The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-14

calf of your leg, or some other place
that mebbe ten feet away from his
mo- month: l meyer yet saw a baggage mas.
hurting himself worse than the machine
It ought to be made Illegal to send BIZ
cycles by rail and that's a fact
The baggage master finally extrica ted
himself from the bicycle and withdrew
into his car to repair damages Tie
train whistied and went on its way and
the station-nlaster, seating himself by my
side, proceeded with his story:
About ten years ago he had an engine
on his road that you would just have adj
mired TO see. She was the Fanny Els
ler-that was her name, being named af-
ter one of the queens Of France, or some
other place. Nowadays we don't think
that sixty. miles an hour is any very
great speed, but IN those days the Fanny,
as we called her for short was the only
engine in this part of the country that
could do her mile in sixty seconds. Nat
UfaAy the road was proud of her, and the
men Dragged of her continually, espec-
I 1aliy -, when ,lno., they net any of the
efn ROAD that was considered by some to
be sort of rival Of our road, though
II was a poor half BANKRUPT concern
The engineer Of the Fanny was an old
Fellow by the name of Gridley. He was
~Nawed to be the best engineer on the
"a at That fine. lie used to be able to
anything With that engine, and he was
ae only man who could manage her
There was always something queer about
the Fanny. She had a trick of ee+tinrS
tired, or of letting on that She was tire57
ana refusing 10 work. Shed be a going
along AT her usual gait, and all of sud-
quit making steam No engineer EXCEPT
Grfdley could manage her. when she cot
these hts on: Other men that tried to run
her found that the only thing they could
do was to wait till she got good and rea
dy to move on. But Gridley. he would
just polish W. her brasses a bit, whist!ing
some cheerful tune and now and then
saying something pleasant to her and ~
OF a sudden she would Just humn herself
a5nd travel along as if there had never
peen anything the matter After the sn
Hperintendent got to know the Fanny nret
Wy Well he would never allow arvbodv
' except Gr1dley to take her out Of HE
YARD. re used TO run her the length of
the road twice a day EXCEPT SundaIs an5
when he was taking a holiday You see
ne was very peculiar man, was this yer
was at work. and as a general thing he
would keen perfectly sober for sin or
eight months Then his mother, or his wife
CT ms sister would die, and he would ask
for three days leave to 20 to the fs,nerei
ana settle up the estate The sunerinfe,,
dent knew as well as Gridley did what
was the matter, but he would ALWAYS
give him his three DAYS, and Gr;dISy
@oul9 go away and get drunk enough 70
SATISFY Kim for the next six months. He
and ! We're great friends, and many's fbe
rice I've taken with him on his engine
JUST 10 Keep him company. when 1 had a
couple o. spare hours, and I had a good
many Of them at that time. owing TO not
having any permanent berth on the road.
and just keeping myself ready to nj in
cancy.
One morning Gridley comes to me
looking about as scared as eeer I saw a
man look. What's the matter% says ].
peglnninS to fear that some serious acct
cent had happened on the road.
The Fanny's lost says he
What do you mean?' saws L Has
your sb6 mother r, been dying again? If that's
only six months ago
went into the. ems house at Srar-
t.nSNllle THIS morning. avs he er1ea xiv.
slow and dazed like, and the FannT |
wasn't there. You know she goes INFO |
the engine house every night at 7.20 aud |
last night put her in as usual and stop- |
ped while he fireman banked the fires. |
place, and as you know nobody ever goes |
near it during the night This nor1inry |
az 5:l5 / went down to bring her out. ana |
she wasn't there. The fireman had heen |
about five minutes ahead of me and he |
was as much astonished as ! was Wen |
we easy enough found that she WASN'T |
anywhere in Spartansville, and then we |
Inquired after her b. telegraph There |
sE,t blessed section on the road that |
seen hide or hair Of her. The supcr-
Nendent had started on a speciaf from
JNhensviile and is going the whole length |
OF the read to see IL there are aav si,.nS
Of her having been taken out and ditched,
- What on earth do you callate has ba-
come OF her2' said l.
" There was always something ulle.r-
about that engine said Gridiey You
know what queer ways she had such e
you never knew any other engine to l.a1e |
rs my belief that either she wasn't p
genuine engine at all but she's tht. ghost
Of one, and that she's gone back to where
she came from. or else, If that ism; what |
Is the matter with her. she has been
stole
- 'fow's 4 man going to steal a loco
mDtfver Says l. DO You carlate that |
some chicken stealer got into the errira
touse AT night ard carried the Fanny of
under his coat2'
K No don't says Gridley. but rnesJbe
eorne Of those chaps of the Montana
Southern road has got tired of hearing us
Nag &boat the Fanny, and has come up
Ere ant carried her Off
Carried her or in a bag or a wheel