The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

as II he understood what had seen, hut
made no comment at all upon my ap
pearance.
The time passed quite rapidly from
then on, and soon. we left the heading
and were relieved by the next shift.
There were three shifts of eight hours
each, and the tube was never left for
moment without some one there.
When we came out of the lock into
the opening and walked toward the lift
to go up, | noticed as | went along
that this part of the tunnel was of
masonry and evidently of much older
construction than the tube, and l asked
Mike why it was.
''This part he explained, "was
built a long while ago, but never fin
ished, and it has stood here untouched
untll the new bore was begun
lie gave me. peculiar look as he
spoke. but nothing more was said about
IT. then, and the subject was dropped
for the time
Ten days passed without anything of
moment happening, and | was bccom-
ing accustomed to the work and used to
spending eight hours of every twenty
four under the river.
During that time 7 had little OK.
perience, which. although common
enough down there, made an impres.
sion on my mind at the time. I had
occasion to tell one OF the "muckers ;,
TO do something, and when he made
some answer to me | called him a Hnig-
ger. If ! had called him ANYTHING
else under the sun but that, he would
nave considered 1t a joke. and that
would have been an end of the matter:
but that one word seemed to stick in
his. crop. and. without even the for
mainly of answering back. no threw the
oolt which he had in his hand directly
at my head The bolts they use down
there TO fasten thc plates together are
not piaYthlngs, by any means. but are
about six inches long and weigh four
'or hVo pounds. so | was rather anxious
to dodge it if could, and was so sue
eessfui mat 1t flew, past ME and struck
ono OF the muckers' on the foot.
and made HIM howl with pain. Before ]
could recover myself he picked ND a
large wrench about half as high a him
self and started for me.
=, Mike, who happened 10 come inst
theh, TOOK the situation in Mt q glance.
ana knocking the wrench out of the
negro hand ordered him above ground
~ hn one. mat was tbe first lesson ]
learned of the discipline maintained
down there, strlctcr than THAI of anv
oihef body Of men. No black man is
allowed to raise his hand against a
.White- man. mo- matter what the provo
cation is, and if he does he is dismissed
Without even an explanation being
asked Owing 10 the great ma joritv Of
blacks over whites and. the rough char.
acter. of the former this rule is abso-
iutcly Imperativ and is never broken.
no matter how good workman the of
fender aysbc.
DuI1ng that week ! learned another
rnIe which is almost as ironbound as
the preceding, The superintendent of
the whole work was down in the bore
looking. at our work when the shield J
became iammed against a sunkcn pile
and 1T was necessary TO resort TO drastic
measures TO light ii. He jumped into
the mack and slime beside me aud
started to work like any sandhog there
l did not know who he was in his |!
muddy oilskins and top boots aud was |
soon on quite familiar footing with |
him
80 You can I do that said finally. |
after we had made another inefrectusl
EFFORT to push the log aside with the
shield
I'VE never use that word down
here, he replied, quietly, and that was
All ever heard ham say while bo was
there, Rsstaps this ,js one of the rea-