The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-12-28

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to poke fun al The Mineral
dgy1sion; izt chr das thsy
stoppe1s laughing ~ IT, That
~ was me Gayit saved the road :
reputzticr and lzn0e3 Hal contract ior
us that wss worth raore in pro7ts ihza tie
directors cared to teil. ard with an adyer-
dsirg value That The general freight and
pssse1zer agents couldn't tel
* began with the business 1sen dean In
Nr~ Oriezns kicking On the Ncr York rlaa
serslcr- They had 5etn complaining ior
years and finally Dtw Postmaster Grne-zl
cana sso1g and saE1 cAaHoe e stIr up
hczn party south 81 rht Washington n5o1u-
Ea%nt- In those days tne admin issrzti0n
Wa Elgnty ANXIOUS 10 br-ak The Salsd
Scuths ard Il boxed 10 tbr new Official
Exc CORD 'prysor-zi-sssry ID drive AZ ezra
n14 IL lis o@n lsss.. 80 ere Cav be sxnt
fcE the general rratszsrrs Of tfse sfog- lines
thzt lad q lo0ss. III on sach Z proposition zs
. nezliy last rsxa serzfce below Washing
son- Aweck later os1zrtcs of hare BEADED
rzaEOzd-rx sat il rhe government of1oal's
H-e- ofs0r tc TAX IS experts Id the matter
1 spesG- Ever man of thern had already
figured the tlznc down 10 the last minute
rad then cEopped oH al h0ur for lack
EsGn ttDugaf il his heart that he could
p4t II Over any ether road b. thirty
n4putes-
Neal. gentleuasz. began tie head Of the
possssHerxice, we waEi to do better CO the
Men OrSears mai schedules. Cutting out
only txF0 hours OF the present running tine
4cgst rsezn hzlf day saved fSr Houston
and Dallas As it i ron.. IL takes forty-si1
hours from Jersey Cisy To Canal Street
forty hosfrs, ever. b<ios Washington.
Hov much could that be d----eaaeei, Mr..
1ss genera manager il q shore Line
Fred the answer straight at him. Three
hours ard twenty minutes between Wash
iagton and RivcryleN Junction fIye cars
Asi enough. said the postal Official.
We want thirty hour run from
I-rRg City 10 Mex Orleans
Three eminent reiiroad men strcye to
'ressH win him They said ii was out Of
the question His ideas spTang from his
ignorance of Southern railway conditions.
Did be imagine thai thes had drgadEeds like
the Pennsylvania aeross the Mississippi
sndsdsgMsizna swanpss Then fourth
fnnfnrnt rsaroad rssn s1yske for the first
tfr1r ne vii take your flye CARS through
IN tlairty-Ssx h0grs. he said, and sou can
make the penalty fer delays high because
tnsfe arrn going 10 he any delsys.'
That was Holcomb al oser Ii was such
things that made him Iosed and respected
By rvery man on the " O. s. system. from
caT-tink to superintendent Ard men
;eared him who feared neither God nor
man SAKE Holcomb
After that there was no reed for further
argument
az sou make good % the trial runs and
lut thai offer iH sour bid next month. said
the PcstraaSfer General he centrstf Is
practically yours But 1 warn YOU thai we
shall expect the ser1ice
A little later Oh news came that the
W. g. \. would make trial on The rev
rnais-earrying contract at a speed that in
our part of the country vas hair-raisipg.
Ihcn Holeomb sent for McStewart
McSiewaTt was the superintendent Of
motive power, a big blond-wbiskered.
outstanding Scotchnar N-he went u church
regularly ard openly deplored that il WAS
necessary ID the very nature 81 the railroad
business that a man should swear With
him lay The responsibility Tor the engines
that would haul the mail trains The big
Scotchlnan put ON the old brown derby that
he wore Oh special occasions his War
bonnet, the men called il and vent down
the line from end 10 end And in his wake
was trail Of astonishment and enthusiasm.
seemed 10 catch the feyer In
depots and towers and swiich-shznties and
the talk vas all Of the new
Hiefs GTizzlcd old Dennis o Rourke, sec
tion boss Oh the Divide, fred green
sectionhand for expressing a doubt that
The road could maintain such schedule.
Johnnie Bsptiste. engine foreman at Chnch
River, got publicly and disgacefuily drunk
Ind held ronsing prayer meeting in one Of
The eleanir pats over The foresight Of iIol-
sonib in ~ 1ns aereds tbetsi revctenl
vhceicrs p ahasmere Just acsnrsng otyt offhe
Baldwin works They would be delivered
D tirneffor the new trains and would walk. /.
way sitfsssfc fs.sil cars LIKE pla ytiiings ~
Then came the day when the Pennsyl-
tznia delivered I'VE new mail cars. on time
o the dot The twenty-thiTd Of October
was, a clear. crisp sort Of day, and in the
title towns up the Inc people turned out in
rowds TO see the new Number Fifiy-six 20
N. II was, Here she cones-yonder she
oes Just roar, fash Of black ard
iivr green, and the smoke trailing far
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