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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1907)
, .(Q) Watches . jHf ' Ilake fine Xmas presents. Pick -"""'"n. out one we'll save it for you i'k " As an extra inducement, notice V 4 X this- g, 7 Jewel, 25-year filled case.. $14.00 I w V 15 Jewel, 23-year filled case.. 16.60 I : 'I 17 Jewel, 25-year filled case. . 21.50 I "h i Examine our line of Solid-Gold Gent's I ... V J Watches; ' E. Fleming XV 1211 O Street jooo 5 o o o 0 -' T r (' 1 NEW PIANOS - o We are receiving; an entire new stock off Pianos. Ther are off the Highest Grades and latest Case Designs. TERMS FROM $5.00 PER MONTH UP. SLIGHTLY USED PIANOS FROM $90 UP. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. Schnallcr & Mueller Piano Co. 135 So. 11th, Lincoln, Nebraska. . WENT THROUGH THE BRIDGE. no. moij eq sn o 'Aioo iuoS. u seoqs dmes uoian g ovcavo aoX ji -Saoi eq? pire envm seq eq 9Ri -seoqs dentins uonin 2uAq uoda jsisitj -suoiJip -aoo Suctions. jeweq pu seSvjn jeweq o8 o dPH lN HM 9Z , pUB 40og IdHVlSNOINn I J .NOINn When Timbers , Gave Way Under Weight of Freight Train. At a recent meeting of railroad men several stories of narrow escapes had been told, but the oldest man in the party had not yet been heard from. He was a grizzled veteran of 60 who had retired only recently. "I am reminded of an Incident in which my train crashed through a bridge it was one in which our con ductor, Thomas Croank, had a narrow escape from death," said the old en gineer. "Indeed, while his Injuries did not prove fatal, it was some time before he could go out on his run again. "We were running at a slow rate of speed as the train pulled across Ben nett's creek, four miles south of Rush ville, Ind. The name of the railroad was the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi cago & St. Louis railroad, commonly called the 'Big Four." As our locomo tive passed over the structure in question r could plainly see it give. I at once began increasing the speed of the train, hoping that I might be successful in pulling across before the trestle went down. "However, the bridge continued to give, and with each revolution of the wheels of the train the timbers tot tered more and more. It was a frightful moment for the fireman and myself, but we kept control of the our engine "and all of the cars but the ca boose and a coal car were safely across. Then came a crash a crash the like of which I hope I may never hear again. ' "The timbers gave way, no longer able to support the heavy weight, and with' them went down the two cars and the conductor and rear brakeman, R. G. Bruso, of Indianapolis. The coal car made its plunge first and an Instant later the caboose made Its 18 foot descent, falling upon the wrecked gondola. The occupants of the car were hurled out, and the con ductor was buried beneath the wreck age and almost submerged in water. "We hurried back to the rescue of the men, and, despite our -heroic ef forts to remove the debris so as to effect their release, it was two hours before the conductor, bleeding from many wounds and " benumbed from contact with the freezing water, was lifted upon a stretcher and brought to a place of safety, and it was many a day before he was able to return to his duties." A QUEER SITUATION. Five Linemen Order a Strike for Two ' Hundred. Employes. f The linemen of Butte. Mont., went on strike a few days ago to enforce an advance in wages of 50 cents per day. They put the town in the dark and practically closed down all the mines because there was no electric light in the mines. In a day the company hunted up the., committee and offered an increase of 25 cents per 'day, the men to return to work pending a final adjustment of the affair. The novelty m . i i .....11 1 l 1 a. 1 I I I M HI I IK.. ITIIIIIMH (III. W - II. I H stated that the strike laws of the line men's union forbid any but men who have been members in good standing a year to vote on a raise in wages and a strike. There were but five men in the local union who were eligible to vote for a strike, and a majority at least of these five voted to enforce the new scale by striking. No other town In America will show up with such a tremendous percentage of floaters. The strike was legal, but it looks funny to see five men deciding the fate of perhaps two hundred. Western Laborer. POSTPONED. The house judiciary committee did not meet Monday to hear arguments upon the McMullen employer's liabil . Hy bill, owing to the Illness of Mr. Mc Mullen, member of the committee and author of the bill. The hearing was postponed until Thursday evening, too late for proper mention In this week's Wagewcrkor. ' ' Tvnoaranhlcal Union Ball. Mandav. February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's Orchestra. ' ' Orchestra, 4 CHILD LABOR HEARING. able. This opposition is not open like the support of the bill, but Is working on the quiet. But those who favor the bill are watching like hawks. KENNEDY-STEELE. Roy E. Kennedy and Miss Odessa Steele, both of Lincoln, were married at Omaha Tuesday afternoon, Febru ary 12, and departed at once for St. Louis, where they will make their home. Mr. Kennedy was a member of Lincoln Typographical Union and for three years was connected with the Independent. ' He is a good workman and a good union man, and his many friends, while congratulating him upon his happy marriage, regret to see him leave Lincoln. The hearty congratu lations and best wishes of the union ists of the city will follow Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy to St. Louis. Typographical Union Ball, Monday, February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's Orchestra. LUNNY-LEFFINGWELL. Charles Lunney and . Miss Maud Leffingwell were married last Tues day evening at the home of Mrs. Clara Kline. Judge Cosgrave officiating. Mr. Lunney is an eletctrician who has been employed at Seward, but will make his home in Wilber hereafter. Mr. and ' Mrs. Lunney have many friends in Lincoln who extend con gratulations and best wishes. Typographical Union Ball, Monday, February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's Orchestra. Kansas Pioneer Dead. Major J. L. McLean, closely identi fied with the settling and early his tory of Florence and Marion, county, died recently at his home in Horence, aged 84. Senate Committee Listens to Argu ments Favoring the Bill. t. Tuesday afternoon the senate judic iary committee gave a hearing to the supporters of the Clarke ..child labor bill, which recently passed the house. An interested audience assembled to listen to the arguments for the bill, and a number of strong talks were made. Every objection to the bill was promptly met and answered. Prom inent educators, club women and law yers, set forcibly-the reasons why the bill should be enacted into law, and representatives of trades unions were alok called upon to express their views. 'A quiet, underhand, but forceful, op position to . the bill is being made In quarters wheire the exploitation of child labor is being found very profit- A Negro Shot a White Man. Charles Rodecker, white, was shot at Coffeyvllle, Kan., by Al Jesse, a negro. Three years ago Rodecker shot and killed a negro named Vann. Jesse took Vann's side In the trial which fol lowed, "and the present shooting wa3 the result of bad feeling over the case. Rodecker is a young man and came from Missouri. He probably will die. ings occupied by Wise Bros.' general store and the postofflce. These build ings were saved because they were brick. All the buildings burned were wood. All the merchants with the ex ception of Campbell, the druggist, saved most of their goods by carrying them into the street. The burned sec tion is on the south side of the street. Mound Valley, Kan., Fire. Half the business houses of Mound Valley, Kan., eleven in all, burned re cently. The fire originated in Camp bell's drug store and burned every building in the block except the build- ROPES CARRY ORE CARS. Explained. Employer Have you any excuse to offer for speaking so Impolitely? Office Boy Yes, sir; I forgot that I wasn't speaking over the telephone. : "Your apology is accepted." Life. Seeing Double Shows. Intoxicated Individual Shee the show? . Euthusiast Yes. I saw it twice. Intoxicated Individual So'd I. Remarkable Line Connects Copper and Silver Mines. j A rope railway has been built to connect the copper and silver mines at Upulungos, in the heart of the Cordilleras, with the railhead of the Argentine railway at Chilecito. The nature of the mountainous country did not admit of an ordinary railway. ' This new rope line 21 miles long, consists of a main carrying rope and a guide rope, and is in duplicate, hav ing four ropes for the up and down traffic. There are nine stations; the ropes are carried from one station to the next at varying elevations, and are anchored at each, station. The cars for the transport of the ore, etc., are slung on the main ropes and are suspended from them by rollers which run along the line. At each station they are transferred to the next rope, thus dividing the strain, and for great distances the ropes are also anchored between the stations. ! The difference of level between Chi lecito and Upulungos is over 11,000 feet, and the gradients are very steep, sometimes as much as 30 per cent. The cars descend by their own weight and their momentum serves, as in an ordinary funicular railway, to raise the ascending cars on the up line, but at several stations there are small steam engines to supplement the pow er. Each carload is half a ton of ore; the maximum delivery at Chilecito is 40 tons per hour, and 20 tons for the return journey to Upulungos. The speed of the cars is about 500 feet per minute. The ropes are supported and their tension maintained by iron trellis girders, varying from 10 feet to 160 feet in height, and the span of' the rope between them is from 300 feet to 3,000 feet, according to the nature of the ground, which is deeply pleft in many places. In one section of the line a tunnel 1,000 feet dong has been necessary. Hire Regular Press Agents. Diplomats in the passenger and freight departments get all the bust ness they can while other diplomats perform other services for the corpo rations. Lately railroads have fol lowed the example of the Erie in hiring a regular press agent. Often one of the vice presidents Is the man whose duty it is to make, as good an impression with the public as he pos sibly can for his road. Tiere every where Is in the railroad world evi dence 01 a disposition to deal more openly with the public. This, of course, necessitates the employment of men who possess In some marked degree the characteristics and ' re sourcefulness that make diplomats. , The result is that the railroad busi- ne3s now suffers the aspiring young man a fevf '"chances than it used to, and tfr railroad, cen ter of the United StVw those chances are more numerous man they are in any other city in the country. COG RAILROAD UP HIGH MOUNTAIN Line from the Base to the Summit of Mount Washington Is Really a Fine Piece or Engineering Superintendent Tells of the Work Done on One of the Regular Trips Is 8trlklngly Original in Construction. As there is scarcely a more inter eating railway of equal size In the country than the three-mile cog road built from the base to the summit of Mt. Washington, one can readily be lieve that its officials, particularly its superintendent, . must be interesting, too, says the Boston Globe. When the cog road is not in opera tion, or when the roadbed is not re ceiving attention before the beginning and after the end of the season, the superintendent, John Home, is busily engaged in the machine 'shops of the Boston & Maine at Lakeport. Mr. Horn is never too much occupied to discuss the Mt. Washington railway and he knows the subject thoroughly. Mr. Horne has been connected with the Mt. Washington road for 32 years; the last 12 as superintendent-. He is a native of Yorkshire, England,, and is a man of remarkable mechanical abil ity, which he has found opportunity to demonstrate in many ways during his connection with this unique road. As the oldest official of the road Mr. Home's reminiscences are most entertaining and more particularly do they impress one when told by him in the course of conversation, for Mr. Horne is a most pleasing conversa tionalist. "Our engines up there on the moun tain," said Mr. Horne, "have a great deal of work to do, and they work hard; in fact, I have come to regard them all, I suppose, as a physician in regular practice regards his patients. "They are so different from the or dinary machine that even the best and finest engineers I mean those in terested in mechanics from all over the world, when they arrive at the base of Mt. Washington are attracted to the little, puffing engine that is to carry them upward. "The first engine built for the Mt. Washington railway had an upright boiler with no water feeding device, so that the crew would fill it up when starting, go as far as safety permitted, and then let the steam down and fill up again. , ' i "The engines now in 'use have boil ers somewhat shorter than the ordi nary locomotive boiler, and the front end is set in the frame 18 Inches low er than the back, so as to strike a me dium between the lower and sharper grades. ' The first engine was lent to the B. & O. railroad and exhibited at the Chicago fair in 1893. At the close of the exposition it was presented to the field museum. "As to the power of these engines, let me give you an illustration. Take for instance, a block of granite that. lying on the ground, weighs 18 tons, Now undertake to lift it to the top of a building 3,700 feet high in 70 min utes. If you succeed It would be called a great feat We do that practically every trip up the mountain. "No steam is used in coming .down the mountain, gravity alone doing the work and the machinery holding back. All the steam generated comes from a fine stream of water admitted to the cylinders as a lubricant, and the com pressing air which heats the walls of the cylinder causes the steam. On a rise of nearly 2,000 feet to the mile a test has shown that the horse power transmitted to both cog wheels was 517, "There were some small mountain railways .built before' this on Mt. Washington was thought of, but there never was a mountain railway that ever claimed construction as original. A t the Nation s Capital Social Feud Said to Be Cause of Ckairman Shorts' Resignation from' Panama Canal Commission Study of "Fire Alarm" Foraker of Ohio Other Gossip from Washington. , . - . 1 - WASHINGTON. "Official etiquette," and snobbishness in capital society, of which his wife and daughters, Theodora and Marguerite, were victims, is declared, to be the real cause of Theo dore P. Shonts' resignation from his $30,000 a year position as chairman of the Panama canal com mission, i ' : ' It was natural for outsiders to suppose that when Mr. Shonts came here from Chicago as chair man of the commission he would take high rank In the government and have a correspondingly high social status in the fabric of Washington. Mr. Shonts; who was president of a railroad, did not realize that the actual control over the dig ging of the canal had been officially placed in the hands of the secretary of war, who was paid $22,000 a year. . ; : .; ' - Mrs. Shonts also misunderstood her rank in society, and out of the mis- , apprehension grew a social conflict -so great that President Roosevelt had to settle it. The president ruled that the isthmian canal commission takes rank immediately after the interstate commerce commission. Chairman Shonts, therefore, was outranked socially by Chairman Knapp, by 'the civil service commission and by the regents and secretary of the Smithsonian institution, to say nothing of the members of the cabinet, the diplomatic corps, the justices, senators, representatives and delegates in congress, and commission- , ers and judicial officers of the District of Columbia. c-: : The commission, by official writ, was put' so far down the list that the wife of Its chairman would have had to make her first call on several hun dred other women to have kept in harmony with the Washington social code, This is a matter of the gravest import in Washington society. t The trouble was accentuated by Mrs. Shonts' social secretary, who ad vised her to limit her calls to wives of only high "official rank." Calls, were ; omitted which should have been made, and invitations declined which would better have been accepted. On the other hand, calls were made and invita tions accepted which did not in any way further the social status of the chair man of the canal commission and his family. , Out of the enmity developing resulted the resignation. .. !J FORAKER THE SAME FIGHTER AS OF OLD. Just now Senator Joseph Benson' Foraker of- Ohlo is one of the most prominent public men standing in the national limelight. Two causes one carefully planned, the other accidental rhring; Foraker well into the proem of the political story of the country. ... ,. - . First he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 1908; second, he is the ' self-avowed antagnoist of the present lncun bent of the White House and all his works. ' r In both these situations Foraker stands out primarily 'as a fighter. And as a fighter the char acteri sties of the man and the methods of the man appeal to all dabblers In; the picturesque chronology of the day. , ' , Foraker Is one of the men in the senate .who works. His enemies may say he is bitter; they may say he Is revengeful;', they may even say he is vindicative, but they cannot deny that he is ever lastingly, incessantly busy. ' . ' . .'. :? ..: He is up every morning before daylight,' and it Is after midnight nearly every night , before he retires. .. During the 'most active sessions of the sen ate no matter what fight he may have on hand he never neglects to keep up his extensive line of reading. . . i ' Without exceptionrEe Is undoubtedly one of the best Latin and Greek:' scolars in public life. - But busy as he is in Washington with. the affairs of the nation and the affairs of his state which state, by the way, keeps its, senators fuT&gcupied-r-he remains in close touch with the law, and does more legal Llce wlien in Cincinnati than: any other, man in the United States senate.. - ; -.-Vr ftffri.r;i T? T:; That he is one of the hardest workers In congress Is an established fact,r but despite his hard work, be maintains his health. , . . T uciuu kj. ii a iui J. lianci mant. um u iu n uo 1 111 Dfiwvu lu uio senate the other day, and who knew him in the old Ohio fights, recognized in him the same old "Fire Alarm" Foraker They recognized In him the same) quick spirit of repartee the "same eager 'sarcasm the same- alertness tc recover a lost point ' He Is the same Foraker that he was 20 years ago.. The years have whitened his hair, but it has not dimmed the enthusiasm and the fighting spark that has been within him since those school days when he "licked" his playmates. . ..- . . , ,; ... NEGROES ARE SERVED IN RESTAURANT OF HOUSE. . ' Southerners are indignant because the other day for the first time in the memory of members of congress negroes have been served at the house of representatives' restaurant. I 1 While several, southern men were dining in the portion reserved for members and their guests, a negro accompanied by a white woman entered, took seats at an adjoining table and ordered foo.d, as cooly as though they had no Idea of the prece dents they were smashing. ' The negro waiters served them with alacrity. Adamson, of Georgia; Randell, of Louisiana; Tay lor, of Alabama, and a few other southerners were dining in the same room; ! , ' ' .' 3 Representative Weeks, of Massachusetts, and Gardner, of Michigan,' at an adjoining table, waited to see what the southern members would do. They did nothing. tinued to eat without starting a lynching bee. - I After they ha returned to the Democratic cloakroom they decided to "cut out" dining in the house restaurant hereafter. "We are not in the habit, of dining with negroes," said one of them, "and we don't propose to do it now, even if it is permitted at the capitol." ; , , And only Saturday Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, gloated over the fact that there were places in Washington where negroes "could not drink with white men, and you senators know it is true." "It is a good thing Senator Tillman was not eating in there when that colored man sat down," commented, one of the negro waiters after the restau rant episode had occurred, "because there sure would have been .something doing.". :-' ' '' -".. '."..' .!''' ; '""V '-.- - GNGRESS(&E They con- FROG NDUSTRY FAILS TO IMPRESS CONGRESSMEN. Frogs are responsible for the abolition of cne of the great agricultural department bureaus which spends annually about $50,000. ... This is the biological survey. When the Item was reached in the agricultural appropriation bill the committee wanted to know, exactly what the biological survey was. ' "It is now engaged in establishing a new in dustry," a member of the committee answered. - . . , "What is this new industry that haa been going on at $50,000 a year?" Representative Lamb of Virginia asked. " . "It is studying zones in which frogs are the most prolific, in . what kind of water they prefer to live, and how they can be raised,"- Representa tive Brooks told him. - 'It don't take any $5,000 a year for me to tell where frogs livend in what kind of water," Mr. Lamb insisted. i . "But the frog Industry bids fair to be important," Representative Brooks Insisted. , -' . i-'w'-' , "Only Frenchmen eat frog legs," insisted Representative Trimble of Ken tucky, "and I'm opposed to raising frogs for our French population. If they must have frogs, let 'em bring 'em with 'em. It's class discrimination." "We have' horned toads in New Mexico," "Bull" Andrews explained. "But I never heard of even a Digger Indian easting them." ' ; ' "I've eaten frog legs and found them - mighty good," Chairman Wads worth Said. . , ' ' - "Well, I wouldn't tell it," Scottfield of Texas Interrupted. A majority of the committee agreed with Mr. Lamb. . The appropriation was not put in. This will knock out Dr. Charles T. Merrlam, chief biologist, an assistant, and clerks and messengers enough to make a salary roll of $8,000, together with the regular appropriation made for the bureau.- Frlendaji thefroghope to get a provision inserted in the senate. I