This page originally appeared on Thomas Ehrenreich's Railroad Extra Website
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BREAKER BOYS AT LUNCH TIME
In the days before child-labor laws began to mean something,
such youngsters as these spent most of the years of their minority
in the breakers picking slate. But now they are in school and
older boys and men must do the work. But at that, many a breaker-boy
of the past is now a successful business man.
