Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-10

N<wN NADWAY returned to camp by the HR 9th of January. He went on ANNh snowshoes over the entire job
 and then sat silently in the of flee smoking. The jobber looked older The lines of dry good humor about his eyes had subtly changed to an lexpres- sion of pathetic anxiety. He attached no blame to any body, but rose the next morning ar horn blow, and the men found that they had new master over them.
 Now 1t became necessary to put the roads in shape for hauling. All winter the blacksmith had occupied his time in fitting the iron work on eight log sIeighs which the carpenter had hewed from solid sticks of timber. They were tremendous affairs, with runners six feet apart and hunks nine feet in width for the reception of logs.
 The carpenter had also built two i'm mehse tanks on runners, holding each some seventy barrels of water and with holes so arranged that on the with draWal of plugs the water would food the entire width of the road. The sprinklers were filled by horse power. A chain running through blocks at tached to solid upper framework, like the open belfry of an Italian mon astery, dragged barrel up wooden track from water hole to an opening in the sprinkler. When in action this formidable machine weighed nearly two tons and resembled a moving house. Other men had felled two big hemlocks, from which they had hewed beams for q V blow.
 The V blow was now put in action. Six horses drew it down the road, each pair superintended by a driver The machine was weighted down by num- Der of logs laid across the arms. Men guided 1t by levers and by throwing their weight against the fans of the blow. It was gay, animated scene, this, full of the spirit of winter-the pIodding, straining horses, the brilliant Iy dressed, struggling men, the sullen yielding snow thrown to either side, the shouts, warnings and commands. TO right and left grew white banks of snow. Behind stretched a broad white path in which a's scant inch hid the bare earth.
 For some distance the way led along comparatively high ground. Then, skirting the edge of a lake, it plunged into deep creek bottom between hills Here earlier in the year eleven bridges had been constructed, and perhaps as many swampy places had been '1cor- duroyed" by carpeting them with long parallel poles. Now the first difficulty began.
 Some of the bridges had sunk below the level, and the approaches had to be tcorduroyed' to practicable grade. Others again were bumped up like tom eats and had to be pulled apart en- fireIy.
 Still that sort of thing was to be ex- Wected gang of men who followed the blow carried axes and cant hooks for the purpose of repairing extem- noraneously just such defects which Lever would have been discovered oth4 erwise than by the practical expert ence. Radway himself accompanied the blow. Thorpe, who went along as one of the road monkeys" saw now why such care had been required of him in smoothing the way of stubs, knots and hummocks.
 When the road Mad been partly cleaned Radway started one of his sprinklers Water holes of suitable size had been blown in the creek bank by dynamite. There the machines were filled. Stratton attached his horse 10 the chain and drove him back and forth, hauling the barrel up and down the slide way. At the bottom it was capsized and filled by means of long pole shackled to it's bottom and manip- ulated by old man Heath At the top It turned over by it's own weight. Thus seventy odd times.
 Then Fred Green hitched his team on and the four horses drew the creak- ing, cumbrous vehicle spouting down the road. Water gushed in fans from the openings on either side and beneath and in streams from two holes behind. Not for an instant as long as the flow continued dared the teamsters breathe their horses for pause would freeze