Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-02

the Englishman had talked wired that,
if he would return to Eldora he could
find work. The young man showed
4 this message to the master mechanic.
Il should like to work for you, he said
you have been very kind, to give me
employment after the foreman had re-
fused. but my family is near that place.
1t is one hundred miles or more IRON
here
Il understand said the kind -hearted
official. and you'd better go back TO
l1ldora. Here is a pass"
The next day, Sunday, the young
man told his young wife that the ne"
|country was "all right; everybody
4 trusted everybody else. An official
would give stranger free transporta-
lstion. station agent would give you
"a pass. and then an engine driver could
slcarry u man without asking permls-
sion.
! He didn't know that all these men,
save the master mechanic. had violated
1.-THE rules of the road. and endangered
their own positions and a chance of
promotion by helping him; but he
thanked them, just the same.
That was when the west was new,
when there were no locks. and the
llatchstring hung on the outside of
every door. on Monday morning he
went to work in the little shop. and In a
short time became one of the best men
l employed in the place. How do you
square a locomotive" he asked.
i Here said the foreman, from this
i|point to that That was all the Eng
.llishlnan asked. He stretched a line be-
tween the given points and went to
work.
About this time thriving station
called Marshalltown, had offered to do
4 nate to the company forty-seNen
\ thousand dollars. If the new machine
sIshop could be located there. and nave
steam up and the machinery running
on the first day of January of the fol-
lowing year.
The general master mechanic en-
TRUSTED the work of putting IN the
machinery, after the walls mad peen
lbuilt and the place rooted over, to the
1 division master mechanic, who looked
Ito the local foreman to finish the JOB
lin lime to win the subsidy.
4 The best months of the year went by
|before work was begun. Frost came.
land the few men tinkering about were
chilled by the autumn winds that We're
Iwailing thru the shutterless doors and
lunglazed windows. Finally, the fore
Imam sent the Englishman to Marshall
ltown to help put up the machinery,
HE was a new man and, therefore, was
expected to take signals from the Oldest
Imam on the job-a sort OF straw boss
/ The bridge boss. the local head of
1.-The woodworkers found the English
Imam gazing about. and the two men
talked together. There was no fore
Imam there, but the Englishman thought
Inc ought to go to work anyway. So
Inc and the wood boss stretched line
lfor line shaft, and. while the car
Eperiter gang put up braces and brack-
lets, the Englishman coupled the parts
| of the shaft together, and IN rev Gays
lit was ready to be put up.
AS the young man whistled and
worked away, one morning, the poss
carpenter came in with military look
ling gentleman who appeared to hae an
Interest in the place. Where did you
leone from?" asked the newcomer OF
1.-The inachinist.
prom England, sir"
"weu, anybody could tell thah
Where did you come from when you
Icame her2"
From Eldora.
.,syNelI, sir can you finish this. job and
lhaye steam up by the first OF Janu-
ary?''
The Englishman blushed. for he was
embarrassed, and glanced at the wood:
lboss. Then sweeping the almost empty
Eshop with his eye, he said something
Iaho,,t a foreman who was in charge of
1.-THE work. u,
AIIang the foreman" said the
stranger, I'm talking to YOU.
rhe Young man blushed again and
1 said he could work twelve or fourteen
hours day, If 1t We're necessary LOT
ilhin, to do so, but he didn't like to make
lany rash promises concerning the gen
| eral result.
Now, look here said the we'll dressed
man, 81 want you to take charge OF inns
1 lob and finish 1t. Employ as many men
as you can handle, and blow whistle
there on New Years morning,-do you
| pnderstand?'
The Englishman thought he did, but
lhe could hardly believe 1T. He glanced
/ at the wood boss, and the wood boss
1 rodded his head.
/ II shall do my best, said the Engiish-
| man, taking courage. but should IKE
| to know who gives these orders.
"I'm the general manager, said the
man; nov get move on you, and ne
turned and walked out.
1T is not to be supposed that the gem
eral manager saw anything remarkable
about the young man, save that he was
six feet high, and had good face. The
lsfact is, the wood foreman had doomed
| the Embellishments stock before the man
ager saw him.
The path of the young man was not
l.strewn with flowers for the next few
months. Any number of men who had,
been on the road when he was In the
English navy yards felt that they ought
Ito have had this little promotion. The
llocal forelnen along the line saw, in the
newcomer, the future foreman of the
new shops. and no man went out OF ms
way to help him. In spite of all obsta-
cles, however, the shops grew, from day
| to day, from week to week, and 1t was
seen, as the old year drew to a close,
| that the machinery was getting into
place. The young foreman, while
| hard worker, was always pleasant In his
| intercourse with the employees. and IN a
little while he had a host Of friends.
There is always lot of extra work at
The end of big job; so, when Christmas
came, there was still much more to be
done.
Tho man worked night and day. The