Show I His His' Engine Whis Whistle le Tools 1 L Tuneful Messages of Love I 0 t r 1 p 3 re Aj Aja i J a N 1 Richmond Vai Va Ya 1 i converting his isis engine whistle 1 into a calliope and aud playing plain such B By tunes as lJ Home Homo Sweet Home I II his In I u tho the Sweet Byo Bye unit ami five Bye e Then You You'll JI Remember Me Mc and Way I Wa Way Down Upon the River Robert Freeman El- El I lincton hington engine driver on tIme tho Southern Railway for or more than luau n twenty years despite espite the fact that ho is still a oun Snail man won for himself el a n pretty young oun wife Mrs Ellington ton who was Miss Mar Mar- ar Carette garette Angel a l belle of Manchester across the tho James river from this cit city coI coyly confessed that she was in love 0 with her husbands husband's S 'S accomplishment be be- I fore she sIte loved loveil the tho man Whey the they first met suet it was after she hall hail listened ll night ht nf after er ni night bt to hi lug his Then an the tho courtship luring during which time Ellington played to her alone She SIte knew Iso u. 19 HIj his engine as many another another another an an- other knows a pet dog or Of horse an and not nota I a night passed that tho whistle of No Xo l 5 didn't scud messages to her ber from her sweetheart s I Tho The little woman states that since their marriage her hu has never missed letting Jetting her know to the tuno of Then TIlen You'll Remember Mo of or his Isis departure or signifying his arrival al with the tho strains of Home Sweet Home Mr Ir Ellington's S 'S unique skill with his locomotives locomotive's whistle was gained ned according according ac ac- ac- ac cording cOflin to his own story during tho long loul and lonely stretches of his tr trips ps lie ile tried first one ono tune tunc rind and n then an nn other Finally music camo cause from the steam team throat fust first timidly then more boldly as the tIme engine driver gained faine con con- fi ence Mr Ir Ellin Ellington ton is at a loss to explain his isis success s. s lie plays no musical instrument although fond of music music It is a against the rules of railway companies to sound other than stipulated stipulated stipulated signals on the tho whistle of a locomotive loco loco- motive mothe and ln great creat effort was made to ascertain who was violating t the e rules Mr Ellington's brother engine drivers knowing of his Isis romance helped shield him 1 by imitating as nearly as mi might aught ht be he his Isis a airs rs on their own whistles It is isnow no now thou thought ht that tho time Southern having hIwing hoard hoar the story will close its official ears to Mr Ellington's infractions of the rules an anti and ao allow him him to continue continuo to send his mascot messages to his wife During the tho recent Chapman Alexan tier der r revival nl meeting in Richmond Charles M. M I. I Alexander frequently heard the time music of tho time locomotive c aud and remarked re reo re- re I marked about it to Dr Chapman Dr Chapman was so 80 impressed that he lie referred re ro I to it in iii n one o of his sermons anti and asked ld for or the name of the till engine driver It happened that Mrs Ellington tou was a mom member cr of DI Dr Chapman Chapman's i choir and immediately after the time service she told the evangelist c of her husbands husband s 's The Tho following in day Mr I Ir Ellington Ellington El El- lington was taken to the time Richmond hotel hotel ho ho- tel and there thero introduced to the evan ovan- gelist The TIme preachers have since obtained ob ta tamed pictures of t the e engine driver r er his wife the engine au and the tho ens cosy home hom in Manchester These IThe pictures picture tell a story tory which may mav 31 11 the conversion con of lW In pee poo- pie Alexander er told toM Mr Mi- 1 Ellington We We e shall use me them in ill ever city we enter cuter on OU our tour lour t our of tho the world worl |