The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-13
WOODEN COACHES
MAY Be ABOLISHED
Bill introduced Calls For
Cars Made of Steel.
FOR BETTER H0STELRIES
Inspection of Hotels and Restaurants
and Enforcing Sanitary Rules Is
the Gist of Measure intro
duced by Dollison.
D. A. DONOVAN.
Special Columbus Correspondent.

Columbus, Ohio.
~HE day of the old wooden rail-
road car in Ohio soon will be
over if the general assembly
enacts a bill which Senator
Cook of Cincinnati has just intro
duced The bill would make the steel
car mandatory upon every Ohio rail-
road after 1915. 1t will also have the
effect of preventing Immediately the
practice of placing wooden cars be-
tween steel cars in trains, the theory
of this provision being that in case of
wrecks the wooden cars are crushed
by the weight of the steel cars.
The senator introducing. the anti
wooden car bill has conceived a new
idea In the way of catching auto
speeders and he has placed the con-
ception before the senate in the form
of a bill. The bill would allow any
person to hail an alleged speeder into
court, if he have witnesses to the al
legged speeding, and if the speeder
were convicted, the informant would
be paid the fine imposed. 1t is Sen
ator Cooks idea that if his measure
is passed, speeding will become so un-
popular that it soon will be a thing
unknown.
For Cleaner Hotels.
In the conviction that travelling men
md others who are compelled to de-
pend upon the hospitality of the aver
age hotel proprietors are often made
the victims Of bad hotel sanitation,
unclean bed linen and even insect
ridden beds, Senator Dollison of Hook
ing county has come forth with a bill
to make for revolution in behalf of
cleanliness. He declares that the ho-
tells and restaurants and boarding
| houses in the small towns and coun-
| try sections Of the state are without
restriction of any sort as to sanitary
standards. He would permit the state
board of health to name hotel com
missioner and into the hands of this
commissioner he would place sweep
ing powers of inspection and enforce
ment of sanitary rules.
| Inc DOLeI COIlIllSSlOuSl dhu llS
deputies would have power at any
time to enter and inspect every par
of any hotel or restaurant, and tc
make all needed changes for the bet
terment of sanitation. He woult
have power even to compel walters
and mattresses to wear more cleanly
clothing and to adhere to all thu
standards of generally accepted per
sonal cleanliness. Senator DollisoI
believes that the city hotels are bet
ter regulated since they are under thu
supervision OF city health depart
ments. But he holds that many small
er hostelries constitute the bane o
the existence of the travelling public
Anti-Ciearet Bill Killed.
The anti-cigaret bill has been f1nall.
and officially consigned to it's gray,
In the Ohio senate. 1t was PARTIAL,
smothered in the judiciary committee
called to the senate floor and partial
ly revived by its author and thel
speedily put to death. Only IL ser
ators even affected regret over it
fate by voting to give it longer leas
on life and 18 members of the uppe
branch held out for immediate execu
ton. The bill was sponsored by Ser
: ator Dollison of Hooking county.
!, has been reposing in anxious, lionel
fashion in the senate committee fo
many weeks. Every effort of it's al
thor to have it considered has bee
met by taunting merriment. The con
mittee ended its agony by indefinit
postponement. But Senator Dolliso
exercised on the senate floor the arb
traTy power given any member
draw measure from an unfriendl
committee and he daringly brougf
the abused little measure into tn
. light of the senate. Cook of Hami
ton instantly moved indefinite pos
ponement. To stave off defeat Do
lison pleaded that his bill was designe
to save the youth of the land, but h
plea was unavailing. Gleefully nea
ly two-thirds of the senate voted
postpone indefinitely and in legislatiI
parlance that is just the same {
the death penalty.
Bill May Have Hard Sailing.
1t looks as if the Jung senate bi
seeking to remove police and fiji
chiefs from the protection of the civ
!. service will have hard sailing aftt
all. At first 1t was considered to |
in fine condition to go sailing throug
both bodies for it was believed th
the city administrations of Clevelan
Columbus and Cincinnati were stror
: for it. Now comes the revelation tn
the Cincinnati people are divided al