Show the boy who d the saw hy A few years ago a green conn try boy applied to the superintendent of a western railway for work and somewhat against the superintendents wish on account of the danger to life and limb attendant upon such occupation was given a place as bral reman of a freight train on one of hia first trips it happened that his train met another freight train at a station where the side track waa not long enough to accommodate either of them the were delatine batine de train should back up to a point where they coald pass when the new hand ventured to suggest that neither should back that they could pass each other by means of the short side track if the thing was managed right tho idea excited a good deal of laughter on the part of the old trainmen but the boy stood his ground well how would yon go about it asked one of the conductors confident that abo lad would soon find himself a a stump the boy took up a slick and traced in the sand a diagram lo 10 illustrato hs plan good gracious said tha conductor 1 I believe that do and it did do if today every nun in america probably knows how to saw by two long trains oa a short side track but it is not so generally known that the thing was never dona until an inexperienced country boy who is now the manager of a great railway line worked out the problem for himself washington post |