Do You Know Jack?

In 1881 four years after an accident where James Wide, a South African railroad employee, lost both of his legs he found it hard to do his job. That's when he discovered Jack at a local market where the baboon was leading an ox cart. Wide bought the baboon and deputized him as a railroad employee. At first he just used Jack to push a trolley during the morning commute but after watching Wide Jack learned how to throw switches and change tracks, his work was so precise he never experienced an incident in 9 years and could perform the duties without supervision. Eventually word got back to the authorities and they gave Jack a competency test which he passed saving both his and his owner's jobs. Jack was given an official employment number and paid $.20 a day and a half bottle of beer a week until his death in 1890. Now you know Jack!