Show GIVEN EIGHT SHILliNGS I I II Reward of a Swiss Railroad Who Saved Sixty lives and Prevented a Wreck Special Cable to i Geneva April 9 Tho proverbial greed greediness ness neBS of corporations is 18 emphasized in the case caso of a gatekeeper named Allaman who is employed by the Federal Railway com corn company i pany This faithful workman received the ridiculous lous reward of eight shillings not quite OO for saving the lives of sixty people and about for Cor the company in damages During the heavy rains and floods in the I cantons of ot Geneva and Vaud Vend at the end I I of last January Allamon Allaman hearing an un unusual usual hissing sound walked along the lines having a presentiment that there was something wrong He found that thata a stream flowing from the Jura mountains into Lake Geneva G va had become a torrent and overflowing its banks had swept away about thirty yards of the perma permanent permanent permanent nent way leaving the rails suspended in inthe Inthe Inthe the air all airAs allAs airAs As the express trav tray traveling traveling eling at sixty miles an hour was due in ina Ina Ina a few minutes and would be precipitated into the torrent with its sixty passengers Allaman ran to his little house for a red flag and stopped the tha express fifty yards from the tha suspended rails and then re returned returned returned turned home pleased with the fact that he had prevented a terrible accident Some days ago the tho news of the affair arrived at atthe atthe atthe the Berne Borne headquarters of the Federal Railway company and the tha Swiss man managers managers agers users thought that such an act on the part of a gatekeeper should be rewarded After due consideration he was awarded the scandalous amount mentioned above The Tha Swiss Siss newspapers are liTO Indignant over the matter and criticise the company se so severely severely I verely |