On Donovan's Division (1912)
Donovan "fired" for Engineer Tracy on the fast freight run. The manly ways of "the big fireman had completely won little Kitty Carlin, the daughter and assistant of John Carlin, station agent at Hillsdale. Donovan adored Kitty, but dared not tell her of his love. The regular Sunday excursion train to the lake left Perrin Station, half-way down the mountain, loaded with women and children. It was followed by the fast freight with Tracy at the throttle and Donovan "firing." All went well until the steep south grade was reached, when Tracy looked down across the double reverse curve that stretched three miles below. The excursion train had slowed down a bit to keep on schedule time, so Tracy applied the air brakes to avoid getting too close to the other train on the grade. They failed to work. He quickly called Donovan and together they worked at the brakes, the forty heavily laden box cars behind, fast gaining momentum and pushing the now useless engine ahead at increasing speed. Then the yellow streak in Tracy asserted itself; he prepared to jump and desert his engine. Donovan was at him like a tiger and together they grappled in the swaying cab until a blow sent Donovan down long enough to enable the cowardly engineer to jump. Donovan sprang to the throttle. Only a quarter of a mile now separated the trains. A sudden thought, there was one chance in ten thousand, and Donovan took it. South River station was just ahead. Quickly scribbling a message on the back of an order slip, he wrapped it in his handkerchief, weighted it with a lump of coal, leaned far out of the swaying cab and heaved it through the window of the little station. In one minute that message was flashed to Hillsdale, where Kitty was at the key, and in thirty seconds more the brave girl had side-tracked the excursion train and turned the switch back, sending Donovan and the fast freight on down the main line. Donovan runs the fast freight regularly now and at a certain crossing waves to little Mrs. Donovan.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harold M. Shaw | Director |
| Hanson Durham | Writer |
| Bannister Merwin | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Bigelow Cooper | |
| Edna Flugrath | |
| Charles Ogle | |
| William Wadsworth |
