Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-12-03

) There was no regular train yesterday morn
ing, on account of the delays by the sno,
storm at Blue Canyon. The conductors ex
cursion train, however, came up from Reno
bringing four carloads of "the boys VIII
hailed from all parts of the United States
There were one hundred and sevsnty-fve il
all, and there was such air of hustle ant
activity about them that one would imagine
that there were at least thousand. They
had been entertained the night before a
Reno by the V. s. T. boys and were loud il
their praises of the hospitality they had re-
ceived.
| AN OLD VETERAN.
An APPEAL reporter found an cid fellow
walking up and down the platform as if he
were on duty and considered the train under
his especial control. He was really only a
passenger for the time being. buthe exam
ined the car wheels every few minutes to see
if they were sound and from pure force of
i habit swung his hand around in the air as if
he had green lantern attached and was sig
mailing the engineer. In answer to some in
quiries he said
give been forty years conductor more or
less, and | expect to die On the train. l
couldn't live off car long. My system needs
| the constant jar OF the wheels. If it didn'
get shook up my digestive apparatus would
clog up like rusty breaks and couldn't make
any kind of time. A mans trucks get pretty
rusty if he side tracks ever SO little. I'm
sorry l came out on this lark. It's like leaving
an engine on the turntable for week.
How many accidents have you ever seen?'
Hundreds, my boy, hundreds. l don't
mind EN- unless the cars telescope, and then
get to the platform in time. / don't care
much for the general run of smash ups. If a
car don't 60 through bridge it don't faze
me-"
ever get hurt2
"Legs broke couple of times when | was
young in the business, shoulder associated
and collar bone broken. Nothing serious.
Lay all night once on the Pennsylvania Cen.
trail with a two hundred pound woman across
my chest as dead as door nail and two men
dying under my head Rough deal that.
Cost the company hundred thousand dol
lars Once took header through window
just as the cars were going off bank, struck
a man passing the track and killed him in
stantly. His heirs wanted damages from me,
but the company had to pungle. Been in
two hundred accidents and always land on
my feet.
THE CONDUCTORS HsME.
'Do you expect to retire eyer!'
"will perhaps"
cor can't you save up enough to live onF'
"Well, we scrape little together. I've got |
a country seat in New York State; cost ME
a couple of hundred thousend, and have
couple of stone buildings in Chicago; all saved
by strict economy and attention to business,
ye see.'
At this point several conductors within ear
shst laughed little.
''Do you ever knock"
''What sirl'
II mean kick man off the train who
hasn't money!"
"Always sir; I've chucked EN- right over
precipice three hundred feet high for being
i've cents short in the fare. I'd put the last
urviving wet nurse of General Washington off
he train in the middle of the American des
rt if she didn't put up.
Correct" remarked at least dozen.
SIS it a fact that-a-some conductors ever
orget to turn over to the Company some of
he money collected during the day.
"All aboard" yelled man in blue and
nd gold cap.
"Fll see you when we come back, said
he veteran conductor, and he swung like
airy on to the train as the cars moved away.
Whenever you come over the Pan Handle
QUITE, my boy, buy your ticket before you
ct on the train. ,
With this piece of advice, he slid into the
ar, and his companions followed suit.
JOTTINGS.