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. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . on. Moral: Handle Packages as ifThey Were Your Own. The Prize Winner F. SHORT, the winner of thesecond monthly prize in the shortstory competition, is employedas a correspondent in the freightclaim department. He is a native of Baltimore and simply man-handled all thesegoods and brokethem up out ofpure low-downcussedness, be-cause you didntgive a durn, andthe road had topay for them? That;s thecase, replied thespirit. Great gloomwas depicted onthe countenanceof His SatanicMajesty. Alas, alas,he sighed, thisspells my I signedthe contract for
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . on. Moral: Handle Packages as ifThey Were Your Own. The Prize Winner F. SHORT, the winner of thesecond monthly prize in the shortstory competition, is employedas a correspondent in the freightclaim department. He is a native of Baltimore and simply man-handled all thesegoods and brokethem up out ofpure low-downcussedness, be-cause you didntgive a durn, andthe road had topay for them? That;s thecase, replied thespirit. Great gloomwas depicted onthe countenanceof His SatanicMajesty. Alas, alas,he sighed, thisspells my I signedthe contract forthis job, it wasagreed that if Iever met a manmeaner than my-self I shouldabdicate in hisfavor. Wearily he un-fastened his as-bestos cloak, took off his glowing crown,and handed them, with his red-hot sceptre,to the astonished spirit of the railroadman. The job is yours, he said. Thankbadness, I leave the joint in goodhands. As a first class devil, a fellowof your disposition has me beaten to afrazzle. And behold, there was great excite-. e. f. short isnt a Firebug—but hes a bug on Fires was educated inthe schools ofthat city. Afterbeing graduatedhe entered theoffice of a promi-nent attorney,with the purposeof studying a time,however, failingeyesight com-pelled him togive up this planand to seek out-door employ-ment. Thischange had thedesired effectand in Septem-ber, 1910, hiscondition hadimproved suffi-ciently for himto enter the ser-vice of ourCompany. Heremained with usfor only a year,but re-enteredthe service inSeptember, 1914,and has been employed in his presentposition since that time. Mr. Short has two hobbies—fires andrailroading. His father is a fire captainin Baltimore and Short, Jr., is a sort ofhonorary member of the picture on this page was taken on aBaltimore fire boat. He has been theBaltimore correspondent for Fire andWater Etvjineering and for the Fire- THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 39 mans Herald. Not lon^ ago he wonfirs
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