The Chitina leader., 1910-12-24

On making the rounds of the differ ent bunk houses he gathered the fol- lowing 'hot rivets" from the differ ent gangs of steel workers. All are good fellows and can take a josh as we'll as give one. All stated that they liked to see the other fellow get banned a little in the Leader columns, and if a not one goes to the fellow who handed one to his friend, he can only mold the bucket" anG say, .'all right, wait till next week:
 Ray Taylor had a birthday last week. The gang say it's all right | with them if he had had three an- niversaries of his birth winthin two months, and besides Ray is there when it comes to entertaining. Bob Clark and Norman Ferouson say the cold weather of last week nearly put their heaters out of com mission, but they are getting the right color on again, now that milder weather has set in.
 Phil Albertson, better known as | Dirty Dutch," has boiled up' and taken wash this week. His bunkies hardly recognized him and all put a long mark on the tent wall. | Geo. Reed is sure the real signal man on the job. The gang say he can turn quicker, signal faster and yell louder than any one on the bridge, and it sure gets results.
 Slam" Johnson is the only signal man on record who can take up a top cord with the nigger head out of gear.
 The boys would feel lost if Sam Thornton, signalman on the high line, were not on the job. His lusty Cockney yelis or "out 'aul' and "old it, Bill," are music to the ears of the steel workers
 Since the gun" kicked ''Toughy" McNutt off the staging, he has been using more old sacks and bags than ever in which to wrap up his feet and legs. In case he should be kicked off into the canyon he'd be padded sufficiently to break the fall any way.
 Drift Pin' Dick has shown mark ed signs of lonesomeness since he lost his six-foot-five mate last week. His mate aspired to the riveting gang, but "Geronimo' couldn't see it that way, so he hied himself for the grape arbors in the good old native son state. l Paddy Monohan, whom the gang call the Irish Chow" says the job can't last too quick for him, for he has recently received letters from home which he reads each evening. I IctS OSHduiS, luS pOO-I OO lhoh, is real, living curiosity. The gang say they expect to have him on ex- hibition at Luna Park on their return o Seattle and advertised as the Foo Foo" steel man, captured after ten weeks hard and desperate struggle, the dead of winter, 200 miles north of Cordova. Alaska. They are sure he'll be hit with the pubic and his managers say there will be no furth- CT need to make another contract on steel work.
 Honest John'' McArtle was scalp ed by a red hot rivet last week, but it wasn't serious enough to keep him om work or from donating few beans to the camp fund each even ing.
 Walter Norris is still pushing the hospital side of the cantilevers. Fred Lowe, one of the old-time Miles Glacier boys, is the only man in the hospital at the present time. Fred has been troubled with his stomach, put is anxious to get back in the harness again.
 The wonder" engineer, c. H. Hop kins, is happy man now. Hops" troubles are over now since the warm spell. His lubricators are working nicely and the world looks good to him.
 l Who said Gloomy Gus and his gang were not the star riveters or the job? | Some of the gang was mean enough to suggest that Phil Seffren came through with twenty-five to snare the nigger head job, but it isn't | o,oJ;$4l vzI,a ox,lxy fro,, h1a xry;fb phiI