Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1913 — Campaign Against Strong Drink. [ARTICLE]

Campaign Against Strong Drink.

General managers of railroads throughout the United States are conducting a campaign against the use of intoxicating liquor in construction camps, and the results are said to have been satisfactory. A report disclosing the evil effects of liquor on men engaged in railway construction, prepared by Dr. C. Fisb- ( er, chief surgeon of MacArthur Brothers’ Construction company, recently has been given wide circulation among railroad officials. A statement issued by J. L. Campbell, engineer of maintenance of way of the El Paso & Southwestern railway, says: “The El Paso & Southwestern railroad can bear witness to the beneficial effect of the absence of liquor as a result of experience in extending its lines recently to Tucson, Ariz. The construction period lasted 12 months, and about 1,200 men were employed. Saloons were not found at any point along the line of work, a distance of 65 miles from Fairbank to Tucson. Not a man waß killled. “There were no serious injuries on account of the usq of explosives. The only fatality resulted from a fight at Fairbank, where a licensed saloon was conducted. It was a matter of frequent comment that the work progressed with an unusual degree( of orderliness. This result was obtained' through the co-operation ofr the county commissioners, who refused to grant licenses for the sale of liquor.”