The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-10-30

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\ plants, the south and west
T0l$ stations, ours at the south
being the larger. and employing n force
of 200 men.
had much TO learn when entered
The employment Of the gas company al
bookkeeper, and enjoyed my dlscov
cries Immensely, among them the fac
that water-gas was not made from
water; that the huge round gas holders
that were placed In the various city
wards were not meters, neither were
they filed to the windows and doors
with great bulk Of loose, floating gas
which might rush out at any moments
that a gas plant must have engineers
craftsmen, surveyors, masoDs and
builders, besides the host of stokers,
boiler tenders. bumpers and yardman,
and that tar and ammonia and coke, as
by.products, were turned out from the
huge plant. as well MS Its legitimate
products of coal and watef-gas that
kept our city warm and bright OF win
ter nights.
The consulting and contracting cngl-
neef for the whole company was also
local superintendent at these works,
and man so enthusiastic In his pro.
fession it has never since been my for.
tune to meet. lie had huge technical
library of some COCO volumes--evcry-
thing that bore even remotely on gas
making-and pamphlets and magazines
from all over the civilized world. His
only holidays were trips TO attend con.
ferences Of gas men, and his social al.
versions were occasional evenings
spent with his confreres. For all this
he was the most genial and the most
versatile man l ever knew
Kate Lloyd and had very good
times at the south station. Kate was a
later conner than I. She came in with
Mr.. Storcr's need for private secre-
tary, when his mass OF correspondence
grew SO bulky.
II had been as ambitious and enter
prising before Hates coming as | grew
afterward she would never have come,
for when Mr.. Storer one day remarked
that he wished | knew shorthand. |
only replied with genuine regret that
] was very sorry did not. And as il
WAS five months between that remark
and the stenographer's coming,
might have given my employer an
agreeable surprise by making myself
more valuable TO him in the meantime.
However, that never entered my head
In those days. "Be fit for more than
the thing you are doing" had moi
then made my motto.
Kate Lloyd was a new sort of girl 10
me. She was not willing to be idle two
minutes. When she was not catalog.
Ing books or writing her letters o.
translating French documents she was
practiclng touch typewrlting or getting
me to dictate to her in our LEISURE for
Mr.. Storer was often away for days at
time and we both had time on our
hands.
There was no escaping the contagion
OF Hates energy. 1t seems TO have put
something into me permanently thut
never was there before or perhaps II
only awoke something that had been
asleep.
We worked stcadfastly ard did our
work the best we knew low, and then
we did other things. Kate told iue
what had already discovered, that !
was little Ounce not to learn short.
hand, and SHE proceeded 10 teach me
with energy and despatch. Then while
l practlced she wanted 10 know II
there was not anything | could teach
her. but | could not think Of thing
except instrumental music, and we fell
that VIC really must draw the llne at a
piano at tie south station.
One day Mr.. Storcr brought the car
penters IN stairs and set them at some
mysterious labor on the roof. We
guessed at a Flagstaff and tower and
q cupola, but Mr.. Stores laughed and
would not tell.
But finally, when the workmen had
gone, leaving rope which passed into
our Office through hole IN The ceiling.
( he babe me pull 1t. As l obeyed the
shrek OF siren whistle answered. l
let so With fainter echo of my own.
Which was your laughed Mr.. Sto-
rer. 1T works all right. doesn't III
Now we won't have to fall back on the
speaking tube. and get Michael to tray
81 all over the WORKS, hunting IN a
hurry for man he can't fud. Miss
Nelson, you Think MP I dozen Of the
men we. send for o.sencst and write
them down, and we'll see II we can't
get some sounds that they can each
answer TO. Yes, aud we must have q
general call TO the office for pay night
And here 1t was that l really had a
bright iGea myself quite worthy 81
Kate.
20 Mr., stores." said, Gag rly. 'let
me call them by their initials in tht
Morse alphabet. The master masan
Mr. Arnold, I'll call A, ana tEen th,
chief chemist you are always wanting
he can tell his own d from A. May
show youg'
go ahead" sssented Mr.. Stcrer. and
laid my hand TO the rope aud blew
- -, - -, daSh-dot-dash
dash-dot-dot," twice. Il worked beau
tifuily,
lie needn't know the alphabet. G.
course" said. in explanation of m,
idea. "but at the same time he can tei