Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-05-09

rail- He says be won't go back 10 the
pulpit again, and he is we'll and hearty
as a roebuck. Then there are often
finely educated men who adopt the cab
from choice or necessity. A three
days stare at grim old poverty gener-
ally sets them hustling. Then know
of case on the Panhandle, Logans-
port division, where woman success
fully ran an engine for nearly two gears
before being found out. Pli tell you
how it was. Let me see.
That was five years ago. said the
engineer, warming up, AN was ham
ding f6, an old residenter that used to
whistle so much like buzz-saw when
setting down to a pine-log matinee that
the other boys got to calling her Old
Sash Door-an'. .Bllnd-Factory.' 5 h eI
would wake up the Hoosiers for ten
miles each side of the track when rum
nlng al night. l remember funny
thing connected with Old Pestilence,
as I called him. l had a rollicking
fireman named Jack Flaherty, now on
the Burlington, believe, and he used
10 be up to all sorts Of Gevillry. lie
managed 10 rig up a sort off sliding
nlno for The whistle.valve and he could
play Yankee Doodle, Home. Sweet
Home and lots of other tunes By work
inc the alue up and down. You've
heard these steam calliopcs: Well, ii
wa, on the same principle. We went
mlo a town called Goodland one night,
and jack opened her wide, tying to let
ofra little surplus steam any way, and
he gave ZEN Yankee Doodle in the
me-, parall zing way you ever heard
Every enc rushed ont of their homes,
and still We lay on the side TRACK, me
making up steam and Jack working the
plug and rafting out the national tune
in Theodore Thomas style. But slack
m here. Throw her over III the cor
+ nor and let her pound along. Ii l ain
clean forgetting what l was trying 10
tell YOU about this woman that came oN
,,o rood a. enoineer. l was handing
.Old Pestilence.' and was lnst stepping
;u,o +ho cah at the rouudhouse in
Tocansport. ready TO hook on 10 al
ex,r, bound west. had knocked the
cut plug out of my pipe Tor never
smoke on the eng!ne-when young
and very handsome fellow came up to
me and saws We'll, old Roxie. hos Is
the Panhandle. l want to catch on
right away 'Engineer? Well l
should murmur. l just came of the
.Punkln Vine.' That was the way the
bows had labeled the old Logansporl'
Crav fordsvllle & Southwestern ROAD ID
them days. You see. they used to tall
behind on schedule time, and Keep
losing so the engineers got suspendeu'
Il was hardly their fault, though. Inc
track was fearful. But when .he en-
eineer found out how late he was he
used to open the throttle vide an' SKIP
across the cornfelds when big curve
occurred. an there were many oil them'
toe. Thus they nsed to gain time ioI
moment. Then when time was
made they would push ahead. That's
the way 1t came to be styled the Pun
kin Vine
But I'm slipping away from my
story of the young feller again. when
he told me he wanted run, hap
nened to think l had heard Master
Mechanic Clark speak of needing more
engineers next week, an L told the
youth 80. Well, he caught on, and got
regular stock run for while.
My, 1 can remember yet how he
looked as be came down the first day
to take out No. 80 another old-tlmer
F. He had on a sne suit Of broadcloth
but carried a Russia leather valise, Win
trim new oyeralls and jacket TO put on
over his clothes. His smooth lace,
black eyes, full red coral lips and short
T clipped hair attracted great attention
He went at his work of making ready
, to take out his engine very deliberately
and calmly. He was the nine days
wonder of the road for a while. Thi
=, was partly from his almost feminine
beauty and from the skill with which be
{ handled tie engine given him. Matters
went along in this shape for seVera
weeks. Bill Schaeffer, as the ne"
conner styled himsely, was out on
beautiful June day at the other end o
the line, bringing in huge extra
which had a short handled crew aboard
A strange engineer had dritted into th'
ropndhouse that morning while Bill
was out, and had asked, on the strength
of good references, for some work. MI
=, Clarke at once sent him out on a pass
encer run, as he claimed 10 know lh'
:, road from having run there two years
b fore. The regular man on the pass
) eneer run was sick. Well, the pass
. enger met Bill's extra at l., halt wa
over. and il was nearly 5 O'clock
There was a regular freight in one en-
- of the side track, aud BilPs train wa
y trying 10 push its nose in on lot
:. box.cars on the track that SCENE
= loose. The intention was TO clear iC
% the passenger. Bill, wanting exercise
# ! suppose from being cooped up all da
,t in the hot little cab, had gone ahea
in on the loose cars and was riding on 10
= Of the furthest one. He was apparen
IN lv OF motto ing anything, or attenptlr