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Show CARPET ON A SPECIAL TRAIN Now York. April 12. Five hundred miles of carpet are to be shipped tomorrow to-morrow from this city to San Francisco Francis-co on a special freight train of sixty cars. The shipment weighs 1.500.00U pounds, Is worth $1,000,000 aijd .is the largest nnd most Tamable single shipment ship-ment ever made. , , ' Its -manufacture required the labor of S.000 workers for eight days, equivalent equiv-alent to one day's work for G4.000 operatives op-eratives It would covor a sinplc width strip from New York to Buffalo, Buf-falo, thence to Niagara Falls and lap well over Into Canada |