HADES
"A pointsman's back straightened itself upright suddenly against a tramway standard by Mr Bloom's window. Couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?
Antient concert rooms. Nothing on there. A man in a buff suit with a crape armlet. Not much grief there. Quarter mourning. People in law perhaps." (U6.175)
A pointsman = a person who operates railway points. The US and Canadian equivalent is switchman.
This is a caricature from Punch Oct 19.1872.
