, 1907-07-26
NEAR.
PRESIDENTah0W
How Railroad Discipline Wine
II the Long Run.

painfully reading the latest story OF
the trusts alleged wickedness when
Mr.. Boiling, freight conductor OF
duty. showed his labor Journal In his
face with . heavy finger laid upon 4
name at the top Of Q capitalized list
Of new executive officers Of . great
western railroad.
"There'l be harmony in that board.
all right" chuckled Mr.. Boiling. You
knew old division superintendent.
didn't your"
only slightly, thank you," said Mr..
Harvey. studying the name. "A soft
spoken. short, stout Irish gentleman.
with a cast, I think"
The same observed Mr.. Boiling,
with a glass eye. . bull neck. and
short mustache, just turnin'. and them
shoulders, hey?
I'll tell O about the time he had
the short-spoken, tall, thin German
gentleman who's runnin' the engine
to-day up for discipline"
"Oh, don't!" pleaded Mr.. Harvey.
The whole train knows that story.
Here, read this life insurance piece.
It's scandalous."
Thanks" pursued Mr.. Boiling. re.
lentiessiy, laying the a-oop
=. A,s iui. oinher pail INC ensineei
useu nave ur'' enpe
when he was firm and 30 all hands
Just couldn't help plaguin' him, till
one day the baggage master overdid
1t out on the branch line and got him
BUN
Mr. Harvey sank pacK.
n~ear-closed eyelids he watched the
smooth, spiral revolving OF the teie-
graph poles as the nler sno Aions'
Mr. boiting, ike inc traln' went on
say II was scano lous! Inc pair
OF EN- fought all over the sldln n
switches In plain sight OF the Full
mans n all them swell commuters
They held her, too, for nigh on TO Two
minutes Defore the rest OF the ere"
could drag EN- back n their jobs.
They had two full days to think
1t over before things happened. Then
the baggage master got shifted to a
long. heavy. local run where he
wouldn't have time to "a firemen or
anythin' else but trunks and baby
wagons. and the fireman wa ordered
upstairs.
The boss believed in settlin' things
man to man. When there was trouble
on the road he'd find out who was at
the bottom Of it, and then, hke as
not, he'd call the man up to his pri-
vafo omno opap tho dOor and tell
him what he thought about it till the
man would hit him or quit.
Il recall" said Mr.. Harvey, he told
the Y. NJ. G. A. that good railroad ma
terial was very scarce. and that when
the road got the men it wanted it
offered them every inducement to"
Don't interrupt" snapped MI. Bolt
Ing. And then, As 1 was sayin', he'd
give discipline accordin', with q
cent to pay. He didn't go much on
Amin or suspendin'. 3
80 he spoke his piece to the hre-
man and the fireman told him he
wouldn't dare say that to him out on
the tracks. The boss said it all over
right there, and the fireman told him
wv
that he wouldn't hit . one-eyed man
anyhow. b
Then the boss said things about
the Dutch In general and the Prus-
slams in particular, and told the IRE
man he was some other kind OF .
fraid cat beside.
Not hearin' nothin' for half An
hour, the chief clerk called the opera
tor and the private secretary to back
him up and open the door.
Say. it was scand'1ous. There was
the superintendent OF division and the
fireman lynn on the carpet lhuggin'
each other. They'd upset every stick
Of furniture exceptin' the big desk.
They'd slammed that into a window
and swept 1t clear. The boss's bad
and t'other was shut. The fireman
couldn't see out of either of his.
neither. And there they lay, the boss