West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-06-28
KNGWOOD PRESTON COUNTY WEST

Medicine Bend had the alkali prett,
wen washed out OF its eyes. and never
before IN Its history had II appeared
really gay. The old wickiup was deco
rated Till IL looked like buck riggcd
Tor a ghost dance. Right after day.
break the trains began rolling In on
Harold Davis trick. Duffy had an.
nulied all local freights and all through
odds aud eyens. all stock tramps east
and all westbound empties- thing
that could bc had been suspended FOR
that Sunday. and with II all there wer,
tdll tve times more trains than ever
before rolled through Medicine Bend in
twenty-four hours
IL was Ike festival day I'm the
mountains. Even the Indians and the
spuaw men turned ont TO see the fun.
There was crowd at the depot by 3
O'Clock. when the first train rolled up
the lower gorge with St Johns com.
mandcry. No. 3. from Buffalo. and the
Pullmans were gay with bunting The
Medicine Bend crowd gave them an
Indian. yell, and I'm two minutes the
Knights, with their scalps In their
hands as token OF surrender were
crisp dawn. They were Just like school
boys. and when Shorty Lovelace-the
local curiosity who had both feet aud
both hands frozen of the night he got
drunk with Matt Cassidy mt Goose Riv-
CT Junction-struck up on his mouth
organ. Put Me on at Buffalo," they
dropped seven dollars odd and three
baggage checks into his hnt while the
crows We're changing engines.
All day II was that way-train after
train and ovation after ovation The
day was cool as n watermelon-Augus
and bright ns n baby's face all
through the mountains, and the TEN
plars went up into the high passes
with all the swing and noise we could
rniSc. Harold Davis took II all morn.
Ing steady from 4 n. M at the dis.
patcher's key. lie was used up long
before noon. but he stayed. and just
at II O'Clock, while a big Tcmplar
train from Baltimore was loading It's
rommandery In front OF the Wickiup
after an early dinner and a big Tenn
plar band played tinglIng twostep,
Martin Duffy stuck his dry. parchment
face into the platform crowd, elbowed
his way unnotlced through II, climbed
the WiCkiup stairs, walked into the
dispatchcr's room and. throwing off his
hat and coat, leaned over Harold Da-
Wis shoulder and took transfer.
Young Giddings had been sitting
there In pcrsplration half an hour
then. lie copied for Martin Duffy that
day. At noon they figured To get the
last Templar over the Eagle pass with
the set OF the sun. When Duffy took
the key lac never looked his force clean
or. only he was tired. Giddings could
see that. Tho regular man had been
siclS n week. and Martin had been fll-
Ing In. Besides that, all Saturday, the
day before, he had been spilling the
linc-ngurlns what could be annuled
ana what couldn't. what could be run
extra and what could be put Into regu-
lars. Callahan had just got married
and was going out TO the coast on his
wedding tour In Bucks car. He had
refused TO look at an order after Sat
urday night.
minute after Martin Duffy sat In
the conductor OF the train below regis
tered out. There was yell pretty
soon. and away went the Baltimore
crowd - and they were coriSers. too,
those Baltimore fellows. and Travelled
like lords.
At 8 o'clock In the evening the trains
I'm the West division were moving Just
like clocks on the hour and the half
thirty minutes, thirty minutes. thirty
minutcs-and. as far as young Giddings
could sec. Duffy, nfter five booming
H..
the chair. The little dlspatcher's ca
pacity for work was something enor-
nous. 1t wasn't till after supper time.
with the worst OF tile figuring beirnd
him and in the letting down Of the anx-
iety, that Martin began to look older,
and his dry Indian hair began To crawl
over his forehead. BY that time his
eyes had lost their snap. and when he
motioncd Gicdings TO tho key and got
up TO walk up and down the hall I'm the
breeze lie looked like wllted potato
vine. His last batch OF orders was
only little one compared with those
that had gone before. but with the
changes to the different crews they
read about like this:
Teiesraphic Train Order No. os. Noun
tain Division
Superintendents Office Aug. 8. 1892
For Medicine Bend 10 C. and r. OF En-
gincs 06{. 7SS SO. as and s25
Engines Cos. 73s. $40 and 92s viii run as
four specials, Medicine Bend to Bear
Dance. Engine s28 Will double head spo-
cial $50 TO summit Of Eagle pass
First No. 80. Engine 40. VIA ran two
hours thirty minutes late Bear Dance 10
Medicine Bend.
Second No. 50. Engine ga Will run three
hours ana fifteen minutes late Bear Dance
% Medicine Bend.
Third No. 80. Engine 40. will run four
hours-snd thirty minutes late Bear Dance
TO Medicine Bend. J.M.C.
D.
When young Glddings sat ln. the sun
rms dropping between the Tet1ns. In
The yard the car cleaners were polish.
ing the plates on Bucks private car
aud the darky cook was pulling chick
ems out OF the refrigerator. DuTy had
thirteen conclaves moving smoothly on
the middle trick. Tho final ono WAS due.
aud the hOstlcrs were str1otug down
with the double header 90 uGg il over
Tie Rass. This. the las; s rIs com
mandcry trains. was 90 b iia d., Molay
cOmmandory. No. 4. Of III and
the orders wore 10 couple J. ear on
20 it Tor the run west Dr and
everybody had notice -w, 81 old
conmaudery bnck In I' ivanla,
aud lac was going TO The c. q the di-
vision that night with the creIlcs Of his
youth Little fellows they were IN rail-
roading when he rode the goat with
thcm. but now mostly. like him. big
fellows. Half n dozen Old salts had
been pounding ahead at him all day
over the wire. They were 20 join him
enc Mr. and Mrs Callahan for supper
IN ihe private car, and the yellow cider