The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-08-04

"a horizontai ewing hko thiA@ was
ms, seply and I'm brakeman atFetohnd
out his baud IA front Of him aud
brought his hand 70 ais chest iust like
. person swimming,
And what dld you mean when you
said cut 'em on" q little while uEo7"
"Nhy, that's for the engineer to kick
Iem on ss,N ~tNSs@
Here thu brakeman. gave 4 sigh. but
he did not lose his temper. why. see
here" he said. Say we got a car On
the end OF the train that We want
10 send down the track into a siding.
There's no use for the engine to waists
steam aud 60 way down there VITA II,
go It kicks the ear OF. Tho brakeman
%unoouples tho car, and then gives cut
or signal. ~Thoro--watoh that switch
engine oyer there's and he pointed out
into the yards again.
A train OF passenger anu express cars
was moving along slowly, when~the
brakeman on tho forward passenger
car leapgd to the ground and svsng
both arms forward ana backward at
an obliquo angle. First his hands met.
and then they were out stretched 80
that his arms made an angle % forty
I'VE degrees to.the line Of his shoulders
The engine gave a few quick pgfs and
then came TO a stop. Simultaneous
~ the passenger car broke loose
from the rest Of the train, and with on
~ a brakeman aboard to manipulate
the brases they rolled down the tsack,
struck a switch which tnIsw their
wheels into a siding, and came graau-
ally to a standsun at.the end Of tie
yard.
Alter the brakeman had explained
that the night signals by means % a
lantern we're governed by the same
rules az the day signals. he added:
But what / have told you wouldn't
10 you much good out West. TnerethA
brakeman makes a signal to go ahead
which would stop an eastern engineer.
Once in a while a westernnF passes
muster and gets a Job in a jersey city
yard, and then some day he forgets
himself and gives our stop ~signalfor
for the go ahead. 1t takes some time
before becan make himself risht with
the engineer after that
A sudden thought struck the brake
ma L he began 20 laugh. "Bnt in
England thpy've a set OF sigBals all 70
themselves. I knew o. an Euglishman
who wanted TO get a job IN IN Amcri-
can road. and when he gvns told to
show what he knew about signals they
thought he must have been an actor.
he a~iraiEhtened himself up stln, and
then struck out his arms In different
directions. lrSn a Punch and Judy show.
IL the American signal motion con-
yeys as much meaning as the position
OF the arms. With the English IT'S
nearly al pose.'
what's the differences between the
American and English Signs TO stop, for
-instanceg the reporter asked.
IAN the difference IN the world. "
was the answer. The EuEishman
stretches his ms.sldogsse. so they've
out straight, to stop an engine TO 40
American hat means 20 ahead, On the
ether hand. the EnEllshman makes the
same sign 10 20 ahead as we make 10
stop. When he wanls-thc engineer 10
cut EN- on. he puts both hands ia
front Of him. An American makes an
clique sign with a fun swng Of each
arm. The Englishman also has a good
many more signs thar we have here. ia
ms they sccm almost unueceseara tie
has a signal 20 return to fofmer' pest
tioon' by putting one arm.in irux Of
him ana extending the other upl IN
up in the air at in angie. n hssSs
signal for the engineer 10 bring bis
train from a-sidihg 70 q main line by
putting up both arms obiiqpely. sMe
have neither OF these signs. I know q
only one sign that Is anything hke
our and that Il tho come aluad sbw'
algHal whore You extend n lrm hgr'
izantally Of yourplde, and slowly shssss
you head. but youu have TO cxeuss
me-.
Here the brakeman made the "come
ahead Slows signal himself. amd Jump
Ing onto . slowly moving uain. hs
hung from a step where the engineer