The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-14
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man at work he good for erIands. such
times he went all into mental tangIe that could
neither be thrashed kicked him. and
Brodie. since he could do nothing else with him.
finally kicked him into learning to read-and to CT
pher, Brodie called it. Then, by and by HALEY got
an OLD table and part of cake Of India ink himself
and himself became a draughtsnan, and soon became
chief draughtsnan in Brodie's Office. HALEY was
college Uan--EIaiey Brodie Single mind
on single mind-coneentration absolute. Nathenat-
les. drawing. bridges brains-that Haley. All
that Brode knew HALEY had from him; and where
Brodie weak Haley strong-master
SELF. When Brode showed the image he was made
in HALEY shame as best he could and Brodie
who hated even himself. showed still a light in the
wreck by moldng HALEY to his work For one day:
siG Brodie in his heart this boy shall be master of
lhese DTldges WEen Z am not, ne VIII be here what
he was Brode's And better than any of
engineer by a drunzard And Hailey was better. far
Tar better. than the graduates; better than BrOde
an Brodie vail the Indians knew. all that a
LIES experience eating, living, watching. sleeping
with the big river had taught him. that HALEY
And when Brodies bridge went out HALEY was ready
With his new bridge It was to be such a bridge as
But the cost! The directors jumped their table
when they the figures We were being MIXED
M4 street cirque tRat robbed our good road shaved
cur salaries Impoverished our equipment, ana cut
sand elliiders for his Spider Water bridge thew
laughed and said come take nifty" He couldn't
DO anything else and he built hfty-g uilder bridge
the average bridge
o Haey'S Hfe-this knew,
and the Sioux would have said the Spider knevywas
TO build final bridge over the Spider Watera bridge
HALEY would talk Spider bridge to a Chnauan.
His bridge foreman Ed Peeto a staring big One-eyed
French Canadian actually had but two ideas in life
one was HALEY, the other the Spider bridge. When
In5 GhtLl5eo AGAIN ana a steat ana
Peeto kicked his little spaniel in frenzy of
ou 9 wei get the bridge ids o'y ne exclaimed r'o'
So there were many long conferences at division
headquarters between Bucks, superintendent and
Callahan, assistant and HALEY, superintendent Of
bridges, and aferward HALEY went once more to gen.
era headquarters luggng all MS estimates revised
The new president as beftted a very big man re-
20 t5 ISy IIH e Of fb ne sitiae
at the Big Sandy river The amount looked large,
but the argument supported by mass Of statistics,
was convincing Hailey's budget called, too, for
HALEY stayed over TO await the decision. He haunted
could money The wire flashed the word
the west end. Everybody the Wickiup glad,
bat Ed Feeto burned red tlTe ard MS little oos Sport
ate rattesnalzes. Old Denis HALEY went very near
be SoISi5 ~ on The hos TTi,7aa es
For a wonder the bridge material in fast and
early in the summer Haley, quietly, and Peeto,
very profane, moved into construction headquarters
Spider, the first airIock sunk west Of
the Missouri closed over the heads of tall Haley and
day sand streamed from below, and Hailey's Gals
sunk foot by foot toward the rock By the
middle OF September me masonry was cIOE,ains hg9
water mark, and the following Saturday HALEY and
get acquainted with their families. HALEY looked
ragged and thin, like the old depot, but immensely
Sunday was a day to get your feet on the tables
{ Bucks would open the r. R. B. mail and read the
news aloud for the benefit of Callahan and Haley
and such hangers-on as Peeto and an occasional stray
"HeIlo!', exclaimed Bucks. Here's general or
The boys drew their briers like one Bucks read
out lot Of stuff that didn't touch our end and then
i The mountain and the intermountain divisions
are hereby consolidated under the name Of the noun
tain division, with J. F. Bucks superintendent,
appointed assistant superintendent of the new di-
well. well well" said HALEY opening his eyes
Here's promotions right and left
Omaha. vice ?. c. Haley Bucks read Then he
HALEY promoted, transferred, assigned-but there
no further mention OF HALEY Bucks threw
down the order in silence. Ed PeeJo broke out
:. WHO'S Il, P Cancer"
, Who the hell is hep" roared Ed. Nobody an
Iahan lit his lighted pipe. but Ed Peeto stared at
Did You hear that he snorted at his superior.
You're OUT" stormed PeetO
I'm glad were up TO Rign H[er at I1f ' Pa
tell You What think Of it. do I? It's damned
HALEY rose to his feet. where you going, PHILIP"
Going back to the Spider on No. ,,
Not going back this morning-why don't you
Ed" HALEY raised his voice at the foreman, will
you get those stay pol[s ana Gnuch mem INTO me
house for a minute" He forgot to answer Bucks;
they knew what II meant He bracing himself
to tell the folks before he left them preparing tell
the vife-and the old mau--thau he out Out of
the railroad system he had given his life TO help
bIIiId IN out of the position he had climbed by
studvine like a hermit and working ike hobo. Out
without criticism, or allegation, or reason-slmpy
like a dog. out
Callahan with Bucks. tried to figure what it meant.
It know why they did it,, Bucks said, slowly, but
I couldn't tell Haley.
''Why?"
u think I know why. Last time was down the
president brought his name up and asked lot of
questions about where he educated, and so on.
gave facts-told him that Brodie had given
him his education engineer The minute ne
he wasn't regularly graduated he froze up
Very polite, but he froze Sec Experience actual
experiments-nOthing-nOIh ing-nOthing.'
As he concluded HALEY climbing behind his
father into the smoker. No. pulled down the yard
One thing HALEY meant to make sure Of
that they shouldn't beat him the finish Of the
Spider bridge as he had planned It; monument
HALEY meant to have-one he has
The superintendent of bridges took hold
promptly He was 2 good enough Fellow guess, but