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Show IT WAS ACCEPTED. ' Several railway men were telling stories sto-ries of incidents on the rail, when one remarked: "All of you know by heart the story of 'On again. Off again, Finnegun?'. I can tell you a better one. and this is a fact. A man whom I will call Wood, but all of you know him and his brother, broth-er, was working on a branch of the Pennsylvania, which had several coal tipples on the banks of the Ohio river. "At this station was a trestle runnln? out into the river. One night Wood was throwing cars onto the various si 1-ings, 1-ings, when a cut of twenty-two cars of coal t-ume along. "Wood thought he was throwing the cars onto the main track when In fact he turned them on the trestle. The re-Hiilt re-Hiilt was that the twenty-two cars with their loads went Into the river. "Wood calmly walked up to the t'.e-graph t'.e-graph olllce and sent the following message to headquarters: 'Twenty-two 'Twenty-two caVs of coal went into the river to-MiE'ht; to-MiE'ht; there is room for twenty-two more at the fame place; please accept my resignation." The resigntaion was accepted." Ohio State Journal. |