Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1914 — "Cussing the Clock." [ARTICLE]

"Cussing the Clock."

Many an engineer who, given a fast schedule, failed to come through on time, has been placed on the dispatcher’s mental blacklist, which means poor "meets” for him thereafter. He has made the dispatcher "cuss the clock,” and suffers for it. The dispatchers have every engineman well catalogued. “Cussing the clock” is a curious habit that all dispatchers have. Whenever trains fall behind time, the dispatcher addresses bitter and profane things to the clocks, whose hands keep moving, though his trains do not.