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for, I told him that I had plenty of time and would see him at his leisure. He said I had better see him then as he never had any leisure.
He personally checked all the O. S. & D. reports and when a local freight showed up badly, the axe fell.
His memory was most remarkable. The safe at Pass Christian was robbed one night and in talking with him about it, I stated that a "red check? had been taken along with other items. He immediately stated the date and amount and the name of the payee from memory.
I came to know him as a friend and when in New Orleans I would go to lunch with him so that we could talk about other matters than railroading.
His knowledge of history and current events exceeded that of any man I have ever known and one day, in amazement, I asked him how he found time to read so much. He said, I will answer you by telling you an experience of Madame De Stael. Some one asked her how she found time to write her ?Memoirs? and she said because she loved it.
He stated that when he reached home at Bay St. Louis on the second train in the evening, he ate his supper, undressed, and began to read in bed and would continue to read until No. 2 passed the draw bridge in the bay, then he turned his lamp out and went to sleep. He would catch the fast coast train in the morning for New Orleans and although there was an exclusive club car on the train, he always rode in the smoker. As soon as he boarded the train, the porter brought a chess table, which he had had made at the shop, with holes for the men which were made with pegs to insert in the holes. (The track was not so good as now.) He would always have some man aboard that would play the game and so they played until the train stopped at Canal Street.
About 1906, I was in New Orleans and at lunch asked him what he thought of the prohibition movement and he stated that he was not prepared to answer me. A year later, I saw him and he said, ?I am prepared to answer your question now?. I replied by saying that I had not asked him anything and he reminded me of the former occasion and said ?God's hand is in it, leave it alone.?
He kept a telegraph instrument in his room and when a schooner knocked a span of Pearl River
bridge out in January, 1904, he had the operator at Ocean Springs call me inside of an hour after the accident and by nine o?clock that morning we were transferring across the river by tug and barge.
His men loved him like a father and the commonest switchman would not hesitate to strike him for the loan of a dollar. He always got it and he always paid the debt,
for Mr. Marshall never forgot.
I am now circuit judge in a great State and may say that I know no man on the bench of any of our courts or among the members of our bar, whose intellect compares with that of my departed friend.
Honest, courageous, gracious in heart, none knew him but to love and respect him.
A FRIEND.
New Employes Must Be Physically Fit
^^INCE January 1, 1928, all per-sons, except laborers, making application for positions with the Company must pass a physical examination,. including sight, coior perception and hearing tests, before being accepted. Examinations of the various classes of prospective employes will be conducted, in accordance with the rules and instructions issued to division superintendents and heads of departments by the General Claims Attorney and approved by the General Manager, by the nearest district surgeon or bv a local surgeon to be designated by the district surgeon. The examination fee of the surgeon is $2.00, to be paid by the applicant if accepted for employment. The fees covering rejected applicants are paid by the Company.
Certain classes of employes, now in the service, whose employment is such that the safety of themselves and others depends to some extent upon their hearing and vision, are required under the new instructions to be examined periodically for sight, color perception and hearing. Those of the classes specified whose vision requires the use of glasses, or who have reached the age of 45, are required to undergo such tests every two years. Employes in these classes who have not reached the age of 45 and whose vision does not require the use of glasses are required to take the same re-examination every four years. The employes in the designated classes who have not heretofore been required to pass vision, color sense and hearing tests and those now due for re-examination must take the tests as soon as practicable.
Periodic examinations for hearing, sight and color perception are being made by rule examiners or, on divisions where there are no rule ex-
aminers, by well-qualified persons designated by the division superintendent. All examiners are centrally located.
Persons concerned with the preparation and handling of food-stuffs or dining equipment must pass a much more rigid examination than employes of other classes. Dining car employes must also be re-examined once a year, and oftener if instructed by their superior officer.
Conductor?s Son Gets Business
O. V. Martin, conductor on the M. & M. Division has a son, Ben Martin, who is a freshman at the University of Kentucky. A number of the boys in the University going home for the Christmas Holidays could have used other roads, but through the efforts of young Martin he solicited and obtained passenger business at the University over the L. & N. to various points on the L. & N.; for instance, seven of the boys used the L. & N. for Guthrie; six to Owensboro, three to Madisonville, two to Hopkinsville, one to Elkton, four to Bowling Green, two en route to Paducah and several to Louisville and two for St. Louis. In other words, about thirty.
Young Martin is very popular in the University. He played on the football team, is a member of S-A-E, a national fraternity _ for college men, and is making quite a record with his studies.
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