The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-15

lHTEtItEI A''s INe'N' ~a3VI'HE
f9s The recent epinatac Of weeks"
8sfld d cominefclal Traveller in the
sl8apislng Commandment 81 d Pullman
egay is Gae TO the saNt tA.t The nerves
OF the engineers are bfoe&ht 10 such
II iaifs3 tension after Il number Of bad
stae 4eats that they lose eentrol of
ttts,aSEtgas.n
4 .f33t'a inst. wliare ypt! are wrong"
qlttStly slid 4 ggay7laiFad iuatt with a
tl;alea, Weatler-be&tph fyse, t&ho sat
ifeHtp the window smoking u cigar, Il
thIft,s you Wi4l all credit rae With Know
igs What I am taking about AS have
lfssti ftilfota erslneet Tor The last
tftatE gAats; haze run All kinds of
&4tSifsca. frold anime dummy 10 Il hum
al$3-afisl passenger e%.slS3fle With q sew
~ fett wheel, lna HAZE rlllroldea on
sol the principal lines IN the United
greet majority ~ l1eople seem
ad3 have the idea thai the engineer of q
Cast train IL slNSiiyf; IN fear OF rltn-tns
aRs collisions, and that he is under
ssaffl Il nsivous stl}in tlnt he sonle-
ti5nss iits TO be lifted from The cab
y8iien be reaches the end OF his run.
yahat Isn't so. Ar engineer HAS too
s49sssl duties, such ms watching his
3sis.iaIss keeping @atef in bis engine.
stf@l saetrig that In ~ on his schedule
sssi i8ia. 81 l:tye naueh tiala 10 worry him
f;ff SGb1uf accidents, That are likely to
hapiar. NJ long as he pays the prop
et attention to his own train he knows
tiat Is al he cali do, ard That If any
ttffFe ,sees wrong IL ~ beyond his con-
#ol, $50 he aarsfl't tllle M a}Ny of
fiss tiifie MARRYING. accidents viii hap
uo matter how niue5a care Is taken
tD 3lsve!lt them. and sometimes there
rGnst he found any reason Ton them,
fiIt yoll may be sltrs that they are
never caused through the engineer los
isg ais#nprve.
Il mn engineer we're linaef half tho
attain NEST people suppose him To be
le wanldpst last q doaafi trips, but YOU
Wills find that men iiNs to grow old at
~eagitieefinG, just tho Sen:a as at any
ottfsr NGrk-itflat Is, il they are suited
TO tie hiisiness and iitiNe no bad luck.
Assa pilit. they aia&Ineus Of good, StroUG
nerves. and WITH little imagination. OF
cbS.SSe, / don't mean that all engineers
.Ifa alike. There are good ttld ordinary
and fast and slow engineers. And IL is
slseGg3ous iiint that ii is not always the
ataes ga ntious mai, who gets. along with
the feWest accidents.
tfytrrstiHe Of the fastest engineers I ever
lsfes, was me OF the safest, and set he
would come safely through after taking
u cilsstes that would have made another
nss&ats hair stand on end, One thing he
did Ill remember all my life. ] was fir
ing tor him at the time and ] thought
M<ttfaIH JslS&WaS Ine lGaE Dk VS. VIZ tbIlc
iuto the station hauiing an accommo-
dation tram, with the engine running
On one side-tlat Is. tile gear on one
side had broken down and he had dis
connected it, taken off the side rods and
gtieesup the piston. All the powe. thus
lslsl to come from the good side. This
dSssa't interfere with an engines
~speed--at least going down hill-but, of
course, she is much more likely to give
way in that condition than when she is
IL good order.
THE station was at the top of a steer
agtttie and we were coming down. Dun
train had just five minutes to get to the
next station at the bottom Of the hill
tioae and u half miles below. and side.
track for an express coming from the
opposite direction.
tSSYNil, the engineer wanted to max,
The ran, but the conductor got off the
train and said he didn't want to com.
init saicide. If the engineer was hount
Ia kill himself he would have TO do i
sSloaS, said The conductor. but he final,
Wssss persuaded 10 get aboard and ava
I'VE Went. Never befereao or! since have
had such Il ride. From the way we fel
dasVn that grade : thought we eve
Welld reach the bottom except in u pile
Hut sgeg reached tte sidetrack safely
after all, and pulled into 1t iust in tim
to miss the express, for IL came througl
II moment later 5as fast as 1t cnult
tfagel, as its engineer made II dash 10
the grada, and IL didn't miss The gea
esd of our hind coach six inches rs i
WAS d3s:sWn ints tilesiding.
Yat that engineer is stills running
afists he has had fewer accidents tina,
sasany q slower and more careful man.
There Is always ii certain amount o
csGitsalsnt in fheSiife. of M engines
bat ii gets To be just the ialne as an
other work ~ nan is doing year in an
&syear4out. ] sometimes see pictures ]
n,agazines shaving lie engineer in
c1aflb with his fireman. his train al
the time supposed to be travelling at TIL
rste OF annie a minute Won will neve
sac anything like that IN real life. AZ
engineer always must have his han,
%onSsthe throttle ana HID eyes glue
stfsaight ahead. The fraction OF Il sec
opd sometimes will make sill the dit
ference itastfe world, for YOU are lilseli
TO find ahsignalyset against YOU at tn
n!cst unexpected placss,3andlt u, is strict
necessary that sou see I. just a
81 as gouscali.
whit going along with S~llfexpres
as fast as the engine could turls a whee
tae: other day came suddenly upon
brakeman Mavinga@reds flag. 1 thre,
asl the sira5and then reversed the en-
ggines for could tell by the ray tb
brAksnlasl fsas waving thai We wer
ciose on his tsaia. Well, we came to
s@85sEcp 4 All Engines length from Il,
sssifses efa way train that had crosse
1is NY track 10 get some cars out OF
siding nj hadfls Is ts,sle is yet out {
my Narss4Ftae hIsatsei,aI, had had l.ar
work 7 get up the track far enough /