Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-04
AN INSTRUCTIVE PAPER.

MIR. wiliam e. Barnett Reads a
Valuable Paper Full OF Good sug.
gestions Before the Independent
order OF Railroad Conductors-
Many Prominent Railroad Men
Present.
At the postponed meeting of the INDIE
pendent Order of Railroad Conductors,
which was held yesterday afternoon in the
Masonic temple, corner of Union and
Chapel streets, Mr.. William E. Barnett,
executive secretary of the Consolidated
road, read very interesting and instruct
i've paper on 'sThe Railroad Service" The
following is a brief abstract of it:
s'There are things which are now safe to
be done which in a few years will probably
| be considered of the greatest danger. This
shows that there is progressiveness in the
science of railroad care, and in this man
ner employees will go to higher and higher
| grades of carefuluess and attention to
| duty Care in the performance of duty is
one of the elementary principles of bust
ness virtue, and it behooyes all persons
| who are engaged in such business as this
| to look to its observance, for there are
| things in respect to which no book Of in
struction or time table can advise one. A
man who tries not only to do his own
duty, but to be vigilsnt and watchful in
lines parallel to his duty, such man is
more than vigilant. He is alert and he il
valuable. This very thing came under my
notice at the recent fire, when the prompt
| and efficient action of q clerk on the second
the company.
| s'The same principle was illustrated in the
case of Andrew Garfield at the burning OF
the grain elevator in Bridgeport. And fol
his alertness the president presented him
with gold watch. But do not overdo thu
matter, for oftentimes in striving to b.
overmuch alert the contemplate traits o.
busy-bodiness and intermeddling are de
veloped. Coupled with carefulness should
be a thorough appreciation of the business
in which You are engaged, for you COM
irritable and drunken people, nervous
people, obstinate and perverse PEG pie. You
gentlemen are the point of contact be
tween the corporation and the people. o,
the one hand we have the corporatio,
wildly painted before the popular imag
| nation in the darkest colors, charged will
one kind of electricity; on the other, a trai,
load of the distressed and i'll treated publ
charged with another kind of electricity
and you are the point of contact. Surel,
sparks will fly here if anywhere. You ar
rightly called conductors. Non-conductor
would not do
"Ani then a thorough knowledge of tn
| passengers rights is necessary. In q mum
Der of cases the company has been mulcte'
for heavy damages for the use of littl
too much force in expelling obstinat
} passengers who were impressed very con
siderably with their own importance
, You can expel riotous, drunken, deliriou
persons or those who are infected wit
contagious diseases.
sit also is of the highest importance t
| the company that order be maintained
In this region of the country, where train
more of a virtue than bravery o
courage. wish that could impress mos
strongly on you the virtue of tact. 70
cannot render any better service than th
exercise of good Judgment and tact in you
dealings with the general public. 1t is tao
| to please the deadheads who wish to rid
along without having their names pub
lished throughout the car, and it re COZ
? | Giles the difference between the men VIII
, ! want the windows up and the women VIII
q | want them down. But patience sometime
use force.
"But in conclusion let US remember tbs
we are engaged in an honorable business
which involves human life and great con
!. mercial interests, and that we are boun
about by innumerable technicalities of th
| law. Let us therefore strive to do our who
duty and render the most efficient servie
. possible"
4 Among those present at the lecture wei
| President G. P. Clark, Lucius Tuttle, ger
eral manager; Director Trowbridge, o.
: Shepard, superintendent of New Yor
r division; Comptroller II. NJ. Kocherspe
: ger, Superintendent Ostrander of the A
f Line, Superintendent Waterbury of tt
Shore Line, John G. Parker, Preside1
Clark's secretary, and J. 81. Chase, Supe
l intendent Ostrander's clerk, with abor
Q | twenty conductors and ten engineer
making in ali about fifty railroad peopl
Conductor Kenyon of the Shore Line pr