ENGINE ON OCEAN
LOCOMOTIVE HAS LIVE PET.
LOCOMOTIVE VERY MUCH OUT OF
ITS ELEMENT.
Engineers. Engaged in Construction of
Florida Railroad Set New RecordSixty-Mile
Tow a
Nerve Strainer.
It la not the easiest task in the world
to roll a locomotive on a barge, tow it
some 60 miles out to sea, and put
ashore on a small island, all intact and
ready for Instant use. But this was
.one of the obstacles met with, as the
work progressed, and overcome in the
construction of the extension of tne
'Florida East Coast railway, now build
ing 160 miles across, the Florida Keys,
from Miami to one of the western
most landlinks of the chain Key
West. While the work of bridging the
intervening channels between the
Keys was progressing, the 15 miles of
railroad on the solid ground bed of
Key Largo (the longest of the) chain
of islands called the "Florida Keys"
and nearly half-way out to sea be
tween the mainland and the proposed
railway terminus) was under way and
ready for the services of a locomotive,
necessary to assist ta the completion
Engine on Connecticut Line
Live Rooster.
Adopts
Engine No. 1,899 has adopted a
rooster. "Her" engineer, E. H. Cozier,
swears "she" has, and certainly he
rooster is d .votedly attached to his
ponderous foster-mother, according to
a dispatch from Winsted, Conn.
WheVever "she" goes, there goes the
rooster, which, although "slightly dis
figured, is still in the ring," Cozier
says, the proudest bird in the Nauga
tuck valley.
"She," or Cozier, has named the
rooster "Hank." He went to Tor
ringtoa one day recently, and later to
Bridgeport and New Haven. "Hank"
sleeps in the engine cab o'nights at
Waterbury, and is becoming the pet
of all the railroad men on the Nauga
tuck division of the New Haven rail
road.
When "she" was running past the
Turner manufactory, at Livingston,
a month ago. Cozier and his fire
man, J. E. Downs, of Waterbury,
saw "Hank" hopping and tumbling
about near the tracks. Merciful men,
they halted "her" and picked up the
rooster. A train had run over him,
cut off a wing, and so narrow was
his escape, part of his bill. They
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How Locomotive Went to Sea.
of the island railroad. But how was
this big, cumbersome engine, to be
transported across to the Key?
The connecting line of grade was
! not completed, so that the engine could
be run out over the several smaller
'Islands and Intervening bridges under
tits own steam, so the only feasible
method seemed to be by a 60-mile tow,
the advantages or disadvantages of
which were discussed pro and con by
the men in charge. It was finally de
cided to experiment. Three parallel
tracks were laid on a huge barge and
.this latter backed up to the wharf, also
laid with a. track. Three flat cars were
run on each of the two outer tracks on
the barge and the ponderous locomo-
,tive was shunted in between them.
'Every wheel was securely wedged and
blocked, the flat car3 acting as a guard
' "should the" engine refuse to submit to
being towed to sea, and, surcharged
with latent indignation, be unable to
restrain itself and decide to leave the
trak. Lines were made fast to a
putty little tug, which, encouraged by
the cheers of the workmen, started ofT
braveljvwith her burden, like an ant
tugging at a breadcrust, her prow high,
as if to challenge the ocean roVJers,
and her taffrall nearly submerged by
the pressure of her tow-lines.
After a safe voyage, the barge was
beached on the shores of Key Largo,
steam was generated in the boiler, and
on a track laid to receive it, the loco
' motive slid from its fastenings to the
scenes of its future labors the only
engine of its class which ever enjoyed
an ocean excursion.
nursed him tenderly, and after his
wounds healed, "Hank" would not
leave "her" and those who had ' be
friended him. ,
When "she" starts, "Hank" jumps
on the coal in the tender, and
Downs is mighty careful not to
scoop him up in a shovel and throw
him in the fire-box. When "she"
comes to a standstill the rooster
hops into the cab and to the ground,
sometimes, while his chums oil "her"
joints. Proud as he is, "Hank"
crows only when he is hungry; then
the engineer and firemen share their
food with him.
ADVANCE OF THE RAILROAD.
There Has Been a Prodigious Growth
I In Recent Years.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CARS.
i-ast Freight Trains Over Here Haul
Far Heavier Loads.
NOTHING IN IT.
During the lifetime of many who
are still active factors in business af
fairs, or 76 years ago, we had 23
miles of railroads, to-day Z23.0UO
miles, or including double track and
sidings, 313,000 miles, says Richard
H. Edwards, in the Review of Re
views. The freight in mile tons has
grown from 39,000,000,000 in 1882 and
79,000,000,000 in 1890, to 187,000,000,
000 in 1905, the total for the latter
year being more than twice as great
as for 189. The gain of 46,000,000
tons between 1900 and 1905 was very
much larg"er than the total of 1882,
and nearly two-thirds as great as the
total of 1890. Owing to the more
powerful locomotives and cars, freight
traffic has increased by a much great
er percentage than the increase in the
number of cars and locomotives, and
likewise than the increase in mile
age. .
On most of our roads we have very
nearly reached the limit of heavier
locomotives and larger cars, for as
these are increased in weight heavier
rails and heavier bridges are made
necessary. It is really a case of re
construction and reconstruction and
rebuilding year after year. Yet no
road in a prospsrous section seems to
catch up with Its business. The depot
and the rolling stock and the roadbed
built for the present are behind the
times before they are completed
Great as has been the growth of traf
fic during the last ten years, it must
of necessity be far exceeded by that
of the next ten, since population is in-
'.creasing and the volume of trade
grows more rapidly than population.
To extend our railroad facilities by
the building of new mileage, by im
provement of tracks and terminal fa.
cilittes and by the increase of rolling
' stock adequate to meet the actual
needs of the country during the next
ten years would require as a minimum
an expenditure of $4,000,000,000 to
fi,000,000.000.
For a quarter of a century, so ex
peditious is the British methods,
freight has been collected in London
late In the afternoon and delivered at
the consignee's door anywhere south
of Scotland the follnwihir
The great American roads send out
four fast freights daily from New
York; the London & Northwestern
railway sends out 28: But the Eng
lish freight car, or goods wagon, for
this service has a capacity of ten tons,
and 24 or 23 of these make up a train.
Three tons per wagon is considered
good loading. At that ratevthere must
be an engine and crew for every 70
tons of freight. A New York Central
grain train, with one engine and crew,
hauls 2,000 tons. The coal trains on
the Pennsylvania haul more. , Hundred-ton
steel cars are common on
that line.
But there is another difference that
mu3t be considered, or comparisons
of this sort come to nothing. .The
British railways perform the same
service that' the express companies do
in this country. The. small cars, their
managers say, suit this work better
than our large cars would. That, how
ever, is to be doubted; the plea is
quite as likely to bo in defense of old-
fogydom 'At any rate some British
lines, notably the Northeastern, have
begun to use cars with a capacity of
not less than 60 tons, but it does not
appear that these are for fast freight.
The Northwestern, with 36 cars to the
fast train, considers 100 tons,, a good
train load. This looks like extrava
gant handling. Two of the fast
freights from New York carry, in all
probability, as much as the 28 trains
of the London & Northwestern.
Labor Exchange Deceived by "Faking"
Newspaper Correspondents.
The Greensboro, North Carolina, La
bor Leader is firmly but politely in
formed that it has been deceived by
a "fake" press correspondent. Lincoln
is not suffering from sweat shops. The
Labor Leader says: '
A news item in the dally papers
gives the information that one hun
dred of the most prominent and
wealthy society women of Lincoln,
Nebr., representing the leading Pro
testant churches and charity organiza
tions, are standing on the street cor
ners of this city, dressed in old clothes
and holding tin cups in their hands.
begging alms from passers-by..- Every
person who responds to the appeal for
money is given a little badge. The
money collected by this unique method
1:; to be contributed to the Wayfarer's
Home, which is in sore, need of funds
to carry on its work. -, If. the sweat
shops were sufficient and thehours
of work in unsanitary shops reduced,
there would be no call for this tin
cup brigade. Let these noble women
ol Lincoln join hands with the trades
unions of that city, and abolish the
cause that makes it jiecessary. for any
one to stand on the street corners
and solicit alms from' the .public."
Instead of being dressed Yn rags
these charity workei-s were dressed
in their best. They did , nott solicit
alms. They asked for contribution to
Carmen's Journal, to learn that the
absurdity of limiting the age at which
a railway man is eligible for employ
nent is passing away more rapidly
that the promoters of such a measure
expected.
Already the principal roads in
America where the experiment has
been tried have abandoned the regula
tion. The Boston & Maine, the Alton,
the St. Paul and the Burlington are
Virtually ignoring the age limit regula
tion, and, guided by common sense,
are 'hiring men more with a view to
their qualifications than to the exact
number of years which they have
lived.
Experience and capamlity are the
real tests of a man's fitness for any
position, and if a railway , official
makes the mistake of hiring an in
competent man there is no law com
pelling the company to continue to
employ him. Years in themselves are
no criterion.
Some men are old at forty. Others
are young at sixty. In any event, it
id safe to assume that a lack of the
suppleness of. youth is often more than
made up for by the wider experience
of added years.
maintain the Charity organization
which is doing a splendid work among
God's unfortunates. Many of them
were wives of trades unionists, and
many others were. ' loyal friends of
trades unionism. But we cheerfully
confess that the Leaders' advice to the
women about joining hands With the
unions could be followed with more
unanimity and be productive of
splendid results.
A WISE JUDGE.
WILL OPEN UP ALASKA.
Men of Millions Plan Railroad to Tap
men country.
An enterprise in which the Guggen-
heims and J. P. Morgan are thinking
of embarking will dwarf all others
thus far undertaken in Alaska. It has
been stated publicly that these men.
without offering any .stock to outsid
ers, intend to build from Valdez, east'
of the Alaska Central, northwesterly
through the Copper river country to
the Yukon river, traversing a region
rich in copper, gold and other metals.
Not only Is the copper ore of that re
gion abundant and rich, but it Is said
to have value for smelting operations
owing to its availability as a flux. It
is generally known among smelting
men that economy or operation can
be secured only by mingling different
ores, some of which are brought from
long distances. For this reason the
smelting men acquire mines in all
parts of the world touched by the Pa
cific in Mexico, South America, Chi
na, Alaska, and the Pacific Coast
States.
Declares Union Men Are Only Capable
Ones and Set Wages.
Danville, 111., Jan. 17. Circuit Judge
James W. Craig recently rendered
decision of importance to union labor
men, as well as to employers of labor
ers in ruling on a bill of exceptions in
the case' of John A. Lewis vs. Edward
Lewis, a bill to enforce a lien. The de
claion is to the effect that the only
scale of wages known to the general
public is that maintained by the un
ions, and unless otherwise stipulated
in contract, union wages must be the
standard of wases figured on. Fol
lowing is the decision in briei:
"It can be said that the price of the
Bricklayers' union is known. The
price of the other is not known. Had
the defendant wanted his work done
lower than the pinion labor, it would
have been fair for him to have said
so, and then the complainant in tak
ing the contract would have taken this
standard of wages figured on.
I have no doubt but that at the
time the employment was made both
parties understood and knew that
nearly every man that was capable of
doing the work was a union man
and that by force of circVimstances
m.lon labor was to be employed to do
t.:e work, and now after the work
done, it is claimed that perhaps some
person, or persons could have been
found outside of the union to do the
work at a cheaper price. That is
i::f-re guess or speculation, when It
clearly shown that nearly every man
that is capable of doing the work be
longs to the union."
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CAN THIS BE TRUE?
Omaha Woman Visiting Lincoln Tells
Story Almost Unbelieveable.
The following dispatch to the Om
aha World-Herald appeared in that
paper one -day last week. " It seems
almost impossible for it to be true.
it is, however, and Mrs. Ellis will
give the names 'of the physicians, The
Wageworker will print them and give
the physicians an opportunity to make
more complete explanations. The dis
patch follows: ... .
'Lincoln, Nebr., Jan. 15. -While
Mrs. Guy Ellis of Omaha was trying
to secure the services of five different
physicians to attend her sick'baby, the
child died this morning at the home
of John Marquette, 2231 S street.
where Mrs. Ellis is visiting. , . . . .
The little boy was seized with a
sudden illness this morning and his
mother was ;unable to ascertain the
cause. She telephoned immediately for
physician. The first One could not
attend. One after another five dit
ferent doctors were called .by tele
phone, but each had an excuse for
being unable to come: One was too
busy, another was about to start oh his
regular rounds of visitation. Wheii
a doctprfcvas finally obtained the little
one was dead."
WE couldn't stay in business if we sold out at cost or
below. : ' '
We ae not like the merchant who could afford to" sell
below cost because he ''sold so, much' But our profit
is always reasonable. This means Lower Prices here
than elsewhere because our expense of operating is
smaller in proportion to amount of business done. : ,
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SPECIAL
INDUCEMENTS
We are overstocked in some lines, and in order to get rid
of the surplus we are making the profit margin lower
than Ever. , - ' " ' '
KEN'S SUITS FROM $6 to $15 1
BOY'S SUITS FROM $1. 25 to $6 , ;
Got a lot of Union Made Hats,:. too.' They are worth
every cent we ask for them. . Got some bcab , too. h
Sell them for a dollar, but you'll have .to take chances -S
on getting ' your money's worth. Oodles of Union
Made Shoes, Shirts, Overalls, etc. .What's the matter Jj
' with investigating our' goods and prices? That will a '
be all you need to do. , We'll take chances on getting ,
your trade if you'll do that. : V , 9
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8 TENTH and.P STREETS.- -.
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POELL GETS A MEDAL.
George Poell, the Union Pacific fire
man who lost both legs while saving
the lffe of a little girl, has been award
ed a hero medal by the Carnegie hero
commission. In addition he gets $25u
to liquidate a mortgage on his little
home at Grand Island. Poell ran out
on the 'pilot and snatched a little girl
from danger. In doing so he
was thrown under the ' engine
and lost his legs. Later he was elect
ed clerk of Hall county,, being nomi
nated by the democrats and voted for
by practically everybody.
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AGE LIMIT FOR RAILWAY MEN.
Rulsf Against Employing New Men
Past Thirty-Five a Dead Letter.
Some railroads out-Osleviaed Osier
not long ago by adopting a rule for
bidding the employment of uew men
1-ast thirty-five years of age.
It is gratifying, says the iRailway
Will Punish the Rioters. . 7.
Major Glenn, commandant at the bar
racks at Columbus, O.,' says that he
will thoroughly investigate the riot in
the "Bad Lands" participated in by
about thirty recruits and the leaders
will be amply punished.
James Sterns, one of the leaders,
has confessed and has given the names
of half a dozen of the recruits who
are now in the guard house.
The riot started because a German,
William von .Stuckard, told the re
cruits that a negro in the "Bad Lands"
had shot a soldier. ' ' " ' ' i
Gamble Is Exonerated.
The report of the legislative commit
tee, finding nothing in the charges
against Senator Gamble which reflects
upon his personal or official Integrity,
was adopted by large majorities in
both houses of the South Qakota leg
islature. This insures the senator's re
election. , . '
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