The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-29
A GR0WL FROM The CHAIN
GANG.

Said the railroad reporter as he
lounged into tll- DGsPArCH office the
other morning, Il We got II kick coming.
Say they didn't do IL tllng to us the
first OF the year but ttlrlbble shoot us on
the turn. First, the new book OF rules,
then new time card aud the worst OF all,
the chain gang Noboiy has his own
engine and anybody has yours. Is there
any kick? Iguess, yes! You ought to
bear Fatty Says he couldn't make his
oil mileage on the 1850, but she was the
hottest thing on wheels between Wads-
worth and Carlin, and you didn't have
To put u blanket on the boiler head to
keep her from freezing to death. Says
the ten wheelers that took the place oil
the chippies, weep in their fire boxes
worse than the boss sinner at a coon
camp meeting and ride so hard you don't
know whether your back Is broken or
you've got appendicitis.
Billy Painter swearS like Il trooper:
"Dang it ALL says he. 'How in helen
blazes do they expect IA man to get owe
the road with AN old kettle like this?
| think I'll get II tin bell and run with
the chickens"
smooth Bore, he's more confidential
than ever. Says he's going to Klondyke
or up in II balloon to join Andree, he
hasn't made up his mind which yet.
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drop around here, it'll be Smooth Bore
coming down.
Jack Raitt got so excited talking over
it the other day, lie swallowed a chew
OF tobacco and Mas sick for III hour.
Oh, | tell you its nearly II.
Charlie Shorts going to ask for II
switch engine in the Wadsworth yard
AZ soon as the bridges are built. Says
hi have a better job than III the briny.
and ma be able to give the boys pointers
on spring lingerie and loving before the
seasons over.
Jessie Swaney is so mad that he won't
wash up till he gets hoiae from ii round
trip and Ed Kane is letting his whiskers
grow 40 his friends won't recognize him.
Charlie Smith claims he Was the only
oil can on the road with the Ills. but in
the chain gang he acknowledges there
are others.
Says johnny George: VIC and | were
good for a little nap any time be.we' II
| stations an tim llQu lhA uuS ln untt-
Portable, but now -" and he broke
away and went to get a broma settler
ior relief.
Louie Hettenhausen takes a cake of
limburger along with him and when
things to come too rocky,
Just takes Il smell-its all off Tor Il while
then. Louie says it il better and lots
cheaper than chloroform.
But Tommy Smith is happy. Its a
good thing" says Tommy. "Help it
along I'm the warmest thing on the
boiler head now. Ii it hadn't been for
the chain gang I'd ne plugging the old
goat up and down the Wadsworth yard
yet"
The 1912 and Doad Wetmore have
parted. She might he Il little chippy
says Doad, but there were no whiskers
on her runs and that's more than you
can SAY ri the ten wheelers by n hell of
u sight.
Alex Pollock is lingering on trading
off with koChung i'll the coal shed.
The rest Of the gang are too full Tor
u%tterance. They just sit around between
drinks and swear, and they amt the
only ones who do the swearing either.
The Master machanic swears below his
breath, the round house foreman swears
audibly, the mechinists and boiler ma
kers swears by note and the tiremcn
swears all the time.
Con Cadagan and Bob Lyle have pat
tened a harness, hooks, straps and buck.
les, to carry long oilers, squirt cans,
torches, tallow pot, engine oil tan, grips.
dope bucket, etc, and IN cases of emer-
gency when the engineer is overcome,
the eagle eyes, and now when IL brass
collars with numbers stamped on arriv,
we will be fixed. The gang will never
be happy again until they commence
to chain gang the cabooses. Well, good
bye, Pm out OF a list. Guess I'll drive
IL steak in my face and 20 to he'd. And
he drifted away"
IN OLDEN TIMES