| Show WANTS THE TOOLS UNUSCD Itsllrssds Incest 1orltitft In Seep Him roses sod ties From the Iltl Uurg Im Not many people are acquainted with the fact that the Pennsylvania Itnllroad l Company and the Pennsylvania company together togeth-er are the owners of a cost tool equipment equip-ment which Is entirely treeless M far as Its owners are concerned And that Is I stranger till Is I tho fact that they never desire to see the tools In use and are hoping that they will remain unused un-used forever Tho equipment consists of S SOO saws 2600 sledge hammers and 2600 axes nil new and In tint class condition While what has been said shame concerning this apparently useless use-less 1 equipment may sound rather strange U can bo best explained by the simple statement that the loots are for emergency purposes only and are kept for Iho use of trainmen or passengers pas-sengers who may be called upon to art In the rapacity of rescuers In case of u oa rIf catastrophe This In I why the companies dont want the tools to bo used anJ It explains tho necessity for haying in much useless tool equipment When the manufacturers of cars are making contracts with any railroad company they lira supposed to figure the cost of such equipment In with cot of manufacturing manu-facturing the cars All the coaches on the tint class lines ns well ns most of tho second class line of the country have n saw hammer ham-mer anti nx and sometimes a long steel bar Ineloned In n glass case ready for Immediate uso In case of accident A leather bucket Is I also provided for each car which may bo seen hanging In a corner whero It min be reached without with-out delay It WM the use of theso buckets that saved tho life of tho Pitts burl nnd Lake Krlo baggage master who was pinioned under the wreck of the flyer nl Wampum last week The names from the burning debris were creeping gradually toward tho Injured man when the other trainmen and some of the passengers quenched l the Ore with water carried lln the leather buckets buck-ets The tool equipment In coaches of tht Pennsylvania railroad lines represents repre-sents a large outlay of money Including Includ-ing tho cost of tho case the outfit for n 1 single roach costs not less than 13 and as there are about 2600 coaches on the entire system It can be easily calculated calcu-lated that the total expense amounts to more than 17600 |
