Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-20

great Hungarian patriot. The railroad man
did not catch the drift Of the resolution and
asked its import. The lady told him that
they were expressing regret at the death
of Kossuth.
20, yes" he responded. He's the man
that finished his run the other day. and got
his time. Queer, amt II? II don't make any
difference who We take orders from, nor
what road we run on; whether We fire for
the devil. or con. for the general manager
of the whole system; whether We get the
run east, down into the valley with all the
brakes set and hugging the rails, or west
and climb the divide with every pound of
steam crowded on, and the throttle vile
open, we all side track in the same yard
when We get to the end of the division and
pull off our caps. We may have knocked
down, and stood in with the boys run wild
and disobeyed orders straight through the
whole job without the company getting onto
US a single time. but there amt no use try
ing to fool the paymaster at the end of that
run. There is no disputing that pay roll: 1
reckon It's about the only place where a
good man gets paid in full for over time,
and 1 miss my guess If hot box ISN'T
about the size Of the check that the most of
US will get.
"Helloi danger ahead, hear 'em whistle
down brakes" while he had been moral
iZing on the latter end OF man. the House
had got to the contested election case of
ONell-Joy, and things were In the usual
snarl in an instant.
There amt anything the matter with the
grip on tnat Dell rope, ellner, auueu lne
railroad man. as the gavel beat its fusillade
on the desk of the chairman, and the
threadbare plea for the House to please be
in order was put forth. Has the walking
delegate ordered "a lock out?" he asked.
curiously, as the regular filibustering be-
gan. He was informed that, on the con-
trary, there was an order for the members
to come in and do their duty in making a
quorum to do business.
well, the most of them must be color
blind then, for they don't seem to sense the
signal. II / was superintendent Of this
crew, I'd fire the whole blamed shootin'
match and take on a gang that would stand
by the company in an emergency. Maybe
there has been a landslide along the line
somewhere and the wires are down, so they
can't get ORDERS" he suggested.
"You bet there has been a landslide" put
in a man who had been an interested listen
er to the conversation; but they have got
orders fast enough; the trouble is they don't
like them. The orders are to fire one of the
section bosses and take on another who held
down the Job once before. till the boys voted
to fire him, and the most of them don't like
the order a little bit, so they have refused
to turn a wheel till they have matters ad-
iusted to suit them, or they are outvoted by
the malcontents.
Rather expensive. that, especially IL the
fellows time goes on. 1 should think IL
would be pretty hard on the company hold
ing up its business that way"
"Oh. the nation pays the freight whether
the goods are delivered or not" was the
sardonic response.
THAT may be according to schedule. but
the nation that has such tariff rates has a
time table, too, and, I reckon. it calculates
to run a crew that will stand by her inter-
ests and put the machine through on or
ders. II they get too fly they may get their
time, and the company reorganiZe on a
working schedule that has fewer stops,
longer runs and less likelihood of collisions
! through promiscuous strikes. Too many
wrecks will bust up the richest system of
railroads on earth and result in throwing
the whole thing in the hands Of a receiver"