Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1906 — Page 6

The Manager Of the B. @ A.

By VAUGHAN KESTER

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. I—Dan Oakley, Manager of the Buckhorn and Antioch railroad (known aa the • Huckleberry"), receives two letters, one telling him that hie convict father, Roger Oakley, ha# been pardoned, and the other that General Cornish, the owner of the B. & A., is about to visit Antioch. 11-Oakley visit* Dr. Emory and meets Constance Emory. Other visitors are Griff Ryder, owner of the Antioch Herald, and Turner Joice, the local artist. Ill—Oakley tells General Cornish that in orderto keep the car shops running a cut in wages is necessary. IV--Oakley tells Holt, his assistant treasurer, of lhe proposed cuts. V—Roger Oakley appears in Antioch. He is a worthy old man, who killed an enemy in self defence and was unjustly convicted of murder. VI Roger Oaklev goes to work in the car shops. Griff Ryder tries to induce Dan to keep a friend at-work. Oakley refuses. Vll—Oakley and Ryder are rivals for Constance Emory’s favor. Vlll—Through Kenyon, candidate for congress, whose cousin Is warden of the prison in which Roger Oakley was confined. Ryder learns the old man's history. IX—Oakley cuts wages in the car shops He is attacked by the Herald. X—Oakley's office boy learns from the son of one of the men that the men are planning a strike and that Ryder is spreading the tale that Roger Oakley is a criminal. XI-The men in the car shops refuse to work with Roger Oaklev. Branyon, their leader, is discharged. Oakley tells Dr. Emory that he will stay in Antioch and face the situation. X Ill—Oakley has a tinal interview with Constance. CHAPTER XIV. ON Thursday the Herald published its report of the trouble at the shops. Oakley had looked forward to the paper's appearance with considerable* eagerness. He hoped to glean from it some Idea of the tactics the men would adopt, and In this he was not disappointed. Ryder served up his sensation, which was still a sensation, in spite of the fact that it was common property and two days old before it was accorded the dignity of type and ink, in his most impressive style: The situation at the car shops has assumed a serious phase, and a strike is imminent. Matters came to a focus day before yesterday and may now be said to have reached an acute stage. It is expected that the carpenters, of whom quite a number are employed on repair work, will be the first to go out unless certain demands which they are to make today are promptly acceded to by General Cornish's local representative. Both sides maintain the strictest secrecy, but from reliable sources the Herald gathers that the men will insist upon Mr. Branyon being taken back by the company. Another grievance of the men, and one in which they should have the sympathy of the entire community, is their objection to working with the manager’s father, who came here recently from the east and has since been employed in the ■hops. It has been learned that he is an ex-convict, who was sentenced for a long term of imprisonment In June, 1875, for the murder of Thomas Sharp at Burton, Mass. He was only recently set at liberty, and the men are naturally incensed and Indignant at having to work with him. Still another grievance is the new schedule of wages. A committee representing every department In the shops and possessing the fullest authority met last night at the Odd Fellows’ hall on South Main street, but their deliberations were secret. A well authenticated rumor has it, however, that the most complete harmony prevailed and that the employees are pledged to drastic measures unless they get fair treatment from tho company. Ryder tacked a moral to this, and the ;moral was that labor required a champion to protect it from tho soulless •greed and grinding tyranny of the great corporations which bad sprung into existence under the fostering wing of corrupt legislation. Of course ‘‘the picturesque statesman from old Hanover” was the Hercules who was prepared to right these wrongs of honest Industry and to curb the power of Cornish, whose vampire lusts fattened on the sweat of the toiler, and especially the toiler at Antioch. A copy of the paper was evidently sent the “picturesque statesman,” who had just commenced his canvass, for in its very next issue the Herald was able to print a telegram in which he “heartily indorsed the sentiments embodied in the Herald’s ringing editorial on the situation at Antioch” and declared himself a unit with his fellow citizens of whatever party In their heroic struggle for a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work. He also expressed himself ns honored by their confidence, as. Indeed, he might well have been. Dan digested the Herald’s report along with his breakfast. Half an hour later, when he reached the office, he found McClintock waiting for him. “The men want to see you, Mr. Oakley. They were going to send their committee In here, but I told ’em you’d come out to them.” “All right. It’s Just as well you did.” And Oakley followed him from the office. The men were clustered about the great open door of the works In their shirt sleeves. From behind them in the silence and the shadow came the pleasant, droning sound of machinery, like the humming of a million bees. There was something dogged and reeklews in the very way they stood around with folded arms or slouched nervously to and fro. Dan singled out Bentlck and Joe Stokes and three or four others as the committee and made straight toward them. “Well, men, what do you want?’ he asked briskly. “We represent every department in the shops, sir,” said Bentlck civilly, “and we consider Branyon's discharge as unjust. We want him taken back.” “And suppose I won’t take him back, what are you going to do about it, eh?’ asked Dan good naturedly, and, not .waiting for a reply, with old time deft-

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ness he swung himself up Into an empty flat car which stood close at hand and faced his assembled workmen. “You know why Branyon was dismissed. It was a business none of you have much reason to be proud of, but I am willing to let him come back on condition he first offers an apology to McClintock and to me. Unless he does he can never set his foot inside these doors again while I remain here. I agree to this because I don’t wish to make him a scapegoat for the rest of you, and I don’t wish those dependent on him to suffer.” He avoided looking in McClintock’s direction. He felt rather than saw that the latter was shaking his head In strong disapproval of his course. The committee and the men exchanged grins. The boss was weakening. They had scored twice—first against Roger Oakley and now for Branyon. “I guess Branyon would as lief be excused from making an apology if it’s all the same to Milt," said Bentlck less civilly than before, and there was a ripple of smothered laughter from the crowd. Dan set his lips and said sternly, but quietly, “That’s for him to decide.” “Well, we’ll tell him what you say, and if he’s readv to eat humble pie

“I don’t wish to make him a scapegoat for the rest of you."

there won’t be no kick coining from us,” remarked Bentlck Impartially. “Is this all?” asked Oakley. “No; we can’t see the cut.” And a murmur of approval came from tbe men. Dan looked out over the crowd. Why couldn't they see that the tiual victory was in his hands? “Be guided by me,” he said earnestly, “and take my word for It, the cut is necessary. I’ll meet you halfway in the Branyon matter. Let It go at that.” “We want our old wages,” insisted Bentlck doggedly. “it Is out of the question. The shops are running behind. They are not earning any money, they never have, and It’s as much to your Interests aa mine or (Jenera 1 Cornish’s to do your full part in making them profitable. “Wages can’t go back until the business in the shops warrants it. If you will continue to work under the present arrangement, good and well. If not, I see no way to meet your demands. You will have to strike. That, however. Is an alternative I trust you will carefully weigh before you commit yourselves. Once tbe shops are closed it will not be policy to open them until fall, perhaps not until the first ot the year. But it you can afford to lie idle all summer it’s your own affair. That’s exactly what it means It you strike.” He jumped down from the car and would have left them then and there, but Bentlck stepped In front of him. “Can’t we talk It over, Mr. Oakley?” “There is nothing to talk over, Bentlck. Settle It among yourselves.” And he marched oft up the tracks, with McClintock following in his wake and commending the stand he had taken. The first emotion of the men was one of profound and depressing surprise at the abruptness with which Oakley bad terminated the interview, and his evident willingness to close the shops, a move they had not counted on. It dashed their courage. “We'll call his bluff!” cried Beutlck, aud the men gave a faint cheer. They were not so sure It was a bluff after all. It looked real enough. There were those who thought with a guilty pang of wives and children at home and no pay day, the fortnightly haven of rest toward which they lived. And there were the customarily reckless souls, who thirsted for excitement at any price and who were willing to see the trouble to a finish. These ruled, as they usually do. Not a man returaeg to work. Instead they hung

aoduTTßeyanls and cauvassedThe situation. Finally the theory was advanced that If the shops were closed It would serve to bring down Cornish's wrath on Oakley and probably result In his immediate dismissal. This theory found Instant favor and straightway became a conviction with the majority. At length all agreed to strike, and the whistle in the sitops was set shrieking Its dismal protest. The men swarmed into the building, where each got together his kit of tools. They were quite jolly now and laughed and jested a good deal. Presently they were streaming off uptown, with their coats over their arms, and the strike was on. An unusmd stillness fell on the yards and in the shops. The belts as they swept on and on in endless revolutions cut this stillness with a sharp, incisive hiss. The machinery seemed to hammer at it, as if to beat out some lasting echo. Then gradually the volume of sound lessened. It mumbled to a dotage of decreasing force, and then everything stopped with a sudden jar. The shops had shut down. McClintock came from the office and entered the works, pulling the big doors to after him. He wanted to see that all was made snug. He cursed loudly as he strode through the deserted building. It was the first time since he had been with the road that the shops had been closed, and it affected him strangely. The place held a dreadful, ghostly inertness. The belts and shafting, with its Innumerable cogs and connections, reached out like the heavy knuckled tentacles of some great lifeless monster. The sunlight stole through the broken, cobwebbed windows to fall on heaps of rusty iron and heaps of dirty shavings. In the engine room he discovered Smith Roberts and his assistant, Joe Webber, banking the fires, preparatory to leaving. They were the only men about the place. Roberts closed a furnace door with a bang, threw down his shovel and drew a grimy arm across his forehead. “When do you suppose I’ll get a chance to build steam again, Milt?’’ “Oakley says we won’t start up before the first of September.”

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UNCLE Autumn. Now the hills are many hued. Autumn, In the attitude Of her vari-colored mood, Wrapt in flames, is pleasing! Where the zephyrs lightly play, Lightly play and speed away. Leaves are rustling all the day In a way that's teasing. Teasing me to come and rest Where the ripples rill the crest, Where the waters croon with zest O’er the riffles flowing. Berries strew the leafy ground, Crabs and haws and plums abound— Listen to the purring sound Of the soft wind blowing. On the bosom of the stream, Gliding ever in a dream, Sporting minnows leap and gleam In' the sunlight glinting. Leaves floAt gaily with the tide To the mirrored harbor wide, To the shaded river’s side With its crimson tinting. Ah, the balm to weary heart In the Autumn wood apart, Far from money-maddened mart, Where the leaves are winging. Rest and peace and hope anew Come with Autumn’s painted crew. Come with skies of hazy blue Where the brook is singing Mellow, ripened days of Fall, Days of rag-weed, rank and tall, Days of milk-weed’s fluffy ball. Days of scarlet blending. I can lose my cares with thee Lose .them in the scarlet sea And be happy as they flee From your mood transcending! God is love! I read the sign Where the Autumn branches twine, In the rich Autumnal wine Of the wood and river! God is love! Behold the fields! See the bounty of their yields! See the power the Master wields, God, the harvest .giver!

On the Side.

Married men seldom seem to think that bachelors are in need of sympathy. Many a child that loves a cat, in later life has a great fondness for the kittle. If some men chased opportunity as promptly as they chase the calliope in a circus parade, there would be a fewer failures in this world. This is the open season for eradicating the demon who questions you regarding the status of the thermometer by asking, “Is this hot enough for you?” A young man grew presumptuous and kissed a maiden on the lips. This was at a summer resort. She tossed her pretty head and said, “Don’t!” “Stop!”—but this isn’t the way she punctuated it! “Which costs the most,” asks a Kentuckian; "to lead a double life or keep an automobile?” Those who have done both and survived will settle a great question by giving their expert testimony.

A Kansas paper says one of the town’s nicest girls who was recently married spent a whole day trying to pick the wool off a rabbit that she might have rabbit stew for dinner. It doesn’t always pay to be up in the world. During the recent hot spell in Chicago some of the ice-men refused to deliver ice above the second story. Those nearer heaven had to blow on their butter to cool it. I got into conversation with a young conductor on a Chicago cable car the other evening. He was a frank, clear-cut fellow and pleasant of countenance. He makes sl2 a week as a “tripper” and is saving his money. “This the first job I have had in Chicago where I could save money," he said to me in a burst of confidence Saving money in Chicago on sl2 a week! It made me ashamed of my improvidence. This young fellow is saving money on sl2 a week, and will use his capital in equipping with machinery and stock a small farm in Michigan. And he earned this farm by the practice of the same provident characteristics that mark his saving on sl2 a week. My street car conductor acquaintance will be a prosperous man some day while others with equal chances, will be shoveling dirt and grumbling at the government

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