The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-10

The European railway employees IN IN
dia are greatly opposed to the employ,
ment of native Indians or those of mixed |
blood (Eurasians) as engine drivers, hre-
men shunters, ETC., and their organ, the
Indian Rail,oay Seruice Gazette, is full OF
arguments and examples to prove that 1t
is dangerous to put any but Europeans on
railway duty. The following apparently
somewhat imaginative story Is from the
paper referred to:
aAt a refreshment-rOom at station on
a well-known Indian railway in the East
Indies. two gentlemen sat at breakfast;
the one was the Locomotive Superintend-
emf Of the line, the other the Chiet-Jus-
tice of Calcutta. They were travelling by
the up slow passenger tram Drawn up q,
the station. The Chief-Justice addressed
the Locomotive Superintendent as 1ol-
lows: L hear we are to have naive
driver for the next length; do you con-
slider it safe to run native drivers with
passenger trains, or for that matter even
rood trains2 The official replied In
broad Scottish accent, Nae, nae, dinna
fear. the native driver will do muckle
weel, and carry you along safe and soune.'
But said the Chief-Justice, if anything
should go wrong with the machinery
ooh. dinna fear. | haze speered with the
: mon mysel'. and if he is bamfoozled by
! the breaking of one of the gimcracks OF
, the engine. I have told him to stop the
. train and III go on the engine my ain
: sep and put all straight: so dinna be
fashed.' Somewhat treasured. as the bel
i rang for the last time, the Chief-Justlce
r seated himself in his carriage, the Loco
4 motive Superintendent entered his luxu
: rious travelling saloon, and the trail
a passed out of the station.
e 1.-THE native driver, Ramjan, was fan
|e attic CT the worst type; he had long envle'
7e the assassinators OF CHIEFLY Justice Normal
and Earl Mayo, and longed for an oppor
tunity to follow in their footsteps. A
" last a bright idea struck him-he becam
20 fireman on the railway, and being PAL
= ticularly obsequious to the locomotlv
w foreman, was speedily promoted to tn
10 rank of driver, and now he was IN charg
I'd Of passenger train in which he had a
NC certained was a real live Chief Justice,
s. saw nothing of Locomotive Superlntef
SO dent. - :.
be 8. Night drew on, and Ramjan had Pile
or his native fireman freely with arrack an
o. bhang. until he was quite stupefed, an
nut sat dreamily staring at the coal hea
Ramjan himself heaping up coal IN Il
he firebox. and putting on a full pressure
no steam. At the next station the tram WI
lat booked to pass the down mail, the han
lie ian had ascertained, through the wire,
lly some of his bhais in the telegraph ofnc
he that in the down mail was Lleutenan
ICE Governor and some other high officials
took a good pull at the arrack bottle hll
al self, and, instead of drawing up at 9
nj. j station, steamed past it at full speed u
I'VE mail had left, and Ramjan was IN u.
spirits at the prospect of collision ano
ap- speedy passport to Paradise But
sh- 4sThe best laid schemes Of mice ana men
her Gang aft aglee.
ian SIN the third-class compartment,
red Europeans only, sat q European VINO
at been an engine-driver on the railway, y
ant had been lately discharged on account
reduction of establishment. he h1d e
pm ill and had wife and children at no
use depending on him, and was travelling