Show I i I MANY CREWS ON S P MEN ARE MAKING BIG MONEY IN INTRAIN INTRAIN TRAIN SERVICE Applicants for Positions Must Pass Ex amin and Present Personal Record of Several Durin During the present heay traffic east and nd west wesL on the Harriman Harrim n lm there are about eighty i train crows reC ninny employed on the tho main line of the Salt Lake division of tho ho Southern Pacific between Ogden anti and Sparks nUll or of this largo number twelve pas paa passenger crews creWEl twentysix freight crews craws and three or four work worl train crows are aro assigned to duLy lilt between Ogden Ogdon anti Carlin Carl In Aside front from these crows crews there are arc perhaps half a dozen lozen freight and passenger crews who are I called jute inlo as occasion re requires quires The pay of men In train service Ilif I fers vel very materially Passenger con draw from per month up tip an and passenger or as they arc called draw from DO O to per month The pay par of freight conductors runs front from to per month according to lo the mileage they make and the hours of service and the par pa of freight train brakemen runs from to per month While this pay seems rather large to many engaged in other pursuits It Itis itis is considered only by those familiar with the the long hours hea heavy labors and great responsibilities of men engaged In regular freight train service where from irom GO 60 to cars constitute a single train In harse harge or of ora ofa a conductor and two brakemen Until the past year rear it was deemed easy for any young oung man familiar with switching to get a positIon as brakeman on a freight train but bul this has all been changed luring during the last twelve months I and now applicants for Cor those positions are arc required to 10 pass a Yer very rigid ex cx I All applications must con contain tain tam a personal record extending back bacle several years and must undergo a physical examination before a keen and critical railroad They must be men in flue fine physical condition of good moral character and of tern tem Iterate and exemplary habits They must also have service let letters tors show showing lag ing where they were last employed and the reason the they left positions In railway service In addition to varied alt 1111 applicants tor or train service are taken in hand handby handby by and lesser officials and closely as to their knowledge of nf the tho rules rulos and regulations regulation governing train work and orders ardors or of every description It Is a fairly good days work for the train trainmasters trainmasters masters office to pass pasa on four or of I theae applications and if the candidate for fora a job pF ses all or of the examinations satisfactorily th the Impression obtains that lint lie he is a pretty good man ph physical I morally and Is on titled to the respect alII amid I confidence of the higher officials under whom lie he heIs lieis Is required to servo On the contrary If he falls In any essential point Joint or of the thelong long name annie Is D Dennis with a capital D 0 Ills his application is 18 In the waste basket and ho is in a friendly wa way to drop train servIce anti and seek a soft job joh on the tr or engage in agricultural luring liming the beet crop season Henson |