Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1915 — An Efficiency Fiend. [ARTICLE]

An Efficiency Fiend.

The general manager of an cas-tern railroad had a dreaded reputation for laying dff men whenever he found the slightest excuse. He appeared in the yards one day and two switchmen discussed him. "He don’t look like the man wc heat he is,” said one. "What do you hear?” the other asked. “Why, they say when he was at the funeral of Flannery’s wife and the six pallbearers came out carrying the coffin he raised his hand and said: *Hold on, hoys! You can get along without two. of them!’“ \