The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-10
reward COMING
FOR COMMUTERS
Moving Picture Shows to While
Away Hours Between Trains.
ONE TICKET GOOD FOR ALL.
Pennsylvania Railroad Announces In
novation to Begin at Pittsbura and
Spread Over System-Opportunity
For Family Basket Picnics, but Last
Trains Are Sure to Be Crowded.

Trains Are Sure to Be Crowded.
The Pennsylvania railroad is going
to amuse its commuters with moving
pictures. It will give a near-continu-
Gus performance too. The fine show
Will be free, or, rather, admission to it
will be included in the price of rail-
road ticket.
walk In, walk in, ladies and gen.
tlemen; bring the little ones Next
way train for Podunk leaves in twenty
minutes. Meantime the railroad in
vttes you to enjoy the dazzling, delight
full, delirfous series of lifel1ke pictures
entitled The Wooing of Fawn Who
Trembles; or, A Chippewa Chiefs
Love- No charge. All free, but show
your tickets for Podunk."
The voice Of the railroad barker will
be heard in Pittsburg first, Up to this
time the bankers, chosen for their fog
horn voices, have been train an
nOuncers.
Fine For Commuters.
A dispatch from Pittsburg states:
Commuters who use the big Union
station Of the Pennsylvania railroad
in this city will no longer be bored
while waiting for trains. The an
nouncement Is made that moving pic
ture shows will be presented to them
in the station hereafter. The appara-
tus will be installed in two weeks, 1t is
expected. The films will be changed
daily, but the railroad officials pur-
pose to act as censors and to eliminate
all Objectionable pictures. There will
be none showing train robberies or
train collisions. They might have
bad impression on the minds Of trav
elers. This innovation will dispense
with the raucous voiced train callers,
for FIVE minutes before trains leave
announcement of their departure will
be thrown on the canvas on which the
pictures will be shown"
Such interesting and instructive
shows must be a great success in
Pittsburg Then, it is fair to presume,
the paterna1 Pennsylvania will give
them In its huge New York station. It
is vast place, that station. but it
needs no prophet to foresee that it is
not half big enough to hold the audi
ences that will gather to the free pic
ture shows. Each audience will never
change. New York families will bring
along lunch baskets, buy railroad tick
cts to Long Island city or Hoboken,
throng the station and revel all day in
perfectly good and moral f1lms-and
new films daily.
Take Next Train.
The announcement will flash on the
canvas:
Next train for Sunnyside-by-the-
Sea, Celestial Abodes, Peoples Para
disc and all other towns on the north
shore of Long Island will leave In FIVE
minutes"
And all the commuters who should
hurry home to dinner win smile at
each other and say:
1--WE will wait for the next train
The last way. train out will be the
only one filed OF course other rail
roads will enter into competition with
the Pennsylvania. The New York
Central may invite commuters to a
free horse show; the Central Of New
Jersey will give. continuous minstrel
show, perhaps, and the fascinating
Miss Phoebe Snow will skirt dance
Day and night
With all her might
For the road of anthracite.