Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1889 — Improvements in Train Service. [ARTICLE]

Improvements in Train Service.

In the year 1888 there was a good deal done toward improving train service. Air brakes were placed on 20,i OO freight cars, and it is believed that 50,0 i omoie will be so equipped during the present year. A uniform code of train rules was adopted by 85 per cent, of the roads of this country. Vestibule trains were introduced on several of tbe leading roads, and several of the roads took the advance step of bearing their {trains with steam furnished by the locochotive, and much of a minor importance was done toward making travel comfortable and inviting- .

How on Illustrated paper Is Colored. Albany Journal. It is, perhaps, not generally known that in many establishments in Albany workingmen demand the privilege of bringing beer in'o the factories for consumption at the noon hour, and in at least one establishment beer is paid tor By the proprietors. In this connection few are aware that in ail the lithographic establishments of this country where! the work is mainly done by , German workingmen, a stipulation requires the proprietors to furnish beer as a part of the employes’ wages. In the mammoth lithographic department of Judge, at New York for instance, where 60 1 men are employed, each one receives, nnder the terms of his contract with his employers, three pintsof beer a day. The beverage is lager beer, and over seven barrels are thus conßi med daily. An effort was made at one time to see if a reform could not be instituted in this matter, but such serious trouble was threatened that it had to be abandoned. No lager, nowork.