Show steel instead of wood A steel company has built an all metal car designed tor the railway postal service and would be much pleased 11 it could get an order for a number of them the postal cars are not owned by the government but by the railroads which will not be likely to bev steel cars unless some pressure la brought to bear on them it would be a humane act on the part of congress to compel the roads to make a change tor the sake of the bard worked men who travel in the mall cars their labor is extra haz aldous they ride in fragile cars al most immediately behind the engine whenever there is an accident one or more of them Is apt to buffer the yearly list of killed and wounded Is painfully large perhaps it is too much to ask a rail road company to throw away mall cars which are in good condition it would not be too much to require them to buy pone but steel cars when new ones are needed it a beginning were once made the roads would grad billy learn that it paid to have metal baggage express and passenger cars the first cost would be greater but the metal coaches would be longer lived as well as safer As wood be comes dearer steel becomes cheaper it is supplanting iron and soon will be used for many purposes instead ot wood it is said that the new york central has decided to replace wooden with steel ties throughout its entire system and has given a preliminary order for 7 the process of using up the american forests has been carried so far that ahe question of ties has been bothering the railroads for some years wooden ones are ex pensive and are hard to get expert ments have been made with stone but they have not been satisfactory when steel is available the problem Is disposed di posed of chicago tribune |