The Meeker herald., 1891-06-27
THE GUARDS STORY.


How an EuRinr.r say.d Life and Wealth
and How lie Mas Rewarded.
Coming down on the elevated road
lato at night q short time ago fell into
conversation with the guard, says a
New York Star reporter. He was a
pleasant fellow. The night man are
apt to be. They have less traffic and
the natural social instinots of men dis
play themselves in spite OF corporations
and irou.bound rules. AS We swung
into South Ferry station he shouted out;
There goes the money train"
looked and saw single ear attached TO
an engine steamlng up the track. had
only glimpse Of 1t, but that was suf-
iicient TO arouse my curiosity. My com
panion was full OF the subject, and
gathered some interesting details OF AL
important feature OF railroad routine.
singular you never saw that before,
said tho guard. The car is oval in
shape, holds three or four men, gathers
up tho tickets and doodle, and Is nat
uraliy looked after pretty sharp by the
company. The men in tho car all carry
guns and are generally loaded for
bear no they're not troubled much.
Tho car starts out about one or 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 tho cash from
tho Office. Next a trip Is taken on tho
Third avenue road and then ON the
others In regular order, the car laying
up for thapt.ay about 1--WE u. m. near
Fifty-cighth street, on tho Ninth ave-
,vl a. that az :.
she carries about $4,000. In fact, that's
only Itch, estimate.
Nobody monkeys with that train or
with tho men IN it," continued my in
for,nant, smiling grimly To himself. lit
wouldn't lie healthy. do remember
time, though. when there came near be-
Ing circus. There had been some
trouble with laboring mcn-somothlng
OF that kind-and they laid OF 10 wreck
the train. You can't do IL easy. The
iangc on tho whpcl always catches
whom you run up on the guard beam on
each side q! 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 Nigh, run up and over.
That Nigh, SO. Il Was dirty
trick. suppose they expected 10 lay
below and rob the ear when she smashed
In III. street Killing tho engineer. Of
course. didn'i count. All til. same they
80, loft. There was quick young fell
low ON tn. road that time. lie saw tho
block. In the flash Of tho cngin. light
and stopped the train In her own length.
lie saved oycry thing and KEEP, His wlio
from being a widow In tho bargain. |
guess think Rad a poem about IL
In one Of the Illustrated pap-rs-ii.F-
pcrs Weekly. IL seems "a me. Tho com.
psny was very grateful 10 iha, young
engineer"
"l'm glad Of Il" said I, heartily. III"
certainly did them service, What did
Ihoy do for him7 Let's Koc. lie saved
at lcas; 10000 for the sO-l. ! .uppos"
they gave him si.pco."
NO; much. said',hc guard. folding his
arm. and w!nkIns a, me coniii-niiaiiy.
"Whoa corporations do that well b"
near III. millennium. and won; have ~
much need a. tho ministers prcashin'
tho New Tcsiamcn, a. the director. on
sundays. Thew things 60 they don;
have NO call 10 L.. up on ,h-m shsrps.
never heard that Sheridan ~, cont
Tor ~hs, no done. suppose dlrvr,arn
think a A-n,. A~und To save hi. own
life. any way. and a. for payin' him for
their own they're k--pin' all they got,
make NO mistake. ! understand they
gave tho engineer an earlier run and
he VAS glad enough 'or sc; IL. The strain
on hlts in ,aosr hour, uasn', 20 Frra,.
snd !, ~as lcna rough on his Kidneys"