The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26

by those familiar withh the circumstances. :
Copyright, 1908 by Frank H spearman)
a n hundred times, if once thing been,
appeals for betterment before the board Of drec-
tors It was the one piece Of track on the Noun
over-the Peace river stretch. sort of
a line thru that canon would take the breath of
engineer Give him all the he could ask and it
would stagger Wetmore himself said there
nothing the Brodie before he drfed
into the Rockies had first last pretty much all of
the CHILEAN work.
But had the with one-half money
they needed The lines to the grades the cu
to in, the make blasting
mel to bore, the bridge buld-in limit; that the
of 1.-THE limit And they did they could.
will be candid; if section and elevation of Rosamonds
bower and section elevation river work
to stand prize civil cakewa
the decision would and quick to the Peace river track
There only eight miles of it, but would back
it against eighty earth whipping tough
grades vianous approaches and railroad angle generally
The directors always have promised to improve it, and
they promising yet Thanks to what HALEY taught Them
there's good bridge there cassons sunk
the bed It's the they haven't eliminated the
main line that approach valley which
brief Mauvaises Terres rolled into
single proposition.
Yet, of business along that Our engi
thread cuts are glad to ge, safely
hoping night
the blooming will tumble into perdton.
dispatchers studying shaded lamps
their teeth clnched and hope there never will be any
trouble that stretch Trouble portion and trouble
get but not there. Let it but let it
anywhere except the Peace.
It the golden of the battered old Wickiup
that the story opens when night
The the Old still before death
and fame and had stolen first commanders
left little fellows forgotten by better fate
to tell their greater stories
Haley the bridges then Wetmore the locating
and Neighbor the and Bucks the
Callahan claimed the work. and Blackburn
had the night trick.
When Blackburn came from the plains he brought
ord clean the book of fe Four station key;
eight Omaha dspatchng with bunder
a the eight years
Blackburn lost the wife whose he carried in his watch
heard the of how young she
together all Blackburn brought to the West
mountains his record and the little face in the watch
the baby back the bluffs Missouri
the night trick to us.
could forget them? They jolly
good fellows; sometimes there high jinks
anybody drunk that Sort but good tobacco to snake
sing and stories to teand Lord&
they could tell them And when the pins slipped they
would and things went they will there clear
pet! w.s ana Itoa1 pa1
it; different times like
nobody elses-a silent, beaming When Bucks
would roll great white Panhandle his fresh
shirt his COOL white arms,
always barred to the ebowsanding his points with
Francisco cigarand Neghbor would begin
heave from the middle like hippopotamus and Cal
an would laugh his whispers full of dew and HALEY would
ye with delight and the slaves in the next room would
his laugh all in smile, but never noise
ALL doubt of that; only all tempered
reckon, something that before At
it strikes and watched those big fellows
pretty fellows while
ing up among mag
nates day
with the alkai feckng their boots into
whom marble white enough high
enough
Blackburn was four years at the wcxiup on the night
trick; natural him
daylight. the yellow gloom of the old
the specked knotted warped smoky pine
ceiling itself in black and cobNebbed
smolderng the soft coal fire broo ling in the shabby
old sa1amander and the wind
raise Bacaburn in the ispa1eher,s aekburn and
lamp the the ceiling and the gloom-in
word Blackburn and the night trick-they went together
Before the Short line opened the Number
Number practically passenger
business They immensely train;
month sent out two three sections of
division night
Blackburn handled all that line mileage
besides branches say
four hundred the passenger connection came
of them, mostly at night, for i and s