The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-07
General manager's
Contribution.

to him:
8" First and second sections of extra
south and second section Of extra north
and first section of No. II here. Want
orders My hair fairly rose on end.
How on earth he had managed to get
all those trains at a little One-horse
station without wreck was a wonder
to me.
Il grabbed my hat and flew across
the town for the office When I got
there saw Patterson sitting at the
key, white as d ghost. He was sending
an order No. 40 take siding at Rollins
to meet No. A. he was saying. Some
one broke him and said, oh, h, RoI-
Inns siding won't hold half Of 49-wCr
have to back two miles to get over
u glanced at the train sheet. 1t
was in a hopeless tumble. Some of the
trains had not been recorded for two
hours-had jumped clean of the earth.
so to speak. The dispatcher came in
on a run at that moment.
'oThe man who broke Patterson now
had the wire hot. Orders were flying
IN rapid succession The dispatcher
reached for the key and broke in,
VII Keep Out-Im busy came
back the reply. He then glanced at
the train sheet. One glance was sut-
ficfent.
s where's 1922 he gasped.
Patterson only shook his head. No.
u was a passenger. The dispatcher
then turned to me. shook my head
also
ssThe sounder was rafting at a great
rate. Repeat on g. we heard licked
off Elves busy Take it anyhow
came back the quick reply. Five was
a commercial wire.
''TO our establishment the order was
l repested and O. KID over while an
/ other was being sent over the dispatch
Z IVA
/ at the dispatcher. His features were
! drawn and Wriukled, and a. cold sweat
/ seemed to stand out on his brow. A
/ whittier man I never expect to see he
/ was listening mtently to the lnStEu-
ments Suddenly his face relaxed, his
J eyes flashed, and he reached across JHe
/ desk for the key
/ Hello, DObbs,' he called.
Keep out, Billy, I'm too busy came
the reply.
! "RiIiv settled back into a chair with
a sigh Of relief. His elbows rested on
the arms of the chair. and he folded
/ his hands in front of his face, the in
| dex fingers forming an apex Slowly
/ the color returned to his face lie seem
/ ed half asleep At the first lull OF the
! sOunder. however, he reached for the
key again.
d" Hello, DObbs, where are youE ne
asked.
Div. It's my trick. Billy, don't worry,
every wheel is turning, but NO L.
/ Where was she last2
' Don't know OFF the sheet.
81 III find her. GOodby, Billy, repueu
the inCOrrigible Dobbs.
I'VE heard him trace her from station
to station until he found she had leII
/ Marshall at $40. It was then II clOch.
North from Marshall there was no
night operator for thirty miles lie
called the man at Princeylle-
IS Have you seen No. ~
% No was the reply.
IS Go out and see If you can see her
/ came the order.
d" No. she amt in sight came next
There was a pause
So Gibson, COnd- Extra South
g Leave train at Princeville-take en-
/ CINE and crew, look for No II south OF
/ PrincevfIIe.' was the next order
/ ''No u was found about half way be
tween the two stations with a crippled
/ engine The crew were chasing aoouL
the village like mad men in search OF
the agent But he was not found
u looked at the dispatcher he NaS
asleep this time and no mistake Pat
! tersOn sat like q man in a SJupOr, me-
, head bent forward till his chin rested
on his white shirt front. woke tn5
dispatcher and we carried hIn away 70
. / the hotel He managed to pull through
) ]
/. | and glory in the employ OF a railroad
and drjftad into the mercantile bust
ness, and may be living yet for all
: know
, 'DObbs returned the next day and at
, / ter a stormy time with the supeTlntend o.
ent returned to his old place. the onlJ
remark he made as he took MS pldcs
the following day was Poor Patterson.
: "a Where have you been, DobDs! IN
Quired the dispatcher
Just away on short wedding trlp'
= was the reply.
we soon found that he was telling
r the truth. He had fallen in love with a
girl agent away down the line at COOK
, Bend. Tt was q small OuU-OL FFeLs
! station, and his monthly pilgrimage
> had been to this place ON TINS PAL
; ticular trip he had gone with the Inteh-
ton of bringing Miss Barnes nom
- with him. She afterwards told me Lhs
: 81 You see she said. Bob wasn't the
youngest fellow in the world ana ne
5 was afraid of being what ne cans guy,
5 ed If the men at the Office knew dOo1
, it. He actually used to hide when JIt
, / trains vent through. You see the n1gh'
- we were married I managed 10 IoISe
ID sSmething at the depot, ana we "Vit
back together to get il. While We Were
: there he discovered what urOuDie INT
new man was in and he helped MN out
. he worked nard, for he had 10 reliieIi
r Der everything, having no LlIle 70 hlah h'
I a train sheet. Things went pretty eaS'
: after he found II. That worried him
t great deal. When he was IN q hurry
( o. KID the orders over No D
! And that was the sum total or the =
MS contribution To our entertainment
? during the entire Trip.