Camp, a yardmaster for the Rock Island, was also at the meeting and heard no violent language used.
The men including the yardmaster refused to deliver the cars, and were sent home.
Cruelly also a yardmaster for the same road, thought the strike at Blue Island was due to Mr. Howard and Mr. Debs.
Saunders, general yardmaster for the Rock Island, testified for the company in relation to the way the strike was ordered on the Rock Island.
The superintendent who finds himself with a complete divisional organization is oblivious to the troubles of a distant yardmaster with car inspectors.
When your old Dad was a ninety-dollar yardmaster some of his most important work was at the mercy of a forty-five dollar car inspector.
A dispatcher has a hundred miles or more over which to keep his trains apart, while a yardmaster finds his engines bunched within a mile or two.
The obvious inference was to relieve the yardmaster of responsibility for mechanical matters.
What I would do would be to make the position ofyardmaster sufficiently attractive to impose as a prerequisite for appointment a knowledge of mechanical as well as transportation matters.
The train crews are under the immediate direction of the yardmaster when in the terminal, and of the train dispatcher when on the road.
The commission not having any agreement about initial overtime, the attorney acting as yardmaster handed him a switch list and told him to dig out these loads: Question: How many letters a day do you write?
No, I would not put every yardmaster over the roundhouse foreman and the car inspectors.
After a time, the yardmaster is lucky to get one single item through--and that is sure not to be the essential item that he needed most of all.
You wonder why they keep an expert yardmaster and half a dozen switching crews at Waverley.
What would have happened later if that yardmaster had not looked me up again and put me through another series of questions I, of course, cannot say.
The immediate result of that second interview with the yardmaster was that he promised me a position as "yard car reporter," and took me into his own home at the very cheap rate of $15.
That second talk was the beginning of a series of mishaps, which, could the good yardmaster have foreseen them, would certainly have made him hesitate before securing for me the position which his influence enabled him to do.
The yardmaster soon found other friends and, telling me to amuse myself, left me to my own devices.
It was the property of Mr. Peter Lathers, the yardmaster of the depot.
The yardmasterpassed with a bulldog at his heels, and touching his hat to the contractor, turned the corner of the coal-shed.
He was a yardmaster at the time of leaving the company's employ.
On the morning of March 23, he was the first yardmaster to refuse to do duty as a switchman, and the first and only one to seek reinstatement.
Frequently, as at Washington, the yardmaster would order us to load one car at a time, then switch it away and commence on another.
In order to load we had to remove all the brakes, and this the yardmaster refused to do.
The old switchman who becomes a yardmaster often proves a failure because he cannot overcome his inclination to follow one engine and take a hand in the switching himself.
The pay of a yardmaster is little more than that of a conductor and is sometimes less.
Pick up a yardmaster occasionally and take him to headquarters with you so that he will keep acquainted with the dispatchers.
As the yardmaster and the dispatcher must scatter their trains, so the superintendent must keep his staff doing different things.
Every switch engine worked costs the company several hundred dollars per month, and the yardmaster whose good figuring can save working even one engine is more than earning his salary.
A good yardmaster knows instinctively where to be at a certain time to minimize the delay incident to engines bunching.
So I shall either pull the whole train into the yard or get permission from the yardmaster to cut off on the main, and like an orthodox conductor, leave them for the night men to switch out.
The yardmasterhas one caller and the roundhouse foreman another.
The master mechanic's office in a day or two has pounded sufficiently at the yardmaster to get the car set, usually several hours after it has been promised.
What I am telling you holds good for a trainmaster, a yardmaster or whoever happens to be the senior representative present.
A yardmaster has to learn to keep his engines scattered and to hold each foreman responsible for the work of an engine.
A dispatcher naturally wants to get all the trains he can into a terminal, while a yardmaster is doing his level best to get trains out.
For example, while your candidate is running a yard, the yardmaster could be an understudy for a supervisor.
He shook hands warmly with the yardmasterand walked over to the Silver Dollar saloon, where, in order to smother his distress, he played game after game of solitaire.
Mr. Hennage smiled his rare, trustful, childish smile as the yardmaster approached.
