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

he looked pleased and surprised and
then asked: who are you?'
Hurley is my name" the new fire.
man answered.
Where do you come FROM"
'Galesburg"
do you know Dick Cole?"
Yes"
We'll, he is a friend of mine"
And so, the engine, putting and pull
ing through the night, Edward Hurley.
by means of a broom, a handful of
waste and Dick Cole. was established in
the good graces of Dutch" Koegel.
II Edward Hurley fell asleep. the en-
CINE waiting on a side track, Dutch"
koegel would pinch his leg. with a
peculiar, agonizing twist of the thumb
and finger. as a signal that the limited
had passed and the switching business
was to be resumed again.
Il owe much to Dutch Koegel," Mr..
Hurley confessed to the writer. The
lessons he gave me were like money
put out at interest for my future bene-
fit"
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John Hennessy's hard knuckles and
Dutch" Koegers twisting thumb and
index finger were empha sized by Mr.
Hurley in his narrative, emphasize
with smiles and no bitterness as surely
would not have been the case had Mr.
Hurley been an indolent youth and a
failure as a man.
BY and by. Edward Hurley was trans
ferred to a suburban train running be-
tween Chicago and Downers Grove.
Hadlock was his engineer. crank,
men called him. He had trained Dutch"
koegel and Dutch" Koegel spoke of
Hurley. after Hadlock had tried five
hremen in five weeks.
Hurley, going from switching en-
CINE to a passenger engine. was jump
ed over the heads of several hundred
men. There is story in that, but no
space for it in this article. Tyler sue
ceeded Hadlock on the Downers Grove
local. which. having many stops and
several hills to climb, was never on
time.
One day. Hurley sleeping. there was a
knock on his door. Call" cried the boy
in the hall. You are to take out 49,"
Hurley had been fireman for one
year and nine months. "Seventythree"
was the local to Downers Grove. To
take it out meant that he was to run
the engine and not shovel its coal. Half
awake, Hurley denied the accuracy of
the boy and his summons. Tyler broke
his engine and was hurt" the boy fur
Their explained. and you are to take
his run"
Thus at twenty-one Hurley acted as
an engineer for the first time. On that
day two stations. contrary to custom,
lost no time. For once. it reached the
yards at the edge of Chicago on it's al
most forgotten schedule.
Engineers and fireman thence along
the tracks to the city station watch ed
the train. They all knew that Hurley
was on the engine. And most of them
had believed that he would pull into
Chicago away behind his time. But he
didn't.
Don't tell any one that we ran past
two stops" the fireman advised. as
Hurley shut off the steam and began
applying the brakes. Let them find
il out for themselves"
There was glory for Hurley in that
first run and it was talked about at
the crossings, signal stations and
roundhouses up and down the tracks.
told the writer. ut wasn't in the
engine"
An engineer. on occasion, called to
the cab through an accident, Hurley
remained one, being the youngest
perhaps. in years and service of any
in the United States. He was run
ming the Downers Grove local when
the great Burlington strike occurred
in 1888. member of the engineers
organization, he stopped work with
the rest of the unionists.
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For several months he acted as the
private secretary of Peter NJ. Arthur,
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers. Then the master mechanic
of the Santa Fe, whom he had known
while boy at Galesburg. offered him
a brand-new passenger engine of