Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-08-12
4. N d. HOSPITALS.

under discussion for several years
by its officials. And it would now
seem, as a result of these delbera.
tions, that the time has arrived for
making practical test of the plan.
Other great railroad lines have es-
tablished hospitals for the comfort
and relief of their sick or crippled
employees, and so far as the Rerier
Is advised most beneficial results
have followed. With equal condi-
tons, and under a wise and liberal
policy, so characteristic of the G.. Il
q. management, similar good re-
suits will be accomplished here and
the hospital system be made as popu-
lar as it is on other lines.
With view to the early adoption
OF the hospital system on the c. &
.. railway, Mr.. George w. Stevens,
the general manager of the company,
has selected committee of four
trustworthy railroad men-an engi-
neer, conductor, fireman and a
brakeman--and furnished them with
round trip passes to ST. Louis and
Moberley, Mo-, to investigate the
hospital system on the Wabash and
Pacific railways. Mr.. Charles A.
Craft, of Clifton Forge, who left Oh
his mission, will represent the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and will be joined at Huntington
and Cincinnati by n representative
from each of the other branches of
the train service named. DR.. Brock,
OF Richmond, one Of the Company's
surgeons, will also accompany the
committee.
The RGrieW understands that, be-
sides minute inquiry into the mat
ter by the committee to ascertain
the benefits to be derived from an
institution of this character, the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany proposes to erect and own the
hospital buildings, and not to tax
their employees for their erection, as
is done by some railways. The c.
d o. company further, we learn,
proposes to make up any deficiency
which may occur in maintaining
their hospitals after collecting from
fifteen to fifty cents per month from
all employees who have worked half
n month or more.
The Rerie,C believes that the re-
port Of this committee will be IA
vorablc to the adoption of the hos.
pital system on the G. Il O. railway
lines; and it further believes that a
large percentage of the employees of
the road will acquiesce i'm the opinion
that the movement is a wise and be-
neticent one, and will heartily ap.
prove the wholesome innovation.
Gladys Inn, admirably located
and constructed, need not remain
idle long after its abandonment a
few months hence as hotel. 1t is
just such building aus is needed for a
tirst.class railway hospital, and the
RerieW is informed il will be used
for that purpose in the event it shall
he decided to adopt the hospital sys-
tenn.
or course there will be other hos
pltal buildings erected one possibly
at Huntington, and another at some
suitable point east Of Clifton Forge.
Clifton Forge Rerieao.
TIE biggest grain harvester i'm the
world Is i'll operation upon Roberts
Island, IN the San Joaquin river,
near Stockton, Cal. We learn from
IA press telegram that the machine
turns out three 6O-pound sacks of
wheat every minute. 1t has a cut
ting line of fifty-two feet, and il also
threshes and sacks the grain. In one
run around 4,000-acre field, it will
turn out hundreds of sacks of wheat
ready for market. The cost of har-
vesting has been reduced to a mini.
mum by this machine, and the num-
Der of days consumed in getting a
large field ready for market will be
about half that of the regular har-
vestcr. Eight or ten men handle it
easily, while it is turning out from
200 to l,S0O sacks day of ten
hours, and sweeping 100 acres of
grain clean. At present it is work
ing in the heaviest wheat ever grown
In California. The grain on the is
lands has always been tall and of
rank growth, but this year it was
much heavier than in past seasons.
No difficulty has been experienced
IN harvesting, as the traction engine,
which was built especially for the
harvester, pushes il through the
thick grain with about the same ease
that an ordinary engine would draw
n wagon over a country road.
a BULLETIN from headquarters of
United Mine Workers says that there
are u 200 strikers in Western Penn.
sy!vania, $4,000 in Ohio, 1000 in
| Kentucky and Tennessee, s. 600 i'm