five o'clock
There were numerous interruptions at first , but later in the day the stream of wagons became almost continuous . Farmers living on other than the Manistogee roads came into Ledyard and hurried back to tell their neighbors of the chance to get ahead of the railroad for once . Dennis , who was in charge at the yard , had hard work to keep up with the supply of empty wagons . Sloan disappeared early in the morning , but at five o'clock Bannon had a telephone message from him . `` I 'm here at Blake City , '' he said , `` raising hell . The general manager gets here at nine o'clock to-night to talk with me . They 're feeling nervous about your getting that message .