Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — STOCK DESTROYED ON TRACKS [ARTICLE]

STOCK DESTROYED ON TRACKS

More Than $200,000 Paid Out by Southern System for Animals Killed on Right of Way. During the twelve months ending June 30, 1917, the Southern railway system alone paid out more than $200,000 in judgments to farmers for animals killed on the railroad’s right of way, says Popular Science Monthly. President Harrison, of that system, points out that if the farmers would prevent their animals from straying over the tracks they would help solve the war problems. In the first place, the animals killed are a total loss as far as the food supply is concerned. Then, the sum paid by the railroad in recompense, even at the present prices of equipment, would buy more than one hundred standard boxcars capable of handling at a single load more than three thousand tons of freight, thus tending to relieve the freight congestion. Here, then, is a chance not only for the chuckling farmer but for the comic artist and the jokester to relinquish a Source of income for patriotism. •