Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-02-04
DAILY DEMOCRAT
Liberal Reward for Hush
ing up that Little
Matter.

From the new Ysrk Dsneerss
II hiss been limited quite generally that
Of the hundred and edo eend uctors on the
Erie Railway net oil Of them we're strictly
honest. Il has been said tina, . few Of
them, on moderate salaries, have, like
members Of Congress, sueeeeded in saving
from ten 70 thirty thousand dollars year.
Some Of them have built fns house, pur-
chased hsssss, carriages, 6ns clothes, fash
ionabls jswslry, expensise watches, some
United States bends, Esd few shares 10
Erie. There ore sous men who are eiusl
enough to cay this property bee bssn &C.
qairsd, not By honest labor, but with men.
y distracted BY . sess Of sondustosisl
strategy. frem the easnings Of the road,
and Invested By the ssodustors rather than
By ths directors Net Icing sises, while
regulating the Erie, its branches, and oil
connecting railresds In the csussry, il vas
decided, 10 sslsm sonclavs, to regulate the
conductors . little. Everybody said, and
everybody mu.t know, that conductors. like
unrdly children wh.n visiting, helped hem
selves Acting upon this basis, Manager
Fisk lately undertook the jeb Of correct.
ing the evils existing among the oonduc>
tors, or supposed 10 exist and, after hav-
ing estimated that they had bagssd enough
during the last Eve or elk years to build
double track over half the route Of the
Erie, decided to have them disgorgc. With
this view. notices had been sent, within
thelpast fortnight. to very many Of the old
conductors CT the road, whe reside at vari.
GUS points on the line, ordering them 70 re.
pert forthwith to the Superintendent Of.
ice, on important business. The other
day. one Of the conductors, whose name
it 10 not necessary to give here, whe rev
sides in Oswsge, WAS called dswn, ushered
into the Supsrintsndsn t's Office, and from
there into Manager Fnk's ssem, when, il
is reported, the following conversation tesk
place:
Manaesr-"Yss ore ssndustor on The
Erie, l believer
"Yss, sir"
"Hew long have ysa bssn On the
Fifteen years."
"Had . passenger train all that time, l
believe"
"Yes, SIR"
"wsrth considerable property. l learn Z"
'Ssme."
"Ilavs very Ans house IN Os~sss. Cost
ysu some thirty, fsrty, Or Cry thousand
dollars p
"Yss, sir"
"some little nensy invested in bonds, l
am told p
Eyes, SIR"
"Own farm near whore you rssids7 2"
"Yss, sir"
HAD nsthing when you commenced ~
conductor on our road :"
Nothing to speak Of; only home fer
the future"
Md" Md the property SINGER
''Besn q work for 10 ether parties Z"
mo. But | have been saving Of ~
money; invested il from time to time to
gssd Advantage
swell, sir, what will you give 70 settle
Or course you cannot pretend TO say that
ysu have acquired this property frsm what
you nave saved frem yeur salary? Yeu
will net deny that yeu have pocksted .
great deal 81 msnsy belonging to the rosd
At least 6fty or sixty thousand dollars.
New. sir, what will you give to settle, and
not DO disgracsd. - you certainly will b,
il trial 10 brought, and yes are compelled
to give up the property you profess to ewn,
but which, in reality belongs to the Com
pany ~
well, Mr.. Manager, had not thought
Of this matter. For several years have
been running my train 10 the best Of my
ability. Never locked At the matter in this
light before. Never thought I was doing
anything wrong. l have dsns nothing
more than other conductors have tried 70
earn my salary and get it-and think I've
succeeded. l don't know thst owe tho
Company anything. II vsu think | do.
Why, there's little difference Of opinion.
and don't want any trouble over it. l
havs.a nice family, nice father and mother
relatives, all people Of good standing they
would feel very bad to have me arrested
and charged vi dishonesty. II would
kill my wife. She has every confidence IN
me in the wsrld, sod the idea that l. her
husband, would take 90 little 40 penny
that did not bsleng to mo would send her
broken hearted to the grave. don't care
any thing for the matter myself, but on &C.
count Of my family and relatives. want to
make il right with the road and tho officers,
and il you won't say ANYTHING more about
it, ia gire you dollar ~
A country paper in noticing the death Of
n Rnrfhv nifizsn cavs. CA n al A.hor ha