The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-14

that is I'd rather work them than feed them any
:hcy couldn't stand the compressed air they work
Sreon9y fa the compressed arhe doctors say 1T gives
them up so fast that they II cat Ike fiends to make up
THAT especially true at first when the job begins
So always provide big platers; and lots of 'cm, Of
boiled potatoes. and let them eat themselves almost in
sensible. That stcadcs en- down and puts a crimp i'll
But here's the point;-You'v We got to control them
'.Whcn they come oil shift and get the smell
If hot food in their noses they make rush like
well, You We cattle tearing into feeding pen:
the whole thing from wreck they build the entrance
so that only ono anima! can 90 through, at time,
My sandhogs used to smash door every day going
through three at time and then Tip the tables
tho scheme Of making the entrance so narrow thai
they only Jam and delay themselves by hurryinC
through After while tbev got orderly That S the
way to handle them. Don I argue. Show theml
The Battle
50 the contracted hatchway, this wild day, was
laherty s reinforcement aud point Of vantage Tony
stood fearfully back of him. The boss 1.-the, small
figure barely touched the walls. they guarded hi
and his gasppe made deadly in front, With each
heavy thud man dropped and his body pitched down
into the hold.
With the first ull in the hatchvay attack and while
some few of the men were in full Hight back to Tho
torGcasile, Flaherty and Tony made rush for the
The deck deserted as they lowered the boat but
under the guard rail and looked down at them With
ugly, drunken cer II was the English sailor,
smith. Something g@a'aed in his hand as he raised
Crack, S ~, The There was shot and the bullet, glqnc
hG ribs % Crack % G p m@ the i"e a@ H9so of TiGr the Mn1
ering arm was steadi"r aud the solid impact of a bull
letit pierced leather time book and made ragged
surface wound in Flahcrty' chcstinadc linn sngger
scat
Two mcu came running now from the forccastIe
Patty Conyue and Foearty. sobcrcd somewhat by the
scri9ns turn OF the fight and now thoroughly scared
deT@d and then rushed AT Smith.
flaherty IN the meantime had raised his right hand
and shricking Smith.
-! II kill You, he yelled S'Shoot again aud II =
His threats cut short by a third shot and L
singing streak of FIRE in his up,ted forearm as the
bullet entered his wrist aud poughed its way almost
the murdcrous saor almost simultaneously with tho
report of the pistol and 20 down in struggling heap
drifted away the flagship was left riding the waves
without sign of life upon her decks.
his own wounds as best he could Not far ahead OF
them were the fishing snaeks under sail and making
response and soon the swift gathering darkness Of
& me snort WnteT day md the smacEs from their sight
they drtted slowly toward the twirklus lights in the
The most remarkable part of the whole strange mar
Tailys,,So M v, er3z said Fla9ery in telling it. that
meeting with the police, of whom score were gath
cred on the deck and ready 70 board tugboat
Flaherty was thinking of the iob-of that and moth
ing else, IT, had to 90 on the next day must go
Else the eaissoo with lis insecure anchorage, would
90 over and fortune with it. So Flahcrty lied i'm
passyclv, but stouty.
a Nice Little Scrap.
1t was only a NICE little Christmas scrap ho
aycrred. - sort of wake. with Tony aud me left
out. Give me two policemen aud II go back and
straIghtcn out the whole thing.
But the police thought otherwise, 'lt was funny"
SAID Flaherty, 'to see the manaclcs and thcy
put into that tug; and it funuer still them
hang back when we got ont to the ship L Invited
them down into the hold, which was as quiet as the
grave, Why, the all right. They d have
had nicc sleep and been back the job noX day il
The dcnouemcnt of the whole affair came with the
decision Of the trial Judge in New Bedford - can T.
seem TO get Mt the facts in the ease, said he ''nd
has happened You turning to sailor smith II be-
licyc ought 10 send TO the gallows. | sorry That
tho heaviest sentence can give vou is Eve wears Yo,
aud YOU and you, aud you pointing ont at four band
aged heads six months each The rest 90 back 10 tho
hospital
Flqbcrty life-the literal facts of it-rcads like
novel lIc has always been saving the Job how at
liomcr Shoals diving for men who fell overheard and
Of Sing Sing when tho steamer Richard X Fox ram
med ii and earring away the bunk house spilled four
teen sleepy mcn INTO the river and at Hell Gate
% smith: in the hold df fb% wrecked VfiSs soam ann
list is too long TO give here, The who worked
VIII fa9Sry Sr now 26ont I V i aud about him.
rough and ready school who kept his boots IN his hat
II" madc biz successes and big failures, and died inst
show YOU, said FlaIcrty. cone summer he took tho
whole family TO Europe Six months later selling
newspapers on the strect-a lad ot eight. -
80 Flahcrty worked his way up--without schooling
,r any other hclpaud fast and hard that he didu {
nave time TO grow very much Rut he learned many
ingS that are not set down in books. and today. ho
lisprovcs the frequent assertion made that physical
stature and proUcss arc the best possession of work
ug fighting boss.
Some of his partners have been cnginccrs--uotablo
among them i. HoDknsou Smith, the author Of many
lighthouse stories, the several leading characters OF
Which seem out of line with tahcry's own uusenti-
uint in all probability, iust like the difference be-
wccn a blue print and the actua casting of the hugo
nows about men ard sand and iron set down
n The specifications.