. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . f. per-chance, a flying trains t rews imat oniy ofyours along thetrack, there is onlyone thing certain, itwill not occur again;but your ghost isalmost sure to wan-der back. You strollalong the roadwayand flip the movingcar, and. to duckthe con, you sit uponthe step; you dontappear to figureyouve no businesswhere you are 3()ure pinched for trespass, dont gel hep. When you travel,nuMest trifies s(it a(iui\er every n(Mve; if youpinch your little finger in the door, or youlose your equilibrium in scooting round acurve, you will damn that measly
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . f. per-chance, a flying trains t rews imat oniy ofyours along thetrack, there is onlyone thing certain, itwill not occur again;but your ghost isalmost sure to wan-der back. You strollalong the roadwayand flip the movingcar, and. to duckthe con, you sit uponthe step; you dontappear to figureyouve no businesswhere you are 3()ure pinched for trespass, dont gel hep. When you travel,nuMest trifies s(it a(iui\er every n(Mve; if youpinch your little finger in the door, or youlose your equilibrium in scooting round acurve, you will damn that measly road forever-more. You will charge the grossest crime,negligence in operation, even though you hadno business to be there; curse the managingofficials, fill the air with lafnentation. andcavort around and rip and tear your hair. InEurope they are killing men by thousands everyday; over here we drown ashipload at a dock;our juggernautomobiles mostly kill whats intheir way; but it takes a jolt by rail to give ashock.—Railway Aqc WHi:X A FELLER Another Chapter of Panama RailroadHistory ON Iriday, Octoberb. the Panama Railroad,owned by the Inited States government,issu<d a circular fixing at S^i.(K) a ton i\\ rate across the Isthmus, this rate cover-ing all charges. ()n()clobr H) the authoritiesresponsible for the; circular of ()ctoberS canceledthis Hat rate and announced a classification ofrates, unchr which the cost of moving a ton offreight from one end of the road to the (jtherwould have been . On Saturday, October30, the secretary of war, in whose jurisdictionthe supervision of the Panama Railroad falls,rescinded the schedule of October 19, and or-dered the re-establishment of the rates ofOctober S. Wc register in chronological orderthis succession of in-cidents in t hegovern-ment management ofa public utility en-joying a monopolyin its field for thepurpose of congratu-lating the M. (larrisonon having promptlyrectified the blunderof hi
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