The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-03-30

Medicine Bend had the aIkaii pretty
well washed out of its eyes, and never
before in its history had 1t appeared
really gay. The old Wickiup was deco
rated till 1t looked like buck rugged |
for a ghost dance. Right after day
break the trains began rolling in ON |
Harold Davis trick. Duffy had an
sulled all Ioea! freights and all through
odds and evens, all stock tramps east
and all westbound empties thing
that could be had been suspended for
that Sunday, and with it all there were
still Eve times more trains than ever
before rolled through Medicine Bend in
twenty four hours.
1t was like festival day In the
mountains Even the Indians and the
guuaw men turned out to see the fun.
There was q crowd at the depot by
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 Xiv
err Junction-struck up on his mouth
organ. "Put Me or at Buffalo, they
dropped seven dollars odd and three
baggage checks into his hat while the
crews were changing engines.
ALI day it was that way-train after
train and ovation after ovation. The
day was cool as a observation-disclosures
and bright as 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. m. at the dis
patcher's key. He was used up long
before noon, but he stayed. and Just
at IL o'clock, while big Tenplar
train from Baltimore was loading It's
commandery In front of the Wickiup
after an early dinner and a big TEN
plar band played tingIing 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
Iispatchers room and, throwing off his
hat and coat, leaned over Harold Da'
: Wis shoulder and took transfer.
Young Giddings had been sitting
there in a Precipitation half an hour
then. He copied for Martin Duffy that
day. At noon they figured to get the
, last TempIar over the Eagle pass with
the set Of the sun. When Duffy took
the kew he never looked his force clean
err. only he was tired. Giddings could
see that. The regular man had been
sick week, and Martin had been hil
!. ing in, Besides that, all Saturday, tht
I f1av before, he had been spiking the
, line-figuring what could be annulee
I and what couldn't, what could be ru1
extra and what could be put into regu
I lars. Callahan had just got married
and was going out to the coast ON hi
G wedding tour in Bucks car. He ha
5 refused to look ut an order after Sat
l" urday night.
A minute after Martin Duffy sat u
0 the conductor Of the train below regis
L tered out. There was a yell prett
4 soon, and away went the Baltimor
. crowd - and they were corkers, to-
L those Baltimore fellows, and travele
9 like lords.
AT S o'clock in the evening the train
3 In the West division were moving jus
y like clocks on the hour and the half
o thirty minutes, thirty minutes, thirt
minutes-and, as far as young Gliding
t. could see, Duffy, after five boomin
= hours. was fresher than when he too
o the chair. The little dispatcher's CT
70 pacity for work was something emo
'. NOUS. 1t wasn't till after supper TIM
with the worst Of the figuring benin
e, him and In the letting down of the an,
II iety, that Martin began to look olde
- and his dry Indian hair began to craV
l. over his forehead. By that time b
. eyes had lost their snap, and when b
L motioned Giddings to the key and 81
y up to walk up and down the hall In tt
u breeze he looked like wilted potat
Ii vine. His last batch OF orders we
only a little one compared with tho:
III that had gone before. but with tt
changes to the different crews the
%, read about like this:
ip TslegraphIc Train Order No. IS. Mou
.e. tain Division.
be superintendent Office, Aug. 8. 1892
nd For Medicine Bend to c. and Il. OF e
gfnes 664. 73S, $40. 39s and 826
az Engines ss4. 73S $40 and s26 will run
Dy four specials. Medicine Bend to Be
re Dance Engine 826 will double head So
NJ / ctal s0s to summit Of Eagle pass.
~ First No. 3d. Engine 17s. will run t.
ne hours thirty minutes late Bear Dance
IN. Medicine Bend.
RS Second No. 30. Engine "a. will run thr
hours and fifteen minutes late Bear Dan
to Medicine Bend.
NJ Third No. 50. Engine no, will run 10
to hours and thirty minutes late Bear Dan
es Co Medicine Bend. j. M.
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