The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-11
BILL DAIDY's CHAPTER
BY ROBERT F. HOFFMAN,


der the sun. and, within wide limit
is entitled to the unrestricted exnres
sion of that opinion
Bill Daddy is one of those who ~
lieve there is good in the large axer
else of that privilege, although of late
years he has added caution to candor
In the old daysshe came in off his an,
CINE, loaded with the usual accumnla.
ton of griefs over the Shortcomings
of the roundhouse, which are an, r.
loom large in the long watches of the
night run.
He gradually grew the habit Of clos.
ing his regular harangue to the round.
house foreman with a sort of perora.
ton which summed up the real or i'm.
aginary derelictions of everybody con.
nected with the road, from call. how r.
president
In an effort to break the flow Of
Bills rough eloquence the roundhouse
foreman unwittingly set Bills feet
upon the path that led upward-down.
ward, Bill laughingly insists soma.
times.
Bill, why in thunder don't You
write book?" said the long-suffering
foreman, when Bill had become more
than usually aggressive in his none
too gentle impeachments. You are
sure wasting your talent on an en-.
CINE"
Bill glared for moment before he
was able to let down the pressure of
road management which he had men.
tally assumed. and then, as the recol-
lection of purchase he had recently
made for his growing son flashed
across his mind. he gave way to a slow
grin and said:
Blamed if l don't believe that's a
good idea, Ballard. Maybe I'll just 90
you chapter, when my boy gets fit
with his machine
So, Daddy. in his evenings at home.
took to rehearsing his daily griefs to
the boy, who laboriously hammered
them out of the typewriter into gro
tesques of composition and the print
er's art
Daddy dictated" and revised"
killed copy" and edited" although
he did not know it in those terms,
and after many days what he had
grown to call The Chapter" was fin
ished, decked out with border lines
that fairly exhausted the resources OF
the boy and the eighty-odd characters
of the machine.
Bill gloated over it for a week of
nights. and then liked it SO we'll that
he decided to have it all done over
again, in order that he might not only
supply Ballard. but also send carbon
copies of 1t surreptitiously to the SUI
perintendent Of motive power, the d.
vision superintendent. and--holy of
NOTES.-THE general manager.
The superintendent of motive pow
err duly received his copy. threw it in
the waste basket, and remarked casu-
ally. Bill"
He liked Bill, but not Bills too free
excavations.
The division superintendent read his
copy and. laughing, pigeonholed it for !
future use in letting down the pres !
Eure of the superintendent of motive |
power when next they should lock |
horns over engine failures.
The general manager took up his |
copy from its personal cover and read |
i from start to finish, as follows:
Chapter One.
If this don't fit your case, you get a
clearance card right here. The board
IS out for others.
When you build an engine and want
Ehe most results and don't care what
lind, fix yourself with a lot of dis
outraged craftsmen, and, for chief. get
good wrangler that talks into his
ehiskers and don't decide much
Tell them fellows. at the start, that
lou put them into that cheese-box Of
ice to stay, and they can't break out
INTO the road to see an engine do bust.
less, noways
Don't pay any of them too much.
they are working on paper, and you
an easily fix the engine after we get
Hire lot of master mechanics that
now all about sawmills. There amt
lone around here, but you can see
penn running in the woods if you take
ride with me. They will be ready to
~ up your new engine when it comes
ut.
Fix up boiler steel specifications
pat you know are O. X, and then let
pc purchasing agent bluff you into
KING something better but cheaper;
can prove it. That will sure give a
IT, once in while, to some of US fell
'Ws that's little slow about circulat-
y IN the scenery, and it will make
llngs brisk in the boiler shop. Them
'llows need work. They are too strong
rest nights.
Use hammered engine frames. If |
as track man I'd like to be able to
lt my hand on a busted weld and
y, Them's it, after the engine |
ltnped the track and got pulled out OF !
horrow-pit. The dispatcher won't S
ire, if she don't block the track. 1t
axes work for the 5lacksmiths.
FIX your spring-rigging so, when it
Feaks, the equalizer will hit, point
'Wn, in the track Gives the engine :
better start when she jumps. She
Ill go farther and everything had
lght to be made to go as far as it
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