Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-06
RAILROAD RAcKET.1

accommodating the CnlSaSO COuuty Ico-
pie Uniformed Train Men on the st.
Paul g. Duluth ACKNOWLEDGMENT Dis
charge of Train Men on the st. Paul &
Duluth A Healthy Sized Mortgage.
All the railways were yesterday reported in
good working order, except the H. & d. on
the western end, which was being cleared and
is probably open to-day.
The brick-layers e topping out the chin,
neys, the carpenters are placing and fasten-
ing the roof timbers, and the iron workers are
putting on the cornices but the union depot
will not be ready for use until the spring is
well advanced. At least month of warm
weather is needed for the interior finish.
The White Bear train on the st. Paul 81 Du-
luth road has been turned into Rush City
train by extending its daily trips to that point
the change being made especially for accom-
mediation OF the Chisago county people. I'm
der this new arrangement Rush City people
can visit Centre City, their county seat taking
the morning tram from Wyoming, and return
home the same day. The Rush City train
leaves here at 1920 P. NJ. and arrives here at IL
A. NJ, so that people from Rush City and in
termediate points, Including the Taylors Falls
branch, can come to st. Paul in the forenoon,
have over four hours in town and return home
the same evening".
The conductors, baggagemasters and brake
men of passenger trains on the st. Paul d
Duluth road have been uniformed and will
hereafter be required to wear the uniform.
The uniforms are all blue. The conductors
wear frock coats with gilt buttons stamped
"Conductor". and gilt banded caps bearing a
badge inscribed Conductor. The baggage
masters aud brakemen are similarly uniformed,
except that their coats are sacks and there are
no gilt bands ON their caps. The only COM
g.. a<o,., o,,1
their complaint is that there are only two
pockets in their coats and those are located in
the tails.
Talking about uniforming train men, there
is a good deal which might be said in favor of
it. In Europe all servants of railway corpo-
rations are uniformed, and the wearers of the
uniforms do not feel as Americans would be
likely to feel, that they are in livery, and that
the wearing of the livery is mark of in
ferior social rank. The thing is too common
there But in the Eastern States some of the
principal railway companies, having long re-
quired their train men and other employees to
wear the company's uniform, have found the
requirement to work to the advantage of all
concerned. The companies have in some
instances been better served; the uniformed
men have found their proper authority to be
better respected by the travelling public; and
travellers and others having business with
~
tested the respect and confidence which a neat
uniform usually inspires. Instances are of
frequent occurrence, also, where the ready
recognition of the uniform saves people from
questioning hurrying strangers or losing
precious time.
Once more the story comes (unoffically)
that there has been new deal with new
pack on the st. Paul & Manitoba road. The
first report, some weeks ago, was that most
e <1,o LID MI f1,n haI hoor
discharged for "knocking down''-that is
to say appropriating to their private uses
more than their just share of the receipts of
the road Not that it is Intended to intimate
that the conductors are authorized to deduct
their legitimate shares frem the moneys they
collect from passengers, but that excessive
deductions from such collections may lead to
the deduction that the conductor is not
serving the company SO we'll as he ought to,
that is to say fairly. Some conductors divide;
some others give all the cash they collect to
the company; and Others are suspected of not
doing either. Z But, to come TO the point: If
railroad officials were educated to the ways of
the world enough to know the fact that the
shortest road to the end of an affair is to pub
lish it, they would not adhere to the practice
of cG0eealing news, whereby they drive the
reporters to feeding on rumors and gossip.
Returning to the point: The GLOBE does not
ordinarily credit rumOrs, and never prints
them with the unqusstioning faith it would
attch to official statements.
But this time the GLOBE has found a reli-
able contraband-not exactly, but an engi-
neer that was, who is dicharged from the en-
ployment of the St.. Paul & Mani toba COM
pany; and this reliable party assures the GLOBE
that he was discharged for running his train
too fast; that three other engineers have been
discharged for the same cause; and that fif
of
the Oldest and best known men on the road,
have been discharged, some for knocking
down. and others for other indiscretions or
errors. That is all. Names and other details
are lacking-simply because the reliable afore-
said disappeared from ordinary haunts before
hej could be questioned as to further par
ticulars.