Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-06-25 | Page 14 | The other Fellow Has Troubles Too

THE OTHER FELLOW HAS TROUBLES TOO Train Conductor Believes His Experiences Are Not Only Troublesome, but Sometimes Needless. SOME people think because a conductor con-ductor gets to ride around the country all the time on trains and wears a nice uniCorm with brass buttons on it, that his job is a mere primrose path of ticket collecting;," collect-ing;," said the passenger conductor. "But, believe me, we have our troubles just the same 'as anybody." "You see, a conductor is a sort of captain of the ship on a railroad passenger pas-senger train. He has two brakemen to give orders to, an engine cew who are supposed to take orders, but generally gen-erally won't, and several hundred passengers, pas-sengers, every one with some sort of difficulty. The bane of our existence you might think is the fussy women who demand to know .what time they will be able to make connections with the Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona, Pa., in order to arrive in their home town before dark. Of course, such questions are asked us daily by persons who think because we cannot give them the information we are incompetent. incompe-tent. But the real trouble comes when there is a 'spotter' on the traiu. "There was a 'spotter' on the other day, and as I knew he was keeping a close eye on things, I tried to see that everything went exactly according to time-card regulations. I thought that everything was exactly as it should be, but that 'spotter' noticed something that escaped my eye. The result was that I got a message the' next day as follows: " 'Brakemen on passenger trains are supposed to be neat in their dress. Kindly see to it after this that your brakemen wear clean collars.' "