbee Keno ! howled Griggs, suddenly paint-factory in the middle of it." And awakening and as suddenly going to he reached for his hat. sleep again. "Where are you going?" cried Hal- " Griggs and Allen seem to think that ' stead. . they're on space,' like Leigh is," said Ely " To see what the fire amounts to," said maliciously. Leigh curtly. Allen flushed. " If I were, maybe I'd " Aw. sit down," laughed the other, make you make a bluff at earning your " and get used to the ways of this crowd. living," he retorted. " It isn't by reason We don't go out on first-alarm fires of your society being so everlastingly fas- only third alarms." cinating, Ely. that I'm found in it for "'But," asked Leigh, "suppose things some hours daily. It's only because— " break loose on your first alarm— as they're Oh, stop growling, you two," inter- " likely to—what then? Some of these posed Halstead, or have it out when the dinky little fires give up the most news." game's finished. Your ante, Bronson." " We hear of them through police head- The men subsided as bidden, and Leigh quarters, or somebody calls us up from again moved toward the door. the precinct station-house, or, if an am- "Hold -on a minute: Billy; I'll go " bulance has been wanted, the hospital doc- with you," said Allen suddenly.— " And tors usually give us the tip over the tele- —he glanced at Griggs " I think a walk " phone," explained Ely. would do him good, too, eh? " Easy times you must have," remarked Leigh assented. Griggs was protest- Leigh tentatively. ingly hoisted to his feet, his face swabbed " Sure thing," said Ely. " Else, what's with a towel dipped in ice-water, and, " the use of a ' combine ' ? after a brief struggle—during which Al- Leigh looked doubtfully at the speak- len administered what he described as the er. " You must miss a whole lot of good " facial percussion treatment " with the stuff, waiting for news instead of hustling flat of his huge hands—Griggs departed for it." he said. peacefully with the others. Be»»n In the March Railroad Man's MjEtiinc. Single copies, 10 cents. 559 , 560 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. The fire did not amount to anything " Well, I'll put it another way, then," apart from the panic which is the accus- replied Allen. " He stands well with the tomed accompaniment of a tenement- combination." " " house blaze ; so the trio—Griggs having And? become his own man again—turned to go. " The combination doesn't like to see " Where now? " asked Allen. its friends get the rowel." Leigh pulled out his note-book and " Have you been asked to tell me read off a list of happenings that were this?" said Leigh, looking Allen square- to take place in the district during the ly in the face. " evening—it was then only half past seven I have notr Billy," was the instant an- o'clock. swer. " But you and I have always hit it Allen looked puzzled. " You're surely well together, and—and—well, I don't not going to look after all of these?" he want to see a good fellow like you run asked. up against a barbed=wire fence, as some " Won't the rest of the fellows handle of your predecessors have done—to their some of them? " asked Leigh. disadvantage." " " The other shook his head. No ; I'm Leigh smiled. I appreciate the warn- pretty sure they won't." ing, Jimmie, but when the combine pays "And why not?" me my salary I'll do by it and its friends "Well," said Allen hesitatingly, "we as it wishes, and not before. It may think '- —that is, they—don't trouble with much it owns Highburg, but it's beautifully outside of the ' must ' matter of the dis- mistaken if it thinks it owns me." trict." " The others talked like that," said Al- Leigh made a gesture of impatience. len, with a note of pleading in his voice. " Well, Jimmie, just for once, break the " Good for them. I'm sorry that they rules and come along with me." didn't last out," was the reply. The other shook his head, but hesitated A car hove in sight. " Will you come nevertheless. " I'm one of the combine, along?" asked Leigh. you must remember," he said laughingly. "No," said the other; but he looked " And I'm sorry you are, considering wistfully at his friend. what the combine is," replied Leigh " Then, good-by for the present," cried gravely. Leigh as he caught the car on the fly. Allen grunted, and Griggs snickered. " I'll see you later at the Municipal." Leigh didn't pursue the subject further, At about eleven o'clock Leigh, true to and the two walked a block in silence. his promise, appeared at the reporters' Leigh halted as a cross-town car-track quarters. Five of the combine were pres- was reached. ent, including Allen. The poker - game " I'm going over to Columbia Hall to was still on. the Highburg Board of Trade meeting," "Anything doing?" he asked cheer- he announced. " Understand they're go- fully. ing to get busy with Burke and his crowd Jennison, the dean of the combine, and to-night over the Mainway improvement representative of the Martport Gazette, and other local contracts. We have a hint exchanged glances with the others. that there will be a red-hot time of it, " Plave you got anything? " he said. and that the preliminaries, looking to a " Yes," replied Leigh, producing a legislative investigation of Burke and his note-book and copy. " Good stuff at that. " crowd, are to be put in play." AVant to take any of it ? Allen looked at him queerly. " You " I'd like to hear what you have first," " know, I suppose, Billy, that—that—Burke growled Jennison. Maybe we'll use it, is a pretty decent fellow." and maybe we won't." His tone was a " Never heard it till now. Thought he challenge. was about as bad as they make 'em, po- Leigh felt that a crisis was approach- litically and in other ways. But, sup- ing. Then he proceeded to read, noting, posing that he deserves your good-con- however, that none of the others were ta- duct badge, what's that to do with the king notes of his items. When he had " board meeting? concluded, Jennison spoke again. The other looked uncomfortable. " That kidnaping affair in the fifth pre- BREAKING THE COMBINE. 561 " " " cinct will probably turn out to be just an Shut up ! he said angrily. This is ordinary case of lost kid. I don't take between Leigh and Jennison. When they any stock in it, and won't write it. Un* get through, you can butt in. Meantime derstand? If the Strauss sugar-house ac- put the nippers on that wagging jaw of cident had been as out of the ordinary as yours." you say it was, it's queer that we didn't Jennison rose and lit his pipe. " We hear of it from Dr. Bayliss, of St. Mary's may as well understand each other first as Hospital. As we don't usually go over last," he said, turning to Leigh. " If you the doc's head, we won't use that, either. care to come into the combine, you're wel- About the Board of Trade meeting we'll come, provided you- do as the combine send in a few words." does. But I've a shrewd notion that you're Leigh looked at him. " Did I make in the district for the express purpose of myself quite clear?" he asked. "Sena- going it alone. Maybe I'm wrong, but I tor Clives and Assemblyman Potter de^ think I'm right. You're a clever boy, liberately charged Burke and his asso- Leigh, but if you imagine that you can ciates with out-and-out theft, and pledged down this little coterie as easily as you've themselves to set the wheels of legal and done some other star jobs on the Record. legislative machinery in motion to punish you're mistaken." them. Their speeches were the culmina- " I think," replied Leigh slowly, " that tion of a whole lot of sizzling oratory." it's come to a show-down. I'm here to " Oh," snorted Jennison. " those stiffs get the news of Highburg—and I intend are all hot air. Burke is It in this disi to get it. If I tread on the corns of you trict, and cares no more for the gassing of fellows or those of your friends, I shall be that crowd than he does for a ten-spot sorry—but I'm out for the news, all the when one of the bovs needs it. Burke's same." all right." " Don't be a fool," broke in Halstead. Leigh felt himself growing hot at the " Even as it is, there's sufficient space in clumsy hint of the speaker, but managed this job—plus your salary — to satisfy to keep control of his* temper. Just then your- lust for dollars, Billy." he glanced at Allen, and the expression on " The job might satisfy his pocket, but the latter's face puzzled him. It seemed not his conscience, you know," said Jennie as if the big fellow was encouraging him son, with a lumbering attempt at sar- to continue the controversy, which, in- casm. deed, Leigh was only too willing to do. " I don't consider you an authority on being in no humor for compromise, and matters of conscience," retorted Leigh. feeling, too, that lie had reached the part- " Anyhow, I'll have none of the combine, ing of the ways. as it's now run, in mine : so good night." " " " Leigh—" began Ely. Go, and be hanged ! snarled Jenni- " You'll kindly hold your tongue," ins son. " A couple of weeks hence you'll be terrupted Allen, a gleam of battle-light begging us to let you come back into the coming in his eyes. " Leigh's got the fold." floor." " I don't think so," said Allen sudden- Ely scowled, and Leigh resumed. ly. " Leigh's no cur. And all of the " Burke may be all right as you know combine is not of your way of thinking, him, but that's no reason why I should either." kill a piece of news in which he figures." ( " Leigh's on space, you know," said Ely, with a grin, addressing Jennison. CHAPTER VI. " And if Leigh wasn't on space," re- The First Gun Fired. torted that individual, " he would do pre- cisely as he's now doing. It would al- TENNISON and the rest looked at him most seem, Ely, as if you were not in the ** with mute amazement. Allen was district to get_news, but to keep mum bundling together copy, paper, note- about Burke in return for Burke's ruin." books, tobacco-box, pipes, and other of " Rime and reason," chuckled Griggs. his belongings. Ely again opened his mouth to reply, " Leigh's estimate of this gang and its and once more Allen cut him short. ways is about right," he said wrathfully, 12 R R " —— -562 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. stopping suddenly in his Avork and turn- you, about certain easy money that came " ing to the others. We're a measly lot to Ely recently, that sickened me—ancl of muckers, who sell our souls for gratis so the explosion. Still, as I said. I've booze and a microscopic share - of the big been thinking over -this step for a month graft that the Burke species couldn't get or two. I'm not quite a bad 'un, Billy, within a mile of if we didn't keep our and my little tears have always been of pencils quiet. the impulsive sort. " A sweet, wholesome, lovable congre- " But this cool business of sitting down gation we are," he went on, his voice and making a permanent job of booze booming with self-contempt and anger, and loafing and borrowing is too much " gorgeous specimens of ' gentlemen of for me. Your coming here was a god- the press.' Oh, and a gritty lot, too send. There is many a man who really such a gritty lot ! Afraid to even claim wishes to get out of the gutter but can't what's coming to us as accomplices of the manage it, simply because his moral knees gang that runs this district that engineers are a bit too weak to help him onto the the rotten deals which have made High- sidewalk of decency. burg notorious." " That's the time for the friendly hand "Are you crazy, Allen?" cried Jen- to get in its fine work. My moral plans nison. and specifications aren't in keeping with "No, nor drunk!" said the other fierce- my chest development, I'm afraid — in ly. " But Leigh's stand on the matter has which respect you have the advantage of brought to a head my determination me." And he clapped Leigh affection- that isn't by any means new—to cut the ately on the shoulder. combine— " You're all to the good, Jimmie." said " " Rot ! cried Halstead. Leigh heartily; adding, with a chuckle: " " " " Truth ! replied Allen. I'll not It's been an iridescent evening. The stand in any longer with— Here, Leigh, inventon- to date includes a fight with the let's get out of this, or I'll be saying combine, a news sensation for to-morrow, things that I'll be sorry for." the rescue of a good fellow from perdi- " You'll be sorry for what you have tion, and trouble ahead." said." declared Jennison threateningly. " And a bad beginning for the com- Leigh took the other by the arm before bine. I'll bet those fellows are worried," he could reply, faced him toward the door, said Allen. and without further words the pair left " Not as much as they will be, though. the Municipal. Allen was hot with ex- By the Big Blue Pencil, but we'll make " citement. 'em work ! " " I want a drink, Billy," he declared You couldn't hurt their feelings as they drew near the cafe at the next worse than by causing them to do that," corner. remarked the other with another cavern- " You'll drink—ice-water— at my—at ous smile. " our office," replied Leigh ; nothing else, And then they reached their destina- until we have sent our copy down." tion, and wrote and telephoned news to " " Your office? their respective papers until nearly " Yep. I looked for this rumpus, and two A.M. so got quarters beforehand. It's a block Leigh, that same morning, published farther up—first floor—over Higgins's in the Sentinel the proposed Burke inves- drug-store. Snug place, and I've a tele- tigation ; and, as he had written it, it was. phone installed; also two desks." as Staynes remarked, " Hot stuff." The "Two?" kidnaping case. too. made interesting " To tell the truth, Jimmie. I half- reading. There were also half a dozen expected that I'd succeed in persuading other good items. The night's work had you to break with that crowd. Anyhow, been entirely satisfactory. I intended to try. But I didn't look for Allen had done nearly as well ; so much the rupture to come about quite so sud- so, indeed, that the city editor of the denly." Clarion telephoned him, asking the where- " Nor I, although it was inevitable. fore of his unwonted industry. The news- But I heard a tale to-night, after I left papers of the combine had, as Jennison : " — — BREAKING iHE COMBINE. liad promised, but a few lines of the my article. This meeting will save me Burke sensation. In consequence, there that trouble, if you can give me ten min- was a lurid and general calling down of utes." " " the combine members by their several edi- Ten minutes, my boy ! cried the tors, the replies to which were that the other. •> " Why, cert'. Half an hour, if Sentinel story was more of a fake. you want it. Come down to my place and Jennison and the rest of the combine we'll open a small bottle." began to feverishly plan for Leigh's and " No," said Leigh, " let's go to my of- Allen's undoing. fice. We'll be free from interruption Before he' went over lo Highburg that there." evening, Leigh dropped in at the Sentinel "Your office?" asked Burke with a office. Staynes greeted him heartily. capital affectation of surprise. " Whyj " Ridgely's highly delighted over the aren't you down with the rest of the boys Burke story," he said. " Billy, you're the at the Municipal* You know you're wel- only cereal. Are you going to give us come there, however much you pound me." " more of the same to-night? Leigh glanced at him, understanding " I guess so—including a talk witli perfectly that he knew. Burke. If he'll talk. And, Sam, I now " Oh, that's all right," he said. " expect trouble. The combine will, among Thanks, just the same. But I like a other things, see to it that I don't get quiet life, and—here we are." much out of the station-house blotters. He led the way up-stairs. The poli- So, get your police headquarters man to tician noted the telephone and other sug- keep his eye on any slips that come from gestions of permanent occupation. the Highburg precincts, and ring me up " You look as if you thought you were if he notes anything important." here to stay," he said, and the reporter de- " It shall be done," said Staynes; " and tected a tinge of malice in the remark. don't hesitate to let me know if at any " Yes," replied Leigh easily, " that's tune you want any help." what I'm here for. And now, as I don't "'I won't, but I've a good man to work want to detain you, let me ask " with as it is." And he told the tale of So he put a lot of questions relative to Allen's withdrawal from the combine. the charges made against Burke at the The city editor laughed. " 'Tis the lit- Board of Trade meeting. Some were an- tle rift within the lute of the combine, swered direct, others evaded, and yet oth- Billy," he said gleefully. ers failed of reply altogether because, so " " Yes," replied Leigh : but 'tis only the politician alleged, he knew nothing of the commencement, remember, and there'll their subject-matter. be music in the air before the end comes." The interview ended, and Burke rose. Not far from the druggist's over which " I suppose the Sentinel's going for me he had made his headquarters, Leigh ac- again to-morrow ? " he asked with a care- tually ran into Burke when he was leav- less smile. ing a cigar-store. Now, the politician Leigh smiled back, but replied not. knew the foolishness of unnecessarily an- " Why have you got it in for me, tagonizing a newspaper man in the lat- Billy?" went on the "boss" good-na- ter's personal capacity. So he caught turedly. " Was I ever up against you in Leigh by the arm as if he were trying to any way? " save him from a fall, laughing heartily as No," said Leigh rather sharply ; "and he did so. if you had been, it wouldn't have made " " " Hallo, Leigh ! he cried. That the slightest difference one way or the you? Trying to break my neck, are you? other. It's a plain proposition. Burke I think that's rubbing it in, after the that, and nothing more. I'm in this dis- ' roast ' I got in the papers to-day." And trict for the news, and the news I pro- again he laughed—a well-fed, well-oiled, pose to get. well-trained laugh. " Just now you happen to be the news. Leigh said something in the way of You're the best judge as to whether you apology, and added are or are not to blame for that fact. But " I was going to look you up later to there's no personal equation in this, so ask if you had anything to say regarding far as I am concerned. If the Board of " ; 564 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Trade had voted you a halo, instead of " Of course, I understand what you handing you the remarks that it did. I mean ; and so there is only one way of should have written the proceedings just replying." the same—as news." "That being?" " And news it would have been, in- " Well," said Leigh with a smile, deed." replied the other with a grim " you'll find out soon enough. But you're chuckle. " Well. I'll be going. But I not the only practical politician who has hope that, outside of business, we'll be made the same blunder." friends." " I'll be shot if I know what you're get- " I never ask too much of human na- ting at, Billy," replied the boss. ture," replied Leigh with a laugh that, " The fact is, Mr. Burke," said Leigh however, didn't veil the meaning of his very deliberately, " that you're so used to words. mixing up with people who can be bought " Nor I." He stopped "on his way to at a price that you imagine every man has " the door and faced the reporter. I like his price—when you want to buy him. an honest fighter like you. Leigh ; and, as And therein lies your mistake." I said before, I hope we'll be friends, " It's a fair proposition, anyway," re- come what may. But." and he spoke turned Burke. " I never ask a man to do very slowly and deliberately, " I think anything for me that I ain't willing to you're making a fool of yourself. That pay for." little row at Columbia Hall don't amount "If you think it's worth paying for at to a pinch of snuff. You're not familiar your figure, you mean. I don't think that with things in Highburg, or you wouldn't we need talk further about the point in- attach any importance to it. Why, those volved," replied Leigh. " You'll have to long-eared mules— excuse me, for I've a lot to do." "Is this for publication?" asked Burke didn't go on the instant, how- Leigh, in accordance with reportorial ever. Instead, he came back into the etiquette. room a little way. " I don't give a flip whether you write "You're going to declare war, then?" " it or not," replied Burke. The point he cried, with another hearty laugh. I'm getting at is this: we—myself and " No," said Leigh; " but' I'm going to friends — happen to be running affairs tell the truth about Highburg—and some hereabouts just now. The other fellows of its people." " " are squealing because they're not in on Umph ! snorted the politician. the game. By the looks of things, they're " Telling the truth, as you call it, ain't likely to remain out of it for a long time. always the way to keep the peace." In fact, 1 don't see how they're going to sit in anyhow. Consequently, while they VII. may make a whole lot of noise, no harm's CHAPTER this side the coming to any one on of In Working Order. house. See! You ain't a baby, Leigh; you know what practical politics are." TEIGH didn't answer, and Burke ' " " And this, too, is for publication. I again made for the door. Well, suppose?" said the reporter. Billy, good night to you, and remem- " No, it isn't," replied Burke bluffly ber that all's fair in love and war," he " it's for you, and you only. It's this way. said. What's the use of you making yourself un- The reporter turned to him with a con- popular among people who have the fident laugh. " You intend that as a hint power and who are willing to be friends as to what I am to expectj but you haven't of yours? " a monopoly on everything and everybody "Friends?" said Leigh quietly. "In hereabouts — especially the ear of the " what way ? public." " Any way you like," replied the other Leigh worked on his interview with significantly. Boss Burke for an hour or so, and then " I wish you hadn't said this to me." went to hunt up some of the Board of "Why?" asked Burke, staring in a Trade members. On his return to the puzzled fashion. office at nine o'clock he found, somewhat — — BREAKING THE COMBINE. 565 to his surprise, that Allen had not turned gathering places of Burke's associates centers of political news—Leigh's recep- Consoling himself with the thought tion was, to put it mildly, cheerless. The that Allen was probably going the rounds leaven of the combine was evidently at of the district and would presently put work! in an appearance, he turned to the Burke When he reached the office again Bry- matter once more. Just as he finished ant handed him a note that had come by writing, the telephone-bell rang. Allen a messenger. It was from Allen, and as was on the wire. Leigh read it he chuckled and slapped his " " That you, Billy? knee. " Yes." " Bryant," said he, " please take carbon " I'm sorry to have to tell you, old copies of what you have, and let me have man, that I've come to the conclusion them. And* you can quit when you've got that vou and I can't work together after through with your copy. We won't try all," said Allen. to cover the district again to-night." "Is this a joke, Jimrnie?" At eleven-thirty came another messen- " No ; it's deadly earnest. It isn't that ger from Allen, bearing a bulky envelope, I'm scared of the combine, but I can't and receiving in exchange one from afford to antagonize a lot of people hi Leigh. When at midnight one of the Highburg by standing in with you Sentinel boys came for copy he took back Burke among them." with him a note for Staynes marked " Up to now," answered Leigh, " I'd " Strictly personal." have smashed the man who said in my Now, the Highburg morning news- hearing that Jimmie Allen was a coward. paper men were on duty until three a.m., But I'd let him go on talking now." at which hour they gave the " good- " Think what you like of me," came night " signal over the telephone to their back, " but my mind's made up." respective offices. "Are you going it alone, then?" Three-quarters of an hour before, " I can't quite tell what I'm going to Leigh laid down his cigar. " I don't do. Maybe I shall ask our people to quite like to do it," he said to himself, take me out of the district altogether. " but one has to fight the devil with fire, Maybe I'll resign. And, Billy, be warned I suppose." by me—cut out the Sentinel and don't He rang up the Sentinel. He must talk try to fight the combine and the people to Mr. Staynes personally and in a hurry. that it's friendly with." Staynes came quickly, and in a voice that Leigh cut the conversation short by trembled with apparent excitement, Leigh hanging up the receiver. gave him a brief but sufficient bit of ex- " Allen, of all men," he muttered. " I'll clusive news of a sensational sort. be hanged if I can believe it. But I'll It was to the effect that the two-year see him to-morrow and find out the true old child of Henry F. Dobson, one of the inwardness of his surrender. There's most prominent and wealthy men of High- something in this that he hasn't hinted at. hurg, had been kidnaped from out of the Trying to scare me off by throwing it Dobson mansion on the upper part of into Jimmie, are thev? Well, we shall Arlington Avenue on the outskirts of the see." borough. Leigh, who had an unduly obstinate The child slept in a large nursery, on chin, unconsciously protruded that feature one corner of which was a bed occupied at the Burke interview. Then he tele- by the nurse. Some time after midnight phoned to Staynes to send a man to help the nurse was awakened by a draft of air him over the evening, Allen's deser- blowing on her face. She found that the tion having upset his plan of campaign. window of the nursery was open, and that Staynes sent him Bryant, who had a repu- the child's bed was empty. tation as a hustler. Together the two A ladder leaning against the side of the reporters got a tidy budget of news, al- house showed how the kidnapers had though at a couple of station-houses the gained access to the room. The extensive blotters were grudgingly opened by the grounds that surrounded the house fur- gruff desk sergeants. At some of the nished ample cover for the movements of " 566 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. the daring person who had stolen the " Consequently, we only had to listen child. and take notes of what he was saying in One of the mysteries of the case was order to make it nearly impossible for that three or four dogs that were let loose him to ' scoop ' us. We were always pret- in the grounds at night, had given no ty well posted by headquarters and our warning of the presence of the kidnapers. friends on the early news of the district, When Mrs. Dobson was notified of her and "the only chance that the other chap loss- she became insensible, and a physi- had of twisting our tails was to watch cian, who was called, declared her to be out for the happenings that we were like- in a critical condition. ly to miss late at night, being busy with The subsequent confusion was respon- flushes and full hands. sible for the police not being "promptly " Of course, the gang knew that I notified. Coming on top of the other kid- would tell you all this ; but that alone naping affair of two days before, it seemed wouldn't have done much good to either as if a daring and organized gang of child of us. Central would have gone on con- stealers was operating in Highburg. necting your wire with theirs, you would "Exclusive?" asked Staynes over the not have been able to prove it, and your wire as Leigh finished. phone would, in consequence, have been " That's what I said," was the reply, practically useless." " " and I think I'll give you ' good-night.' " So, your object, then, was for the Leigh hung up the receiver and stood Sentinel to get positive evidence that a looking at the telephone doubtfully. _ Teak was taking place with the conni- " " I don't know," he said to himself as vance of a telephone operator? he shook his head, " but I suppose it was " Precisely. And that, too, was why I called for. Yet— kept away from your office last night and He turned out the lights and left. made suggestions by note as to how you should work the thing. I wanted you and Staynes to be able to swear that only VIII. CHAPTER you two had engineered the test of Cen- tral's probity." Blocking the Game. " And that, too, is why you so cruelly 'T'HAT same morning every one of the severed your connection with me over . the newspapers represented by the phone," said Leigh, with a grin. He members of the combine published the frowned a trifle. " It was justifiable, I " alleged kidnaping. In one or two cases suppose," he said haltingly ; but, to tell the night city editors had added such the truth, Allen, I didn't like to do it. additional sensational touches as their I'm naturally not a very fluent liar, and overheated midnight imaginations ha'd it was certainly a bit of tall lying, you prompted. must confess." " " Neither the Sentinel nor Allen's paper Tut, tut ! cried the big reporter. had a solitary line about the affair. All " It was merely a diplomatic assertion of the Martport evening sheets, in com- spiced with necessary reservation. The menting on the story as a rank fake, ex- end always shakes hands with the means plained that no such person as Henry F. when the scrap between fact and fiction is Dobson lived in Highburg, and that the over." scene of the alleged kidnaping was in " But why did you want me to send a reality a soap-factory. copy of my news to your house instead of " Allen dropped in at the Seventeenth coming to the office for it? District Court at about noon. " I haven't the slightest doubt that your " You see, Billy." he said to Leigh, " as incoming and outgoing was the object of I couldn't explain at length in my note, much interest last evening," replied Al- one part of the plan of the combine to" len. "If, then, I had visited you after shut out an anticombine man was to have telephoning my irrevocable determination the telephone ' centrals ' tip us off when not to have anything more to do with you, the former was phoning to his office and the sincerity of my declaration might have they connect us with the wire that he was been doubted by some of my late asso-. using. riates." BREAKING THE COMBINE. 567 Leigh's eyes twinkled. " How are you that evening they had the air of those who going to square yourself when they find know that real work lies before them. " out how they've been done by you?" The overture being over, the play is " I shall explain that you have exer- about to begin," said Allen. cised undue influence over me," was the Leigh nodded. " Yes, we've got busy reply. " And if thalj doesn't satisfy them, times ahead. Those fellows will stick us I'll call their attention to the fact that it's mostly on station-house stories. In other none of their business." directions I think we can hold our own, To be beaten by the Sentinel and Clar- or nearly so. But when it comes to the ion over the Burke scandal was bad station-houses, I confess that I'm a bit enough, but the Dobson kidnaping fake puzzled as to how to act." emphasized the need of drastic remedial " You're right, Billy," admitted Allen. action. " The same thing lias occurred to me. I, The interview with Burke obtained by too, don't quite see how we can get next Leigh was. . as written by the latter. in this direction." " tabascoesque," as Allen put it. Worst Leigh mused. " The only thing that of all, there had begun to arise a public we can do for the present is to wait de- murmur that the Sentinel and the Record velopments. If we find that we're being were the only papers that had sufficient studiously thrown down by our friends pluck to tackle the rotten politics of in uniform, why, but one way remains." Highburg. " The same being? " The emphatic word went forth that, " Usually, Jimmie, one catches more combine or no combine, such happenings flies with sugar than vinegar. In the first as had characterized the past two days of instance we'll try the saccharine treat- Highburg's news couldn't and wouldn't ment ; if that fails we'll have to turn on be tolerated—that the next exclusive the sour." " piece of news would be equivalent to the " Excellent! But how? dismissal of everybody concerned there- " Did you ever yet know of a copper with. who hadn't a motliThole or two in his rec- The .combine took the rebuke scorn^ ord, through which you could prod him " fully and sullenly. Burke was informed. witli a pencil and make him squeal ? That afternoon the Highburg boss had a The light of understanding spread over talk with one of the biggest men of the Allen's countenance. " " party. And the big man, who was very True," he said. If I hadn't been corpulent and had elephantine ears that in the combine, I wouldn't have been put readily lent themselves to the purposes of next to the ways of the gents in question." the cartoonist, called at the offices of the " And I, too, have some similar notes morning newspapers, who, politically, in the neighborhood of my cuffs," replied were affiliated with him and his. He Leigh. " Altogether I think that we're wanted to know if it were true that they pretty well heeled for whatever sort of " was going to give the foot to some of game we may run up against." them Highburg boys jus' because the boys The earlier part of the evening passed hadn't thrown it good an' heavy into without incident, except that at the quar= Burke." ters of the Franchise Club Leigh was re- And he wanted to know if there was fused admission, on the plea that an ex- " anything doin'—any hedging or fence- ecutive meeting of the members was in straddling behind it all. See?" And progress. " never mind who he got it 'from—it come Burke was president of the organiza- to him as straight as he wanted it. An' tion, which, politically, was the most of course they could do as^they bloody- prominent of its kind in Highburg, and well pleased ; but if they was goin' to Leigh felt that something was brewing fall in behind the Sentinel muck=cart, he that was being kept -from him purposely. wanted to have it aforehand. An' while He determined to find out just what it he didn't give a so forth and so on what was. Therefore, after telephoning to Al- they was goin' to do, the party wasn't len, he began to patrol the sidewalk op- " goin' to be played for a fool ! posite the clubhouse, keeping in the shad- When the combine-breakers met again ows of the trees and an arc-light. The 568 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. meeting being over, he saw Halstead and ing the wherefore of the order. That a Jennison leave with others, which con-, Home Rule Association had been organ- firmed his suspicions. He observed one ized to the end of checking " attempts at 1 Brone—a small, rotund German, the pro- meddlesome interference on the part of prietor of a saloon. the Legislature in regard to matters that ( >nce upon a time a man with a pull, had to do with local interests, which in- who .also owned a saloon, tried to have terests were best administered by persons Brone enjoined from maintaining a nui- conversant with them " ; that several of sance ; for the man with a pull desired to the Martport party leaders were present monopolize local patronage. Later, his and made speeches denunciatory of the rival failed to close Brone's place, and, attack on Burke ; and that, finally, a reso- rightly or wrongly, the little German at- lution had been passed to the effect that tributed the defeat of his foe to Leigh, a bill be introduced at an early date, by and Leigh alone ; for Leigh had made a one of the Highburg assemblymen,- call- funny story of the affair. So he took ing for an investigation of the" motives occasion to try and prove his gratitude in and certain of the official methods of the many and divers ways. inaugurators of the Board of Trade move- The reporter, remembering all this, ment. followed his man until the. latter turned Leigh took but few notes. He had the into a side-street. "Hallo, Brone!" he tenacious memory of the trained reporter, cried. "How goes it?" and he excused himself as soon as pos- " Meester Leigh," responded Brone, sible after wringing Brone dry. Then his plump, shining little face crimsoning he hastened to the office, where he found with pleasure. " Ach Himmd, how I am Allen awaiting him. in, " pleased you to see ! Come my place Allen looked a trifle worried. I feel " ,J Are trink glass of beer? Oh, yes! lay- it in my bones." he said, -that there's ing a restraining hand on the other's coat- something doing to-night that we've been sleeve. " You come must." shut out of." : Leigh nodded ; the saloon was reached "Why?" asked Leigh. nobody else was there except the tailor The other shrugged his shoulders help- who lived next door, and who was asleep lessly. " I don't know why. I feel it in on a chair in a corner. Mrs. Brone, the my bones." counterpart of her husband in face and "Your bones didn't fib, Jhnmie," re- figure, greeted Leigh heartily. plied Leigh, and he told him of the meet- " Vos you the meeting at to-night?" ing of the Franchise Club. asked Brone, after some general chat. " That explains," said Allen. " I ran Leigh had been leading up to the ques- up against Jennison about half an hour tion. ago, and his little green eyes looked mis- " ' " No." replied the reporter, I couldn't chief as I passed. Good night,' said I. ' ' get up," which was true ; adding, with a Good night,' said he, and pleasant 7 yawn: "Anything interesting?" dreams to } ou.' and then he grinned. Evi- " " " Eenteresting ! cried Brone. I pet dently he was reveling in the thought of vou! S^ome of the newspaper poys vos how joyous we'd feel when we read the clere. I see 'em. Dey'll put lots der pa- combine's ' scoop ' to-morrow." pers in." "Get anything out of the district?" " " Perhaps so," replied Leigh ; but asked Leigh. what was it all about?" He half rose as Allen handed over the scant notes that if to go. represented his evening's labor, and both " Seet down," insisted his host. " Thees men then fell to work. Leigh finished is fine peece news. You vait. Lena, more first. " " beer ; fine news, yes ! Eleven o'clock," he said, glancing at With very little prompting, Brone then his watch. " Senator Clives is stopping ' told how the meeting was really of a semi- at the Bay View House ; he goes to bed executive sort—at all events, the door- early, as I know, and so I fe,el pretty sure keepers had instructions to bar all per- that I'll run him to earth there. I'll also sons but members and " those invited." see Moriarty, the Board of Trade presi- Leigh smiled to himself at this, know- dent. And Jimmie, if you don't mind BREAKING THE COMBINE. 569 brealdixg up the beauty sleep of Halpin, illigant a chunk uv news, an' up Oi the legal adviser to the Board of Trade, comes." and one or two others who are interested "So?" said Leigh. " What hap-. in the matter, we'll put a sting in the tail pened?" of this story that'll make the combine look " Well, yez know that th' re-lay-shuns pale." av Father Poldinski. th' good man, an' Both reporters were lucky in meeting his gintle payrishners hev bin £thrained the men -they sought. for many a month. So t'night a whole At about one o'clock in the morning lot uv bleatin' Polacks comes to th' fifth, they went to a near-by restaurant. On jabberin' that th' ' father ' had licked a the way thither they met Burke. " Any- couple uv hunder uv um tremenjus, an' thing to tell us? " Leigh asked blandly of had kicked a thousan' into th' street." the politician. " An' in the midst uv it all, with Ma- " Nothing to tell you," was the reply. loney—he was disk sergeant— tryin' to " My bones aren't quite easy yet," said make some av them talk sinse, bang! an' Allen as they were on the way back to the intirs th' ' father' himself. " office, He was cross, oh, my ! But whin th' " I think we'd better make a tour of the flock seen its shephird thus, it didn't sthop rounds once more," said Leigh. to wish Maloney good night, but just scat- Allen consulted his watch. " It's rather thered—payin' no attenshun to where an' ' ' ' late for that. Anyhow, let's ask Cen- how an' why it was goin' ! The father tral ' if anybody has rung us up." was blockin' th' dure, but th' windies was Somebody had, but " Central " didn't handy—both back an' front—an' they was know who. The men looked at each other took advantage uv in a way demoralizin' vexedly. to th' frames an' th' glass uv. um. " I'll try the Sentinel office and police " Some uv the fleein' ones skipped up headquarters," said Leigh. The calls th' stairs ladin' to th' quarters uv the proved fruitless, however. " Now let me resarves, many uv whom was slapin'. ' ' see if it was the Clarion people," remarked 'Tis a traysonable riot, b'yes ! yells Allen, holding out his hand for the re- Mullins, who was awoke by a large Po- ceiver. lack wid black whiskers steppin' on his ' ' Just then came the sound of heavy foot- face. The furriners is risen, b'yes ! he steps on the stairs outside. blathers ; an' wid that there was swing- " A late visitor," muttered Leigh. ing uv night-sticks an' drawin' uv guns Allen threw open the office door. an' a scene of cruel war." There stood Ahearne. "What time did it take place?" "Hallo, Pat!" cried Leigh. " Glad " About nine o'clock, Oi should judge. to see you! Come in; vou know Mr. Rawlins got excused for a half-hour at Allen?" eight o'clock, and on his way back to th' " Oi do, sor," replied the officer; " an' station he noticed bunches uv distrissed yez hev a snug place uv it here." Polacks on th' way there. Th' throuble " Yes," said Leigh, " and welcome for began not long afther he had reported a friend— like yourself." ag'in." 1 " " How are things, Pat?" asked Leigh. " And Maloney was at the de?k ' ? " Purty an' well. But ay either uv yez said Leigh. " been up to the fifth precinct to-night ? " Yis." Allen glanced at Leigh as much as to " So you thought that we might slip up " say, " I told you so." on this story, and looked us up, did you? " Mr. Allen has," replied Leigh. went on Leigh, looking at the big Irish- " Did he get the storv about ' Father man with friendly eyes. " Poldinski,' thin? Ahearne smiled in affirmation. " Ma- "No," said Allen. "What was it?" loney is a Burke man, ye know." " "Oi thought yez was out uv it, an' so I sha'n't forget this, Pat." said Leigh. Oi called yez up, but didn't get yez. So, " Nor I," added Allen. passing here on me way home, sez Oi, " It's a fight to the death, now," said Oi'd hate f'r th' boys to be bate on so Leigh, (To be co nlinued.) The Railroad Man's Brain Teasers. A Few Hard Nuts of the Early Spring Variety to Loosen Up the Mental Machinery of Our Mathematicians. LD. HASELTINE, of Richmond, Indiana, contributes the following: • A siding holds three cuts, or sixty cars. An engineer hauling a train of twenty cars comes to this siding, and wishes to take the middle twenty cars and place the twenty cars he is hauling in the place of the twenty cars he takes out, leaving the end sections in the same position he found them. The engine can only handle twenty cars at a time; no drop, staking, or roping to be done. Can this be done? If so, show how many moves. \Y. A. Hickey, of Chicago, obliges us with the following: Given two intersecting railroad lines, a west-bound and north-bound train, each four hundred and forty feet long. Each train starts at the same time from a point one hundred miles from the intersection. The north- •bound train runs at a speed of forty-eight miles per hour. At what speed must the west-bound train run to reach and clear the crossing at the moment that the locomotive of the north-bound train touches that point? The answer to these puzzles will appea'r in our May issue. Answer to March Puzzle. (i.) The car does not slide from under Smith while he is in the air. He does alight in the same spot, because Smith, and everything else car- ried by the train, partakes of its progressive motion. He is traveling thirty miles an hour when he made the jump, and thirty miles an hour when he completes it. " " (2.) The only distance which he could alight behind the take off . would be what the wind, kicked up by thirty miles an hour, would have blown him. If he jumped straight, not more than two or three inches^ (3.) No. (4.) If he performed his stunt in the aisle of an enclosed passenger- coach, he would return absolutely to the same spot. 570 ON THE EDITORIAL CARPET. Side-Talks With the Man Who Sits in the Cab of the Magazine and Is Commonly Called an Editor. THE monorail is all very well as a valu- train one or two cars got switched, we don't able asset of the Sunday newspaper, like to feel responsible for too many disap- and maybe when they're through tinkering pointments. around a bit they'll get something that might In the special articles we have the very be useful. But, for ourselves, we like to sad announcement to make that the May feel all the ten wheels of our engine spanning number will see brought to a close " The the standard gage track and whirling along Evolution of Almost," by Horace Herr. We without depending on any spinning top to consider this sketch to have been a distinct keep us right side up. " find." That's why we don't try any freak motive There is in newspaper parlance a much- power or Tolling stock in the make-up of our abused phrase, namely, " human interest." monthly train. We know what our readers If the writers of-somc of these human in- want, and the only difference month by terest stories would read " The Evolution month is caused by the effort to get a higher of Almost." we think they would quit out of polish on the coach-trimmings of a higher shame. steam-pressure in the gage. We don't remember reading in a long time Of course, improvements are all right, of so distinctly human and lovable a charac- " and we don't intend to miss any chances in ter as Almost." He is the male Mrs. Wiggs. that direction, but the things that we put on and we all feel better, in a very real sense of must have passed all the safety-appliance the word, for having made his acquaintance. tests ever formulated by a government of He is an addition to railroad literature critical readers. It is through this method Other features among the special articles that we are able, month by month, to promise for the May number will be number six of for the following month a magazine keyed the " Letters of an Old Railroad Man and to as high or higher pitch as the one being His Son," a series that has taken particularly turned out. well the " ; always delightful Observations In fact, for May we have had to get a of a Country Station-Agent"; No. 2 of Mr. new steam-indicator put in the cab. for we Rogers's articles on the shops, entitled " Rail- couldn't register the pressure without bust- road " Machines ; commercial traveler yarns ing the old one. This is particularly true in told in the smoker, "Old-Timer Tales," and the matter of fiction. maybe an instructive article on the story of We don't think we ever had quite such a railroad trade-marks. one shall collection of authors in issue as we We have in mind several other fine, high- have in the May number. J. R. Stafford. class pieces of equipment, but we don't want Frank Condon, Robert T. Creel, Robert F. to put on so much fuel here that we'll have Hoffmann, F. H. Richardson, and Augustus to spend the rest of the month hauling out Wittfeld make a train-crew that any fast- the clinkers, so we guess we'll take the high- flying limited could be proud of. ball and get out of town. Mr. Stafford's story is about a refreshing Clear track for May. Irishman whose cool impudence is as uncon- scious as his natural capability is great. Mr. Hoffmann's story will probably be called A MILLION MILES. " Bill Daidy's Chapter," and you'll agree that it is one of the most unusual chapters ever nPHE Lake Shore and Michigan Southern written by a railroad man. In its way it is mail-train No. 35 and extra coal-train refreshing Irishman. as as Mr. Stafford's No. 5671 were in rear-end collision at a point Mr. Wittfeld is as funny as ever, which is fourteen miles west of Toledo on Januarv saying something hard to believe. 31. A brakeman, Edward McKinley, of To- Besides stories, these we have others equal- ledo. was killed, and ten or more of the ly good, but we fear to mention more, be- two train crews were injured. The mail- cause if in the excitement of making up the train, with Engineer A. G. Reynolds and 57i : a ! 572 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. Fireman M. L. Curtice in the engine, over- undone. But with us it is final and complete. took and crushed the caboose and two rear There is no recall, no sufficient extenuation." cars of the freight, derailing and partially That is it. There is no recall for the ap- overturning the engine of the mail-train, parently little thing undone, as in the com- according to reports received. mon, daily derelictions of life. Instead, The cause of the wreck, as given by these there are sometimes the irreparable loss of reports, was the failure of Mr. Reynolds to life, the maiming and bruising of crews, and, observe, soon enough, a signal set against as in the accident west of Toledo, the added the mail, while he was busy trying to reseat pathos of a lifetime's splendid work marred an injector check-valve, on the fireman's side by one fell stroke at its close. of the engine, which had stuck while open. Picture a man, courageous, kindly, soft- The need of this repair was urgent. It voiced, instinctively a gentleman—in short, was a fast and heavy train. The water was the highest type of locomotive engineer—in rapidly lowering in the boiler and blowing whose mind the welfare of his fellow work- back into the tank. ers and the passengers entrusted to hia. care This is first time that an by no means the are ever uppermost. engineer's natural anxiety for the proper For forty-one years, two and one-half working of the injectors, upon which his years of which are spent in firing, he runs own life, and the lives of others, largely consecutively at the head of his train, build- depend while running fast, has led to disas- ing up a well-nigh perfect record, and look- ter. And greatly as it is to be hoped, this ing ahead to that half-dreaded yet much de- will not be the last time that such a thing sired honorable retirement to which every will happen. engineer now aspires. of entering upon a We have no intention At the end of this more than average span discussion of the merits or demerits of this of a working life filled with tense activities, occurrence. are quite willing to leave We calling out the utmost from every faculty, that to the able disciplinarians and arm-chair he has arrived, with hair long since whi- philosophers duty or vagrant incli- whose tened by the strain, at the seventy-year mile- nations lead them to do it so willingly. At post of his life. the time would request these same we If we assume that he has run his trip of careful in pitting their lay-philosophers to be say one hundred miles a day for only two, of the chances and complex du- knowledge out of each three days that have gone with ties engineer against that of the engi- of an the years, he will have run a million miles himself. neer or more through that which seems to the chiefly in is the broad, What we have mind wayfaring man a fierce and menacing wilder- unfortunate and human aspect of this event, ness of sights and sounds. Forty times the the circumstances attended unusual which distance around the earth at the equator. it. One hundred and twenty-five times the dis- In Railroad Man's Magazine for The tance through it there. One ninety fifth of September, printed story 1907,. we a under the distance from earth to sun the title, " Modern Mazeppa." There is in A And if for somewhat more than twenty that story of wreck and anguish a paragraph years of this time he has pulled a passenger- that a quick response in the hearts of met train, he will have led some million or so railroad men. have reason experienced We 6f humans upon their hurrying ways safely to believe that it carried well its message through that wilderness of menacing sights of finality, fellowship, and im'plied conso- and sounds, "not one in a thousand of whom lation to many of our readers who are best has ever so much as seen him, much less appreciate healing sober able to its and touched his hand or acknowledged him a truth. leader among men. Just now. it seems to epitomize the thing This, in effect, is the almost matchless and to send forth anew a we wish to say, record of A. G. Reynolds, engineer of the human note broad and deep enough to meet mail, up to January 31, when he stood in the the that, through need of almost any sorrow Toledo station just before starting on his run mishap, to a railroad his may come man and home to Elkhart, Indiana, with his pension family. papers in his pocket, retiring him for age supposedly by The paragraph, spoken a at the end of this particular run. engineer, follows wounded is as Less than fifteen miles out of Toledo, his engine was ditched. There was death and " You see,'' he continued, when he had re- suffering for his,- fellows and himself, his gained control of himself, "there is so much spotless record was gone like a breath of to remember and to do. In most of the af- vapor blown from his cab-window, and his fairs of life, mistakes can be corrected— little lapse of thought, a little extra weari- well-earned- retirement upon pension was in ness, a little error of judgment, a little thing doubt. — ———— ; — ON THE EDITORIAL CARPET. 573 Unnumbered generations of men have Each day John Little's train went through. .read the story of leadership, of courage, of His " Mother's Signal," Little blew, momentary human weakness overmastered And all our town this signal knew, by unflagging zeal for duty, which sustained 'And well we learned to love it. too. Moses through forty years of striving His train was always run on time. through the wilderness toward Canaan. His love for mother was sublime. They have read of the one thing undone And whether passing east or west the one failure to observe the detail of the He signaled her whom he loved best. spoken law when common human needs were sorely pressing. At first this signal, loud and shrill. And now that time has truthfully revealed Pierced every one with noisesome thrill the great law-giver in the long perspective But after while our whole town knew, meant of its passing, the thing that lives in the big, What the signal Little blew. And loved to hear his engine's cry human consciousness is the aching, gripping Each day as Little's train flew by. tragedy of the indomitable leader, ripe in So reg'lar Little's train went 'long, years and honor, trudging courageously to Your watch, with it, could not be wrong. the mountain-top of his ambition, only to And thus for years this engineer. look over into the Land of Promise which Careful, skilful, without fear, he might not enter. Went running through, now east, then west Something of this feeling, we believe, will On all the road he was the best attach to the consideration of the deplorable And when his mother's town he passed, John Little blew accident in point, especially among those his loyal blast. And all the town, as he flew by. who best understand the possibility of such Rejoiced to hear his engine cry happenings in the ordinary course. His signal sweet to mother's ear. At the time of this writing, there is some And more we loved it, year by year. doubt being expressed as to the eligibility of 'Twas music sweet to ev'ry ear, an engineer to pension for age under the And sweeter it grew ev'ry year circumstances above recited. There is, how- Because it told of filial love, ever, an additional fact which may be con- Most certain of reward above. strued in favor of Mr. Reynolds. At last there came a fatal day. It is that he had reached the age-limit of And Little's spirit passed away! seventy years on the day before the accident, And nevermore within her town was. and it is said, finishing out the month of Is Little's mother's signal blown. January with one last return run to his home On open switch a freight-train lay. station, at his own request, and, of course, And John's train had the right of way. with the consent of his superior in authority. Whose fault? Not his ! But in a flash. All in all, therefore, we believe we express There came an awful—awful crash the sentiment of many railroad men and And wreck such as is seldom known And noble Little's soul had flown. others, in hoping that, long before this ap- There, underneath his engine bound, pears in print, this veteran engineer who was John Little's body, crushed, was found. treated so shabbily Fate in the very last by The whistle-valve his hand held fast. hours of his great work may have been One moment more, as he flew past honorably enrolled among the pensioned vet- His mother's home, his signal-call erans; and that his hurts of body and Would have cheered her and thrilled us all. thought may, with those of the others who And Little's mother, scarce a mile likewise suffer, be well upon the way of Away was waiting with a smile. healing. To hear her boy blow her his love. & When Little's spirit soared above. His face glowed with a heavenly light, ' "MOTHER'S SIGNAL," But Little's soul had taken flight. Now nevermore that signal will Echoes wake from hill to hill, ALBERT CAIN", an old reader of this But Lord! Our God! Father in heaven! magazine, has sent us from his home If he had sins be they forgiven! in Cochran, Indiana, the words of the fol- For faithfulness like his—and love " is lowing poem, Mother's Signal," which Must surely .find reward above. commemorative of John Little, who lost his life in a wreck at Cochran, July 30. 1894, on the B. and O. S. W. BOUQUETS AND KICKS. John Little was an engineer, we are regularly running Careful, skilful, without fear; ALTHOUGH > under two hundred A widowed mother was his care pounds working And everything he had to share pressure, we like to occasionally ease up and With her was shared in equal part, gather in the kind and unkind words with For John loved her with all his heart. which our readers are wont to strew our Missing Page: Page 574 Ifyou own this magazine, and would like to contribute, please email us the image (in JPEG format at 300 dpi) to: info@pulpmags. org Missing Page: Page 575 Ifyou own this magazine, and would like to contribute, please email us the image (in JPEG format at 300 dpi) to: info@pulpmags. org ; ;; ! —— ; ; ;: ; — —; 576 THE RAILROAD ?! AN'S MAGAZINE. And mocked at God in your hellish pride; You will roll up grades of trial, You've paid full fare, so I carry you through, You will cross the bridge of strife. For it is only right that you get your due, See that Christ is your conductor, For every laborer is worth his hire. On this lightning train of life. So I land you safe in rriy lake of fire, Always mindful of .obstruction. W here my fiery imps will torment you for- Do your duty, never fail. ever. Keep your hand upon the throttle, And all in vain you will sigh for a Savior." And your eye upon the rail. Then Tom awoke with an awful cry; His clothes soaked wet and his hair stand- Repeat Chorus. ing high. And he prayed as he had never prayed before You will always find obstructions. To be saved from hell and the devil's power. Look for storms of wind and rain, And his crying and praying was not in vain. On a fill, or curve, or trestle. For he never more rode on the hell-bound They will almost ditch your train. train. Put your trust alone in Jesus, Never falter, never fail TELL ME XOT! Keep your hand iipon the throttle, And your eye upon the rail. Teu. me not in box-car numbers Repeat Chorus. Life is but an empty dream. If you're working for a railroad. As you roll across the trestle, Oh, how happy life must seem Spanning death's dark, swelling tide, You behold the union depot. Life is business on a railroad, Into which your train will glide. Where you have to do things right. There you'll meet the Superintendent, Do just what the yardmaster tells you, God, the Father—God, the Son, Labor hard from morn till night. With the hearty, joyous plaudit, '" " Weary pilgrim, welcome home ! Lives of railroad men remind us We must never be sublime, Repeat Chorus. But when going leave behind us Garnishes upon our time. MY DAD'S THE ENGINEER. Garnishes which perhaps some other Wandering on this stormy main BY CHARLES GRAHAM. Some forlorn and wayward brother Seeing shall pass on again. (Copyriglit, 1905, by Henry J. Wehnian. Ail rights reserved.) When our working days are over, We were none of us thinking of danger. And our harvest days are spent, As the train sped on in the night, With our shoes all worn and dusty, 'Till the flames from a burning forest With our backs all tired and bent. Made the passengers wild with fright. Then a tiny maid near a window, with a shall near the gates of heaven. We smile, said But inside we'll never get, "There's nothing to fear; For St. Peter there will tell us, I'm sure that no harm will befall you *' We've no railroad men here yet." My dad's the engineer." Refrain. LIFE'S RAILWAY TO HEAVEN. " Daddy's on the engine, don't be afraid BY CHARLIE D. TILLMAN. Daddy knows what he is doing," said the little maid (Copy righted, 1910. by Charlie D. Tillman.) " We'll soon be out of danger, don't you ever fear Life is like a mountain railroad. Every one is safe, because my Dad's the With an engineer that's brave engineer." 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Being very compact it saves room in the kitchen and "MaKes CooKing Easy." This range is also made with elevated gas oven instead of end style, shown above, or if gas is not desired, with or without reservoir on right end. The Glenwood Ash Chute may be used instead of a pan, when kitchen is on first floor. This wonderful con- venience saves lugging ashes, as they are dropped direct to ash barrel in basement without a particle of dust or dirt in kitchen (see illustration). Write for handsome booklet of the plain Cabinet Glenwood Combination Coal, Wood and Gas range, mailed free. Direct in Ash Barrel WEIR STOVE CO., TAUNTON, MASS. Manufacturers of the celebrated Glenwood Ranges, Parlor Stoves, Furnaces, Water and Steam Boilers. In answering this advertisement it is THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Young Men Wanted U^M it AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS CHAUFFEURS, automobile salesmen and repairmen get big pay for pleasant, congenial work, because the demand for /rained men exceeds the supply. We have taught hundreds of young men without previous mechanical experience, and we can teach you in ten weeks if you study a few hours a week. The work is interesting. You see everything worth seeing on tours—you go everywhere. Our simple course by mail guarantees efficiency because all our instruction is personal. Our gradu- To Automobile ates are everywhere, earning Owners and Garages $25.00 a week and up. Ask them about us and about the positions When you want competent chauf- they have secured. feurs or men for any class of au- Answer This Ad Today tomobile work, Ask us for the first lesson. We will send it write to us. We without any charge, and from can put you I it you will get an idea of how in touch we train you in ever}' phase of with the automobile knowledge. You will be impressed at once with man you the remarkable thoroughness want. of the instruction outlined even in this preliminary lesson. Write today—now ! T - - / y Empire Auto. Institute 945 Dake Bldg. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Tlic Original Automobile School. - m I , In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. A New and Becoming Style in Collars 2 for 25c. The Only Collars with Linocord Endless Buttonholes Two Heights: In collars the Style, Fit and Comfort depend on HALLEY, %Yi In. having strong, sound buttonholes. No matter how- COMET. 2H in- Quarter Sizes. good the collar may be in every other particular, once a buttonhole is stretched or broken, you have a gaping, slovenly, ill-fitting collar. THE LINOCORD BUTTONHOLE is made with an eyelet like the buttonhole in your coat, hence is pliable, easy to put on and off. It is reinforced all around with a Stout Linen Cord, which makes it so strong it can't possibly stretch or break, even with the hardest or longest wear—a SILVER Collar will always fit and look as the designer intended SEND FOR " WHAT'S WHAT." The latest word in Men's Fashions. It embodies the dicta of the foremost fashion authorities with reference to every item of men's apparel. It not only tells what to wear but also what not to wear. Fully illustrated. Invaluable for reference. Yours for the asking. Linocord Endless Eyelet Buttonhole. GEO. P. IDE & CO., 480 River Street, Troy, New York. BEVERLY GRISWOLD HARBORD HARMON In answering this advertisement it is desirable thai you mention Tnii Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. {jawesvoij (jal hats The very newest shapes for spring wear— the style leaders of them all—are shown in Hawes, von Gal Hats. Note especially the beauty of the telescope soft hat— a style be- coming to almost every man. Compare a Hawes, von Gal Hat—either stiff or soft—with a hat of any other make—the quality is apparent. Ask your dealer about the guarantee. Prices, $3, $4 and $5. We are Makers of the cJ&phtt, Celebrated $3.00 Hats II not at your local dealer's, write lor our new Spring Style Book "/?." IVe will fill your order direct from the factory if you will indicate style wanted and give your hat size, your height, weight and waist measure. Add 25 cents to cover cost of expressage. rrt\-> I un . — *? nuinuic unites: DANBURY, Connecticut 1178 BfOadwaV, NeW York CHICAGO boston In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Look for this Trade Mark on Outing Shirts. Negligee Shirts. Men's and Women's Pajamas. Office Coats. Athletic Summer Underwear. Women's Shirt Waists, Etc. SOIESETTE is the ideal summer fabric for men's ready-to-wear garments. Looks like silk, feels like silk. Much more durable—at a fraction of the cost. Look for on each this label SOIESETTE** garment —^REGISTERED Retains its fresh, snappy, lustrous appearance and rich coloring after repeated laundering. Always fashionable, cool, healthful. By the yard in over 50 shades at all retail stores. SOIESETTE stamped on selvage of every yard CLARENCE WHITMAN & CO., Mfrs., 39 Leonard St., New York In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. 1JR EASTE Prize Offer? A Prize for 100 Persons Who Write a Reason for Preferring shirley PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS Your letter, giving one reason " Why a Man Should Prefer SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS" may win one of the 100 Prizes. THE PRIZES: I si prize $50.00 in money 21 M to 50th Prizes j 2nd prize 40.00 in money 1 pair silk SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS, 3rd prize 30.00 in money with g'll trimmings, value $1. 4th piize 25.00 in money 5lh prize 20.00 in money 5 1st to 1 00th Prizes 6lh to 10th prizes 10.00 in money I pair SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS I I th to 20th prizes 5.00 in money | (Regular 50c. slock). We want a letter from everyone In every walk of life Reason " Why a Man Should Prefer SHIRLEY PRESI- telling what he believes to he the one reason DENT SUSPENDERS." " Why a Man Should Prefer— Then sign your name, indicate plainly your address, SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS." and give the nam*' of your Clothing Dealer, or Haber- dasher, and addi'CMH. It Is essential that we have We will pay $r>0.00 in Cash for the Rest Letter of 200 the dealer's address, for the pri/.es will be distributed words or le*». answering this query. Ami $L'ir>.oo through him uliellier lie hells S II I It L E Y more will be apportioned among the lit next closest I'KDiSIDI.M SI NIM:m>s:ks or not. competitors.. Give one reason only. Make your letter short— not Besides these cash prizes, we will distribute SO pairs more than 200 words. (Date, Address, Signature and of S1IIULKV PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS to eighty other Dealer's Name not being counted as words.) Forge! contestants. grammar and avoid "adverlisy" adjectives. What we This contest is wide open to anyone, anywhere. There waul is a simple expression >•( your reason for pre- is no fee, no condition, no Obligation, Simply state on ferring SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS to all one side of your paper what you consider the One Best other kinds. CONTEST CLOSES APRIL 15th -Tin n > — and all letters postmarked . after midnight of the loth " ill / be disqualified. Wateh our ad- vertisements closely after that date. P. F. Collier* Son and The Frank A. Munsey Company will each furnish an expert to assist Mr. C. V. Kdgarton, of The C. A. Edgarton Manufacturing Com- pany, in selecting the Best Let- ters. The names of the winners will be announced and prizes L awarded about May loth. There are plenty of Reasons for preferring SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPEND- ERS, but what particular feature appeals to you—and why ? TeU. ua in a Contest Letter. SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS 1769 MAIN STREET, SHIRLEY, MASS. In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention The Kailuoad Man's Magazine. ' — THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. "Onyx Hosiery Trade Mark For Men Good Men and True Everywhere Learn how and where to get Good Hosiery, not for to-day, but for all time Commit to memory the TRADE MARK, illustrated above, a stamped on every pair of Onyx" Hosiery, so that you cannot fail to get the satisfactory kind. No Trade Mark ever stood for such Honest Value as this. The New "Onyx" Doublex Quality will interest you. It consists in the re-enforcement of heel and toe with a specially prepared yarn of extra strength, doubling the wearing Quality. All weights from medium to sheerest fabric, in Cotton, Lisle, Silklisle and pure Thread Silk, have this important feature, and shown in great color range. Colors—Black, White, Tan, Paris Tan, French Grey, Loudon Smoke, Cadet, Navy, Reseda, Amethyst, Purple, Ruby, in fact all shades to match any color scheme desired. A few of the many excellent Qualities are described below—Try them ' ' You will place the ' Onyx Brand on a par with your favorite brand of cigar. Make it your Business to get a pair of "Onyx" Hose and know what good hosiery is really like E380 Men's "ONYX" Black and Colored Gossamer 930/8 Men's "ONYX" Black and Colored Silklisle Lisle " Doublex" Heel and Toe, very superior quality, and with self clocks, "Doublex" Quality; re-enforced heel, exquisite weight for Spring wear . . . 50c a pair sole and toe 50c a pair E330 Men's "ONYX" Black and Colored Silklisle Men's Clack and Colored Silklisle E3S5 "ONYX" "Doublex" Heel and Toe, re-enforccd sole soft, lus- "Doublex" Heel and Toe, re-enforced sole, feels and ; trous, silky, gauze weight ; the equal of this quality does not looks like silk; wears better; without exception the best exist • 75c a pair value obtainable 50c a pair E31J Men's "ONYX" Black only "Doublex" Heel E 310 Men's "ONYX" Black and Colored Lisle and Toe, double solej finest quality sea island combed " Doublex ".Heel and Toe, double sole, special woven six Lisle ; the sheerest weight made ; will be a revelation in thread heel and toe, and four thread all over . 50c a pair fineness of texture and durability . . 75c a pair 020 Men's " ONYX " Black and Colored Pure Thread Silk inner lisle-lined sole ; doubles life of hose ; one of the most reliable silk numbers, $1.50 a pair If your dealer cannot supply you, we will direct you to nearest dealer, or send, postpaid, any number desired. Write to Dept. 93. Lord & Taylor Wholesale Distributors New York In answering this advertisement it fs desirable that you mention The Railkoad Man's Magazine. — THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. ON SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS MubhIvc Ai.I.-Rk*>- Hie, Itir^o 'J-hir/i posf*. tiny wl.lth il attired, heavy BRASS BED Kciniiin' Efreitcli lacquer, i suarauteeil 10 year*, in either brij(l or *uiin Kntfcli ; mn-r extraordinary value.. Terms $'i ms/i, $7 month 12: Homes Furnished Kverythln"; for (he home on Open Account Credit—the credit that IS so iuuch appreciated by the beat families in Chicago to lay. This splendid credit service is now offer©! to you no matter where you live or what your salary or Are yon prepared for Mil* call—no miitfer from position may. be. It's credit of the highest character which department it corneal Just tlilnK What it Ihpronghly cMKriffted *nH pjeaaknt—very convenient and helpful. You would mean to have constiinlly :il your elliow Tor send ti very a mull mini Willi oriter, we ship goon's at once ami you pay consultntlon. an expert on the very problems that na itn you Hnrl It convenient. You may take a year on every pin-chute. puzzle you. That'HjiiNt vtlial you would have In the We cliarne absolutely nothlns for thi** credit Service—nb Interest—-no extra* of any kind. No security reqttlreil. Abioiuta Hnti»fa^tidn or money back. Everything conHdetitlnl, CYCLOPEDIA OF CATALOG N2: m FREE Write for our Bis New Catalog. It's an immense volume, ben nti fully APPLIED ELECTRICITY illustrated In colors, quoting factory prices on furniture, carpets, rut;*, curtains, piano*. .vwIiilj marhihes, crockery, clocks, lamp*, illverwWe, Six Big Volumes—Bound in Half Morocco - 9.8AG go-enrta, rerrfs-ratnrn, sloven, ranges, etc., etc. Wiite at oiice for this Pases 7 i I < Inches- print*'*! on siicrinl uaprr preat Bargain Cut at ok—Write today in largo, clear t>P'' - -,000 full page Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co. plates, dingranui« formula*, etc. Dept. 0-3 223-229 Wahash Ave.. Ctiicaffo. IT.-&, A. Written by thirty export Electrical Engineers, the biggest men Largest, oldest bent homefurnisliiog in and known Concern America. in the profession. It is a working guide for the student or Established 1855 55 years of success— hie stores— over 2,eoo,oooDo — practical electrician, or a ready reference work for the expeit. liomea furnished—over "flu,0i>0 enstomera today—capital and resources h^ar^er^h^u^Mi|i^of^n^ Examine the Books at Our Expense So confident are we that the books are just wh3t you want, lhat we will send ihem to you by prepaid express— you keep the books 5 days—examine them carefully, test them, apply them to your every-day work. If satisfied that the books are the most complete and comprehensive work ever published on TT more $'2. WOULD COST electricity, keep them, send 00 within five days and $2.00 A a month until you have paid $18.80, the special introductory than $11,000 to send a price—the regular list price is $'it>.00. If not suited to your needs, notify us. We will send for them at our expense. Fill post-card to the million-and- in and until tho coupon today— the hooks will he »nl ion m unre. more homes that read "The IMPORTANT SUBJECTS TREATED Kleetrie Wiring?— Kleetrie Telegraph. - Wireless Argosy Combination" every Telegraphy—Telautograph— Theory . fl'alenlat ion. Design ami ('on*! met ton of 4icnernlnrs nutl month. Motors -Types of Dynamos ami Molors- Elevators —Direct Current Motors — Direel-DrM *>n Machine Shop Tools— Electric Lighting Kleetrie Railways —Management of Dynamos and Motors— I'owcr Advertisers who know are StutiouB-Centrnl station Engineering- storage Batteries— Power Transmission—Alter nal ing Cur- using this short-cut rent Machinery — Telephony — Automatic Tele- phone—Wire I chh Telephony, etc. For a *hort time we will Include, a« a monthly supplement, for one year, the TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE. iTilfl i« .1 reSiilBl tl.50 monthly, lull of Twentieth Century SctentlnV fartw. written In popular form. Alno contain* the latest dlseiianlonn on timely Inpica in inven- tion, discovery, Industry, etc. FREE OFFER COUPON AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CORRESPONDENCE CHICAGO, U. S. A. Please send set Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity for five day?' Classified Advertising frei ^examination. Also T. W. (or one year. I will send $2 within five days and $2. a month until I nave paid $18.80; or Kate per Line The notify you and hold the books subject to your order. Title not Argosy $1.50 to pass until lully paid. The All-Story Macazine 1.00 Special The Kailrmifl Mali's Magazine .75 Combination The Oavaller .60 Rate NAME £ $3.00 $3.75 ) ADDRESS Minimum 1 lines; Maximum l'J lines, Ten per cent discount for six consecutive Insertions. OCCUPATION The Frank A. Munsey Company EMPLOYER 175 Fifth Avenue, New York R. H. Man's, I-'IO In anticering anu advertisement on this page it it desirable lhat you mention The Railboad Man'8 Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Go in Business (or Yourself Let Us Send You a Little Giant Cleaner On 30 Days Trial A Little Giant Cleaner should pay for itself in less than two months, out of the profits of the business after paying help and all expenses. It is capable of earning; $250.00 to $300.00 clear profit a month and we cannot see where there is a possible chance for anyone that buys a machine to fail to make big: money, but every reason why they should make thousands of dollars. Give Us a Chance to Help You You can make $2500 to $3000 a year on each machine. It advertises itself and orders for work come pouring in so you should be busy all the time. The Little Giant House Cleaner is proving one of the greatest money-makers ever put on the market. If you are willing to hustle you can easily make $2,500 to $3,000 a year on each machine you own. Make a start to-day and you will never regret it. As soon as you earn money enough and have one machine paid for, buy another, hire other men and let them make $10 or $15 a day for you. Getting one of these machines and hiring a man to run it, beats working for a living to a standstill. Be "Johnny on the Spot" with a machine and get the cream of the business. If you can get a number of these machines working.thty should make you rich. We believe there never has been a machine placed on the market that has so pleased everybody, met with such immediate success, and made so much money as the house cleaning machine. A Perfect Wonder Nothing to Compare With It. The Little Giant reaches every crack, corner and There are several small machines on the market for home crevice of the floor; the cracks in the wall, the ceiling use to be worked either by hand or a small water or electric and mouldings. It cleans and renovates bedding, com- motor, but they have never been a success because they do forts, blankets, mattresses and pillows; the cracks or not have power enough to clean with, although they will crevices in wooden and iron beds: even the dust, fuzz and draw the top dust from the room. The Little Giant other accumulation in tightly coiled woven-wire springs. Cleaner does the same work in the same way as the large It consists of a powerful gasoline engine, a double machines costing from $2,000 to ¥7,000 each. It has the acting suction air pump, a vacuum condenser, cold water same size hose. tank, electric spark battery, vacuum gauge, high-pressure We have seen it pull out pail after pail of dirt from suction hose, observation glass and cleaning tools—all houses—dirt that was impossible to remove completely by properly connected so as to work in unison and give the the ordinary means of beating, etc. When it is working desired results. The whole is erected on a substantial on the streets, the dirt and filth pouring through the obser- four-wheel wagon, to be drawn by hand, so that it can be vation glass attracts a crowd of people that look with moved from place to place. wonder. They would not believe it possible. Our Liberal Offer -Pay for it Out of Your Profits We want you to investigate this exceptional opportunity. We do not believe Send the Coupon there is any business where so small an investment will bring such wonderful returns, for Free Book because right here in Toledo we have proved this by our own actual experience fall informa- We have such implicit confidence in tho wonderful money-making powers of tlio Little tion and Giant lIou*e Cleaner— that wo will ship ono to any live man. who is honest and Our Easy willing lo work, on SO l»ny'« Trial—upon such liberal terms that it is next to impos- Terms. . ^jtf sible to lose. We will oven go further and allow you to pay for It fn Installment** and in such a way that your profit should easily t&ko caro of your payments. In onr illustrated hook we give full particulars as to how to organize your business solicit orders, what to charge for tho work and how to turn evory minute of your tl.np money. We will send it to you free. Evory ambitions man who lias any "get-up" i him should write at once for this book. A postage stamp will bring it to you and it will show you how you can become independent and ono of tho prosperous men in your community. McCreery Manufacturing Co. 114 McCreery Building Toledo, Ohio III answering ""'s advertisement it is tlisirablc that you mention The Raii.koap Man's Magazine. ; THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAOAZINK—ADVERTISING SECTION. FISH, OYSTERS, All Sea Foods No better or more delicate flavor can be added to all Fish Cooking than by using LEA & PERRINS SAUCE THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE Soups, Stews and Hashes, Steaks, Roasts, Chops, Game, Gravies, Charing Dish Cooking, Salads, Welsh Rarebit and many other dishes are improved by its use. See that Lea & Perrins' Signature is on Wrapper and Label. 0HN Duncan's Sons, Agents, New York. Avoid Imitations. . J O MAN OR WOMAN wastes time in reading the advertising pages of The Railroad Man's Magazine. They are instructive, informative, and N full of new ideas. Somewhere in this advertising section there is a description of something you want, ana the advertisement is going to suggest it to your mind. If it accomplishes this, and offers the article to you at a saving in dollars and cents, it has done you a real service. Why not let these advertisements help you ? This Electric Engine FREE with one year's subscription to Mr,M POPULAR ELECTRICITY The attractive electric engine we offer is2'- times size shown in illustra- tion. It runs like lightning a long time oh one cell of ordinary wet or dry battery. Not a cheap cast iron toy. but a perfect en trine made on the scientific solenoid principle. Has a speed control and reversing lever; very powerful, interesting and instructive. Your boy may b<* the future Edison ; give him a start. Both of you will enjoy reading the Miracles of Electricity in plain, simple language. Popular Klec*tri<*ily is an intensely interesting mag- electricity. 10" or mor«» illiiMlrnlion* <*aeli mouth. azine to young and old alike ; in fact, everybody who wishes Every issue as interesting as the mn>t fascinating romance up-to-date information on all electrical events. Every issue every reading leaves one better intormed and benefited as well loll* In plnin Knifli«li and beautifully pictures (he, many as happily entertained. Cleanest and best magazine published. # new and wonderful things accomplished daily by electricity- Send U5 $1.00 (Canadian $1.35, Foreign fl f>0), regularyearly things that you would never know of or even dream of unless subscription price, and get this scientific Electric Engine at you read this monthly publication. once and receive the magazine regularly for the next 12 mouths. Its^ pages transform dry technical accounts into fascinating POPULAR ELECTRICITY PUBLISHING CO. and instructive stories, in language so plain and simple that everyone can get a clear knowledge of the wonderful mysteries of 1247 Monadnock Bid-.. Chicago, III. In anawering any adxwtUement on this page it it deiirable that you mention The Railboad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Send Today for " Only the man who is The Master "—master of himself—master of his trade or profession, wins Our Personal to You Offer great success. You can educate yourself—you can prepare for advancement by using a portion of this Great to First Buyers in Specialized Engineering Library. The Cyclopedia of Engineering Each Community of steam boilers, steam, gas is a practical, general reference work on and oil engines, marine and locomotive work, mechanical drawing, management of dynamos and motors, electric lighting and wiring, etc. Hand-Made Schmoller These six volumes contain 3,200 pages, size 7x10 inches, and over 2.000 full-page plates, drawings, diagrairs. formulas, tables, solutions, etc. Also contains a series of practical test questions, with ready reference. and is carefully indexed for & Mueller Pianos Read This Liberal Offer Five thousand HAND-MADE SCHMOLLER & MIJELLEU — $2.00 a Month PIANOS to sell this season. An impossible task—were we $2.00 Down offering any other than a High Grade, Fully Guaranteed and Upon receipt nf coupon we will send you a set of ihis great Cyclo- for Twenty-five Years, Sweet Mellow Toned pedia, by prepaid express, without deposit or guarantee of any kind. SCHMOLLER & MUELLER Piano. But this Piano soils itself. It makes numberless friends. Keep the books five days.examine them carefully.give them every possi- Often-one SCHMOLLER & MUELLER PIANO In a new com- ble test. want you to be the judge—you are under no obligations. We munity helps to sella, 4, 6 and even 12 other SCHMOLLER want, advise us and we If you decide the books are not what you & MUE1.LKR PIANOS. Makes customers—lifelong—friends— send will have them returned al our expense. !f you keep the books, that's the record of this Piano, which lias created such favor- us $2.00 within five days, then $2.00 a month until you have paid able comment with music, lover.- everywhere. the special price of $18.80. The regular list price is $36.00. So—our task in finding buyers for these Five Thousand COVEBKII SCHMOLLER & MUELLER PIANOS will be easy by IMPORTANT SUBJKCTS placing one SCHMOLLER & MUELLER PIANO in every Steam, Gas and Oil Engines, Calorimeters, Pumps, Elevators, community. Indicators, Valve Gears, Turbines, Compression and Absorption To first buyers our proposition is unparalleled. Never has Refrigeration, Gaseous and Liquid Fuel. Condensers. Navigation, it been approached. A straight-out-and-oufr saving of Air Brakes, Machine Shop Work, Ventilation, Heating, Air $100.00 to $lf.o.00 of customary middlemen's profits which buyers pay when purchasing from dealers has always been Compressors, Principles and Management of Direct Current the record of saving of the & MUELLER Dynamos and Motors, Storage Batteries, Automobiles, etc. SCHMOLLER PIANO. This first buyer proposition means a still greater saving. Special Offer If You Mail Coupon Promptly We can't take the space to give it here, but will tell you all For a slmri time we will-include, as a monthly supplement, about it if you write to-day as the tlrst buyer in your com- for one year, the TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE; munity. Use coupon, till out plainly and send direct to us. This is a regular $1.50. monthly, full of Twentieth Century Our Complete Personal First Buyer Proposition comes Scientific facts, written in popular form. Also contains the bnck to you by return mail with our Complete Handsomely latest discussion on timely top.es in invention, discovery, Illustrated Piano Book. Do it right now. Send to industry, etc. Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. FREE OFFER COUPON Dept. A. C. 04. (Est. 1859) OMAHA, NEB. i . . FILL OUT COUPON. SEND TO-DAY . . AMERICAN SCHOOL of CORRESPONDENCE Schmoller Mueller Piano Co., S. A Chicago, U. A. Department A. 0. 0-1, Omaha, Neb. Gentlemen— I would like to have your proposition to the P|6M« p.n OCCUPATION Addi EMPI-OyKE - I:. l-'lu In answering any advertisement on llii.i page if is desirable thai gnu mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Beginning With 24 Hens You Can CLEAR $ 1 440 PER YEAR GUARANTEE Claims Included in Guarantee do hereby agree to re- \X^E 1 . Men and women alike can operate the Miller System ' " fund the full purchase price of the MILLER SYS- without previous experience and secure the full results. TEM BOOK by return mail 2. The hens can be at free range or up. to any purchaser at the penned regular who, having price, 3. Only a garden plot of ground is necessary for 24 hens. followed the system as directed therein, fails to 4. No specially built coops are needed. realize the results claimed 5. Cost for Miller feed for each hen, 5 cents per month. below. This guarantee is good for one year. Number of eggs laid not less than 220 per hen per year. Show this guarantee lo your lawyer. 6. Cost of feed for maturing a broiler, 5 cents. Time required, seven weeks. PVEN A TEN DAY J-' 7. Cost of feed for maturing a laying pullet, 15 cents; time TEST will show a high increase in egg production required, five months. and decrease in expense. Hens respond immediately 8. The Miller Brooder is heated by spontaneous com- to our method. Thirty days bustion. Fuel costs cent a month. It requires refilling once % will suffice to demonstrate " " in 2 months. The result is heat of same feeling and tem- the value of our foods and perature as body heat of a hen. And it is uniform regardless feeder in speedy maturing of chicks. If not satisfied of weather conditions. Ninety per cent, of chicks will positively with the results you get mature. Almost no attention is required. from either or both of these tests, return book 9. The Miller System will compel each hen to net not less and we will refund pur- than $25.00 a year, and if the system is completely obeyed chase price. $120.00 a year— $60.00 per hen a year being easy to attain. There is a reason why the Miller System brings these wonderful results. It will all seem "so simple " when you read THE MILLER SYSTEM BOOK It is in three books or volumes, the regular price being 50c. per volume, These three volumes bound under one cover make a work of over I 50 pages. VOL. I. contains the illustrations and plans VOL. II. is a hand book of VOL. III. contains symptoms for ihe construction of the Miller System Coops Miller System Secrets. It is and cures for the poultry and Devices and for Setting Up and Operating a condensed encyclo" diseases, including Roupe. the "Poultry Plant "(24 and 32 hens being pedia arranged for ready Cholera, White Diarrhea, taken as units). reference. etc. Send SI. SO for Miller System Book (the three complete volumes bound ^PFC^l*-* A 1-vI CiFPFf?I •J' \J I jn one), an(/ your name will be placed on subscription list for twelve months of Poultry Monthly, the official organ of the Miller System, which contains the Miller System Monthly Supplement, and keeps the system up to date. It is a place for questions and answers and for discussions of Miller System users. ADDRESS Deportment MILLER SYSTEM COMPANY, T. R. I. BINGHAMTON, N. Y. /h answering tliis advertisement it it desirable that you mention The Raildoad Man's Magazine. — , — — THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. TRADE MARK.' THE TOOL OF A HUNDRED USES TRADE MARK For Instance, Mending More Uses Water Faucet , Gas Jet , Chain \ You can bend or straighten Kitchen Utensils, Fur- wire, metal or nails. niture or Bric-a-Brae, Shade Rollers, Toys, You can pull tacks or Harness, Pictures, . nails or most any- Electric Bell, Purse, \ thing that needs Glove Fasteners, pulling. Hat Frame, and You can place or hundreds of other remove screw- things, and any eyes, screws or man, woman or screw-hooks. child can use it effectively \v i t h You can open or ease. close a chain link with ease. More Uses You can cut cord, You can remove wire, metal, nails, hot pots or pans or even a hair. from the stove, or Think a moment You can open a box of such a high or a can. development in cut- lery, and the lasting Its uses are unnum- quality is assured by bered. factorv tests. No. 700 UTICA HOUSEHOLD PLIER Size 7 inches. Price 85c. Add 15c. for mailing. Why go without a UTICA PLIER when the cost is so small and the saving in time, money and worry is so great? To mention, even most briefly, the varied uses of a No. 700 t TICA Household Plier would occupy pages. Every home, store, office, stable, workshop or factory should contain one or more UTICA PLIERS, and the possession of one will imme- diately prove how indispensable it is. Buy one from your hardware dealer, but if he tries to sell you a substitute, send us #1.00 and we will mail you one postpaid with privilege of return- ing it to us if you think you can afford to be without it. and we will refund the price of the tool. Never accept a substitute for UTICA PLIERS. We make PLIERS and NIPPERS in all necessary styles and sizes for everybody. Sendfor booklet showing all styles and prices. Address Dept. 54 UBTl tt CA" UTICA DROP FORGE AND TOOL CO. UTICA, N. Y. TRADE I1ARK TRADE MARK In answering this advertisement it is desirahtc that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Announcement The NEW IVER JOHNSON Safety Automatic Revolver home defender whose safety feature is an i7i but It, integral part of its mechanism, has been brought to the highest perfection yet achieved in a revolver. In this latest model of the Johnson revolver tension is sus- undergone no famous "Hammer the Hammer" tained equally throughout every change. It is revolver, improvements have point of the coil. There is no the same safe been made which add immeasur- one point to weaken under use and sound ^^^^^^^w^^ ably to smoothness of action, and finally break down—and leave "Hammer the certainty of fire, and durability you defenseless in a moment Hammer." It safeguards you of mechanism in a small arm. when possibly life depends upon from accident without your hav- Every spring in the New Iver action. It is positive, trust- ing to remember any directions Johnson Revolver is made of fin- worthy and practically good for how to use, to push a slide or est piano wire, drawn tempered, the life of the revolver itself. press a button when you want to replacing the old fiat springs. The Iver Johnson is the fir-.:t shoot — say in an emergency. It Coil springs are insisted upon by and only revolver equipped with is always ready to shoot, in- the United States Government in this type of spring at every pos- stantly, accurately and hard. its rifles wherever possible. Note sible point. It is positively the The accurate, splendid shoot- these coil springs in the "ghost highest type of small arm ever ing qualities and high penetration picture" above. made. And while fitted to work of the Iver Johnson are unsur- The flat, or "kick" spring of as smooth as velvet, 'the action of passed because the barrel (drop old type revolvers is always at the Iver Johnson is simple, strong forged from the finest steel made greatest tension at one point, and and dependable for a lifetime. for the purpose) is rifled as accu- after long use fatigue attacks the The safety action of the Iver rately as in revolvers that cost metal at that point and the spring Johnson Revolver is as impossible several times as much. The weakens or breaks down. in improve upon as it is impossi- bullet flics fast and true. The Iver In the coil springs of the Iver ble to imitate and has therefore Johnson is in a class all its own. Our Booklet, "Shots," mailed FREE with catalogue, explains the superior features of our revolvers, including the new models: Iver Johnson Safety Hammer Revolver Iver Johnson Safety Hammerless Revolver 3-inch barrel, nickel -plated finish. 3-inch barrel, nickel plated finish. 22 rim-iir.- cartridge. 32 *e nn 32 or 3S center-fire cart- A* nn or 38 center fire cartridRe JDiUU ridge $ liUU Nearly all sporting eoods or hardware dealers carry, and will gladly demonstrate Iver Johnson Revolvers and their safely features. Where our Revolvers are unobtainable locally, we ship direct on receipt of price. The Owl's head on the trip aud our name on the barrel mark the genuine. IVER JOHNSON'S ARMS & CYCLE WORKS, 172 River St., Fitchburg, Mass. New Vouk—f) Chambers St. HAMBURG, Germany—Pickhuben 4. Pacific Coast—717 Market St.. San Francisco London. England— 17 Mincinc Lane, E. C. Makers of Iver Johnson Single Barrel Shot Guns and Iver Johnson Truss Bridge Bicycles In answering this advertisement it Is desirable that you mention Tub Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. INVEST YOUR SAVINGS Remarkable Profit-Sharing Offer TVJBVER before lias the small investor had a better opportunity ^ to place his savings where they will be amply protected and at the same time produce for him a guaranteed income. If you have $50, $100 or $i,ooo, or if you can save a few dollars each 1110,11th, which you would invest where it will provide you with a large immediate income, with the opportunity for still greater profits, you will be interested in reading a book we have just issued and which we will send to you free on request. In this book we have outlined the story of the foremost business of its kind in America, of the splendid success of the business, of its unusually large profits, and of the stability of its earnings. In this book we have also outlined, as a part of its plan for handling its large and increasing business, an offer made by this Company by which you may share, on an unusual basis, in the greater profits which this Company will make. Please Note These Facts: 1 . Your investment is guaranteed by ample assets of great value. 2. You will receive dividends from the very start. 3. The business is firmly established. 4. It is in a thriving and prosperous condition. 5. It has very great prospects for the future. In addition to the guaranteed income paid at once, the opportu- W nity offered is extraordinary because of the profit-sharing fea- ture, by which you may share permanently in all the future profits of the Company, in its large and rapidhy increasing «-•»<> business. The Departments of the United Stales Government, leading r. s. peale professional and business men in every Slate in the Union. President J: J •> ' . and in the Prox'inccs in Canada, purchase and endorse 2Z5 Mitn Ave. ' -* New York //u , product of this Company, which is of world-wide Please send me interest in its character. book explaining your ^ , . . • Profu-sharing offer " This most interesting book, fully explaining without obligation on . •< -1 *> Ol : r\a )> -11 l. J my pan. our Pront-bharing Oner, will be mailed Name to you promptly on request. ... Cut Out the Coupon and Mail It To-dav Address — — In answering lliit atli-ertisemcnt it is desirable thai you mention The Kailboad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. DIAMONDS ON CREDIT SYSTEM A BEAUTIFUL. DIAMOND OR FOR AN EASTER PRESENT A SOLID GOLD WATCH Write for Our Now Catalog containing: over 1500 beautiful photographic illustrations of Diamonds. Watches and Artistic Jowclrr. Select any article you would like to own or present as a gift to a loved one; it will be sent on approval to your home, place of business, or express oftice, without any obligation whatiivor on your part. If itia satisfactory in every wiy, pay one-fifth down and keop it, balance in ei);ht equal monthly amounts. If uot entirely satisfactory, return it. We pay all charges and take all risks. We havo obsulnto faith in our goods because wo know they are tbo very best quality and highest erado of workmanship. An Account With Us \a a confidential matter. Our customers aee their charge accounts with us year after year, finding thcin a great conveniooco at such tinios as Easter, birthdays, anniversaries. engoeomoats. weddings,gradua- tion, etc. An v person of honest intentions may open a confidential charge account with us. omdso - Diamonds as an Investment ^,h° ™lo of mSSP *¥& increase in value from l$% to20%eacli year. Our prices EASTER SPECIAL The Old Reliable Original Diamond and Watch Credit House I0FTIS aro lowest; our terms are easiest. Ladles' end Gentlomun's Dept. D 661 p 92 to 98 State St., Chicago, III. Wo allow %% discount on all cosh Solitaire Diamond Rings BROS.&CO. Branch Stores: Pittsburg, Pa., and St. Louis, Mo. ordors.Write today. Don't delay. Torms: $3.76 por Month Write Today for This Superb fpPiano Catalog CONTAINS cardboard easels of the vari- ITous styles of pianos, besides a full and complete account of how superior excel- lence in a piano is achieved. It explains the acoustical, grooved sounding board and other features that add vastly to the tonal purity of the Lyon & Healy Piano. PIANO $350 and Upward This piano is so different from others that only by reading the catalog can you understand its advantages. Will you not fill out this cou- pon and mail it today? LYON & HEALY Makers of the Lyon & Healy Pinno and Ihc Lyon & Ileal) llarp 25,000 Women Know It COUPON TO BE FILLED 0L7- 23,000 women know that the Imperial Self heating Flat- iron niakes ironing comfortable because of less heat, and Mcssrs. HEALY, LYON & saves its cost in fuel. Uses gasoline or 18-28 Adams Street. Chicago alcohol. No wires, tubes or strings—just Gentlemen: — Please send Souvenir catalog a plain iron — heats itself — satisfaction containing easel-back illustrations, etc. guaranteed. Without question the most satisfactory self-heating iron made. 25,000 JWi me in use alreadv. One salesman has sold 8,000 in California. HVife /or l- - ki'i mid ailtlret* nf Manx* aqtney—va cliarge. The Imperial Brass Manufacturing Co., 455 Jefferson Street, Chicago Toiph and Stale [GO] NOTK : Agents wanted everywhere. Kasy sales— good profit*— satisfied rusloiuers. Sell a woman an imperial Iron and yon need not be afraid to go back. In answering any advertisement on this page it is dcsirahle that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazinu. — : ' THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Pay as You are Able Send at once — today — for Woolf's Inc. magnificent value EDISON ' ? encyclopedia, picturing and de- •v scribing hundreds of up-to-tlie- Phonograph Ofler second spring styles, in "classy" This is Mr. Edison's men's and women's spring and sum- latest supremely fine mer garments. phonograph—a mus- (let the book, and take ical wonder— unsur- your time about paying passable in clear- for anything you need. ness and beauty of tone. The new out- One-Half Year fit with the new AMBEROL RECORDS to Pay circulars sent You can buy any ar- FREE / tide of clothing—no \I money down — and *^ take your time alioul paving' for it. Yoa have credit and should use it. You need have no hesitancy. Your dealings with us are forever confidential. We are the original and largest concern selling mer- Mr. Edison says chandise to the people on terms to suit their incomes. Don't "I WANT to see a hesitate another minute—send a postal for the big, handsome Phonograph in every encyclopedia. Our prices are lower than cash stores ; our terms American Home." are the most reasonable to be found anywhere, our dealings fair and square. Our business aggregates millions annually, so you can buyfiom uscheaper than from FREE TRIAL anv similar establishment. free Trial Means Free Trial Special Send No Money No Monsy Down — Ho G.O.D. Finest, mnu - tailored We do not ask a penny of Try this great latent style phonograph in spring, 1910 niuilt'l. nobby your money until you have your play the beautiful l>tl*inesg suit ; V n I:U«I home; Kdlsnn gold examined, tried on and com- moulded and Amberol records, arid if then double : extra xpet'tnl : on halt vear'H .-redl!— pared our garments with any you do not care to keep the outfit, return it lobe found anywhere in the at our expense. We do not Charge you one 50 world. take risk, for cent for the trial. You no 12 your own eyes judge our now buys a genuine values. Edison phonograph, no time in writing the you will be $2.00 a Month!easiest possible pay- Lose for book— ments ab rock-bottom prices and no interest on payments. interested and pleased when you see it. Write at Our beautiful catalog quotes absolutely rock-bottom prices once, addressing as follows : magnificent latest stylo Outfit No. 10 — the — at about one Inc.!' 2206-8 12th St., Chicago, U. S. A- fourth the cost of inferior Imitations. WOOLF'S, W. i .1 .in. TIil* world'* i orlghiMI mail-order credit eatitMishnient. Founded IBM. or representaiives. Write tor Our Catalog , Caution : We haw no agents local Do ?iot bother with sending a letter; s merely sign and mail coupon, writing * .jc? name and address plainly. Write now. * . £ Remember free trial—no money down. * ^ You cannot imagine how old and ^ ^^HDiamondS. at l/40 (he cost-- IN SOLID GOLD RINGS young enjoy the Edison— the end- f ,<<• less variety of stirring music, Stand acid tost and espert examination. We e o* ^ them. Soc them first—then pay. the comical minstrel guarantee show3 # ^4?" Special Oiler — 14k Tiffany ring let. $5.98. and songs. Send for our a O*" vt^.^o'o*" Gents ring 1 et, $6.93. 14k Stud 1 ct. ? 4. SC. Sent tree catalog and free C O.P. for inspection. Catalog FREE, shows * full lino. Patent r?r>» »nu?e included, 10c. Thi- trial certificate anyway. Borodi P. ,-t. 113 S!18 N. State Si., Chicago Sign the Coupon «e- * sjS B A B S O N. Edison Block, Fish Bite like hungry wolves and keep you busy pulling out, whenever, or wherever you use our * them Chicago. otx) Fish-Luring Bait. Illinois Wonderful It brings the finny beauties from their haunts and hiding places when no other bait will en- tice them. Yon catch a big string of fish while the other fellow is waiting for a bite. Sent by mail prepaid for S5cts. Booklets Free. Walton Supply Co., Dept. Q, St. Louis. Mo In answering any advertisement on this page it is desirable that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. — THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Sharpen Your Blades with the Perfection Automatic Razor Strop For Safety or Ordinary Blades You will be amazed at the difference in the edge. It's easy too. Just turn the crank—every revolution What do you find when gives six complete strappings. It is just like the expert's twist of the wrist—the true principle of good you open your refriger- stropping. It makes the old blades better than new and new blades better than ever. Write for free trial ator? Do you find clean, sweet, offer. If you desire, send name of your dealer. Name style of razor, if safety. Satisfaction positively guar- wholesome food and nothing else; or money anteed back. or do you find partially spoiled food, Perfection Razor Strop Company moisture and unpleasant odors? If 95 Dearborn St., Room 53, Chicago you find the latter it means your Pacific Branch Eastern Branch refrigerator is unsanitary—a possible Dyas-Cline Company 1 Madison Avenue Los Angeles, Metropolitan Life Ins. Blag. source of sickness to yourself or fami- California New York City ly. Do not temporize if you have this kind of a refrigerator. Investigate at once the merits of the famous 1 cent for 4 miles on a motorcycle M2CRAY The motorcycle combines the attractiveness Refrigreraior$ of bicycling with the comfort of automobiling. It offers you the cheapest method of mechani- —the kind that are clean and wholesome cal transportation ever devised of one cent % because there is always a constant circu- per mile pays for both fuel and oil. It pro- vides just enough physical exercise in the open lation of cold, dry air through every air to stimulate — not fatigue. food compartment as long as a pound of ice remains. Ordinary refrigerators cannot keep food the way the McCray does, because ordinary refrigerators do not have the McCray patented con- struction. TRY YOUR ICE BOX by placing salt in it for a few hours. Note how quickly the salt becomes damp and lumpy; then write for book- let which tells why it will keep dry in M.M. 4 H. P. Masneto Single, Price $225 a McCray, and why it is the safest as Investigate the claims we make for motor- well as the most economical refriger- cycling in general and for the M. M. motor- ator you can buy. cycle in particular. The M. M. is the leader, and 1910 models are better than ever. Let us Write for tfie Free Boot to Leftover Foods"—by Elizabeth O. Hillcr. send you catalog and other literature. "How Use and for any of .hesc free cataloES:—No. A. H.. Built-to- AMERICAN MOTOR order for Residences; No. 87. regular sizes for Residences; COMPANY No. 67. for Groceries; No. 59. for Meat Markets; No. 48. ftlHfcr Mttoreyrtc MJri. A**'n.) fJ for Hotels, Clubs and Institutions; No. 72. for Flower Shops. 722 Center St.. Brockton, Mass. Refrigerator Company : McCray IlHANCMi Boatan, 173 Huntington Avo. ; New York, 10 W. 60th St.; Buffalo, 89 IS Mnln St.; ; Chicago, 2127 Mlclilpqii Ave Dm II an, Tex., 84 Lake Street Kendallville, Indiana M. M. UMff., SiiSo. KrvnyKrvnv St.;»4I La*I..* AngOlN,Ani-nlaa 10M1 tv: i So.Cn Main St. /ii nntwerlng any advertisement OH this page it in desirable that ijau mention The Raii.kuai) Man's Magazine. ! THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. *eEH s s L ESHEM WANTED i^»6*ERs WANTED STARTLING OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE MONEY FAST. AT HOME OR TRAVELING-ALL OR SPARE TIME Experience not necessary. Honesty and willingness to work all we ask. We will give yon an appointment worth $50 to $75 every week You can be independent. Always have money in abundance and pleasant position selling greatest labor saving household invention brought forth in fifty years. LISTEN:— One man's orders $2,650.00 one month, profit $1,650.00. Sylvester Baker, of Pa., a boy of 1 4 made $9.00 in 2% hours. C. C. Tanner la., 80 years old, averages five sales to seven calls. See what a wonderful opportunity! Room for YOU, no matter what your age or experience, or where you are located—if you are square and will act quick. But don't delay—territory is going fast. Read what others are doing and be influenced by their success. WORK f OR US AND GET RICH. Minn. "Called at y household article . "—W. R. Hill, 111. "Went out first morning, took sixteen orders. "—N. II. Torrence, New York "Started out 10a.m., sold thirty-five by 4 o'clock,"—J. R. Thomas, Colo. "Sold 1 31 in two days,"—G W. Handv, New York. "I have sold goods for yjars, but frankly, I have never had a seller like this."— W. P. Spangenberg, N. J. "Canvassed eleven families, took eleven orders,"—E. Randall, Minn. "SOLD EIGHTEEN FIRST 4'A HOURS. Will start one man working for me today, another Saturday, "—Elmer Menn, Wis. . . These words are real—they are honest. Every order was delivered, accepted and the money paid m cash. Every letter is right here in our office, and we will give the full postoffice address of any man or woman we have named if you doubt. This is a big, reliable, manulacturing company, incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio, and every statement we make is absolutely sincere and true. YOU CAN MAKE THIS MONEY: You can make THE NEW EASY $3000.00 WRINGER MOP selling this great invention— The Easy-Wringer Mop-thcl biggest money maker of above cut shows mop the age. Think of it The ^g up dry. and pictures the A Sell - Wringing Mop. No material patting hands into the dirty strong, substantial water. No aehinn backs. tin used'thruout. When mop is slopping against woodwork. raised f'ora floor it auto- No soiled clothes. No con- New Low Priced Household Article. matically straightens out tracting deadly disease from touching hands to tilth and germs that come from floor. Can use scalding water ready for wringing containing strong lye. Two (urn* of crank wrings out every drop of water. Makes house-keeping a pleasure— Makes the day happy. Wimple, practical, reliable, it-lasts for years. Kvery woman is interested—and buys. No talking necessary—it sells Itself. Simply show ii and take the order. Could you imagine :m easier, quicker* better vvn> to make money limn supplying Mil* demand nlready created! .<-'..'-. We want more agents salesmen, managers, in till order*, appoint, supply control .ni> I.IO per cent profit. No Iiivet4me.ni required, We own patent* and give yttii exclusive territory, projection, co-operation, assistance. You can't fail. boMUKfc you risk nothing. II! \l>6tl l» A It V. GKTT1AG ItH II. a.i <|ulck; Write lor yourcbuiity loilar. WK A TIIOl r *A.\I» MK.V AND UO.MK\. This smaller WANT picture shows CAnr| nrx Only your name and address on a postal card mop on floor. Oena nO IVIOney. for information, offer and valuable booklet It spreads out FREE Tomorrow belongs to the one behind--the opportunity Is open and is held TODAY. Write your name and address clearly, giving name of county. down to floor at all points. THE U. S. MOP COMPANY, 913 MAIN ST., LEIPSIC, OHIO. TELEGRAPHY I Teach Real Salesmanship BOOKKEEPING You can be -i salesman. Increase your power to convince LEARN others, earn from $1,200 to $10. l"H> a year. I am tho only OR SHORTHAND man leaching salestnauihip who la sales manager of a whole- sale house and an official of United Commercial Travelers of B Y MAIL—A T YOUR OWN HOME America. Write for my tree magiulne "The Salesman," Anyone can learn it easily in a lew weeks. We are unable to and how you can become a Traveling Salesman. My grad- supply the demand ior telegraph operators, bookkeepers and sten- uates hold paying positions and I can assist VOC to profit- able employment. Most practical, highly endorsed course ographers. No charge for tuition until position is secured. in tho world. No mailer where you live, or your Write today for particulars, stating course desired. what occupation, write mo todav. MICHIGAN BBS!NESS IWSTITUTK. The Trotter Seliool. Prpi. 7. Kansas City, Mo. SSI Institute Kullrliiis. Kalaniaiiin, Mich. 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 catalogue No. 9 7 . B'fblished 1843 J. M. LYON CO., 7 ,. V3 „,„.„ St _ Ntw york & N- 2162 "^''2110 -r . m WZ38Q •** ^L306 $2 5. In answering any advertisement on this )mijc it is desirable that you mention Tue IEailroad Man's Magazine. A— THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. AGENTS, HURRYMT'S GREAT! GET AN APPOINTMENT - -$50 TO $100 A WEEK SENSATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MAKING MONEY-MEN AND WOMEN Every home need*— want*— iihihI have it. Women bn.v eafferlr. Asents excited. Orders coming tliieU and fsvst. Brand new. Field untouched. Nothing ever like it before. Never Niieli a aeller. Never such a wonderful invention. Be quick—don't wait- experience unnecessary. Just listen! One woman made S24 first FREE SAMPLE TO AGENTS halTday. W. H. MorRan, Pa.: "Sold 13 < leanerH in 25 hour*. Have sold 2 out of 3 persons canvassed." Marvelous results reported from every state. Read on about this great modern household invention. Millions have wanted—needed— for years. Only enjoyed by ricb. But here at last for rich and poor. New Home Vaeuum i'leaner—Blesruny to all. Rushing;, whirlinj;, sucking air draw* ritrt, duftt, {ferniH from carpetM. rug:*. niatline*. while they remain on floor. Strange— bewildering—phenomenal. No electricity— no motors—no power. Operated in any home by child or frail woman. Weighs 8 lbs. Different from anything ever seen. Purifies atmosphere—wards off disease stops doctor bills. Sucks dirt from carpet*. riigH, matting;.* from crevice*, henesi I la radiators*, furniture, behind doora. closet*, etc. Sold on demonstration. Women can't resist. Shown in three minutes. Sold in five. Then on to the next. Women praising, make sales easy. -Save* drudgrer.v. cleaning-, dusting. Saves taking up carpets—saves time and money. No more hmorns, brushes, dust cloths. No more backache. Never such a money maker—never such a blessing to women. Never such a chance to make money easy— quick. Big profit on every sale. But you must hurry. Agencies READ HOW THE MONEY ROLLS IN EiiSS!r»S Anderson, Minn.: "Enclosed find order for 12 Vacuum Cleaners. Ship prompt. One 111:111 " i*ol Mullins Boats Used by the Government This cut shows our 28-foot, -10 horse power Launch in (Government service at tin- Naval 'Pi-sting Grounds, Stumi) Neck, Mel. The adoption of the Mullins Pressed Steel Boat by tin I'. S. Government shows what Uncle Sam— one of the world's largest boat buyers— thinks of the steel boat. MULLINS STEEL BOATS CAN'T SINK -v. They are SAFK because they ha' e air compartments like a life >v\ boat. They are fast because tbe steel bulls can't waterlog. They are dependable because they have a new type of two-cycle engine that can't back-fire, no matter how slow you run it. Seven Models—16, 18, 20, 22, 21 and 26 feet. WRITE FOR OUR FREE CATALOG which ilepcrlbeH loene mode!* nml their exclusive improvements, such m One- Man Control, Silent Underwater Kxh»u>t. Inside Stuffing Box, Hear Starting Device, Improved Reverting Gear, Out-hie (iarfollue Intake, etc. We timim- fitcture a complete line of Steel Row Hunts, Hunting ami Fishing BoeU, M nine Engine*. 324 Franklin St. THE W. H. MULLINS CO. SALEM, 0., U.S. The Larges t Boa t Builders in t.'ie World. We will send for your approval a genuine % karat, com- mercial white, perfect diamond, in any style 14 karat solid gold mounting, express prepaid, for $30— $5 down and $3 per month; or a % karat diamond of like quality for $60; $10 down and $5 per month, *3 If you are interested in a reliable watch, we offer a gentleman's O. F. 12, 16 or 18 size, or lady's 6 size, plain or engraved, 20-year guaranteed gold filled case, fitted with genuine Elgin or Waltham movement at $12.50; $3 down, $1.50 per month. Wrlto to-day for free cat- aloe No. A 87. Remit first Same movement as payment with order or have above, with hunting goods sent by prepaid ox- IfHerEertL! Joseph&XJo press C. O. D. for your In- case, $16.75. spection. 217 State St. Ch icago. In onsicerlng any advertisement on this page it it desirable that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Indigestion makes you miserable. You have sourness, gas, heartburn, dyspepsia or other stomach distress. Now take a little Diapepsin. It really does make out-of- order stomachs feel fine in five minutes. Large case at drug- gists 50c. will put you Upset? on your feet .95 for 17-in. Ostrich %p Made oi the highest grade hard flue os- trich, selected Irom the male bird. 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Been Done on the KELLERSTRASS FARM Hon I keep my male birds from fighting without in- MY NEW POULTRY BOOK juring them. Covers all branches necessary for Success Hon I raised the five chickens I sold to Madame with Poultry. It tells you what X have done. Paderewski for ST, .".00.00. It was written from actual experience. Hon I feed my chickens for egg production. Hon I keep my chickens healthy and free from sickness. IT TELLS YOU If on* I select a good laying hen from the poor layer. I break up my broody hens without injuring them. Hon- 1 made $3,600.00 in one season from thirty hens Hon on a lot 24x40 by feeding them the scraps from my Hon 1 pack my eggs so they will stay fresh. table three times a day. The test was made to show How I mate up my chickens for breeding and fertility. what can be done on a city lot as well as on a farm. I Hon* I run my incubators and supply moisture. of also furnish you the names the parties who paid me Hon- 1 raised my famous $10,000.00 hen "Peggy." over for the eggs alone from these thirty f2,000.00 Hon* I build my hen houses and plans for the same. hens, for reference, which is evidence undisputable. I bred my big egg-laying strain. Remember this book is written by a man who has had Hon the actual experience. It also tells about broiler plants, egg plants, and re- How I make my chickens weigh two and one-half member there is also ah article in tbisl>ook called " Two pounds when they are eight weeks old. Years on the Kellerstrass Poultry Farm," which explain* Hon I prepared my chickens for the show room so that hundreds of things—just what we do in two years on the I won over 90 per cent of all the blue ribbons that were farm, or in other words, a two years* course on the offered during 10o7 and 190X, the last season that I " World's Greatest Poultry Plant." This is the greatest showed. A "secret" that has never been published article ever written by a real practical poultry man. before. Remember, this hook was Hon I built my indoor and written by a man who has outdoor brooders for 85 sold the highest priced cts. each, to he used either chickens in the world, who as tireless or with heat in also sold SOS.OO worth of them and plans for the eggs per hen from a flock same. of hens in one season, in fact, you a chicken ninety-eight if breed Hon' I raised of any kind, you know my out of chickens a hundred reputation as a breeder. that I hatch. Tliis is the first time I have I took of ever offered to sell any of Hon- a flock '" chickens and made them my " methods or secrets lay $68 worth of eggs per to the breeder or to the hen in ten months ! Try My Way and You Can Raise Them by the Thousands. public. Please Read All These Letters: llest Book on PonKi-y Adab, Pa., Oct. 20lb, 1909. •»«:t BffKS in Ways Mk Ehnkst Kkli.kkstiiaks, K.i.-.,- City, Mo. En*F.*T Ktl. I.KKHTKASS, KatlHfl City, Mo. Dear Friend : The book at hand. It la the beat book lhat I ever Hear Mr: I herewith 'nc'°* e >'*"' affidavit, al#n I rap lUSIt record of opened on poultry talk. I think every nenton that hax a bird on hit* the Kelleiitrass Strain Crystal Whin- OrpliiKtou Hen re^sler No. r.oa, I»[ or farm should have one of these books. I was surprised when I ; Mni laid two hundred imd 8fxty tbrei» IM3| ecu- in 072 day*. read where you opened those chicks and found lath nails and rai fa - in i Signed) P. J. Habu.kk, Chattahooch;e, <»a. their craw?. I never heard of such a thine ; it *tanda to reason (hat Saves Thirty Million Chicks' Lives Annually would kill them. Yours truly, (Signed) 11. M. CIhuvkk. The simplest tort of thine—common black dirt—ha* Rolved. the SON.OO Worth of Kgga Per Hon problem of endlcailitK a thicken di-ea-e which co«i thirty million EttNKfcT KKLLKR&Tlt&RS, Kansas City, Mo. of Hit- National •hick*' live annually, k disease Which Ktelitllta Dear Si r : Congrai ulat ions on the splendid showing you have madt> and Stat* Experiment Statibhe have been amdylng without buc&m by Helling 863.00 worth of eggs per hen from thirty hen* In one fur ten year*. Bnittst Kellerrftraiw, the Kalian* City poultry fanner, >ea*on. G. M. Cruris, Editor, Reliable l'nul(ry Journal, ijuiucy, HI, found the secret.— .ST, J.om'* /frwMM.'e. Worth Many Times Hip Price Cioiitl, Sound I.osic 195 Orange Ave., Irvington, N. J., Nov. Rth, 19n9. Wfiicliuater, Kan*. Eon est Kkm.krstrabs. Dear Sir: Received your book all O. K. thi- a. m. and arid nUnvt Pear Sir: Received yonr poultry liook. It 1a worth many times very iuti reel lug and lull of >jm*l, ami ml lutir. (be piii'e and should be In the bands of every one handling chickens, Yours truly, OhAB. Foksytiik. an It contains Information that would take many years to learn. remain yours very truly, (Signed) Senfki.i>£K, Rsrss Per Bird I John My Dear Mr. Kellerf-tra"** : I have sixteen of your hen* lhat aver- Common Sense Methods aged two hummed and ililrtwme i23l) est-* per bin! In 12 months. Springfield, III., Jan. 291h, 1910, Lawkknpu Jackson, Piitsliurfj Pa. Mu. Kkm st K K 1. 1, v. kst RA PS, KaiiHH* City, Mo. 8I.OOO.OO Dear Sir: 1 received your poultry book the 27th fnnt. It Is full of Worth good common sense methods, that one can ari|iiire in no other way KKLIKBHTBASS Farm, Kansas City, Mo. Burnett, pal; than by actual experience In breeding and caring for fowls, lain a. It hear Sir: I received yonr book neiit me Saturday ». would very well pleased with It. ;'<""" " have been worth to me if I bad had It la*l Spring. Good Yours truly, W. H. Harbison, 338 So. Dongias Ave. Hook." Common Seute, brained by turd-earned experience. Worth More Than Money's Worth tljOOU.OO tome. Hespt. (Signed, L. It. Hayw.uiu. My Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 31st, 1909. Iti-sl Dollar's Worth MR. ERVE6T Rkm. wist it ass, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. K. KpttKarnUCT, Kansa* City, Mo. Oct. Ifith, 1909. I»eur Sir : I consider your book chuck full of valuable information Pear Sir: Received your book all ri^lit. Am Well pleased with for any one, especially a beginner. I have already received more tliau book ; beat dollar'* worth I have ever received. my money's worth and have only read about nue-lhlrd of the book. Yonr* truly, (Signed) Chas. P, GOKTJEj Buffalo, If. Y. Yours respectfully, (Signed) Geo. W. BSMCKSKSTBRf, Send $1.00— and a Copy of the Latest Revised Edition of the Book will be Sent You by Return Mail. 53 8 Address, ERNEST KELLERSTRASS, PubMer, ffi ffi^fM^ " " NOTE—Ask any editor of any Poultry journal or any Licensed poultry judge as to my reputation as a breeder. In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention Tile Railboad Man's Magazine. THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. Can you copy this drawing? Then win a valuable prize! Do you want the only mag- azine published entirely devoted to Illustrating, Design- ing and Cartooning ? Each edition costs ten thousand dollars to produce. Make a freehand drawing of this picture with pen or pencil and DRAW mail it to us stating your age f(f and what you are working at. If your drawing is 40 per cent, THIS as good as the original we will send you absolutely free a sub- scription to the most fascinating Art Journal in existence. The first issue alone has 125 PICTURES; most of them by WORLD-FA- MOUS ILLUSTRATORS. Copy this Picture and get a Maga- zine Subscription FREE Hundreds have talent for draw- ing but do not know it. This con- test will please thousands and stimulate all interest in illustra- ting. Merely an hour copying this sketch may win this splendid Art magazine. 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It is sold by 6,000 re- sponsible jewelers at a factory-fixed price which pleases the purchaser and puzzles other watch- makers who make their product in smaller quan- tities, employ expensive and (sometimes) un- scrupulous selling-methods, and are obliged there- by to make the watch-buyer pay unnecessary and fictitious prices. Here are the Ingersoll-Trenton prices in solid in 10-year in 20-year $ $^ $1 nickel * / gold-filled gold-filled 5 case • case Each watch fitted at Friction-points with seven ruby, sapphire and garnet jewels. The popularity of the Ingersoll-Trenton is sweeping the country. The Widely-known c%ia£toe& Models The famous Ingersoll Dollar Watch (together with the other Ingersoll models at $1.50 and $2) has turned the watch-world upside-down and made millions of people carry watches who never carried them before. More than seventeen millions of these watches have been sold. Twelve thousand are now being sold every day in the week. 60,000 Dealers sell them. 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