Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-09-26

. d SU ltlNuItlN ANi " hAAAs NNAAll'eANh AAAAA'
with the engineer and cried, All
abo-o-o-ardr' then as your coach NOV
ed slowly ahead you might notice I'M
der the receding catalpas the little girl
waving a parasol or handkerchief AZ
the outgoing train--that Is, at Con
ductor Sankey. for she was his daugh-
ter, Meta Sankey. Her mother was
Spanish and died when Meta was II
wee bit. Meta and the limited were
| Sankey's whole world.
When George Sinclair began pulling
| the limited. running west opposite Fo-
| ley he struck up great friendship
| with Sankey Sankey. though be was
/ hard 20 start, was full Of early day
stories. George. IL seemed, had the
/ faculty Of getting him 70 talk. perhaps
| because when he was pulling Sankey's
train be made extraordinary efforts TO
keep on time-time was a hobby with
Sankey Foley ssio he was SO careful
Of n that when he was OF duty he let
his watch stop just 10 save time.
Sankey loved 10 breast the winds
! and the foods and the SHOWS, and IL
he could get home pretty near on
schedule, with everybody else late, ne
was happy, and in respect Of TINT as
Sankey used 70 say. George Sinclair
could come nearer gratifying Sankey's
ambition than any runner we had.
Even the firemen used to observe
that the young engineer. always neat
looked still neater the days uRt he
took out Sankey's train. BY and by
there was an Introduction under the
catafpas. After that IL WIS noticed
that George began wearing gloves on
the engine-not kid gloves, but yellow
dogsktn-and black silk shirts. He
bought them in Denver
Then-an odd way engineers have Of
paying compliments - when George
pulled into town on No 2, II IL wac
Sankey's train, the big skyscraper
would give a short, hoarse scream. a
most peculiar note. Just as they drew
past Sankey's house. which stood on
| the brow Of the hill west OF the yards.
Then Meta would know that No 9
aud her father and naturally Mr.. SIN
| clair were in again and all safe and
sound.
When the railway trainmen held
! their division fair at McClOud. there
was a lantern 10 be voted 10 the most
popular CONDUCTORS gold plated Ian
/ tern, with u green curtain In the globe
| Cal Stewart and Ben Doton. who were
very swell conductors and great rivals.
] - 90 ~ 10 F.,
divided over their chances for win
! ming IT,
But during the last moments George
| Sinclair stepped up 10 the booth and
| cast a storm Of votes for old man
/ Sankey. Dotons friends and Stewards
laughed at first, but Sankey's votes
kept pouring in amazingly. The IA
vorites grew frightened They pooled
their ISIS ues by throwing Stewards vote
10 Doton, but il wouldn't do George
/ Sinclair, with a crowd " engineers
| Cameron, Moore, Foley. Bat Mullen
and Burns came back at them with
such a swing that In the tnal round
up they fairly swsmped Doton. San.
/ key took the lantern by a thousand
| votes. but | understood IL cost George
and his friends a pot u money
/ SaLkey said all the time he didn't
want the lantern, but, just the same
/ he always carried that particular Ian
I tern. with his full name. sylvester san
/ key. ground into the glass just below
/ the green mantle. Pretty soon. Meta
! being then eighteen, il was rumored
| that Sinclair was engaged to Miss san
| key-was going 10 marry her. And
marry her he did, though that was not
until after the wreck in the Blackwood
gorge, the time of the big snow
1t goes yet by just that name Oh the
| West End. for never was such a win
ter and such u snow known on the
/ plains and in the mountains. one train
on the northern division was stalled
six weeks that winter, and one whole
coach was chopped up for kindllns
wood.
But the great an desperate effort OF
the company was 10 hold open the
main line, the artery which connected
the two coasts. 1t was hard winter
on tralumen Week after week the
snow kept falling and blowing. The
trick was not 10 clear the line, il was
to keep il clear. Every day we sent
out trains with the fear we should not
see them again for week.
Freight we didn't pretend 10 move
Local passenger business had TO be
abandoned. Coal TO keep our engine,
and our towns supplied, we were oblis
ed to carry, and after that all In,
brains and the muscle ana the motiy,
power were centered on keeping Nos
and ., our through passenger trains
running.
Our trainmen worked like Americans
There were no towards on our rolls
But after too long strain men be
come exhausted, benumbed, Indifferent
d reckless even. The nerves give OuI
D and viii power seems 70 halt on ind,
cision, but decision is the life of ia
p fast train.
None Of our conductors stood IN
D hopeless night ike Sankey. Sanke
j was patient taciturn, mtring and. /
D. / a conflict with tho al.tpautg forccIo,,