The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1893-05-31
IN THE CAB.
vHe alters was queer, Del was. :

ncltatlOn, Jerome Bonner was not the
man to wait for an invitation to express
his opinion. His long habit of sitting on
the box with his hand on the throttle
ready to pull her open" did not infu-
ence him In conversation. Only in the
cab, with the schedule before him, was
he amenable to signal. There he was
trusted. The superintendent considered
him the safest engineer on the road.
When he took train out, the dis
patcher breathed easily, for there were
some daredevil engineers in the employ
of that company. They would rattle
train around curves and shoot down
grades with the greatest disregard for
the passengers comfort and fears. There
were men who delighted in the shrieks
of the whistle How they would laugh
when echo was frightened and screamed
back the strident voice Of the engine.
There were many such men in the pay
of the Kane and Carney railroad, but
Jerome Bonner was not one Of them, nor
was Delehanty. He was fireman and
had been on the road two years when
the wreck occurred on Kane hill. 1t
was the memory of the wreck that led
jerome Bonner to remark to passenger
about Delehanty's eccentricities.
A little group had surrounded Jerome
at the water tank and signal station on
Kane hill, where danger flag had pulled
up the train. The conductor was up
stairs waiting for orders. There was a
wreck above-some coal cars on the
track-and there was prospect of a
long delay. Jerome had got out of the
cab and was sitting in the sun on one of
the ground timbers Of the tank trestle.
The fireman had made himself comfort
able on his box and with feet sticking
out of the window was taking q snooze.
The engine snorted occasionally as If
impatient. Most of the passengers were
wandering about aimlessly, some chat
ting, others looking In the bush for ber-
ries of the wintergreen, and all were be-
ginning to fret. Even those around
Jerome were hoping he would take mat
ters in his own hands and run the train
over the hill. He, however, attracted
their attention when to one Of them he
spoke the words of the opening sentence.
'Tell usahout him. won't you. plaasaP"
asked mite OF a woman, an excursion
list.
"Oh, do, If 1t is story. | am so tired
of this stupid wait, said her companion,
not an overlarge woman herself and APP
parently blase.
"'Fraid Delehanty won't int'rest you
ladies much. He was O commonplace
man, but popylar-mighty popular with
the boys, spite er his queerness."
"Then do tell us about him."
"Waal, he and me courted the same
CURL, Susan Briggs, black eyed CURL as
ever you see and purity, no mistake.
And mebbe that's why thought Del
queer actin, and mebbe he'd the same
'pinion NV me. Sence then have alters
noticed that men in luv with the same
CURL see each other bout as delirium
tremens subjec' sees snakes. Costly, try
them gauges
Costly, the fireman, awoke out Of his
snooze and tried the gauges. The en-
gine was not supplied with an injector,
and Jerome was DESTROYS of knowing the
depth of water in the boilers. II it was
low he would have to run the engine up
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