Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1910 — MUST POST-NOTICE [ARTICLE]

MUST POST-NOTICE

Of Arrival of Trains—Railroad Commission Issues Order to Station Agents. More work and more hot weather worry for the railway station agents of Indiana. The railroad commision has found fTiat they have, in numerous instances, been disregarding the law concerning posting notices of the arrival of trains, and by an order issued Thursday, proposes to see that they obey it hereafter.

Burns’ Revised Statutes of 1908 (Section. 5310) provides that all railway stations shall be equipped with blackboards, on which th'e station agents shall post information concerning the arrival and departure of trains at least thirty minutes before due. Information has, reached the comrhission to the effect that in numerous instances agents have left the bulletin boards untouched for days at a time, irrespective of how the trains w*ere running; that many of the boards were worn so that writing on them was illegible, and that a general shaking-up among the station agents and railroad managers was necessary for the comfort and convenience of the traveling public. A penalty is provided for failure to observe the law cpncerning the bulletin board, and this fact is emphatically brought to the attention of the agents as well as the railroad companies in the order from the commission. The companies are ordered to make ah inspection of the bulletin boards* on their routes and to see to it that they are kept not only in good condition but that they are made to convey accurate information to patrons of the road£. 1.