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"Had to hire him, eh? Best consulting engineer in the city. And he held out for a settlement," rallied Blake. "You were one of the party?" "Transitman." "Then apply to my auditor. He has your pay-check waiting for you." "How about interest? It's two years over-due." "I never allow interest on such accounts." Blake took out his cigar and looked at his antagonist, his jaw out- thrust.
A transitman who entered the service in 1905 at $1400 per annum was in 1913 appointed an assistant chief of a bureau at $4500 per annum. An accountant who entered the service in 1901 at $1800 per annum was in 1907 appointed an assistant chief of a bureau at $3750 per annum and in 1909 a chief of a bureau at $6000 per annum.
Now I've got to hunt a hallroom and begin scratching gravel." "But at least until you find a position." "No. I'm sure of something first pop, if old Grif is in town. You remember, I once told you all about him M. F. Griffith, my old engineer man who boosted me from a bum to a transitman. Whitest man that ever was! Last I heard, he'd located here in Chicago as a consulting engineer.
Howard and Ned attached themselves to the transitman, and took turns as head and rear chain, while Grant superintended the levelling, and Charlie trudged along in the rear with the young topographer, who had taken a sudden fancy to the boy, and gave him frequent lectures on the theory and practice of surveying, until his pupil longed for the time when he too could wear on his watch-chain the tiny blue shield, with its golden date and initials.
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