The St. Johns herald., 1890-12-25
TIE GUARDS sTo7Y.
How an Engineer Save5 I.:sc and T-eult-.
 and How IIe K.ns i.e.EaIa..I

How an Engineer Save! T.:Fc and Tault..
 and How He Mas Rewarded.
 Coming down On the elevated road
 late at night short time ago fell into
 conversation with the guard, says
 New York Star reporter. He was <
 pleasant fellow. The night man arc
 apt to be. They have less t-aEic GnG
 the natural social instincts of men dis
 play themselves in spite of corporations
 and iron-bound rules. ks Te swunr
 into South Ferry station he shouted out:
 ''There goes Inc money train"
 looked and saw single car attached to
 an engine stoaming ID tlio track. ] had only glimpse cf it, but tlat was eu5- fcient to arouse my curiosity. Ny co-c- panion was fall Of the subject, and gathered some interesting details of al important feature Of railroad routine.
 Singular you never saw that bcforc," said the guard. The car is oval in shape, holds three or four men, gathers up the tickets and 'bocdle,' and is nat urally looked after pretty sharp by the company. The men in tho ear all carry
 guns and are generally loaded for  The car starts cut about one CT two o'clock in the morning and goes up and down the Second avenue road, stopping at every station and collecting the tickets in the boxes and the cash from the office. Next trip is taken on the Third avenue road and then on the others in regular order, the car 'Iay1ng up' for the day about five a. n. near Fifty-eighth street. on the Ninth ave- nue line. I've heard say that sometimes she carries about S20.CO0. In fact, that's only a light estimate.
 Nobody monkeys with that train or with the men n it," continued my in- formant, smiling grimly to himself. 1t wouldn't be healthy. l do remember a time, though, when there came near be- ing circus. There had been some trouble with laboring men-something of that kind-and they laid off to wreck the train. You can't do it easy. The hange on the wheel always catches when you run up on the guard beam on each side of the track, and you can't run into the street. The gang knew this, and they tried something new. They put an inclined block on each track so the train might run up and over. That might go, It was a dirty trick. I suppose they expected to lay below and rob the car when she smashed in the street. Killing the engineer, of course, didn't count. All the same they got left. There was Q quick young fel- low on the road that time. He saw the blocks in the flash of the engine light and stopped the train in her own length. He saved every thing and kept his wife from being a widow in the bargain, I guess. think 1 read poem about it in one of the illustrated papers-Har- per's Weekly, it seems to me. The con- pany was very grateful to that young engineer"
 I'm glad of it." said I, heartily. ''He certainly did them 6 service. What did they do for him? Let's see. He saved at least S2O, 900 for the road. l suppose ! they gave him g, ,oo0."
 Not much, said the guard. folding his . arms and winking at me confldentially. | "When corporations do that we'll be near the millennium, and won't have so much need Of the ministers preachin' the New Testament at the directors on Sundays. The way things go they don't have no call to let up on them sharps. I never heard that Sheridan got cent for what he done. 1 suppose directors think mans bound to save his own life, any way, and as fer payin' him for their own they're keepin' all they get, make no mistake. l understand they gave the engineer an earlier run and 10 was glad enough to get it. The strain ,n him in those hours wasn't SO great, md it was less rough on his kidneys"