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The Railroad Man's Magazine, Jul 1910 OR1CE IO CENTSTH BY 'THE YEAR. $199 MAN'S MAGAZINE MASCOTS OF THE <w The Mastep Mechanic By ROBERT JI ROGERS A Lesson ii) Railroad Construction A MI l\NFY f OMPAM1 mm PEARSaw # I 1 JWCHLESSFokTheCONPLEJCIOHI Specially drawn for Messrs. Pears' by Mr. Walter Crane rights secured." THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. 1-4 Delicious Refreshing Thirst Quenching Hot Sun—Stifling' Streets That time is approaching. When it arrives stop at the next soda fountain and treat your hot, tired and thirsty self to a glass of delicious, refreshing It will cool you—relieve your fatigue and quench your thirst as nothing else can. 5c Everywhere Send for our free booklet—"The Truth About Coca-Cola." It tells all about h—what it is and why it is so delicious and wholesome. THE COCA-COLA CO. Atlanta, Ga. The Railboad Man's Magazine. In annccring this advertisement it is desirable that you. mention THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE—ADVERTISING SECTION. WASH BURN -CROSBY CO., Largest Millers in the World. General Offices, Minneapolis. Minn. In answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention The Railroad Man's Magazine. THE RMLROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE CONTENTS FOR JULY SERIALS. The Man Who Wasn't Game. Part ! William S. Wright . 219 President of the Line. Part III John Wellsley Sanders 293 Without Lights. Part V J. Aubrey Tyson . 331 A Heart of the North. Part IV George Van Schaick . 365 SHORT STORIES. Nailing Ninety-Four. (Illustrated.) Robert Fulkerson Hoffman 203 The Gold Coupler Augustus Wittfeld . 234 Boglip's Canine Party C. W. Beels 249 Walworth, the Snob. (Illustrated.) Robert T. Creel . 265 Stealing an Armored Train. (Illustrated.) Frederick J. Liesmann 273 Taming Bad Bill Goode. (Illustrated.) Emmet F. Harte . 305 Smoke's Lost Independence. (Illustrated.) Horace H. Herr . 319 The Biograph Bandits. (Illustrated.) .• Henry H. Tinkham 355 SPECIAL ARTICLES. Mascots of the Rail. (Illustrated.) Waller Gardner 193 The New Home of the New York Central. (Illustrated.) Stephen Angus Cox 212 Observations of a Country Station-Agent. No. 26. (Illus- trated.) J. E. Smith . 226 Ten Thousand Miles by Rail. No. 2. More Dramas of Dixie Land. (Illustrated.) Gilson Willets . 237 Help (or Men Who Help Themselves. No. 33. The Master Mechanic Robert H. Rogers 256 When Rules Were Scarce E. A. Spears 280 The First Railroad Across South America George W. Grant 281 Taking Orders from Death. ( Illustrated.) Peter Mulligan . 286 James H. Lawrence, Oldest Railroad Wage-Earner. (Il- lustrated.) Nathan E. Burke 301 The Science of Rate-Making ......... Thaddeus Stevens 313 Making Up Lost Time . John Walters 325 The Flight of the Coyote Special. True Story. No. 46. (Illustrated.) C. E. Van Loan 342 Old-Timer Tales. No. 6. The Evil Genius of the 888 . Arno Dosch . 351 Handling 1200 Trains a Day T. S. Dayton 361 VERSE AND DIVERSE. The Lure of the Rails. (Poem.) Leslie Curtis 218 By the Light of the Lantern 268 The Railroad Man's Brain Teasers 376 The Sunny Side of the Track 377 MISCELLANEOUS. Government Meals, 75 Cents .... 202 Bronze Instead of Brass . 312 An Engineer Rhymester 211 Train Despatching by Telephone 329 Risks Life to Save Child . 217 Third Oldest Pennsy Employee Dead 330 Tie Farms for the Pennsylvania . 236 Railroads To Take Up Farming 341 The Fastest Thing on Wheels .... 248 A Tell-Tale That Is Popular . 350 Why the Chief Clerk Laughed .... 264 Grade Crossings Are Disappearing 354 Swift Business 264 Pennsy Instruction Cars . 364 A School for Stokers 292 On the Editorial Carpet . 379 ISSUED MONTHLY BY THE FRANK A. MVNSEY COMPANY. 175 Fifth Avenue. New York, and Temple House. Temple Avenue. E. C, London Fk**k A UoiMBV, I'rc.M-'-r ]:i m.i.i H. Trrnummur, SMfftuj. Cimi-tflpiim II Pan, Trouimr. Copyright, I9t0j bj TUB Prftitlc a. Miinxrv GAmJuny tt/mrr. 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HomnnK* Automobiles, ami, IT found put I (factory, I will immedintcly remit you or return the took tn yon. All in one volume, illustrated, $2, postpaid. Name « Write for "Other People's Opinions'* and Table of Contents. Occupation „ , Puritan Pub. Co., 739 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. Addilbbs :. July li.R.Man'fl In answering any advertisement on this page it t« desirable that yon mention The Railboad Man's Magazinb. ; THE MILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE Vol. XII. JULY, 1910. No. 2. Mascots of the Rail. BY WALTER GARDNER. BASEBALL-PLAYERS, soldiers, and sailors are not the only men who attempt to ward oft" their Jonahs and bring good luck to themselves by keeping mascots. Railroad men from the beginning have shown a leaning toward animal proteges; and. though a goat trailing his whiskers about a roundhouse, or a dog riding in an engine-cab. would seem apt to prove anything but a hoodoo-killer, the little god of luck sometimes works things out peculiarly. In the days when discipline was not so rigid as at present, and so long as the men got their trains over the road on time, the officials did not concern themselves particularly about what the men did. A cock - fight in the roundhouse-pit did not bring about the severe jacking up that it would now. In the early seventies, and even later, mascots were privileged characters, and train-crews often carried them on their runs from one division to another. How a Goat Butted Into a Romance, and How the Strange Intuitions of a Cat and Dog Made History on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern. ^AKE the deuce and hook on " What can you expect when the crew " to the wrecker, Jimmie." haven't a mascot? " What's the matter " Oh, come off the perch, Walt. What's " now? a mascot got to do with it?" " Fifteen is in the ditch " Oh, nothing, so far as I know. But on Lone Tree Hill." you know that is the only train on this "Wonder 'twasn't 17. That's the road whose crew hasn't a mascot of some hoodoo train on this road. What's the kind." " matter with 15 ? " I don't believe in this mascot busi- " Broke in two at the summit, and, ness. I don't say there is anything in it about half-way down, the front trucks of but, back in the seventies, the boys at the the tail-end climbed the rail." Fredericktown roundhouse had a great " He must have piled" them well to assortment of animals — a little zoo of need the wrecker." their own." 1RR J 93 194 THE RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE. "Well, what of it?" applying to his head and neck, when " You know that Fredericktown was Murphy landed.
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