Show rio grande needs lesson much complaint is being heard lately about the rio grande trains blocking busy crossings in price for long per periods iode people who want to g att to places on the south routh side ide of the tracks often have to wait from 15 minutes to half a in n hour or longer while a crew aits sits and takes its daily smoke or does a little switching there is no excuse for not cutting a train at a crossi crossing nj when the conductor know knows he is to lie in the city for an indefinite period the only reason the habit is so common is that the railroad people have learned that nothing will be done the city has an ordinance that covers the matter but how good it would prove prone on a test remains remains to be seen the arrest and fining ot of a few of the trespassers who insist on blocking the crossings ought to 11 stop top the practice salt lake tried m moral oral suasion and the railroad people only laughed then a fe few w arrest were made and the practice seems to have come to an end the same remedy would work worl here price people have thy for the pour poor old rio grande on account of all the grief it has had this summer but that is no excuse for making the citizens of this city all the tro trouble uble it ca can n blocking of crossings must stop another annoyance that could be easily remedied remi died is the giving of nil all kind of hours except the ight one for the abrial of trains train s A business man c can an call up and ask ai for the time a train NN will ill arri arne e and on going 01 to th dr depot at that hour fine the biml set ahead and then k i find he lie has a wait ait of 15 minutes to two hou hours rs before the train really ak I 1 lyshON shows NS UI up the rhe fault is not N with ith f the local boys bos all they can do is to toive gic out the information furnished them the railroad offices tem scent to think the time trains run at it a 1 aven point is a joke maa mabe be it is if a rio grande train has 10 i been on time in the last four months the matter has been kept h 0 secret there arc are some excuses ti for late trains but there is I 1 na n excuse use for telling the public a train lall I 1 will be here in 10 minutes when A hen it r is known thab that it cant get here for an hour the public cin can t do 04 fr anything but cu but it is doin 9 plenty of that |