. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inquents ear,but always did the reprimanding on whatthe men called the sly. He would go be-hind a box car or call the man into aprivate room or car and roast him to hishearts content. But never a word of rep-rimand was uttered where others couldhear what was said. The consequence wasthat the worst abused man would departfrom the tongue lashing, feeling that he• deserved much more than he had receivedand ready to swear that the general man-ager was the finest gentleman in only doc
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inquents ear,but always did the reprimanding on whatthe men called the sly. He would go be-hind a box car or call the man into aprivate room or car and roast him to hishearts content. But never a word of rep-rimand was uttered where others couldhear what was said. The consequence wasthat the worst abused man would departfrom the tongue lashing, feeling that he• deserved much more than he had receivedand ready to swear that the general man-ager was the finest gentleman in only docs the man not lose self-r,--spect, but the fact that no one else the rebuke, entirely eliminates anyexhibition of bravado or resistance toauthority. In fact, on one occasion, a boywith a sense of humor, who had beenrather severely dealt with quietly andalone by his superior, went out into theroundhouse after he had been calleddown and gave it out that he had been Red in the Face. A correspondent who sends us the pho-tograph of a tow of coal barges on theOhio River calls the picture Our. OUk . l,. esteemed competitor, meaning the flatbottomed stern-wheel river steamboatalways seen in pictures of Uncle TomsCabin. The picture is near Wheeling,W. Va., and our friend remarks: He hasenough fuel in this tow to make a fewbattleships look red in the face up ahill. Righteous Indignation. Jacob DcCou, of Chanute, claimagent for the Santa Fe Railroad on theSouthern Kansas division, recently re-ceived a letter from a friend in , who is the Santa Fe claimrgent there. Inclosed was a copy of acomplaint recently turned over to follows: Dear Sir—Did your injincear tellyou he has kiled too couse belonginto me, he said he would tel you andthe konduckter too thay kiled them to-nite as they cam acros the road at myplais where I have got a crosin andwhen I put my crosin in you sed youwas puttin up a fense on eche side ofllie rode that wud keap criter
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