The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-27
The Decline lseceivership.

ess&5 nd0f this head the Cleveland Leader says OF
the rumored appointment of receiver for the
c., c., C. & /. road;
sit is possible that a receiver may be ap
pointed for the Beeine later on but when he
comes to take possession of the property, by
looking out over the railway system of the coun
try he will find that the financial sun of nine
tenths of the mileage of the Nation has set in the
black darkness OF bankruptcy, and that trains
that now rush over steel rails and iron structures
bearing loads of precious humanity in luxuriaut
ly appointed palaces on wheels, will have given
place to dlapidated and rickety old cars, that 20
sneaking along at snallS pace. desolate and
empty, over moss covered remnants of once well
ballasted railways. He will also find, or. rather
hear, If he listens attentively, that Gabriel is
winding his golden bugle among the snow
chad mountains and along tine fiower-decled
waterways, which will mean that this earth is
played out and that new heaven and new
earth is about to go into business at the old
stand and it will also mean that rate cutters,
dudes, and whose loveth and maketh a lie shall
with all the bankrupt railways be east into
he'll. That is what the receiver will hear and
see II he IS up to snuff and knows enough to
catch on when he runs across good thing.
And, furthermore. If he shall come with honest
intentions TO serve the shareholders we'll and
faithfully he will take little boat and ride out
on the bosom of the foam capped waves of Fries
wide waste of waters to meet the bugle blower
AID at once enter into negotiations with that
mighty chieftain to have the Bee-line trans
planted TO the new earth and made the official
thoronghfare of the new administration. and
also the pattern after which all future railways
shall be built. both as to their roadway and
egu pment; for even then the grand old highway
between where Perry licked the British and the
Father of waters, and between the Queen of the
lakes and Ohio's great beer music, and art cen
ter, called, will be recognized as first class
railway and one that is fully able to pay all its
Axed charges on demand, or little sooner ii
need be-
A three line denial of the ru,nor by an official
In as good standing as is the Hon. J. H. Deve-
reux, would have much more weight with parties
who would really feel distressed were this valu-
able property to GO into the hands of a receiver
than does this high soaring answer
The Manner the Examination Is Conducted.
So common is the practice of testing the eve
sight and hearing of railroad employees. that
the method in which the examination Is
conducted is matter of interest The
appliances used in the test are a card
or sheet of large letters used for test
ing distant sight; book or card of print for
testing sight at short distances: an adjustable
frame for supporting the print 10 be read with
graduating rcd attached fer measuring the dis
lance FROM tho eye while reading; a spectacle
/. frame for obstructng the vision of either.eye
while testing the other; an assortment of coiored
yarns for testing the sense Of color; a watch
with a loud tick for testing the hearing; a book
or set of blanks for recording the observations;
copy of an approved work on color blindness.