Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 21, 1912, Page 2

LOOKING THROUGH OUR TIRES you will find only standard makes, the kind we don’t have to tell you are all right. Same, way with our lamps, horns, batteries tools and all other supplies, If they are all right they are here ready to sup- ply the needs of your auto without delay and without unreasonable ex-| pense. The House of the” FORD AND CADILLAC. Personally Conducted By John Warder (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) Brigham Bennington Brown was the name pronounced at the batismal font, but when at last he arrived in the of- fice of the T. C. & 8. as assistant su- perintendent of construction, he ‘had achieved the sourbriquét of Turtle, not UNION GARAGE West Main St. PHONE 65/ BB S TP PO PR LEH0 # JUST RECEIVED § Full line Reach’s Base Bail Goods Our 50c Book Sale is stili on . . Stationery lin all shapes . . PostCards 1 cent each . , On and after April 1st the business of this store will be conducted on a strictly cash’basis. 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"had 10 minutes in ‘W because of his slowness, but because of the persistence with which he clung to an object. : “Bulldog” had first been proposed, but Burton, observing the play of the lean, sinewy neck in the loose turn- down celluloid collar had = suggested Snapping Turtle as & better name and this had been condensed to Turtle. Burton had brought Turtle back from the west when T. C. & S. had called him to build the 80-mile feeder to the trunk line. The trunk line had long had it in mind to build a feeder itself. Once a preliminary survey had beem made, but some objectionable legislation had caused the abandonment of the scheme until the proper law-givers could be “seen” and meanwhile the charter of the independent line had been passed over the heads of“the raflroad party in the two houses. Burton had been sent for in a hurry and, had been given instructions that at all hazards the line must be ready in time. Burton, working up and down the <line, scowled at the slow progress and at the gangs sitting idle while wait- | ing the arrival of more material and |y at last he sought out the president. “The M. & G. people are turning a dirty trick,” he stormed. “They say that they are doing all they cdn to rush the material through and yet it is certain that they are letting our cars loaf. The steel for that bridge across the Canscott should have been here two weeks ago. It has not even reached the M. & G. yet. It is stalled somewhere along the A. & W. The A, & W. is really a part of the M. & G. system and they are deliberately hold- ing it back.” , “But the railroad people say that they are doing their very belt.” said President Severn, mildly. ) “1 have your authority to speak?” demanded Burton. “If necessary,” assented the presi- dent, and with a blunt leave-taking' Burton slipped from the room. He| ich to muke the ' next train to the hea quarters.of ‘the! company in New York and that Atter- noon he had an interview with the president of the M & G, and the traf | flc manager. | Knowing that the steel was nm h the hands of the A. & W. and that it was likely that it would stay there' until after the time limit had oxplted.] the president of the M. &G, readily, enough gave Burton an order to all employed of his road requiring them to expedite in every manner the de- < livery oi the ralls. Then he bowed Burton out -ml dlc- tated a letter to the president of the A. & W. explaining the situation and asking that delivery. to his road be delayed until after a certain date. Before the latter read the'letter the | tollowing morning he had already giv- ! en Burton a letter similar to the one ‘the construction man had obtained at ‘his first interview on the supposition that the M. & G: would attend to the proper delay when the freight passed to their yards. - Armed with these two letters Turtle was already speeding toward the steel country .and by evening he had’ lo- cated the missing steel. It had all been side tracked at & minor town where the yard officials were doing their best to forget its ex- istetice, but Tujtle and the letter from the president roused their memories, and Turfle, sitting in the cab of the shunting engine, picked up the de- tached cars and made up a special before word came from the headquar- ters in New York. The wires warmed under the dis- cussion that went on, but in the end the office was forced to admit that the subordinate had only done thelr duty. “We'll Tose that train somewhere along the road,” he said with a fresh outburst of laughter. “Burton will start for home secure in the bellef that the train will follow and every time he comes back after it, it will take two of three days to get it start- ed again” - i “I’s not Burton,” explained the presidént, “but some young cub of his. B. B, Brown.¥ The traffic rhanag dimly remembered mild-mannered, young fellow. “1 guess we can handle B, B. Brown,” he wired back with a grm “You might send word to the dispatch- er's office to run the train In on a siding somewhere to permit the politi- cal gpeclal to pass.” The office force roared at the sally. The political special was a congres- sional junket that was to start on a tour of the country late in.the fall, some three months a the T. C. & '8. charter became Word was sent to the dilmher ‘and the traffic manager went home. Late that evening'the private tele- graph instrument h bis house began to click. The c manager was-an old operator he had had a wire run to his house. He answered the call and then thé key began to click. “Have ban #ide tracked, Tmn-on, smiled,’ ' He . B. Brown, a inoffensive sort of with Mr. Burton and release special B. B. Brown.” The trafic manager sat back in his chair and called the dispatcher’s office. In the end' the order was given: to start the ¢pecial again, but to side track as soon as Brown was out of sight. | Then the traffic manager smiled again and went off to bed. It was probable that Brown had taken a lat: er train and seeing the special on a giding had dropped off to investi gate. By morning he should be im town and (he road would be free 1o forget the train for a.couple of days. When_the trafic manager came to his office and found a message lying on the desk. It ran: “Delayed ~ at Stepney. Please wire to clear in cordanée with agreement with. Burton. B, B. Brown.” “What's he doing down there?” de manded the traffic manuer of tlu Stepney operator. / “Sitting on a girder and looking at a girl's picture,” was the somewhat surprising reply “He’s got enough grub to last hin' to the North Pole and he won’t budge.” The girl's picture told = the story. Turtle was in love. Burton had told him that the prompt ‘delivery of ‘the steel meant histquick promotion. - Pro- motion meant an early marriage and a brown-eyed girl lent fresh endurance to the Turtle’s grip. Turtle had made out a regular con-, tract with the agent where the cars had been located to run special to Harvale, where the T, C. & S. began. There was no getting away from the contract and though the office sent out a man to help the, local officials, Tur- tle stuck to his seat on the girder and looked at the picture whenever thln:l seemed especially hard. JIn the end the road gave in. Tbo constant rain of telegrams signed “B. B. Brown" that fluttered down upon the traffic manager’s desk; like | the constant dropping of water upon & stone, wore down that official's pa tience and at last word was sent to get the special off the system as soon as possible, Late the next’ morning, the train pulled into the Jersey City yards and the traffic manager, happehing to be on that side of the river, went down to have a look at “B. B, Brown.” Turtle greeted him warmly. “I wag just going to wire you,” he explained. “It seemed that I can’t get a float to reach the up State system before to- night. " That’s the better part of a day gone to waste. You know Wwe have none too much time, Will you ploau tell them to fix mesup.” “Freight must wait its rotulu turn { in the yards” ekpwned the trafiic manager. - “But I have a contract.” 'l‘ul'tlc'i blue eyes were innocently con h‘. He had written the contract himself and’ the agent had elgned it on the strength of the two letters Turtle had shown,' The traffic manager read it carefully. “Did, Paulding ‘make this out?” ‘he [ demanded. Turtle shook hig head. “He was rather busy, so 'l wrote. . for him,” he explainéd. “He signed it.” . The_ trafiic mulur rgnrdpd him closely, but the pale blue eyes were gazing with mild interest over the navy yard, and the manager did mot argue. “I'll have the yard master snt yflu a float,” he said sharply, as he turned| away.. He was as good as his word and what was more important, he explaing ed over the wire 'to the M. & G. of- ficlalg the text of Turtle's contract, after firing the signer by telegraph. “The fellow may be a tool," he gaid | wrathfully, “but he's 4 contract so At this store and Spring clothes 5 plenty. If there is a man or boy th or Fummhmgs. Wwe are read nobbiest goods at the lowes € hereg at de Clot Y toput hiy» Sintg t prices. Mefn’s S,p;"ing Suits $10 to $16 Our Spring Opening March (g THE HU JOSEPH LevAy 118 North Kentucky Avenue, Lakelyd A KEEN APPRECIATM of the value of uality ip tooly hardware is our 8uide in gh our supplies. We don't buy g that we wouldn't be willing fag ourselves. That makes it imy for yoa to buy an inferior here. Come here net time ua certain satisfaction wity your chase, lakchmr flafllware & I’Iumhmg [ [ ROSEDALE L‘ake‘ialnd's ‘only exclusive sub-division/ is now on the ~ market, Wide Streets, Shade Treea, -Fertx]e Soil, Building Refltnct:ons. Inside the city _one block from Lake'Morton § Smith & Steitz and G. C. Rogan ‘Rooms 19-23 Raymondo Bldg. When you take a walk or ride, go through Rosedale the newest part of Lakeland worded that if we dop’t hurry him | through, he can make a row that will hurt us with the commission. Better pack him through. If you don't you'll get a million . telegrams a day from him,* So it happened that when the new connection was made, the special was | | rushed through to Harvale on & pass- enger schedule and backed onto the 7. C. & 8, side track. Turtle climbed down from the car and limped over to where Burton was gravely executing a jig in celebration of the victory. | “T got 'em here,” he reported. “The next time I go after steel, though; I'm going to carry an alr pillow. They tried to me out by refusing to let me ride in the caboose, and I've had,to sit on girders until I've got the prints of the rivet holes on me." oonabw"eommcnded Burton, “I| ‘you could do it. Graves, of the W.., called me up and wanted to it I'devised that contract and I 1d him no. What was e m passed over the slip of p.por mh 4t good” and strong while 1 ag about it,” he sald. “You see the hadn't been tipped off that those I carrled were subject ta ana y from headquarters and he ‘to sign anything I wrote.” Burton read the conmtract and the grin upon his face broadened. “You showed' that to the trafic manager, didn’t you?” he asked. Turtle nodded his head. “Graves Wwalits you to come and see hir when ybu're through here?” Bur- ton said; “You fooled him ‘with your innocent gag.but I disillusioned him have a place for you there when you are ready to takd it. I guess you can gel opening of the branch if you want to,” “Sure I want to," assented Turtle. had long ago been taken tito confidence. “1 think I'll go on up. road & bit, if you can §pare me: I think Iflill on & Pullman seat will ed to celebrate the | is the Bjur Bros. piano, if itis It is no less an ex ner, for 98 played. strument for the begin ‘any piano will @ . tyro and the performet 5§ the Bjur B 3jur error to say learn on.” For the tuoso—the average well—none " exflicels Prices and terms VD Call on us or wi'te {8 the sight a box of our and the candy ! fectly in daintiness Soch a scene may oft for our candies 3 aste. dainty t 4 them you have not ¥ “;ENNY