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Deep in the Cascades, a reporter documents the grueling labor conditions of the men carving the Northern Pacific’s Stampede Tunnel through the mountain’s gut.
“The traversing of this slant cavern carries with it a feeling of awe, which is not lessened by the din of the machinery, the rushing of waters, and the uncanny light of the electric candles.”
When a railroad tycoon ignored his own safety rules at the Stampede Tunnel, a dump-car driver taught him a lesson in job authority.
“Not while I'm drivin' 'em you don't, said the driver, 'skip.'”
A classic local anecdote about a prominent contractor getting a taste of his own medicine.
“Naw, I haven't, but you get off o' this car P.D.Q.; d'ye hear? Skip.”
A commemorative ceremony at the west portal of the Stampede Pass tunnel marks a massive milestone for Northern Pacific Railway expansion.
“Mrs. U. K. Stuts, wife of the Assistant Chief Engineer of the Cascade Division, stepped to the front and broke a bottle of champagne near the last spike. Then she seized a ponderous hammer and with a gentle tap sent it into the yielding wood of the tie.”
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