Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — Railroad Men Put Spies on Eaeh Other. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Men Put Spies on Eaeh Other.

Cbirsgo Herald The various means employed in railroad offices to detect reported cuts in freight and passenger rates by hated competitors are. both novel and ingenious. Suppose that a rumor is heard that a certain road is cutting freight rates to competing points. The competitors’starfout to ascertain theitruth of the rumor. Spies are sent out trom the general and contracting freight offices to visit the offices of the road under suspicion and endeavor to nail the vandal to the cross by getting the alleged cut rate as representatives of some mercantile house. If this ruse does not succeed the telephone is resorted to and rates are inquired for. Again 1 , friendly traveling men are sent to seek for the reported cut. If, perchance, the cut is discovered to be an actuality, there is war. and war to the knife. it . . u The facetious father of a pair of twin babies complained that although they filled the house with music he could not tell one heir from another.