The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-25

uonary was to play In my career on the tail
10 was . eTisriSd d" vots S%p' had SSn sSYPsaas Z
ten.horse team ON the road with a circus, had
was, rcGSrded.so no informed MEAS ono q
On one the best rs msn p 70 Z ! oSl5 3 q , horses s,s and , to the ,Egu.y
seemed to take q p%aternal interest In mo. For he
you know VIII Tdid that 7
well he said. : I want to zee II you're all
right. II you mean business, you and I can run
f sSsd here / e SaF c sSgsthpiS sh e. tl lSIGS E; q You os ,S;t q s ssS
win 70 laid of for turning in a iiis6t book. You
and tear On the ho SsSFs Shoes sS P 81 / tS can 'n lay back back
ON on my follower and see passengers ton blocks
any other car on the road. or Course. Il
Be bs the s1 %h i sis yUsdT S ssSf iS & the eh ss si@mi Hna q soo old
dSSdbeaseT and the other main guys up at the
you don't, Why that's your lookout. Do you take
The hint II you do; You might run oyer to that
ing trips that night. Pap as i attervsrd
formation. He told me 70 stick to tho Afri.
SSns;, H RS, sSid men on that line were not so
spottors on. this line are all friends OF mine.
Peaye ;! s% * m 5S EN- + lit they sg Eith on s1rS y0af fb car;
Step BY step / learned that il was easier iSr
wages In those days did not sufice to pay his
than some other Conductors. but I don't think
50. I made a deal with Pap, my driver. paid
ly every Saturday night gave him o fver. bo-
sides. He told me whom to buy theatre tickets
aft You don't want to lose your car said
in, with somebody else, and when he mentions
are upstairs in the receivers oflce turning in
q Tine and You viii ind that your car IS sailing
down the avenue with another conductor on It
i nse 'h TSo yS oli ehGs f know 70 all iths s5 5SSs q sh isU :. st S6a
Won't gain anything by kicking to them. Why,
tese car n Stables. '" Il fs don't I, . s%e n day | would saHis go
laid of for blocking the road while liking the
"oid Pap was right. I found that nearly
everybody around the depot had some peculiar
would iaboriousiy count out in front Of the re.
ceiving clerk a certain sum as the receipts Of my
SisrE loF w = aGanq lo s5ip' at am @o KnSSw " ssg Sa and s saS
cali, Ms {s@ !. change he sSs DOM nos e. Esv aof cs,v X ,sSn.s 'lii x
stss 40,
l was not going to take 1t out of the 1925 q day
lone OF the receivers met me several blocks
from the depot ono afternoon and said:
,od,,n \ calls you every morning over at your
why. Pap, my driver was my reply; ro,,
every n moi iRs II C Soa'. cost ,ss y %s but SSy o. ss.1 week. sSG
Ask Pap about it. And he got on the car.
he. Is only Sgi iooftng Tor BIS bis share lss Of your your steal.
ings. You had better let him have the % q
H We I;,I II sg you 1 dOn IN he ,v will give .no,t q tip ! 2 to ops ss Of
Single 'faP thsy will MAKE it their business to
witt such a school Of training as this it was
easy TO believe that to stay in the employ Of the
s saaSins ass 81 e MY Ss' car. a & est eeass sEfs sls no! f e. 80
It as stealing. 1t was part of the code of morals
ws.'9 1S Ssis,R'd in 1t ta faas ! wRs. .h Ss o : sIiaasSsds0 :
fair share of the receipts. because 1t was under
bought the horses to the man who watered
them bS name si h for a M 5Si s. a. same ssas w ssyyi or 9 10 M;
%SiSSleT what's that = I asked.
,. We'll Z 81 he said; r .yo5a ,5 had si1tg-two pas'sn'
well. they were all short ridorsr
That was a good safe load. There. was no
spotter on board. II was not q rush trip: Ion
the use in your stealing ten cents out OF sixty
two fares 1t would not do you any good, anC
you wOulQ Dc just as lhDle 10 nave your LnTOa
cut for stealing 10 cents as II you steal thu
wh9ls car; That's s, n%iSSlinSS; and cnaoS e n nib ~;
those fares out, Of the siity.two. Then, 10,
won't have to take any moro until you get an
" followed Pap's sdvico. and though I wa,
called up occasionally and asked why my, ca
ea&n' s ess9 m s@eu SRRns sitS On answers a ssass' and al I n I Ds
nibbled. Itook Pap's advice on another i'm
'"":Don't nut on any airs around the depot h
said. Wear the he. Oldest clothes you have ave got ct
1ss r ssS shs co snS SS!tt shint Is % goa do SGn l nov
ssSdt sIos6s s:'o On and have e! q sesd time stay a
was only one Of several hundred and m,
experience was similar ;1 to z, that of, Of nearly ever ever
paid. Each ono thought that the company owe
him a good living, and the clever ones got aloni
all right. or course every once in a while Their
"A balloon ascension, was the term used to ds
tho carly morning, before tho day, cars starte
out, there would be suppressed excitemen
S an%bsr the q ss %stnst9 %sn 0S Would an BE- aa sssn Close lsf s.
The starter would call out a list of numbers an
say e each man ar II n turn urn o,v. m. vou, h.d0.
I'm answer to questions he would simpl!
'HpDon't know nothing, about 1t, You're fired
that's all. Suppose you're fred for turning 1
that therehad been another balloon ascension
on tho Broadway road. Those who suffero
would drift away. blacklisted by tho company
and laughed at By those fortunate enough to RI
main, and things would go on Just tho same a
before. When ! reported for duty one mornin
how obtained. that a decided change in the syl
tenn Of running the road was to be pu
in operation that very morning: A nun
ber Of mysterious looking packing boxel
very heavy. had been carried Into the Prot
dents Office the night before and been keI
there undor lock and key and under guard q
we'll: I, was not daylight when l arrived I've a. at a. a.
out that fifty or seventy-lve strange men ha
been .quartered in the depot all night. The
which the officials were about to spring undo
the feet OF the conductors. Those men had com
from Boston, Buffalo, and some other place
They were picked men In the employ OF whs
was known as the Bell Punch Company. a CO..
poration that controlled the patents for q doyic
intended TO register fares and to keep condu'
tors from stealing. These men soon marche
downstairs and ms each regular conductor TOO
his car one OF the Bell Punch men stepped o
Z board and took hlR nlace on the rear platform.