Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-26

Now, holidays ere unknown On drive.
Birely Is time allowed for eating and
sleeping. Nevertheless all that day
the men lay about In complete idle
nc3s. The pond flied with logs. From
above the current. aided by u fair
wind. was driving dawn still other
io"s--iha flrcrunncrS OF the little drive
astcra ~ s.'ht Of these some Of the
men prumbird. Weir losiu what we
II, de-" said iurH. we left them logs
AID sorted 'cn CAT one" already"
Oldp gent Il couple Of ayincu Ia blaze
he newcomers. \ little before sun.
down he urLci al the sluice gates of
,iir dam opened
Night wJr.,." said the men TO one
mother AN
Sure enough. after supper Crdr sud
,cilY appeared among them.
"Get organized. boys" said he brisk
! ly. We've g,t to get this pond all
slu!ccd before mrrni!,g,"
The men tool; thclr places.
".'lu!cr through everything but the
! II logs" Orlc commanded. Work
thcm OF to the left and leave them"
| The sluicing, under the impetus of n
/ big crew. went rapidly. There's near
million an hour going through there"
| Spe, ulatcd Ordc. watching the burden
/ cd waters of the chute. And In this
work the men distinguished easily the
now white blaze marks ON IIeinzman's
logs. so they were able to shunt them
Il.
Ordc had commanded.
As the last log shot through Ordc
cried. Tear cut the boons!'
The chute to the dam was approach
ed, as has been earlier explained. by
two rows of booms arranged In V, or
funnel. the apex Of which cmptlcd into
the slulccway and the wide. projecting
arms Of which embraced the width Of
the stream. The logs, floating down
the pond. were thus concentrated to-
ward the sluice: also the riyermcn,
walking bacl; AMI forth the length Of
the booms, were al,ic easily TO keep the
drive moving.
Now, however. Ordc unclaimed these
boom lngs, he hIcn pushed them
ashore. clampcd in their peavies and,
using these implements as handles,
carried the boO'ns back into the woods.
Then every body tnmped back ana
forth. round AMI about, to confuse the
trail Or,lr was Ike II mischlcvous boy
at II school prank.
The blazci logs belonging to Heinz
man. drifting slowly, had sucked down
into the corner towr he power canal,
where, caught agil. - he grating. they
had jammcd. These logs would have
/ to bc t'oatei singly ana pushed one by
one against the current across the pond
aud into the influence OF the slulcC
gate. Some OF them would he hard Il
come at.
Il guess that will keep them busy fol-
u day or two" commented Orde.
This, ms O.de has said, would be suf
fclently annoying to Ileinaman, but
would have little real effect on thu
main issue, which was that the Ger
man was getting down his logs with d
crew Of less than u dozen men. New
crthccss Orde In vast spirit OF fur
took delight In lnvcntlng and executing
practical Jokes OF the general sort JUS
described. One day the chore boy, VIII,
had been over to Spruce Rapids aftel
mail, reported that an additional crew
\ of twenty had been sent In to Heinz
mans drive. This was gratifying.
Were making him scratch gravel
boys, anyway" said Orde.
The men entered into the spirit o
the thing. In fact, their enthusiasm
, was almO.t too eXuberant. Orde In,
constantly to negative new and In
genious schemes.
mo boys" said he, 81 want to keel
IN the right side Of the law. We ma,
need 1t later"
Logs rarely jam on rising water, 10
he simple reason that constantly tn
ITO Be C0ntinned)