. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ir dealings with the public,the companys property and thegovernment; at the same timethey must not neglect their ownor their companions do not hear of many acci-dents from the breakdown of cars,or of many fines from the govern-ment because of the defectivecondition of safety we may come to theconclusion that the car inspectoris doing his work properly. A double load of iron was going from the C. H. & D. overthe B. & 0. S. W. for a destination about a mile beyondthe C. H. & D. The Southwestern refused to accept theload for
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ir dealings with the public,the companys property and thegovernment; at the same timethey must not neglect their ownor their companions do not hear of many acci-dents from the breakdown of cars,or of many fines from the govern-ment because of the defectivecondition of safety we may come to theconclusion that the car inspectoris doing his work properly. A double load of iron was going from the C. H. & D. overthe B. & 0. S. W. for a destination about a mile beyondthe C. H. & D. The Southwestern refused to accept theload for switch movement; a confab was held between amaster mechanic, a general foreman and two car of all came a car inspector, better known as a dopemonkey. Well, the officials walked around this load andlooked at it for about half an hour. Mind you it wasonly going a mile at the most. As a final resort, theyconsulted the car inspector. The answer took him just thetime required to get the words out of his mouth—about. thirty seconds. The others at once agreed to follow hisplan. Now if this load had been going hundreds of milesand if hundreds of other loads had been waiting for thoseofficials to make up their minds—as is often the case, thechances are that the load would be there yet. That was amost joyful minute for the car inspector. One of the pleasantest incidents that ever happened tome was this. In the Southwestern yards at Washington,Ind., some years ago, my duties took me to a special trainthat was carrying President McKinley and his inspecting the train and testing the brakes, I pro-ceeded to the platform at the rear end. There saw me and asked about my work. When Itold her I had been inspecting the cars to be sure thateverything was safe, she asked me to wait a minute. She went inside of her car andreturned with a bouquet ofbeautiful roses and gave them tome. I was all swelled up withpride for a minute and you oughtto have seen the c
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