. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . parlors. Wherewas Billy? There was a run on the Bee-hive Bank and Billy in his overalls wasin the far flung battle line of frenzieddepositors. The police were clubbingthem into order. The paying tellers inthe Beehive were taking their own timeleisurely counting out the withdrawnfunds. The crowd increased. The dismalday crept on. The bank had funds enoughto meet the emergency, and towards mid-night it was Billys turn. His bank bookpassed into the cashiers hands, and Billysaccount was closed. N
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . parlors. Wherewas Billy? There was a run on the Bee-hive Bank and Billy in his overalls wasin the far flung battle line of frenzieddepositors. The police were clubbingthem into order. The paying tellers inthe Beehive were taking their own timeleisurely counting out the withdrawnfunds. The crowd increased. The dismalday crept on. The bank had funds enoughto meet the emergency, and towards mid-night it was Billys turn. His bank bookpassed into the cashiers hands, and Billysaccount was closed. Next day at Clarks parlors Billy stoodat the bar like Napoleon at St. had met his Waterloo. He had madea heroic effort, but the glory he dreamedof was not for him. He spent the balanceof the withdrawn funds on the spot, anddelivered an eloquent harangue on the in-stability of our banking system, andclosed with an exordium on the advis-ability of being among the foremost tostand from under when red ruin fell uponthis fair land of ours. Heedless and un-conscious of having contributed to the. WEST PORTAL OF THE HOOSAC TUNNEL, SHOWING ABANDONED ENTRANCE. dollars at the Beehive Bank. His headwas buzzing with visions of manly in-dependence and financial stability. Thebank book was bound in calf and had abroad elastic band around it. The firstday it fell out of his pocket as if by ac- needless panic he wrapt himself in amantle of self-complacency and turned tohis old job and his new dreams. He tookcomfort in knowing that in panics of afinancial kind, the last man in the rowwas the first to get left. 52 RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING February, 1908. The Otavi A. R. Bell. The Otavi Railway in German SouthWest Africa, which was built by Koppe! for the Otavi Mines andRailway Company, has the distinction ofbeingthe longest narrow gauge light rail-way in the world, and it was completedin less than three years at a rate of over120 miles per year. The rai
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