Evening journal., 1915-09-09
THURSDAY SEPT. 9. 1915
FLm-FLANMING A THIRSTY PUBLIC.


THE sanitary drinking cup railroad train is all
right It makes for public health and reduced
mortality
The sanitary drinking cup vending machine that is in
stalled on a railroad train and that fails work and
robs the passengers. is all wrong It outrages public
feeling ard makes enemies the operating company
that it would not otherwise nave.
We think we perform friendly office for the public
and also for the Penn sylyania Railroad Company when
call attention the fact that Of the cars oper
ated the Delaware division are equipped with san
tary cup snding machines that rubbing the puic
and giving rise to nuc' ili-ieeling.
THEY TAKE THE PENNY Always BUTT HUN
DREDS OF INSTANCES THEY FAIL TO DELIVER
THE cErs.
IT will pay the railroad con pany to take up this mat
ter and compel the cup-vending company install
machines that will work or to remove every machine
that is in
In the oden days common drinking glasses put
in the cars They had fat hiu MIS- So many Of then
stolen that finally they Withdrawn from
Round Aotomed glasses, suitable for general use
substituted for them.
When the individual drinking cup agitation had
progressed to a certain stage the railroad company
withdrew the glasses and substituted paper bags from
which to drink They we're free to all comers but
placed at only end OF the car
Then someone conceived the idea that it would be a
hne commercial game to each thirsty passenger a
drink water found acceptance in the rail-
roao Offices. The drinking bags thrown out.
except in OF the old wooden Drop-apenny-
in-the.sot cup vending machines installed by a
company that hoped to American thirst for water
into large dividends The public complained but sub
mtted
Picking the pockets OF passengers resulted On warm
days the stuck and the machines could not deliver
them Il noticed however. that the pennies
dropped that there no way to get
them back when the machines failed deliver the cups
paid for fnd urgently desired.
That petty larceny has been going for months on
the Delaware railroad 1t is going today Defrauded
and indignant passengers have complained to conduc-
tors Conductors have forwarded those complaints TO
men higher up. Remedial results have not followed.
Some interested careless in the companys SER
vice have permitted and permitting. the cupvend-
ing company to continue with a despcable form steal
ing and the railroad company is compelled to take upon
itself the burden Of public dspleasurc that
ated by the very meanness of the theft
The Pennsylvania railroad is recognized as the stand
ard railroad in the United States It has built nm for
itself wonderful reputation for meeting it's oblira
lions It cannot afford TO be partner in or TO proat b,
the cup vending machine larceny that is going on OF
the Delaware division and perhaps on other divisions
1t bad enough for the patrons of the road 10 he axet
cent for drink Of water. 1t is simply unendurabl
when the tax is collected and the water is denied
II there be anyone connected with the railroad ss
vice who also is connected with the cupvendine com
pany and who is protecting it In its larcenous work
the patrons of the railroad company have a right Il
know II and TO have him thrown out of his position A
the situation stands now the public Is up against
him-ham game that is despicable that a reputabl
corporation like the Pennsylvania Railroad Compan
cannot afford TO give it harborage on its trains