. The locomotive engineer . ld story overagain. I guess they wont never let up till Ihcycall gel up some plan to do away with cash faresand tickets. Miibee you dont remember a few year* ago Frosty, old boy, they eouldnlgit me to weartheir dam harness; they couldnt git me to gothrough my train with no sulitreasur)attachmentanil an atlydavy fnee. like a convicled shoplifter—not by a damsite. ■■Just here his clerk sold u cigar, and taking aquarter from the customer, jabbed a key on one ofthem regestering typewriter things that jumps upa card saying ten cents, give the mau his change,and went at s
. The locomotive engineer . ld story overagain. I guess they wont never let up till Ihcycall gel up some plan to do away with cash faresand tickets. Miibee you dont remember a few year* ago Frosty, old boy, they eouldnlgit me to weartheir dam harness; they couldnt git me to gothrough my train with no sulitreasur)attachmentanil an atlydavy fnee. like a convicled shoplifter—not by a damsite. ■■Just here his clerk sold u cigar, and taking aquarter from the customer, jabbed a key on one ofthem regestering typewriter things that jumps upa card saying ten cents, give the mau his change,and went at something elst. Nen Forney Locnniotfves for the MaiilialtauElevated R«ud. To a railroad man familiar with the little, redengines that haul New Yorkers back and forth, adescription seems much like a description of bis ownhome; but the number of tcllcts we constantly re-ceive from far and tbete engines,their siw. weight and ferviie, shows that the ax-enigerailroader knows litrle or nothing about M VM1ATT.\N BlGVATED LoeOMOTIVl when the Ienusylviiniu put nn ticket picker* imilthen jrot up a sort of u grub big. nickel-in-Iheloi-ufTair that viu, Mrapped lo the conduelor—hehad to drop a ticket or a receipt for fare paid intothe flot In the presence of the pnsticnger—rlontremember it. hey V ■ Well I waspullingBcon. then, and he were agoixl one, but he liared up and quit—wouldntstand it. He hadnt been running but st-ven brei:;ht year, but he had saved money enough tobuy a hotel, and no »loiicb neither, right in oldPhiily. 1 was io to ee him not lung ago and hud ugood talk about olil times, and he^ix (o me. eais Wlints that, Jim. sat« I. Cash Tegislor, twis be. ■ ■ What fur T »ais 1, Why to keep Ihem roosters fmni lenling myeye teeth out. sat* he. Same plan as the old Ikkel , Jim/ralBI. laflin. Well, sulhin, Miis be, kinder thEnkin , Fnwiy, these liotel clerks are slick onet—steal while youre luokin at em. Tou got lo keepyo
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