The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-09
RAILROAD NEWS.
Presidents and Managers Dis
cuSS Railroad Y. III. C.. A.
Follow a Dinner With Gospel to
Traffic Men.
NOTABLE GATHERING.
Cyrus ii. McCOrmick the Speaker
OF the Evening
Told the Chicago Gathering Of
the Moral Side.

Chicago, Feb. 9.-Presidents and
managers of some of the most promi-
nent railroads in the country met at
dinner in the Auditorium last evening
10 discuss the work that is being done
for the physical comfort and moral i'm
provement of the thousands of men in
their employ by the railroad depart
ment of the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION.
Cyrus H. Mccormick was the princi-
pal speaker of the evening. He referred
to an immense map, which hung be-
hind him from the gallery 1t was
marked from Maine to Idaho with lit
tie red dots, which were, he explained,
the points at which reading rooms and
clubhouses have already been estab-
lished and are now open to the work
men of the roads.
THE making of a railroad map and
the study and Improvement of it from
year to year constitutes an operation
with which railroad men are familiar.
Railroad maps are numerous and vari-
GUS A specimen of one sort is be-
fore us tonight, and one way of stating
the object of this meeting would be to
say that we are gathered to learn about
the making and development of this
peculiar variety of railroad map. which
has now been in process of construction
for the last twenty-five years.
The qualifications of it have ex-
tended during this period in a steady
and systematic way to the 113 divis-
iOnal points scattered over an area
stretching from New England to Idaho
and from St. Paul to Atlanta. Rail-
road corporations have been involved
in an annual expenditure for this work
amounting the last year to 100000 To
this sum the employees in the service
have added one-fOurth as much more,
or over $50, 900. 1t is a most commend
able feature of this movement that it
is q cooperative one, in which capital
and labor, employer and emplOye, unite
their efforts to promote the interests OF
each other and the value of the prop
erty with which they are intrusted.
The expenses of the varied local
work at each of the hundred points on
the map, including the salaries of Sec
retarieS, are betrayed by contributions
from both the railway corporations and
the employees
The cost of superintendent and SUI
pervision however is borne by the rail
road capitalists and directors, to whose
intelligent sympathy this work has ap-
pealed. A few of these friends have
designated their gifts particularly for
the railroad committee and it's ex-
penses, and they have been so applied
But the majority have said; The ad-
ministration of the committee as
whole is so direct and Indispensable a
benefit to the railroad department that
we desire our contributions to promote
the solidarity and effectiveness of the
whole work
1T NAV well be considered whether,
as this work is becoming more and
more necessary to the railway COM
panies, there might not properly be
more direct contribution from their
trea surieS toward the cost of super
vision. which is certainly as necessary
to success as any other item in the
annual expense account for carrying on
this work. 1 believe the time is near
at hand when such an appropriation
will commend itself to railway officials
and boards of directors.
E. P Ripley. r. r. Gable, B. Thomas,
Pullman, w H. Truesdale, c. NJ. Hig-
GIBSON, H. C. Burt, w. c. Brown, w.
II. Canniff, Cleveland: ]. J. Frey, To-
peka; A A. Sprague. Cyrus H. McCor-
mick, P D. Armour, J. V. Farwell, Jr.,
J.. z. Letter, Colonel ]. J. McCook, New
York