The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-18
TEMPERANCE.
WHEN THE TOPPER DRINKS.

| When days are long or short or hot or cold
! OF wet or dry
| A fellow for his stomachS sake should take q
little rye.
There's nothing when I'm by myself so much
Of comfort lends
And nothing suits me better when I'm with
n lot OF friends
Icouldn,, do without it when L" feeling lone
And never fail to get it whe9 my spirits gay
In fact IT, ~Siis Iii; can keep my feet tarry at
And then take just glass ost~0'ro- help ny
PRESIDENT coRBINs EDIcr. ;
A recent dispatch from Philadelphia says,
Not Reading Railroad man too; a drink
in the saloons around the Ninth aud Green
street station last night. While crowds
passed i'm and out of the brightly lighted
saloons on the south side Of Green street, a
bunch OF railroad men stood in front OF tho
depot, talking of President Corbin's procla-
nation against the "boozers' of the road.
President Curoin'S edct OF the afternoon
firm one, AMI stirred up lively talk among
the employees. In his order MIR. Corbin
sail
"All sup9rintenicnts will b. held strictly
responsible for the enforcement of the rule
relating to the use OF intoxicating liquors by
employees. Men who violate II must be
promptly discharged, and proof that
while on duty will bc ample evil
dcnCs 10 warrant his immedi,to dismissal
Men known to drink to excess on to fire.
Quent drinking places while or duty must
bc discharged When employing new men
strict inquiry should be made as to their
habits, and preference always given to those
who do not uso intoxicating liquors ut all
Heals of departments must keep informed
as to the habits Of the men under them, and
make sure that these rules are strictly OBJ
pcrScl" v
This orier applies to every one in Road
ing's army OF employees, from high officials
with big salaries to the tiagmen at crossings,
and there wcro many different comments by
tho employees.
This is prop,r orler," said a prominent
cmp,oye at Ninth ani Green streets
There is an order in the book OF rules OF
the company directed against incorporate
employees, and Mr.. Corb:u is just reminding
the division sup .rintendents that the ru!c
must br strictly enforced This is done to
save th" lives of tho employees and passen-
gers, whilc at the sam" time IT. saves tho
harl earnings Of many men who otherwise
wnI,d spend them i'll saloons.
prrSrlrnL Corbiu's positive stand against
tn" drinking habit among employees OF the
Reading il sail to have been iirSt prompted
by observing mazy-mind"i an,t shaky clerks
wrestling with columns of figures. When
Mr.. Cprbin became PrcSiI mt ot tho COM
pany il was the custom Ia furnish a free dim
ncr to every clerk in the Fourth street office.
When President Corhin began Ia curtail ex-
pcnSes he did away with the dinner; three-
quarters of an hour was given the clerks 10
90 outside ot the Office an buy their dinners.
White ont at dinner SOM, of tn" clerks fell
into the habit 0f drntlug AMI at times went
back tn their desks carrying what Is vulgu'
larry cala u "ioat.' An order was issuel
forhllins clerks TO drink during Office
hours, but the order OF to-;lay is directed
ns ,n,t all cmolrYe: Of the Kea1ins Railroad
USE OF ALCOHOL IN HOSPITALS.
A very interesting report has been pre-
Sent"l to the British Medical Temperance
Association by Drs. Morton Moir and Pearct,
on the administration of alcohol in hospitals.
The committee have drawn up n series of
tables full OF instructive figures, institutiny
comparison between the amount cypanle
under this heal in 1853 AMI in lSSS. The re-
morkable fact is noted that in these twenty
five years thrr' has been, from the returns
made by ll3 hospitals, an increase Of 30l per
cant. i'll th" charge foi milk and n decrease
Of II per cent in the charge for alcohol. A
- 'rnd tabl" gives returns from 80 hospitals
ut winch ~ previous record coul be fOuu l.
On the basis adopted by DR.. Fleetwood
Buckle. in his report on 1853, these 80 hospi-
ta'S showed a decrease of - pei cent. in the
expenditure tor alcohol per bNl a thirl ta-
bl" shows the comparative lc)holir charges
per he | in 1863 and lSsS respectively. In 15
hospitals there had been an in"rrasN Of 2lOI
bets. anda decrease of total average cost per
bed of GiS Is. II. Beds have thus nc:aas1
at the rate "f - per cent while
th' amount expended ON alcohol has de
creased at the rate of ~ per cent. Only
eight of this group "r hospitals showed an
increase in tn" quantity oi alcohol consumed
In the remaining ~ the decrease ranged
from 81 To 81 per cent In the Lpn,lon F,ver
Hospital while milk has risen from rl5l
tn 1850 per aunum. tn" diSburs ,mentS for
alcohol were at the rate of only lbs. 2l per
bed in lSSS, as compared with ~, 5S. per
bed IN 1868 In st. Bartholomcw's Hospital
the milk bill has gone mp from $500 to over
E?pn, while the alcohol bill had gona down
from GA III la ,G911. These statistics prove
that there has been n gradually increasing
rational medical administration Of alcohol.
the credit of which must he awarded TO the
medical stalls of the hospitals a fact which
affords yet another proof Of the lively inter
est in the promotion of temperance taken bv
the medical profession .-BriIM Medical
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TEMPERANCE PROGRESS IN EUROPE