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Show TO MST STAY-AT-IIOME HEROES ON TRAVELING HOLT, OF HONOH I I j Brave services on the battlefront Mre being rewarded with honorable 'mentions, decorations and honors. I Why not honor men who render brave services in their daily work? .The Canadian Pacihc Railway Com-'pany Com-'pany has decided to do so. Its roster of faithfnl employees contains the msmes of many engineers who are "heroes cf the rail." The manner in which honor will be shown these drivers of "iron horses" Is to place the name of each on a locomotive. If you number any en-ffineers en-ffineers among your acquaintances jyou will know that nothing could be Idevised that would please them 'better. Tho Canadian Pacific operates oper-ates more than ,000 locomotives and soon the traveler over iLs lines will find the name of a "veteran of ihe throttle" showing up alongside the prosaic engine number and as he rules he may read the honor roll of this branch of the great road's service. serv-ice. Each name will mean a story; each story will be unique. To the initiated, Bronco Wilson will stand for the record of one of tho most popular western engineers. One who considers it a disgrace to let his engine die on the road, even though to prevent it means drawing his lire, laying slabs over hot prates,! caulking tubes in blinding steam, building a new fire and "bringing her in" against a fifty-mile-an-hour wind with the mercury at 60 below. Ash Kennedy grew up with tho west and ran engines while the prairie grasses still covered much of the present right-of-way. Like te prairies he is big mentally, morally! and physically, commanding respect1 from fellow workmen and otticiais father of western engineers and Assistant As-sistant Grand Chief of the Brotherhood. Brother-hood. Dave Bowker. identified particularly particular-ly with No. 920, has a record ejf thirty-four years without a black mark. Norman Wight forced by illne.ss into other works holds a medal of the Royal Humane Society for a brave rescue at his own Peru. Seeing a child on the track, too lato to stop his train, he ran along the pilot and leaning forward, snatched the little one out of harm's way. All Solloway has thirty years' service to his credit and knows Cascade Canyon like a book. Lew Patrick, called tbe "safe man of tho Selkirks, was .credited with being able to smell I snowslide ten miles avay in the daya before the Connanght Tunnel obviated ob-viated snowslide dangers. Con Leary ; of the prairies, nicknamed The President, Presi-dent, is open-hearted, Dig-hearted 1 and always on time. Further east I wo find Billy Woods, a Sky Pnot in overalls. , Some of the men whose names will be honored, have passed over the Great Divide- Some have done 1 their bit and passed from the active payroll to the pension list. Others are in active service on every divi- liori from Vancouver to bt, Jonn. To a man they are intensely loyal to their company and to their president, presi-dent, Lord Shaughnessy. To them he stands as one who always gives j the Brotherhood a square deal. Am |