MANAGING RAILROADS
INTERESTING DISCUSSION OF
A BIG SUBJECT.
Hon. XI. R. Ingalls. President of tho
Ulg Four Railroad, Presents Some
Important Facta That Will Interest
AU.
Hon. M. E. Ingalls, one of the great
est authorities on railway matters,
read a highly valuable paper at tho
recent convention of railway commis
sioners held In Washington. D. C. His
wise words will be read with Interest
by all. The convention was called for
the purpose of considering questions of
great Interest both to the railways and
the people of the United States. Mem
bers cf the Association of American
Railway Accounting Officers were also
present and were invited to take part
In the discussion. Chas. J. Bindley of
Illinois, was chairman of the conven
tion. Ohio was represented by Rail
road Commissioner R. 3. Kahler and
Chief Clerk Ed II. Archer. P. A. Hew
itt, auditor of the Big Four, was one of
the railway accountants present. Mr.
Ingalls' address Is here given ns being
a semi-official expression of tho views
held by railway managers generally,
and as being also of general interest to
tho public at large:
''Mr. Chairman nnd Gentlemen: I am
very much obliged for this opportunity of
addressing you. 1 understand I have In
my audience the members of the Inter
state commerce commission and tho gen
tlemen composing the various tallwuy
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HON. M. n INGALIJS. PRESIDENT OP
THE "BIG FOUR."
commissions of (he different slates. It Is
a body that Is supposed to stand as an
arbiter between railroads and the people,
as a friend of both; a body that ought to
and does have great Influence, and espe
cially In reference to legislation regard
ing railroads. If tht* audience should
agree upon any legislation In that respect
that was needed, I presume there would
he no difficulty In Inducing yondpr con
gress to enact It Into law, and believing as
I do that It Is essential to the public in
terest to secure legislation, I am pleased
to have this opportunity of presenting my
views and endeavoring to enlist you fn
the reforms which I think are ao vital.
We have reached a crisis In railway man
agement when something must be done
If we would avoid disaster, not alono to
the railways, but to the material inter
ests of our country.
"For 30 years a contest has been waged
In legislatures. In congress, and before
the courts, by the people on one side who
believed that railways were public cor
porations and subject to control by the
power that created them; and, on the
other hand, by officials of the railways,
who did not believe that such control was
legal or practicable. Btate after state
asserted Its right. These rights were con
tested from one court to another, and
decided from time to time always In favor
of the people, under certain restrictions.
It finally culminated In 1«S7 In the enact
ment of the Interstate commerce law, and
since then there has been hardly a day
when some provision of that law was not
under consideration by the courts or by
congress, until now we may state It la as
fairly settled by the highest courts In tho
land that the legislatures of the states
have control over railways with refer
ence to their local business, subject to
certain conditions, and that the congress
of the United States has the power to
regulate Interstate business. The supreme
court of the United States, which Is tho
highest arbiter of these differences, has
Just decided that such control of the
states, or regulation, must he reasonable,
and that rates cannot be reduced below
Where tho railroads can earn
expenses and a fair return upon
«-fWAst.
r. AjTRgu'.'ay managers hail accepted the
® son neuron, and were endeavoring to obey
it Tlterstate commerce law and adapt
4, Aiefr&msnagement to It when. In March,
decision was rendered by the su
VI ,rW ■ court which produced chaos and |
f, fiajdToyed all agreements It was prac
^brtJhluy that the Sherman anti-trust law,
'Vq/^^called. which it had not been supposed
A/^FPhed to railways, did apply to them,
v^tud under the construction of that law
^Abtgiy the court It was practically Impossible
Wto make any agreements or arangemcma
,Tr for thn maintenance of tarlfT». In the
y lilt brought agalnat the Joint Traffic
V usgoolatlon In New Vork. this view has
been combated by the railways and It
may be modified by th* courts.
"It is well, perhaps, that we should
look the situation fairly In th* fa. *, and
whllv I do not care to be an alarmist. I
feat bound to dcsi-rilwi plainly to you the
condition today, so that you may umler
atand the necessity for action Never In
Ilia history of railways hsvs tariffs been
so lltlts respected as today 1‘rtvata nr
raltgetnsnia and understandings at* mom
plentiful than regular ratsa Tha larg-r
abb1 pe' * th* trreaponsthl* shippers ar*
obtaining advanlagea which must leaner
or latar prove the ruin of tha smaller and
mar* conasrsailva traders. and In th*
end Will break up many of th* commer
rial houses In this country and ruin tha
railways. A maduees seems to have
e*igad Upon son* railway managers, ami
a targe portion of the freight* of the
country or being carried at pries# far be
low coal i'liter than the maintenance of
tariffs lb* tuollilost of th* railways la
goad theu phyat al condition baa bean
improved their tram* at* Well managed
and the potdb la well reread If a way
tea ha round by wht h tariffs can be
maintained and tha pc* tha if mret r*.
bataa and pat*ata *>«us t* ■*—- -■twuirl.
tba fslsn wit hava great p< >•<*■ fur
railway tw*aatar% railway b,r. and
lira potdk generally And hat* I wi*n to .
tar that ibla t# not a t<mnm whth 1
awaaaana railway la*aa*»*s ahaa If it |
• as pod mtaht ear let lb- m hghl |l
awl ' It asMtawrua a**f ee l aka** every |
*aa *t#e tba great puWt on* an a *|
WiSf yc CM era Neil. • . 1 it . ■ t ler ]
railways all bat aa lUffbuyaa or uayiei*a
sf •Masfkbdns tbal a* •>%*•*< in fur
ataiimg swppliaa tw tba <*Ma«y« ran
any body tmltta- pscspwt d •*. Mt» a* j
14# a amber m akffrdhM t« a b.m«w t net
g matt.g mansy * Tba yadbsn »»r»* m,
pwktk hr aw auMty way* Iff*' thnii pr < '
kgUp py , towel > »I*IW »**•• With lire ]
prupstny and «ralsfl •! Wt m *>r .
people. One thousand millions of dollars
were paid out last year by the railways
from their earnings to employes of man
ufactories In this country; 511.000.000 of
passengers were carried; 13,000 millions
were carried one mile; 745,000.000 of tons of
freight were moved: 96.000 millions of tons
were moved one mile. Do you think that
any Interest performing such Immense
service as this can be In difficulty and
the balance of the country not feel It?
Porty millions of dollars were paid out
for public taxes. Over three thousand
millions of dollars that have boen Invest
ed in railways have earned no dividend
for years. This Is not ‘water’, as some
populist orator will say. but good, honest
money. These securities are held all
through the land, and their failure to
pay any return has brought disgrace up
on us abroad and suffering and want In
many a family and community at home,
e e • • • • •
"One of the chief difficulties with the
law as It stands today Is that the pun
ishment for private contracts and rebates
Is entirely out of proportion to the ofTonse.
Tho Imprisonment clause was put In as
an amendment to the Interstate c<*rn
merco law, and I believe the commission
and everyone who has watched Its work
ings will agree with rae that It has been
a failure; more than a failure, that It
has caused perhaps more demoralisation
than anything else. The public has not
believed In It; It has been Impossible to
secure conviction; It has prevented tho
railway official who desired to be honest
from complaining of hls competitor whom
he thought was dishonest. In fact, It has
been what every law Is that Hi not sup
ported by puMlc sentiment—-a failure.
What, in fact, Is the manner of conduct
ing business today? The railway official
who desires to be honest and law-abiding
sees traffic leave hls line and finds th«*
freight that lie was carrying hauled to
the warehouse of hls rival, the earnings
of hls line decreasing and complaints
from the management of loss of earnings,
and In tho distance he sees looming up
the loss of hls position. At tho same
time, the shipper who desires to obey
tho law sees some rival selling merchan
dise to his customers at prices ho cannot
meet, and ha knows very well that he Is
securing concessions from pome railway
tp enable him to do this. Tho railway
agent and tho shipper who wish to obey
tbe law sit down together and look It
over. What relief Is there for them?
They can complain of their rlvuls, possi
bly convict them under the Interstate
commerce law and send them to the pen- i
ltentlary. but such action would bring
down upon them the condemnation of tAo
public and would ruin Ihclr business; for.
mm I stated before, tht, public does not be
lieve In this severs feature of the law,
and will not support anyone wbo enforces
It. The result Is, these men, In despair,
aro driven to do Just what their opponents
are doing—they become lawbreakers
themselves. I havo drawn no fancy pic
mi'. , ii in nuai » wu uiuiib
around you.
“Is It wise, Is it broad statesmanship,
to leave a business as large as that of
the railway:i-ono In which one-ilfth, at
least, of our population is engaged, one
which affects the comfort and happiness
of nine-tenths of the people—Is it wise to
leave It outside of the law? It is said
that the most expensive occupation to
the community is thut of the burglar, k«
has to spend so much time and destroy
bo much to get ho little. Is It worth while
to force the great railway interests of
the country into the same position?
“Who opposes this legislation? First,
certain people who desire the government
to own and operate tho railways. Sec
ond, others who wish that the Interstate
railway commission should make all
rates. Third and lastly, certain railway
managers who are oppos'd to any and
ill legislation and who object to any con
trol, and believe that they should bo left
2titlrely alone.
• e • e • • •
"All of us who have any Interest in our
X)untry, who desire Its prosperity, are In
iereated in tne solution of this great
luestion. It is not a time for the dema
gogue to howl about corporations. It is
lot a time to talk about the wrongdoings
)f railway managers. There are aftvays
jome, In any business, who will not do
dght, anti th»*re always will be, but the
treat mass of railway managers to-day, I
insure you, are as honestly seeking a so
lution of this question as are you or any
member of the legislative body. I be
lieve I voice the belief of & very large
majority of them that the two provis
ions I have mentioned are necessary and
will lead to the settlement of this ques
tion. If this body will Join and heartily
Indorse this course and work for It, Its
accomplishment can be attained. We
have unwittingly in this country applied
to railway laws that It was never in
tended should be applied to transporta
tion companies of this nature. We have
gone back and taken decisions that were
wise a hundred years ago, when civiliza
tion was in its infancy and when the
masses needed certain protection, and
have endeavored to apply these same
principles to the great transportation in
terests of modern times. The courts, un
fortunately. have followed in that line.
Every business man. every statesman,
knows that It is a mistake, that we have
here an immense interest such as the
world has never seen, and the principles
which should govern it must be worked
out In harmony with the age and tho
needs of this country. There should be no
friction between the interstate commerce
commission and the railway's: there
should be none between the state com
missions and the railways. There has
been too much of a feeling with these
bodies that the railways were against
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photographs Can Be Taken of an Enemy’s Works While
the Kite is Suspended.
Communication from war ship to
warship will soon be as easy as carry
ing on a conversation between two
military posts on land, and by ths
same electrical moans, the telephone.
The English naval authorities have
just tested with great success a sug
gested novelty In the way of communi
cation at sea which promises to ren
der obsolete the present methods >t
signaling.
Commander R. G. O. Tuppor of the
Royal Navy experimented with a "kite
telephone." The kite used was of the
regulation sort, except that It was mi
nus a tall. It was six feet long and
three feet wide at the broadest point.
In place of the tail the kite carried two
lines, one of which was retained on
board the Daring, the Instructional
torpedo boat destroyer, from which the
experiments were conducted. With
the wind between the two lines re
ferred to It was found that the kite
was so easily managed that It was no
trick at all to drop letters or even a
hawser Into another ship, and In this
way establish communication.
2 COD CUT
Following this experiment came one
with a wire. The end of the wire
which the kite bore away from ths
ship was dropped upon the deck of H.
M. 8. Dauntless, where It was secured
by the electrician of the ship and at
tached to a telephone apparatus In
waiting. The other end, which hail
remained aboard the Daring, was also
attached to a telephone, and as scon
as the task was completed the two
ships were In perfect communication.
The kite remained suspended, secured
by two lines, for more than four hours,
during which the communication be
tween the Daring and the Dauntless
was uninterrupted.
slderable height than one which may
float at the top of the mainmast, or bo
waved from the summit of a hill. Add
to those facta this latest development,
the kite as a telephone wire carrier,
and the Indications of a limitless fu
ture are plain.
Experiments with kites at Governor's
island In New York harbor have con
clusively proven that It Is possible to
■end up a camera from Inside the lines
of one army—the camera being at
tached to a kite—and take an accurate
photograph of the Intrenchmenta or po
sition of the enemy thereby, and to
learn In fairly accurate fashion of their
number. On several occasions this
year In New York photographs have
been taken of parados In this fashion,
and with the very best possible re
sults. To suggest that this could be
done fifteen months ago would have
provoked derision. There Is lust as
much reason for not regarding the
telephonic kite flying experiment with
credulity as there would have been for
decrying the other. The results of the
English experiment, even though they
have Just become known, have already
created no little talk In United Staves
naval circles.
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RinokfleM Pirn.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Times has given some partic
ulars of a new Invention by one Carl
Wegener, which has for Its object the
elimination of smoko from a furnace,
accompanied by a notable saving In
the consumption of coal. The success
of the system depends upon feeding
the furnace with powdered coal, In
stead of the "well-screened" lumps
which hitherto have been regarded a3
the most advantageous form of such
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TELEPHONING BY MEANS OK KITES BETWEEN SHIPS.
The achievement is only evidence of
what electricians of the navy, of both
England and the I'nlted States, have
long held to be possible. They have
declared that there was no reason wny
communication of this sort should not
be established between chips a few
hundred feet apart, If the weather were
at alt pleasant. Of course, In a gale
It would be impracticable.
The esperyneut that was made by
the officers of the Daring and tho
Dauntless had another valuable resul’.
It showed that It Is possible to ar
range for a n>*w system of signals from
one ship to another that would be
greatly superior to any flag system
which could be conceived If the tele
phone wire inn be arranged In this
manner, there Is no reason why tele
graphic communication can not ;•#
made In a similar fashion In this
case an operator aboard th* flagship
could carry on a reaver tat Ion wtih his
fellow -operator aboard one of the fleet
without 4'lPculty The idmtral'a or
■levs coutu be easily transmuted front
time to time, and often avoid what is
now runaPtered necessary boat servl *
It aught he thought that th* flying of
a hits ua t»r th* * ilicumctm >■ wuiitt
be a matter of uttsms difficulty, tut
Wits flying under the IV*«t ne >t»
ha* become a science What us»d u
' Imp * schoolboys spout has t w h* umi
I a suefset of study by professional atsr,
and It seems unite tlhety that tgfu?*
loag etsn greater rs«sll« a ill bs ib
lain* dthaa has sver h<sa the «**# at
hutmsst h
t< a tw»#a* «f signaling th# hit# ts
flrntiy bstl'V-l not i nly by nav it 'St
eer*. hot thus ■! th# stilt, In Its
fraught With g**at Imports* * w rs
the fistula I* -onst-tefed It |# #|
cot r — very mu h sailer for a stgsssl
I try We s#vh that tg -»*>*** I In y cosy
fuel. The coal dust Is fed Into the fire
from a container In front by means of
a tube which terminates In a revolv
ing sieve. This sieve Is kept In mo
tion by the draught, and has the ef
fect of scattering the fuel over the fur
nace In such a way that It Is at once
Inflamed without smoke and with very
little ash. Coal of comparatively low
quality ran be economically used In
this powdered form, and the only
drawback to the process seems to be
the necessity fur using a separate ma
chine for the grinding of the mol to
powder On the other hand, the slack
or dust which forms a necessary by
product of the coal Industiy will find
here a Held for employment which will
tm much appreciated by owners of
mines and merchants generally.
tt««* !*«>• to t'uaxs
In Hpaln the people take no note of
time, not even from Its loss. Kvery
thing la to be done wauaua. tomorrow
V wealth) Kngllthmsii. who had long
lived In Htntn. had a lawsuit, lie
! pleaded hta rauae in person, and know.
Ing the customs uf the country, wan
hta rase Th* victory coat him threo
j da)* of trouble and es pease, so that
when the judge • ottgrstulaisd htsa on
, hta su><nr he replied “Yen, that's
all right, hut It has met me litres days,
and time la money I am a huay man.
end then* three days are lust forever "*
Oh you Knglivh' ' answered the
Judge, cuts are always say Ing that
time is nteney II -a are you to get
y >ur three days M t' I wilt tell you
take them out of nett week surety
them are plenty m**m days to come1"*
The I B’ve st* of «V ul'g a ml
la he the 1stg st «<l i# > Mansi >«*p r%
iton tn the world it svnmtges metre
than Irr*i st> d*w* ssnws’ly
PRIVATEERING.
If Spain, in her puny wrath, permits
that unbusinesslike and unjust form of
warfare known as privateering, the
consensus of opinion among the pow
ers Is that she will get altogether the
worst of the bargain. . .
A flrst-clasB privateering equipment
Is rather an expensive affair In the first
place, and there are so many risks to
be run and such danger of oapture and
demolition that the chances are as
about fifty to one that the offender
would be brought up with a round turn,
stripped of the munitions and ensigns
of warfare and popped Into prison,
there to ruminate on the vicissitudes of
human affairs and tho rhanges that
have taken place since the days when
Captain Kidd made his record and
when thousands of bold and adventur
ous spirits mannod ships, cracked
skulls, cut off heads, meanwhile lustily
rhoutlng the old song, "Pull many a
year, a pirate bold, I've sailed tho Span*
tsh main."
A Spanish privateer must be ex
tremoly well posted In these days to
successfully carry out his nefarious en
terprise. He will need not only a
small arsenal at his belt, but a certified
bill of lading to give him Information
as to the articles he geeks, and wheth
er they are American or belonging to
some other tribe or nation.
Of the enormous amount of foreign
goods brought to this country but a
mere trifle comes in American bottoms.
For example: "In January, out of c.
total value of lmporta of $50,825,721,
American bottoms carried only $8,711,
593. and out of exports valued at $108,
753,524, only $5,155,544 In value were
taken out under the American flag.
The figures for February tell the eame
of $53,118,736, American ships brought j
only $9,270,058, and of exportations of i
$93,317,202, only $4,442,327 wan under
our flag. Of the exports In February
carried In American bottoms only $1,
029,066 were to Europe and Asia, and
the Imports so carried from those con
tinents were valued at $4,339,184. The
European and Asiatic countries with
whom tho largest trade was carried on
under the American flag are France,
the United Kingdom. China and Brit
ish Ea3t Indies and Japan.”
Our waters are full of foreign craft
that find It to their advantage to bring
in all sorts of wares to our shores
and take hack such articles as their
trade demands. The trade with Cuba
has been something enormous. Of
course, this U largely cut off. In 1S93,
Cuban Imports and exports were valued
at nearly $100,000,000. In 1896, the
trade had dropped off about one-half;
the present year’s business shows a
still further reduction. This Cuban
trade was largely done with American
vessels. Of course, everything Amer
ican being now barred, recourse must
bo bad to foreign handling for what
ever we may receive from Cuba during
the continuance of the war.
The best authorities are of the opin
ion that If Spain undertakes to sift
out goods Intended for the American
trade, from the groat hulk of commer
cial products, she will And that she
has a greater Job than she bargained
for.
Domestic trade, that Is, the coast
trade, she cannot possibly Interfere
with. In the event of any attempt to
do so, all articles can bo put upon the
railways. In January, 1898, merchan
dise actually handled by railroad cars
and land vehicles amounted to nearly
$6,000,000. The transportation by wa
ter was something over $5,000,
000. The shipments were made by
land to Mexico and by way of tho
Canadian Pacific railroad.
It would bo the work of a very
short time in case privateering became
annoying to transfer to foreign ship
ping whatever goods Americans de
sired to handle. It is, therefore, easy
to see that Spain is reckoning with
out her host, and in the event of her be
coming particularly Insistent or saucy
and interfering with foreign vessels,
she would be quite likely to receive n
rebuke that would, to say the least
convey a lasting Impression.
Wlrrlm Telegraphy.
In the attempt to turn "wireless tel
egraphy "to practical account and make
It a commercial success.Mr W J. Clarke
of New York has produced an ap
paratus for sending and receiving tel
egraphic signals without wires, which
Is to be placed upon the market. Where
for any reason it Is desired not to use
Morse sly nals, a special receiver Is
provided, wh’eh Is furnished either
with a vibrating bell, or with an In- !
candescent lamp, the tatter enabling
the person who receives the meweags
to read it visit illy. Inasmuch as Mar
coni's cmeiimrnt* have shown that
telegraphic signals rtn already be sent I
ten miles, or more, without wires. M
Is hoped that the new system will have j
a rapid development
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peels kSeeS ttoholks.
A pamphlet entiled Facts About
I ttmallpo* and Vac. I sal leva ' has been
Issued hy the council of the Hi dish
Medical *a». letion giving sUttatlre
sa to the effeacy af i*< • (nation and
1 showing whal the diminution of gut
I taltty has heen slave the lima of bs I
[ tee Facts are quoted from the slat is- 1
| live nleu of at her nswlftw as, fee In i
stance. at Hr use la. where rigidly en
furred end systematic vaccination has 1
practically stamped set staalipoa the
Mortality being seven pee |.#ao eves j
vheii it la the adjoining issstit if
heetvta waste vaneiaattM in hat eom
pulwvry II la a*e« t^u j
An expedition has Just left Stock
holm for Eastern Siberia In search of
Mr. Andree and his r°®»aQlon8;
The expedition consists of Mr Staa
ling, the polar explorer;Dr. ■Nllson.
the botanist, and Mr. Frankel. an
engineer, one of whose brothers Is A
member of the Andree exploring party.
Teacher (to a scholar with a verv
itrty face>—Jimmy. I think you are
)uet about as dirty a* any boy In the
city. Jimmy—You‘d ought to see -y
my brother. Teacher—Does your bro
ther hare a dirty face ofteaer than you
do? Jimmy—Well, mother says ahe
don't believe lie's washed hla face
slnoe he got It—Truth.
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"There la nothing more healthful
nnd nourishing." said Mr. Sklnnphllnt
to his wife, ss he looked over his
morning paper—borrowed—and noted
the price of wheat, "than good corn
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une.
Importunt l»wn Inventions.
Among the subjects of recent appll
rattons for patents prepared by u« Is
an acetyllne gas generator that may'
be small and used as a hand lamp or
large to supply a multiplicity of burn
ers and located wherever desired T'l-f
usual gas holder telescopically con
nected with a water tank and valves
and valve gearing are dispensed with
and the flow of water and gas auto
matically regulated by hydrosstaMe
n A o d frn a DI>#SUIIII 1*0 Ft I I
(large of Prulrle City le the Inventor.
An apparatus for Illustrating the ^
phenomena of thunder and lightning
mounted on a portable platform gen
erates and stores static electricity In
an artificial cloud suspended above
the platform In such a manner that
when a mtnature building Is placed
on the platform visible tig tag cur
rents will leap from the cloud and
make splinters fly from the building
ns sharp reports In Imitation of
thunder shock me ears of the behold
er. W. Dodd and A. D. Struthcrs of
Des Moines, Inventors.
Valable Information about obtain
ing, valuing and selling patents sent
free to any address.
THOMAS G. & J. RALPH ORWIG.
Solicitors of Patents.
Iowa Patent Office, Des Moines, Iowr,
May 11 1898.
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Meeke: "Often,” Gtobetrotle: “Whom
did you have for manager usually?”
Mr. Meeke: ‘‘lly wife.”—New York
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