Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-02-16

cd lelSurcly forward, compared time
with the engineer aud cried. "All
abo-o.o-ardv' then as your coach NOV.
ed slowly ahead you might notice I'M
der the rcccding catalpas the little girl
waving n parasol or u handkerchief at
the outgoing train--that Is, ut Con-
ductor Sankcy, for she was his daugh
ter. Nccta Snnkcv. Her mother was
Spanish aud died when Nccta was n
wee bit. Nccta and the limited were
Sankey's whole world.
When George Sinclair began pulling
the limited. running west opposite Fo.
ley, he struck up Il great friendship
with Sankey. Sankcy, though he was
hard to start. was full OF early day
stories George. II seemed, had the
( faculty Of getting him to talk perhaps
/ because when he was pulling Sankey's
| train he made extraordinary efforts to
I keep on time time was hobby with
/ Sankcy. Foley said he was so careful
I Of il that when he was OF duty he let
his watch stop just to save time.
! Sankcy loved TO breast the winds
and the floods and the SHOWS. and II
he could get home pretty near on
schedule. with everybody else late he
was happy, and in respect OF that us
Sankcy used to say, Gcorgic Sinclair
could come nearer gratifying Sankey's
ambition than any runner we had
Even the nromcn used TO observe
that the Young engineer. always neat,
looked still neater the days that he
took out Sankey's train. by aud by
there was an introduction under the
catalpas. After that It was noticed
that George began wearing gloves on
the cngiue--Iot kid gloves, but yellow
dogskin-and black silk shirts. He
bought them In Denver,
Thcn-an odd way engineers have Of
paying compliments o. when George
pulled into town on No. ., II II was
Sankey's train. the big skyscrapcr
would give short hoarsc scream, n
most peculiar note Just MS they drew
past Sankey's house, which stood on
the brow of tine hill west of the yards.
Then Meta would know that No 9
ana her rather and naturally Mr.. Sin.
: clair were IN again and all safe and
. sound
: When the railway tranmcn held
: their division fair at McCloud. there
! WINS u lantern TO he voted to the most
, popular conductor--a gold plated Ian.
/ tern, with n green curtain In the globe.
, Cnl Stewart and l'cn Dotou. who were
| very swell conductors and great rivals.
, were the favorltcs and had the. town
divided over their chances for win.
ming II.
But during the last moments Georgia
Sinclair stepped up to the booth and
east IA Storm of votes for old man
Sankcy. Iotor's friends and stewards
laughed at first, but Sankey's votes
, kept pouring In amazingly. The ia
yoritcs grow frightened. They pooled
their issues by throwing Stewards vote
, 10 Doton, but 1t wouldn't do. George
Sinclair, with crowd of engineers.
Cameron, Moore, Foley, Bat Mullen
: and Burns-rame back at them with
such swing that in the final round.
. up they fairly swamped Doton. san.
key took the lantern by thousand
> votes, but understood II cost George
, and his friends pot Of money.
= Sankcy said all the time he didn't
. want the lantern; hut, 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. 1t was rumored
I that Sinclair was engaged to Miss San.
key-was going TO marry her And
I.., IN
$ until after tSe wreck In the Blackwood
@ gorge. the time of the big snow.
I II goes yet by just that name on the
G West End. for never was such win
s ter and sush a snow known On the
d plains and IN the mountains. one train
y on the northern division was Stalled
n six weeks aiat winter, and one whole
coach was chopped up for kssdllna
t wood.
Il But the great and desperate error. ol
n the company was to hold open TIT
5. main line, the artery which connfcteo
o the two coasts. 1t was hard winter
+. on trainmep. Week after week III,
" snow kept falling and blowing. The
q. trick was not to clear the line; it was
10 10 keep ii clear. Every day we sem
l. out trains with the fear we should no
X zee them again for II week.
e Freight we didn't pretend to move
Local passenger business had to b,
Ie abandoned. Coal, to keep our engines
N and our towns supplied, We were oblig
y ed to carry. and after that all tn,
~ brains and the muscle and the motlv,
10 power We're ceptered on keeping Nos.
IA and >, our through passenger trains
IS running.
our trainmcn worked like Americans
n There were no towards Oh our rolls
ID But after too long Il strain men he
.e cone exhausted. bcnumbcd, Indifferent
v, reckless even. The nerves give out
N ana viii poser seems to halt on indie
n cIsiOu - OCCASION * the life of tn
= fast ;";,.g
None Of Grr conductors stood tn
m hopeless G&hr Ike G1ukey Sunkc
ID was patient. tnd;u~, utr,lg and, 4
n. a conflict with the clorcIts, fernciou'
n. All the dgltinv h'o2I nr Ill ancestor
A. seemed 10 "oCrsr aralH In that strrggl