Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-03-16

e. ysl..x.B what's thcmat.
ter with the
man who tells the engineer what 20 do
and Just what to do; how to do It. ana
exactly how 10 do Il: with the man
who sits shut In brick wallis aud hung
I ia Chinese puzzles, his ear glued to u
| receiver and his finger fast to Il key
| and his eye rivctcd on u train chart
the man who orders aud aunuls and
Z stops aud starts everything within 800
miles Of him ana holds under his
thumb more lives every minute than
a brigadicr does In u lirctmcI For In.
/ stance" asked Callahan, In his tired
/ way. whats the matter with BuCkST"
! Now, myself never knew Bucks. lie
left the West End before / went OH.
Bucks is second vice prcsidont-which
means the boss of transcontincntal
line now aud very great swell. But
no man from the West End who calls
on Bucks has to wait for an audience,
though bigger men do. They talk OF
him out there yet. Not OF General Su-
pcrintcndcnt Bucks, which he came TO
be- nor Of General Manager Bucks
.
Bucks. but Bucks on the West End
means whole lot.
lie saved the company 100000 that
night the Ogalalla train ran away"
unused Callahan. Callahan himself Is
assistant superintendent now.
"Three hundred thousand dollars Is II
good deal Of money, Callahan" I oh.
jcctcd.
Figure II out yourself To begin
with, fifty passengers lives 90 that's
5000 apiece. isn't it," Callahan had
a cold bloodcd way Of figuring a pas
senger's life from the company stand.
point. ut would have killed over fifty
passengers If the runaway had ever
struck 80. There wouldn't have been
enough left of 30 10 make decent fu.
neral. Then the equipment, mt least
> $4,000. But there was whole lor
, more than 100000 In II for Bucks"
GLOW soT"
? 'llc told me once that If he hadn't
5 saved 20 that night he would never
= have signed another order anywhere
[ on any road"
g Why
"Whyf Because after II was all over
, he found out that his own mother was
: aboard 80 Didn't you ever hear thar
Well. sir, IL was Christmas eve, and
the year was 1851"
Christmas eve everywhere. but OH
the West End II was just plain Dec
. 81.
High winds will prevail for ensuing
twcnty-iour hours Station agents viii
d Use extra care TO secure cars on sid
9 lngs. Brakemcn must use care tC
= avoid being blown from moving
trains"
That l. about all Bucks said In biz
J. | bulletin that cvcning-nOt II wore
about Christmas or Merry Christmas
In fact, lf Christmas had come 10 Nc
Cloud that night they couldn't hay,
held II twenty. four minutes. much les,
twcnty-four hOurs-thc wind was toe
], high. All the week. all the day. al
:, the night, II had blOwn-a December
" wind, dry rs an August noon, bite
as powdered ice. II was In the earl,
! days OF our western ralroadlng. whcl
J. we had only one fast train ON tn,
i schedule the st. Louis-Californii
Is eXpress-and only one fast engine OIL
= the divlslon-the 1Ol-and only on
q man on the whole West End-Bucks.
II Bucks was assistant superintendent
o and master mechanic and trainmaste
n and chief dispatcher and storckeeper-
d and bully good fellow. There wer
!, some boys in the service, among theI
Callahan. Callahan was seventeen
= with hair like sunset and II min
. quick as an air brake, II was hi
= first year at the key, and he had
% night trick under Bucks,
II Callahan claims II blew so hard thu
- night that II blew most of the colo
Us out of his hair Sod houses had sprun
IL up like dog towns In the buffalo gras
during the fall. But that day home
'e steaders crept into dugouts and smotl
rt cred over buffalo chip fires. Horse
u, and cattle huddled into friendly pocl
O. cts little out of the worst Of 1t {
20 froze mutely In pitiless fence corner
r. on the divides. Sand drove griffin
T. down from the Cheyenne hills like
"a storm Of snow. Streets of the ra'
n lpNhH HNhi'i hNo'i''u ~ "a
-, sky. Even cowboys kept their rancho
y and through the gloom of noon the su
- cast coward shadow. 1t was
~ wretched day, and the sun went dow
'h with the wind tuning into a gale IN
n all the boys In bad humor, excel
III Bucks. Not that Bucks couldn't g
ee mad, but 1t took more than cycloi
a 20 start him.
KS No 80, the California express, W;
It. late that night. All the way up Il
valley the wind caught her quartz
of ing. Really, the marvel Is that o.
there on the plains such storms didn
blow our toy engines clear of Il
rt rails. For that matter, they might ;
well have taken the rails, too, for nor
OF them went over sixty pounds. FIT
nine was due at II o'clock. 1t WI
half past II when she pulled in and
Callahan's trick. But Bucks hun
around the office until she stagger'
u" up under the streaked moonlight,
frOwsy n looking train as ever chok,