The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-11
the Yellowstone
rc,lrsion Escaped
Its Pursuer.

--rrs Rad been some talR az Asaa-
-,ers about our conductors
i vas Intimated, and freely
.rn the auditing department
~ IN. men OF the punch were
lag fairly with the company
N. affect the general manager
a,,cks, superintendent OF the
4. divtsion. Bucks filed the let
,r the stove. Another COM
- Jared no better, But there
!, new people st headquarters
a record 10 make. and they
4 n write part OF 1t on our backs.
!, another letter: he threw IT
love
i -,,a often and often said he
raed no man 10 drink whisky,
Recommended the whisky. L
"A no rising railroad man to
i fbirI letter on the same sub
-n his general manager; | mere
mend Bucks. lie was at that
ming the West End. They had
ming the West End without
u,biIe then they had tried again
n WITH him. In both instances
INHERENT.
he next time the general man
4 out in his Special he spoke
on the subject as II the men
- virgin touch. Bucks NUT
,nethlng about the general char
r The traInmen and the decent
IA habits OF the passenger con-
and finished with an incl
IMPRESSION OF confidence In the
5t was about all.
|e headquarters people. who were
Poston, had ways and means all
hi, and falling 10 interest Bucks
hobby. they took 2 tack like
4in With. the night WIS pad. \
tht. Pat Francis called il. and
seen most OF the bad nights
Mountains for twenty-five years
II was showing and raining
ling that night. all at once; and
-It blew the oil out OF the guide
rom the platform nj the Wlck!-
,E]y In the gorge would call II
from the Wickiup platform at
, Bend, Number One seemed 10
dIvIsion that night one reeking
Rlkali lce-sode and frost solid
11p 10 lamp.
1s late. too. with n pair OF the
Ines thai ever climbed noun
'ding her She had lost time
Die OF the way from the plains.
was ordered west with another
1ad and a pusher all the way
3 Horseback. II was because
fas Yellowstone excursion
The Columbian Pacific connec-
on that account especially de-
M that night at l. o'clock,
b tlne, with Number One espe-
{e Into the Bend. and the track
\ bad. and the pull especially
looked--that Columbian Pacific
doubtful. except
'he dispelchers' Offices, where
70 being pounded 10 make II by
||<ion bureau.
was down that night. There
1y bad nights in the mountains.
ss never missed any of them by
bed. On bad nights. Bucks.
'teliman's pipe, was always out.
-peFsonally appeared at the
% see that things went. The
q nm because ne was always
20 anything he asked them 10
R was an esprit, a morale
you cell it-and a loyalty to
''fonally. which made our men
ehances that pay checks don't
'''ush tile Columbian Pacific
looked especially doubtful
- never1heIess there was Bucks
''ouchlng Stetson and an Irish
caught all the water COM
70 Standing at the drivers OF
snslne, while Jack Moore, IN
'n' neei TO Jaw. went into The
~ her to touch UP an eccon-
reputation for cussedness in
Gnu "a minute later Bucks was
pace to figure with the ont
Fat Francis. how to make
%cross To Wild Hat: tbopob
Aeo' each man knew the
NOT thinking at all of how 70
eouie but thinlIng-thourb
W out loud OF It. and hell to
ne way up the gorge on ton
WIN flesh and blood and
at schedule that nIpht sna
'erlain connection, in sptts
weather and the bureaus
VIC oispatchers' growls.