News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-02-02

pSu uONu NV GI lIOul hGuull
Carroll and Orde returned to their dt
serted little box of a house at Mon
rovia.
Orde breathed deep of a new salts
faction in walking again the streets o
this little sandy. sawdust paved. shan
tyfed town. with its yellow hills an(
its wide blue river and its glimpse o
the lake far in the oding.
Hanged if | know what's strucl
me-" he unused. Never experienced
any remarkable JOY before in getting
back to this sort of truck"
Then. with II warm glow at the
heart, the realization was brought tC
him. This was home. and over yondel
under the shadow of the heaven point
ing spire a slip Of a girl WIS waiting
for him.
The rest of the week Orde was ali
sent up the river, experimenting in n
general way the latter progress of the
drive.
At the booms everything was in
readiness to receive the jam. The
long swim arm slanting across the
river channel was attached TO its
winch. which would operate it. When
shut it would close the main channel
and Shunt into the boOms the logs float
ing in the river There, penned at last
by the piles driven in row and held
together at the top by boted timbers.
they would lie quiet. Men armed with
pike poles would then take up the
work of distribution according to the
brands stamped on the ends. Each
brand had its own separate sorting
pens" the lower end leading again
into the open river. From these each
owners property was RATED and towed
to his private booms at his mill below.
Orde spent the day before the jam
appeared in constructing what he call
ed boomerang
"Secret invention just yet" he eX-
planned to Newmark. I'm going to
hold up the drive in the main river
until we have things punched: then
I'm going to throw big crew down
here by the swing. HeinZman antici-
pates. of course, that I'll run the en-
tire drive into the booms and do all
my sorting there. Naturally if turn
his logs loose into the river as fast as
run across them he will be able to
pick them up one at time. for he'll
only get them occasionally. If | keep
them until everything else is sorted
only HeinZman's logs will remain. and
as we have no right to hold logs We'll
have to turn them loose through the
lower sorting booms, where he can be
ready to raft them. In that way he
gets them all right without paying us
cent. See?"
eyes, see," said Newmark.
"Well," said Orde, with a laugh,
"here is where fool him. I'm going
to rush the drive into the booms all at
once, but I'm going to sort out Heinz
mans logs at these openings near the
entrance and turn them into the main
channel"
WHAT good will that do" asked
Newmark skeptically. HE gets them
sorted just the same, doesn't he?
"The currents fairly strong" Orde
pointed out, land the rivers almighty
wide. When you spring seven or eight
million feet on man all at once and
and he with no crew to
handle them, he's going to keep all
mighty busy. And if he don't stop
them this side his mill he'll have to
raft and tow them back, and if he
doesn't stop EN- this side the lake he
may as well kiss them all goodby."
The boomerang worked like charm.
Orde, in personal charge, watched that
through the different openings in his
boomerang the III" logs were shunt-
ed into the river. Shortly the channel
was full of logs floating merrly away.
''I've got TO go down and see how the
Dutchman is making it," announced
Orde.
He drove to Heinzman's MILL There
be found evidences of the widest ex-
element. Boats piled in all directions.
tug darted back and forth. Con
stantly the number of floating logs |
augmented, however. Many had al |
ready gone by. I'D
IL you lulnh you re DuSy now, SAID
0rde to himselfy with a chuckle, "just |
wait until you begin to get logs. What's |
he doing with that tug?" thought he. |
ooh, no! He's stringing booms across
he river to hold the whole outfit"
He laughed aloud and drove fran !
ically back to the booms.
"He's shut down his mill" shouted
)rde, "and he's got all that gang of
lighbankers out and every old rum
blossom in Monrovia. and bet if
,ou say logs TO him he'd chase his
all in circles. I'm going to take Marsh
md the Sprite and go TO town. Old
he added as an after
bought. sis stringing booms across the
Notwithstanding navigation"
Marsh" he called, got up steam?
There appeared short, square man,
yes blue as the sky.
up in two minutes" he answered.
Harvey. fire her up"
Captain Marsh guided his energetic
barge among the logs floating in the
trea m with fbp marvellous Second in