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No man who is more tlmo live f##t tnll should go bruiting ou a freight train if lie don’t want to get his hriul broken. Tim latent victim iu a young man named Autlur* sou, who was tumbled off the lop of a box car nt Port Murray lust week. He has on ugly gush across liia forehead, and has not ipofeeu aw intelligible ward silica last week, when the accident occurred.Conductor Patrick J. Hayes, of Vushiug-ton, undertook to euuplo otio of those abominable coke cars of tbo Pennsylvania Railroad to a coal oar the other day and got badly Mjucezlt;d. He is getting over it though, and expect* to go to vroik in u few days.The Master Car Builder* of the United Slates held a mooting in New York * ample of years ago and look hoiuo testimony which, according to the Bun's report, lelt tho ini* preasiou on my mind that they wcrn trying to lay tho bianso for oii defuoie on the car inspectors. Now those most patent, grave and reverend seigniors, tny very noble and approved good masters, know very well that the car inspectors arc not consulted at all about tho construction of railroad car*, aud piling the faults ou their beads is nil bosh Next time those gentlemen get together they might resolve on a uaifonu system of ear-buildiug, and above all tilings make their oars tho saino height. There are more brukcraeu and conductors maimed, wounded and killed by trying to couple high and low cars together than in any other way. Those Pennsylvania Railroad coke cars, lor instance, aro so high that when they come next to a coal car in a train, the ook* cars bumpers go right over the bumpers of the cool cor, and if they come together bard, which they sometimes do, the chances are tfant the end boards of the coal car are crushed In. What would huppeu to a man if he vu botweeu them then ?For the Kamo reason when a train is going down grade the three liuk is apt to becom* uncoupled, tho train breaks in two and run* together, and there iu a smash up for which somebody ha* to puy, generally the company on which road it occurs. I might write a couple of columns in this same strain, but I hope I have said enough to call attention of the proper authorities to this most important subject to railroad men.Frank Laird goes from here to take Tobu Hamilton's place on tho Hibernia Mine Railroad Monday morning. Frank is a first-clnss man and will give entire satisfaction to IiIb new employers 1 have no doubt.John Hamilton goea west to try his fortune. I wish him success, I r«n«i' sr when John first wont on the Hibernia Mine Railroad very welt. ,Tho chaneeB are now that Anderson, who got knocked off tho top of a box car by the Port Murray bridge may recover. Ho aim talk a little they say. His skull is fractured but tho doctor says he can fix that if he is not injured otherwise.Al. Mase, who is working on the night drill, got thrown off tho running board of a coal car tha other night. His head came in contact with tho target of the switch, which raada a hole Ja his head. He want over to. Dr, Neldeu’s, had it sewed up and cairn right back to work. He said the sewing up of the gash hurt him worso than striking against the target.I saw Mr. Robert Bald viu's brother at Stanhope the other night and did not know him. He used to have a very black beard and moustache. Now bis moustache is a little; light -thing of auother color. Ho told me that for some cause whiobhe could not explain, his beard and eyebrows hod all fallen out.
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Dover Iron Era
Dover, New Jersey, US
Sat, Jan 01, 1881
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