Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-09-04
WAITING FOR DEAD MEMS SHOES.
The Grim Intelligence Unemployed Men
Are Ever In Haste to Garry.

The Grim Intelligence Unemployed Men
Are Ever In Haste to Carry.
Jimmy Reilly's lost his job!' said
pea jacket and blue flannel shirt as he
sey City on one of the coolest, snowiest
days. And I'd like to leave my name
for the job O. brakin in his place, sir
ssLost his job? How's that?'
.'Jist got killed up in the yardv' re-
piled the young man in the pea jacket.
The railroad official promised to hold
the application under consideration, and
the man went out, evidently well pleased.
''There is no Calling" said the officer.
80 beset with dangers and hlrdships IS
that of a railroad brakeman, especial =
Oh a freight or coal train. and yet W =
so brakemen killed on this or any other
road today there would be an eager and
anxious applicant for each mans place
as soon as the news of his death became
known. The man who was in here just
now evidently saw Brakeman 1,"i.!Y
killed, because it couldn't have happened
long before he came in, as [ have re-
ceived no official notice of the accident
yet, and reports Of that kind come in
very promptly. That man witnessed
Re1lly's death. but whatever impression
it made upon him was lost in tho fac:
that the dead man had left place to be
filled by some one else. That pronlpte,:
him to act at once, and he lost not Il sec
ond in securing whatever Of advantage
he believed priority of claim for the
place might give him.
Every railroad has small array 81
these anxious and waiting applicants for
chances to step into dead mems SIS
hanging around it's yards and s.. =.
They are chiefly men who have followed
railroading all their lives and have -
their jobs in some way. You sec. -.
roading is good deal like politics. :. :,
man goes into it once, he isn't va
snap for anything else, and SO if l. :, =
cut of it he is perpetually on the
for the opportunity that must conc
hin. to get III again. There Is
the men refer to who does III f'~l :.
genuine sorrow when railrot,. :
killed, and few of thcIn would = Sc
TO risk their own lives in an cTU1l -.
save that Of any traininan il e. -,
although thc-- might know that the :
of that man would place them -,
bes: position they could hope ever i.
yet they haunt TIE tracks and he =:
yards day after lay watching t,l.sv-.
ing and the coming and goin3 : -:
knowing that some one of the t::!--
or switchmen Is sure to be !.:..,l rs.
and then.
when the fellows of the il9n yin.
cane here IN such haste to hes, -; =,
Ecilly's place hear of Reilly's death. 49,.
will bemoan the hard fate that lrrvr.a =,
them from being present when BE-
killed and robbed them Of :. c.....4ct' Il.
reach my ear first. 1t ifn't at 81 -.
that this -erprising yo':,ls, la,::l y.
,lircd III l.eilly's place. ;tlt.lOu.,A ~ i.
be. If he isn't, it vii not Silt
faith, nor that of any of the u. lr..
re Importance of having ear | Il
beuce of fatal acci ats t. II ."l.u.:
and BEING early to NY oiIice VIII
news and an application: or. J.. to- =:
dent occurs It Il distance. to tae o!..e.,'
the one having authority at t.lat l.,4i..,
There is one of these mcn Wa La
brought me tle first news CT seven 4.
ferent men lie has seen killed. an / L.
now. have no doubt. Watching n
other accident with the hope that Ky =.
get the dead mans job. New Yortl .,stn.