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Show Wins Bride With Locomotive Whistle. Converting his engine whistle into a Btcuiu calliope and playing- thereon sueli tunes as 'Home, Sweet Homo," "In the Pwci't liv and IJ.v." "Will You RomomuiM-McV" RomomuiM-McV" "Way Down 011 tho .Siiwanco 1U -r" :md many ottirr uliuple ballads of hmx au. Robert Kr.K-nian Ellington of Jliclmiond. engineer on the Southern Uail-wny Uail-wny for more Hum twenty ywirs, dcsplto tlir- fact that be is still u younj: man. won for himself a pretty young wife, who rirst liecaiTK; attracted to him nfti-r hearing hear-ing his weirdly funtantlc melodies as ho drove his Iron atecd through this stlllncsr. of the night. Mrs. Islington, who was Miss Mur-garotto Mur-garotto Angel, a hell of ahinehcster. af-roKS the .limits from Richmond, coyly confessed Hint sho was hi lovu with hur husband's accoinpllHhment before sho !cA-od tho man. Whc-n she and Islington first met it was after alio had waited night. :ifter night to lu-ar the uncanny pipings as they carried to the window of hor room. Then began the courtKhlp, during dur-ing which Islington played to her and her alone. Shu knew 195 his engine as many another knows a. not horse or dog and never a night but 1W brought her mesa-ai;es mesa-ai;es from her sweetheart, told In the Inn -gnage of music, when he himself, with, hand on the throttle, wns driving tho engine en-gine on to lis destination. Ellington's accomplishment probably possessed by few railway engineers In tlio world was first gained, according to hi" own story, when during the. long f-Uctches of a lonely ride ho wanted companionship, lie would try one tunc and then another Finally music, caino from thu atcum throat of tho siren, first timidly, then gaining courago by his first faint success and growing more bold, the cnglneor would glvo louder blasts, sounding tho entire en-tire scale of music and last of all blending blend-ing his notes in such a manner as to form the tunes which captivated his bride. 121-lington 121-lington Is at a loss to explain his success, though fond of music. A glamor has been thrown around his playing because of tho fact that It is against tho rules of must railways to sound other than stipulated signals upon the whintle of the locomotive. For many years all roads entering Richmond have vainly tried to capture tho guilty man, but Ellington's brother engineers, knowing know-ing tho romnnco and sympathizing with the sentiment contained therein, havo continually como to his assistance when detection seemed Imminent by Imitating as nearly as thoy could his airs upon their own whistles. In thl3 way railway officials and detectives havo been baffled. N'ow It Is thought that the Southern, having hav-ing heard tho wholo story, will, because of the wlnsomcness of tho pretty little woman in tho case, shut their official eyes to Ellington's practices and Infractions Infrac-tions of tho rules and allow him to continue con-tinue notifying his wife of his arrivals and departures. Pittsburg Dispatch. |