Snow on the Headlight
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Cy Warman. Snow on the Headlight
PREFACE
CHAPTER FIRST
CHAPTER SECOND
CHAPTER THIRD
CHAPTER FOURTH
CHAPTER FIFTH
CHAPTER SIXTH
CHAPTER SEVENTH
CHAPTER EIGHTH
CHAPTER NINTH
CHAPTER TENTH
CHAPTER ELEVENTH
CHAPTER TWELFTH
CHAPTER THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH
CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH
CHAPTER NINETEENTH
CHAPTER TWENTIETH
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST
CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND
CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH
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Good managers are made from messenger boys, brakemen, wipers and telegraphers; just as brave admirals are produced in due time by planting a cadet in a naval school. From two branches of the service come the best equipped men in the railroad world—from the motive-power department and from the train service. This one came from the mechanical department, and he spent his official life trying to conceal the fact—striving to be just to all his employees and to show no partiality towards the department from whence he sprang—but always failing.
"These men will not strike," he contended: "The brains of the train are in the engine."
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At the end of the first month of the strike the lines were pretty well drawn. There was no neutral ground for employees. A man was either with the company or with the strikers.
"I do know it, but you can give me a letter over there. Just say: 'Please give Patsy Daly transportation, Chicago to Council Bluffs and return;' that'll do the business. You might add a paragraph about me being an old and trusted employee and—"
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