The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-03-31

GuI your Univ ll.E WA Nthbt-DOANo "a
safe deposit box behind the driving
wheels. Somebody might get at them
with wrench, on the road Wedge
bolts had ouPht to be smelled or
heard from when the journals screech;
not seen.
II anybody thinks he wants to slack
a wedge-bolt, let that man shoot the
iambnuts of with a gun That's what
guns is for, and they'd ought to be car
ried in the tool kit
The roundhouse gangs too good for
the job New engines don't run hot
soon enough to suit yours truly Put
a crew of hoboes in there and tell
them they got to save oil and ram the
cellar-packing down in with a pinch
bar. They will do it. The babbit and
stun you drop over the division makes
good ballast
Wall in your cellar-bolts, so II a
fellow gets them out. digging babbitt
out of the cellar on a fast run. he
can't get them in again inside of fif.
teen minutes apiece The dispatcher
won't care-ask hlm-and the en-.
gineer daresnt It's all he can do to
talk his way out OF a 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 a 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
again. That will help some
II you'find there's rooms to rent in
the front end after you get 1t done,
and the heater men show up again
without the incubator. I'LL her up with
their stun. 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
shows that nobody was looking and
they freeze up quicker.
Look out for your engine cab. Fix
II 30 that II 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 a
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.
Thatll make him know that we are
men of some parts; part wood and
part leather, with brass trimmings
which am
Yours truly.
WILLIAM DADDY, Engineer.
When a man has enough strength of
character to get his head above the
common level, however grotesquely he
may at first appear. there is usually
something in him worth observing. II
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-
deit of motive power, who fumed
little, but electrified the master me-
chanic las witness his short and sim
pie inquiry of Bid, and thus Bills
little seeds began to grow apace
Changes were made. Plans we're
devised and revised until new engines
bore signs OF improvement These
things we're 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 la
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.