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Show H0"W jMOTORJEEN SUEFEIU ' The Rev. W. S. Ralnsf ord, a well-known well-known New York clergyman, has been investigating the conditions under which motormen in New York, where vestibules vesti-bules are as yet not in general use, are obliged to work. He says: "One cold, sleety day I made up my 'mind that I would find out for myself what their suffering was like. I rode from Twenty-third to Seventy-second street with the motorman, and then I was out of It By that time I was not -only wet through on the legs, but at the "chest as well. . Now. I am a young man, only It years old. and It didn't hurt me. "The motorman told me, however, that he had done that for eleven hours. X 'Relieved him. God knows X did not care to prove it. " "For the money he gets he suffers too much. He should be at least as well paid as are the men who run tbf engines en-gines on our great railroads." |