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

THE H0LD~up At THE
gp:.ug SouTn STATION SD":"dR
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Shall | make a list, and then Kate can
typewrite IL and hang il here, aud l
viii put the telegraph letters opposite,
so any one Of us can pull the right one
by referring to IT,"
Mr., Storer thought the idea excellent,
and approved my list when it was conf
pleted, merely adding TO It;
six dots--All hands double quick to
engineers Office"
How useful our new whistle proved!
The works were huge and shadowy
and full Of hooks and corners. ana a
search for man was sometimes a
matter Of hours, but when the whistle
spoke ifs voice echoed far and wide
across the salt river on the shore Of
which, desolate and alone, stood the
long. smoke grimed buildings Of the
south station.
Kate was delighted at my telegraphic
lore. and wished to learn 1t at once.
"You told me you didn't know any,
thing to teach me-" she said. lyon
might have been teaching me the
Morse alphabet DO 1t now"
why, what good viii it do you,
child? learned teIegraphy nine years
ago. and then took up bookkeeping,
and never put 1t to one cents worth of
practical use till this very day"
And Isn't that quite enough? 2" re-
Joined Kate. Il should be glad If /
could do as much with anything / had
learned. Why, you could call every
single man in the works with two
letter combination, couldn't youg"
Il suppose 50" said, absently. "See
here, Kate believe could teach you
telegraphy down here, after all. /
have a little instrument at home, and
Mr.. Dale could FIX us up battery if
Mr.. Storer is willing. He has every
thing in the laboratory. Wen ask
him.
Mr.. storer, on application, proved
perfectly willing He knew almost
everything himself, 1t seemed to me,
and he appreciated the desire Jf other
people 10 learn things. He superin-
tended the construction Of the battery
with the liveliest interest, and then as
tonished me beyond measure by sitting
down to the Keyboard when It got into
running order and clicking of nonchal-
anly on the sounder.
well how is it? All right?'
And TO our CALCULATIONS he said, with
a twinkle In his eyes as he hurried off
to some construction work. II was
stranded down IN Mexico once. and had
to work my way home. | tried tele-
graphing"
did you ever see such cosmopo-
llteY asked Kate, MS he hurried away
Austria, Russia, China, California and
now Mexicol The other day, in that
consultation, You know, the New York
man said, Where did you get that idea
Of the roof arch? That seems an ex-
cellent thing oh, that's a little point
got in Hungary said MIR, Storer, in
an everyday voice, and went ON talk
Ing. Shall know half as much when
I'm his age?"
You will If your present thirst for
knowledge holds good" laughed.
swell, now, get your chair, aud III
teach you the alphabet by sound. oh,
what fun this Isl"
We certainly did have good times at
the south station.
One winter evening 1t was pay
night, and Mr.. Storer had gone up
town with the pay roll--we sat at
work. Kate in the outer office, which
was separated by n wrought iron lat
ticework from tile inner one, where
was busy Strengthening out the books
for the last month
The chemists were in the works. get
ting bottlefuls of nauseating g. stuffs
for analysis; the craftsmen and assist
ant engineers had strayed affair, bound
on various errands. We had the up
per floor quite to ourselves.
1t was a cold night and growing
dark Down below, at the office en-
trance, / could see, even through the
dark. the white linen cuffs aud hoods
that cleaned against the somhre at
tire of two Catholic sisters. 1t was
their custom to appear promptly at the
works on pay nights, and to stand mod
estly and silently, with downcast eyes,
at the gates, to receive offerings from
the workmen rs they passed out in
line, opening their yellow pay envel-
opes.
1t was cold and growing colder, but
the sisters stood there patient motion
less The paymaster was late.
thought, as l looked at the clock. Sud
denly / became aware, through the
monotonous click Of Hates typewriter,
Of sort of repetition in the sound.
My ear, trained to the spacings of the
telegraph alphabet, spelled out over
and over the word. ELLA! Ellar'-my
own name.
looked out with smile, about to
make some amused comment on Hates
discovery that the typewriter key
made on excellent substitute for the
key of telegraph sounder.
But something strained and unusual
in her look and the pallor of her usu-
ally rosy face deferred me-
Don't speak% the key went on.
Look awayw
I did so. much wondering. and with
my heart beginning to beat uncomfort-
sbly fast
"A man has come up stairs and
crawled into the laboratory" went on
the improvised key, slowly spelling out