The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-19

seen an amateur magician put half dol
lar coin on the fat palm of his kand
and move the hand around in the air
without dropping the coin? OF course.
This is an analogous case. The tramp
was just like the coin against the palm
lie was up against it. In other words.
ne stuck against the blank front end
Of the baggage car like piece of paper.
as it were. Nothing above or below,
to the right or left, just a baggage car
behind which seemed to be rushing
things The tramp didn't like it and
cried out for help. Then within a jif-
fy he got pious, and she was very loud
about it. He realized, poor fellow, tramp
as he was, that when the train slowed
Hp he would slide down and be Iacerated
beyond recognition, and this realization
fairly froze him, every bit CT him except
the voice.
That tramp was lucky, and if his good
fortune keeps up some day he will be on
easy street and rich as Croesus. XIII
himself? Bah. The fireman heard The
yelling, for it was louder than the whis-
tie, and he scrambled back ovsr the
coal. When he saw the hobo he called
out to the engineer not to slow up. He
got one of his pokers and tried to pull
the man off TIE car, but he was stuck,
and then he commenced to think. Pref
ty soon it dawned upon him that il
would be best to shut off steam a little,
which he ordered the engineer to 40
After they had eased for a couple OF
miles he was able. with much muscular
force, to pry the man off.
of course [ can't tell the story the
way it ought to be told, but then if any
one of You are interested in the plain
facts, which are exciting enough even
f they are plain, you can get the Of
fetal technical report in the general Of
fee. lis well worth reading, I assure
you"
J. NJ Sarver. of Pittsburg. enjoys the
unique distinct don of being the only LAS
senger yar3master in attendance at
the convention, and it has taken the most
Of his time during the past week to eG-
plain to the assembled conductors that
his job is anything but snap.
These ticket runcners around here
seem to think that all passenger yard
master has to do is to sit around the Of
fee and come down once a month and
draw his pay" said Mr.. Sarver, in
speaking Of his position. IF I were only
a freight yardmaster or something of
that sort I suppose they would look up
on me with some degree of tolerance
possibly they would even have some
sympathy for me. But to be a passenger
yardmaster. they don't really know what
the title means, and they think it must
be an easy berth.
NOW that might be true in some
places, but in the city CT Pittsburg it
must be remembered that SEQ trains ar
rive and depart every twenty-four hours,
and if anything happens to go wrong
l know who gets called down for it, and
| don't have to guess twice, either
don't have a single thing to do except
work. Occasionally 1 have a few min
sneak off long enough to get a bite to
cat, and on rare occasions have been
known to lie down and sleep. If 1t
wasn't for these conventions about once
in so often, I don't believe my wife
would recognize me when she met me on
the street. | try and make it point to
get away to them as often as | can just
for the sake Of renewing my acquain-
lance with her. These gentlemen who
do a five or six hous stunt on board a
train and then imagine they are work
ing give me a tired ceiling so pronounce
ed that a whole ocean of any old cap
sarsaparilla wouldn't even faze it." And
the genial Pennsylvania walked away
only to be greeted by another conductor
to whom he proffered his card with the
expression Passenger yardmaster:
Gee, but you must have a snap"
Although but thirty-three years
Of age Mr.. G. D. Dorsey, of
Macon, Ga. is one of the vet
Grams i'll point of service Twenty-Five
years ago he entered the service of the
Central Railroad of Georgia in a minor