The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-29
S0MENEW RULES
That Will Be Adopted by the Rail-
road Commission.
MUST POST TRAINS.

pecu,ations by Which it is Proposed
Aid in Procuring Reasonable
conveniences for Passengers. Com
nlaints VIII Probably be Invited.
II Agents Fail to Carry Out the
Rules.
The railroad commission has before
;t for consideration set Of rules
and regulations governing the pas
seneer traffic, which the board will
take up at the next meeting for final
action. The proposed rules are IN
tended to remedy such inconven-
fences of travel and of failure to
travel as the posting Of late delayed
trains, the publication Of schedules,
the maintenance o. fires, lights and
other conveniences at depots, the
handling of baggage and the condl-
ton of passenger coaches. The com
mission, if this set Of rules IS adopt
ed, will also invite the complaining
public to complain to the COMMISSION
when anything goes wrong and the
implication is that the commission
intends to remedy whatever goes
wrong. ;,
Inasrnuch as the matters covered
bv the proposed rules and regulations
are of much concern to the travelling
public they are given in full, as fol-
lows:
GENERAL RULES APPLICABLE TO PAS
sENGER SERVICE.
Rule l. All railroad companies, or
persons, operating in South Carolina
as common carriers, shall be required
to have printed in large type, and
kept posted in a conspicuous place in
each waiting room at depots IN
South Carolina, from and after the
first day Of ---, 1907, the following
notice:
sNotice.-All railroad companies
are required under the laws Of South
Carolina and the rules of the railroad
commission to bulletin passenger
trains when late; to furnish good
wholesome drinking water to passen'
gers; to keep waiting room and pas,
senger coaches clean, well lighted
properly ventilated and comfortably
heated when necessary.
tsThe railroad commission Of South
Carolina would appreciate the prompt
reporting to it's office at Columbia
S. c., of the failure Of any company
or it's agents to comply with these
requirements.
Rule 2. Railroad companies are
required at all stations where pas
senger tickets are offered for sale
to open their waiting rooms at leas'
thirty minutes before schedule time
of the arrival Of all passenger trains
or trains carrying passengers.
Rule 8. A seperate room for white
and coiored passengers, sufficient fol
their comfort and convenience, shal
be provided at all stations where pas
senger tickets are offered for sale
and these waiting rooms shall be fur
nished with adequate lights, and
when the inclemency of the weather
requires, with fire, and at all time!
kept clean and made comfortable fol
passengers.
A substantial water cooler must be
in each waiting room with drinking
vessel conveniently placed. The sale
cooler to be supplied with wholesome
water at all hours, to meet the re,
quirements Of passengers. There
shall be connected with each of these
waiting rooms ladies' toilet, and
wherever practicable, a toilet for
men. Such toilets will be considered
as connected with the waiting room
if the walks thereto are walled up or
each side, and open into or near the
waiting rooms, so as to AFFORD 3
reasonable privacy to passengers.
Rule 4. On al passenger trains
or trains carrying passengers IN this
State the railroad companies shall
furnish safe and adequate heating
appliances and lights, and shall keep
the passenger coaches clean, suffi-
-ciently warm and properly ventila-
ted for the comfort Of passengers.
Rule 5. All railroad companies
shall provide such means or appllanc-
es as may be necessary to secure the
careful handling Of and to prevent
injury to baggage. At all stations
where no proper appliances are sup
piled the baggagemaster shall have
such assistance from the train hands
or others as may be necessary to
handle all baggage without injury to
same.
Rule 6. Whenever any passenger
trains or trains carrying passengers,
on any railroad in this State, shall be
more than one-half Of an hour behind
its schedule time, it shall be the duty
of said railroad company to bulletin,
snd to keep posted at every tele-
graph station along its line in the di-
rection in which said train IS going,
the time such train is behind its
schedule time, and the time Of its ar
rival as near as can be ascertained.
Each bulletin board, upon which
the foregoing information is to be
nosted, shall contain the regular
schedule of the arrival and depart
IRE of al! trains carrying passengers.
Allnotices as to trains behind sche-
d,,|e time, shall be erased from the
bulletin Immediately after the de-
parture Of such trains.
Rule 7. Notice Of any change in
+he schedule time Of passenger trains,
or trains carrying passengers, must
he posted conspicuously at each of
the stations along the line of the road
and notify the commission in writing,