The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 16

E.S.COEPEI VET1N, Riley McKeen. Jswt tast ot Terra Hnute. In a cozy of the larte brlch tarn on farm, he still kept hla telesrapb initruments, never losing an opportunity to practice the code ana Imagining he was talklne to the outside world. Ons Sunday while at his practice Mr. McKeen visited tha farm and hearing the clicking of the key, stepped In to Investigate.

After listening foi a time, he Instructed Mr. Coyle to visit the office of chief dispatcher and to tell the chief dispatcher that Mr. Me. Keen said to put him to work. Mr.

Coyle had vUtted this chief dispatcher numerous times only to be told that there was no work bnt now thli order came from the president of the Vandalla lines, so once more went bach to the key and thli time to a iteady lob. That was forty-one year's, eight and fifteen dayiago. He hai been with the coffipany, continuously alnce that time. BOOSTS "SAFETY ALWAYS." In conclusion, It might be said that the veteran has alwaya been a great booster for the "safety cause attended safety meetings frequently and ag his road does not have theso In Decatur, he often attended tho Wa'bash monthly safety meeting held here, jometlmes making -short talks. He has also valuable articles along this of which ap- pearei In railroad niagazlnes.

Also, has always practiced what he has preached and only once In all his railroad career has lie been Injured to apeaU of. This was only a few months ago when he stepped down a railroad embankment to let train pass by. As he did so, ho on clinler or i gavs way. osuilnf him i sprain Old Timtt. An is cm "1 member wlmn learning to I Telegrapher on Pension List At Age 70.

LONG IN THE SERVICE More THan 41 Years with Railroad. Another Decatur veteran of the lailroad said a farewell to his workmen and surroundings Saturday afternoon and walked nway from his dally, task, not to -oturn. On the pension rolls the J'ennsjlvanla Railroad system now the asms of E. S. 138 North Calhoun street, for than forty-one jears has been 'pounding the brass" accordlns to of telegraphers.

No doubt but that Mr. Coyle 'ingered and cast a longlnc glance o- so at tho instrument beard at Somh Junction, Just south ot the Saimamon river bridge a. short dls- itance. Us was gMng uy the work that he ad chosen when not much rrore than a boy and and i had been his almost ever Jince. KETIRB AT "0.

On other hand, he has In lat looked forward to this date E. S. COYLE. 1 would at the age of jears, the ago at which, the ppnniv requires that every mint go on the pension list. mean so much in a who taken care of hlr-sc .11 well as has this veteran; He "ill a healthy man, and at cjii! steii as the average man.

nfarv i Ms junior. And now he Is Mrs. Cojle to en- Joy ths class to coins. First of all, they "11! In just a few days to spend Cie winter with a. son in California.

"And I i wh.it do hi, adds. LOST KIGHT 11AXD. Vr. Cojle ivaa 'iorn In Chllll- Nov 38. 1'jl.

At the of elgli'. years, h'B had an Idea he could I flu a man's aid he tried to ci-ie into an old wooden, 11 lea'ny, cane-mill. As a result, IIP wen: 1 minus Mi right hand has greatly jears JIMP tc thli he worked on until 1STO nnd did other hard work. In those days could shuci to sixty of corn i i i i i and sunset and did do it a rather a a Mr. to the Ilfo a telegrapher when he first (tiartcrt In almost i years ngo.

It i tha one tiling that 1m- Urn mo't In all his years That a the switchmen's strike nr tho Pcnniihai.la railroad went or ritt'tiursh batk In the spring of PTAYLD OX JOB. happened to be practicing te'e- at the lit the old union at Indianapolis. When the lock place, hundreds of and thousands of others, Kathert-d around the station. Cars tarrying the U. mail and engines strongly guarded armed forces reatlv to shoot while the state militia wai encamped just ontsldt the ready to rush In Thlnjs looked scuous and the vounp flpgraplier-student uneity and wanted to get away.

But S. Colcman Wilson, manager of the inilttcd he stay and lulp rherk Western L'nion telegram were being i by hundreds. For (hrcfi and as many n.uhti!. he did nut out of th" Ration. All tho sleep that he had nas curled up -en a short i komo hooks under his for a pillow.

During every day nights, hundreds of passengers; men, women and children en route, who wera unable to pay for hotel accommodations or even In cheap hoarding houses, were piled around the waiting room floors und under train sheds like so many cattle. Tho cUy helped to feed them. GOES TO FARM. The strlka over, Mr. Coyle decided That If that was railroad life, didn't much about staying with It However for three or fou years, worked "extra" on the Indianapolis, Blooming ton a Western, the Four, Panhandl Belt railroad, As there was of iteady employment, flMHf pave up the work and wen Haute.

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