Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — More Euphonious Dispatches. [ARTICLE]

More Euphonious Dispatches.

William Blue was an engineei* In the employ of one of the trunk railway lines in this Slat?. One of his duties was to haul the through freight over the western division, and his pet eugiue was No. 2. One night he had au a eel-, dent. One of the flues in the boiler of his pet engine blew out and he was stalled, blocking the main line. He reported the matter to the division superintendent unwittingly as follows: “Engine 2 blew out a flue; wlmt’ll 1 do?—Bill Blue.” Then he sat down to await instructions. This Is what came over the wires from the superintendent’s office twenty minutes later: “Bill Blue- -You plug that flue in engine two and pull her through In time to get out of the way of twenty-two,” This order Is stuck up in the cab of cngiifr 2.-Slater (Mo.) Index.