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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1900
Page
10
A New York New Haven and Hartford rule requires workers to pronounce station names clearly, sparking humor about brakemen, engineers, and a dictionary held by a brakeman. Reporters mispronounce towns as crews adjust to phonetic expectations.
The edict orders the brakeman to reform his current practice of announcing the new port name Nykotrzog replacing the old term. It signals a formal change in port designation and procedures.
In a Boston session yesterday the Social Democrats Carey and MacCartney led proposals on rail and streetcar safety, election reform, and workers compensation. Other measures urged direct mayoral votes, vestibules on winter streetcars, bicycle baggage moves, and lobster trap protections with two inch grid space.
A brakeman named Jim faces a disputed Taunton pronunciation rule. He must call the station correctly five times daily or lose his job, with locals pronouncing it variously Taun ton Tan ton Tarn ton. The piece sketches his plight and the social banter surrounding it.
The Middlesex Bar Association appoints a committee to attend the funeral of the late John B. Goodrich at Elliot Church Newton today at 2 o clock PM. Members include Benjamin Hayes Medford James T Joslin Hudson Winfield S Slocum Newton Fred N Wer Lowell and Fred Joy Winchester.
Wood's Hole reports the Vineyard and Nantucket steamers arriving today but unable to proceed to New Bedford due to thick fog.
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