Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1911 — Conductor’s Good Reasoning. [ARTICLE]

Conductor’s Good Reasoning.

The street car conductor was about to be transferred to another line. Not his to reason why, yet on that occasion he did, and with the chief of the department. “I don’t like that line,” he said. “What’s the matter with it?” asked the chief. “It’s commonplace,” said the conductor. “I will lose my good manner! if Igo down there. The line I am on now is a well dressed line and a liberal education for the railway employe. I am not the same man I was when I was moved up there two years ago from a downtown line. lam more polite, my voice is lower and I have spruced up in general appearance. It is that- way with every man in the business. Put him on a line patronized by well dressed people and he will fix up to fit his surroundings. If I go back on that other line I will lose polish.” All the chief said then was “Well, well”; but the conductor was not transferred.