The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20

Little Alicia. Charles Edwardr
Adair smiled at the determined rs-
turn TO the practicsL
NO" he said. IT don't think he will
T shouldn't, IL I were IN hls placs. Bus
he will do the next best thing: he VIII
marry Alicia and so bring II Into ths
family. And on the railroad conditions
have named. 7 am quite SURF 40 wiz
make you his voting proxy II you
want 70 use Il IN forcing the combine
The president took turn az Tar as
the clerks counter and back The
lobby was deserted everybody having
gone 70 welcome the hrst train into
Copah.s
you seem to have North against the
WALL he said when he came back
'.Yet, for the sake Oft. well OF his
wife and children. he must have even
handed Justice 7 must insist upon
that
It was the most lovable thing IN the
irascihIe old man-his undying loyalty
to rlan In whom he had once be-
Eeved. Adair slew the last hope with
reluctance. Drawing a thick packet OF
undeIivered kilograms from his pocket.
he handed II to his uncle
Justice is the one thing Mr. North
is most anxious TO dodge. he said
graveIy. When the news OF the catas-
trophe reached him. he resigned BY
wire-to New York; not TO you-got his
physician to order him out OF the
country and left Denver between two
days. Ford has sent Frisbie to Denver
TO hold things together. and there havsN
been q number OF removals-subJect,
OF course. to your approval You viii
find the history Of all these minor
happenings in those kilograms. which
I have been collecting-and holding
until you had leisure to look them
over"
where is Mr. Ford nowg" asked the
president crisply.
HE is not very far away; IN fact. he
IS upstairs in the sitting room OF our
suite with Aunt Hetty and the two
Van Bruce ladies' and Alicia Incl
dentally-Quite incidentally. you under
stand-he is waiting to be asked to
help you out in that mining deal"
Fetch him" was the curt command;
and Mr.. Colbrith sat down TO wade
resignedly through the mass of delayed
wire correspondence.
What remains OF the story OF the
Pacific Southwestern IS a chapter. as
yet unfinished in the commercial his
tory OF the great and growing empire
OF the west.
OF the rush to the Copah gold field:
OF the almost Incredible celebrity with
which a stretch or l49-odd miles OF
construction track was opened for the
poured in upon il: OF the rapid ezten-
sion OF the line to far western out
let; OF the steady advance OF p. S-W-
shares to goodly premium-these are
matters which are recorded IN the
newspaper files OF the period
For the typicalIy American success
OF the Southwestern's dramatic up
ward leap to the rank OF a great rail-
way system. President Colbrith has
the name and the fame. Yet here and
there in the newspaper record there Is
mention OF one Stuart Ford. "our ris-
ing young railroad magnate." in the
unashamed phrase Of the Copah Mega
phone. frst as the president; later. as
first vice president and general man
ager of the system, in the Chicago
headquarters. with Mr.. Richard Fris-
bic as his second in command on the
western lines. and Mr.. Charles Edward
Adair as comptroller and chief OF
finances on the executive committee
in New York.
Ford's prophecies predicting the de-
, velopment OF the new empire drst trav-
ersed by the Western Extension have
/. long since found ample fulfI1ment as
all the world knows. COpah gave the
. region its first and largest advertise
ment: but other mining districts. with
their Imperative beckonings to a food
; producing population. have followed in
due course.
, 1t was early in June of the year
. marking the opening Of the completed
Western Extension for through Pa
cific coast traffic that a one car train.
> drawn by the smartest OF passenger
engines in charge OF a diminutive red
1, beaded Irishman. stormed bravely up
: the glistenins steel oD the eastern ap-
proach to Plug pass The car was the
rebuilt Nadia; and in obedience 10 a
Z shriIl blast of the cab air whistle Gal
? lagher brought it TO a stand on the
summit OF the mountain.
= Alicia looked more than ever the ar
lists ideal OF the American womanly
feieities when Ford lifted her from the
o step of the Nadia
a You are quite sure Mr.. Gallagher
> won't mind?" she was saying as they
2 walked forward together.
7 Mind? Wait till you hear what ha
says. Michael is an Irish diamond In
3 the rough. and he knows when he is
: honored.
V They discovered the red headed lit
q tie man industriOusIy "Oiling around
E for the swift glide down the western
!, declivities.
= Michael" said the first vice presi-
: dent. Mrs. Ford thinks she would like
, 10 take the Pannikin loop in the cab
h OF the Six eighty eight. Can you make
) room for -us?''
I Gallagher snatched his cap from his
e fiery head.
Gould we make room? 'Tis by the
2 blessing av the saints that I'm little
!. man, mese1f, Missis Foord. and don't
q take up much room in the c-yah And
{? as fr Johnny Shovel. he'll be riding
= on the coal rr the pure playsure av
e ut My duty to We, ma'am; and 'tis q
pity ut isn't a black night. whln the
= swete face av ye would be lighting the
T thrack fr u.s."
. Ford lifted Alicia to the gangway
V and made her comfortable on the Are
a mans box. fixing footbrace for her
o and giving her his arm for a shoulder
a rest when Gallagher sent the steam
4 whistling through the cylinder cocks
for the impulse needful to start tha
n downward rush.
q with a michnai-ghignai--' shs
y began: but when the engine plunged
a over the summit and the matches.
! view to the westward came suddenly
= into being, the quotation lapsed IN q
long drawn, ecstatfc "O-o-ohP