The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-17

because he was Martins brother nothing else He
held it about two months, then he resigned and
went to Frisco. was a restless fellow; it
was Bob up and Bob down. For year he wandered
around out there, telegraphing, then he bobbed up
again in Medicine Bend out of a job. He wanted
to go to work. and-wel Callahan-Martn's brother,
you know-sent him to Montair night opera
tor Three months he worked steady a clock.
Then one night the despatchers at the Bend couldn't
get Montair for two hours It laid Number Six
and Special with the General Manager and made
Martin said right off ought to go. But there
was the little mother home, silent, expect but
pleading-like. 1t was left largely to Martin, for
the young fellow already chief; and that was
the troube-fe hated to bear hard; so
he compromised by asking his superintendent not
to fire Bob, but to set him back. They sent him
up as night man to Rat River, the meanest place
the whole system. That was the summer of the
Templars' Conclave at San Frisco.
We worked the whole spring getting things up
along the lne from Omaha to the Sierras, for that
Concave. Engines were overhaued rolling stock
touched roadbed put in shape everything shaken
from end to end. Not only the passenger
records to be smashed, but beyond lot of our
big general officers way-up Masons meant
that our line should get not merely the Of
the business, but the cream of the advertising out
of the thing The general tenor of instructions
was to nickel-plate everything, from catalpas
to the target rods. For three months before the
Conclave date were busy getting ready for it,
and when the big day drew which
to undertake the moving and the feeding of six
thousand people way track through the
mountains, the corttnks smoked cross-cut and the
Russian sectionmen began to Oil their hair.
Callahan was superintendent under Bucks, then
General Manager, Martin Duffy, Chief Despatch
er. Neighbour Superintendent of Motive Power and
Doubleday, Division Master Mechanic, and with
everything buttoned up the West we went
that Sunday morning the ring line to take the
first of the Templar Specials
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