Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-17
slx.WEEKs FIREMAN BOLTS
Youth who Learns RaiitosdinE ~
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Like the man who took special lessons
on how to become millionaire" r.
Linke. IT,. Of Atlantic, Ia. has been In
the city for several days trying 10 get the
National Railway Training association"
with headquarters in room go. Paxton
block TO make good its promise to him
10 secure him a job as fireman Of some
railway in consideration OF s15 good money
that Linke had paid for his education a.
a fireman with the understanding. as he
states. Of securing a Job in addition. All
that Mr.. Linke has to show for his SIS is
an elaborate certificate of graduation from
the school bearing date Of January ]. 1893
with the signature of W. H. Dfugherty.
president. attached.
Mr. Linke. who is about is or 20 years
old. said: Il paid for my tuition by in
stallments OF IS each, and the distinct un-
derstanding / had was that upon gradua-
ton 1 was to be- given. a graduation GER
tifcate that would procure me a job as
fireman. This / understand, would be
with the Milwaukee road. I wrote to the
Milwaukee people about 1t. but received no
reply Then / went in person to one OF
the division headquarters of the road and
made an application 10 the master me-
chanic, showing him my certificate. He
only laughed at me and told me the only
way a person could get Job as fireman
was by beginning at the bottom and work
ing up by practical experience. and that
would take from one TO three years. ac-
cording to my ability. They said they
knew nothing about any hremen's school
anywhere, and that the certificate was not
worth the paper II was printed on. About
all the school taught me was a little
air brakes >
A reporter for The Bee called at suite $40
Paxton block and found the apartments to
consist Of one small room on the top floor.
overlooking the beautiful vista of the roofs
OF the adjacent buildings. There was one
desk in the room, which was about 12xl4
feet square. and a young woman stenog-
rapher who said Mr. Dougherty would be
in presently. He appeared in a few mo.
ments and at once proceeded to open a con.
siderable bundle of mail that had arrived
during his temporary absence and shortly
thereafter letter carrier came with
another>invoice of mall
Mr.. Dougherty stated that the school
had been established here about two
months.
II came here from Minneapolis" he said
| where operated the school for some time
Our method is similar in many respects to
the International School of Correspondence
at Washington, which prepares students for
the civil service examinations. We aim to
teach by correspondence only brakemen and
! flremen. We do not teach engineering.
The course is about six weeks long We
do not absolutely guarantee positions TO our
graduates, but our certificates will go far
toward securing them positions We also
furnish our graduates with letters Of rec
| concentration. ! have large class here
Our tuition fee is SIS, and with It we provide
book of instructions and carry on the
instructions by correspondence. Some OF
| the railroads will not accept our graduates
at all. notably the Missouri Pacific and
Rock Island" t..1.
I'VE do not teach by practical demon.
stration. Neither do we refund the tuition
money to our graduates should they fail to
! secure job on our certificates"