The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-23
IN better condition than ever fer the
manufacture 81 greater ard ener grade
OF Lumber

OF lumber.
Il have tale 81 woe 20 relate. the cnasn
% whsrh. cio4&ly followed. vii corvanee
a thing A. luck interchangeable. good. bad
or Indifferent. connected ~ith certain
fatrss places ard people,
J. r. Pitts frsyeiEng man from Port
iznd sflt~1 hts chair back IN the hotel lob
~. laughed AZ the recollection. ard con-
tinued.
Away cut on the HE OF tire Northern
Pacific railway ~ an ordinary harmless
looking Junction. spiked into TIRE sand 20
prevent x being blown away by the wind.
which works fweufy-four hours for -
days evs~y year. This place for very
good reason is called Paseo. I say good
rea~sn saeau~e from ws7@s remember OF
nay Greek verb OF tfaat pronunciation in
that old language means 4 suffer ard II
ever travelling man changed cars Al Pas
20 without suffering some bad luck II Is
not on record
THE rEaae ~ hoodooed. I have been
changing cars ysscrs about four times
year for Eve years. and can say on oath
that l have never changed trains al this
place uuAcooEi panied by some had tuck.
ranging al the way from disagreeable TO
disastrous
TIE last fneidenx (which Is too mild
word for what harpenedl. occurred FRI
day night. May IA. which. IL may be OBJ
served, Is as close 10 ere 18th as time could
get e. I had been UP twenty-five hours
that day. with several previous nights rest
very much broken into and was dead tired
] had Just come from Pendieton on a
freight 10 a place called Hunts, where
I was 10 take another freight 10 Pasco.
Hunts consists OF depot. round-house
(which II square,. agents house. sand.
sage brush and wind-ihe last three ingre-
dients being perpetual. / sat down on my
grip 20 xaif for my train TO finish switch
Ing. neither asleep nor fully awake. and
hat half a~are Of what was going on
around me. Suddenly the noise OF the cars
ceased. bringing me 10 my feet with a
cold ciammy realizing sense of what had
happened. The red lights OF the csboose
were IN sight Aaif-Iniie away, with the
rnogul working hard grinding sand on the
rails toward Pasco. ] was left
Like a drowning man grasps 1T a straw,
wen. inside and asked the agent IL the
train had gone. With an expression min
g1ed with amusement and pity, he said u
had Then the resourcefulness OF the
drummer came into play. ! knew all sta
tons keep yelocipede. Pasco. sixteen
miles away. and IRE main line express due
ia one hour and forty-fiye minutes. ]
brfbed the agent for the machine and
hired him 10 help me push IL. tied my
hat onto the seat behind us and started up
a swo-miie grade. OH a sand-ccvered track.
with the lightest heart that ever beat In
mortal man under adverse circumstances.
for hadn't got away from Hunts And
twenty-four hours spent that near Pasco
means ceiIrium.
Ask a lineman how easy It is 10 push
an old rickety velocipede up grade where
sand drifts on the track and he viii give
you an idea of our degree of exhaustion
when we reached the summit-mine espe-
claIly not being used TO II. and working
Hardest being the most interested party.
on the other side was long down grade
clear of sand, with a curve at the bottom
Time was an object, and we let her go.
We reached the curve al tweive-mile
gait, when something parted. The ma
chine separated itself from US and the
track, took 70 the ties with apparently
Increased speed leaving In its wake a
string of grip. umbrella. wearing apparel,
station agent ard travelling man what
breath / had recovered since leaving the
summit was knocked out of me by coiiid-
ing with the right-of-way. With Christian
fortitude we gathered up ourselves and Ell
fects and started on, consoling myself with
the thought that whom the Lord loyeth
He chasseneth,' and that the crueiest mis-
fortune is nothing more IMAM test OF
faith We arrived at Pasee on tffhe and
altogether In a state Of total collapse, 10
md The main line express three hours and
forty minutes late.
II shall spend my next vacation forming
a stock company 10 busld a railroad that
will cover my territory without going near
Pasco."
The presence OF Superior Judge j. G..
Mcclinion. OF the Lower Sound district.
in Seattle day or two ago recalled an
amusing Incident that occurred In Port
Town~e-d recently while he was holdins
court Henry Fox. an old German dray-
man. was suing an expressman by the
name OF Hardy to recover the value OF a
horse During a Fourth OF July ceieora-
ton down there a year or two ago. 1t APP
pears Hardy borrowed horse from Fox.
A large bunch of firecrackers was ex-
picded near by. and the animal reared