The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-18
YOUNG WOMAN EsoAPED.
One Station Agent Who Did Not
Wear White Shirt and Trousers.

The East Porch Debating society Of
the Bennett house met up" with IraV
cling Freight Agent Wells, OF the santa
Fe, on the occasion Of his last visit,
says the Anthony Republic.
The subject under consideration that
particular evening was the invasion Of
the masculine domain by the gentler
sex, and the general excellence and SUI
periOr morality that followed such in
VasiOn, its effect on business, business
men and business methods.
Mr.. Wells told Of the increase in the
number of women employed in railway
service, and the enlargement of their
field of employment from subordinate
positions as StenOgrapherS and type
writers to include clerkships in almost
all the departments of the railway ser
vice, except law; many of the chief
clerks being ladies, a number of ticket
agents also being women, and a few
station agents.
when last in Chicago" said Mr..
Wells, I called on the superintendent
of the Chicago division. Not that I
had any particular business with him.
but partly for old Friendships sake, and
partly to show that I didn't hold it
against him because he had gotten to
be superintendent of the Chicago di-
vision.
Well says he, st 'spose you have
troubles enough of your own, but do
you know that the new order requiring
agents and operators to uniform, has
taken twenty pounds off me in the past
six weeks? In fact, I am going to
wade into those chaps, tooth and toe
nail, and make every mothers son
wish he had a uniform or hadn't been
born. am getting special agents re-
ports on the lame ducks, and this is
just what I have written the agent at
Stony Point. 1 think it will wake him
up Hate to do it, too; it's the first
time he has ever been reported. Listen:
Superintendent Office, Chicago, Ill.
July 8, 1S9S-AIr. A. D. Brown, Agent
Stony Point, TI.-Dear Sir: am in re-
ceipt of the special agents report to the
effect that you have not yet compiled
with rule No. T23, requiring all agents
to purchase and wear while on duty
the uniform in said regulation. In
point it is specified that on the 30th
ultimO you were on platform No. Al in
white shirt and pants. The prescribed
uniform is light and comfortable and
if you do not comply with the rule
forthwith, I shall have to relieve you
Yours truly,
CT RUsHENI, supt.
g I rather guess that will fetch him.
chuckled the superintendent. I won't
have to write him any more letters. "
" on may" says I for he never will
get that one, as it is not properly ad-
dressed; the name is Incorrect
" IncOrrect2' he snOrted, jamming
his thumb into a push button on his
desk. Miss Typewrite please rewrite
this letter and address correctly
g 'Why-why, that is the name on the
last pay roll Stammered the girl
g How is that, Mr.. WeIls?' he cried
wheeling abruptly in his Office chair,
has there been any change at that sta
tion?'"
No, sir said I. but the agents
proper name is Amy Dorothy Brown -
He glared at me a minute under his
bushy eyebrows, eyed the letter grimly,
then wadded it into a ball and fired it
he NUNS the word -"
Aye, aye, sir says T. extra dry
ana MUM extra dry 1t was