THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 69 
sion. The Pennsylvania Railroad alone, on its lines 
east of Pittsburgh, gave out during the season of 1918 
more than 20,000 copies of these instruction booklets. 
The division superintendents and their assistants acted 
as the distributing agents. In addition they frequently 
assisted in other ways in helping to arouse the entire 
local and community interest in this work. Through 
the posters, displayed conspicuously on bulletin boards, 
the attention of hundreds of thousands of other persons 
besides railroad employes was called to the urgent need 
of war gardens and of conserving food. Local station 
agents were also a powerful factor in the work. Not 
only did they encourage the company employes to 
engage in gardening but they assisted in other ways to 
arouse interest. 
As a sample of what the railroads did in this direction, 
here is an extract from a general notice, signed by 
R. L. O’Donnel, assistant general manager of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, which was posted along all the lines 
of that road. This was addressed “To all employes of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad.” It said: 
Owing to the interest shown, and the substantial 
results obtained by employes of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road in the cultivation of war gardens last year, the 
Management will renew for the present season the 
arrangement by which vacant land belonging to the 
Company may be available to employes for garden pur- 
poses, at a nominal rental. . . . All employes who are 
able to do so, are urged to take advantage of these 
opportunities by cultivating war gardens this spring and 
summer, thus assisting our country in the production 
