The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-02

What" cried his companions In
chorus.
81 mean to be understood. gentlemen"
continued Morgan, las saying that l have
never in my life been guilty of sleeping
on my engine. | have been away from
home eight days and nights at a stretch
with the old ten-spot and without a
warm meal in all that time, and / never
slept except upon the cots at the division
headquarters. / have been upon old No
10 ffty-three hours at stretch without
a wink of sleep or without every step
ping my feet upon the ground. except to
oil around and still ] never slept.
tell you, boys, l know what 'grief IS as
we'll as any man here, and / say to you,
that / never sleep on duty" This ora
ton brought out a round of laughter from
his companions. That day a plot was
made to catch Morgan asleep on his en-
CINE, and that night he was caught twice.
He BIaInes the BrnlSemen.
An order come from division headquar-
ters that night to the night yardmaster to
make I'D two trains of stock and send
them to Chicago by train No. IS. Morgan
and his crew were called to take out the
second section. After running about an
hour on the trip, following closely the
FIRST section, Morgan went to sleep. The
fireman gave the tip to the forward
brakeman, who grabbed his lantern and
went out on top of the train. He gave "A
signal to his companions on the rear or
the train and the whole train crew inn
mediately began setting brakes. As they
were running on a slight up grade II
didn't take long to bring the train to a
full stop. The fireman, to wake Morgan
up. shouted:
Morgan. l guess we will have to dou-
bic this hill, the old 10 doesn't seem to
be able to take them over"
This aroused Morgan and he leaped
from his seat. "Confound the brakemen,"
he said why don't they tend to bust
ness? ! told them when we were leav-
ing the yards that / thought there were
brakes set somewhere on this train, and
| know there are now"
And there We're, in fact. nearly every
brake on the train was screwed up to the
last notch. Just then the whole train
crew came climbing into the cab asking
for "the engineer that never sleeps" Nor
gan then knew 1t was a put up job. He
had to bride them not to give the snap
away
Arriving at the next station, an order
was received for the first and second sec
tions of train No. IS TO meet a passenger
train al a station some fifteen miles fur
Their east. Nearing this meeting point the
crew of second eighteen could see that
the first section was i'm on the side track.
and as the side track at this station was
not very long the conductor ordered set
brakes" to slow down the train.
Morgan In Caught AEain.
The fireman glanced over at Morgan
and saw that, although he was sitting
straight up in his scat. he was sound
asleep. He acquainted the forward brake
- ~. e.. l.. Al.
his mittens and lantern preparatory TO
going out on top of the train. The fire.
man then shut the steam off. The train
kept getting closer and closer, and still
Morgan slept. They got within about
hundred yards of the caboose ahead and
the train was Just crawling at a snail s
pace and Morgan slept on. When within
about forty feet of the caboose the fire.
man shouted ''MorganW so loud that the
engineer woke with a start. Seeing the
lights Of the eaboose right In front of his
engine. he leaped from his seat, reversed
his engine and blew for brakes.
No harm was done. but from that time
on Morgan was known as "Old man who
never sleeps"
Tobacco for the Conductor.
on the same railroad is a freight con-
ductor who Is some shucks" at Sleep
ing, and he has been made the subject
Of a great many practical jokes perpe-
trated by his fellow ,railroaders.
Jim-this is his name-was called one
time to tkae out train No. 10. This train
was although freight and generally carried
nothing but cars loaded with merchandise
destined for towns west of the Mississippi
river This particular night, however. It
was made up into a mixed train. Jim was
a heshy man and never was accused OF
having any particular love for work.
II rained nearly all night and the en-
gineer had strong head wind to contend
with. The train pulled hard and they
were compelled TO double" over couple
of hills. In trying TO slack the train
over one Of the hills drawbar was pull
ed out from a car. SO that they had to
set It out on a side track and leave IT,
They arrived at the end OF their division
considerably behind time, and Jim lost
no time going 10 sleep. Leaving to
brakeman the task OF registering, he
planted himself In an easy chair in his
cabOose and soon was fast asleep. When
the train crew had finished work all filed
into the caboose. There sat Jim In a chair
fast asleep. His head was thrown back
and his mouth was wide open. The en-
glneer taking his pouch from his pocket.
eNUacltn thei'iioH eooniy portion OF
tobacco and rolling II into ball, he
held II up high over Jim's upturned face
and then let IL fall. IL dropped squarely
into Jim's mouth. II nearly strangled
him and ne awoke. splitting and cough
ing.
What Is the matter, Jim-are you GO
ing 70 have a hemorrhage7" asked the
engineer
why / was Cough Just taking
cough a little edt nap" replied Jim,
and ! Cough came near eWail8winR NY
chew ~ tobacco" fsuccerai0n ~ cOuRhs).
And he went 30 chewing cOmplaoently.
~ suppose you'li be teilirg people thar