The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16

ceIIar-pacKihg' down In with pinch
bar. They will do it. The babbit and
stuff you drop over the division makes
good ballast.
Wall in your cellar-bolts. so If a
fellow gets them out, digging babbitt
out of the cellar, on fast run. he
can't get them in again inside of fif-
teen minutes apiece. The dispatcher
won't care-ask him-and the en-
gineer daresn't. It's all he can do to
talk his way out of lay-off.
Don't you worry.about front-ends. II
the engine looks good to you. but don't
steam no more than a teakettle with
the bottom out, let the trainmaster
put on helper once in a while. Three
or five years from now somebody
else will have your job anyhow. and
he'll set most of your front-end furni-
ture out on the scrap pile while he
cleans house, and forget to put it back
gain. That will help some.
If you'find there's rooms to rent in
the front end after you get it done.
and the heater MEN show up again
without the incubator. fill her up with
their stuff. It's hang for us fellows,
but it helps hold the front trucks
down when you're going some.
Bend your feed and air pipes as
sharp and as often as you can. 1t
they freeze up quicker.
Look out for your engine cab. Fix
1t so that if a fellow goes to the front
door he can't get back again to the
throttle without getting orders from
the dispatcher, showing that the main
line of the cab is clear.
The boy allows we are working too
many nights at this. He wants
change. We are So don't bother
about fire. boxes and ash-pans. When
the president sends word that he
couldn't see the right of way on his
last trip for smoke send him to me,
and I'll tell him he was on the wrong
end of the train. 1t was all clear
ahead of the engine
ThatH make him know that we are
men of some parts; part wood and
part leather, with brass trimmings
which l am
Yours truly,
WILLIAM DADDY, Engineer.
When man has enough strength Of
character to get his head above the
common level, however grotesquely he
may at first appear. there is usually
tn, -,
he has balance and staying powers he
may get his feet upon the solid, and
leader has been discovered
Somewhat in this fashion the gen.
eral manager reasoned as he read
/, Bills chapter. He called his secretary,
and by careful question and reply it
was soon established that neither Of
them knew who William Daddy was,
nor what of Williams chapter was
fact and what fancy.
Therefore, the general manager
made a brief investigation put some
pointed questions to the superinten-
dent Of motive power, who fumed q
little. but electrified the master me-
chanic (as. witness his short and sim
pie inquiry OF BID. and thus BINS
little seeds began to grow apace.
Changes were made. Plans were
devised and revised until new engines
bore signs Of Improvement These
things were discussed on the home
road, and the news of them went
broadcast over many roads.
Bills ideas bore the test Of service.
and flourished like the proverbial
green bay tree, until finally they came
before the First Intelligence" the
Great Arcanum," or Court of Last
Resort" of the railroad mechanical
world, and were called good. No
longer bearing the name of William
Daddy Engineer" it is true, but Ia
beled with the names of many men,
for that Is the way of the world, and
: the destiny of all things that are good
enough to prove good.
Bill never got beyond Chapter
One" of Billiards. book" There was
no need. But having demonstrated
that he was "a man Of parts" it was
thought advantageous to transpose
him to the ranks Of those he had smit-
ten. Thus. Bill became a road fore
man Of engines-and more.