The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-01


49, old rai;= sport The youngest
ssf the may beard the Oldest
rail on the tangent and Just gray. Tney
flourish too in spite of orders for while whiskers are
permitted engineers conductors they
are never encouraged rails Nature however,
vdes the whiskers regardless discipline and what
more, shaves them herself
Their culture depends conditions. Some months
better whskers than others September famous
for whiskers while July grows very Whiskers Will
grow steel rails in the air of night,
every night air will produce vhskers It takes high
frosty air-One that stays ate-to whiskers.
Take, for example, the night the Black Hills.
Is known everywhere among steel rails as "A beard
tonic. The days moisture falling the drops
yOnd the hills is drawn into feathery. jeweed crystals
of frost the chilly steel ice
in summer shade And these dewy staagmites rise in
dainty profuson until, when the day peeps into the
canyons. the track looks a pair of long white
sreamers winding and down the levels But beware
that track! 1t is very dangerous track, its
biities lie where Samson's lay-in the whiskers.
So it lies in early morning. as pretty death trap
flower that lured a fly; only this pitfan
waits for engines and trains and men-and sometimes
gets them.
1t waits there on the mountain grades in an am
bush really deadly unwary train.
which is particularly lazy fall peepng into
the cuts smiles, length the bearded steel it
funny, the whiskers vanish into thin air
smooth-faced rail presents especial dangers;
and if tranmen in the hills had their they would
never turn wheel until the had done barbering
3ut dispachers not having to do with them take no
account Of whiskers They only the schedules
the whisers made the trouble To lessen their dangers
engineers always start up down. with thankful
of sand and they the whiskers 1t is rough barber
ing. but it helps the grit bit the
the rail- and in that hang In this
thankful of sand is better than all the air Westinghouse
ever stored.
AIoysus McGrath was little sweeper but was an
aspiring for a sweeper may aspire and in
point of them do aspire. Aloysius
in the round house at the head of the Wind River
on the West End mountains. 1t amazingly rough
and grades ii takes breath merely
to look down the levels Three cent, cent,
per cent-t is really frightfuL AIoysus
to heavy falls he had begun working for the company
a sweeper Johnnie Horigan and no engineer
would have thought of running grade to with
Johnnie's headers
Horgan the first boss Aloysius ever had.
Aloysus. if caught just right is very pretty name
but Johnnie Horigan could make nothing whatever OF
it, so he called Aloysius Cooney he said,
Cooney McGrath-and. by the way. you call that
McGraw, we shall be started right AS for Horgan, he
may be called anything. a is
the West End he has been called everything.
Johnnie ordinarily boss He had suffered
numerous prOmotons-several times to wiper and
hostler; his tendency celebrate these occasions
usually him his job and he sweeping.
If he had been such inoffensve, off little
old nubbn he wouldn't have been tolerated the pay
roll but he had been with company So long
discharged often that foremen grew tired of trying
get rid Of him and spite of his regular habits
he was hanging somewhere all the time.
When Johnnie was gone using the word in at least
senses. Aoysius Cooney McCrath ipso
boss sweeper. happened Sunday morning.
after pay day when Johnnie applied foreman
for permission to go to church Permission was
granted Johnnie church, but it is doubt
full whether he found it. At all events at the end
of three weeks he turned again the round house
house prayer. which tried find only after
he kicked o every other place
Aoysius had improved the intervals by sweeping
the round house it never had been swept before and
when Johnnie Horigan returned morally dsfigured.
Aioysius McGrath already promoted be wiper
his old superior johnnie was In no wise envous
the misfortune to account for
Interior purpose and he congratulated the boy. af
fecting that he stayed away let them what
stuff the young fellow made of. This put him in
position to negotiate small loan his Drotegea
position Of which he never neglected the possibilities
he ar
Johnnie. though might be often. After time
AIoysius got TO firing. Then engine. But
fired many months. and there came promotion
The trouble was there were no new crews ADDED 10 t
engine service Nobody killed nobody quit nobody
died. One. two three years without break. and
little Al0ysius had become bigger Aloyslus and wac
still firms also discouraged for then the
force down and he put back to wping.
Never mind. never Y mind, Cooney,' old johnnie
would say. all right You'll get y'r ingin
vet. a couple till day, Eooney viii youE
tn Warrant v VT ngn vet Cooney." Which little
surance always Aloysus 81 till pay day, and no
end of trouble getting back. for when he attempted
collection Johnnie took a dark view Of the LAOS
future, abiding vaguely to people who were hardhear
cd and ungrateui their best friends And Aoysius
Maid slight old sweepers yaporngs; he
really in the end the means of the boy getting ms
After three years of panic hard times the
mountain the mines began TO reopen new spurs
we're laid construction crews were put on ahd
new activity was everywhere apparent But TO fill the
Gun of Aloysius woe, crews were all sent up
from McC,oud. they older in the order
e cremation was cold comfort-Aoysius felt crowded
out He blue. and the next time johnnie APP
ried for Aloysus rebuffed him unfeelingiy rms
in turn depressed John.
Never mind never mind Cooney- III not be speak
in' Z Neighbor ag'in set y If Y like wpin STICK
40 Mt III not be troubln' Neighbor agn' johnnie
nrofessed a great pull with the master mechanic
That Aloysus might feel stl more the sting OF ms
codness Johnnie for some days paid much court u
4be new fireman engine runners Nothing ABOUT
the house was good for them, and as the eratty
s,yeeDer never overlooked opportunity he was In
debt the end of the week to most OF 'he
hood. ,,,. como
charity thereafter. of those keen Octoper
t..s ,bat bite so in the nils The construction
trsn extra 2O west. had started about O'Clock from
be head of the pass with load Of steel Tor the track
levers and stopped bite of breakfast at Wind
River Above the round house there is switchoack
When the train pulled in the got off for some hot
coffee Johnnie Horigan around playing good TEL
~ and he climbed into the the train
tbroueb the switchback while the crews at the
eating house irregular TO leave the engine put
tbe did and as for Horigan. he regularly
irregular sixteen OF steel in the string