The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-02

many friends on the other side of the and laughed, and sweated. The dump-cart men raced their mules up and down the line, and by night-fall. there was work ready for some track layers. Chester wrote jubiIant let ter to Goldsmith that night. But ea1 of his troubles were not yet over. For the balance of the first week the interest was unfiagging, and the tire-I less workmen sat up till all hours of the night discussing the progress of the competition. But when the score was posted at the office, and it was seen that Haydensvil1e was a big leader, with Warsaw proper second, and the others a long distance oe- hind. ambition and interest began to flag in the other centers involved ill. the competition Monday morning found Chester contemplating his de- pleted pay-rolls with a mournfu1 eye. But he had not seen the Yale fopt- ball team coached for nothing. Mon- day afternoon found him urging on a party of the laggards with all the vim and energy which a, two hum dred pound coach puts into his adj monitions to hundred and fifty pound end.
 t'Now then, all together." Chester was shouting. s'Heave ho! We'n catch them yeti" And then he start ed song.
 By devoting one day of the week to each of the six gangs which had Jagged behind, and urging on them the necessity of recruiting their numbers in order to outdo the oth- CTS, Chester managed to even up the score which he further judiciously doctored. The work progressed amaz- ingly for the next week, but at the beginning of the fourth the prospect of five more weeks of the hardest kind of unrenitting toll in that semi tropical climate dampened the ardor of the stoutest workmen. Once again Chester was facing a depleted pay roll, and the loss of his twenty-five thousand dollar guarantee.
 Reckon yeou'd better get the caows for that barbecue advised tne second of his 1ieutenants. Chester seized upon the suggestion, and next day 8, drove of fattened kine was so1emnly paraded the whole length of the construction work. In terest was once more at fever heat, and every foot of track was closely contested. But the excitement and worry, and the unaccustomed climate all were telling, and the sixth week C. fever, and the entire board of dfrec- tors imp1oring him to get up and expedite the work
 "She hasn't answered. Chester re- piled, gazing at them with glazed
 and vacant eye.
 'tBut she will, she wiIl,'' director
 assured him. The delirium which goes with the Texas fever was we'll
 known to them to evoke more than
 a look of mutual comprehension 1 How the Devil do you know ?'' l demanded Chester f1ercely. The board of directors gathered outside, and gazed at each other with consternation.
 l eff we only knew who she was'' said one of them, t'she would answer
 all right if the entire board of direc- l tors of the Warsaw Street Railway
 had to wait on her in body in order to persuade her to do so. Taylor has done such magnificent work so peter out in the end. Pm as much l interested in having him complete
 the work within the time limit as
 if we had no twenty-five thousand dollar guarantee to consider" There was no dissentient voice, for
 Chester was dealing with Southern l gentlemen.
 we must not let him fail,'' was 1 the universal verdict
 .He isn't going to-" said 9 voice l behind him.
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