The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-05-22
BET WEEN TWO FIRES
A TRAiNMAN'5 cAUsTlc COMMENT ON
RAILROAD RULES.
To Obey Them ALL He Says, Means 10
lose Time aDd Win "a Discharges.
To Dyeak Them and Have na Aeci-
lent Mems ~ D~iseI.nrne Also.

~ F"t'f'' 't' VI
nDds when studying the rolniiDns TIN
connect the railroad employee with ia,
rond itself with regDlJ 10 the rule
md regulations, IL bns u ring O.
"beDds ] win, and nils you lose" II
favor OF the rold when II ONE 10 de
aidIHg where the responsibility liel
when mn accident occurs, An old nil
road employee, a member Of a trnIi
crew, was e0DyRrsiDg with the writer
recently, and IN going over IL the stun
ton might bo better and more renIIIy
understood II bo were 10 BIO rniAeI
closely quoted from his standpoint and
IN bis language,
ION III jiDo,p be sDjd. 1--WE In w
many q good mile TINT eomposes the
whole road, but VIII eoDHDp my
knowledge and experience OF working
under rules ma regulations M siDnI.
Ing between the general mDDngep's
0lilGe md Tho DptunI operation Of
Trims, 10 follow every rule md ppgu
milton 10 the letter would mike tpuy vel
fDp safep thaD lying IN bed, but II
would be va slow md tedious 10 The
ppsSnDgGp Ibal the limo made IN the
Oh Jnys OF siDgp limos would nDDn0y
y 'Ulep's' dime Of those days,
ITO mike from oven 30 miles per
hour 10 ~ tho 10 pppobnJ ibpsp days
aDd 10 lYe Up 10 0ynryibIDR pertain
lHg 10 slow ups, glndo crossings, sDy
Ing Of o01L oil and WDlevllL slow stops
and starts, reduced spool over switches
ma lupD0Dls and u hundred and ono
tNUlRs ~ DO remembered, would BIO The
worst KIND Of folly " mnbiDg lImp WIS
n consideration
"Vlbp ny nm l6D niles, which IN Oh
Tho oDpd 10 DO WDdo IN 4 hours md ~
minutes, pot such u Rwlft gDlt, 10 bo
sure, although IN winter, WIN snow,
leo NDd bgd WoalhnG II IN solDo liillp
klDd or u Job 10 gol around on limn
10 i've ~ 10 every lp0Dolnd pDl0, those
~ lhe b0oh oD The oard md ylyIOus
specials Issued every dry, yon could
moi pHll Nm pDH through IN ION hours,
lDd pOH might count yourself lUoky "
y0u WeDl through upon lhpl time
~ lrnlnNAHd bns tle 0bOIao Of oI.
IbeF WHklDg bis limo, for, II b. Nv fro,
lilenllE me, he N other sot bnok, HDs.
pended, NDoJ ~ dismissed, op living Up
. every rule, md, " not found doing
70 ~ pnhp of nool1NHi, bong dismissed
" course whore 10 accidents occur
10 rules 0nD DO mmpoppd win ana
10 WAnNRoWont be blessed WIN bDu
laged pyos, bnt lni u mIsbpp OCCUR
lhH ~ order 10 protect themselves
hoy jog on tho thousand Or Two
MOS, nn1 " y0u npp found guilty you
M onply Dismissal So The
THlnhNn1 mixes bis desperate 0bDnGns
~ plnylng ~ lpph, by using discretion
abnylDg lls rule, la hp k0ops biz DO
llon longNp lhnn no would through
lPlplW nnppylDg 0Ht nynpy ono and
.yeplnnllE being dismissed when lhp
lpht HnInpg day arrives,
IN one l00k ~ rules npoD u large
0ng appnnp nearly 300 regulations Inv
DO employee 10 mmtllnrIM himself
YIN, or, ~ ono ~ the gpnnppI pnl0b
NysI the hpRl ~ pDpl, department
lAsf, bp eonyepsppI With bio pulpp,
llppR copies Df them IN hls sub0rdI
Mos, 500 llnt lhny Opp understood, on
GREE obedience 10 them Nh ono VIII
p eAeleed for Tho ylolntIoD ~ my NJ
Nelnp oven though mol Included In
hose applicable IN bis departments w.
olNnNo u no excuse for NEGLECT NJ
N.Y.
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l0NNp While on 1nIg CONNECTED Win
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under mo authority md must aOn
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'lo obey the anpaplnlnndopt md 1ls,
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