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About nine o'clock I was sitting in the despatcher's office smoking a cigar before going home for the night, when all at once the despatcher's wire and the railroad line opened. Sicklen reported south of him and then took off his ground.
It is a railroad proverb that the properly inoculated railroad man eats and sleeps with his business; Lidgerwood exemplified the saying by having a wire cut into the despatcher's office, with the terminals on a little table at his bed's head, and with a tiny telegraph relay instrument mounted on the stand.
He was very much worried, but said he hoped it would turn out all right. Getting nothing from Burton, on the south, I told Truxton to keep on his ground until the section gang or track walker came back with a report. Twenty minutes later he began to call "DS" with all his might. I answered and this is what the despatcher's copy operator took: Truxton, 5 | 21, 188 .
Finally, when he felt that they were fit, he called his company together for the election of officers. Jewett was the unanimous choice for captain, other officers were chosen, and the captain at once applied for a commission. The Jewetts were an influential family, and no one doubted the result of the young despatcher's request.
Her sharp ears caught the sound which told her that the motor had stopped down the street; it was a welcome sound, for it meant that he was racing back to the station and just in time, too; the flyer was pounding the rails less than half a mile away. Fenlock was a division point in the railroad. The company's yards and the train despatcher's office were located there.
Through the half-opened door in the despatcher's room came the diminished chattering of the telegraph instruments; this, with the outer clamor of trains and engines, made the silence in the private office more insistent.
The copy operator is generally the man next for promotion to a despatcher's trick, and his relations with his chief must be entirely harmonious. The working force in a well regulated despatcher's office consists of the chief despatcher, three trick despatchers, and two copy operators, with the various call boys and messengers.
Tell him the time-card's changed and he is to run west with the special to Megilp as first section of the mail no stops, or Tischer will run him down. Leg it! He's half-way down the yard, now!" The train-master dropped the ear-piece of the telephone and crossed quickly to the despatcher's table. "Orders for the Western Division, Donohue," he said curtly, "and don't let the grass grow.
It wasn't long, however, before my confidence returned and I wanted a trick. I got it, but in such a manner that even now, fifteen years afterwards, I shudder to think of it. The despatcher's office of a big railroad line is one of the most interesting places a man can get into, especially if he is interested in the workings of our great railway systems.
That's very good in theory, but powerful poor in practice, because I hadn't been soldiering a month before a feeling of homesickness for my old love came over me; in fact to this day I never see a railroad but what I want to go up in the despatcher's office and sit down and take a "trick."
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