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PLEA OF THE®3I ROAD ENGINEER FOR MORE LIGHT—FOR MORE LIGHT. (From Augusta Herald.) The Herald is in receipt of a re quest from an engineer of the Geor gia Railroad, a man who has spent many years in the service of the road, who has risked his own life many times, both day and night in the operation and handling of its fast and heavy trains, who has had en trusted to his care and watchfulness time and again thousand's of lives and many more thousands of dollars worth of property, that this paper also stress in its agitation and dis cussion of the condition and method of operation of this railroad just this one little plea: Give the engineers of the Georgia Railroad more light. You would think that a railroad realizing the dangers and hazards that naturally attend its operations would at least give to the engineer, at his post of danger, and in the blackness of the night, every possi ble help and precaution and safety bringing device, any appliance that would mean greater safety and secur ity, both to its own employes and to the traveling public as well. Most railroads do this. Nearly every up to-date and careful railroad that we know of, gives, or ought to give, to its engineers and to its passengers the best electric headlight that can be bought, so that as many of the dangers and hazards of railroad trav el? .As long a stretch of- track as possible could be inspected and guard ed against by the engineer. But, un fortunately, the Georgia Railroad seems to be willing that its engineers and firemen and train crews and its passengers and the public must still take their chances with practically the old tallow dip, or a feeble and ofttimes smoky kerosene headlight. Have you ever seen a heavy pas senger train on a dark night, full of passengers, behind time, rushing down upon away station without any headlight at all—not even a feeble kerosene? lamp headlight, such as now used on the Georgia Railroad? It is a grewsome, awful feeling to hear the panting and breathing of the iron horse, to hear the escaping steam, the noise of the brakes, and yet to see nothing until the train is upon you and you then realize that it is practi cally blind, that Cyclops, as it is, it has even lost the use of its one eye. It is even a worse feeling to get on this same train and with the rest of its passengers to go thundering along in the Cimmerian darkness. And yet this very thing has happened to the writer, and that, too, strange to say, on the Georgia Railroad. R While the Georgia Railroad, of course, does not operate its trains, as a rule, without any headlights yet they are not giving their engineers and employes and the public the best and most modern headlight, such as the employes and the public have a right to expect of the service that a modern railroad is in duty bound to give the public. The real question back, of the Herald’s agitation and discussion of the condition and meth od of operation of the Georgia Rail road is one of better service, and safety and security, em- ployes and the publi Ave are glad to give space t< plea of a Georgia Railroad en .* for more light on the Georgia oad. They ought to have it and ablic ought to have it. •t In fact, the Herald’s whole fight is in the interest of more light being turned upon the condition and meth od of operation of the Georgia Rail road. Mr. Bowdre Phinizy, through a petition filed with the Georgia Railroad Commission, has asked that an investigation be made and that more light be turned upon the condi tion of affairs as they exist upon this railroad. The plea of the Georgia Railroad engineer, a faithful, com petent and loyal and careful em ploye of the company, practically asks for the same thing, more light on the Georgia, and we are confident that the entire public, the whole state of Georgia, is today asking for the same thing as the Georgia Railroad engi neer, more light upon the condition and method of operation of the Geor gia Railroad. And the Herald be lieves that the people are going to get more light before they are through with the matter now under discus sion. HMM The Storers have decided to make their home in Versailles, France, and those who are afraid they might move next door to the White House and quarrel with the Roosevelts over the back fence can now breathe easier. 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Chief Justice Fuller says when he gets ready to retire from the Supreme bench he will be the first to know it. Still from the reports in circulation, the newspaper men have beat him to it. One can hardly blame a congress man for waxing (indignant at the charge that he has been absent 95 per cent of the time when he is sure that be has been present 10 per cent of tin tfan.