| Show 1 katim the ill uc d in ali council of ihu assembly ile quiring train dispatchers to make public the departure of trains is a good one such a law should be passed it will provo of infinite benefit to the traveling public how of ten is it the case that persons who design taking tho train are kept waiting hour after hour at the station for its arrival sometimes the station agent is in as much uncertainty regarding the time of the delayed trains arrival as are the expectant and impatient waiters and sometimes he is not but through innate meanness and pure cussedness will take special delight in keeping them for hours on the anxious seat or promenading up and down the platform in this territory the absence of a statute requiring railroad officials to publish the needed information has been a dource of much inconvenience and annoyance to the public in many other places of utah this requirement is made by legislative enactment and has been duly appreciated by travelers who when they have occasion to visit I 1 utah and are annoyed by the absence of such a regulation here are not slow to give expression to their disappointment and chagrin the legislature will do the public excellent service by passing mr bryans substitute for mr booths bill which is as follows SECTION 1 be it enacted by the governor and legislative assembly of the territory of utah that it shall bo the duty of each and every train dispatcher of the beveral rail road companies now or hereafter run ning passenger trains in this territory to cause to be made public by the station agent at every telegraph station within his respective diction not less than fifteen s before alie schedule time of departure of cuch tram carrying pas spongers mhd i a of such departure on a bulletin board placed in a conspicuous and public place if from any cause the timo of the departure of any such win is delayed then the cause and p abble duration of such delay shall n once bo so bulletined bulle tined HEC 2 every tram dispatcher feliu to furnish the information required in the preceding section to the agent at every telegraph stat within his jurisdiction and every such station agent failing to make public the information so furnished s herein provided is guilty of a misdemeanor |
