Salt Lake Herald | 1890-07-04 | Page 3 | A Railroad Club House

A Railroad Club House The Pennsylvania railroad has fixed up a suite of rooms in its station in New York for the benelit of its employees where conducts con-ducts rs and brakemen when off duty pnjoy much of the comfort and convenience of a club house There are toilet and bathrooms bath-rooms dressing rooms a dormitory and a spurious ana airy apartment overlooking the IXorth rh < rand containing a carefully selected library of nearly two thousand oljtues which is for the exclusive use oft of-t H c mploe This room is in charge of John Freed librarian who lost a leg in the sC1k of the companyand received his present position with a salary of 90 a mr rth Access to the club room can be s at any hour of the day or night by any fe entitled to the privilege Theroare wenty beds in the sleeping apartment There is also a post office in the station that receives and transmits 15000 letters a day free of postage These letters however only go along the line of the road and en purely official business