The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-12
4 NEAR.
uo,v Railroad Discipline Wins
nv" in the Long Run.

,infnlIy reading the latest story of
trusts alleged wickedness when
" Bolting, freight conductor off
NV showed his labor journal in his
a0o with a heavy finger laid upon a
's "me at the top Of capitalized list
- now executive officers of a great
western railroad.
~Therell be harmony in that board,
At right" cbuckled Mr.. Boiling. You
NOW our old division superintendent,
didn't you?'
10nIy slightly, thank you" said Mr..
Harvey studying the name. "A soft
s en- short, stout Irish gentleman,
With cast, l think"
"Tbe same" observed Mr.. Boiling,
prith a glass eye. a bull neck, and
.bort mustache, just turnin', and them
shoulders, hey?
.TI tell you about the time he had
mo sbort,spoken, tall, thin German
Gentleman who's runnin the engine
to-day up for discipline"
ooh, don't" pleaded Mr., Harvey.
aTbe whole train knows that story.
uare read this life insurance piece.
rs scandalOus.
Thanks" pursued Mr.. Boiling, re-
,antIessly, laying the newspaper atop
If his full dinner pail. The engineer
.sed to have a dirty Dutch temper
vben he was firm and so all hands
inst couldn't help plaguin' him, till
one day the baggage master overdid
Il out on the branch line and got him
gOin'."
Mr. Harvey sank back. Through
uearclosed eyelids he watched the
smooth, spiral revolving of the tele-
graph poles as the flier shot along.
Mr., Boiling, like the train, went on.
"Say, it was and'lous! 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
Il 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 OF
snythin' 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-
yate Office, snap the 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. M. C. 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 Mr.. Bolt
Ing. "And then, as l was sayin', he'd
give discipline accordin', with never
cent to pay. He didn't go much on
6nin' or suspendin'.
$50 he spoke his piece to the fire.
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
be was too old and too little, and
that he wouldn't hit a one-eyed man
anyhow.
Then the boss said things about
the Dutch in general and the Prus-
SLAMS in particular, and told the fire.
man he was some other kind of a
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, 1t was scandlous. There was
ne superintendent of division and the
fireman lynn on the carpet huggin'
each other. They'd upset every stick
furniture exceptin' the big desk.
Iheyd slammed that into a window
aud swept it clear The boss's bad
eye was knocked clean out of his head
ana tother was shut. The fireman
couldn't see out of either of his,
neither And there they lay, the boss
ana the fireman, both clean winded,
aagsln each other, and still passin'
eacd other love taps, like inherent
children.
Well, a company doctor worked on
EN- till after dark before they was
" 10 send home to their wives. An
Ae ooss didn't fire the fireman, Meth
u He gave him a locomotive of
us own before the year was out"
but these trusts are simply aw-
.ul We voters must get together
ne next big election" suggested Mr..
Asrsey' YEARLY reaching for his
newspaper.
MI Boiling quickly transferred it
. his own inside pocket.
same as ME and you and the rest
'he train did last time, hey?" he