The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-03

Cured Nobody saw him fall but my
self. And, furthermore, in all PROBABLE
ity ] would never have heard or read of
his disappearance as the next day
went aboard yacht with some friends
and for three weeks was out of the
reach of newspapers. Had 1 not
stopped the work and begun the search
the mystery would never have been
cleared up
That reminds me- said another con-
tractor, sof a case of-nearly a similar
character. l was laying a big water
main. We had completed the job and
were filing up the trench. Where the
pipe ended we were obliged to put a
board covering over the end, as work
on the next section had not been
started, and. probably would not for
some time. We had filed up the en-
tire trench and placed the big board
covering over the end and had partly
filed up the hole with dirt, when we
heard feeble cry from the pipe. The
worlSmen were frightened for a mo-
ment. Finally the foreman recovered
presence of mind enough to order them
to remove the dirt and boards and see
what was in the pipe. When they had
done so out crawled about as thorough
ly frightened a boy as I ever saw He
said he had crawled into the pipe in
the afternoon to hide from his compan-
ions and had fallen asleep, and was
only awakened by the noise of 1.-The
dirt and stones falling against the
boards covering up the end of the pipe.
His mother happened along about this
time. When she learned what had oc-
Cured she set down her market basket,
picked up lath, and treated US to an
exhibition of how boy should be
properly spanked She did the job in
artistic shape, and when she stopped
for want of breath, that boy had the
fact impressed upon his mind that a.
nap in a big water main was against
the rules of the family"
FUN WITH DYNAMITE.
"Three small boys" said another
member gave me about as bad scare
last summer as l ever had in my life,
and if L had caught any one of the
three I would have administered a
spanking which would have been up
to all the contract requirements of a
well-regulated family. 1 had been do
ing piece of work uptown near a
large open lot, and the small boys of
the neighborhood used to bother us by
interfering with the drills and other
tools when the workmen were not
about. One rainy morning about a
week before the Fourth of July the
crowd had been annoying the watch
man by firing off firecrackers about the
place. As the men were not working
on account of the rain the boys had
| been having a gay time, and about II
o'clock | came up to the place to pre-
pare to set the men to work at o'clock,
as it looked like clearing up. ] found
the Waterman enjoying himself in a
saloon, and after 1 had berated him
for his negligence we proceeded toward
the place.
ITO our horror we saw the lid of the
| large box where our dynamite was
stored partly open and propped up
with a stick, and from out the box
were coming frequent little puffs of
smoke We ran for our lives until we
had reached safe distance and await
ed the outcome. AS there were about
| 100 pounds of dynamite and about
fifty pounds of black powder stored in
| that box, neither of US would have
gone near it for any amount of money.
Our first thought was that these boys
| had set fire to some rubbish in the box
with their fre-crackers. We warned
we could to avoid an accident. And
GREATNESS expectation of a terrible eX-
plosion we saw three youngsters stick
J up their heads and peep out. We made
a run for these youngsters, land out
/ they jumped and scampered away. II
! the Waterman had been sober and
| had been about 125 pounds lighter and
| twenty-five years younger we might
| have caught those little scamps, but
beer, age, and avordupois were against
us and they got away"