The Huttig news., 1916-07-08

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 While the revival was as yet only in the embryonic period, fresh labor be- gan to come in gangs and in carloads and presently by special trains. Swarm ing colonies of Greeks, Italians and Bulgarians were dumped upon the city through the gate of the railroad sta tion, and once more Chigringo avenue at night became a cheerful midway answering to the speech of all na- tions.
 Change, revivification, reanimation instantly became the new order of the day; and again Mirapolis flung it. self joyously into the fray. reaping where it had not sown and sowing only where the quickest crop could be gathered. For now the dullest of the reapers saw that the government work was really the Mirapolitan breath of life. Neither the quickening of the city's industries nor the restarting of the gold dredges in the Quadjenai canals, the reopening of the Real Es- tate exchange nor the Buckskin com pany's sudden resumption of the profit less prospecting on Jacks mountain served to obscure the principal facts that without the money the reclama- tion service was disbursing the new prosperity structure would collapse like house of cards.
 This new and never-mentioned con. vietion wrought an eager change in men and in methods. Credit vanished and spot cash was tacitly acknowl- edged to be the only way to do busi- ness in a live community. Fortunes changed hands swiftly. as before, but now there was little bargaining and, with hot haste for the forewerd, little Go to it and get the money" was added: And don't come back with out it. It was said with a laugh, but behind the laugh there was a menace.
 Among the individual transforms tions wrought by the new conditions the young chief of the reclamation service afforded the most striking ex- ample. From the morning when he had summarily cancelled the lease for the offices in the Niquoia building and had returned his headquarters to the old log buildings on the government reser- vation and thence had issued his first series of orders for the resumption of full-foree work on the dam and canals, those who had not known him best dis covered that they had not known him at all. Even to Grislow and the men of his staff he was curt, crisply manda- tory, almost brutal. For one and all there was rarely anything beyond the shotlike sentence: Drive it, men; drive it; that's what you're here for drive it!"
 The time he took to eat his hurried meals at 8ongras' could be measured in minutes, and what hours he gave to sleep no man knew, since he was the last to leave the headquarters at night and the first on the work in the morning Twice. after the renewed activities on the great wall had be- come a well-ordered race against time, and the concrete was pouring into the high forms in steady streams from the ranked batteries of mixers, MT Cort- wright had sent for Brouillard, and OF each occasion the messenger had gone back with the brief word: "Too busy during working hours.' And when third messenger came to inquire what MT. Brouillard's working hours were. the equally blunt answer returned was: All the time."
 Ia, of ,,f, MT. Cartwright was constrained to pocket his dignity as mayor, as the potentate of the exchanges. and as the unquestionable master of the surly young industry captain who refused to come when he was called, and to go in person. Choosing the evening hour when he had been assured that he was likely to find Brouillard alone and at work. he crossed the boundaries of tie sacred reservation and made his way to the door of the logbuilt mapping room.
 '1 came around to see what is eating you these days" was the pudgy | tyrant's greeting for the young man sitting under the shaded desk lamp. Why don't you drop iu once in a while and give me the run of things?'
 T gave your clerk the reason" said Brouillard laconically. I'm too busy.
 The devil you are!" snapped the great man, finding the only armchair in the room and dropping heavily into 1 it. Since when?"
 Since the first time you sent for me-and before"
 Mir. Cartwright recovered his work ing geniality only with a palpable eff fort
 See here. Brouillard you know you never make any money by being short with me. Let's drop it and get down to business. What l wanted to say IS that you are overdoing it; you are put ] ting on too much steam You've brought the boom. all right, but at the pace you're setting it won't last l long enough. Are you catching on?"
 "1'm listening.'' was the noncommit- tai reply.
 Well enough's enough and too