Show REST FOR A FEATURE I OF GF MODERN RAILROAD MANAGEMENT i Largest Railroad Y V M i C A In the world Hundred d Pennsylvania Railroad use us this building as house and school It has an auditorium seating se Ung 1200 ample facilities for recreation and ed educational work u t r 4 r 4 fr I t M w 1 i tr 1 I II t I p I 4 zI 1 1 i c I I I r r rJ J F 4 I 4 41 c 1 h J S r Game room in West Philadelphia Y V M C A T r keep the men m n who run the rail railroads roads oads s up ui to ti the highest efficiently I nark mark transportation officers ers now no con that they can make no more profitable investments than In rest houses hou fM insurance and relief funds r Y 1 M C A s schools sch and an l H If The welfare of ot the file man be behind hind th the throttle is as Carefully con considered as M a the man d the gun of ofa ofa a b I Welfare Wellar work among the railroads bagan be n with the establishment JI Ui Y X M C As Now ow there thereaN era ar no less JeSs than railway association representing roads roods which em m at least men nen ei The Thc Penn alone has bee thirtyfour branch associations on Its Us lines i east and west westor of or to fo which it t contributes on tributes over a j year besides beIdes be furnishing tarnishing houses h u for most of ot them thein In thO largest railroad Y T 1 M r C A in th lh country located at West Vest Philadel Philadelphia phia pith railroad men are provided all aU the comforts of ot a e and many m ny advantages that no ordinary ry club cl b possesses pOI es s An audi auditorium where an m n audience of 1280 can b comfortably seated and facilities for tor tudy make it a great educational Institution N ary arIy every branch of study known 10 I uie ordinary sel 1 or college onega cur curriculum is te taught here and some branches unknown outside of railroad Circles Ir Jr the airbrake classroom ih there re is il enough equipment for a train bf thirty cars Telegraphy and nd other in railroad operation are just rf thoroughly ly taught A sort of post postgraduate graduate course for T 1 M Jr C A men Is conducted cOn in the Broad street sta tion where when official regularly lecture Jecture on 00 the work ork of their various arious depart No Cash Dividends Here HereU HereIt U It i is not by b accident that there are to Io many man of f these rest recreation and rid n oases located along the s of 12 miles mils t American rail roads They y represent Rt a policy Just us well defined as a 8 that which demands th be bt best st r rOld roadway day or the most efficient locomotives The big investment In officials believe beHove Is a profitable although althou h the Interest these In ais araw Is not In Jn cash but ut in ined Improved ed morals rals more mora regular habits h 1 s f fewer suspensions for lat of rules an allaround high Fr f t of men and a toc better ter under si the men and the rail William A Patton Fatten assistant I t to l tl th nt is chairman of ot tho the 1 f Ra Railroad road y M 31 1 c A de lt and ant the association has no r zore ore active ath nr O energetic tIc supporters than the highest l of ot this and foer D her roads ds Rest houses S fill fin in the gaps between the a on some of ot the rail Comfortable beds bed f r night use r uc where trainmen to o use iise se their own Wn Picturesque expression ion can Wv l ouRi ouM an n ear ar for a an h hour ir or r two to t o ekers books and periodicals perlo games ind restaurants r ta rans are arc the theof el nt of the rest rc t house The big f thee Is the street haven i f g rila which cost rost more than ana n Is 13 used every eer day by b at t least 1 p Efficiency at Notch a PI ien WIlD who are ire compelled to lay layns layth th runs ns the Y JL M L C A or orn n lOUse house is a godsend Like the theor or the rest houses hoUS cost a lot ta nv but ut it nobody can estimate how howIn howIn In save by keeping trainmen for work that rL re t clearest of ot minds and the th thIn ln In i of Libraries and read readI I i i i x aS i s i have te b been en n made still an anin in i tt for the Profitable invest of ot oui funds A regular chain i 3 lOg 0 00 miles long Jong either Joa road f in whole or orin In part by rail ral thru i has nas been established ut t taIr v t the country and nab main pais y different roads mote mob ore the savings fund fD add udd to the railroad disburse As l rp lly benefiting their men f r ut to i the t Stem tbt fn U I tK d by the l lor old J I o From the tM time the pension fund was as established appropriations for It have tc to something more than 2 and the annual disbursements i average at nt the present tithe tUnc I Then there thew Is the savings sayings fund con conducted coni conducted i ducted d for lor to whom three thre and per cent Interest i iS guar guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed j Between Pittsburg and Phila Philadelphia delphia there are ar 1000 agents who are designated d savings fund depositories and at ci a pla pl pae e like liko there Utere are often from half a L dozen to twenty men lOon id hi hue tomake deposits dep after working hours Since this savings fund was established It has paid out In Interest Interest interest terest To all aU these provident institutions I the th name under which they nr nl groupe grouped l lit 11 n railroad bookkeeping add I th tb relief reli t Nearly early all the older i railroads is have some such stich institution as this and on a road like Uke the Lon Lens I Is IslanI I lanI with between n five and six thou thousand thousand thousand sand the annual disburse disbursements e ments exceed a year ear The P nn SYlvania fund has received from the company and disburses every year ear nearly a u million and quarter Of bf dollars donars sn in n accident nt sick and death ben hen benefits benefits All the millionaire philanthropists to together together together gether probably do not distribute as much money as the railroads regularly regular and methodically invest In ways was and means of f Improving the lot of their workers This work Is done by b the railroads in the ordinary course of af at affairs affairs fairs anti and few except those thoe Immediately concerned hear much mu ha about out it |