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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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n tongue andgroove partition with the wide shelf overwhich the trainmen receive their ordersfrom the operator. For a while hewaited until the message had beenfinished, for Ticker Tim had studied thedetails of his scheme, and it was not hisintention to arouse the suspicions of theman on the other end of the wire byhaving an awkward break made in thetelegram. The sounder ceased and theintruder, peering over the edge of thecasing, saw the towerman pick up a book,lean back in his chair and begin to read.Ticker Tim drew his black jack, arose,placed his left hand as a support on thepartition and vaulted over into the en-closure, drawing back his right arm todeliver the blow. The operator lookedup, but taken as he was unawares, hadno defense. The blow fell and the manrolled off the chair with hardly a gasp.Serves you right, you scab, TickerTim muttered vindictively, you wouldnthave your job here if it hadnt been forthat blamed snooping inspector whofound liquor in my locker, and this night h
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TICKER TIM DREW BACK HIS BIGHT ARM TO DELIVER THE BLOW THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 15 will see me pay back the company whoput the sneak on my track. Its a damnshame a man cant take a little drinkonce in a while. Satisfied the man would be senselessfor quite a while, Ticker Tim looked overthe block record to get the situation.There would be no more freights eitherway for several hours. No. 10 was thelast eastbound passenger until six oclockthe next morning and No. 3, which wasdue in half an hour, would be the lastwest until 7 a. m. That would givethem plenty of time to do the job andget away. Before he went he could cutthe wires to keep any one who mightescape injury on the train, and whocould use the instrument, from sendingan alarm. He looked out and observedthe westbound passenger signals. Bothblades, the upper for the main track andthe lower for the passing siding, werenormal—red. CN—CN—CN—CN the dispatch-ing wire began to sputter. Ticker Tim turned to the key

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