Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1914 — He Looked Out for ’Em. [ARTICLE]

He Looked Out for ’Em.

A green fireman was being broken in, and, among other things, he was warned to look out for the mail cranes located near the track on the engineer’s side. The engineer was running a doublecab engine on the day the green one was with film. Everything went lovely for the first fifty miles, but all of a sudden the old fireman heard a yell, and, going back, expecting to find the green man with his skull crushed, he found him lying over the chain in the gangway and yelling at the top of his voice to back her up. Asked what the trouble was, he replied: “I caught about fifty, ljut missed the last one.” “And sure enough,” said Finley, “he had a pile of mall-bags in the tank that you couldn’t climb over if you tried.”