CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1906-03-08

Vatsher's key. lie WAS used up long
before noon. but he stayed. and just
at r. o'clock, while a big Templar
train from Baltimore was loading its
csmmandery in front of the Wickiup
after an early dinner ana big Tenn
plar band played tingling twostep.
Martin Duffy stuck his dry, parchment
face into the platform crowd, elbowed
his way unnoticed through it, climbed
the Wickiup stairs, walked into the
dispatcher's room and, throwing OF his
hat and coat, leaned over Harold Da-
vis' shoulder and took transfer.
Young Giddings had been sitting
there in persplration half an hour
then. He 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 he never looked his force clean
er. only he was tired. Giddings could
see that. The regular man had been
sick n week and Martin had been nll-
ing in. Besides that, all Saturday, the
day before, he had been spiking the
iine-fguring what could be annuled
and 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.
A minute after Martin Duffy sat In
the conductor of the train below regis
tered out There was a yell pretty
soon. and away went the Baltimore
tnn
those Baltimore fellows, and travelled
like lords.
At o'clock in the evening the trains
in the West division were moving Just
like clocks ON the hour and the half
thirty minutes thirty minutes, thirty
minutes-and. as far as young Giddings
could see. Dunfy, after five booming
hours, was fresher than when he took
the chair. The little dispatcher's ca
pacity for work was something enor-
nous. 1t wasn't till after supper time
with the worst of the figuring behind
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
motioned Giddings to the key and got
up TO walk up and down the hall In the
breeze he looked like n wilted potato
vine. His. last batch of orders was
only little one compared with those
that had gone before. but with the
read about like this:
Teiegraphic Train Order No. IS. Noun
tain Division
S,,neriptepde1tsS Office Aug & 1899
For Medicine Bend to c. and E. of En-
gines ga. s:s. $40. 3ss and SIC.
Engines 6sl. sSs. $40 and 3a6 will run as
four specials, Medicine Bend to Bear
Dance. Engine sc will double head Spe
cial sc to summit of Eagle pass.
First No. 80. Engine 17s, will run two
hours thirty minutes late Bear Dance to
Medicine Bend.
Second No. 50. Engine "a. will run three
hours and nfteen minutes late Bear Dance
to Medicine Bend.
Third No. -. Engine 40. will run four
hours aud thirty minutes late Bear Dance
TO Medicine BEND. INC.
D.
When young Giddings sat In, the sun
was dropping between the Tetons. In
the yard the car cleaners were polish
Ing the plates on Bucks private car
and the darky cook was pulling chick
ems out of the refrigerator. Duffy had
thirteen conclayes moving smoothly on
the middle trick. The final one was due.
and the hostlers were steaming down
with the double header to pull it over
the pass. This. the last of the com
mandery trains. was to bring De Molay
commandery. No. 4. of Pittsburg. and
the orders were to couple Bucks car on
to 1t for the run west De Molay-and
everybody had notice-was Bucks old
eommandery back In Pennsylvania.
and he was going to the end Of the di-
vision that night with the cronies of his
youth. Little fellows they were In rail-
reading when he rode the goat with
them. but now mostly. like him. big
fellows. Half dozen old salts had
been pounding ahead at him all day
over the wire. They were to join him
and Mr.. and Mrs Callahan for supper
IN the private car. and the yellow cider
lay on the thin shaved ice and the
mountain grouse curled on the grill
hons when De Molay Four, PittsburE,
pulled into Medicine Beud
We had seen Il good many swell
trains that day. the swellest that ever
pounded our fishpiates, 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 vestibulcs and gave Medicine
Bend their own lor,lly cheer
Bucks old gang spied him. Modestly