The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-21
Florida Railroad Commission
Gives Notice of New and
Important Rule.
MUST GIVE CAUSE, IF POSSIBLE,
DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT, PER-
SONS KILLED OR WOUNDED,
ETC, BY TELEGRAPH AT
EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT
AFTER WRECK occURs-oTHER
RULES CONTEMPLATED.
Special to The Journal.

Tallahassee, Fila, January 90
That Florida railroads must tele-
! graph Immediately notice of any
wreck within the bounds of Florida,
to the railroad commission, with the
cause OF the wreck, if it be possible
to determine, damage to equipment,
and number of persons killed or
wounded, with name and address of
each, is probable, if the commission
puts into effect the new amendment
TO its general rules, embodied in the
following notice of meeting of the
commission to be held in Tallahassee
on January 2:
You are hereby notified that there
will be meeting of the rilroad com.
missioners of the state of Florida at
their Office in the city of Tallahassee
at H. O'Clock a. m. on the 9th day of
January A. D., 1903, to consider the
adVisability of prescribing certain
new rules and regulations OF the
railroad commissioners, that is to say,
by adding the following rules, num-
bered IL, IL and Is to the General
Rules
II. Whenever in any of the rules
prescribed by the commissioners,
common carriers are required to per-
form or not to perform any act or
acts, such requirements shall not
deprive a common carrier of any ex-
cuse which the law regards as SUI
ffcient for the nonperformance of
such act or acts.
IL. Every railroad company shall
report to the railroad commissioners
by telegram, as soon as q telegraph
ONCE can be reached, any wreck,
either of passenger or of freight
train, that may occur on it's line in
this state, giving as nearly as posi-
bic the cause of the wreck, the ex-
tent Of the damage to the equipment
and the track, and the number OF per.
sons killed, or wounded, with their
names and addresses; and such tele-
grams shall be followed with a. full
written statement made with two
days thereafter, giving full details of
the above Matters
IL. All common Carriers shall post
in their stations and in their cars all
such notices pertaining to the reguIa-
ton OF their business, as the railroad
commissioners may, direct.
Better Station Accommodation.
e Also to consider the advisability of
prescribing certain new rules and
regulations of the railroad commits
sloners, that is to say, by adding the
three following rules, numbered 9, 10
and II, to the 'Rules Governing the
Transportation of Passengers"
8. All railroad and terminal COM
panies are required at all their regu-
lar agency stations:
Cd To provide fires in the waiting
rooms whenever fires are necessary
for the comfort of the travelling pub
lie.
CD To light the waiting rooms and
the approaches TO trains. after dark, |
sufficiently for the comfort and the |
safety of the travelling public
CD To keep the waiting rooms n a |
clean and sanitary condition |
l4) To keep a sufficient supply of |
good drinking waters for the travelling !
public.
10.-AH railroad companies shall |
operate on each passenger train a suf-
ficient number of comfortable passen- |
ger coaches to provide seats for such |
number of passengers as they may
expect for the daily travel |
on such train.
IL. All railroad and other compa-
MES owning Or operating PASSENGER |
coaches (Which shall include sleeping |
cars and chair cars) are required:
Cd To heat them whenever neces-
Sdry TOT the comfort or the passengers.
Cd To light them sufficiently after
dark.
CD To keep in them a sufficient sup
ply of good drinking water for the
tD To keep them in a clean and
sanitary condition.
(5) To see that no passenger is per-
mitted to monopolize more than one
seat, when seats are required for |
other passengers. In sleeping cars
the sale of one berth shall entitle the
when the berths are not
made up in the. section, to one-half
Of the section. but the, sale of a day
seat shall entitle the passenger to but
one seat in a section. 1t is hereby /
made the especial duty of all train
conductorSand of all sleeping car and
chair car conductors in their respec-
tive cars to enforce this fifth para
graph of rule IL. but failure by them |
so to enforce it will be deemed a vio-
lation thereof on the part Of the COM
pany.
At the above meeting you. the rail-
road COMPANIES and the common car
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