TTIE OMAITA DAILY REE; PATUKDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1901.
CAN'T HELP BEING HEROES
Enineen Often Get Credit fi Oonreg
When They Could Do Nothing Else.
STORIES OF MEN AT THE THROTTLE
Ufa Mara Prnlon Than riaadlt ti
Most Men In lb Cah. hat Fre
a.eatly There Isn't Tim
to Jaii.
Talking about heroes." mid a hero wor
hlper In the lobby of the Menger th other
day. "remind me that there are heroes
and heroea, and the public la pretty apt
to ret mixed In Ita metaphor when It
goes gunning for such quarry.
"For Instance: Almost every day the
newspapers contain somewhere In the re
POrta of railway disasters the stock phrase,
the engineer stuck to his poet and went
down with hla engine.' Now that phraae
a 1 way's makes the blood tingle In the vein
f ua hero worshiper. There are soma
of ii a who actually envy the man In Jumper
and overalls who with his hand on the
throttle Mew out hla last breath In vain
effort to save the precious 1 ad behind
him. Who wouldn't throw rapture over
such a hero"
"Rut really, are there auch heroea? 1
used to think there were, but one night
up In Arkansas the train 1 was riding on
waa laid out at a little sawmill switch with
the road blocked by a bad wreck ahead.
In this instance both englneera 'atuck to
their posts' and were killed when the two
big moguls hit. I strolled down to the head
of the train and Juat stood around wait
ing for a chance to get In my admiration
for the brave fellows who would not shirk
their duty even when faithfulness meant
a sudden summons to the great beyond
"Finally it cam and I turned loose a
well rounded peroration on the two dead
heroes. A few passengers and the engineer
of our train constituted my audience and
I expected to get the glad hand from the
engineer, anyhow. But the engineer fooled
me,
l.oolc Oat for Jfnmber One.
' " 'Sonny,' said he, "what is the first law
of nature r
" 'Self-preservation.' I answered, speak
ing xip bright
" 'Well, do you think we ara human or
Ju.t Junk?'
"He saw he had me and lit onto me
In such a way that he blew all my hero
notions to smlthereena
" 'You Just get that trash out of your
bonnet,' continued the engineer, wading in
after me as soon as he had me on the run.
" 'I do not mean to say engineers are
any worse or any better than others. In
fact tney are Juat human. In the very
nature of things they do the best they
can, but In ninety-nine cases out of every
hundred they stick to their posts because
they can't get away. It doesn't take a
train running fifty miles an hour long to
reach the ditch If a rail breaks, a track
spreads, an axle gives way or any of the
thousand accidents a truln is heir to to
occur. Intuitively the first thing an en
gineer doea la to shut her off and give her
the air the Instant he feels the wheels on
the ties. The next Instant It's all over
and sometimes the engineer is a dead hero
quicker thaii a cat can wink his eya. No
matter how much he might have desired
to be somewhere else he wouldn't have
tlm-s to go there. Hemmed In on his box
lie just stays there and takea his medi
cine, but all the same It's a mean man
that begrudges him the hero line In the
newspapers after he' dead.'
"This view of the case made a great
Impression on me," the hero worshiper con
tinued, "and I thought I'd investigate a
lltttau I happened lo. know an old travel
ing engineer wha'had spent yeara on the
road and while traveling with htm one
night I mentioned tho conversation I'd had
In Arkansas wU that engineer who
thought engineers wero just human.
" 'An a rule. sold the old engineer, tak
ing a long, satisfied puff on his cigar, 'en
gineers are human. I've known 'em to
Jump when they could and stick when they
couldn't, but I've also known 'em to jump
when It would have been the easiest thing
In the world to exchange the certainty of
death ahead for the broad chance of life
by quitting their engine.
" 'Here la a case In point: When I was
a young man I was firing on the Alabama
Great Southern railway for a little red
headed Irishman mimed Foley. Foley
didn't seem pretty much and you would
never have nicked him out In a crowd for
a hero. He was chunky end squat of
stature, hud a blossom on his nose that
matched hla close cropped, frowsy hair and
wus about as uninviting a specimen as you
ever looked at. Foley, however, hnd a way
of getting over the line, was a daring run
ner In those days when forty miles an hour
waa going some and had been peculiarly
fortunate in keeping out of trouble. He
was a moody, taciturn fellow and I've rid
den many a time over the division without
speaking a word to htm or heurlng a word
out of him. Then again he'd loosen up and
jolly mo unmercifully, for behind his
grumplness he had a great fund of that
humor which makes the Irishman famous.
" 'One night w were running 'down grade
about thirty miles south of Birmingham
and the old M was fairly humping herself.
There wus plenty of grade and plenty of
curves, and Foley waa letting her go with
the Idea of going Into Tuscaloosa on time.
Ho was sitting. on hla box bolt upright
looking ahead into the night when sud
denly In rounding a curve about 200 yards
ahead we both saw the tell-talo sparks fall
ing from a wooden bridge over a culvert
XV knew what that meant. We knew that
burring miracles we would pile In that cul
vert In Just about ten -seconds. I fairly
frnxe as I stood there, when Foley brought
me to my senses.
'"Jump, Joe; Jump for your life. I "
stick," he screamod. He had already shut
her off and was putting all his weight on
the lerer to throw her over.
" 'Well. I jumped and broke my
Foley stuck. They fished him out that l.
what was left of him and the papers said
something about his being a hero. In that
case I happened to know that no braver
man than frowsy-headed Foley ever went
to bis death In the line of duty. There
was a case where the engineer could have
saved himself, but didn't And there axe
other cases; many of them. After all It Is
Just as well to give a poor dead devil the
credit of being a hero even If be couldn't
help It'
"I knew of another Instance where a
bunch of heroe as brave as men ever
were, burned their lights In vain and got
laughed at for their pains.
"It was In New York about fifteen years
ago. There, as here, we hear a lot about
'the brave fireman.' In fact the brave fire
man Is about as bold a chestnut to the
thoughtless) as the brave engineer.
"One night about half a doxen fire en
gines were working on a fire In a fireworks
store. This store was surrounded by semi
tenements and It wasn't long before It be
gan to look as If nothing could keep the
flames from the great mass of fireworks.
There were rows of cannon crackers as big
as your leg and everybody knew that
when these things began to go oft the
chances were the whole outfit would be
blown to smithereens. It required courage
of high order to go into that blazing store
and rescue that formidable array of powder
and Chinese tissue paper. The fire chief
saw his duty, however, and he 'done It'
Calling his men about him he explained
the danger. Then he called for volunteers
and to a man the firemen responded. Wad
Ing through flame and smoke the firemen
curried In and out of the store expecting
every minute to be blown sky high. Work
ing like demons, with the finest abandon I
ever saw, and utterly Indifferent to danger,
these men did their duty as they saw it
"There was no explosion and after It was
over some of the men were unstrung by
the ordeal. About this time the owner of
the place got there. The chief lost no time
In falling on him tooth and nail for having
an unlawful quantity of fireworks In his
place and endangering the lives of the fire
men and those living in the neighborhood.
The chief was laying It on-good and hard
Without giving the tireworko man a ghost
of a show. Finally, however, he got a
look-in.
V 'What's the matter with you, anyway,'
said he. "Them's dummies.'
" 'Oh, h 1,' said all the firemen, and the
heroes of the moment before were ready
to fight at the merest suggestion of their
press.
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DR. GREEN ON AMERICA
Gives gome of the Reasons Why the
Country Is Strong; aad
Vigorous.
"America and Things American," was the
burden of Dr. Thomas E. Green's lecture,
held last night at the Boyd theater under
the ausplcea of the Young Men's Christian
association. Dr. Green spoke on the In
dustries of the country, its vast size and
the part It Is to play In the affairs of the
world in the future. Ho dwelt especially
on tho different classes of men which go
to form tho American people. "You can
take a handful of Germans," said Dr.
Green, "and plant them In Russia. Threo
hundred years hence. If one should visit
the spot, thero would probably be a typical
German village nod the typical German
frau opening the door would give the
typical German salute of 'Guten morgen.'
It is the same in all Europe. A Viennese
doctor a few weeks ago showed by sta
tistics that 69 per cent of the royal blood
of Europe was either cancerous, Idiotic or
Insane. They have been breeding so long
among themselves that they have begun
to decay. Any stockman knows that to get
good horses or good cattle he must cross
breed and crossbreed. He would get no
good results from letting his horses and
cattle run helter skelter the year 'round.
It lis the same with plant life; the gardener
must prune and cut and transplant Were
he to have but one crop the year 'round
his soil would become exhausted. And so
It is with man. The nations of Europe
have been marrying among their own par
ticular little sets for all these hundreds
of years and now It la telling on them.
With us it is different. Here we have men
from every part of the globe, every type
of man, and the wonderment 1b that Uncle
Sam assimilates all, and the children of
these emigrants are a new race, a mighty
race with backbone, push and progreaslve
ness, which men of older countries lack."
The speaker went on to state that Amer
ica need fear no armed foe, but what she
need fear was tho dangers following on
the heels of success. "I pray," he said,
"that we might keep up the Ideals of our
forefathers, and that wealth and power
will not make the nation forget the simple
teachings of the Carpenter." .
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for 19I1& has been filed with the clerk of the
Board of Klro and Police Commissioners.
It is from Ed Mvurer for his place of busi
ness at 1W Farnam street. Although this
Is In the Third ward, the application bear
the names of thirty ostensible resident
property owners, including that of Assist
ant County Attorney J. A. C. Kennedy, and
apparently on Its face dispose of the as
sertion that there are not thirty resident
property owners In the Third.
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PAUL MORTON AT THE HELM
How a Nebraska Bailroad Han Showi Up
as Secretary of the Navy.
CUTS THROUGH DEPARTMENT RED TAPE
Physical Energy and Mental Activity
a Source of Wander to Employee
An Appreciative Review of.
Ills Methods.
Paul Morton, the present secretary of the
navy, is the youngest and breeziest ana
most hustling cabinet officer that Washing
ton has seen In many a long day. Mentally
and physically he is strong and vigorous
and enthusiastic, his eyes see beneath the
surfaoe of things, his mind moves with the
ease ind speed and precision of well oiled
machinery, and mental poise and business
balance regulate his every act. In short,
Mr. Morton is considered by those who
have come Into official and personal con
tact with him to be a fair typo of that
class of American business man who in
evitably come to deal with the big affairs.
whoso work molds and shapes the indus
trial and commercial destiny of the United
States, and who on call are found to be
abundantly qualified by nature and experi
ence to leave their varied walks In life and
Join the crew of the ship of state.
It is evident at this time that Secretary
Morton's entrance Into tho president's offi
cial family Is coming to be appreciated for
Just who! it means.
As a railroad man Mr. Morton's record
speaka for Itself. From office boy at $30
a mi jit h to the vice presidency of a great
ralkvad system at &K,000 a year is a pretty
steep climb, and the man who Is the present
had of the Navy department made It un-
lided by any effort save his own.
Already It has become apparent that
under the Morton regime there will be a
business administration of the Navy dn
partment. The executive ability and busi
ness sense which made Mr. Morton and
helped him to make his railroad system
the Santa Fe what it is today have al.
ready had a marked effect upon the great
branch of the government over whlc?1 hn
presides. Hardly a day passes but a ton
or so of red tape is shorn from depart
mental routine and dumped In the base
ment. There will be no use for It under
the Morton rule.
Short Cats to Business.
Departmental superiors who formerly
stored the knowledge required of them In
the heads of subordinates are finding out
things for themselves. Mr. Morton Intends
to know all he can about the interior
mechanism of the Navy department, and
he expects his Immediate subordinates to
do the same.
He doesn't believe In letting anything
drift along for a week if it ran be settled
in aUay. He keeps th work before hftn
up to date if he has to go without his
Reals and sit up batlf th night to do It
He expects no less of his assistants. He
believes In short cuts Instead of round
about methods, he considers facts and
figures vastly superior to theories and
fancies.
Mr. Morton Is still a young man a very
young man If his appearance alone Is con.
sldered. To the man who meets him for
th first time th secretary appears to be
between 30 and K, certainly not a day more
than the latter figure. But, according to
the family Bible at Arbor lodge, the
Morton horn In Nebraska, be is 47 and a
grsndfather. His worst enemy certainly
couldn't accuse Mm of looking the part.
As his friends sometimes say, "Paul la
not a pocket edition." Th secretary stands
I feet 1H inches in his stockings, his shoul
ders ar square and wide, his waist slim
and his chest is deep and round. H weighs
beurly tta pounds, every ounce bon and
muscle, and carries it as easily as a prize
fighter In ring trim.
Incidentally Mr. Morton's physical en
ergy Is a constant source of wonder and
delight to the watekassm and other em
ployes of tho Navy department. Some of
the men stationed at the entrance door
have watched secretaries of tno navy come
and go dally for three decadoj. They have
seen middle-aged and elderly gentlemen
descend from their carriages In front of
the main entrance of the building, proceed
leisurely and with dignity, and sometimes
difficulty, up the long flight of stone steps
to the door, and thence up the high, wind
ing stairs to the office of the secretary of
the navy on the second floor. Mr. Morton
seldom uses his goveinment carriage, and
up to now no one has been found who has
seen him ascend either the outside or the
inside steps at a slower rate than two at
a time.
Methods of Work.
The first morning that Mr. Morton en
tered the Navy department after - being
sworn in he was in a sure enough hurry.
He went by the watchmen nt the main
entrance like one of his own limited trains,
and by the time the astonished guardians
had recovered their breath he waa in his
private office on the floor above looking
over his mall, with not even a quickened
heart beat or respiration to testify to his
haste and exertion.
Another expression that Mr. Morton's
friends use In speaking of him is that he la
"a hog for work." Just how true this is
the employes of the Navy department
didn't know until they found that the new
secretary, when work pressed, occasionally
reached his desk at 7:30 a. in., and some
times returned to the department after
dinner in the evening to finish up his work.
In order that he might start In the next
morning with a clean slate.
It Is no unus lal thing for Mr. Morton's
private secretary to work with him until
o'clock In the evening and not leave until
the secretary has gone to his home and
work for the day has been finished, only
to And, when he comes down to the depart
ment at 8:30 the next morning, that Mr.
Morton has been there before him and
left a pile of memoranda on nis riestc. Often
that same private secretary haa wondered
whether Mr. Morton doesn't sometimes
sleep at the Navy department
There have been a number of crltlcl.tms
of the president's selection of a secretary
of the navy, owing principally to the fact
that Mr. Morton waa a railroad man, from
an inland state, aad couldn't be expectod
to know much about naval affairs. But
Mr. Morton isn't worrying a great deal
over such objections. With his character
istic love for detail he looked the mutter
up and found that since the time of Gideon
Welles, who was secretary of lie navy
during the civil war, not a slng'.e man who
has held the portfolio had a previous
thorough knowledge of naval affairs.
Mr. Morton is certainly no worse off
than a certain secretary of the navy of
former days, who, shortly after bis ap
pointment to office, paid his drat visit to a
ship of war, and, on stepping aboard, ex
claimed In the greatest astonishment:
"Why, the durned thing Is hollow."
Mr. Morton Is authority for the state
ment that he 'knew "the durned thing was
hollow" before he left his office on the
banta Fe system to become cabinet
sailor. In fact he made up his mind long
ago about some feature of general nava!
policy.
WaTBl Policy.
Not long after th announcement of hi
selection to be secretary of the navy Mr.
Morton was entertained at dinner by th
Merchants' club of Chicago, and although,
as he hlmsell acknowledges, he is not a
speechmaker, h expressed himself as fol
lows: The American navy should be the most
formidable In existence, ttyeclal attention
must be given to the efficiency of those who
man and officer warship. Tli best fighting
liiarlilne afloat without this efficiency would
be useless la this age of practical prepared
nets. There cannot be too much maneuvering
or target practice. Th men who bundle
the big guns must be prepared to shoot
and must learn to lilt what they shoot at.
Quits as important as all tries is th esprit
os toi'f that sLall touch aad aaiaua vrjr
man from the admiral down to th jack
tar.
High officers of the service say that Mr.
Morton's views on questions of naval policy
are aa sound as a dollar. They explain,
for the benefit of those who think that the
new secretary's reference to "the most
formidable navy In existence" means that
he would urge the expenditure of vast sums
of money, that the secretary, had he elab
orated his remarks at that dinner, would
have said that "most formidable" did not
mean the nuvy with the greatest numerical
strength, but the one In the state of great
est efficiency and practical preparedness.
Mr. Morton believes that three vessels well
handled and fought are worth six miserably
mismanaged and with only half-hearted
battle spirit.
Applying; Railroad Principles.
In his own business .Mr. Morion knows
that a railroad with plenty of rolling stock
and splendid equipment can't handle its
maximum amount of freight and passengers
and continue without accident and pay
dividends if it is mismanaged at the top
and ill manned at the bottom. To tho navy
he has applied the general principles of his
knowledge derived from years of experi
ence in railroad work. The most efficient
navy. In his mind, is the most formldab'.e,
and during the period that ha remains at
the head of the Navy department he will
devote all h's energies to making th naval
force of the United States comply with the
Ideas of what efficient and formidable
mean. '
Incidentally, it can be announced for the
first time, on high authority, that In the
event of Presides Roosevelt's election
to a second term, Mr. Morton will remain
in his cabinet as secretary of the navy.
There has been an apparently general
Impression that Mr. Morton accepted the
navy portfolio with the idea of remaining
in the cabinet, in any event, only until
March 4, .906. This, It has been learned,
is entirely erroneous.
Mr. Morton believes In doing what he
has to do as well aa he can. He Is too
practical and farslghted a man to think
for a moment that In the brief time now
remaining before Inauguration day he
ran master the details of his new office
and put Into effect the plans for progress
and reform that he may have formulated
or have In mind. Consequently, if Presi
dent Roosevelt continues In office so will
Mr. Morton, and with the natural ambition
of a young and vigorous man of his type,
he hopes to leave an . Impress upon the
Navy department and the naval service
that will remain long after he has returned
to his temporarily Interrupted life work
and become a railroad man again.
Almost every high official of tho Nav)
department has some little story to tell of
the secretary's lightninglike decisions and
conclusions. He usually supplements his
first impressions on any subject by a sys
tem of interrogation that is calculated to
make the former Chinese minister to the
United States who had a reputation as a
cross-examiner seem like a bashful school
boy. "Why?" Is his great question. H meets
all statements with this extremely simp:
but very effective interrogation, and, as a
high navy officer remarked th other dayt
"After the secretary had fired twenty
one 'whys 7" at mo In rapid succession 1
didn't know whether I was talking about
battleships or submarines. He seemed to
understand, though, so I guess It was all
right."
A little Incident that occurred at the
Navy department the other day Is good
evidence of the way Mr. Morton exercises
his almost womanly Intuition. Samuel W.
Bogun, the son of a well known physician,
of Washington, called at the Navy de
partment and asked to see Mr. Morton.
The your.g man had been try:ng for thrc
years to get a commission In the marine
corps. The secretary granted him n in
terview. "Mr. Morton," said the young man, "I'v
been trying to get In the marine corps for
almost four years. I oan't get anybody to
back me up, but I am very much In lov
with the service and I would try mighty
hard to make a good officer and serve the
United States Well."
The secretary looked the young applicant
over from head to foot Bogan afterward
said he felt as If somebody, had turned
an X-ray apparatus on him and a?kcd:
"Were you ever designated before?"
"No, sir." tald Bogan.
"I'll designate you tomorrow," said th
secretary, laconically, as ha turned to hla
desk again.
Later In the day a visitor called to sea
th secretary and happened to remark that
he was pleased with Bogan'a designation.
"What klrd of a boy Is he?" asked tha
secretary.
"Clean cut, Intelligent and as good a
they come," he waa told.
"Knew it when I looked at him," s!4
Mr. Morton. "Didn't have any political In
fluence, but then w need good men In
the marine corps Just the same." Nw
Tork Sun.
PRAISE THE OMAHA BUILDING
i .
International Officers of Y. M. C. A.
Believe Local Organisation Mad
Wise Selection. '
The recent visit of Messrs. Luclan O.
Warner and Richard C. Morse, chairman
and general secretary, respectively, of th
international committee of the Young
Men'a Christian association, la likely ti
be of more than passing Interest to tha
local work. These gentlemen were mak
ing a series of visits to the state commit
tees of the western states. They were at
Des Moines in conferonce with ths .fowa
state committee on Wednesday, at To
peka Thursday and met with th Nebraska
committee on Friday.
They attributed the successful main
tenance of the Omaha association to Ita
Ane business location, which mad posslbl
a large Income from store rentals. It haa
weathered th storms of depressed oondU
Hons, while Dehver, Kansas City, St
Joseph, Sioux City, with buildings less de
sirably located, all lost them. Another
reason they advanced for bul'dlng on
good business site was that so far no
association building had proven adequate
to Its needs ten years after erection, many
of thpm being outgrown almost befor
completion, and buildings on good sites
have always been saleable without loss at
at a profit.
London Broker Fall.
LONDON, Oct. 28. The failure of Victor
O. Smith, a broker, was announced on tha
Stock exchange today.
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Are you aware that one cup of
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CtntitiMd.