The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-05-22

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item to the road and would prolong the
life and add to the comfort of the en-
ployees. Very important.
Item 2. Organized and intelligent ef-
fort should be made by all railroad cor
porations to 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
Tor tQelf future.
Item 3. Any well organized railroad
could, with profit to it's employees,
have upon it's staff of salaried men a
corps of chaplaips or preachers whose
business is would be to look after the
religious interests of the employees.
Under this last item Mr.. Hardy wrote
in a footnote, Discuss feasibility of
this with Mr.. B., influential director"
1t was now 8 o'clock. The short win
ter day was fast drawing to a close.
The hum of the great engine in the ma
chine shop was growing very weari-
some to the manager. He felt sick Of
it's throbbing tremor and longed to es-
cape from it. Ordinarily he would
have gone to the clubroom and had q
game of chess with a member, or else
he would have gone down and idled
away an hour or two before supper at
the Art museum, where he was 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
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
given it much thought before. Now
as he looked forward to the end of the
| would be no richer, no better able tC
enjoy luxuries than the dead man lying
| in No. 160. He wondered vaguely but
passionately how he could make use oi
what he had heaped together to make
the daily lives of some of these pool
men happier.
He found the man who had lost botf
eyes sitting up In bed and feeling in ,
pathetic manner of few blocks ol
| wood which one of the children in tn,
room had brought to him. He was I
| big, powerful man like his brother, tn,
large boned Dane, and it seemed yer,
| pitiful thing that he should be lynn
| there like a baby when his muscles
were as powerful as ever. The brothe
was In the room with the injured man
and he said to him:
"Olaf, Mr.. Hardy come to see you"
Hardy? Hardy" queried the mai
in a peevish tone. "What do I know
him to beY'
''The manager. The one who donat
SO really much moneys to you"
"Ahw with an indescribable accent
"He make me work on Sunday. II
lose me my two eyes. A bad mar
Sword. 1 will no have anything to d
with him."
And the old descendant of thousan
kings turned his face to the wall an
would not even so much as make a me
ton toward his visitor. His brothe
offered rude apology. Mr.. Hardy n
piled in low tone:
''Say nothing about it. l deserve a
your brother says. But for good res
son 1 wish Olaf would say he forgive
me-"
Mr.. Hardy came nearer the bed an
spoke very earnestly and as If he ha
known the man Intimately:
81 did you great wrong to order th
work on Sunday and in not doing m
duty concerning the inspection Of th
machinery. l have come to say so an
to ask your forgiveness. l may neve
see you again. Will you say to M
Brother, forgive your"
There was a moment of absOlut
passivity on the part of the big fellow
then a very large and brawny han
was extended, and the blind man sait
"Yes, l forgive. We learned that
the old Bible at Svendorf."
Mr.. Hardy laid his hand in the othe
and his lips moved in prayer of hun
BILE thanksgiving. What, Robert Hard.
Is this that proud man who only IL
day before was so lifted up with sci
ishness that he could coldly CRITICS
his own minister for saying that pc
pie ought to be more Christlike? Al
you standing here in this poor man
house which two days ago you wou
not have deigned to enter and beseec
ing him as your brother in the gre;
family of God to forgive you for VIII
you have done and left undone? Ye
you have looked into the Face of Etc
nifty; you realize now what life real
means and what souls are real
worth.
He went out after few words wi
the family and saw all the other inju
ed men. By the time he had lnish'
, these visits it was dark, and he cage
ly turned home, exhausted with t
: days experience, feeling as If he b,
| lived in a new world and at the Sar