Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-06
RAILROAD MEN
READY FOR DUTY
Official Tells of Value of p. r.
r. Y. M. c. A. to Employees;
Campaign on This Week

The presidential campaign ends
with election tomorrow. Next comes
the big p. r. R.'Y. III. c. A. member
ship campaign. Officially it starts No
vember IA. Locally it is already on.
Chairman Don f. Monahan will
meet his forces Friday night for a
general conference. A prominent rail-
road president of the West, in discuss
ing the Railroad Y. M. c. A. made this
discriminating statement as to the
value of it's work:
THE Association has ameIiorated
the harsh and demoralizing conditions
to which trainmen, away from home,
were subjected thirty years ago. IT
mas afforded them recreative sur
roundings, morally clean, physically
healthful, companionable and socially
pleasant, with all the means for intel
lectual and spiritual development.
This Is in striking contrast to the only
places of resort of the past-the sa-
loon with its blighting Influences or
some more vicious and baleful envir-
onment.
Is Efcctual and Helpful
THE experience and observation of
all, under whose notice the work of
thls organization has come, are that il
mas been most effectual and helpful in
raising the standard of manhood.
rms mas been reflected in better care
ana attention to their families, in
knaner consideration of their fellow
men, ana In more faithful and eff
cient service in the duties assigned
them. The personnel of the men, as
we come In contact with them, at
tests these commendable traits, which
snow that the work OF the association
mas not been confined to the mere
physical comfort of it's individual
members, but has been extended to
the awakening and development OF
their petter and finer spiritual and in
teliectual natures. AS a result of this,
l pelieVe. we have higher concept OF
duty and loyalty to the interest served
NO man can serve his employer
faithfully, and with a conscientious
sense OF due responsibility for the
faithful performance of the duties en-
trusted to him, without at the same
time calling into action those finer at.
tributes of his being which render
MIN better man in his family affairs
and In his relations with his fellow
men,"
Large Car Orders
INQUIRIES for approximately 10000
cars OF all types were placed last week
up to the close of business yesterday
by railroads throughout the country
as result of the extraordinary de.
mands being made on them. The orders
call for an expenditure of several mil.
non dollars, it was estimated in finan.
clal CIRCLES here yesterday, and deliv.
cries are to be made as soon as posi-.
pie' so that the present unprecedented
shortage in cars may be allayed to g
certain extent.
Both the Pennsylvania and Phila.
delphia and Reading systems have or.
ders in for several thousand cars, and
now the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
has ordered 1000 from the Mt. Yer.
non Car Company. With this heavy
demand for railroad equipment, stee
car producing companies will be kept
busy on these orders alone for manS
months. Some of the PENNSYLVANIA (
orders have been placed with the com.
pany's own shops at Altoona, Pa.
others have gone to the Cambria Steel
Company.