The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-10
RAIL AND CRoSSTIE-

James Bolan Glover, Jr., in the engineer
;ry Department of the Central railroad.
Savannah. has Just received patent on a
oar axle lubricator. He is a genius and Of a
,naobaDical inventive turn of mind, stu1ious
and industrious. He is the son of Supt.
7 r. Glover Of the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad
Ouits an important move is expected to
take place in the motive department of the
Fast Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail-
road within the next ten days. the Macon
TeIe0rqph says. Macon is to be made the
noint at which the trains will start, going
Sou b for Brunswick and north for Rome
Macon is thus made the central point in
Georgia for the operation of trains on this
road. instead of Atlanta. as at present. This
will make it necessary for the crews of all
the trains to have homes in Macon, and will
cause about 100 men to 60 to Macon to live
If is also intimated that some important
changes of locations of officials, resulting in
making Macon a more important operating
noint. may also be made soon.
The Alabama railroad commissioners are
protesting against the general breaking of
schedules. waiting for sleepers," the
Montgomery Advertiser says, is the excuse
given the commissioners for the delays in
the movements of passenger trains, which
have lately SO much interrupted the local
travel in that state. The commissioners
say that trains for the south from Cincin-
natl have been detained there waiting for
delayed trains from Chicago and the west,
and from Cleveland and Pittsburg and
the east. In consequence like delays have
resulted at Chattanooga, the trains there
also waiting for sleepers." The commits
sioners appreciate the Importance to the
railroad companies of taking the sleepers
over their lines with as little delay as posi-
bic, but at the same time they are demand
ing that the local travel in Alabama shall
have a better and improved service.
Nothing that has happened IN railroad
circles in years has caused the talk that the
recent "whiskers" order of the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad. The order is the
most arbitrary that has ever been issued by
any road in the country, and has caused
many employees to resign. A brakeman, w.
H WEIGH, was reported to have asked the
superiutendent to remit the order in his case
on the ground that his beard was neces AIRY
TO his health, but he was said to have been
told that the order was imperative
and he thereupon resigned. Supt
Bonzano's side of the case is thus
stated in the P iladelphia Ne,vs. THE
company thinks that it looks better
and more uniform if the brakemen and
baggagemaSters wear only a mustache, and
the men are merely asked to comply with
the conpany's wish; it is not even request.
For years the same thing has been done
without any objection from the men. ALI
the men but three have complied with the
wishes Of the company. The question of
health is nonsense. Our experience is that
the mere a mans throat is exposed the less
liable he is to cold, and that beard is a
very doubtful protection. None of the
higher officials wear boards and they are
exposed to the air on flying trains for
many hours a day without any danger TO
their health" The Railway Age, COM
menting on this, saws: "Uniformity OF
clothing on tram and station men is de-
sirable in order to distinguish them il
the performance of their official du-
ties and also on account of its attractive
appe rancs, tut t. require uniformity in
the fashion of wearing whiskers seems to be
carrying appearances and discipline alto
gether too far. If man believes that
wearing his beard is essential to his health,
his employer has no right to say that this is
nonsense, because every man knows his own
feelings and physical condition better than
another man eau, aud has a much better
right to demand what is for his own pro-
lection and comfort than anybody else has
II the regulation is not in tue form of an
order, but onlysf a request, 1t is not so OBJ
Jectionable, although if failure to comply
with a request is tAciJly understood to be
equivalent to discharge, then the request i;
about as bad as an order"