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Title: Snow on the Headlight
A Story of the Great Burlington Strike

Author: Cy Warman

Release Date: November 11, 2009 [EBook #30447]

Language: English

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SNOW ON THE HEADLIGHT

BY CY WARMAN

_A Story of the Great Burlington Strike_
12mo. Cloth, $1.25

THE STORY OF THE RAILROAD
(_The Story of the West Series._)
Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50

D. APPLETON & COMPANY
NEW YORK

SNOW ON THE
HEADLIGHT

A Story of the Great
Burlington Strike

BY CY WARMAN

AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF THE RAILROAD, THE
EXPRESS MESSENGER, TALES OF AN ENGINEER,
FRONTIER STORIES, ETC.

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
MDCCCXCIX

Copyright, 1899, by D. Appleton & Co.

PREFACE

_Here is a Decoy Duck stuffed with Oysters.
The Duck is mere Fiction:
The Oysters are Facts._

_If you find the Duck wholesome, and the Oysters hurt you, it is
probably because you had a hand in the making of this bit of History,
and in the creation of these Facts._

THE AUTHOR

SNOW ON THE HEADLIGHT

CHAPTER FIRST

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."