The morning times., 1897-02-28
Chip, the Hello" Dog

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Now comes the telephone dog, She is
only a little one, to be sure, and that is
why they call her Chip in the yards
OF the Kansas City, Fort Scott Memphis,
at Kansas City. Chip is related to ths
black and tan. Perhaps that is the rea-
son she is almost intelligent Nobody knows
who owned Chip originally She came to
the shanty in the yard one night, and, like
the fellow at the club, has stayed there
The story OF Chip is familiar TO every
railroad man that is on the pay roll Of
the Port Scott and Gulf" She has no oh
iection to employees of other roads, but
she at once recognizes the fact that they
are not her particular sort, and treats them
with condeseensiOn- Just what the men
think or this dog is indicated by the
following statement of W. II Churchill,
assistant trainmaster.
There is one incident which has never
Teen related uf chip At the ward office,
which has been her home the past four
years, there are three telephones, two OF
WHICH are CODueCltu VIII PRIV due uArS
to the local freight offices, scale houses,
switch shanties, etc One Of Chips fs-
vorite resorts is on the top OF hox in
the yardnlaster office, in which the night
naen Keep their lanterns and which is
placed by window which commands the
whole north end OF the yard Here she
spends most of her leisure time, keeping
watch OF all that goes on, making fire.
-, tefd 10 "a Al
'Zulus' or men in charge OF emigTanJ
cars and children picking up coal
lone OF the private telephones is placed
on the wall az the end Of this box, ana one
day, by way of experiment Denny, the
telephone boy. placed the hand telephone aU
her ear and told the scale house to call her
Instantly Chip jumped TO her feet and for
some time showed plainly tliat SIZE was
mystified After little she was made
TO understand that the call came from
the scale house and that she was wanted
down there: and since then she makes
regular trips upon being called, and car
ries all the bills from the scale house TO
the ward office We are now training her
to recognize three short rings, which is
the private call agreed upon for her
one of Chips favorite tricks is 10 jump
upon the fOotboard Of a moving switch
engine and take ride over To some other
yard \ switch engines foOtbOard is at the
rear of the tender. and the switchmeB
themselves become very expert a stepping
on or off while the machine is moving
Ii the engine is moving Owiy, chip VIII
run along beside it and thea. with quick
Jump. land herself in safety. Not long ago
she jumped upon the fOOJboard of nov
ing switch engine, that was being trans
ferred to Fort Scott When the engine had
reached RCsedale the fireman discovered
that Chip was still a passenger. The
engineer. rather than carry Chip away
from home. stopped his train, waited for
an inbound freight, tagged one when it
came along, transferred CHIP TO the crew,
and she was carried home in safety. max
ing her return trip in the lookout OF the
cabOOse.
There has been but one dog for whom
Chip has entertained the slightest feeling
of friendship. He came up from the
Southwest with a carload OF cattle. The
railroad men called him Texas, and he
took ur his abode with Chip in the shanty-
4 Acknowledgements simmediateIyf ' formed, which
time seemed only to cement one day,
however, Texas was not quite quick
enough, and got under the wheels OF 8
car few moments later the men at the
ward were astonished To see Chip dash
in. yeIping, whining, crying Those who
heard her lamentations followed her, and
she led them to a place where the body
OF Texas was.
Poor Texas, was buried in a grave far
down beneath the cinders, almost beside
the track where death had claimed HIM
The railroad men vouch FOR the statement
that for weeks after that CHIP whined u
get out of the yardhouse at night. One
evening she was followed by one OF the
men, who declares that she ran directly
to Texas grave and conducted herself
in a manner that showed the Sncerest
mourning.
For months William ReveS. a conductor
on the road, used TO pay particular atten-
ton to CHIP. Every day he would buy
a little candy and put 1t IN his pockets
Chip would be on the watch for him and
would promptly investigate every pocket
few months ago, Reeves left the EN-
plov Of the road. and Chip found no sub
stitute. The other day, however, ReeveI