Show T R A I 1 IN I 1 BREAKING IN countrymen FOR CITY RAILWAY SERVICE make the gripman on account of their strength and C tion A situation that requires clone attention anti plenty or of where do the grip gripman inen come coina front from a strong armed blue bloo uniformed formed employee ot of the washington aud and georgetown railway was asked 1 last ast night as lie he left his car at the he end of tile the route for a cup of cogee coffee and a san sandwich divich in tho the all night restaurant why from the country most of them these follows fellows who are raised ou on cigarettes and beer in the city dont seem to have the amele necessary to throw on oil tile tho brake and stop the train on a down grade then again a coull countryman tryman is mighty careful about going through the streets hes aft afraid aid that every man ho be sees cerep off tile alie pavement is going to be rm ann over wid lie is absolutely certain that every te team am that comes out from a cross street stroet is going to collide with him it takes him about two years to get over this fear and theu then ng as lie ho be becomes cornes a little careless he has a few accidents that sinai calr h up lip fenders and take the paint off tho the co cliches iches and then lie gets fired and the road is ready to break in another countryman how bow do they break them in well they are mighty careful with them A new man on oil the grip is about ta the ts worst scared object in tile the world talk about your condemned man being scared when hes bes walking aking out to bo be hanged banged why his sensations ioas aint ain t in it with tho the man mail chos running a grip car for the first t time me to bo be sure au an expert experienced I 1 gripman is on oil tile the car right beside him ready to throw on the brakes and sound the lookout bell but between the grip and tile the wheel brake brak and the track brake ind and the go ahead t and stop signals ind and the look out bells and the people jumping on and off tile ho grip car your dew gri just gets seasick thoy say hay they dont mind it but talking through their bonnets bats all then another thing the way they throw on oil the brake yanks their arms out ot of joint and makes em cm good and sore I 1 tell you theres something funny about braking up a grip car I 1 came from the country to my job but I 1 always a plowboy when iwae I 1 was a young fellow I 1 to work iu in a country printing of fica bleb and used to have to run a washington hall hand press ever run a washington hand press youre in tile newspaper business what never luu inn one well then I 1 cant tell you yon anything about it except that if you dont know tile tho trick you cant throw er over and get an impression pres siou no more than a rabbit you may have a muscle like a blacksmith but if you dont know tile the knack you yon cant pull the he lever over but if you are on to tile the trick and dont weigh woren moren I 1 90 pounds pound youcan you cin throw her lier around just like lightning and make GOO impressions pres in an hour bour that is if youve got a good devil to do your inking well as I 1 was saying th its just like brakin braking I 1 gulla up a giap car some big fellows weighing eig hing pounds with muscles on them like fitzsimmons laitz simmons go out on one of these grips with two coaches behind em and the lie way they brake er up makes all the passengers think they have gone to sea then a i little fellow who dont louk look heavy enough to handle a team of mules attached to a sulky bulky plow gets a job on the roid road and lie he grabs that old grip like a drum major throwing throw inc a baton and hell get tile tha I knack dack ot the thing ri right lit quick and when lie brakes er up the passengers think that the first waltz at the 61 charity larity ball is just starting but while lie may maybe lie throwing on the brakes all light hes kind of off his pins NN when bell it comes coines to hearing bearing the two bulls for go ahead you kee aliew a new man cant do everything at once takes about a week to get tho the shiver beiver off and duri during ng that time it 11 fegri regular lar gripman runs with tho the new mail ivan keeping a sharp ashard lookout then the new man mail after his week goes to the superintendent and has to pass an e examination they ask him all about the signals signal and where other cars cross and where the dead men are dead mans a block you yon strike it if you dont let go tho the cable where you have to and if yon ever strike a dead man mail your jobs gone no ifs is and ands about it and all about the street and so be on well if the dow man mail the examination lie ho puts up 10 ind and they give him it a certificate and lie he can cam go and put that up for a uniform and an overcoat and there you are lies hes a gripman ready tor for 20 degrees below zero and degrees above zero and his little old 3 2 a day tho the companas comp anys breaking I 1 in six bis new gripman on the fourteenth street line right now two of the old men died ind and a couple quit each line always keeps about a dozen ostra extra gripman on hand band ready for au an emergency so break breaking iiii iu in these new bev ones one of if the new boyi had bad au an accident at ninth and the avenue the other afternoon ran into in au anacostia bobtail car by ginger RC r I 1 thought ll 11 he was vas going to knock the thing clear to the good hope hill bill but lie he scared well tile the passengers on the bobtail wai baut nt half as scared as he be was he could hardly got off tho the grip to pick up the pieces of the fender ho he thought lie ho was as good as fired but the company never said nothing C guess buess they thought they was lucky to got get off with as is little damage and besides an accident right fit at the baart makes n grip maii extra careful for all the rubt of the bitne washington hobt |