The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-09-10
RAILROADS KILL
ANIMALS WORTH
MILLIONS YEARLY
Superintendent Stimso n
Urges Cooperation to
Save This Large Waste.


mond division of the Pennsylvania In
a general notice to owners OF live
stock, township officers, newspaper
editors and employees Of the railroads.
urges reduction of the millions Of dol
lars wasted by the killing of cattle,
hogs and sheep.
Owners are urged to keep live
stock in fenced enclosures; township
officials are urged to pass ordinances
making the same obligatory; engi-
neers are instructed to report stray
stock and to avoid hitting the same
and section men are requested to en-.
force the order.
Newspaper editors are appealed to
in order that the movement for the
conservation Of live stock may be
brought to the attention Of the public
by the publication of this order.
Roadmasters and maintenance OF
way officials will hold their associa.
tion convention from Sept. Is to 20 in
Chicago when matters and methods
will be discussed, and there will be
papers and lectures on track supply
department work and the new appli.
ances urged for way maintenance.
Among the exhibitors In the track sup
ply department will be the Hayes
Track Appliance company of Rich.
mOnd
T. H. Carrow, of the Safety First
General committee Of the Pennsy will
be a prominent speaker at the Sixth
Annual meeting of the National Safe.
ty First Council in New York City,
Thursday. He will also be heard at
the meeting of the steam railroad
council, safety first congress OF
railroad men.
James r. Fahnestock, general treas
urer OF the Pennsy system. announces
that arrangements have been complet-
ed for the safe keeping OF Liberty
Loan bonds purchased by Pennsy en-
ployees and that the interest will be
collected by adding the same to the
pay rolls twice year, June Is and
December Is. There will be no charge.
The amount subscribed so far is 49,.
5000 by the employees, and this con-
venience dates from tie time the
bonds are surrendered for safe keep.
ing.
General Superintendent Of Motive
Power. J.. T. Wallis, Of the Pennsy
system. has been conducting series
Of tests Of the apparatus added to the
shop equipment at seven OF the rail
mills to replace drop tests Of carbon
steel rails, an exhaustive article on
the same appearing in the Railway
Age Gazette OF Saturday last.
Beginning Sept II all Cincinnati
conductors and enginemen will be ex-
amined on the book Of rules. Yard |
men will be examined in the office at !
No. track of the Klondyke yard. !
~ and ". men who run into Cincin !
natl and Dayton and U. r. r. men be- |
tween Dayton and Dodson are includ- |
ed, the exams to last until Sept. 29.
Pennsylvania siftines
The work Of lining up the rails
south in order to admit of the laying
of two additional tracks is proceeding.
VIM. Metzger, exponent of the hap
py time, and head Of the crew dispatch |
ers Is on q vacation at South Bend.
T. A. Crabb, the second Oldest en- |
gineer on the Richmond division, is |
laying off at Windfall, Ind, on vaca
tion.
J. P. Myers, master wrecker and re- :
lief chief Is back again on the job aft |
er two weeks vacation.
Wallace Freeman Of Fort Wayne, !
former employe at the car shops, is |
visiting old friends in Richmond
c. F. Needham, machinist on the |
Richmond division, has gone to Co.
lumbus. o.; on company business.
1t has been estimated that the aver !
age Of the Pennsy employees taken at |
the first draft was 5000.
w. A. Baker, boilermaker foreman's !
clerk, wore a happy smile, Monday. He |
will get his vacation next week.
c. II. Paust. gang foreman, has Of
fered fifteen different explanations as
to what went wrong with the engine !