The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-15

Why the Engi-
neer Resigned
Lost His Nerve When His En-.
CINE Almost ran Down His
BABY SO lie Went to
Farming.
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(Kansas CITY starA

(kansas City Star.)
Inc boys in the roundhouse
thought 1t funny that pannic McCaul]
should quit his job as passenger en-.
eineer on the Brooklyn division, by
which he pulled down from $3.50 ia
$3.50 a month. and 20 to raising gar.
aen truck just outside of town. when
1ney spoke to him about 1t pannie
would get out a notebook and pencil
INC figure on how much more he
would be worth in the next ten year
oy raising pumpkins and ducks and
chickens than he would at engineer.
ing. But this didn't fool anybody,
a the boys knew that Dannie
mad been born q railroader and that
MS only real element was along the
shining rails.
onIS Bill Skaggs, who used to fire
Q Dannte. and Mary Jane, Dannie's
little blue-eyed flaxen-haired wife,
knew the real'reason why Dannie had
apdicated from his kingdom. on the
right nand seat box IN, dturned him.
sei1 into a vassal Of the soil.
iiere Is story. as l gathered il
and will try to tell it without any
pannie's dad. big Tim McCaull, was
boss Of a bridge gang. Tim lived
near the railroad track and Dannie
grew up with an uncomfortable am
oitton to have a hand in making the
steam cars go. He would sit on the
crest of the high cut back Of his faith
Ier.s house and watch the trains go by.
The engineers come to know him
pretty well and they honored him
Win a salute from the whistle us
they whizzed along. II the lad was
ever missing from school the teacher
would know that he had played hooky
and gone down to the roundhouse. II
was no trouble to find him.
Dannie made an honest effort to &c
through his books. but before he wa
~ the call Of the rails came so strong
ina ne couldn't stay away any longer
and big Tim seeing the u~selessness of
holding the boy back, let him start
The boy began at the bottom pack.
ing water for a construction gang.
His father, who had done the same
thing before him, approved. the meth.
Cd. He had no use for men who
wanted to jump into business in the
middle.
That Dannie would eventually be.
come a gilt-edged engineer was as GER
tain as the sparks fly up. He wasn't
as big as his dad by about six inches.
"0 "oo a oSIO1S anu well OullI,
had a keen blue eye that could out
look any spectacles ever invented, and
was as active as a thoroughbred colt.
When Dannie had run along the
ladder until he climbed aboard q big
s~uperheater hauling the limited on
the Chicago run he was at the top
as far as engineering went. After
making his first run on the limited,
and making good. Dannie took Mary
lane hf1Nrrh0p n~N,,~ plxS
Catholic church, where Father Cahill
made them n Dannie and Mary
Jane lived in a little cottage down
the railroad track. about half a mile
out of Brookhaven. In time the an.
gels brought a small edition of Dan
to the cottage, and joy reigned SUI
preme. II some good fairy had wan.
dered into Dams place and asked him
and Mary Jane what else they needed
to make them happy they would have
It was the pride Of Dannie's life
to make the schedule with his big
s%uperheater under any and all cir
cumstances, and to watch little Dam
ME grow up.
The chap was remarkably bright
and he seemed to take to railroading
Just like his dad. Before he could
say an intelligent wore little Dan
would toddle out on the lawn and
wave his tiny hands at the trains go
ing by. Bill Skaggs. Dannie's fireman,
was a great. big. ard-faced man
with a heart as kind and gentle as
that of a good woman. Bill, because
Of his looks, had found hard shedding
among the fair sex. who didn't know
what a diamond there was in the
rough. So Bill instead Of calling on
the girls. would walk out to Dannie's
place and play with the kid. He
taught little Dannie all the signals Of
~railroading and would make him
strut. up and down the yard. his baby
arms working backward and forward