Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-23

well washed out of its eyes. and ever
before in its history had 1t appred
really gay The old Wickiup waseco-
rated till it looked like buck rged
for a ghost dance. Right afterlay-
break the trains began rolling on
Harold Davis trick. Duffy hat an
nulled all local freights and all thugh
odds and evens. all stock trampsast
and all westbound empties-eyerying
that could be had been suspende for
that Sunday. and with it all there7ere
still five times more trains than'ver
before rolled through Medicine Bel in
twenty hours.
1t was like festival day iIthe
mountains. Even the Indians an,the
squaw men turned out to see the'un.
There was a crowd at the depoty 5
O'Clock, when the first train role up
the lower gorge with ST. Johns om-
mandery, No. 3. from Buffalo, anithe
Pullmans were gay with bunting. The
Medicine Bend crowd gave then an
Indian yell, and in two minutesthe
knights, with their scalps in 1eir
hands as token of surrender, ere
tumbling out of their sleepers inttthe
crisp dawn. They were just like scool-
boys, and when Shorty Lovelacethe
local curiosity who had both feetind
both hands frozen off the night hegot
drunk with Matt Cassidy at Goose siv-
er Junction-struck up on his muth
organ, Put Me Off at Buffalo," 1ey
dropped seven dollars odd and tree
baggage checks into his hat whilethe
crews were changing engines.
All day it was that way-train ster
train and ovation after ovation. The
day was cool as watermelon-Auust
and bright as baby's face all
through the mountains, and the Im-
plars went up into the high passes
with all the swing and noise we cMld
raise. Harold Davis took it all mrn-
ing steady from 4 a. m. at the lis
patchers key. He was used up bng
before noon, but he stayed, and .ust
at IL o'clock, while a big Temllar
train from Baltimore was loading its
commandery in front of the Wiclup
after an early dinner and big Hm-
plar band played tingling twosep,
Martin Duffy stuck his dry parchment
face into the platform crowd, elboyed
his way unnoticed through it, climbed
the Wickiup stairs, walked into the
dispatcher's room and, throwing offhis
hat and coat, leaned over Harold Da-
yis' shoulder and took 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 tie 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 week. and Martin had been fill
ing in. Besides that, all Saturday, the
day before, he had been spiking the
line-figuring what could be annuled
and what couldn't. what could be run
extra and what could be put into regu-
larr ..-.~' ss...s~< <ss---s.7 just pot ,naa rszad
and was going out to the coa& 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 yell pretty
soon, and away went the Baltimore
crowd = and they were corkers, too,
those Baltimore fellows, and Travelled
like lords.
At 8 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
minutes-and, as far as young Giddings
could see, Duffy, after five booming
hours, was fresher than when he took
the chair. The little dispatehers 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
motloned Giddings to the key and got
up W WIN up ttDu uON IL tic iiuii III tiiS
breeze he looked like a 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:
Telegraphic Train Order No. 6S. Noun
tain Division.
Superintendent Office. Aug. 5, 1892
For Medicine Bend to c. and E. of En-
gines 664, 13S, $40. 326 and S26
Engines 664, 1888, $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 tc
Medicine Bend.
Second No. so, Engine 264. will run three
hours and fifteen minutes late Bear Dance
to Medicine Bend.
Third No so, Engine 210, will run foul
hours and thirty minutes late Bear Dance
to Medicine Bend. J. NJ. c.
d.
When young Giddings sat in, the sur
was 1rnDr,i,,or hatxvaat tho Tatnnc II