Telegram-herald., 1890-02-21
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@Wby i II shas ths trz.n robbers
Esysr elandsr pay tralnf
Because t1ey know their reward
sosld 70 TO ns.guircsnt"
TnaE = sas say an ex-rallFoA1 Ha2a
PIT l.
''Less noaey." he ADDED. Is carried
On pay train taaa On aDY other kind q
train S0Hs folks imagine that The pay
Of tAs employees Of TIE tso great systems
terminating hers, Aggrsgaang hundreds
% Ehoass2ds noathLy, = piled away In
TIE cara aad = hauled over TIE soad,
"isns that rhs esseF"
Urea SooEr. no. TIE trains would Be
robbed before they got yell out of "a
vsnnah. Besides, who would Dc able 70
keep up with carload OF money! Il Is
largely silver, and the sen-cent pieces
and the niekels and the coppers would
run away with things."
How Is the business conducted,
then?"
Easily enough. In fact there is but
one way 70 properly carry IL on. That
way = 10 draw on the banks ~ each city
for enough 70 pay OF until the next city
Is reached Fos instance, in leaving
Savannah over either the Savannah,
Florida & Western railroad or the Cen
tral railroad just enough money is taken
to pay OF employees, including agents.
track hands, operators and Others az
each OF the stations This amount is
not very large. The largest amounts
ara paid out in the cities; for instance,
In Macon the engineers. fremen, con
daetors and yard-hands, and others OF
the Savannah & Western railroad, are
paid on IN Columbus the Savannah &
Western force is pail of; in Augusta
the employees Of the South Carolina
division Of the Central arc paid of the
same is true with the Savannah, Florida
& Western railway. BY this means the
largest sums paid out amount 10 little
more than transfer OF money procured
from the banks, through the paymaster
OF the railroad. 20 the employees. The
sums paid out on the line between the
headquarters OF eaoh division are small
compared 70 the amounts paid on. in the
cities None OF the engineers or fremen
or conductors or brakemen are paid of
a. points along the line. They are the
employees that get the largest pay"
The railroad man related an incident
which took place several years ago.
which he said put matters in bad light
and made the pay train tempting 20
train robbers. A newspaper reporter on
one Of the dailies in a Western town
wrote long article, stating how much
money il required to pay of the employees
OF the road, and concluding by saying il
was singular that the robbers seldom
held pay-trains up. The figures the
newspaper man gave were correct, and
the article attracted widespread atten-
tion.
Several officials OF the road went 70
I the general manager about the matter,
and began 20 suggest remedy for what
they considered very bad practice.
The general manager explained "a
( them that the amount OF money carried
on pay trains was small compared Ia
what is carried on the regular mail and
express train, but the matter was not
+ settled until the newspaper man pub
/ lished an interview with the general
manager, giving the facts and stating
/ the manner in which business was con
/ ducted on pay trains. The railroadeI
said, however, that the danger of pay.
train robbery Is very slight The rob.
bers have posted themselves about these
/ matters-Sayaunah (Ga1 News