Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-28

picked up the fireman and was ready to
assault the mountain. Ford thrust Q
query In between.
Hold on a minute. how is the waterf'
he asked.
Jimmy Shovel climbed over the coal to
see and reported less than half tank
full.
THAT settles it," said the chief to
Hector. You'll have to back down TO
Saints Rest and fill up. You'll get no
more this side of Pannikin Upper canyon;
We haven't had time to build tanks yet"
Hector put his valve motion In the re-
verse gear and began TO drop the train
down the grade on the air. A dozen
the air-signal whistle. Mr.. Colbrith evi-
IDENTIFY wished to know why his train was
going in the wrong direction. Hector ap-
piled the brakes and stopped In obedience
to the signal.
do we send back?" he asked.
mo" said Ford. sourly. Let him send
forward
Penfield was the bearer Of the presi-
dents question. Would II be necessary
to discharge somebody in order to have
his commands obeyed?
Ford answered the petulant demand as
one bears with a spoiled child. They
were returning to Saints Rest for water.
Let the president be assured that his
orders would be obeyed in due course.
He's a piker the old man Is" said the
big engineer, once more giving the l0i2
the needful inch of release to send II
grinding down the hill. ''Td ruther pull
freight thirty-six hours on end than run
his car for a hundred miles.
There was trouble getting at the water
tank in the Saints Rest yard. Leckhard.
acting as division engineer. telegraph
Superintendent. material forwarder ana
yardmaster. found IL difficult at times to
bring order out of chaos in the forward
ing yard. II was full hour before the
tumble of material trains could be
shunted and switched and juggled TO per-
NIT the 1912 TO drop down TO the water
tank and four times during the hour
Penfield climbed dutifully over the coal to
tell Ford and the engineer what the presi-
dent thought of them.
"Durn me! but you can take punish
ment like man. Mr.. Ford" said Hec-
tor on the heels of the fourth sending.
sinking rank distinctions in his admira-
ton for a cool fighter. These here polite
cussin scout are what / can't stand.
Reckon We'll get away from here before
the old man throws a sure-enough f1t?"
That's entirely with the yard crew"
said Ford. calmly making himself COM
Portable on the fireman's box. We'll go
when we can get water. and we'll get
water when the tank track is cleared.
That's all there is to H." Whereupon he
found his cigar case, passed II to Hector.
lighted up and waited patiently for an
other secondhand wigging from the
Nadia.
AS it CHANGED the tank track was
cleared a few minutes later; the 1912 was
backed down and supplied and Ford in
structed Ieckhard to do what he could
with the single. poorly manned construc-
ton wire toward giving the presidents
special car a clear track.
THAT won't be much. said the hard
worked base-of-supplies man. We've
got our own operator at Ten Mile. and
Brissac and Frisbie have each a set OF
Instruments which they cut In on the line
with wherever they happen 10 be. I don't
L. hnF & Ia
down about Riley's tonight. think. After
you pass him you'll have no help from the
wires.
Urn have what 1 can get" asserted
Ford. Now tell me what we're likely TO
meet
Leckhard laughed Anything on top Of
earth. from Brissac or Jack Benson or
Frisbie chasing somewhere on a light en-
CINE. to Gallagher or Folsom coming out
with a string OF empties. oh. you're not
likely to find much dead track anywhere
after you get over the mountain"
Ford swung up beside Hector. who had
for. Hector. Start your headlight dynamo
and lets CO. he said: and five minutes
farther on. just as Penfeld was about to
make his fifth scramble over the coal in
the tender the 1912 took the upward road
with a deafening whistle shrek as it's
farewell to Saints Rest.
1t was pocket dark by the time the
switch stand at the basin siding swung
INTO the DeaIn OF the electric mead
light. Ford got down from the flreman's
box and crossed over to the engineers
side to pilot Hector.
"Hows your track from this on?' in
quired the big engineman, gruffiy.
1T is about rough as II can be. and
not ditch the steel trains. You'll have to
hold her down or We'll have results"
What in the name o. thunder is the
old mans notion of goin' 10 the front
with picnic party and maxim night
run of it. at that. dye reckon"
1.-The Lord only knows. Easy around
this curve you're coming to: II isn't set
up yet" The 1912 was fast eight
wheeler from the main line, and though
the grade was rising per cent: the DIG
flyer was making light work OF her one
car train.
CTo be continued tomorrow
Samuel Nelson Aldrich Dead.