Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-06-24
w. G. 7. u. COLUMN.
ito: "God and Home and Native Land"
NO DRUNKARD NEED apply.

The Chicago & Alton is one of the
safest railroads running west from
Chicago. The recent emphatic stand
which the management has taken on
the liquor question has given great
satisfaction to the friends of the road
and to the travelling public generally.
Here is the official prohibitory docu-
ment:
The use of intoxicating drinks and
frequenting of gambling places or
other places of low resort have prov
ed a most fruitful source of trouble to
railways as we'll as to individuals.
Recognizing this fact, this company
will exercise the most rigid scrutiny
in reference to the habits of employees
in this respect.
The use of beer Or other intoxicat-
ing liquor by any employe of this
company while on duty is strictly for
hidden, and no employee will be allow
any station, shop or yard, or other
premises of this company at any time
or under any circumstances.
Any conductor, trainman, engineer,
fireman, sWitchman OF other emplOye
who is known to use intoxicating Ii
quOrs or frequent gambling places, or
other places Of low resort, either while
on or off duty, will be promptly and
permanently discharged from the SER
vice of this company. Heads of de-
partments, subordinate officers, and
foremen are hereby instructed to see
that these rules are strictly enforced
at all times.
The saloon keepers along the route
have threatened to boycott the rail
road if the officials try to enforce the
rules. Speaking of the matter, Mr.. Q.
Fl. Chappell, the general manager,
says: "The order is, strictly speak
ing, a revised edition of an old rule
that has been on our time cards for
fifteen or twenty years. The old rule
specified that the use of Intoxicating
liquors be prohibited to employees
while on duty. The new one is diff
ferent in that it specifies they shall
not drink beer, shall not gamble, nor
loaf around low resorts at any time,
either while on duty Or off. We find it
necessary to specify against these
things, for the reason that men get
into the habit of sitting up all day or
all night, as the case may be, drink
ing and gambling, instead of resting
and sleeping so as to be in good con-
dition when it comes their turn to go
on the road again. Such practices
have ruined some of the finest engin-
GERS and best conductors we ever had.
[ notice the saloon keepers are threat
ening to boycott us. Well, let them
go ahead. We don't care anything
about that. The loss of their business
will not hurt US a particle. 1t does
not amount to enough to pay one
tenth part the expense resulting from
ond bad accident. 1 remember an &C
cident we had few years ago which
cost the company $500 that was
due, as we learned afterward, to the
fact that the engineer had been gam
bling all night, and was incapacitate ted
for want of sleep. The fireman of the
other train was killed and the engin-
eer was crippled for life. We believe
that by giving the public the best and
safest service we will gain more from
the better class Of people, who ap-
prove our course, than we will lose by
reason of any saloon keepers boy
cott."
Mr.. Chappen is right, and we hope
the anti whiskey position of his road
may be maintained vigorously and
permanently Herald.