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About The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1897)
Tha Dalles Daily Cfcycnisls, The only Republican Daily Newspaper on ' Wasco County. EASTERN OFFICE 230 to 34 Temple Court, N. Y. City. E. KATZ, Agent. Weekly Clabblnff Rates. Chronicle and Oregonian. .. $2 25 Chronicle and Examiner. 2 25 Chronicle and Trihnne . ... 1 75 Chronicle and N. Y. World. . . , 2 00 SATURDAY - DECEMBER 11, 1897 A DEMAND OF HUMANITY. The interstate commerce commit tee, in the face of strong protest from labor organizations in various quarters, has decided to exend for a period of two years the time in which railroads must place automatic coupling appliances upon all of their cars. The act of congress of March 2, 1893, commonly known as the safety appliance act, decreed that all the car9 of all the railway companies should be thus equipped by 1898, a period cf full five years being al- lowed in which to complete the change. This was deemed ample at the time, and it doubtless would have proved ample had not the railway companies believed, with good rea son, that extension of time could be secured. Be this as it may, the limit has nearly expired, the railway companies have not met the condi tions imposed by the act, and the . time has been extended. Railway employes, who may be said literally to have vital interests at stake, demur, or . are supposed to demur through the protest of labor organizations, against this extension as placing the humanities in the scale against the cost of the equip ment ordered. It is asserted that the companies have had ample time to equip their cars with these life and Jimb-saving devices, and that the plea that they cannot afford the ex- Tensc at this time is one that should have no weight against the fact that every year's delay costs the lives of hundreds of trainmen and causes the injury, more or less serious, of thous ands. It is believed that the auto matic couplers, when universally used, will greatly reduce the number of these deaths and disasters. It is certain that a vast number of brake men have been killed or maimed in the use of the old system of hand coupling, and the substitution of the automatic coupler is urged as a mat ter of humanity, -in the shortest pos sible space of time. Recognizing the vast outlay inci dent to this substitution, and taking into consideration the fact that the cars of the different railway systems are, in fulfillment of the demands of interstate commerce, widely scat tered, and that business constantly presses, a period supposed. to be am ple for making the change was al lowed. This the railroad companies maintain, under all the circumstances, was not long enough, while the rep resentatives of the trainmen's inter ests aseert the contrary and charge dilatory tactics, backed by iheir sup- posea influence upon legislation to secure an extension of time, upon the railroad companies. . statistics showing the killed and injured among trainmen in charge of freight trains during the past year are cited as showing an urgency for me equipment of freight cars with automatic couplers that brook no'de lay. On the railroads operated in the state of Pennsylvania alone last year no fewer than 500 men were killed, and 10,591 injured in. the freight service, while the figures rep resenting the grand total of lives de stroyed and injuries suffered among this class of employes are truly ap palling. The belief that these casu alties will be decimated by the gen eral use of the automatic coupler is widespread and weU founded. Hu man life is the most important con sideration in this matter. ' It is perhaps useless to inquire pow whether the committee has needlessly saci iSced safety of life and limb to the solicitations of the companies. But it is certain another extension should not be allowed. 'When the two years are up, the penalties should be enforced.--Oregonian. To the Traveling Public. We wish to say that the new and cen trally located house, formerly known as the Red Front hotel, baa recently changed hands, and will hereafter be known as the Central Hotel, located at the corner of Second and Jefferson streets, one block from the O. R. & N. depot, Mrs. E. Campbell,, Mbs. M. McAbtbcb. 10 2t Props, i To Care m Cola in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund tLe1 money if they fail to cure. 25c. tyristmas Improuemeitsr CATARRH Ask your Druggist for a generous IO CENT TRIAL SIZE. Ely's Cream Balm contains no cocaine, mercury nor any other injurious drug. 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