Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1883 — Railroad Items. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Items.

Homer Snodgrass, who for twenty years was a conductor on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road, died at Lafayette, Saturday last, an utter wreck. Every man who knew him was his friend. He was genial and charitable to a fault. He was his only enemy. Whiskey had the best of him for four years past. “Indianapolis Journal.”

What is Crawford up to Now!

(JoUet lid., Republic & Sun) The Chicago and Great Southern Railroad Company filled articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State Friday. The road is to run from Chicago through Will county, and from thence to a point on the Indiana line. The capital is fixed at $500,000, and the incorporators are Harry Crawford, Wm A. Starren, Henry Crawford, jr., F. F. Lacy and E. G. Lyon. If our county continues to be covered with railroad tracks, nearly every farmer will have a depot in a corner of his garden patch.

The Sunday Train Order.

The action of Col. Bennett H. Young, president of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad, in regard to the running of Sunday trains on his railroad system has already been referred to in The Republican. So far as possible no work is to be done or trains run upon the Sabbath day. Only one passenger train will be run on that day, for carrying the mails, and efforts will be made to arrange for its discontinuance. In cases of perishable goods, or live stock, freight, trains will rup when necessary only. The following are some of the additional provisions of the order: • “You will, in future,* run no excursion trains of any kind, for any purpose, on the Sabbath. This order applies to camp-mecting trains. It Christians cannot find/ other places for worship,, this company will not violate divine and civil law and deny its employes the essential rest of the Sabbath to take them to camp-meeting grounds, lam also informed that a number of the Company's employes have conscientious scruples against any work on the Sabbath. There are, likely, others who do not feel so strongly on this subject. Under no ordinary circumstances must any employe who objects on the grounds of his religious convictions be ordered or required to do any service on the Sabbath. If any difficulties arise in- the execution of this regulation, you will please report them to me for consideraion, and you will also notify employes of their right, on conscientous grounds, lo be fully protected in the observance us a day of rest’ r

The Sunday Rule of the I*. N. A- & C. Management.,

SU Lo nte Post Dispatch. As this order is published in tho railroad columns of the daily papers as an item of ordinary news there is no reason to suspect its genuineness, and the experiment will attact a deep and deserved interest. While we respect the honesty and sincerity, of the motives which control the management, we are afraid that throngh passengers who have important business beyond the ends line on Monday morning will notappreciato the situation, and through freight, in which time is quite a consideration, will be apt to go with some other road. For these natural losses of business we see no conpehsation unless the higher moral tone of the management wiil induce Sabbatarians to settle along the line and thus build up enough business six d«ys in the week tn make goo 1 the Lssts of th j day of rest.