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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1906)
ooooooocooocxxoooooooooococ MM LABELS AND GARDE There are now 56 labels and 10 cards issued by the fol lowing organizations, which have been indorsed by the Amer ican Federation of Labor : ' ' Organizations Using Labels. BUILD STEEL CARS American Federation of La bor. Bakers and Confectioners. Boilermakers. Blacksmiths. '. ' . Boot and Shoe Workers. Brewery Workers. Brickmakers. Broommakers. Brushmakers. Carriage and Wagon Work , crs.. Carvers, Wood. Cigarmakers. Cloth Hat and Cap Makers. Coopers. Engravers, Watch Case. Flour and Cereal Mill Em ployes. Fur Workers. . Garment Workers, United. Garment Workers, Lady. Glass Bottle Blowers. Glass Workers. Glove Workers. Gold Beaters. Hatters. Horseshoers. Jewelry .Workers. Lathers. ' , Leather Workers on Horse Goods. Machine Printers and Color Mixers. Machinists. Metal Polishers. Metal Workers, Sheet. Holders. Painters. Paper Box Makers. Paper Makers. Piano and Organ Workers. Plate Printers. Powder Workers. Pressmen, Printing. Print Cutters. -Rubber Workers. Sawsmiths. . Shirt, Waist and Laundry Wor'.eers. Stove Mounters. Tailors. Textile Workers. Tip Printers. Tobacco Workers. Travelers' Goods and Leath er Novelty Workers. Typograph leal. Upholsterers. Weavers, Goring. Weavers, Wire. Wood Workers. Leather Workers. ORGANIZATIONS USING CARDS. Actors. Barbers. Clerks. Engineers, Steam. Firemen, Stationary. Hotel and Restaurant Employes. Meat Cutters and Butcher g VV orkmen. Musicians. Musicians. Stage Employes, Theatrical. Teamsters.. : , ; The following crafts and callings are using the American Federation of Labor label : Artificial Limb Makers, Cos turners, Badge and Lodge Paraphernalia .Workers, , Bottlers (Soda, Mineral Water and Liquor), Coffee, Spice and Baking ; Powder Workers, Cloth Spongers and Refinishers, Carbonic Gas Workers, Cigar Makers' Tools, Nail (Horse Shoe) Work ers, Neckwear Cutters and Makers, Oyster Workers, Paint Workers, Photographic Supply Workers, Soap Workers, So da and Mineral Water Workers, Starch Workers, Suspender Makers, Steel Case Makers. 3000OCXX500000OO0O00O00O00OO The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska T For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, best equipped, most beautifully furnished.. km ! r KC W I I 1 25 PHOTO GALLERY 1214 O STREET $ When j-ou want a good photograph call and see my work. Satisfaction guaranteed .... IIIHimilltTTtlTTTHml We are expert cleaners, dyers and finishers of Ladies' and Gen tlemen's Clothing of all kinds. The finest dresses a specialty. . , THE NEW FIRM rJ.C. WOOD S CO. AoxC FOR PRICELIST. 'PHONES: Bell, 147. Auto, 1292. 1320 N St. - - Lincoln, Neb. TTIlHtTIIIIITITTTTtnMTT CKXXJOCOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOCXX) CXXXXOCOCIOCXWCXXJOOCXXXXXXXJ o Your Cigars Should Bear This Label.. fir , f Is&uod by Autttonlyoi the Clear Makers' International Union of America. uiiiuii-niaut? miliars. - Ihrt the Cqm eontimd inihts bos hm barn nwft by awtranut mi cnwi HMEni'iNiLtiiuriowL union or amki, orumnt wvoiea raihe ao- tui. i own oft wt iicgmmwa wneemmt of the MQftAl MATLRWLand WltiUCIUAUWUf ARt Of THt All lalltnOMMatA noon this Lahai ' q M I VtfAnfrtrm I LOCAL ii3 It is insurance against sweat shop and,' v tenement goods, and against disease. . '. .'. OCOOCKXXXXXXXXXXXX)000 Best Values For The Best Money j Cash or easy terms are found at the i Star Turniture (& i Zbe Wage-Earner's Turniture Supply Bouse 08 South eitvtnth Strtet.J ' Eiucoln, Utbrask IMPORTANT ADVANCE MADE BY TEE HAERIMAN LINES. All Passenger and Freight Equipment In the Near Future, Will Be ,,, of This Construction Economy in Plans. The management of the Harriman lines, after experiments extending through a long period, have adopted steel for the construction of all pas senger equipment, of all box cars and of other cars which will permit of such construction. With a view to trying out the plans which have been made for - passenger coaches, for mail cars and for freight cars, the Harriman lines are having constructed in the Sacramento shop3 under the supervision of Julius Kruttchnitt, director of operation and maintenance, a model car of each kind, with a view to ascertaining whether the plans for the construction are the best, and will work out as the manage ment believes they will. When the plans are proved by the construction of the model cars, these plans will be adopted as standard, and the Harri man lines will then build all their cars with steel frames. ; In the case of the freight cars, or box cars, the company is constructing them almost entirely of steel, the floors being of this material. The action of the Harriman lines management in adopting steel so thor oughly and completely for equipment is of more importance than appears at first glance. Some years ago the com pany began building steel underframes in freight equipment, which reduced the weight of a box car from about 44,000 pounds to 41,000 pounds. Steel construction throughout will further reduce the weight of the car between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds. In a train of 50 freight cars this would mean a sav ing of between 75 and 100 tons, or that amount added to the possible train load. This increase in train-load pos sibilities, together with the indestruc tibility of the cars, the cheapness of their repair and of the maintenance, which is fully 50 per cent, over the wooden cars, means a tremendous to tal saving to the Harriman lines. Still another saving that will be ef fected by the use of steel is in the way of lessened loss and damage from wrecks. The loss of property is very much less, as are the casualties, where cars of entirely steel frames are used. In the latter cars the combustible ma terial is reduced to a minimum, "and fires would rarely follow wrecks. With a view to showing the possibilities in wrecks, the management had photo graphs taken of steel cars which were bont and twisted so that they looked utterly worthless. . Photographs, of .'the same cars were taken after, an'' ex'pen-. diture of $200 upon them, , showing them practically as good as new. Railroads as Civilizers. , ,. The railroads continue to get in their work as civilizers. Those of South Africa, to build which Cost $125,000,000, are reported as doing a rushing and profitable business. The wise policy of the English, now in control there, is to open up the coun try to trade and agriculture, and Jthe results are increasingly satisfactory. It will be some time before the "Cape to Cairo" through line is completed, but connecting links are multiplying, and the "dark continent" i3 coming into closer commercial contact with the outside world and thu3 getting . en lightenment and prosperity. And due credit should be given to the railway for what it is accomplishing in this direction. . Engines Without Drivers. Germany possesses a miniature , but most useful railway, of which the chief peculiarity is that its trains have no drivers. It is used for carrying salt from the salt mines at Saassfurt. The trains consists of 30 trucks, each car rying half a ton of salt. The engines are electric, of 24-horse power each. As the train approaches a station, of which there are five along the line, it automatically rings a bell, and .'the station attendant turns a switch to receive it., He is able to stop it at any moment'. To start it again ; he stands on the locomoaive, switches the current, and then descends before the engine has gained speed. , To Run by Electricity. " . j The management of the Long; Is land railway has decided to substi tute electric motors for locomotives in the handling of all passenger trains. , An order has been placed with a Pittsburg firm for; motors enough to supersede every locomotive in active service in this department. Power will be .taken from a wire overhead after the manner employed in trolley car operation. By the . be ginning of the summer traffic it is ex pected that all trains on this line will be run by motors, doing away with the smoke, cinders and other discom forts of railroad travel in warm weather. , i Remarkable Railway. f An uphill railway, perhaps the most remarkable in the world, is the Oroyo, in Peru. It runB from Callao to the gold fields of Cerro de Pasco. From Callao it ascends the narrow valley of the Rimac, rising nearly 5,000 feef in the first 56 miles. Thence it goes through the Intricate gorges of jthe Sierras till it tunnels the Andes at an altitude of 15,645 feet, the higest point in the worjd where a piston itoad Is moved by steam. The wonde is increased by remembering that this elevation Is reached in 78 miles. WEIGHS ONLY FOUR GRAINS Smallest Engine in the World Truly a Marvel of Mechanical Ingenu ity -Its Dimensions. '"Tiny Tim, as I have named this smallest of all engines," writes T. H. Robinson in . the Technical ' World Magazine, "is made of gold and steel, and is so small that a common house fly seems large in comparison. It fits easily into the smallest' 22 short; cart ridge, balance wheel and all. 7 It weighs just four grains complete. That is about the weight of a -.common match.. It takes 120 such , en gines to weigh one ounce and 1,920 to weigh a pound. . ' Three million eight hundred and forty thousand engines equal one ton.' :, : "The engine bed and stand are ol gold. The shaft runs in hardened and ground steel bearings inserted in the gold taed. These bearings are counter-bored from the inside to form a self-oiling bearing. The flywheel has a steel center and arms, with a gold rim, and this part the -complete wheel weighs one grain. " "The cylinder is of steel with - oc tagonal base highly polished. The stroke is one-thirty-second of an inch, bore three-huhdredths of - an . inch. Seventeen nieces are used in the con struction of this engine. "The feed is through the gold base, which is hollow. The speed of this engine is 6,000 revolutions per min ute. Whea running 100 per second no motion is visible to the eye, but it makes a note like' the noise of a mos quito, caused by the vibrating piston rod. The horse power is 1-498000 of one horse power. Compressed air is used to run these engines and it may be of interest to note that the amount re quired to make the large engine hum can easily be borne on the eyeball without winking." ' ERROR IN BILL OF LADING Young Bailroad Man Pound Burro Vhere He Naturally Looked for a Bureau. There was a time when Senator Elkins of West Virginia was a hustling young freight agent in New Mexico. His office was a box car and his prin cipal troubles were in making his re ceipts of freight tally with his bills of lading. One day he had a carload of household furniture switched to his siding. The seal of the car door , was quickly broken, as young Elkins then, as now, always liked to keep up with his work. He was greeted with ' the bray of an ass as the door slipped back on its rollers. The bill of lading was at once scanned, but there was nothing to show that the animal should be a passenger on this partic ular car. The goods were all cheeked out and then Elkins wired the general office thus: "I'm a bureau short and a jackass long on this carload of fur-i niture." After a little delay the an swer came: "All O. K. The bureau is a burro." New Danger Signal. 1 Danger! An electrical system of sig naling has been perfected in Notting ham, England, whereby a gong sounds on the engine and an immense bull's eye in the cab glares with gretf or red light in the driver's face. Beyond the spot where at present' the distant sig nal is located on the railways, the in vention proposes that a central rail 100 yards long should be laid with a sec ond and much larger central rail near the present house signal. Connected with the signal box, the pressure of a roller beneath the engine on these cen tral rails would not only ring a ball and cause a lamp, corresponding with the track upon which the train ' has been running, to glow in the signal box, but bells would ring or red or green lamps glow on the engine itself, the color of the lamp depending upon which rail the signalman had connect ed with a negative. Earnings of English Railways. While we are inclined to criticise English railroads with much freedom, they have a record in one respect which our own railroad managers must look upon with respect. The gross earnings of the English roads never showed an unfavorable fluctu ation, as compared with a previous year, of over 1 per cent. With all the talk of poor railway management, of decadent industries and of the economic evils of war, it is confusing to find that the commercial develop ment of Great Eritain, measured by her gross railroad traffic, presents an almost unbroken record of advance. Net earnings, however, have been badly cut into by the rise in wages and. by the higher cost of fuel. Scribner. New Bailroad for Mexico. , Mexico has granted a concession for the construction of a railroad from San Geronimo, in Michoacan, to Acap ulco, state of Hidalgo, with the right to extend the line to Tuxpam, Vera Cruz, on the Atlantic. If the project is carried out the road should prove an important factor in the develop ment of this section, as it crosses the country from east to we3t, passing through rich mining camps and fertile agricultural lands, and tapping large territory at present undeveloped. Heavier Locomotives. The steady tendency among rail roads toward heavier locomotives is comprehensively shown in the statis tics of the first 300 locomotives pur chased by a western railroad 30 years ago and the 300 most recently added to the equipment. The smallest of the latter is over 35 per cent heavier than the largest of the earlier period, and, taken as a whole, the weight-has been multiplied three times and the tractive force by two and a half. Three Good Rules to Follow i-iisi. vvneu naveiing oeiw een u mana . ana umcago, use The Overland 1 Limited leaving at 8: 35 p. m. from Union Statiom. Second. If von cannot iisa The Overlonrl T .miar m. -d ' -c - . ".iv. a iMsicm .op press leaving at 5:45 p. m. " ' ; Third. If you cannot use either of the above, take The Chicago Exp-ess leaving at 7:55 a. m. . " ; . . In these three trains the - '.''. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 1 Railway, uucio aiL .cAuciieutB iu service oeiween . umana ana Chicago not obtain able elsewhere. All trains arrive in Union Station in the heart of Chicago. All trains are protected by block, signals and run over a smooth track all the way. . v - ' Low Rates to Many Eastern Points ' . F. A. NASH, General Western Agent. J 524 Farnam Street, OMAHA. PLEASURE TRIPS' I OVER THE TRACTION COMPANY'S LINES In the evening after the' day's work, or on Sunday, take a trip on the street cars to any one of Lin-, coin's resorts.- It will do you good. ' Nothing: nicer than a journey to College View and ' back. Scores of beautiful little resting places in the new . city park.! . . r.;.;--. . - LINCOLN PARK The ride is pleasant; the park an attraction. : STATE FARM No prettier place in the west to spend a few hours.., ' : VJ . TO HAVELOCK or UNIVERSITY' PLACE A fine trip at the close of a hot summer day. Get Out and BreatbtTNsb ir Large, roomy,, open cars. Most liberal tranfer x system; .uong riaes. special service to Antelope g Park. v .J';;:: : I ! One and a quarter million acres to be opened to settlement on the . SHOSHONE RESERVATION Dates of registration July 16th to 31st. EXCURSION RATES Low rates from all points, less than one fare for the round trip from Chicago, daily July 12th to 29th via The only all rail route to Shoshoni, Wyo., the reservation border. S. F. MILLER, A. G. F. & P. A., Chicago & Northwestern Ry.f .Omaht, Neb..: 1 Please send to my address pamphlets,' maps and infor mation concerning the opening of the Shoshone or Wind River reservation to settlement. (Cut sirt this Coupon) MW2l UNION MADE SHOES I carry nothing but union made shoes, and have a full line of them. I manufacture shoes and shoe uppers. "A share of union patronage is respectfully solic- S. L McCOY 1529 OStreet