The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-26
COLLEGE MEN
 ON TROLLEYS Forty Yale Students Work ing in Local Service This
 Summer and
 Fall. FAVORITR WORK
 DURING VACATIONS One Yale Man Who Was Conductor for Four Years
 Falls Heir to $1O, 900.

A favorite song of college men is I've been working on the Railroad" and according to Superintendent J, B. Judge of the Connecticut company, trolley work is one of the favored pur- suits of college men who work during their vacations.
 Forty collegians are at present ring ing up fares and plying the brakes on trolley lines in New Haven. about thirty-fve conductors to five of the mos tormen. The outdoor work not only puts money in their pockets but in- stills health into their scholarly bones. and by the middle of September moss are ready to quit with something tc the good
 Early in July 15O men are added to the working system of the company for summer service, these forty fellows ap- rlied for jobs and were broken ;n. Some were old hands who have been working right through the college year putting in four or five hours every af- ternoon.
 There is an instance of Yale man who worked on the trolley as conduo- tor for four years, and when graduat- ing from Medical School this year up- on the death of an uncle he received $1O.O0O.
 Other college men have worked the trolley outside of study hours ana graduated with bank roll as well as q fund of knowledge. The experience gained on the line added in has mace many of them valuable men in their work since college.
 Superintendent Judge remarked yes terday that he had just received a letter from one of his former men, a Shelf grad, who was now foreman In Q big electrical concern. He had writ ten to thank him for the courtesies he had received and to express apprecia- ton for the valuable experience he had obtained
 Graduates, post graduates and prepa- ratory school men have worked and are working on the New Haven lines. One has left during the week to open a law office in the south. Another re- gently came back from Texas to spend the summer where he had passed "the shortest, gladdest years of life," inci- dentally paying expenses by working as conductor.
 s Most of the men are conductors be- cause It Is the rule pretty generally observed to have motornen weighing around 1S0 pounds. As the superin- tendent explained, 1t required a good deal of beef to stop car coming down grade with a full load of passengers. This is particularly true on the old fashioned brake cars. With the air broke coming into general use there will be less call to observe the weight requirement..
 College labor, Mir. Judge says, Is good stuff. There is, of course, lack of familiarity with streets and places which the city bred young man of 21 years has This lack does not hinder the college man from becoming one of the best men on the road, but as a rule his services are not better than any other American. And, by the way, there are four college men who are foreign born who are now working for the Connecticut company. If brought right down to it, the su- perintendent said he valued most the young men born in New Haven who have grown up here and know the place, as material for making his con- ductors and motormen.
 However, the college man is always welcome, and the fellow wno is work. ing his way through school has ofter been helped to make a go of it through the consideration of the local trolley company.