The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The plan of providing a pension fund
for worked out or disabled employees,
which has been followed by the Penn
sylvania and the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Companies for sew
eral years, with beneficial results, is
commencing itself elsewhere. At the
recent annual meeting of the share
holders of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way a proposition 30 this effect was
put forward by the directors, and it
WI undoubtedly be adopted when the
details, which as yet are incomplete,
have been worked out. In this report
the scheme is put forward on the
ground of humanity rather than of
business, because of 'the desirability
of making some provision for the PEN
sioning of faithful officers and employ
es, who, after a long term of service,
become incapacitated for their respect
i've positions by reason of advanced
age"
Such appreciation of the mutual in
terests of employers and employees
tends not only to promote civilization
and cultivate the finer feelings of hui
manity, but also to abolish so-called
class distinctions and make all depaSt-
ments of the force work together for
the common good. - Philadelphia
Ledger.
Congresses and conferences of suf-
ferers from hay fever and from sea-
sickness have been held recently on
both sides of the Atlantic. but the GER
tain cure for either malady remains to
be discovered, and the number of vic
Tins is not apparently decreasing. 1t
is obvious, however, that no one has
yet endured the pangs of true NAL de
mer who never ventured upon the wat
err That is the one sure way of es-
cape cc~om seasickness. Never leave
the 4 BE. But the unfortunate men
and women who are subject to hay fe-
yer are in sad plight. Staying at
home affords them no relief.-New
York Tribune.
A good deal of fun has been made of
British War Office red-tape, owing to
the disappearance of the Ninty- Eighth
Company of Yeomanry The company
was raised, 300 men strong, in York
shire a year ago and promptly en-
rolled, after which the War office lost
track of it, 1t was found after a long
search that the men had been divided
UP into other commands and that most
of them had been sent to South Africa.
but the War Office had no record of
how or when this was done. Officially
the Ninety Eighth Company remains
lost.-New Haven Journal
Former Senator Chandler of New
Hampshire relates on his return to
Washington where he finds a new
President in office that he has had per-
sonal relations with 10 Presidents. land
talked with them at the White House.
beginning in 1858 with President Pierce
who invited me and another Concord
how to dine with him in April 1855
President Roosevelt will make the
nth" Including Pierce there have been
70 Presidents since Pierce's term and
evidently " was either Mr. Buchanan
or Mr.. Cleveland with whom Mr..
Chandler eninved no speaking ac-
Springfield Republican.
Richard Croker is picturesauely rep
resented as q sphirx. There is as a |
matter of fact verv little for Mr. Crok- |
er to saw. except in the wav of apolo- |
gy: and that would be most unbusi- |
nesslike.-W Washington Star.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
now been OCCUPANTS of the White |
House long enough to get familiar |
with its appointments. In answer to an |
Off cial as to what changes thew de- !
sired. he answered mot a line" Roose- |
welt has long had the happy character |
istic Of making the best of things. as t
he finds them.-The Manchester Union. /
The melancholy DAYS have come. the
saddest of the year; not much to eat /
and what there is is most COMPOUNDED |
dear.-Kansas City Journal.