The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-17


Capt. Jasper Ewing, u. s. A., and published |
by Jameson Higgins Co. Chicago. is a col
lection of stories telling the adventures
that have befallen the author since the day |
in his boyhood when he first entered a tele-
graph office to learn the business" AS |
Capt. Ewing graduated from the telegraph |
key to a commission in the United States |
regular army, and served in the Indian |
campaigns of the west and through the war |
with Spain. the stories give a varied ex- |
perience that is interesting. The following |
story tells an experience of the author at |
the second office with which he was in |
trusted:
My FIRST attempt at holding an Of
lvI flee had proved such fat and
dismal failure that thought
spould never have the heart to apply |
for another. | worked faithfully in
the school for about month. and then
the fever to try again took hold of me.
| knew it would be of no use to apply
to my former superintendent, Mr..
Brink, so I wrote to Mr.. X. b. Bunnell,
superintendent of telegraph of the P.
@. e. Y. railroad at Kansas City, Mo-,
saying that l was an expert operator
and desired position on his road. Mr..
a hypnotic SPELL for by return mail he
wrote, inclosing me pass to Alfredo,
Kan, and directing me to assume
charge of the night Office at that point
at the magnificent salary of $3.50 per
month. This was slight decrease from
my former salary. but didn't care.
wanted chance to redeem myself and
I felt confident / could be more sue
cessful in my second attempt. So
packed my few belongings. bade good
by to the school forever. and away |
went.
When | left INN" I said nothing to
anyone about my destination, and |
did not know thing about Alfredo.
except that it was near the border line
between Kansas and Colorado. The
brakeman on the train in talking to me
told me it was a very pleasant place;
but when he said so I fancied | could
detect sarcastic ring in his voice, and
/ was in no doubt about il when I ar
rived and saw what desolate. dreary
place Alfreda was. The only things
in sight were a water tank, pump
house and the telegraph Office; and
wish YOU could have seen that office.
! 1t was simply the bed of a box car.
taken off the tracks and set down with
one end towards the track. \ small
platform. two windows. door and tn"
signal board perched high on a pole
| completed the outfit.
l arrived at $3.50 in the morning, and
there wasn't living soul in sight. An
! hour later big Observation-Disclosures Irish
man, who proved to.be the pumper,
came ambiing along on a railroad ve-
| locipede. He looked at me for min
ute, and after had made myself known
he grinned and said: "Well, hopes as
how We will loke the place. Burke. the
man who was here afore ye. got scared
off by thramps. and l reckon he's not
stopped runnin' yit." Fine introduce
| tion. wasn't il?
| l found there was no day operator,
and the only house around was the sec
tion house, two miles up the track. The
operator and pumper boarded there
with the section boss; but the railroad
company was magnanimous enough to
furnish a velocipede for their use in
going to and from the station. How
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that T MIGHT he nromoted to n better
office di6 win that nromotion but
woulInt on tbrorch my exneriencos
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