The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-03-30
The Hayre Herald, Friday, March 80, 1905.

Irons when De Molay -Four. pittsburg,
pulled into Medicine Bend
We had seen good many swell I
trains that day, the SWEETEST that ever /
pounded our tishplates. pullmans solid.
and the finest kind OF people. Boston,
Washington, New York, Philadelphia |
sent some pretty gorgeous trains. But |
with at least half the town ON the |
platform, when De Molay -Four rolled |
In 1t took their breath so they couldn't |
yell till the Sir Knights began pouring |
from the vestibules and gave Medicine
Bend their own lordiy cheer.
Bucks old gang spied him. Modestly
back under the portico he stood, near
the ticket window, and they broke
through at him solid They pulled him
and hauled him and mauied him and
passed him from hand to hand. They
stood him on his head and on his hands
and on his feet again, and told him OF
something they wanted and wanted
right off.
Bucks looked the least bit uncertain
as he considered the opening request
1t wasn't much in some ways, what
they asked; in other ways 1T was good
deal. He laughed and bantered and
joked them as long as they would stand
1t. Then he called UP to Martin Duffy,
who was leaning out the dispatchers''
window, "We'll see how he talks"
laughed Bucks In his great big way.
'sBut, boys, it's up to the chief. Pm
not In 1t on the orders, you know. Mar
tin," he called as Duffy bent his head,
they want fifteen minutes here to
stretch their legs. Say they've been
roasted in the alkali all day, Can you
do anything for the boys?"
The boys! Big fellows In fezes. Shrln-
er style, and slim fellows In duck, sail
or style, and bowlegged fellows In
cheviot, any old style. Chaps In white
| flannel and chaps In gray and chaps in
blue. Turkish whiskers and Key West
| cigars and crusaders togs-and, be-
tween them. Bucks, his head most OF
the time in chancery.
You know about what 1t meant and
| about how 1t went; how it had to go.
What could Martin say to the man who
| had made him all he was and who
stood, now boy again, among the boys
| of his boyhood and asked for fifteen
minutes, a quarter Of an hour, for DE
MoIay -Four? 1t threw the little chief
completely off his schedules: just fif,
teen minutes was more than enough to
do that. All the work was done, the
anxiety nearly past Martin had risen
to rest his humping head. But fifteen
minutes; once in lfetime-Bucks ask
ing it.
Duffy turned to big Jack Moore
standing at his side ready to pull Dc
Molay over the pass, and spoke him
low Jack nodded; everything wen
with Jack, even the turntables tina
stuck with other engineers. Martin II
his shirt sleeves leaned out the win
dow and, looking down ON the turbanet
and turbulent mob, spoke SO BUCKS
could hear.
sWhat is it," demanded the mos
puissant commander Of De Molay ex
citedly. "What does he say, BucksT'
'sWhat says the slaveT groWled
second formidable crusader "Out Wit
It!'
"All we want Is fifteen minutes
"You wouldn't turn us down on fiji
= teen minutes this far from an oasis
would you, Bucks?" protested glas
eyed Shriner.
;, Bucks looked around royalty. iii
1 teen minutes?' he drawled. whats
quarter of an hour In lifetime, Jacl
man, on the last oasis? Take of you
clothes, you fellows, and take half
hour. Now will you be goodT
De Molay put up Templar vel
They always get the good things or III
J those Pittsburg men: things other fe
lows couldn't begin to get. They pas
: ed the word through the sleepers, an
the women began pouring from the We
= tibules. In two quick minutes Oh
i came the Duquesne band In red pom
: pons, duck trousers and military jacl
;, cts, white corded with black. TT
l crowd broke, the band marched dow
the platform and, striking up ii
e washington Post" opened ranks c
L the grass plot above the Wickiup to r
e ceiye the De Molay guard. One hui
dred Knights Templars In fatigue
$ bouched into a bit Of park and In IL
G purple OF the sunset gave comman
c cry drill to the honor of Bucks-Bucl
and the West End.
1t was Sunday night and still as A
l. gust could make It, The BATTALION mo
ing silent and mobile as streamer ov
the grass, marched. deployed and res
ed. They broke, to the clear cut IN
Is sic, into crosses and squares and ere
'r cents and stars until small boys we
cross eyed, and wheeling at last ON t
70 line they saluted Bucks, himself pa
to grand commander, and the railroad m
yelled.
- Meantime the general managers p
vate car had been pasted on the t
II end OF De Molay Four. and push
:" edging up stuck Its nose into the re
vestibule. On the head end Jack Moo
and Gygfer were backing down ON