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Updated: May 13, 2025
The dispatcher from Stanwood listened to Banneker's brief report, and sent him back to Manzanita, with a curt word of approval for his work. Glancing at the vast, swollen, blue-black billows rolling up the sky, Banneker guessed that their game would be shortly interrupted. He hoped that the dead would not get wet.
This is a special carrying ammunition for General Beauregard, and I must have the right of way clear along the line!" The dispatcher scanned the train. He saw nothing to excite his suspicions. The baggage cars were closed, and might easily be filled with powder and shot; the men in the engine, and the two brakemen on the top of one car had a perfectly natural appearance.
"Tell the Train Dispatcher to clear everything into switches until we get to Murfreesboro, and have the operator at Murfreesboro lay by everything till we get to Nashville." The Yard-Boss rushed off to execute the order. "Great Jehosephat, what's come over Levi?" muttered Shorty. "Has he become the High-muk-a-muk of the whole army? Have they put him in Gen. Rosecrans's place?"
In another hour now he'd be up in the dispatcher's room at Big Cloud for his nightly sitting with Bob Donkin. He could see Bob Donkin there now; and he could hear the big dispatcher growl at him in his bluff way: "Use your head use your head Hoogan!" It was always "Hoogan," never "Toddles."
My friend answered, and received from the dispatcher at Winnipeg a crossing order for a west-bound passenger train and an east-bound engine. Our station signal was displayed, and once more we commenced our weary wait for the two iron horses, which were ploughing their way across the wild prairie to meet and cross each other at our station, and then continue their wild journey. Two o'clock.
When he reached a bridge over the track, he saw a train dispatcher of the road, whose name was Campbell, of Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, standing below. He made a sign to Paul, who quickly descended and entered an old warehouse. He was followed by Campbell who handed him a paper, saying: "Here is safe conduct through the lines.
"I was station agent and dispatcher out at Kayuse Creek the only time we met up and of all the forsaken, dreary, one-mule towns along the line that was the worst. I'd been there a year and a half, with no signs of ever gettin' out, and I'd got so I hated every human, being in sight, includin' myself.
On his marriage day, because of his ability, he was promoted to a position as dispatcher at an increased salary and sent to an office at Columbus, Ohio. There he settled down with his young wife and began buying a house on the installment plan. The young telegraph operator was madly in love.
"He talks proud enough," he thought; "he must be a relation of Jefferson Davis, from his airs." After the dispatcher had gone, Andrews whispered to George: "We ought to let the boys in the car know the cause of our detention and warn them that in case of anything going wrong in our plans they must be prepared to fight for their lives.
As I looked around the deserted landingstrip a tall Negro emerged leisurely from one of the buildings and walked toward us. "Where are the airport officials?" I asked rather sharply, for I didnt relish being greeted by a janitor. "I am the chief dispatcher. In fact, I am the entire personnel at the moment." My pilot, standing behind me, broke in. "Boy, where're the white folks around here?"
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