Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-06

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 The building will be absolutely fire proof. It's construction will be of steel and concrete throughout, the walls on the exterior being covered with copper finished in verdigris. Numerous new features are planned. The main wait ing room will be hundred feet square and tifty-four feet high, with enormous windows on all sides. From this will open the women's rooms, smoking rooms, lunch room, parcel and informa tion rooms and numerous other depen- dencies. The restaurant will be on the second floor, with view up and down the river and of sufficient size to ac- commodate 200 persons. A vide bal cony projects from the restaurant for dining out of doors in summer.
 A wide concourse will give access to the second deck of the boats, and this concourse alone will hold 30,OOO per sons. Passengers from boats to trains will not be compelled to pass through the main waiting room, but may pro- ceed through forty foot concourse to a broad flight of steps leading to the tracks.
 On the ground floor of the ferry house will be found large waiting room for the Hoboken ferry passen- gers and on the second floor numerous division offices of the company, com pletely equipped emergency hospital, toilets, barber shop and baths. The ex- terior of the building will be 600 feet long on the river side, the tower rising to a height of 225 feet. This will be electrically illuminated at night, and its lighted clock faces will be one of the noticeable sights of the harbor. ,
 Flirting is prohibited by the Chicago and Alton railroad. Here is substan- tially the new code put out for the guidance of the Alton employees, says Chicago dispatch:
 Don't be too attentive to women pas- sengers.
 Don't overstep the bounds of pollteness.
 Don't endeavor to ingratiate yourself by conversation. ...
 Don't make yourself too conspicuous in your desire to accommodate. Don't think you are a "lady killer" Don't firt.
 We have warned our trainmen against making nuisances of them selves by too much attention to women passengers" said George J. Charleton, general passenger agent. "We have in structed them to answer all questions in gentlemanly manner, but never to be forward or annoying to any woman on their trains. We received com plaint from a young woman against the flagman on one of our trains. He had forced his attentions upon her. We discharged the fiagman and have warned all other employees"
 There is to be a revision of methods in the pension department of the Penn sylvania railroad which will benefit the pensioners to the extent of reducing the age of optional retirement from sixty-fve to sixty, says the Chicago Tribune. The experiment has been made on the Pittsburg division and has proved satisfactory, and now it will be extended over the entire system. The plan was submitted by the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers and has been approved by the railroad officials and the employees of the various divi- sions.
 Each employee will give one days wages each year, and funds thus will be provided by which the optional age limit of retirement can be reduced. At present the rule Is that an employee who has served ten years and has reached the age of sixty-flve may be retired at the discretion of the superin- tendent. Retirement is compulsory at the age of seventy, and the pension re ceived amounts to 20 per cent of the salary, based on the average of the last ten years work The additional income will amount to S215.0OO. and the num- Der of eligible pensioners will be in- creased by q thousand at least
 A general order issued by General Manager Gruber of the Burlington rail road to all roadmasters specifics that there must be a general house cleaning on the road. and the instructions are that the tracks and roadway must be beautified during the spring and ap- proaching summer. says special dis patch from Hannibal. Mo, to the St. Louis Globe-Democrac One provision in the instructions is that a grass line be formed six feet out from the rail on each side of the tracks. No grass must be permitted to grow inside of the Him. it's. Outside of the prescribed lines all grass on the right of way must be kept down regularly. Flower beds are to be made and grassy lawns maintained at stations. Posts. fences. etc, are to be whitewashed- The movement, in brief. aims to make the Burlington one of the most attractive roads of the west. espe- eiaIIv ne far ss ff,,s riuaif of wav iS x,on-