Word: brakeman
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...principal figures is excellent. Something of the same admirable restraint appears in R. J. Walsh's "Little Wanderers," which treats a difficult situation with delicacy and good taste. K. B. Townsend's "Deus ex Box Car" is marked by vivid and convincing description, and his picture of the brakeman and his wife and the happy-go-lucky youngster who "don't have to work" is skilfully drawn...
Some of the stories of the last number of the Advocate are unusually good. The best of them is undoubtedly "Wasted," a very pleasing and touching sketch by A. S. Pier. John Green contributes a dialect story entitled "The Brakeman's Story." It is very well done. Two sketches by Chamberlin are only mediocre. The first is the better of the two, for while the second is much the better subject, the reader is perhaps a little tired toward the end of being told "he lay on the desert." G. C. Christian contributes a story entitled "The Fate of Mary...
...years-secondly, a Texas girl, plump and pretty, with a natural antipathy to books and other instruments of cultivation, and a predilection for slang and amorous raillery (a girl whose type is familiar to many Harvard men) -and lastly, "a short, thickset young man with the countenance of a brakeman," of muckers, muckerish. Of these delineations, the first is the best, the second having certain touches of vulgarity which are not pleasing. Regarded as a story, this effort of Mr. Cohen's lacks effect in its conclusion...
...Spuyten Duyvil inquest, H. D. Welsh testifies that the brakeman waited until the coming train was in sight before going back to signal it. The engineer testifies that the accident would not have happened had not the brakes been tampered with...
Charles Melius, the brakeman who is accused of causing the Spuyten Duyvil railroad disaster, was arraigned yesterday, and admitted to bail...