The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-02
SMASH IN HIS LAST 10 MINUTES
ENGINEER mas ms FIRST tCCI-
DENT ~ SO YEARS.
Now. Diti tire Railroad Give Hnm IS,s Pen
slOO az didn't u:--It mad. Sa the
GrOu0d That Ile Retired At the EnSi %
the Iaun and & ouldnI Ne DlsrhaPged

This il the story 81 Z. q. Reynolds.
whose first name 10 Ethelbert. He Is a
locomotive engineer. retired. His run
was between Elkhart aud Chicago On
the Michigan Southern division OF the
Lake Shore. tie wound up ffty-odd
years Of service in an engine cab on sun
day. January ~. tho day before he was
20 years old Retirement was to come
on his birthday, with itS comfortable
50 month pension. There seemed
tn h" not IN. least doubt IN the world
about that because in the whole length
Ut his service hs hadn't had a mishap
which got him black mark on the COM
TIny's records Tie was 90 much to he
trusted. lndeod. that they used to give
HIM the twentieth Century Limited to
pilot. and that - the tOpnotch Of a Lake
shore engineman's ambition. What hap
Ts.ncd that Sunday night IN the .ast IL
January ten minutes before 2 q. Rev
nol,L- was To step out Of his cab for good
and all makes +. d REYNOLDS story
peyllnr
karher IN that dav Reynolds was
hanging around tho roundhouae at ELK
hart waiting for orders He didn't know
what train he would take nut OF what
time h. would get into chicago. That
was what h. vas waiting to find out
Alung ia ia" afternoon word came
that n" was to pilot u. "a special train
for chicago. Just a. ne was pulling
out somebody came running With note
from the division superintendent saving
that when b" got To- the end II the run
the road would consider hrs service
over with and Ne would 10 retired. The
wording NJ that message was important
to = - Reynolds month later
Reynolds had had an mixing that has
nifty wears -erNIU,' WIS almost enough
I "" g'.'ns ION d"Ju rtInen' ~ tho New 0Fk
'"nir,l ines. a branch II the service q
which MIS- npan~d Last fall. had sent
tn end e tho month Rat he didn ?
know UIst how u would come or when /
the last word would h. saId ~ u gave
hun something a. think about when the
orders oanl" Tor hun 4" 60 IN the DID
men lit as soon AS he mad pulled Special
~ INTO thic1go.
II - pheasant enough run from III.
h'rt west. and Reynolds knew every rsIl
JOINT n" let ht, engine sing Iust as ne
lISssi - l"' the engine 81 - that 10 the 4
Iaiir"ad uhrss" for the T~entieih ten ,
turv sing IN the wav vest The har
farms of Indiana AMI lllnui- J,-tled one
another ~ get nv W a only started.
80 ~ seemed TO hIrr. wh~u he dome
vt hgnt shining across the tanks Of lis
engine. AMI h" knew that lineage vas
q matter of only twenty minutes or so ,
mon" he ".s..,i her ~ little
N'rr"onw ~ other a freight got n
the NaN uf 2 The records say that
Reynolds ran past his Ggnal That I
NAV l-' A. any rate Reynolds
rngln' ran her uOsA into a cabop@~ and
hur' = man Reynolds ws- arrested .
nj locked M The newt day he got
word from the railroad that he was dis
'harg~t That meant that his ffty
YEAR II lean record wasn't enough
that n" couldn't hope for pension. /
hs.'hsrg~i men don't get pensions /
n" matter what records they had before .
things went wrong
That - the way the matter stood from
R"ynnldsS ssV~ntieth birthday up 90
la-' Monday As matter ~ course
NJ ran'e ram" up before the pension
brard. which met on that day IN Grand
Central S'a'I0u tn" pension board
'nmp"-@d ~ foUr Vice presidents and
'h" general mana gers ~ the New York
: "utral IN" Lake shore and the Rig
-Four. can sav whether man gets a PEN
SiOn ~ NOT
Names came M one after another and I
IN" Vote went around for the award or
not a. the merits of the cases ntoosi .
IN" I'en-lon hoard cant he moved nv
sentiment " man Smashe~ hI@ en-
gIn"s un~@ nn tho Caboo~s ~ a freight
and hurts a man h" 10 done for 10y the
rules II they make exceptions thew
make pr~C~dents which other men VINO
smash Cabons~s may call mp inconvsn /
I-ntlv
The membars Of the pension hoard
knew Reynolds's case before they heard +
- rehsar~~d On Monday They straight
en@d IN their chairs when the chairman
read ~ the name Net u vas plain that
a clear record ~ fifty years wasn't enough /
One after another they voted for mo