The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-05
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WRECKED NERVES

"Do good men lose their nerve? I
believe they did" said Dad" Clark, a
veteran of the throttle, the other day.
you've noticed how some people in
church get scared over a little storm !?
They are the ones who've been IN a
hurricane. You'll notice that the timid
ones are just as liable to be great big
men as women and children. 1t is some
thing that's bred in the bone, believe,
and they can't help it.
During the big railroad strike in the
West some 10 or Is years ago the Han
nibal and ST. Zoe had job lot OF en-
gineers that were drafted from the har-
vest fields and -four mills They had
rough time in getting over the road,
and they burned out more flues than
the wages of good men would have
come to IN year But the management
had its back up, and said it would stay
with the farmer engineers until they
learned how to hit the schedules or
burst the boilers.
1T began to look like the railroads
rolling stock would be put out of com
lesson. The roaa was running a flyer
between Chicago and ST. Louis, known
as the Eli which was down on the card
for 40 miles an hour-pretty stiff run
ming on Western road In those days.
The farmers couldn't do thing with
the Eli, and the managers had about
decided to abandon that train. Proyi-
dence smiled upon them, however. IN an
unexpected way The knights OF Labor
engineers on the Reading railroad went
out on a strike. They were all strong,
capable fellows and could get more SER
vice out of an engine than the man who
built 1t. They came in a body to Mis-
souri, and were hurriedly put into the
cabs of the Hannibal and St. Joe en-
gines. The farmers went back to their
fields and mills. glad they were still
alive. The Reading engineers held to
the fast schedules like Rowan did TO the
message to Garcia. They even did bet
Ter than the old engineers who had gone
out on strike. People along the line
set their watches by the Eli The pas
senger service was better than it had
been for years. The Reading men had
been called TO give the Westerners les
sons in raflroading, and they were glad
of the chance
a tall. hne-looking fellow, Tom Iverson
by name, through whose hair and beard |
the gray was just beginning to shoot |
He knew the mechanism of Iocorno- |
tive from the crown of the stock 70 the |
bottom OF the ashpan. and was promptly |
assigned TO one of the Eli engines.
About 20 miles east OF the middle |
division IS the coal-nlining town OF |
Bevier. There are miles OF switch /
tracks and SPURS there and the sidings
are always full OF coal cars. The Eli |
didn't stop al BeYier One night a |
loaded coal car was careiessly showed a |
trifie too close 10 the main line. and al
lowed to remain there. Iverson was
eating up the tangent through town bet
ter than 50 miles an hour when he
brushed by this overhanging coal car
The impact smashed one side OF the car
10 sTnItfereens and hoisted Iverson OF
his seat box The injury 70 his engine
was slight. but the affront to his nerve
was permanent He got into the dlyls-
ion Z few minutes late. q most unusual
thing for him Iverson made his re-
port, but didn't talk much about the &C
rident It was regarded ar headquar-
tiers as trivial though the man who