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Show BUSINESS WAITS AS HUMANITY GOES BY Engineer Nurses Rival for Contracts SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 12. There are times when the great god Bual-ness Bual-ness has to atop for a few moments while Humanity goes by, and this is the story of one of those times: Two engineers set out from the t'nlted ptates on a race, half way round the world, for trade. From Krie, Pa., stHrted Chester A. Ftewart. From Lx-troit, Mich., started Kugene F. Colbath. The aim nf each waa to reach Jukehl, India. They represented rival firms. Two great 78-C railroad type steamshovels were to Deinstalled. Colbath, under contract by an Kn- ; glish cement firm, was first on the 1 Job. But the fever was Just ahead of him, and he was stricken a few hours sfter his srrival. There whs no white man there to help him. He faced death, when In r-ame Stewart, rival fr the engineering Job. ItiA llj.3rl nh i Its HiI nnt Instead he grabbed Colbath and started start-ed nursing him back to health as lest he could. Also he started to hurry Stewart out of that section. He soon found they were In the revolution gone and would have to travel by night. For days they foraged for-aged food and slowly beat their way back to 4 he railroad station at Ky- j more, where they awaited a train to Calcutta. "There I was liberally doped with quinine and made ready for a return home,' Colbath relates. "There Is no doubt that .Stewart saved my life.' |