The Winslow mail., 1901-02-28
RAILROAD TATTLE.

49, ny IL CIlC nc S0GIu0u 10
feel Hurt at what He regarded
as a personal slight. He did
not seem to Realize how Diff
cult it is to write an Interesting
Paragraph about Nothing.
And it may be as we'll for me
to say right here that a conduc-
tor must do something to earn
the right to recognition, before
his name will appear in this
column. 1t is not supposed to
contain simply a list of all the
imbeciles on the road. Icannot
devote this valuable space to
the fattery OF a lot of saphead
conductors, whose only claim to
distinction lies in the fact that
they are fairly good looking and
wear striped shirts. They are
simply "too numerous to men
ton.
Boys, have you seen that bull
letin about getting out and dec
Grating at blind-sidings? If not
you should go and read it at
once. AS [ understand it, the
hind shack must get out at the
first whistling post and remain
on top until the next whistling
post is passed, when he IS to
give an "all right" signal and
continue to give it until answer
ed by the hoghead. This, in
some cases, will become an "all
night" signal, provided the
shack does not succumb to ex-
posure or physical exhaustion.
If this order continues in effect
the shacks should petition to
have Little Rousers" attached
to the cab seats, to be operated
automatically, or from the rear
end of the train.
was assured by his hind
shack, that one of the aforesaid
intellectual dwarfs, had done
something to merit my conslde-
ration and entitle him to the
distinction of a favorable men
tion in Tattle. He had taken
bath and put clean sheets on his
bed in the caboose. [ was, of
course, inclined to be skeptical
but the shack showed me the
sheets, and l can vouch for the
tact that the Con. must have
taken a bath recently, as the
bed had evidently been slept in
and the sheets were still pretty
clean. [ would not make this
statement on the authority of
the shack, as he used to brake
for Rheub Skinner, and is no.
torious and unmitlgated liar, but
I must, on the evidence of my
own senses, concede the fact
that he told the truth in this in
stance.
McGinty was forty hours run
ming (?) from Seligman to Wins
low. I have not learned wheth-
er his hind shack has gone to the
hospital or is trying to recover
here.
Several new train order sta
tions have recently been estab
lished on the third, and it has
since been an unusually busy
time for train men-buying and
fitting up beds in their cabooses
and laying in a stock of grub to
eat on the road. If about six
more operators are put on this
division, the departure of a
freight train will be signalized
by the waving of handkerchiefs
wet with the tears of our be-
reaved and weeping wives and
sweethearts.
If you want to know how [ got
left at Supai, you can ask con-
ductor Grimshaw. I'm a little
sore on that point myself. But
I can tell you all about getting
left at Cosnino, and having to
wait four hours in the rain for
the next train, finally reaching
Winslow in time to miss my Sun
day dinner. Having taken a few
lessons from Frank Goldie, [
think I can do justice to this oc-
casion. I sat up half the night
trying to discover if [ had over
looked anything in my vocabu-
larry of profanity that might ex-
actly fit the case.
NJ II