The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-07
PARLOUS TINES
FOR RAILROADERS
Teddy Bears and Their Mother
Interrupt Service on Great
TranSc0ntinentaI Road.
ARE AT LENGTH CONQUERED
TOWN OF BRYAN THROWN INTO
STATE OF UPROAR.
Ogden. June. S.

. Osusi' Juhef o.
1850
1900
So said the operator at Bryan. Wyo.,
to the dispatcher's office in Kemmerer.
and by reason of the fact that there was
a bear In the office and the oprators were
afraid to put up the light on the soma
phore, the semaphOre remained dark and
the trains stopped to find out why il
Was SO. The trains that stopped did not
tarry long. neither did the members Of
their crews investigate too closely.
Enough that, for a space of time the
great system of the Union Pacific was in
terrupted by the presence of a she-bear
in "A telegraph office and the presence
of two cub bears in a boarding car, Ordi
nariiy set apart for the use of Greek
labOrers.
How 1t Happened.
1t happened that, in the vicinity Of
Bryan. nature has not been lavish in
the bestOwal of it's wealth of verdure.
neither has it been lavish in bestowing
upon Bryan such a population as might
be taken into account by a census taker
at 2la cents the head for, had the census
taker stopped at BRYAN he would have
noted in his book ~ cents worth and a
long dash denoting the presence of in
Vulnerable and uncensusable Greeks The
three whom the census taker would have
gathered in during his days work would
have been the two telegraph operators
and the pumpman- The Greeks are mere
ly migratory.
There being little to attract a we'll
hammered mother bear and two tiny Ted
dy bears in the immediate region of which
Bryan is the center. the mother bear de-
cided that 1t would be well to lead her
progeny and the progeny of him who was
absent across the desert waste and into
more fertile wales and daieS
Capture of the Teddy Bears.
But as the mother bear proposed. so a
cruelhearted white man disposed. He cap
tured the two Teddy bears while the
mother was away scratching for water
which was not and took them to the tel
egraph office. The two telegraph opera
tors. having only recently arrived from
the land where the bear is not and where
it will never be except with a chain
around its neck or in a dirty hole in the
public park with concrete floors and a
slick pole in the middle that no Self-re-
specting bear could or would climb, be
thought themselves that it would be a
great and magnificent idea TO buy the
Teddy bears.
So they did.
The operators had sleeping apartments
adjoining the telegraph office. which, in
deed. were the only sleeping apartments
in Bryan except those in which the pump
man sleeps. and where he sleeps no hui
man being has yet discovered Into the
sleeping apartments of the operators,
therefore, the cute little bear cublets went
They remained there quite a while. Final
Iy one of the operators deemed 1t the
part of wisdom to retire and to gather I'M
to himself many kinds of these sleep, as
Bret Harte says. But the presence OF
the bears disturbed him-nOt that the
bears we're nOisesOme or restless. but be
cause there is about bear a certain scent
which is not precisely first cousin to the
cologne.
Into the Greek Quarters.
The operator who sought surcease from
his Iabors in the rest of mind and body
that is the portion of all who are good
and just arose in Indignation and in
wrath.
1T is beyond the endurance of man to
bear with these bears further" he eX-
claimed and forthwith the cublets were
conveyed to one of the cars used by the
Greeks as a boarding car.
Presently the Greeks moved out. AMI
when a Greek moves out one may wager
that there is something more mOmentOus
transpring than the fall of Athens.
Having rid themselves of the cute lit
tie pets-tO-be, the telegraph operators
opened the sides Of the station building
with crOwbars and pickhandles to let the
fresh air in and the bear air out. To their
mind their efforts had been fruitful Of
success. So they rested in peace and quiet
/ and calm and serenity, such as only life
and living at Bryan may bring.
Soon darkness came upon the land at
Bryan The sun did not shine by day nor
the moon by night. IT was the hour when
the light for the SemaphOre must be
lighted and hoisted into place. The op-
orator whose duty it was TO prepare the
smooth and easy way for Union Pacific
limiteds arranged his agent of luminosity.
He was about to swing il aloft, when he
heard the shuttle of feet heavy, very
heavy feet, outside the door What could
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