Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Duty or Orders? [ARTICLE]

Duty or Orders?

Railroad men in Atchison, Kan., are puzzled over a question of duty or orders. On one of its sections near Atchison a railroad has just two men, the foreman and one hand. The printed rules of the company require that in case a rail should be found broken, one section hand must go in one direction. and another in the other, for the purpose of flagging trains. Now, tirequestion troubling Atchison is, how could the rail be mended with the entire force away flagging trains?