The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-01-16

ger brought up and slug with heaVy
wire attached was shot across the gorge
the wire beng fastened To steel caOie'
Men sent across the river at bridge Num-
Der Is, and following up the shore to a
point opposite Logan headquarters found
the wire and drew the three hundred feet
OF cable over, and eventually trolley car
ner and srapple were nSged TO operate
upon 1t, and good deal OF cedar timber
was drawn across tor use IN construction.
This cable was of signal utility IN Dreamy
famous adventure.
Westward from Muley Point, the site OF
Logan and Dreamy station, hundreds
OF men were working IN cuts and on mis-
mile after mile OF rugged mountain slopes
were being bored and blasted and ripped
open that the painting IRON monsters might
ind a path Tor their whIrl'ng ieet' pick
and shovel and drlIi and SerapeI and mule
and man were busy, aud the Pass trembled
almost momentarily with the crash and re-
verberation Of exploding dynamite. North
eastward from the Point the track tell
downward ike looping wh'P'ash' ana
following the Nuley IN long det'uF' came
back TO within mile OF the FONT to the
~outh-eaStward' on Its way down INTO Mu-
ley Valley Tins natural loop oi nearly
ten miles was the man means oi ht'inS
trains on to the slopes ot the Pass, 1t also
helped to save Bunch Logan aud one nun
dred and forty men from annlhlauon.
Looking directly southeast from Dreamy ;
iron shed, the eye crossed the Muley and
encountered pine-oovered ridge; on the
other side Of the ridge a mile distant was
bridge Number Is, where the Western
Central track crossed the Muiey from the
south side to the north and took the ten
mile loop 10 gain the heights at Muley
Point. Near the south end OF the bridge
Number i was a y switch, That
was the typographical situation tue human
situation was Stiil more interesting.
Dreamy had not much to do-messages
about supplies and an occasional tram order
Tie commonly, therefore, had some sort OF
book in his fist on which be Pored, or sat
mist'ly gazing at the beauty ot the noun
tain. y for the new General Foreman,
he seemed everywhere, his Keen yeIio"
eyes appeared to dwell hoily on every man
aud object. Work went at high pressure
after ni- arrival, anu iheFe was secret Sni-
hn- and grununsr but all along the line
Iwo things we're aekno"lesed- Logan was
unspanns Of his own strength. and the
teod aud bridins and general comforts Of
the camps were improved.
Then came the 10Th OF August. At
tweiye o clock that day the noon silence
fell upon the mountains and remained,
the Drawn Of the big hills had struck Lo-
sau had come to the work IN May Dreamy
arrived week later For mouth now the
general foreman had been aware that sour
fermen, was at work, for month ne had
also been looking for the one blamable man,
bat could not locate him. The old trou-
bic temporarily mended by Swayson and
Burke, had broken out afresh. They had
reciided several things complained Of BY
the men and had found means OF getting
rid Of the agi,ators. But on the 10Th Of
August the worked stopped again Lo-
-an took the written demands Of the men
down To Burke, but the demands were
pronounced unreasonable and were fatty
refused Logan returned, both instructed
and determined to fight the matter out.
Through several days there was dead
quiet on Muley Pass, then the storm broke.
Logan brought in fresh men and attempted
TO set them to work, but the strikers,
partly by force and partly by persuasion,
Influenced the men TO withdraw. Then
Burke and the General Foreman recruited
a body Of some two hundred workmen of
American birth, aud strengthening them
With sheriff and fifty armed deputies,
started for the Pass. That was on the
night Of the 22nd of August.
Now, from almost the first Dreamy Mea-
dows had known which man was the chief
.ferment in which head throbbed the
brain thar led in vibrating the discord.
The man was an Italian. pale young fel-
low. who spoke English and three other
languages. and who came to visit Dreamy
of evenings aud borrow his books
Had the young Italian made speeches
and conducted an opep campaign. LOGAN
would have ouickly deposed him. and so
probably would nave made an end of the
trouble: but Braconi. who seemed master
If Iooic Of n certain sort and an angel Of
persuasion. worked secretly from man to
man. teaching and organizing at night.