Las Vegas optic., 1913-08-21

dropping from the ash pans of their
loeomtives and make prompt report,
so that front end MEETINGS can be ex-
amined and repaired if found defect
i've, and alterations made to ash pans.
, Sanitary Dining Cars
More than year ago the Baltimore
& Ohio issued instructions governing
employment for dining car service
and inaugurating the plan Of conduct
ing examinations Of the employees who
handle food, in order to insure every
means of sanitation for the public.
According to the circular issued at
that time, the applicant must submit
to physicians examination and be
free from all traces Of physical all
ment Special care is given by the
physicians in charge of the examina-
tions in order to detect contagious
diseases, and any applicant so afflict-
ed is rejected. The precautionary reg
ulations Of the dining car department
go farther and instruct the dining car
officials to practice close scrutiny as
to the appearance Of the men in this
branch of the service ana their gen
eral fitness for handling food En-
ployes who are crippled or who are
disfigured in any way, or who have
peculiar formations on the hands, face
or other parts Of the body, are given
other work Cleanliness is an al1-im-
portant feature of dining car excel
lence-quite as important as the cru
sine, and all employees of the depart
ment are required to keep themselves
neat and cleanly At all terminal
points where dining car crews remain
the men are provided with baths and
quarters for sleeping.
Conservative improvement
A more conservative authority over
the expenditure Of vast sums for inn
provements on the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railway is the new policy
of the road as advanced by general
officers of the road in Topeka To
prove this theory the road has placed
cold flat pancake denial on the
story from Albuquerque 20 the effect
that the road has plans for $40 100000
in double track betterments in Ar1-
zona and New Mexico The company
at this time has many miles of double
track in these two states completed
recently at a cost of many millions of
dollars Extensions of the Coleman
Lubbock line from Lubbock to Texico,
N NJ, distance of SO miles, is about
completed and will add greatly to ia
cilities in handling this years crops.
The opening of this line completes
the new through route between the
Pacific coast and the Gulf Of Mexico
by way of Belen and Texico. Accord
ing to those who recently have been
in the territory served by the Santa
Fe the outlook is for fair crops, al
though rain is badly needed in some
sections in order to pull corn through
in good snaps as was promised few
weeks ago. Unless universal rains
are had before long it is maintained
that serious damage will be added to
that already done. Car loadings are
satisfactory and those in close touch
with the situation are sanguine in re-
spect to the future OUTLOOK.
Century of Railroads
This year marks the centennial of
the steam locomotive. From a curious,
crude mechanism drawing a few tons
of coal at a rate Of five miles an hour
the steam locomotive has pushed it's
way into every continent, and today
trains de luxe are flying over superb |
tracks, across wonderful bridges and
through mountains, in lands which
were unknown or unciyilized 100
years ago, The locomotive has made
possible our great cities and seaports;
it has created states out of vast va
cant territories. Without it the pro-
duets of the world would practically |
remain where they grew, and only a
small fraction of what is raised would
ever be grown. The greatest working
instrument of industry in times of
peace, yet equally essential to mod
ern warfare, it the shuttle which
weaves the fabric Of nation, by
reason of easy and constant inter-
communication 1t has become in
these days the pioneer, and people,
pulpit and press now follow in its
wake instead Of blazing for it path.
So dependent upon its service have
we become that to utterly paralyze its
operation for long would mean death /
from cold and famine to millions of
our people. Let us, then, rnink kindly !
Of this magnificent machine, for it (
hoe d0ua voetIv4 mora eyond than harm /