Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1917 — BUT ONE MAN IN 50 THOUGHT [ARTICLE]

BUT ONE MAN IN 50 THOUGHT

Carefully Rolled Broken Knuckle Out of Way That Other Employees Had Walked Around. A man with dirty face and hands, shirt soaked with perspiration, stopped, laid down his dinner bucket, rolled a broken knuckle out of the pathway between the tracks, put it close up against the ends of the ties where no one could stumble over it, picked up his dinner bucket and plodded home. More than 50 other employees had preceded this man, each one carefully picking his way around the obstrue* tion. I asked this man why he took the trouble to roll this knuckle out of the pathway. Be seemed surprised at such a question and said: “Why, some of the boys might get a bad fall If that knuckle was there after dark.” I said: "All the other men passed It by,” and he replied: “O’, they’re all good boys, they’d have done the same if they’d thought about IL” He said something, didn’t he? “H they’d thought about it” Ah, yes, “if they’d thought about it”— Erie Railroad Magazine.