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Show JUST KEPT PARK ALONG TRACK U On or Off the Tracx, Conductor Went Along According to His Sched- RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY TO BE MADE BEAUTIFUL. ule. The conductor thrust his head into the shabby little coach and seemed to be about to make a remark, but changed his mind and withdrew, slamming the door. Line Plane Continuous Belt of Grace and Treea to Extend from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. The coach rolled along with clattering windows and disgusted passengers trying to see through them and at length brought up at a tiny station. "How'd you like it? the conductor asked the fat passenger, grinning broadly. The fat passenger scowled at him. Like what?" he asked. The conductor seemed astonished. Wasn't you scared? he asked. Guess The fat man looked puzzled. you must have been over this branch before?" resumed the official. what Here, said the passenger, are you driving at? What should I be scared of?" The conductor looked disgusted, not to say disappointed. Why, he said, weve been off the track for 10 minutes. 1 didn't see no use in stopping out there in the fields, so we just hit her up over the ties, and here we are. Well, I'll be hanged! said the passenger; and to think I didn't know it. It seemed sorter rough, too. The conductor smiled. "Oh, that wasnt- - nothing, he said. You ought to have been with us one night last summer. If the passengers hadn't been asleep no tellin' how many would have been hurt. It's scare that hurts people, you know. 'We was movin' along about 10 miles an hour, when one of the coaches turned-over- . We didnt know it for half an hour, because Billy Briggs, my flagman, fell asleep after he'd throwed a switch. But it was lucky he did, because I missed Billy him and me used to play checkers between stops, and I went back to see why be didn't come. There was the rear coach si id In' along on Its side. 1 pulled the cord and went back. First thing I knew a man came out through a window that a as busted. "Say!' he says, 'this is the roughest road I ever saw. Aint this coach ever to get on level track again?' " Huh! said the fat passenger doubtfully, looking at the rusty little train man standing beside him. Just then the conductor beheld an engine in the distance, bringing the wrecker. With manifest excitement be poked his head in the car door. Everybody lay down!" he shouted. We're goln' to make a couplin'! Galveston News. Union Pacific officials have Inaugu- rated the most stupendous campaign for beautifying their right of way that any railroad in this country has ever yet undertaken. Briefly, the scheme is to so embellish and adorn the right of way that the passenger trains will travel In a continual park all the way from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, a distance of nearly 2,000 miles. recent decisof the supreme court gave the Union Pacific a right of way through from the Missouri river at Omaha to the Great Salt lake at and Ogden. The same contention claims will, when brought before the courts, secure for the Southern Pacific a similar right of way from Ogden to San Francisco, making a total length of almost 2,000 miles. At present, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific tracks are in the center of a right of way, and the court decision gives these roads 150 additional on either side of the track. This is the tract which it la proposed to park and which will, when completed, be the longest park in the world, although by no means the widest. Along the first 600 miles of the park, that portion extending from Omaha to Cheyenne, it is arranged to sow the ground in alfalfa, a plant which becomes green very early in the spring and remains so until late in the fall. This won forms a thick sward and is better able to withstand dry, hot weather than any other grass in this country. As for trees, there will be a double line of bull pines, alternating with elms. These trees will be planted every two rods on the extreme edges of the right of way. Down the center of this parking will Tun the double tracks, which are ballasted with gravel from Sherman Hill, Wyo. This gravel is disintegrated red granite and the contrast of the red . .band against the background of green grass and trees will be a continual delight to the eyes of the passenger. Through the mountains there will be no attempt made to change the scenery, but rather to preserve It in its original beauty and simplicity. Undergrowth will not be cut out except from close to the tracks, and as far as possible the mountain section will be allowed to present Itself to the eye of the passenger Just as though there was no railroad within 1,000 miles of the place. There will be a special corps of workmen who will have the care of the park system, and to these men will fall the duty of keeping the park In good order. A ion 400-fo- -- 100-fo- 400-fo- Wood RIGHT RESTED ON TRACK TO CHAT Unsophisticated Japanese Maidens Had No Thought of Any Possible Danger. Admirers of the literary style of Hashlmura Togo will appreciate the following story, entitled Beauty the Cause of Stoppage, taken from the English department of a leading ToOne day, about kyo newspaper: couple of weeks ago, a train was Used for Crossties. It is interesting to note the wide range of woods used for crossties. The preliminary report by the census bu reau lists separately 1ST classes of species. Of these the oaks are now and have always been by far the most Important The oak ties amounted to more than 48,000,000, or 43 per cent of the total quantity purchased. Next to these ranked the southern yellow pines, with 21,500,000, or 19 per cent of the total. It will be seen that the oaks and southern pines combined of all furnished nearly the ties bought by the railroad companies last year. Cedar and chestnut supplied more than 8,000,000 ties each, and Douglas fir nearly as much. About 4,000,000 tamarack ties were purchased, nearly 3,500,000 cypress ties, and, in round numbers, 3,000,000 each of western pine and hemlock. Redthree-fourt- wood, white pine, lodgepole pine, gum, beech, spruce and several other woods were used in similar quantities. Poor Service Under 8tate Control In Italy the results of the state railroad operation are thus far notoriously bad. The operation results, of course, in an annual deficit, and al though the traffic constantly increases, the receipts constantly diminish. During a recent month's operation, out of 1,000 passenger trains 486 were an hour or more late, and there is constant and bitter complaint both from shippers and passengers as to the unsatisfactory character of the service, State Ownership Not a Success. In Japan state railroad ownership has proved so disastrous to the finances of the country that the government is now looking to a syndicate of foreign capitalists to help it out The statement is made that government ownership there has imperiled the national finances, prevented rail road Improvements and checked the speeding along at Tsuruga-Shlnch- i, th suburbs of Nagano. Away in front of the rattling locomotive there were seen two pretty country maidens sitting down on the permanent way and leisurely talking over something or other. The engineer gave a shrill whistle two or three times by way of warning, but the maidens taking no notice remained in the same posture continuing their gossip in utThe train was ter indifference. stopped and the driver alighting the car went up to the girls to inquire the reason of their reckless composure. It was found that the two girls had Just arrived In the town from Echigo, their native province, to seek employment in sericultural factory, As to the danger of the trains for which Japan has won a wide reputation recently they knew nothing and were quite at sea. Expostulated with by the driver the Innocent pretty ones were awakened, for the first time, to the danger of their situation and taken aback at the risk they were run ning a moment ago. Thanking the kindness of the engineer, but for whose kindly warning they might have fallen prey to the merciless hand of death, they departed, saying, 'Oh, my! How could we believe of being killed by sitting heie!' The train was delayed for several minutes on its travel by the inci- dent." Brakeman Defied HeaL Arthur Morris, a brakeman on the Wabash Excelsior Springs local train, made a cot for cool sleeping during the hot days of summer, even in daytime, says the Kansas City Star. On a framework above the cot he draped mosquito netting. Between his railroad runs" he went into this cage for rest. fly-pro- Put On. western railroad has had Lounging Cars A leading novel coaches constructed four termed lounging cars for use upon four of its through trains, a particu lar feature of which will be the In stallation in each of a small library to include Dr. Eliot's famous five feet of books." Pis'll of Canton Merchants. Canton, China, merchants at home and abroad have formed a navlgatiot efficiency of the service. association with $4,000,000 capital, U Increase of Railroad Mileage, run steamers, open a bank and an In At the close of the fiscal year 1908 surance company. the railroad mileage of the United Colombia's Coal Fields. States was 230,000, as compared with The coal fields of Colombia are weL 136,883 in 1888 and 184,648 In 1898. placed to take advantage of the mar The net capitalization is $13,000,007,-012an increase of 39.8 per cent, over kets which will be made available by the Panama canal. the figures of 1898. , In Labors Realm 4- 11 -44 CeM Mutters of Especial Interest To und Con cernintf Those Mho Do the By Edwin Sabin L. Work of the Morld li'upyrialil, by J. ii. Lijiincolt Cu.) am writing this In installments, our links; be was a villain because with a burnt match upon the paste- he kept beariug off prizes which I had board cases which each day Inclose counted uxn capturing myself; he Air my charlotte-russe- . me explain was a villain because he was so Chicago. The Compressed Norfolk, Ya. The machinists and . blacksmiths of the Seaboard Air Line Workers' union and theeinployershave that our prison is under the protec- blamed popular and His railway general shops in Portsmouth, agreed on a new scale of prices. The tion of the Young Ladies' Visiting as- wife, moreover, was becoming the r who have been on a strike, returned lower the work the greater the air sociation, and whereas in most pris- champion in the Ibsen to work following an agreement pressure and the more destructive to ons the inmates are supposed to get Fing-Ioucircle, to which my wife belonged. brought about through a grievance health and even life. So the wages get their deserts, here we really do. 1 did not hate Jonea; I hated merecommittee beaded by H. M. Fallon of are increased with the depth. At 22 My dessert, served three times a ' My neighbor ly the sight of him and the sound of Savannah, Ga.; E. U. Pace, Raleigh, pounds pressure the pay will be $3.50 day, is cliarlotte-russe- . r X. C., and W. G. Bagwell of Ports- for a day. At 40 and 45 on the tier above, a convicted mur- his name. The crisis came one evening in June, mouth. According to the strikers the pounds pressure the day's work will derer, has Ire cream. However, until differences were settled In a manner be only 80 minutes long and the pay the exact status of my offense is de- following upon the day of our regu$4.50. cided upon I shall have to be con- lar annual introductory tournament. satisfactory to all concerned. vanilla fla- All winter long I had been practicHartford City, Ind. The fight be- tent with charlotte-russe- , Hartford City, Ind. There is every indication that the American Window tween the American Window Glass voring. Anyway, I need the paste- ing in our cottage parlor the dining-roobeing given up to ping-ponGlass Company is preparing for a long Company and the Window Glass Cu- board. My location is tier 4, row 11, cell with this single tournament in view. contest with the only two skilled work- tters' A Flatteners' association is on in ers it employs, the 300 window glass earnest. Both sides are confident of 44. I believe that this la the insane I was determined to beat Jones. And cutters and flatteners, who are on winning aud no one can predict at ward, for I have been told that I am now my hopes bad been dashed, for Jones had triumphed over me by four strike. No word has been received tills time which side will be success- charged with being a dangerous Whether or not I am Justly holes (owing to luck and technicalifrom Pittsburg which would indicate ful. The company has Informed the ties upon which he insisted)! that the company proposes to accede only two skilled trades it now em- accused I leave the public to Judge. When I Joined the Hole-Hig- h Golf This was to be a club evening, deploys that it will pay the same scale to the demand of the workers. club I had no thought that I ever voted to a program of music on the of has been that wages westupon agreed in Labor Pa. day Pittsburg, ern Pennsylvania presented a unique between the National Window Glass should be charged with menacing the lawn and light refreshments on the 1 And here let me digress paid my dues veranda. and grim anomaly. Nearly thirty thou- Workers association and the inde- safety of society. manufacpromptly, bought all the clubs that briefly: sand men are idle as a result of pendent, or our professional could supply, patAnyone who plays golf, or who is strikes, lockouts and walkouts. The turers, and no mop. The workers ronized the caddies liberally, and, find- acquainted with somebody who plays 5,000 glass workers of the American have demanded a diBrstitlal of 12 per Glass Company, who paralyze the cent, more than this scale and 20 per ing that my play was interfering with golf, knows what an intense person more than has bees paid the last my business, in the interest of my a golfer is. On or off the links, he glass industry throughout the coun- cent, clients gave up my law practice in Is incessantly at his game. Day and year. nonunion and try; 3,600 unskilled night, in thought or in reality, he is Pittsburg, Pa. The McKees Rocks favor of the golf practice. strikers of the Pressed Steel Car ComIn short, I endeavored to be con- making his strokes. He roams ths 53 in has been which strike, progress at 18,000 organized Scboenvllle; pany sistent. he cannot walk and house, swinging," Comat Car Pressed Steel the but dissatisfied coal miners in this days Fortunately, golf did not a whit abroad without beholding a landscape vicinity and 5,000 union tinplate work- pany, is over. The workmen, number- Intrude upon my domestic relations. of tees and hazards. His calculating ers aided in making the day set apart ing over 5,000, have won. Practically out upon the links eye is ever alert and his arm is After moving men for the workingman one to be re- all the demands made by the e numbered in labor circles for years have been granted. One point, that (which I did soon 1after I Joined the ever busy to drive off to wife and to and live continued is Ah, pebbles. it my club), fascinating been an in of Increase has to come. wages, happily with what Income she be a golfer, but it Is hard on property Vienna. The report on the activity compromised. The company is said very had from a Had it and nerves. and finances of Austrian trade unions to have promised to pay the 1907 rate not been for timely legacy. So much understod, therefore. When we have the legacy might for the year 1908 Bhows that there of wages as soon as present contracts suffered considerable 1 was inconvenient-- ! sitting this evening in a chair filled are has been a diminution of the total because of my withdrawal from office upon the club veranda and saw beSt. Paul, Minn. It is the intention membership amounting to 18,815, fore me and below me his bald head work. which is equal to 3 per cent, on the of the officers of the Minnesota State more importance, even, than the waiting like a positive challenge, the Of efFederation of Labor to make every total for 1907, 501,094. He was legacy was the fact that we were well Impulse was overmastering. Albany, X. Y. A large pavilion for fort to bring about peaceful settlethe veranda comfortably placed upon consumptives has been erected by the ments of all labor disputes where such steps listening to the music, and unions in this city and is now in op- a thing is possible. Whenever any the top of his bead was on a level officials comes these up, The unions of Rochester, controversy eration. with iny feet. It was such a smooth, Syracuse, Buffalo and other cities are will at once proceed to the seat of rounded, firm, bare surface, furnishhonorable use war will and every also taking steps to acquire similar ing an ideal lie. In the middle was a means so to arrange matters that s institutions. tiny tuft of hair, supplying ths conAdvices from Manila settlement may be arrived at by ball! Washington. should this or arbitration Indicate that the strike fever has ference, I tried to turn my attention to ths reached the Philippines. It is said means fail. music. The orchestra was playing Evansville, Ind. The loom fixers at that the leaders of the strike and boy"The Wearing of the Green, a melcott against the Manila street rail- - the Evansville cotton mills are on But I ody dear to every golfer. The men say they have been the commercial tried in vain that enticing pate, with way and reof that city have called them off,' Both subjected to what is practically a its little clump of hair, obtruded bestrikes have failed from their incep- duction in wages. They say that in tween the notes. My fingers uneasily tion, but the boycott against the street addition to tending the 128 looms they I wiggled In my clasped my cane. car system has been partially effec- have been asked to measure the cloth, seat I shut my eyes no use. tive. The union in control of the strike but for the same wage scale, $1.75 The orchestra struck up After the has announced plans to reorganize day. They demand 25 cents a day I Ball, another golfing measure. along lines which will lead to greater extra for measuring the cloth opened my eyes; there was the ivory nob,, with its spot of black, still sympathy between labor and capitaL Lynn, Mass. Arvid Erlando of Chi The general labor situation has im- cago was elected general organizer beckoning. 1 trembled, clenched my teeth and yielded. The opportunity proved and it is doubtful If any more at the closing session of the first national convention of the United Shoe strikes will occur. was too fine to be ignored. 1 quietly arose, grarped my cane by Cleveland. The newest thing in Workers of America in this city. The the ferrule, took my stance, swung, trade schools probably will be estab- next national convention will be held 1910. and in another second, the crook lished by the structural ironworkers at St Louis, Mo., September would have shaved off that lock of this winter, says Secretary Charles The United Shoe Workers of America hair without so much as breaking the Independent Smith of the union. He declared that represent the skin had not a bumptious neighbor the technical part of the trade was shoemakers of the country. seized my arm and violently wrenched Norfolk, Va. Machinists and blacklearned by the men at work, but that away my cane. Then I was pinioned the theoretical part of the trade smiths at the Seaboard Air Line railshould be taught. He and others of ways general shops at Portsmouth Trying to Whack the Little Brass in my chair, and amid a ridiculous outcry was accused of having essayed to the union will urge the hiring of a have struck because of the alleged Balls. is It assault Junes, my rival! of to teacher give instructions to the employment So, here I am, on a trumped-umembers of the union at least once stated officially that 46 per cent, of adapted to each other. Most wives a week, so that they may be better the machinists and all but six black- would have objected to their hus- charge, condemned to charlotte-russband's rising in the night, and with an and getting completely out of pracfitted for the work. Thomas Graves smiths' have gone out St. Joseph, Mo. John A. Crawford umbrella trying to whack the little tice. a member of the executive committee 1 would esteem it a great favor if local manager, and Frank Hutton, brass balls off the tops of the bedof the union, will aid in establishabsent-mindedlthe person into whose hands this ing the school. night manager of the Western Union posts, or with a spoon egg across the statement falls would find my wife, lofting a of Telegraph Company here, pleaded Chicago. The constitutionality or with his cane clip- at the Ibsen Ping-Poncircle, and the ten-holaw prohibiting women guilty and were fined ten dollars and breakfast table, make her cognizant of what has bebuds either all the the of along tulip on two ping casts violating charges in factories from working beyond that of the garden walk. But not my come of me, and then drop in at limit is attacked in a suit filed against child labor act by employing boys side the High-Hol- e wife! Herself a devotee of ping-ponGolf club and get me a were costs old. The 14 under years State's Attorney Wayman and State Several cases in she understood. We agreed to occupy copy of the last handicap list, paycase. each in $29 Factory Inspector Edgar T. Davies. so as ing particular notice to the scores of W. C. Ritchie ft Co., paper box mak- which the deputy state labor commis- separate sleeping apartments, to collide and wake each other up John Johnson Jones. not to be are sioner is yet complainant ers, and Anna Kussorow and Dora in the midst of our dreamland tourtried. WIndeguth, two of their employes, are China's Craving for Knowledge. neys; but this is as far as any diviol Healy Timothy Washington. the complainants. It is charged that consuls in Chinese cities, went. sion Foreign Washcame to unless overtime is permitted, the bus!-- , Yonkers, N. Y., who Our mutual sympathy was perfect. missionaries in all parts of the Chisettled and several ago years ington ness will be ruined and the employes When 1 was not telling about my golf nese empire, merchants in the Chinese will suffer, for the business is such, the brewery strike of the stationary I was willing to hear her talk about ports, and travelers who study China the petitioners, say, that for six months firemen in a Jiffy, has been ping-ponand when she was not agree in reporting a new hunger for her Union International of the the demand exceeds the normal ca- president ping-ponshe was knowledge the kind of knowledge about her vet talking He a is pacity of the factory. The two women of Stationary Firemen. to listen to me tell about my which has made the nations of the ready Two with war eran of the Spain. aver that conditions are healthful.and Ere she left in the morning western world great and prosperous Demogolf. comfortable, and that they need to years ago Mr. Healy was the to attend her ping-pon- g conparties and strong. The Chinese are willing early work overtime when the opportunity cratic and Labor nominee for she put me up a nice lunch, which I and eager to go to school to America He district. Yonkers the from offers in order to support their gress the course; and in and Europe, in a sense which was started into the political campaign ate while upon families. in his possession case she did not return for dinner at never before true of any large part of 85 cents with but Pittsburg, Pa. Reports received night, I did not mind, because usu- the population. There is a general from towns in the Pittsburg district He was not elected, but the majority ally I was so tired that 1 went right recognition of the value and need of are that 5,000 men employed by the of his opponent was whittled down to bed. Even did she return, she was western training for the business of He Is again being American Window Glass Company are to a splinter. race for congress so tired that she went right to bed, life. the enter to urged Idle as a result of the strike inaugu The significance of this change is too. friends. his rated to obtain an increase in wages. by we in perceived, for it must result In easily dwelt see, happiyou Thus, Four-fifth- s of the London, Eng. Notices were posted In six machine a great quickening of the vital cursweet accord. and ness American which mills spin blower factories of the glass company Lancashire Eight months of this bliss, and a rents of national life, in a country of that the plants would be closed forth- cotton are on systematized short time serpent His 400,000,000 Inhabitants. It means glided into our Eden. with. These notices constitute all owing to the depressed condition of name was more strength in war and better progJohn Jones Johnson The abroad. that the company officials have to trade in cotton goods ress in the arts and Industries of was a wife He and his Jones. golfer say In regard to the trouble. The president of the Master Cotton Spin- was a r of her I peace. It will make China more forbut the that presFederation says men have asked for an advance ap- ners' worst the shall not speak, save to remark that midable to other great nations as a proximating 20 per cent., this being ent crisis is one of the for various reasons Mrs. 8., my wife, and enrich the Chinese market for ever trade has experienced. refused by the company. would not so much as speak to her. European and American products of were year there London, Eng. Stockholm. The labor federation dawned horizon rival, and it will also widen Jones possible upon my has called off the general strike, which ;:09 important disputes betweeen work when he competed with me for the many kinds. In England, has been in progress for several men and their employers Duffers cup and almost won 1L Next weeks, 'nils decision was the out- of which more than 65 per cent, were he beat me in a match for the ConThe Limelight. come of government Intervention, settled by compromise. did Ranterton give up his Thenceforth Why at each solation prize. Detroit. Mich. The marine enginwhich was directed toward arranging tournament fortune threw part and quit the company at the last a settlement of the difficulties satis- eers now have a total membership on us and we were constantly moment?" together, ol rivers Hie coasts, the lakes and the He discovered at our final dress refactory to all parties. off tics or opposed in final playing London. Eng. Workmen employed the United States of more than eleven rounds, and so on. hearsal," replied the manager, that in the British ordnance factories have thousand. While I will not admit that I hated In one scene he would be expected to New York. State I,abor Commis- Jones. I will not recently been negotiating with the deny that I consid- rtand up stag with his back turned British secretary of state for a pen- sioner Williams Issued a bulletin stnt-iu- ered him a villain a mean villain! He toward the audience, while another of the that only 21.6 per cent, sion scheme. was a villain because our club profes- member of the company made a New York. Upward of 1,400 girls I! 50,000 organized laborers of that state sional declared that he showed the speech nearly a quarter of a minute 35.7 cent, per are members of the Women's Bindery are unemployed, against best form of anybody who played over long. this time last year. union in this city. 1 !t easy-going- ping-ponge- g six-hou- golfo-mania- hand-operate- d brlc-a-bra- aof s. p e, y soft-boile- g g ping-ponge- g |
