Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-19

man, unchanged in some respects)
whose eyes filled with tears when his
heart was touched.
Don't worry."'. the father said tolthe
mother. "he will soon return to Gales
burg"
He" overheard the remark. And so
when Edward Nash Hurley departed
next day for Chicago his father
never returned to Galesburg to live.
With this brief look into his character.
the reader may begin the narrative of
Edward n. Hurley conscious at the
start of his spirit and pride.
The elder Hurley worked in the shops
of the Burlington railroad. He was a
south of Ireland man. The mother. be-
longing to the same race and religion,
was orderly. refined and ambitious. She
sent her son to the private school of
John Hennessy. a north of Ireland
Presbyterian The teaching was better
there. she said. and that was sufficient.
even though Hennessy, religiously, was
hereto, following false lights and
rejecting all that was true and solid.
Hennessy was a stern man. His hands
had been burned and his fingers. i'm
movable. twisted inward.
With his knuckles. stiff as wooden
pegs. John Hennessy maintained dis
cipline and his scholastic standards by
1abbing them on the heads of his dis
obedient or delinquent boy pupils.
Those knuckles. although l didn't real
ize 1t at the time Mr.. Hurley said to
the writer of this article. taught me
thoroushness and respect for authority.
/ honor John Hennessy and the training
/ literally received at his hands"
The boy Hurley. small for his age,
among stalwart brothers. wherein.
began. left the Galesburg High School
at the end of his second year. During
the summer he had worked on his
uncle's farm for So a month.
jeremiah Hurley put his son at the
shops, but the lad saw things afar off.
II reprove no boy for building castles
in the air." Mr.. Hurley observed to
the writer. But such castles are UNI
real? Yes. most of them are but dream
ing, while work, honestly done. de-
velops the Imagination. and occasional
" one of the castles comes out of the
sky and gets sound standing on
earth. Anyway. several of mine did"
Time passed in the shops. An elder
Hurley brother had gone to Louis
vile. His letters were like stories of
adventure to the apprentice at Gales
burg. Half through his trade. Ed
ward Hurley himself decided to leave
home and try his hand at something
else.
The foreman of the shop stated, in
writing. gladly, ito whom it may con-
Germ" that the bearer was Industrious
and reliable. Testimony, all the con-
ditions considered. could have gone no
further. In Edward Hurley's world
then strength. physical, was the meas
ure of boys prospects in life. Can
, he do a lot of work." was the one
great inquiry. And so the foreman
did not add that the bearer" was
strong as a man. almost.
The day before he left home for
good. Edward Hurley received his
months pay from the Burlington
s35. He gave $50 to his mother. 1t
was in the evening that the father
said: Don't worry: he will soon re-
turn to Galesburg."
A freight conductor whom the boy
knew let him ride part of the way in
his caboose. When Edward Hurley
rode into Chicago on passenger train
his cash assets totaled So. The next
day. showing the letter he carried.
he obtained employment in a car
works. His duty. 50 long as he was
there. was to screw large nuts onto
long bolts.
Again showing his letter. he asked
for freman's place on the Burling-
ton railroad Industrious and relia-
BILE. as read the recommendation, Off
set such a doubt as may have existed
about his ability to shovel coal into
locomotive. He was ordered to re-
port at night for duty on switching
engine.
Ahead of time by an hour. Edward
Hurley swept the deck of thee engine
and, being handy with waste, wiped off
the machinery In the cab and polished
the brasses. When Dutch" Koegel
the engineer. saw what had been done