The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-02-18
LLT%HE invention ought to save
the railroad companies from

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the railroad companies from
= eighty to ninety million dol
lars a year. Why It was noi thought
of before | can't imagine So far
can frd no faults OF flaws in the
thing Instead Of tearing up all the
rails that have cost us $50 ton. and
shipping them back TO the mills,
and selling them for ten dollars
ton, We can use the same rails over
again without taking them away from
the track The consulting engineer
Of one Of the larges, railroad interests
in the United States was addressing
the board OF directors in their OF.
6ces in the Terminal Building, New
York, and explaining to them the
meaning Of the white drawings OF the
blue prints in his hands
WHO invented the deyice'"
y, Dix Morgan, native Of South
Carolina, a practical railroad engineer
who has put down the stee! highways
Of civilization in almost every part Of
the world. and under the most heroic
ard trying circumstances Tie IS
known to his friends as the Fighting
Engineer lie goi his idea when
building a railroad for the japanese
under the FIRE OF the Russian guns in
Manchuria. during the Russo. Japanese
war In the campaign he had lo>usv
secondhand and detective material
and whilst thinking out various make
shifts for the road he was buildiae
he made a mental note OF wha, he
would do when he had the tme, and
this invention is the outcome OF time
that he Was forced Io hase through
one 81 the worst calanities thar can
beiall man
An Office boy entered aud handed
the speaker a card
Show him right n
All eyes turned to thc door as a
broad-shouldered man, over SIX feet in
height, entered. led over the silent car
pet by a woman whose head reached
his shoulders The big man held his
hat in his hand and apparently re
garded space as he slowly turned and
faced wall behind him, whilst the
woman pushed a chan toward him
The gentlemen are on the other side
my dear; this way" and she turned
him around with gentle hands to face
the directors My husband is blind
she said, sad smile playing round
ler eyes as they looked into those y
the sightless man before her, as she
slowly guided him into the chair
Gentlemen, allow me to introduc,
you to Mrs Morgan and to MI Johr
Dix Morgan. the inventor. whose ma
chine this is. said the consulting en-.
gineer as he pointed to the prints on
the table
They all bowed, and then the talk
became one Of dollars, miles Of track
minutes and hours. savings, speeds,
costs. etc. which are business and are
not gong 10 enter into this snatch
ir0w TIE biography OF man who has
beta le5 ~ the lure Of peril into all
LORDS al dangerous ventures, which
hare lsfs hin a mass al scars, breaks
and TWISTS. ssch as have never be-
iors Il great amount oi experience.
seer a raan suryiye
As r sal ir TIE chair before the
smoosh-sa7ea business men the glare
o. the ozcs hghi showed plainly the
=any sesrs tha, marked his features
Over his righs sye there vas ,he cash
o. bai.sss cruel path or the lett
side ot his face ,here were eleven
shot marks One eye had been shot
out and she other biassi Has lei,
hand hung in = ssmi-heiqisss manner
at his side, and be seemed 10 have no
shoulder for his arm 10 aaag on And
yet this mar seems 70 eaioy life, and
Is as happy as boy who aas found his
frs, sweetheart Blind and crippled.
with the light Of heaven shut from his
mind. he had 10 give up his peril9as
lie, but no. his adventure, for nov
he adventures in the dark and builds
machines and mechanical things that
be hopes viii add little 70 his wealth.
and lot to human comfort
I Wherever there was danger John
Dix Morgan was in it; in It for money
lor in it for fun; but in it, il he could
reach it II he was not occupied in
fighting or exploring he would be
prospecting somewhere for some
precious metal. or building a railroad
in South America, Mexico. East In
dies. China or Japan. In the hfiy-odd
iyrars q his life te'hss vi4A-d most Of
the gold fields Of the world, from the
tropics OF Central Amsssaa ans East
India to the Frozen Nofth. 5Per sew
enteen months he prospected for geld
son the Mackenzie River, which runs