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Show Reckless Railroading. Jesse Lewisohn, the noted financier, told at a shareholders' meeting in New York a railroad story. "America has a good many railroad accidents," he began, "but we must remember re-member that America is an immense country, with an immense railroad traffic. Our roads on the whole are carefully and intelligently managed. They are not managed in the least like a road I heard a story of th other day. "It was before the war, and a northerner north-erner was traveling on a little railway m New England. Suddenly, in an out-of-the-way spot, the train halted and the brakeman leaped out and ran ud the track. On the brakeman's return the tourist said to him: '".This is a quer placo to stop. There. s no station here. What's the trouble anyway?' , nothin' of any consequence.' the brakeman answered. 'The signal wuz agln us, that wuz all. rve w d2ectl'g ' nW We'J1 S0 on ain |