The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-20

was put ont in the stables al the
end of the branch line out Woodward
Avenue. Work: II was the hardest kind
Of work. l had to get up at six Q clock
III the morning, travel clear across the
city TO the branch terminus, start work
as 80 in the morning and keep Al Il
until ten 0 clock at night.
u WAS counting the money brought
IN b. conductors one day while on that
first job, Sir Albert went on, ''when
suddenly one of the car horses ran
amuck and dashed up to the window
where | sat counting the cash. The first
! know the two big front hoofs of the
horse crashed through the glass and
were planted on the cash table. Ny first
impulse was self preservation, and SO
| beat 4 hasty retreat until the fright
ened animal Was brought under con
troll. But that didn 7 satisfy the super
intendent OF the line. lie said / never
should have quit the cash even with
. runaway horse after me. The superin
tcndent was very positive and rather
excited, and it looked as though | was
going to be discharged there and then.
If l d been discharged it might have
brought my American experience to d
rather sudden end. But | WASH I dis
charged, and that night the superin-
tcndent 5 wife came and explained to
me that her husband : strong language
was due to excitement over the luna
way.
Later on Tom Johnson took hold of
the street railway situation There WAS
at thar time a cll-known local agi,
tator named Jim Grant, who had great
"a, ~, CT r1t.+y -
and drivers So Tom Johnson devised
the plan Of hiring Grant, giving him
good position and thus keep him under
control. Grant was made superinteud-
eat Of orc OF the main lines. and it fell
to my lot 70 get up the timc-schednle
for that line. / made up the schedule
and presented il 20 Grant as superia-
tcnGent, to go into effect next morning.
He glanced az it and there was an OK
plosion.
:" Not on your life he said. Tie
men wouldn t stand for such hours.
Y "Thcl the men, hearing the noise,
came into the room OF course they
sided with Grant. There was an angry
upronr, all directed against me. Grad
ually the men crowded up to me. men
acing and threatening, and / backed
away SLOWLY until | was crowded ont
Of the room. That was the end Of ny
schedule, and the ucxt dav jim Grant
went home sick.
i" And IS the schedule didn t 90 intC
effect the chief superintendent sent
for me. Now il began to look like I'M
other discharge But when I told Of III,
exciting scene with Grant ceging o.
5 the men, the superintendent said Il,
was sorry ] had gouo through such u
experience. That was my chance, an,
had been waiting for i.
(. = Why not give me q chance to rul
that branch line l suggested.
= What you, mere boy, rs super
; intendent
I " Give me a chance ! eaa do #,
I. | urged
. q he thought it over and finally son
me to lGok after the line temporarily
And there ! stayed ard Grant move
. came back
. That was the start Of Sir Albert
steady rise. Gntil he was handling III
whole railway system Of Detroit m
FOR twenty miles ar0und ana across In
river in Canada Then came the hi
New JERSEY consolidation. which III
pcaled to him for the vasJness Of il
. physical and financial PURPOSES, and Ii
became the directing head Of it. Late
g on, financial company IN Bosto
& thought be would be good man t
2. come over to London and look afte
i the underground aud traction affair
d in which il was interested lie cam
y 70 London. becoming finally head {
! lis hugo transportation system.
: Saved with Sampson at Santiago
u Cir Albert was asked if he liked b
Y ino an American blueiaekct, wearin
y the American uniform and eating tt
! tations Of Uncle sam.
Yes and I had prize none b
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