The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-27

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superintendent would fail to return in
time to let him confess to him his just
sorrow for his lack of service in the
school. He sat down to his desk and
under that impulse wrote letter that
expressed in part how he felt. Then
he jotted down the following items to
be referred to the proper authorities OF
the road:
Item l. The dust in the blacksmith
shop and in the brass polishing rooms
is largely unnecessary. The new En-
glefield revolving rolling fans and ele-
vator ought to be introduced in both
+ departments. The cost will be but an
item to the road and would prolong the
life and add to the comfort of the en-
ployees. Very important
Item g Organized and intelligent eff
fort should be made by all railroad COR
poratons 10 lessen Sunday work in
shops and on the road. All perishable
freight should be so handled as to call
for the services of as few men on Sun
day as possible. and excursion and pas
senger trains should be discontinued
except in cases of unavoidable neces-
sity.
Item 3. The inspection Of boilers, re-
torts, castings, machinery of all kinds,
should be made by thoroughly compe
tent and responsible men, who shall an
swer for all unnecessary accidents by
swift and severe punishment in case of
loss of life or limb
Item 4. In case of injury or death to
employees, if incurred through the neg
lect of the company to provide safety.
it should provide financial relief for the
families thus injured or stricken by
death and so far as possible arrange
for their future.
Item S. Any well organized railroad
could, with profit to it's employees,
have upon it's staff of salaried men q
corps of chaplains or preachers whose
business is would be to look after the
religious interests of the employees.
Under this last item Mr.. Hardy wrote
in footnote, DISCUSS feasibility Of
this with Mr.. B., influential director"
1t was now 3 O'clock. The short win
ter day was fast drawing to close.
The hum of the great engine in the ma
chine shop was growing very weari-
some to the manager. He felt sick of
its throbbing tremor and longed to es-
cape from it. Ordinarily he would
have gone to the clubroom and had a
game of chess with member, or else
he would have gone down and idled
away an hour or two before supper at
the Art museum, where he was q con-
slant visitor-that was when he had
plenty of time and the business of the
office was not pressing. Young Well
man, however. had succeeded to the
| clerical details of the shops, and Mr..
Hardy's time was generally free after
| 4 o'clock.
| He had been oppressed with the
thought Of the other injured men. He
must go and see them. He could not
rest till he had personally visited them.
He went out and easily ascertained
| where the men lived. Never before did
4 the contrast between the dull, uninter-
esting row of shop tenements and his
own elegant home rise up SO sharply
before him. In fact, he had never
1 given it much thought before. Now,
/, as he looked forward to the end of the
week. he knew that at it's close he
would be no richer no better able to
enjoy luUlries than the dead man lying
| in No. 760. He wondered vaguely but
\ passionately how he could make use Of
what he had heaped together to make
the daily lives Of some of these poor
men happier.
He found the man who had lost both
eyes sitting up in bed and feeling in
| pathetic manner of a few blocks Of
wood which one of the children in the
room had brought to him. He was a
big, powerful man like his brother, the
large boned Dane, and it seemed very
pitiful thing that he should be lying
there like a baby when his muscles
were as powerful as ever. The brother
was in the room with the injured man,
4 and he said to him:
"Olaf, Mr.. Hardy come to see you"
!. Hardy? Hardy?" queried the man
in peevish tone. What do know
him to be?'
'The manager. The one who donate
so really much moneys to you"
"Ah" with an indescribable accent.
"He make me work on Sunday. He
lose me my TWO eyes. A bad man,
Sword. l will no have anything to do
with him."
And the old descendant of thousand
kings turned his face to the wall and
would not even SO much as make a mo-
ton toward his visitor. Ellis brother
offered rude apology. Mr.. Hardy re-
piled in low tone:
Say nothing about it. deserve all
your brother says. But for good rea-
son wish Olaf would say he forgives
me-"
MI. Hardy came nearer the bed and
spoke very earnestly and as If. he had
known the man intimately:
Il did you great wrong to order the
work on Sunday and in not doing my
duty concerning Vie inspection of the
machinery. have come to say SO and
to ask your forgiveness may never
see you again. Will you say to me,
Brother, forgive your"
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