Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-09-19

and just what TO do. how to do II. and
exactly how 10 do e. with the man
who sits shut in brick walls and hung
In Chinese puzzles. his ear glued 20
receiver and his finger fast TO a key
and his eye riveted on a train chSrt
the man who orders and annuls and
stops and starts everything within 500
miles Of him and holds under hts
thumb more hives every minute than
brigadiPr dos In lifetimei FU in
stance" sss>d Callahan. in hts tired
way. whats the matter with Bucks -
Now. myself never knew Bucks lie
left the West End before ! went on
Bucks is stss6nd Vice prssideut-which
means the boss-of transcontinsptal
line now and a very great swell But
no man from the West End VINO calls
on Bucks has to wit for an andieice
though bigger men DO. TAey. tax Of
him out the5e yet Not OF General Su-
perintenSisnt Bucks. which he came to
be. nor Of General Manager Bucks
On the West End he is Just plain
Bucks. but Bucks on de West End
means a whole lot
He saved the company 10000 that
night the 0gaiaIla train ran away"
unused Callahan. Callahan himself Is
assistant superintendent now
Three hundred thousand dollars is a
good deal Of money. Callahan" Oh
jected. ~-s-~- ~ -.
Figure II out yourself To begin
with. fifty passengers lives - that's
5000 aptece isn't itr' Callahan had
cold blnoded way OF figuring a pas
sengers life from the company stand
point. "rt would have killed over ffty
passengers II the runaway had ever
struck 50. There wouldn't have been
enough left OF 80 to make a decent fu-
neral Then the equipment at least
$4,000. But there was a whole lot
more than $4,000 In II for Bucks"
How soT'
He told me once that IL he hadn't
saved 50 that night he would never
have signed another order anywhere
on any road"
"Whyr
why Because after IL was all oyel
he found out that his own mother wa.
aboard 80. DIDN'T you ever hear mat
Well. Sir, It was Christmas eve. am
the year was 1854"
Christmas eve everywhere. bot d
the West End II was Just pain De-
Pa
High winds will prevail for ensUin
twenty four hours. station agents wi
use extra care to secure cars ca siS
ings. Brakeman must use care I
avoid being blown from moviu
trains"
That Is about all Bucks said in b
bulletin that evemng-nOt wos
about Christmas or Merry Christina
In fact. II Christmas had come TO VI
Cloud that night they couldn't ha'
held II twenty -four minutes much le
twenty -four hours-the wind was {
high All the week. all the day.
the night. II had hown-e DecefIf,
wind. dry as an August noon. btt
as powdered ice II wes In the eel
days Of our western railroading VII
we had only one fast train on I
schedule the St LOUISE atifurI
express-and ouiy one fast engine
the divfSion-the l0l-end only O
man on the whole West End-BuCtks
Bucks was assistant superntcHd'
and master mechanic and trainmas
and chief dispatcher and storek eepe
and a bully good fellow. There W
some boys in the service amOag tn
Callahan. Callahan was sevente
with hair like sunset and m
quick as an air brake II wrs
first year az the key. and he has
night trick under Bucks
Callahan claims ii Rew so hard
night that IL blew most of the c,
out Of his trdr. Sod houses had Js-
up like dog towns in the buffalo q
during the fall. But that day hu
steaders crept into dugou;s and SIN
cred over buffalo chip fires Ho
and cattle huddled into friendly ..
cts little out OF the vurst % II
froze mutely IN pitiless fence cor
on the divides. Sand drive grit
down from the Cheyenne hills lik
storm of SNOW. Streets OF the
prairie towns stared deserted at
sky. Even cowboys kept their ranc
and through the gloom OF noon the
cast a coward shadow II wa
wretched day, and the sun went d
with the wind tuning into gale
Bucks. Not that Bucks couldn't
mad, but II took more than eye
TO start him.
No 80, the California express,
late that night All the way up
valley the wind caught her qua
ing. Really, the marvel Is that
there on the plains such storms d
blow our toy engines clear off
rails. For that matter, they mlgl
well have taken the rails, too, for
of them went over sixty pounds r
nine was due NJ II o'clock II
half past II when she pulled in an
Callahan's trick But Bucks
around the Office until she stage
up under the streaked moonliyL
frowsy looking train rs ever ch
On alkall.