Show fifty famous fro frontiersmen easm e II 11 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON hank monk stage driver OF V ALL ALI the men who guided tile tho lumbering concord stage coach coaches ea across the plains and over the mountains n of the west in tile the days before the lie railroad came none was more famous titan than hank flank monk ile he Is s not so HO much remembered however as ho he should ho be for being tho the driver who on july SO 30 1858 brought the aw first coach mail over the central overland route to its western terminus nt at pla ila berville cerville ville calif as he Is for being the man who onee squelched the great horace greeley Oro eley the new york editor who felt qualified to give advice to annond and everyone including abraham lincoln the story of hank flank and horace Is one of the classics of the west alvest in ISM 1859 greeley made 0 trip to tile the pacific coast slid and it happened to be blank monk who was on the bridge of the conch coach which took the renowned easterner out of carson city nev As they started greeley leaned out of the window and informed hank flank that ho he expected to bo be in placerville erville right on time so go he could catch the connecting conch for sacramento hank was not accustomed to taking orders from anyone least of it all from tin an eastern tenderfoot hut but he only smiled blandly and said eald at all right the first few miles of tile the trip were upgrade and hank flank had to take it slow blow jut hut when lie he reached the crest of tho the sierras he began to throw tile the leath er into his six horse team down the rocky trall trail thundered tile the heavy coach and lurching over rocks and chuckholes holes three times the terrified easterner tried to lean out the window and shout some more advice hut but every time lie ha was thrown back into the conch coach the fourth time he succeeded and to his shriek shrieked el commands to 1 flank la nil to slow down that western jehu shouted back gally gaily keep your sent seat Ilo racel ill get you there on timet and lie he did dudl I 1 when the admiring populace of placed rille heard the story they presented hank flank with it 11 gold watch hatch engraved with these words keep your jour seat ter ilor ace and for the next net half century tint that became a byword by word when hen a westerner wanted to rebuke impatience there was another to the incident however when greeley was a candidate for president sent word to horace that if lie he was elected it light be a pleasant memento of their ride together it if greeley would to ahe ive him some easy government job to tills this the testy editor replied 1 I 1 ifould won rattier rather set sec you ou ten thousand thuu saiK fathoms in li I 1 than give you iou even it crust of bread for you iou are the only man who ever hat had it in tits his pow er to put me in a ridiculous light bl be fore the american people anti and you vil ul exercised that power |