Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — Costly Car Cleaning. [ARTICLE]

Costly Car Cleaning.

Pitt* burg Dispatch. You have noticed, no doubt, the ladies with mops, scrubbing brushes and pails, and the linen-attired men hard at work upon the cars side tracked in the yards of the Pennsylvania railroad, but I question whether you have ever stopped to think wbat the cleansing of the cars costs the compeny in the course of a year. An effitial 14 the road asked me if I knew, yesterday,and of course I had to confess ignorance. “ Well, the soap, water, the requisite instruments and the men and women to handle them coat the Pennsylvania a trifle over $250,000 Is st year. That’s., what it costs to clean cars for the people toride in this ag»,” was the statement which astonished me, as it w 1! astonish you. ; -. '' ■ .