Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — The Train Hog Should Go First. [ARTICLE]

The Train Hog Should Go First.

Passengers on Wabash trains will hereafter be required to enter coaches at the front doors, while persons leaving the cars are to pass out the rear door. This order, it is hoped, will obviate much loss of time at local stations where crowds struggle on the platforms and in the aisles, to get on and off. Agents are required to see that all passengers are advised of the rule and that it is observed. If the new rule well on the Wabash other roads will no doubt soon adopt it also. But neither the adoption of this rule nor the abolition of the train “butcher” or newsboy, will strike at the greatest nuisance of railroad travel. What is needed worst is the suppression of the “railroad hog,” of both sexes. That is, the person who appropriates the seating room of from two to four persons, with their feet and bundles and makes other passengers stand up or go into the smoker. Suppress the train hog, by all means.