Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-20
''Yes, | Guess It Killed Him."
Said the Lady, and 1t Did



fu day the dun gyhbue clouds reflected in the water as the
late afternoon sun finished days work
And it was beautiful world The whose life went out
as suddenly as light candle tho big train came around
the curve.
Such little incident in life and in ondng does not
much delay The emergency brakes were a but there was no
shocno passengers except few on a rear observation plat
form. knew that anything had happened
One young man. the right hand side Of that PLATFORM
you look toward the engine white for had it
lay trench the track and the m when the train
few past.
Tie and half dozen others the youngest the train
back with the railroad who sent formally to do
what customary.
In about three minutes as fast as they could run and out of
brea they and the railroad returned and with them
brakeman who had carried red aag prevent rearend col
lision
They came running huryng climbing the observation
platform oT-she made up the three
four minutes lost She had done e@acy the thing two
weeks before
The pale young man who had seen his
nerve and excited except the very small boy who had
rapidly exhausted all Of the the observa
tion car and much in need Of fresh excitement He could
find pay attention TO him except lady who evidently
does "a good deal of travelling this train.
She said little boy: Eyes guess bo is dead all right
knew this train to touch and not ll him. You
10 goes pretty fast
Some said that the train had not run over the man.
but had just touched him. and the little boy thought that per
haps he not dead.
But he dead dead any little that you have
crushed walking along the garden path the rail
road fault the engineer fault he had blown his whistle;
and the section hand-he dead section hand -
knew the whistle death if he stayed
Custom makes US scorn danger.
This hand had not thought worth while to cross all the
tracks and the flying Century put back against
the steep bank leaving he thought But air suction
caused by the flying train his raossness brought
too Employees supposed TO pretend ignorance of all
accidents But one employee told the short story this writer
whom he knew THE steam cylinder head touched him and
it took his head clean off, though it had been with
knife"
Here if you choose you have chance TO moraize on fe
its significance and man. the little growing on tree we
call the human falling and vanishing hike any leaf
1t is not the man. but the that counts.
ID is the that built the great train the intelligence of
the that has just united the Atlantic Ocean Pacific
Ocean.
I'll is the the millions working ogother that gradually
make the life of the worth while the importance Of the in
dividual greater.
The race is the real sUPERMAu the real power And each
ndiy dual section hand forgotten that he dies or
great man. forgotten when the vapsr stop talking about
him. must find his comfort in the fact that he belongs TO THE
RACE shares in its accomplishment helps work and will
probably to this planet and millions of times
as long the planet lives move on TO work other bigger
and better planet when this one cll.u- forever.
s-For the serious mind Note that the flying train tvu
he oa5ru.industIy and civilization tie
excited majority did know Cha. anything had happened
Promptly the hour each his slept we'll The
train had killed BUT TT WAS NOE oDT s. BUSINESS
TWAS not the engineer fault. he had done his duty.
II was not the passengers tau, they train
!. YVES robodys Fault, 5a. the nam Vas LEAD
If INV INDIVIDUAL PAssIl g had Izsd the man that
passenger would have refused body would have in
CURED for the wife and children would have et remorse
appetite blamed himself even had .e dead been really
sus as he passengers the train t engineer and the rail
solt iE industry and civil
Ten men ale killed in d day 10 one respon-
si5le Stockholders manager a. ... II did not do
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