The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-28

be putting money away in the bank. "
/ said l.
Well. you see I have a bank back
| in Pennsylvania "a bank that is now
/ 60 years old and getting gray headed.
1 haven't seen her much since I've
[ been on the relief. so I'm trying to
make up little now for my old mann
mic"
Where does yours go, dad?' 1 asked.
"Me?" answered the old man, evas-
iveiy "I've got a boy back east; get
unS 10 be big one. too. He's in
School- When are ven going 20 give
, Us a passenger run with The Sky-Scrap-
or, neighbor2' asked Hamilton, turn
ing 10 the master mechanic.
soon as We get this wheat up on
the high line. out of the way" replied
NeighbOr. We haven't half engines
enough 10 move il, and / get a wire
I about every six hours 10 move il fast
er. Every siding's blocked, clear TO
! Belgrade. How many Of those $4,000
pound cars can you take over Beverly
hill with your Sky-Scraper?"
He was asking both men. The en-
gineer looked at his chum.
Il reckon maybe thirty-five or for
ty." said McNeal. Eth. dad?"
Maybe son. growled Hamilton:
land break my back doing it?"
4 gave you a helper once and you
kicked him of the tender" retorted
Neighbor.
Don't want anybody ralIing ashes
for me-not while I'm drawing fun
time" dad frowned.
But the upshot of il was that we nut
the Sky-Scraper at hauling wheat, and
within a week she was doing the work
OF a double header.
ii was May. and a l 200 miles east
OF Us. in Chicago there was trouble
in the wheat pit on the board of trade.
You would hardly suspect what queer
things that wheat scramble gave rise
70, affecting George McNeal and old
man Hamilton and a lot OF other fell
lows away ont on a railroad division
on the western plains; but this was the
way OF il.
a man sitting IN a little Office on La
Sale street wrote a few words on
very ordinary looking sheet Of paper,
and touched a button. That brought
a cOlored boy. and he took the paper
out 20 a young man who sat at the
eastern end OF a private wire.
The next thing We knew, orders be-
gan 70 come in hot from the presidents
Office-the president OF the road, If you
please-to get that wheat on the high
line into Chicago, and 10 get il there
quickly
Trainmen. elevatOrmen, superintend-
ents Of motive power. were spurred with
special orders and special bulletins.
Farmers, startled by the great prices
Offering, hauled night and day. Every
old tub We had in the shops and on
the scrap was Overhauled and hustled
Into the service. The division danced
With excitement. Every bushel OF wheat
on II must be in Chicago by the morn
ing of May 81
For two weeks We worked everything
10 the limit, The SKY -Scrdper led any
two engines on the line. Even Dad
Hamilton was glad TO cry enough. and
take helper. We doubled them every
day, and the way the wheat few over.
the line towards the lower end Of Lake
Michigan was appalling to spectators.
II was a battle between two CONNER
cial giants-and a battle 10 the death.
II shook not alone the country, il shook
the world but that was nothing TO
Us cur orders were simply 20 move the
" heat And the wheat moved.
The last week found US pretty well
cleaned up; but the high price brought
grain out Of cellars and wells. the buy
ers said-at least IL brought an the
boarded wheat and much OF the seed
wheat, and the 2Sth day of the month
found nifty cars Of wheat sin in the
GAINESVILLE yards. | was at Harvard
working on a time-card when the word
came, and behind il special from the
general manager, stating that there
was Sl,oeo premium IN il for the COM
pany, besides tariff. II We g0t that
wheat into Chicago by Saturday morn
ing.
The train end of il didn't bother me
any; u was the motive power that kent
us studying. However. We figured that
BY running McNeal With the SKY
Scraper hack wild We could put an the
wheat behind her in one train. As il
happened Neighbor was az Harvard
TOO.
can they ever get over Beverly
with fifty, Neighbour" 1 asked. doubf-
fully.
'We1l never know Tin they try II .
srowled Neighb0r. There's a thons-
and for the company II they 40 tharsS
all How'll you run them? Give them