Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-19

tire crew looked wirn vasr au1n1rarIon on their boss as man who intended to have his own way no matter what diff ficulties or consequences might tend to deter him. And that is the kind of man they liked.
 Injun Charley, silent and enigmatical as ever. had constructed a log shack near a little creek in the hard wood. There he attended diligently to the business of trapping. Thorpe rarely found time to visit him, but he often glided into the office, smoked pipeful of the white mans tobacco in friendly fashion by the stove and glided out again without having spoken dozen words.
 Wallace made one visit before the big snows came. and was charmed. He ate with gusto of the "salt horse." baked beans. stewed prunes, mince pie and cakes. He tramped around gayly in his moccasins or on the fancy snow shoes he promptly purchased of Injun Charley. There was nothing new to report in regard to financial matters. The loan had been negotiated easily on the basis of mortgage guaranteed by Carpenters personal signature. Noth- ing had been heard from Morrison & Daly.
 By the end of the winter some 4,000,, 900 feet of logs were piled in the bed or upon the banks of the stream. To un. derstand what that means you must imagine pile of solid timber mile in length. This tremendous mass lay di. rectly in the course of the stream When the winter broke up it had to be separated and fioated piecemeal down the current. The process is an interest ing and dangerous one and one of great ,delicacy. It requires for its sue cessful completion picked men of skill and demands as toll it's yearly quota of cripples and dead While on the drive men work fourteen hours day up to their waists in water filled with float ing ice.
 On the Ossawinamakee, as has been stated, three dams had been erected to simplify the process of driving. When the logs were in right distribution the gates were raised, and the proper head of water foated them down.
 Now, the river being navigable, Thorpe was possessed of certain rights on it. Technically he was entitled to normal head of water whenever she needed it. or special head. according to agreement with the parties owning the dam. Early in the drive he found that Morrison &5 Daly intended to cause him trouble. It began in a narrows of the river between high, rocky banks. Thorpe's drive was floating though close packed The situation was tic klish. Men with spiked boots ran here and there from one bobbing log to an other, pushing with their peaveys hur- rying one log. retarding another, work ing like beavers to keep the whole mass ter was practically covered with the floating timbers
 Tn moment. as though by magic, the loose wooden carpet ground togeth- CT. A log ill advance up-ended, another thrust under it. The whole mass ground together, stopped and began rapidly to pile up The men escaped to the shore in a marvellous manner of their own.
 Tim Shearer found that the gate at. the dam above had been closed. The man in charge had simply obeyed or ders. He supposed M. X D. wished to back up the water for their own logs.
 Tim indulged in some picturesque language.
 You ain't got no right to close off more'n enough to leave us tn nat'ral flow unless by agreement" he conclud- ed, and opened the gates. s@e
 Then 1t was a question of breaking the jam. This had to be done by pull ing out or chopping through certain ''key" logs which locked the whole mass. Men stood under the face of im- mfnent ruin-over them a drowning sheer wall of bristling logs. behind which pressed the weight of the rising