The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-26
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PRESIDENT NOW
How Railroad Discipline Wine
In tho Long Run.

Mr.. Harvey, the commuter was
painfully reading the latest story OF |
the trusts alleged wickedness when |
Mr.. Bolting, freight conductor Oft !
duty, showed his labor journal in his
face with heavy finger laid upon a
name at the top of a capitalized list
Of new executive officers OF q great
western railroad
"Therell be harmony in tina. board
all right" chuckled Mr. Bolting. You
knew our old division superintendent,
didn't you?"
"Only slightly, thank you," said Mr..
Harvey studying the name. "A soft
| spoken. short, stout Irish gentleman,
with a cast | think"
"The same" observed Mr.. Bolting,
with glass eye, bull mock, and
short mustache just turnin, and them
shoulders, hey?
'Ill tell you 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. Bolting re-
lentlessly laying the newspaper atop
of his full dinner pail. The engineer
used to have a dirty Dutch temper
when he was frin' and so all hands
just couldn't help plaguin' him, till
one day the baggage master overdid
It out on the branch line and got him
goin'."
Mr.. Harvey sank back. Through
near.closed eyelids he watched the
smooth spiral revolving of the tele.
graph poles as the flier shot along.
Mr.. Bolting, like the train, went on.
Say, IL was scandlous! The pair
of 'em fought all over the sidin' and
switches in plain sight Of the Pull
mans and all them swell commuters.
They held her, too, for nigh on to two
minutes before the rest of the crew
could drag em back on their jobs.
"They had two full days to think
It over before things happened Then
the baggage master got shifted to a
long, heavy, local run where he
wouldn't have time to rag firemen or
anythin' else but trunks and baby
wagons, and the fireman was 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, like as
not, he'd call the man up to his pri.
vate office. snap the door, and tell
him what he thought about 1t till the
man would hit him or quit"
81 recall" said Mr.. Harvey, che told
the Y. NJ. G. A. that good railroad ma
terial was very scarce, and that when
the road got the men It wanted 1t
offered them every inducement to
Don't interrupt" snapped Mr. Bolt
ing. And then, as ] was sayin, he'd
give discipline accordin, with never a
cent to pay. He didn't go much on
finin or suspendin'.
so he spoke his piece to the fire.
man and the fireman told him he
wouldn't dare say tnat to him out on
the tracks. The boss said II all over
, right there and the fireman told him
he was too old and too little, and
that he wouldn't hit one.eyed man
anyhow.
, Then the boss said things about
, the Dutch in general and the Prus
; slams in partic'lar, and told the fire
man he was some other kind of a
Traid 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'lous. There was
the superintendent of division and the
: fireman lyin' on the carpet huggin
u each other. They'd upset every stick
y Of furniture eXceptin' the big desk
u They'd slammed that into window
J. and swept It clear The bosss bat
eye was knocked clean out of his head
u and t'other was shut. The fireman
couldn't see out of either of his
It neither. And there they lay, the boss
g and the fireman. both clean wnded
n huggin each other. and still passin
> each other love taps, like innercen
d children.
u "Well, a company doctor worked or
EN- till after dark before they wai
T. At to send home to their wives. An
3. the boss didn't fire the fireman, Meth
s. err He gave him locomotive o
his own before the year was out"
], But these trusts are simply aw
y ful. We voters must get together
y the next big election" suggested Mr.
t. Harvey. wearily reaching for hi
Is newspaper.
Mr. Bolting quickly transferred 4
q to his own inside pocket
n Same as me and you and the res
d of the train did last time, hey?" h,
o retorted, pleasantly smiling upon hi
t. companion and close buttoning hi
d leather-lined peajacket Cheer up
y. The comets comm"