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Show School Children as Car "Spotters." "Tho amateur spotter who cost me my job," said n former conductor ion tho Lexington Lex-ington avenue. "Is a normul school girl who looked ns innocent as a dairymaid, I know It. because I havo taken pains since I was laid off to make Investigations. Investiga-tions. It Is a fact well known to conductors con-ductors that students in tho colleges make a llttlo extra money as amateur spotters on tho cars, in fact, they make four or five trips a day and get from GO to SO cents for It. They work with beans, beads and loLs of other things. Wo can never tell. But a conductor Is never afraid of a man with a pencil and notebook. note-book. "The amateur spotters run onlv on short trips from Fourteenth to Fifty-ninth street, for Instincc. If a man Is caught on a short trip tho company puts an ox-pcrt ox-pcrt on him for two or three long trips. If tho report of the student spotter Is confirmed ho Is dismissed with no explanation ex-planation except that his services are no longer required. Tho company seldom makes a mistake. If a man Is dismissed for knocking down, ten chances to one he deserves It." New York Press. |