Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-10
SETTLING WITH THE CoNDUo
TORS. ..g5

made by the Erie r. r.. Directors to
come to Settlement" with their con
! ductors, whom they suspected of
"knocking down" fares
Manager Fisk lately undertook the
| job of correcting evilsexisting amongthe
conductors, or supposed to exist and,
after having estimtted they had bag.
ged enough during the last five or six
years to build double track over half
the route of the Erie, decided to have
them disgorge, With this view, no.
tees have been sent within the past
fortnight to very many of the old con.
ductors of the road, who reside at vari.
Gus points on the line, ordering them
to report forthwith at the superinten-
dents Office on important business.
The other day one of the conductors,
whose name it is not necessary to give
here. who resides in Owego, was call
ed down ushered into the superinten-
dents office, and from there into Man
ager Fisk's room, when it is reported,
the following conversation took place
Manager are conductor on
the Erie. 1 believe q
Eyes sir. -
How long have you been on the
road ?"
Fifteen years"
"Had passenger train all that time,
1 believe ?"
Eyes, sir
worth considerable property, 1
learn %
''Some."
'Have very fine house in Owego.
Cost yon some thirty, forty, or fifty
thousand dollars ~
Eyes, sir.
Some little money invested in
bonds, [ am told ?"
''Yes. sir -
Gown farm near where you re-
side ?"
Eyes, sir
clad nothing when you commenced
as conductor on our road ?"
Nothing to speak Of; only home
for the future.
'Made this property since ~
Eyes, sir"
''Been at work for no other par
ties q ,e...,
mo. But | have been saving of my
money invested it from time to time
to good advantage"
"Well, sir, what will you give to
settle ? Of course you can not pretend
to say that yon have acquired this
property from what you have saved
from your salary You will not deny
that you have docketed q great deal of
money belonging to the road@at. least
fifty or sixty thousand dollrrs. Now,
sir, what will you give to settle, and
not be disgraced, as you certainly will
be, if a trial is brought, and you are
compelled to give up the property
which you profess to own, but which,
in reality, belongs to the company %
well, Mr.. Manager, L had not
thought of this matter. For several
years I have been running my train to
the best of my ability. Never looked
at the matter in this light before.
Never thought was doing anything
wrong. l have done nothing more
than other conductors have tried to
earn my salary and get it-and think
I've succeeded. / don't know that I
owe the company any thing, if you
think / do, why. there's little differ
ence of opinion, and don't want any
trouble over it. / have nice family,
nice father and mother relatives all
people of good standing-they would
feel very bad to have me arrested and
charged with dishonesty. 1t would
kill my wife. She has every coufi-
dence in me in the world, and the idea
that /, her husband, would take so
little as penny that did not belong to
me would send her broken hearted to
the grave. / don't care anything for
the matter myself, but on account of my
family and relatives, want to m AXE il
all right with the road and the officers,
and if you won't say anything more
about it, I'll give you dollar u
We understand there was some tall
talking done about that time in the