| Show SOT SrrrlCll T T JSDCCE1fIir WHV PiT CARS ARC tlXDOM XO LISTED EYnCEDEKS Why ii it that train robbers never plunder a ray train Hecauso they know tiiiir reward re-ward wculd bo too IsuiUcntL That Is the way au exrailroad man put it last nUbt 5 lAsa money he added Is car rlcJ OP a pay train than any other kind of train Some folks imagine that thJ pay of the eaiployes of the two great systems termlnatlog here ajjrtxatlu hundreds of th < > usnnds monthly is > llid away in tho cars rod Is hauled over the rend lent tliat the case Great Scott no Trains would be robbed l > e ore they gut will out of SaVdUiuh Bcfittey who would be abe to keep up with a carlcuJ of money It I largely tllverand the 10cect Jiltces and the nickel and thu copper would run away with thintn How U the business conducted then Ilaslly enough In fact there i < but one way to properly carry it ou That way U to draw on the banks at each city for enough to pay off until tlio next city is reached Ft > r Instance leaving Savannah over cither the Savannah Florida and Ytetu Itailroad or tho Central Railroad Just enough moue is taken 1 > t buy 10 cmplnyes including includ-ing ageut track listed or itura and cthen at each of the ftatiots This amount is not very large The lancet amounu ure paid oat In the cillee For Instance in Macon thevnclueen tlrxmen eon duttora and yard hands and ctliers of the St tullnh and Ulskrn Roll road are ulj otTJ In Augusta em ployes of the South Carolina division of the Central arc paU oil the nme I I is true with tlic bsvauictb Florida and Vtktrn Railway fly this the ns the largest sum tali out amount It little more than a transfer of money procure firm the banks tl l olJa r through the juymit of tho mil ro > l3 to the employee The sums paid out on the line between the tieatquaiters of each UivUlou ere small comf1nt to theamounts Juld out in the cities None of the ngi tears or firemen or conductor or 1clllellnrclslllotrlt point along the line They are the enijiloytrs tint get the J lorco > t fry The railroad nun related nn in ilent which took place several years ago which he said put mat ten In a bad light and made the pay train tempting to train rubbers A nenraptminuter on one of the d i lilies i of a watern town wrote along a-long article stating how much mom y it required to jay oil the employes of the road and concluded conclud-ed ny jayirg it was singular that the roger seldom hula up juy train Tho figures tiny llow paftr mate gave wen corrw t and the article ar-ticle attracted Whflrtrt atUnton Several clliciaU of the road went to the general marngrr tout the matter mat-ter and began to suggest a remedy for what they coiiiiiiircda very Led practice The general manager explained them that tl Le amount of money carried on ley trains u sasntall cetu fared to what I canter on a regular mail and exprrxs train but the matter mat-ter was rot xttkil until the newspaperman news-paperman 1 published fin interview with the general manager UN lug the facts and stating the mauntr In which bunc wan conducted on Icy train The railroader mid however that the danger of ley train robbery Is 1 very Might The robbers have potted thumtelvet about lLie inntUrs Sucannoh Acir |
