The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1903, Page 5

11T F. SUNDAY CA'L, 5 o iz s L L BT W - o> s e e | 1 . " 7 % D> SAVE ap | B ank H. Spearman.) thing—mail, passengers, speci: what would justify the heavy premium asked oo - seen. Steve Horlgan making a “sneak” frame, a crashing splinfer of varnished Ponca Station reported the Yellow Mafl nat for the service. b 5 for the bathhouse, and from the yard cars, a scream from the wounded engine, cut before Ruck een miles er engineer on <hic time a new man was sitting for the In this way the dickering and the figur This Is Declared to Be the gossip Jimmie had guessed the rest. a cloud of gray ash in the burning sun, ‘west. reported the boxcars and Jimmie talk L0 jine at the Chamberiain dinne: 0/ - ing became in a mepsure public, and WA 5 “What are you looking for, Neighbor?” and a ruin of human effort in the ditc Brad- with & face that set like cement keyed up everybody interesied to a hign Best, Most Thrilling Rail- asked Jimmie Bradsha in the twinkling of an eve the mail when the West End was trod on pitch. We said nothing for publ cation “A man to fire for Scllers—up. Do you lay spilled on the alkali The Postmaster General was inclined, but, under Bucks epergy. sawed wood road Story Ever want it?” it was hardly more than & mir Bradshaw i 1d followed with a wreek 1 e T siding. Double- was aga from the reputation we had, to look on three whole month Success meant with b Nelghbor threw it at him cross and like ants out of a trampled I n N i ab 0bo NSk Rb without a us prestige: but faflure meant obloquy Written. ¢arelessly, ‘not having any (dea Jimmie 2N crawling \from yellow wre . 8 O dray horse in a bunch for the road and for our division chief, s toakiag for troubie. But Jimmie sur- There was more—there was groaning u breds. But sor % in the Who had been so lately called to handle it. ¥ prisea him se, vet little for so frightful a s rst on his feet, with r est back neer was Jimmie Brad- ve him The real strain, it was clear, would : “Sure I want it. Put me on. I'm fresh mas A ‘sup. come on his old—the mountain—division: nie's. The glory was too great for Steve, as rainwater. Put me op, Neighvor; I'll scratches, and qu C sine sarcasm with- a sip of aud. to carry out the point. rested on the and he spent Friday night in Gallagher's never get fast any other wiy. Doubleday Cab after I e id he mis- Motive power of the mountain division: place celebrating, telling the boys what wouldn't give me a fast run in a hun- shaw, the Greman. {o speak. hence. concretely, on Doubleday, master the 1012 would do to tr Yellow Mail. So dred years. Sollers, barely cc he askea, Mechanic of the hill country. een Gteve showed up at 5.&. m. to su- There . wasw't much time to look 5etween the tank \ogether can. In thirty days Neighbor. superintendent perintend the movement, he was seasick. around; the 102 was beipg coupled on to Jtmule. alt By htmss shrugged his Of the motive power cailed for repsrts The minute Sollers set eves on him he the mail for the e oot ean on the line. from the boiler. The il through the moun- from the division master mechanics oo gpjected to taking him out. e I e sor olamad 1dlot,” rogred With @ broken arm direc gsley’s fireman, big as 'w much of it the preparations for the Yellow Mail run, Neighbor himself was on the Piedmont Neighbor presently at Jimmie. “Get in M how to chop a crew out of ad I annd 4 s owst Sttt T8 i 'they reported progress. In SIXty plattarm that morning, watching things and fire her; and if you don't give Sol- o the mail car, and the hind c no time t . & sctoes the Oate West End scio urself?” in- h g ev ' A" days he called again. The subordinates The McCloud dispatchers had promised lers tw 't €Ive 8ol getting out undided. There wa the § e e e the & evenly at the Al 1eporied well except Doubleday. Double- (ne train to our divislon on time, and her it o{?h:“::;’?'lls:ed( e Do wiping. . calling back and forth, and the cr 5 Ui Xdan Ryver & ting the: vajle of day said merely “Not ready.” There W& gmoke was due with the rise of the sun. Jimmie lost no time climbing in. The . & third cail in eighty days, and on the ppe pig superintendent of motive power, 1012 was drumming at her gauge with L — — - e , N o = ¥ eighty-fifth a peremptory call. EVery- Lot ping anxiously for her outgoing, better than two hundred pounds. Adam 2 2 | uody sald ready except Doubleday. Whelh giareq at the bunged fireman in front of Shafer, conductor for the run, ran back- Nelghbor remonstrated sharply he would £i5*0,1 when Sofiers protested Neishbor wara ; conductor for/the Tun, ran back- ‘ 4 ot reas s AUDG” ha. woNie rv:fl:fln::: turned on the swollen Steve with sorely the afr. At the final word from his pe o | | though it was generally understood that :a::kerr:)a‘?‘_ck:e (\lr]\(n:ldd ‘:"m'i",ffi"in?“f ;: | 2 : SRl i The r‘lw‘ division of the systep of the gangway. Slowly. but with body killed!” But the engineer and the the Pa h the mogul sprint- £ep e you there, Sixty-five miles, including stops from _ A% B0 0 o seventy miles an swiftly rising speed, the yellow conductor were put out of action. There ing lik 1 the boxcars a the New York Postoffice to Canal sifecls {05 Fina. if the trutn were toid. & string began to move out, and Was, in fact, ouly West End man leaping gs at the joints. It T been a good while replied the Penns: little better: but, with all the help those who watched from the unhurt—-Jimmie Bradshaw. was R At elgt o words flowed with they could give ¢ still left Pledmont platform thought The first wreck of the P L k o = : % seure sixty for the mountains to a smoother equipment never place just east of Crocke s it was simply a [N Wi St take care of and the Yellow drew out of the mountain west-bound freight lay at moment., ‘el v bt o P e yards. om the passing track wasting for. the mail.’ o Sileby t Mall proposition was con- ceded 1o be the tough- Jimmie Bradshaw had Before the freight crew had ached the and down Canal to Tenth and ,dow . £00 Freme B Rl b never lifted a pick in as wreck Jimmie was hustling ahead to tell e power at Medicine d swell a cab. The hind end them what he wanted freight con- o yzed sta e t Dy [faced . Fow- of the 1012 was big as a ductor demurred; and w they dfscusa- oo v o ed il b K t e ottt . hon private car; Jimmie had ed it with the freight engi Kingsley, K Hradihaw 58 athtine S Mbe maahiiett ‘the never scen so much play for he objected. “My engine won't never st s - d sticking e on th a shovel in his life, and he it; it'll pc d b winiew, . Sier. e to scrap,” he argu New York pc ; fest thing to do is to get Doubleday wired tc bor. Ready to Bucks knew tne trick of his busi ness better than most men orders.” even in West End ¢ and “Get orders!” stormed as Oliver let the engine out reckon the e Bend could r the wi t of the t the straight went bad in knew Jimmie Brad- # m P The P 54 shaw. “Get orders! »u running an ) \ con s 4 fast Jimmie engine on thi ind don't know the there was a wreck tood there - it get aws aw sprinkled the orders for th | bags? The orders “as mall in v th Double- s k- Bucks.” he ex grate bars .craftily and is to move o orders ehough. da¥ frantic th stuttering wit blinked at the shivering Uncouple tt A muty-box cars &¢t the track you will say pointer. as much as to $ay* and hustle ‘em great United Crockett's. But We dc ask Rockies in y g t me the to cut the “It's you and me now for s’ -4 ‘n that Interferes with asked at Rucker f Alcaheniis: D T will put mafl the - Yellow Mail and no- moving t Wil get his time, that's and in an un - st Frisco a day every week in the body else what he'll get. That's Doubleday, and been given, after t o5 vear. There was a long reach of don't you forget it thirty minutes the operating depa o ing on the > keep you tratk in front of the “Bucks wants stuff hu 1 put In Wwere wild to kill J . but he was foothill It. was there the tre rreight cond was concluded better to ng It b tor, weakenir 'Every- Iing such time . s scks. He had g start had. to e made, body. knows that »r the lunatic than to hold him up as Jimmie o B andl. in_twimibates the otk Uncouple there!” cried Jimmie, cli here for a p When this was . . of t e big machine '.'mn'q; P- ing into the mogul ca ‘I'll pull the 1 Jimmie an war party were i 0 ened tc @ che: tone full a3 bags Kingslev: you need take any dy reported Bad Axe, fifteen - he instar ted there thunder. It was all fun for a0 chances. : Come back th every moth- below the Be with every truck & . g to suck or Hairtar, R hours. 1t was er's son of you. and kielp on the transfer.” on the baxears smokir e 3 diig” be e ambition . resentative was “talging fi""*" g e e Ua itions He carried his points with ja gale. He Between Bad Axe and the Bend the line i 2y 2 Hv el Tedlined e g tatew S8 conduator;aud.eostnest as 1 general 1s modeled on the curves of a ram’s horn, ? . ' asked mh(‘zfl:.!gl WeMm- gers began to the lureh on Jurch so fast the en- Ve Tl (i SailY AnQ et vy Jim: mogul found every + rtably apprehensiv 5 o Shoot through gine never righted. the shortened . " "o o biling the mail from the b ing on & 8l Xty P . the mountaing breath along the tangent. the gidds (oo (s ¢ t0 the freight cars. The day. then o y e - our cour Da ¥ T ~o! levat r an Su € e - £ - hen in frenzied condition ot 3 s £ Dispatchers were zo!l to the elevation and the sudden - = , ot I s M ¥ ounded cared for the wo d the col fairly s t S S ghten an given the shock of the curve, the roar of the o o= 0 e - vv:‘ ‘a;"id e cohorts fairly = platform to look f S re do- which meant vight on the ear. ind. above and over it R Ay A SAd; SHERES _Jimmie. o) am of the big h You put up the m layouts. ne D hamiine purkiag e’ eddeneddmArad iy Sl Cniy Gns 8 ing turned freight engl through the moun- it up the speed. Not s the Yellow atcol. The canoe in the heart of the rap- /0 ‘ '-,.',4 (,.,.,w,': e pmsy of and do fend a monster loco- ive from the Missouri to the masters were ie k work in 12,5608 Bridge: of 5 Ifuersat ses, the gun T T #10C F0H g e g e flew from trafling hogn of & g & front of the w ¢ gangs in the heat of the fight take something of ~ -~ . p: S€ OUL smoke. As th ubby string of freight 4 was on from that minute . rned, vard ucted, .. .. this—the cab of the mall takes it all o8 the rt passes and halted to survey ourg glewed ¢ » the lower a - - cks more then; he was e gl Sy g P2 G ———p “thiv-the cab of the mall PHNEE s s anfunian, - niie; Bak Us DIRIKSS . e S 4 St N T S J—" - : K > then: h s a gooc tion bosses cautio walkers When (hey struck the foothills Sollers [H€ lon, Jimmle A e talkeq Yard the startled officials saw them from stener it next day, when it came to the sys was polished lke 1 | “JIMMY THE WIND.” ard Jimmie: Bradehaw looked at thetr €T 10 councll . & KTCE - em regu- the Wickiup windows wrapped in & stream it The talking mor he talked more money eeper's diamond it like 4 watches and looked at each other 1 _minute, in two he had them Te8W of fame, Every journal was afire, and 2 e into the West End’s treasury for one year's ar for t test ) the Ye SERRaTod St 0 men who had turned their backs on ev- & v T — *" the blaze from the boxes, rolling i tha e 4 3 ; Fhe registered stuff was jealously guard- X b Toiiag | - ¢ i rurn han was ever talked t re o & / ery mountain ye There wa te 3 = ey o ho could Steam from the stack, curled hotly around q p r the best three yes all day Thursday and words while they poured on for water, an oil round, an anxious t _“} "‘ nall e e reg. & bevy of Sloux Indians, who ¢ - k & 5 e oundhouse. He ity St rop there was a shout on the journals n the Yellow Mail Stiil hobb 1il crews took the reg- Sioux Indians, wh t - i e Rl g Al day night i ’~r'~- : ,v!‘< fity Srver ok Vi ety e “1 ’x W ‘i‘nvu' en;: v;;'vm\ '”.\n “_IUH hed mtt the fre vews and 1Y to the footboards and brake wheels on s o 55 -omt Balt hi how mu time had perso y gone over the engine 1A g P2 e J il e ing i § ¥ Jimmie handled letter bags: but sec- toP of the boxcars. It was a ride for the . Where's t G o i 1y B e ke 1he racket in the moun ains, Was breaking over the sand hills, and be- writhed frantically as it cut the segments % a le Jetter Bags; but sea- o8 T G ld around the council s e's the 1012 and the low it a haze of black thickened the hori- and the men t ind third class were temporarily hus- » 5 39 ¢ 6 months was stipulated. Ten-whee ers they were, the wought, In spite of them- ¢ ther by his fires yet. ontracts were drawn and they wece N i ineh drivers and cylin- zon. It was McTerza with the 88 and scives, of the mountain curves ahead tied for the Great White ’ g dps v eutintihei ,:J,,‘m, e ma ent break- the Yellow.Mail. Neighbor looked at his The worst of the run lay ahead of the irreverent children of the Rockies. " By thaiiime Tumi-SRpse S S8 Se- BT & Enick and span both of them, watch. She was, If anythiug, a minute pilot, because the art In mountain run- Refore the disat men could credit tounding equipment the fire brigade was ernment Nothing - just lon, ugh out of the shops to run to the 1 P 1o ot alone or so much in getting thelr senses the business was dome, they & "o FYR T, e, S T ever got smoothly to work: and ‘©on Friday When McTerza blocked the big drivers wup hill: it is in ng down hill. were mude as_comfortable as possible, Sloux warrlors climbed hastiy dowve the - ment witk v s sur Oliver Sol .. when he opened a at the west end of the depet every eye Eefore they knew it they were through and with the promise of yeedy ald back ).{:;:iar'e!.l a force o brufsed and bare road had so often failed on like proposi- throttle, blew miles ov the tender li was on the new equipment. Three stand- the gateway. out iuto the desert country, to the injured the Yellow Mail, somewhat Rheadec mall clerks shoved back the bo up along the crested buttes and then, sud- disfigured. was heading again westward car doors, the car tank tackled the con- cup, strung out bebind the sizziir den as eternity, the wheel base of the 1012 in the boxears. This time Jimmie Brad- fagration, and Jimmie Bradshaw, drop- e Bend engirie, and they looked e . S e e Tlaht curve; a pent-down vall shaw, like a dog with a bone, had the PIng from the cab with the swing of a it proved successful, if the mail was put Now, Oliver Sollers was a runner in a slips While Neighbor vaguely medi- sprang out like a knitting needle, and the throttle m:n" ::0 ?:5 ;*g:e & "tl;:k- ':Aled at the to the Golden Gate on the second of the and. and steady as a clock; but he tated on their beauty Jimmie Bradshaw, Yellow Mail shot staggering off the track Meantime at Medicine Bend there was a Eangway questions to come at schedule, ‘put opinion and the interests had a fireman who couldn’t stand pros- just in from a night run down from the Iluto a gr borrow-pit desperate crowd around the dispatcher. o he Philippines, 1t was concluded, perity, Steve Horigan, a cousin of John- bend, walked across the yard. He ndd There was a crunching of truck and It was an hour and twenty minutes after (Continued on Page Seven.) 1012, groomed like a ard railway mail cars, dbne in varnish ticns that wanted a e de gling, the agreed on by all the roads concerned. If run up to There was feathers, took. t a test run was Wilkes mare, down to Pledmont for the butte