Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-04-07
By
FRANK H.
SPEARMAN
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Copyright. 1900. by s. s.
Mcclure Go.

bEoAle went OUT OF Aie camp OF lut
Sioux wondering
And he planned new bridge which
should stand the Chinook and the Spi-
der and the dell himself. said BrOdie.
medicine or no medicine And full
seven year Il lasted; then the Ere wa
ter spoke FOR the wicked Scotchman,
and De himself went out into the night.
And after he died. miserable wreck
Of man. and OF "a very great man, the
Spider woke and took his pawky bridge
and tied up the main line for two
weeks and set us crazy. for we were al
ready losing our grip on the California
fast freight business. But at that time
HALEY w,s superintendent OF bridges
on the West End
His father was section foreman
VIE HALEY was q kidd mere kid
he cot into Brodic's Office doing er-
rsuGs. but whenever he saw a drafts
man 8t work hc was no good for err
rands At such times he went al into
mental taugle chat could neither be
thr3shod nor kicked out or him. though
both were couscicnuously tried by old
man HALEY ANA Superintendent Bro
die, and Brolie since he could do moth
ing else with him. finally kicked him
into learning to re8d-aud 20 cipher
BrOlie called it Then hv and by Hat
ley got am old table and part Of a cake
OF India ink himself. ana himself be
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/ All that rrof.. know fvorrev had from
him and v-n.-. nrof.a ,.s ,veai Hail
ley was stron- MASTER of himself
+ WHOM Rro5fo slammed tl,. lr,o~. le was
made An Uru.. mia tr, Shame best he|
could-tboue. r..ro- t.urbaI or made Do
his own-a.r Brelfe who hated even
himself. showed sim . Uslt m the
wreck by uoIliue HALEY to his vorl,
. For one dav said Brolic in his heart.
this boy shall Dee master OF these
bridges. Whom am rot he win Doe here
what ] ought to have been-this Irish
hov-and they win say he was Brodie's
uau. And better than amy or these
tlan onv ~ a, ., .,s".'l' me o't batter
sbau ba ~ Do, WAS ,,,a.l.. ,.,,.-.,,.,,- D.. .,
drurIorf ANA rr.llo, woe I,.t,o~ Ca
flr lefta~ f.,r r.. ..,...l,,,.., t..t..-
than BmIre. and to u1uov came tbe
time to r-ro-fra The S,Ider
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since n. ,,.. r.- tr..r ,-..t AM p-,
die KNOW .u r. r,r.r. l.,,.,,- I'm,
that 81 uf.'s e1r.r-.-.. eating uvrr..
Watching ~'ccrfrr with f.a bi.. riror
I had trr.lt rrm tlar TTauav l-nevv aDl
vien proI... bridge wont ,rt HALEY
was ready with his now hrfIra FOR the
Spider vatar which should ne hotter
thau Brol.c'~. fu.t as ne WAS better
than Rrodie NJ WAS to DE such n
bridge as Brolie'- bridge. with the fire
water left ont And the rlans for "a
Howe truss two pier two abutment
three ~pau pneumatic. cafs.on bri1re
20 span he Big Sandy river we're sub
mitted to hcadguartcrs.
But thc COST The directors funnef
their table when they saw the 0gures.
We were being milkcd at that time-to
put 10 bluuuy being sucked. worse
than iemonS-by % Wall street CLIQUE
that robbed our good road shaved our
salaries. Impoverished our CONTINENT
and cut our maintenance 90 the quick
They talked economy and studied pira-
cy. IN the matter of appropriations
for themselves they were freebooters.
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Do" ''" 3D. w "'" nancy N'lIaud-
.'' LIS 'p-uer
49,. ..'3 "uS"e' ana salu'
'""' "''S ne couldn't 90
','l-s ''7'' ""u ne ou.it uiV gun
% o''u-' I'D u'r 'ne SPIDERS crawl.
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.. go '''''9 Souiu
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