The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-04

l road man as he leaned up
against the bar of the Trans
portation club, and cast an adj
miring look on George w Colby. who
was treating the crowd. "the fourth is
again with us, and 1 am glad to say
that the railroad family has not lost
anything I'm prestige since the last
fourth. I note that it shows the same
/ eagerness to get out of town and rest
/ its harassed nerves from the fire
cracker and the ever unwelcome treat.
L am told that Mr.. Egan. the small
Mr.. Egan, who is attached TO the gen
eral mana gers office. has worked every
night till midnight getting out trip
passes for overworked employees who
are going into the country for a breath
I of sweet, pure, fresh air.
God bless the country. Where would
our dear hard worked railroad boys
be If there were no country? Why.
bless my soul. J. ". McClymonds would
be out of job. and every one would be
so sorry if such a thing happened.
What, our dear little Jack out Of q
job. Let the country prosper. Let
there be fruit all the time. If the
fruit raisers only knew of the exist
ence of Jack, why they would raise
more fruit just to keep him IN a job
and have all those nice people in his
Office kept busy.
But L am DEPRESSING from the point
in view, as my college chum, e. NJ.
Pomeroy. says. The subject was hoI-
iday, and has nothing to do with Jack
McClymonds. Let him pass Now,
William Hood, who every one knows, or
should know, is one of the greatest
railroad engineers in the world. He
works all the time, and If any one ever
saw Hood when he was not in hurry
fsrur NJ oct Irfu a
it 10 Joe McIlroy.
Hood told me one time that a Holt
day was the worst thing for a man
or a woman. He says it puts him out
when he takes a holiday, but who ever
saw Hood take holiday? He says
that when a man goes away from his
office for a day or so he gets out of
touch with his work and so the holiday
is no good but a detriment. I have
told that to several youngsters, but
they pass rude remarks.
'R. A. Donaldson is a great believer
in holidays. He took one after 80 years
Of work, and was so pleased with the
experiment that he decided to take
one every year. but never got UP his
courage again to tackle it. He says
to get the holiday habit a man must
begin early in life. and as he is getting
well on in years he thinks he will
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Passenger men are great on holt
days Poor chaps, they work so hard
you can't blame them for wanting TO
get away from their desks. and suffer
what others have to suffer while
travelling.
"A pleasure, travelling on a holiday!
Well, I guess not. Everybody wants
a seat 10 themselves. This is the time
to learn something about the dear
ladies. They don't mind if they take
up four seats. and my how they do
scowl at you if you hint that you would
rather sit down than stand. A car.
they think, is made only for them
selves, and though man may be pay
ing the fare that doesn't count with
them. A man is a mere nobody when
there is a crush on the cars. He is
only a somebody when he puts his
dress suit case in the rack, and It
falls on the hat of a girl Then there
is trouble. and man will learn more
what woman thinks of him in five
minutes than in so years of married
life
This is the time when a man should
be generous in working the railroad
for all it's worth. There is no better
time to get solid with our friends than
getting them a pass into the country
I know of one young fellow, a mighty
handsome chap too, with the most
beautiful Of neckties, who is always
in demand. because he works the rail-
road for passes for his friends. How
could any one help liking him when
he does that? 1t is a mighty easy way
to get on good terms with the whole
family by giving a cross-eyed one
pass to get out of the way for a few
days You chaps don't know how to
work the dodge. Do it for papa when
he gets mad about your coming there
all the time. He gets pleased at the
idea of having influence with the rail-
road, and he does not mind in the least
your coming to the house and eating
him out of house and home. for he has
saved $3.50 by getting free ride in
the country. while you have devoured
over IS worth of grub and burned
about SIS worth of electric light in his
absence.
You boys who have to travel on
passes when you would much rather
pay your own fare and be independent
don't know what an effect a pass has
on the average person.
You take a chap who has been in
a shop all his life and gets job, say
as a boomer for a hotel or something
like that, and gets a pass. Why there
isn't a friend of his in all the country
won't know that he travels on a pass.
Why, he'll hint that he has some mys-
FERROUS connection with Hartman, and
is his private conscience keeper That
chap viii swell all up so badly that
you are afraid he'll burst. Boys, the
pass is a bad thing for any one 1t
makes him beggar for the rest of
his days. When he gets a pass for
himself he'll be hunting a way around
for a free pass for his wife Those
kind Of chaps always do have a wife.
and one or two small children thrown
in to make life interesting for their
friends and acquaintances. Lord, you
can tell that bunch at once when they
enter car. They own it. They
hustle around, and they talk about
travelling on a pass as If they were
doing the company favor. The whole
family is important, and the baby
bowls louder than a baby whose
mamma and papa have paid their fares.
"Then sometimes they chuck in a
nurse to make it all the more jolly for
the rest of the travellers. Look and see
If you can't detect man or a family
travelling on a pass by these signs
When a man once gets a pass over
one road, bless you he will be trying
for passes on every road in the coun-
try. He will hang around and spend
more time to dig out a free ride of
some road than he will in attending
to business. If he can't get pass