Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-11-03
ECONOMY AT THE TRoTrLe.
Running Locomotive on n scant
supply OF Mater

supply Nntcr
''Say," said the old engineer, where
did We get a-hold Of all those stories of
the old r.. W. Il o., anyway? Tina, one
We had last, about Dan Cronan, makes
me think of another old-,imer who
useter work on that road, an that was
old Levi Young. the engineer.
Knew Levi. did We? Well, by gosh.
is that so? Say, want he great one?
Dye ever hear q his economical turn?
Wen, I'll tell We.
"He see, twas this way: Levi was
purity fair runner. bat he belonged To
the time when there was TWO kinds q
enginemcn-those who could run, but
didn't know much about the machine.
an those who could take one apart an
put her together agin, but couldn't pull
Il milk train on time. It's different
now, an every runner has got TO know
something about his machine.
We'll. ~ was a-tellin' We. Levi could
.un all right. He'd make time with
any sor: u old machine, but he was
few chips shy on the mechanical part OF
il. II useter be said that once when
he was stalled I'm snowstorm down
about the Oswego country hills am run
short o. water. he tried ter fill the
boiler by shovelin' enow down her
smokestack.
Levi got kinder old an they pm;
him TO runnin' the Rose accommoda ton
That was train that useter consist of
one combination car. and il ran from
Rose into Oswego in the mornin' to pick
up what early passenger traffic there
was.
They put an old engine. No. =. on
her that was built way back in the COS
She had been fixed over, but her boiler
was loose. an she was light. an IL was
all she could do To pull tn one car. She
had an old-fashioued injector that You
had To shut of from the ruunin' board.
out alongside her steam dome. which.
hein' she was an old-timcr. was just be
hind her smokcstacS.
We'll, the master mechanic gets tit
ON one day. and he gets ont an order
that we must all OF us economic in our
running expenses. Old Levi studied
over il and concluded that he could.
80, one moruin'. when they WAS
a-siartin' ont o. Rose, his fireman. who
was poor Martin Slattery. noticed tina,
the water was n bit low. an SAYS so To
Lew btNis ht SuN :. nave We got
enough water TO get over the grade?"
Grade he hanged says Levi; we've
got ter be eckcrnomical.' An along he
goes, till he gets up purity near to the
top o. the grade. an then he turns ON
the water, runs little into her, an then
tells Martin To- go out an shut her of.
which Martin does
An just as lac was gcttin' back
through the front window o. the cab
that old boiler just ripped open at the
bottom an rolled off ter one side. Blew
up. an when Levi an Martin realized
what had happened, there they was.
sittiu' ON the coal in the tender an
loOkin' foolish, while the old engine
was slidn' down grade with her tubes
bare, for all the world like one Of these
pictures in the back part o the die
tionery.
We'll, they stopped her, an then they
took stock. The smokestack had been
thrown away over in the cornield. the
headlight was sticl<in' up in tree. an
there wasn't enough glass left i'm the
cab to scrape drums,ick smooth
They never round the bell. and the
boys say that once in awhile when they
run past there they can hear he ghost
o the bell O No. : ringin' But guess
some farmer got good bell FOR moth
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