Evening star., 1896-11-28

table"' Jones called cheerfully enough to
passenger engineer who was oiling his
locomotive, which, contrary to all rules and
customs, left standing on the turn
table. Now Jones had thrashed nearly
every engineer he had fired for during his
apprenticeship and they all hated him.
so this middle division man only gave him
sour look and went on oiling. Say" said
Jones, rolling his thumb and twirling his
watchchain about it, Are you going to
back up?"
An Example in Point.
"Yes, when I get ready" was the reply.
and Jones made straight for the engine.
AS he climbed up on one side the driver
mounted from the other, and, snatching up
a hand hammer, raised it above Jones
head and warned him to keep off his en-
gire. / held my breath as Jones continued
to climb end the engineer stocd ready to
brain him. When the hostler, who appear
ed not to have heard the warning has
gained the deck he twisted the hammer
from the grasp of the engineer, threw 1t
back into the coal tank, backed the engine
from the table. set the air brakes and
leaped to the ground. He had missed a
fight here simply because the engineer
weakened, and yet Jones was wholly in the
right.
Once when he was firing a passenger
ergine they stopped at Cleora, only two
miles from the end Of the run, the engineer
abused Jones and Jones thumped him.
The driver told the conductor that he
would not run the engine in with that fire.
man. whereupon Jones gave the driver
and compelled him to go to the end of the
division. There was an investigation in
the Office Of Master Mechanic Kelker at
Pueblo, the engineer began to abuse the
that such course was liable to lead to
II Iouble. Presently the engineer called
Jones liar, and instantly he fell sprawling
across the master mechanics desk. This
caused the fireman's discharge.
But the provocation had been great, and
the official gave Jones a rather compli-
Eentary letter to the general master me-
chanic eat Denver. Jones went up and
to justify his own actions, and he was re-
employed upon another run. In those days
engineers and firemen worked far apart,
and as Jones had licked about half the
eL gineers on the middle division he was
simply despised by the men on the right.
hand side.
His Account Of a Fight.
There was young Irishman who was a
magnificent man, physically, and pos
sessed Of no end of sand. and to this hand
some fellow was given the task of thrash
ing Scrappy Jones. They met one day
out at the steel works and the Irishman
had no trouble in working Jones up to
the proper pitch. Jones told the story of
this fight to me. HE looked like a giant,
he said, when he faced me, but I was
| mad. Before 1 knew he was within reach
he hit me square between the eyes and it
| seemed to me it was raining fire. I fell
| sprawling on my back, but got up as quick
ly as 1 could, and he knocked me down
again. got up again with the air full of
| sparks. He knocked me down again. More
! fire. ,---.
II continued to go down and get up; 1t
didn't hurt SO very much, only it blinded
NE. and that annoyed me. for was
| anxious to see how he did it, for had neve
| found 1t utterly impossible to get at a
man before AS often as I Strengthened
up he hi me plumb between the eyes and
down l went. I had been down six times
but my wind was better than that of my
opponent, and that very fact seemed 10
discourage him. He was breathing like q
snow plow, and when l went down for the
| seventh time he started to climb my frame
| and that was his Waterloo.
Il saw him coming, dimly, as through
| veil all dotted with stars. I doubled uu
| like Jack knife and when I straight
| eiied my legs out drove my feet into the
stomach Of my antagonist. He went over
| on his back and 1 went over on top Of him
| and closed the incident. He had me whip
| ped. was completely done out. and three
more falls would have ended me, but he
got scared and wanted to end the fight
A Little Private MIL.
The next man selected to discipline Jones