Arizona silver belt., 1893-07-15
TRACKWALKING
kRAlRoAc OCCUPATION THAT MUST
 CROW TO eE TEDIOUS.

Spikes Along the Line.
 The terrible accident that happened to Peter Daugherty, the "trackwalker," gave 10 many readers new word in the vocabuiary of trades and occupations. That there was such an occupation as trackwalbing under the big cover of the starry dome mol one man in thousand ever imagined
 A rackwalkor tracswalker2" ex claimed cue citizen when asked the def nition of the term Why. yes; of course A trackwalker Is 8 fellow who walks the tracks Seey Just as easy! Now ask inc something real hard
 II pressed for a closer explanation of the long words meaning, the citi- zen prareeds to get facetious "Oh, watcher trying to ring ln on me nows A trackwWker k -a tmckwalker When the caiuiyor9ps tramp is hunted from his laii in one city be emigtates 10 an other On the way thither iny friend, ne Is a valuable specimen of the gems trackwM6cr When tbe manager of an Cncle Tom Cabin troop folds up his porketho0k and like an Arab silently steals away leaving sweet little Eva good old Uncie Tom and religious Miss Ophela to swear at bis memory for their saiaries why then they are very likely to become trtckwaika"s Then again you mgbt call hurksers who dlye their wsgDus up and doEn the street car tracks truck nawEers !ie he, hei Seer
 When all goes to show that the real boua fde trackw8lker is comparatively an unknown cog in Iae great machine Of the world li that cog WAS suddenly blken out of place and thrown away the | world would yery soon discover it's loss From tue crashing uf wrecked trains l wnuld come the ,ipgtb rattle of the dying; from INe ruGdy glare of burning cars would come the suelis of tortured wreiches puuad beneath heavy timbers. | and tbr one cry amuaeI from end 10 end ot the lauI would be- The fGaekTalkeF desertrt his trust Riag along any road | fat tiye ol ten miles and you will over take nun uudgg along beside the rrarS Be als mot dressed in the latest ruiawW dB1uHa .ad Eis trousers. if | nutlced nag u tHy tHses He only gets I s,.b0 a day Hrrc a Che west. and in some 1 eastern ,lisluc,s still iss Hecaryies a wrench aE3 q Hwamer and B3w and. ! then stops Co tighten tJlt m a rail CT drlvp 9 spike into a tie Re fampsaloag mus Tor twelve h1Ers uut uf tbe twenty goui and d' lh, allJ Of ,Ls day can ] sleep without ucEns
 4 reporter iouud D3ughesty yesterday ] In one ut In, pIeHs;il wards of St Mary's 1 mhnuury Bsua,ug over him. with Der sweet fufp fuil ot sympathy, was one Of ihe sisters ai The order Hes doing very mcely she aoItiy slil but must l Eoi ue excited
 Ion sac lgs my shonller there DOW. exclaimed IuEEiuty raising his left arm and dropping li to the sheet again wiiH shudaar os pam II segnls as ! though it waH under a trip hammer and ihp hammer was puaudiHg for all II was worth Suji # isui as bad now as it was Good gracious, butthat old engine did hii me ohp.
 How did f happeuE
 All irel sudden was walking along Getweea tHe tracks. peareable &s You rl,slSe wGn down rolls a train on thp Jeff maul Bus af@il that tfe sie,m or umr5aug would hit me 1 stepped into lae i.h. Eand track Whack BiG YourS traly got it in the utz.k sure as yuu bye hn engine was hylng down tBe rigbt hand tracks, you see and merely tried to stop 1t by put tus my shoulder Co the wheel. don't r~HPuber what happened then The hgnts went ont When ! arrived in agia oi myself a,aIn was here.
 My walk is from Carr street to the other end oi the hudge in Madison Tn au, complaining ol the walk at all. un- dprstaud They always treated me white a4 iuag as five been working for 'em, whirH is only a couple of months I'm inst little sorry that the company is such new one They haven't got any auspua of their own yet. you know That whY l'u here Of course I'm be- lns treated sllmdjdly here-jn inst as if l was at home HiJ you sec, don't know exactly who's going to pay these good sisters lor taking care of me I'd hate fo see em do ail their work for noth- ms
 )augberty Rgze1 reyerently at thecru- ui!ix hanging on the opposite wall before auswerug apelking of the work. it's all right get $l50 q day, just the sumo as the other laborers on the road. and it isn ps hard us digging All you'ye got to do Is to be sure aud go over your sec ton as many times as you're ordered, and see that the rails saro in proper shape. If you find loose bolt you take your pinchers and tighten it. If you find a l spike I,osing it's head into the air. give if clip with your hammer. That's all there is 10 the busines5. If you should happen to find something out of whack aud can [ tiS if yourself, why. you go for help that's Hll You see, l know just enough about trckwalking 10 do my Wurk wet have never had any of tic adventures that some of the men have. If yuu want to hear some funny stories you ought to go down to Twelfth and GriE to, streets
 : 'Someof those fellows have been walk ing the tracks all over the country fol yours Some of 'em know every square inch of rail between here and New York FL bet and can tell you with their eye; shut where they are if set down on any one of the roads between this town anc Chicago 4 fellow gets to know tho weight Of the ties on every mile he walks over, and from day to day learns to picl out which bolts are going to be loose anC , which spikes will poke their fat heads above the Aanges of the rails. It's like anything olso, if you stay with it you'll learn 1t aa you do your friends faces and it becomes sort of instinct. "-St
 Louis Globe-Democrat