Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-01
TIE GUARDS STORY.
How IAN Icnglneor Saved I.iFN and Wealth
ANA How HO Was Rewarded.


ANA How HO Was Rewarded.
Coming down on tho elevated road
late ut night 20 short timo ogo fell into
conversation with tho guard, says q
Now York Star reporter. no was q
pleasant fellow. Tho night man arc
apt to be. They hnvo less traffic and
tho natural social instinct2 of mon dis
play Themselves in spite of corporations
and fron-bound rules. 10 wo swung
into South Ferry station he shouted out:
'"rhcro goca tho money train"
looked and cav single car attached to
on cngino stcaming up tho track. had
only G glimpse Of it, but that was suf-
flcicnt to arouse my curiosity. My CON-
panion was full of tho subject, and 1
gathered como interesting details of an
important feature of railroad routine.
singular YOU ncvor saw that BEFORE"
said tho guard. Tho car is oval in
Shnpc, holds three or four mon, gathers
up tho tickets and doodle, and is nat
llrally looked after pretty sharp by tho
company. Tho men in tho car all carry
gums and arc generally loaded for
bear SO they're not troubled much.
Tho Car starts ont about ono Or two
o'clock in tho morning and goes up and
down tho Second avenue road, stopping
at every station and &C llccting tho
tickets in tho boxes and the cash from
tho Office. Next q trip is taken on tho
Third avenue road and thcn on tho
others in regular order, tho COR laying
up for tho day about five n. IN. noar
Fifty-cighth street, on tho Ninth ave-
nuo limo. I've heard say that sometimes
sho carries about S2o.G COO. In fact, that's
only q light estimate.
Nobody monkeys with that train or
with tho men IN it," continued my in-
formant, smiling grimly to himself. cit
wouldn't no healthy. 1 do remember
time, though. when thcro camo near be-
ing q circus. Thcro had boon somo
trouble with laboring mcn-soncthing
Of that liind-and thoy laid of to wreck
tho train. You can't do it easy. Tho
Tango on tho wheel always catches
when you run up on tho guard beam on
each Sido Of tho track, and you can't
run into tho street. The gang knew
this, and they tried something now.
They put an inclined block on each
track 60 tho train might run up and over.
That might GO. 1t was dirty
trick. 1 suppose they expected to lay
in tho street. Killing tho engineer, of
course, didn't count. All tho Same they
got left. Thore was Q quick young fcl.
low on tho road that time. IIa saw tho
blocks in tho fash of tho cngino light
and stopped tho train in her own length.
lIo saved ovcry thing and Kept his wife
from being widow in the bargain, l
guess. think read poem about it
in ono OF tho illustrated papcrs-Har-
pcr's Weekly, it seems to mo. The COM
pany was very grateful to that young
engineer"
Pm glad Of it" said I, heartily. sic
certainly did them service. What did
they do for him? Let's SEQ. He saved
at lcast $4,000 for tho road. / suppose
they gavo him $1,000"
Not much, said tho guard, folding his
arms and winlzing ut mo confidentialiy.
"Whcn corporations do that we'll 10
near tho millennium. and won't have SO
much need OF tho ministers prcachin'
tho New Testament at tho directors on
Sundays. The way things go they don't
havo no call to Let up on thom sharps.
lncvcr heard that Sheridan got cont
for what no dono. suppose directors
think mans bound to savo his own
life, any way, and as for payin' him for
their own they're kcepin' all they Get,
mako no mistake. ! understand thoy
gavo tho engineer an earlier rum and
ho was glad enough to get it. Tho strain
on him in those hours want SO great,
and it waS loss rough on his Kidneys"