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All that group of early Connecticut manufacturers did great service to the country in founding an industry that has brought to the United States a goodly portion of its business prosperity. Seth Thomas, Silas Hoadley, Chauncey Jerome are names that will not soon be forgotten; Terryville and Thomaston, two clockmaking centers, testify to that.
"But the runaways won't pass Terryville, will they?" Alex exclaimed. "Won't the grades between there and Imken pull them up?" Saunders shook his head. "Ten loaded ore cars travelling at that rate would climb those grades." "Then they will be down here and in twenty or thirty minutes! And there's the Accommodation coming from the east," said Alex rapidly, "and we can't reach anyone to stop her!"
"That's it!" he cried, and springing to the telegraph key, as soon as the wire closed, called Indian Canyon. "Have you any extra battery material there?" he sent quickly. "No. Why " Abruptly Alex cut him off and called Imken. He also responded in the negative. But from Terryville came a prompt "Yes. Why " "Have you one of those big stoneware water-coolers there?" "Yes, but wh "
We'll know in a minute." The wire again snapped open, and whirred, "I got it off the yard engine! Just in time! Here they come now! Like thunder! "There they're by! Are ten of them. All loaded. Going like an avalanche. Lucky thing the yard engine was " Sharply the operator at Indian Canyon broke in to hurriedly call Terryville, the next station east.
Saunders stared. "That's so. I'd forgotten her. But what can we do?" he demanded helplessly. Terryville answered, and in strained silence they awaited his report. "Yes, they are coming. I thought it was thunder. "Here they are now," he added an instant after. "They're past!" "They'll reach us! What shall we do?" gasped Saunders.
Born at Terryville, Conn., Feb. 3, 1845. Died at San Francisco, Cal., November 28, 1910. As a last tribute to his name there was erected in his native state a monument with this inscription: This memorial is dedicated to our fellow townsman, Dorence Atwater, for his patriotism in preserving to this nation the names of 13,000 soldiers who died while prisoners at Andersonville, Ga.
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