Show A PULLMAN NUISANCE The health commissioner of Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania raffia Dr Samuel G DIxon has Issued an order forbidding porters of Pullman cars to brush the clothing of passengers passengers passengers gers in the aisles of the cars He takes the stand that the practice practice besides be being beIng being ing an unmitigated nuisance Is detri detrimental detrimental detrimental mental to the health of travelers in Pullmans because it affords splendid opportunity for the dissemination of disease germs genns Dr Dixon says ays the fact that Americans have endured the cus cue custom custom tom torn so many years ears is an additional ev evidence evIdence evidence that they are possessed of long longsuffering longsuffering longsuffering suffering patience He lie continues The practice was instituted by b the rapacious porters as a means of ex extorting extorting extorting dimes and quarters from their unwilling victims and has been en endured endured endured dured simply because no one wishes to tomake tomake tomake make himself conspicuous by audible protests It Is worse than useless as asa asa asa a means to cleanliness for the clothes of those first brushed are as dirty as before by the time the whole carload has been curried and what h t dirt has not settled back on the external parts of the travelers has filled their nostrils and lungs not only the dust of the th road but the accretions from the garments Other state boards of health will do dowell dowell dowell well to follow the example of Pennsyl Pennsylvania Pennsylvania vania The public would feeling endorse a general movement by the health oil officers officers cers of the country to put an end to the practice objected to by Dr Dixon Every traveler appreciates the fact that the brushing is a nuisance It does toes not clean clothing It simply stirs up the dirt in it to the annoyance of the other passengers as well as to the passenger who Is being brushed And still we patiently endure it because it affords the excuse for giving the por porter porter porter ter his tip tipAs tipAs tipAs As a matter of fact the public should not be expected exp to tip the porter The Pullman company is abundantly able to pay him for everything he does His exactions at the end of a run for those are what the tipping system amounts to should not be borne If travelers traveler would unanimously refrain from sub submitting submitting submitting to the holdup the Pullman company com pan would shortly be obliged to increase the pay of the porters or lose them for they the could not live on their wages alone And if we cannot break up the tip tipping tipping tipping ping habit let let et us at least break up the th brushing habit Give the porter his tip If It you the moral courage td refuse It but tell him to let your our clothes alone I |