The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-05

yer. made great sport Of his fathers
little smoking car and day coach be-
hind the big engine.
Foley made sport Of the remodeled
engine. He used TO stand by while
the old engineer was oillng, and ask
him whether he thought she could
catch q jacArabbit. i mean" Foley
would say. III the rabbit was feeling
we'll"
Dad Sinclair took it all grimly and
quietly. he had railroaded too long
L. care for anybody's chaff. But one
day. after the Sky Scraper had gotten
her nues pretty wen chalked up with
Rlkau Foley insisted that she must
be renamed.
81 have the only genuine sky-scrap-
er on the West End now myself" de-
claTed Foley. He did have a new
class II engine, and she was awe-in-
spring in truth. II don't propose. "
he continued. TO have her confused
with your old tub any longer. Dad"
Dad, o.lins his old tub affectionately,
answered never a word.
she's full OF soda, isn't she, father?'
asked George. standing by.
Reckon she Is, son"
Full az water, ! suppase?"
Try 90 keep her that way. son."
Sai-soda. isn't It, Dad?"
Nov I can't say. AS to that-I
can't say"
Wen can her sal Soda. George"
suggested Foley
NO iH,er0Csri George; stop a bit
] have TO- Not Sal Soda at all-make IL
Saltwater sal"
Then they laughed uproariously: and
IN The Teeth of Dad SinClair's protests
.-I'r he objected at once and vigorous
N-iae queer name stuck 90 the en-
tae. ana sticks yet
To have seen the great hulklng ma
eh.ae yoU would never have suspected
there could Hc another story left in her.
ltl one Cher. was. a story OF the wind.
As She stood. too. when old man Sin
C'aiT Foods H.r on the Acton run. she
was IAr best Illustration l have ever
sen o. 'hs tdage that one can never
,.- '''W Oh. looks of "A frog how far
j viii iuuu
Have yHI ever felt the wind? Not.
! f1InN unless YOU have lived on the
So ". H. Dor" plains People every
N'.'" mink the wind blows, but il
f"E blows only on the ocean and on
u nw'r..s.
TIDE summer that Dad took the Ac-
t ,,aa '-'. 30 blew for a month steadily.
.. . "'" August-hot. dry. merciless:
=. .>tl.r of the farmer and the ter
~. H. .r..amcD.
WIS on an August evening. with
-. SD" sr.l sweeping up from the
southwest that Dad came numbering
mo a TOM with his little trolley train.
=. On. barely pulled up AT the plat
.g'- 10 unload his passengers when
-. station agent Morris Reynolds.
N'-..r-s and hatless. rushed ND 20 the
-..- ahead of the hostler and sprang
- 'a- cab. Reynolds was one Of
vac tlleieSt fellows In the service. To
-..A without coat or hat didn't
,.-"- Tor much 10 such weather: but
see a.m SalioW with fright and al
>l sperrhleSs was enough to stir
even ola Dad Sinclair.
Nts not Dads habit to ask dues-
..-s but be looked al the man IN
questioning Amusement. REYNOLDS
"'Ag1 and caught at his breath. as
., seized the engineers arm and point-
q down the line.
DAD ne gasped. Three cars OF coal
ts.-A-ing over there on the second spur
'.n loose a few minutes ago"
Where are they?"
=, "Hrfe are they7 Blown through
- switch and down the line. forty
niles an hour"
tNe old man grasped the frightened
nan hy the shoulder. what DO YOU
~ T',sh' How long ago? When Is due7
$50 quick, man, What's the matter
NTH your"
Not five minutes ago. No. 1 IS due