Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-05-05

Medicine Bend crowd gave them an
Indian yell and in two minutes the
Knights. with their scalps In their
hands as a token OF surrender. were
, tumbling out Of their sleepers into the
crisp dawn. They were just like school
boys. and when shorty Lovelace-the
4 local curiosity who had both feet and
both hands frozen OF the night he got
/ drunk with Matt Cassidy at Goose Riv-
! er Junction-struck up on his mouth
organ. Put Me on at Buffalo," they
| dropped seven dollars odd and three
baggage checks into his eat while the
crews were changing engines.
All day il was that way-train after
! train and ovation after ovation. The
day was cool as a Observation-Disclosures
and bright as a baby's face all
through the mountains. and the Tenn
plars went up into the high passes
with all the swing and noise we could
raise. Harold Davis took il all morn
! ing steady from 4 a. IN. at the dis
patcher's key. He was used up long
before noon. but he stayed. and Just
at II o'clock. while a big Templar
train from Baltimore was loading its
commandery in front OF the Wickiup
after an early dinner and q big TEN
plar band played a tiugling twostep.
Martin Duffy stuck his dry. parchment
face into the platform crowd, elbowed
his way unnoticed through it, climbed
the Wickup stairs. walked into the
dispatcher's room and. throwing OF his
hat and coat. leaned over Harold Da-
Wis shoulder and took a transfer.
Young Giddings had been sitting
there ia a perspiration half an hour
then. lie copied for Martin Duffy that
day. At noon they figured 10 get the
last Tcmplar 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. GiddinEs could
see that. The regular man had been
sick a week and Martin had been I'LL
ing in. Besides that an Saturday, the
day before. he had been spiking the
liue-lguriug what could be annuled
and what couldn't. what could be run
extra and what could Toe put into regu-
lars. Callahan had just got married
and was going out 20 the coast on his
wedding tour I'M Bucks car. He had
refused To- look az an order after Sat
urday night
a minute after Martin Duffy sat in
the conductor Of the train below regis
tered out There was q yell pretty
soou. and away went the Baltimore
crowd - and they were corkers. too.
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
miuutcs-aud. as Tar as young Giddings
conld see. Duty, after FIVE booming
hours. was freshor than when he took
the chair The little dispatchcr's ca
pac.ty for work was something enor-
nous. 10 wasn't tim after supper time.
with the worst OF the figuring behind
him and I'm the letting down OF the anx-
iety, that Martin began 10 look older.
and his dry Indian hair began 20 crawl
over his forehead. BY that time his
eyes had lost their snap. and when be
motioned Giddiugs 20 the key and got
up 90 walk up and down the hall In the
breeze he looked like n wiited potato
vine. His last batch or orders was
only n little one compared with those
that had gone before but with the
changes 90 the different crews they
read about like this:
Teiegraphic Train Order No. IS. Noun
tain Division
Superintendent Onicc. Aug. s. 1892.
For Medicine Bend TO G.. and T.. OF En-
Sines gli ,ao. >lO SO and S26.
Engines $50. .2S. $40 and 326 VIII run as
-FOUR specials, Medicine Bend 20 Bear
Dance. Engine SO viii double head Spe-
cial 2-6 90 summit OF Eagle pass.
First No. s1. Engine ls9. viii run two
hours thirty minutes late Bear Dance 70
Medicine Bend.
Second SO. 81, Engine "a. viii run three
hours and nftcen minutes late Bear Dance
70 Medicine Bend.
Third No. 50. Engine 30. will run four
hours ana thirty minutes late Bear Dance
10 Medicine Bend. J. NJ. c.
u.
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. Duty had
thirteen cOnclayes moving smoothly on
the middle trick. The final one was due.
and the hOstlers We're steaming down
with the double header TO pull IL over
the pass. This the last o. the COM
mandery trains. was TO bring De Molay
commandery, No. 4. OF Pittsburg. and
the orders We're TO couple Bucks car on
20 II for the run west. De Molay-and
everybody had nOtlce-was Bucks old
commandery back IN Pennsylvania,
and he was going 20 the end OF the d.
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 a 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
irons when De Molay -Four. Pittsburg,
pulled into Medicine Bend