Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-04-01
IL Z. =. Il Il II

Mr.. Reed" he smiled. "Chccks are
running light. too. now-eh. DadTt
"a young fellow like you ought To
be putting money away In the bank"
said ].
"Wcll. you see have n bank back
In pennsylvania. n bank that Is now
sixty years old and getting gray
headed. ! haven't sent her much since
I've been oil the relief so I'm trying
TO make up little now for my old
nanny"
where does yours go. DadT I
asked.
"Me." answered the old man cva-
sirely. "I've got boy back east: get.
ting to he big ore too. He's IN
school. When are you going to give
us n passenger run with the sky.
scrnper, Neighbour" asked Hamilton,
turning to the master mechanic.
''Soon as we get this wheat. up on
the high line. out Of the way" replied
NciShbor. I'VE haven't half engines
enough to move 1t, and | get wire
about every six hours TO move II faster,
Every sldng's blocked. clear to Bel.
grade. How many OF those 10000
pound cars can you take over Bev.
erly bill with your skyscrapcrT'
He was asking both men. The On.
glnccr looked at his chum.
81 reckon maybe thirty.nvc or forty"
said McNeal. "En. Dady'
Maybe. son." growled Hamilton,
"and break my back doing it?"
II gave you n helper once, and you
Kicked him or the tender" rctorted
Nelghbor.
Don't want anybody raklng ashes
for mc-pot while Tn drawing full
time" Dad frowned.
But the upshot of II was that we put
the skyscraper at hauling wheat, aud
within II week she was doing the work
Of double header.
II was May. and a thousand miles
east OF us, In Chicago. there was trou.
bic In the wheat pit on the board OF
trade. You would hardly suspect what
queer things that wheat scramble gave
rise to. affecting George McNcal anu
old man Hamilton and n lot of other
fellows away ont on railroad d..
vision on the western plain. but this
was the way Of Il:
A man sitting In a little Office on
Lasalle street wrote few words on
n very ordinary looking sheet of paper
and touched button. That brought q
colored boy, and he took the paper
out TO young man who sat ut the
eastern end of private wire.
The next thing we knew orders be
gan to come In hot from the presl.
dents oiilce-thc president of the road
IL you please-to get that wheat on tho
high line into Chicago. aud to get II
there quickly.
Trainmen. elevator men. supcrin
tcndcnts of motive power. were spur.
red with special orders and special
bulletins. Farmers, startled by tho
great prices offering. hauled night and
day. Every old tub we had In the
shops and on the scrap was oycrlnulcd
and hustled into the service. The dl.
vision danced with excitement Every
bushel OF wheat Oh II must he In Chi.
cngo by the morning of May 81.
For two weeks we worked every.
thing TO the limit. Tho slyscraper led
any two engines on the line. Even
Dad Hamilton was glad 10 cry enough
and take u helper, We doubled them
every day, and the way the wheat flew
over the line toward the lower end
OF Lake Michigan was appalling 10
spectators. 1t was battle between
two commercial giants, aud battle
10 the death. II shook not alone the
country; 1t shook the world. But that
was nothing to us; our orders were
simply TO move the wheat And tho
wheat moved.
The last week found US pretty well
cleaned up, but the high price brought
grain out of cellars, and wells. the buy.
ers saId-at least II brought all the
boarded wheat and much OF the seed
wheat, and the 2sth day of the month
found fifty ears OF wheat stlll In tl,s
GAINESVILLE yards. Was at Harvard
working on n time card when the word
came, and behind 1t n special from
the general manager stating there was
$1,000 premium In 1t for the company.
besides tariff. II we got that wheat into
Chicago by Saturday morning.
The train end of 1t didn't bother me
any. II was the motive power that
kept us studying. However, we figured
that by running McNeal with the sky
scraper back wild we could put all the
wheat behind her In one train. As II
happened, Nclghbor was Mt Harvard
too.
"Can they ever get oyer Beverly with
%, Neighbor" | asked doubtfully.
"We'll never know TIL we try II"