The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-20

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'%'7 bssi b! hs'Es Zinc n!s. didn't ven,
Il or or, aCoiiidn't done it, Pa, my II Void
stopped me- anywhere. wouldn't done
5it--i,ot FOR anybody. Burdrk IL knockc,l
etsa e. pushsr III al fsIs G SAT-
Topped BIZ With b, 1ubllant Kick for tho
round house. and The double,
waterod and coaled af re-, started wt
Slll different start tl1at-a.running past
Ne Wild Instead Of into It; sl,ting TINT
brought cxcursonlsts UP. In n tumble
r. the slccpera swuil1f ariat.lko around
TIC was q vld cal and "' iiienss , Is ~
re Columbian . r y train pa,fssnger,s
gray and grliny,T rolled into the Junction
wns ove, The eonneeIon Was '' safe. BIT
nobody noticed who made it. Evcrybody
and ihe scenery TO observe a pair OF dig.
reputable, haggard. streaked. hollow-cyyed
t1amps who made , the, way m node
h oh paf e s q only Pat ' Franc ss Fla
Moore, conductor aud engineer OF No /.
Tho agony was over tor everybody bit
Pat Flranas Tan days later Bucks.
sat In Ills His den at, tho Wickinp, reading
a. letter from the general manage
Sir: On Thursday, June 2Sth, Conductor
?. Francis leaving N. - on NJ, l. col,
.tifty cents from one of our special SER
vice men He failed to Issue cash fare
slip for this as REQUIRED; fur,hermore.
he carried this passs se al The way 70
It be distinctly. understood, that all de-
.naucncics Of his nature VIII be summnr-
- - 5. :" x. ". BANNERMAS,
l4tsa.|l5 4$E55f.$ General Mana xpr II
1t wasn't aletter to go to the stoves
not that kind Of letter. but, Bucks fin
gercd It much as Pat Francis ought to
turned from the chair car to the smoker.
OH him and from n catt le1nan to a dago,"
Bucks called the tralninaster. Francis
was west. due to leave Benton that after t.
Bring nH back the Brooklyn, party from the
Yellowstone. g And 4 the passenger depart
ment3ln Chicago was again heating me
wires wt n5dne.qns - 70 tba aKe Sars
not only profitable, but it is hard
to work up, nd trouble with an ex--
doc for months. and may be for years
BUCKS felt especially gratitied TO know
that Pat Francis had the precious ne m load1.
e eH. w Bend Hpo 70 Red ca Goud5 nueEs knew
these Thinks couldn't be trifled with-not
on his line-and he faced the pleasant
Of neTt servee VIII
an accusation Of theft and summary
discharge di II he had only asked me for
three dollars ana hali thougnti v s@ckkiS Ks
own pay check than to have had Pat
Francis hold up one dollar.
And Pat Francis. tacltnrn, spHlnX-nke,
on t Tun aFt
from Benton. Checking passengers, keep
ing one eye on the venttlatorS ana inc
other on the, date limits, WORKING Dotll
OF tho punch. and both sides of the cal at
the same time.
There wasn't cnder to break the even
en,oyeday 0 Ma NE eone home and gong
home happy From the Pullmans--tt wa
warm and sunny in the mountains-ca me
nothing but rag-time and Brookiyn yeiiSs..
.ious. but the grade whore No. was then
climbing would alone make the fortune
OF an ordinary eastern SCENIC line.
with a long train Of tea, was pulling out
Of Toltec station as. No. Q stuck Its head
into the foot of the Moose. 81.
At Totee; on the day !, run. we t tax "a a
his money in bit of.the prettiest engl-
neerlng anywhere on earth
'roltcc lies In the Powder Range; near
the foot of a great curve ca lied the Moose,
head Of his train into 1t lie Is glad to
hold his breat tn till he gets it out.
The ,roltec Moose is engineering magnlf-
ifent but 1t is railroading without words
unless one counts the wicked words.
Eagle Pass station, the head of the Moose.
looks across an unspeakable gulf directly
down into Toltec 800 feet below, and
barelysa mile away. But BY the rail we
count seven miles around that curve
and without any land-grant perquisites,
Every train that runs the Moose is
double headed both ways, and noW-this
was hefore-they add, to keep trainmen
or the relief scrap, nusher.
That day there was no pusher behfnd