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Updated: April 30, 2025
I am so sure that this is Major Tucker that I don't even ask him until we are up above; and then I discover that it is Uncle Timothy, the yard switchman at Edenville, who is sent ahead to flag our understandings with the gossip that Judge Pendergast, the railroad's attorney, is in the process of mortgaging Colonel Rockingham's farming lands to make up the ransom.
The priest bent forward again and touched the lips and the forehead of the switchman with his thumb: then straightening on his knees he paused a moment, his eyes lifted up, raised his hand and slowly signing through the blinding flakes the form of the cross, gave him the sacrament of the dying. "I have forgotten the man's name. I have never seen the old priest, before or since.
The instant obedience of the child is as beautiful and as important as that of the soldier. The unhesitating obedience which springs from a loving confidence is beautifully illustrated in the following incident: A switchman in Prussia was stationed at the junction of two lines of railroad. His hand was on the lever for a train that was approaching.
The cussed little black things was all alike, and they bothered me. 'Telegraph, suggested the switchman. 'Never you mind, replied the baggageman. 'They was all going to Philadelfy. They'll find it out when they get there. They did. The scene shifts to the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia. Front parlor, up stairs.
The red-shirted river-driver from Manitou and the lawyer's clerk from Lebanon; the Presbyterian minister and a Christian brother of the Catholic school; a Salvation Army captain and a black-headed Catholic shantyman; the President of the Order of Good Templars and a switchman member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament slaved together on the hand-engine, to supplement the work of the two splendid engines of the Lebanon fire-brigade; or else they climbed the roofs of houses, side by side, to throw on the burning shingles the buckets of water handed up to them.
The boy who ships before the mast on one of them, is less likely to rise to the position of owner, than the switchman is to become railroad president the latter progress has been known, but of the former I can not find a trace. So comparatively few young Americans choose the sea for their workshop in this day of steam.
"Have you heard the news?" said a switchman. "No. What is it?" "The Owen County boys have just killed some gamblers a short distance below La Grange." "Glad of it," was all the response he got. Meantime I walked in towards Lexington.
When Wacker subbed for the old switchman, did he have a special key?" "N no," answered the watchman hesitatingly, "for I remember Wacker loaned me the old switchman's key the first night. Hold on, though!" cried McCarthy with a spurt of memory, "it comes back to me clear now.
'Whoo-whew! responded the locomotive; and the train moved slowly out of the station-house. The baggageman meditatively watched it, as it sped away in the distance, and then, as if a thought suddenly struck him, slapping his thigh, he exclaimed, 'Blest if I don't believe 'What? inquired the switchman. 'That I've gone and guv them three last fellers the wrong checks!
Stonaker," said Patsy when he had been admitted to the general manager's private office, "I have a favor to ask. I want you to give a friend of mine a job. He's a switchman, and a good trainman, but he will not take the place of a striker." "Can you vouch for his honesty, Patsy?" asked the official. "I think I can."
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