The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-03-26
THIN NEWS GLEANINGS
Interesting Paragraphs Built up by
the Active Reporters on
Their Rounds.
NOTES ON THE RAILWAYS !
ORDERS RESPECTING WORKING FORCES,
CHANGE OF RESTAURANT MAN
AGEMENTS. ETC.
The Tramp Nuisance is Commanding
AttentiOn-A Case of InSOlence.
How One Knight of the Road
Was Equipped.
NOTES ON THE RAILWAYS !

This week will be particularly interest
ing to the 1,0S1 lodges of Odd Fellows in
Pennsylvania representing about 10000
members, on account of the election for
Grand Lodge and subordinate officers
which will be held at this time.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has concluded that after April /, of this
year, it will assume control of all the
restaurants connected with its stations
throughout its entire line of road. This
will knock out quite number of pro-
prietors of small stands along the line.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad has re
ceived from the Baldwin Locomotive
Works the first of the ten new passenger
engines recently ordered. 1t is No. $50,
and will be used on through trains. The
locomotive is of the camel back pattern.
The other engines will be delivered as
finished, within the next two weeks.
The Lehigh Valley employees are now
being measured for summer uniforms.
This bit of finery in blue with shiny brass
buttons costs the wearer $1,000 without
the cap. This is pretty steep when t@o
are bought a year especially when the
salaries are not of the Presidential sort.
Those who are fortunate enough to be
employed in an office and whose clothing
is exposed to little wear and tear, are
sometimes allowed to wear their clothes a
second year, if it is presentable. The in
spection is being made and measurements
taken by j. j. Lack, of Bethlehem.
Many of the old timers employed in the
machine and car shops of the Philadel
phia & Reading Railroad Company in the
city of Reading have been informed that
their service is no longer valuable, and
they will be obliged to give way to
younger men. Some of them have been
in the company's employ from forty to
forty-five years. 1t is said that the same
system will become operative all over the
Reading lines.
Doubtless the readers of the daily
papers have noticed the great increase in
the number of prize fights, which are not
catalogued under the head of boxing
matches. We do not recall time when
there were so many such exhibitions, or
when they had for their patrons so many
men from whom better things should be
expected Every day furnishes subjects
for telegraphic dispatches from every
point of the country announcing matches
which, if they are not prize fights, prize
fighting has been greatly misrepresented
Our county and vicinity is not in any
sense behindhand in this business. AL
most every week exhibitions of "the
manly art of self Defense" 80 styled, are
given, and are largely attended by those
who profess to see something to be sd-
mired in the skill with which two stall
wart men manage to beat each other, and
not unfrequently into insensibility. The
clergy generally insist that the world is
growing better day by day, and perhaps
it is, but it will hardly be claimed that
the improvement has yet touched prize
fighting.
In some one of the states, we do not
recall which, the Legislature has under
consideration a bill which not only pro.
hibits the sale of cigarettes in less
quantities than what is known as a
package, and not only prohibits the sale
of them in any quantity to minors, but
makes it penal offense for any one to
give cigarette to a boy. This sounds
somewhat like sumptuary proceeding,
but it furnishes prima facie evidence that
the deleterious effects of cigarette smok-
ing upon boys are beginning to be prop
erly appreciated, and the fact recognized
that in order to save the generation from
"a Draotica which ie known IN he in the
highest degree injurious and which is
daily obtaining wider prevalence, it has
become absolutely necessary that such
legal restrictions shall be adopted rs will
to some extent at least save our boys
from what, in so many cases, is wreckine
their minds and bodies.
The Town Council should provide some
severe measure to get rid of tramps. Thesy
knights of the road" are becoming
entirely too bolo and insulting and need
watching. Only last night tramp called
at house in town after dark and in q
gruf and insolent way demanded some
thing which, on account of his foreign
language, could not be understood. How
ever he was told to leave but refused tC
90 and began at once to abuse the people
of the house and threaten them. He ever
rea ched in his hip pocket as if to draw &
revolver and then fumbled for his knife
Finally he was driven Off A far-seeing
tramp who took refuge in North Market
street stable last night was as we'll pre-
pared for all emergencies Of life on tbs
road as any ever encountered in town, HI