Morris tribune., 1906-07-14

before in it's history had 1t appeared
really gay. The old Wickiup was deco
rated till it looked like a buck rugged
Cor a ghost dance Right after day
break the trains began rolling in on
Harold Davis trick. Duffy had an
aulled all local freights and all through
odds and eyens, ali stock tramps east
and all westbound empties-eyerythin
that could be had been suspended for
that Sunday, and with it all there were
still five times more trains than ever
before rolled through Medicine Bend in
tWenty-four hours.
1t was like a festival day in the
mountains. Even the Indians and the
squaw men turned out to see the fun.
There was crowd at the depot by 5
o'clock, when the first train rolled up
the lower gorge with ST. Johns COM
mandery, No 3, from Buffalo, and the
Pullmans were gay with bunting. The
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
local curiosity who had both feet and
both hands frozen off the night he got
drunk with Matt Cassidy at Goose Riv-
er Junction-struck up on his mouth
organ, Put Me Off at Buffalo," they
dropped seven dollars odd and three
baggage checks into his hat while the
crews were changing engines.
All day it was that way-train after
train and ovation after ovation The
day was cool as 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 it all morn
ing steady from a. ~. at the dis
patcher's key. He was used up long
before noon, but he stayed, and just
at II o'clock, while big Templar
train from Baltimore was loading its
commandery in front of the Wicklup
after an early dinner and big Tenn
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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 off his
hat and coat, leaned over Harold Da-
Wis shoulder and took a transfer
Young Giddings had been sitting
there in a perspiration 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 a week, and Martin had been fill
ing in. Besides that, all Saturday, the
day before, he had been spiking the
line-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
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
as far as young Giddings
could see, Duffy, 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
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breeze he looked like wilted 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:
Train Order No. 68. Noun
tain Division.
superintendent Office, Aug. 8, 1892.
For Medicine Bend to c. and E. of En-
gines 664, 73S, 80, 1926 and 1926.
Engines 664, 738 $40 and 1926 will run as
four specials, Medicine Bend to Bear
Dance. Engine S26 will double head Spe-
cial 1926 to summit of Eagle pass.
First No. so. Engine 179, will run two
hours thirty minutes late Bear Dance to
Medicine Bend.
Second No. so, Engine 264, will run three
hours and fifteen minutes late Bear Dance
to Medicine Bend.
Third No. So Engine 20, will run fcs:r
hours and thirty minutes late Bear Dance
to Medicine Bend. J. M. C.
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
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