RAILROAD RESERVE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 9

RAILROAD RESERVE.

An old railroad man said it was a curious thing that railroad officials never permitted their employers to tell anything about an accident. "It is worth a man's position to do it," he said. " I remember once when I was in Omaha. It was about the time that the Union Pacific gave orders to shorten up the time. An old engineer, who was to make the first run on the new schedule, said just before he mounted his cab that the engines on the Union Pacific were too heavy to make that time, and that it would tear up the track. When the engineer got to the end of his run he found a message discharging him. " Railroad companies are just that strict with their emp'oyees. They not only do not allow them to give any information, but they do not allow them to make any remarks about the company's business. I was coming into Chicago one day on a Chicago and Northwestern train. I was a stranger to the conductor, and thought I would have a little quiet fun with him. fcio I asked him in a sort of a confidential way where the train was going to stop at the end of the run. He shook his head. After a while I tackled him again and told him that it was necessary that I should know. |le took me out in the baggage car and told me he was coming to Chicago, but implored me for God's sake not tp say anything about it, as the company would discharge him if it was known."—-" Chicago Mail."