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Show y , X . mUE&o Jo Ol'RJVAVy. When a presidential train like that which la now journeying throughout the South and West atarta on a long journey across the continent, much more la involved than appears on the surface. In the load which auch a train carries la Involved the possible safety and the welfare of the nation, and it la Uterally.the chief business of thousands of men, while the train is on the road, to see that it passes In safety and without delays or Inconveniences tf of any kind. In the first place, every divlsron su glneer. He Is as carefully selected as the best man on the division. The second man Is the fireman. The third Is the master of transportation. He alts in the cab alongside the engineer, and the eyes of both are centered on the twin lines of rail before them. They watch to make sure that nope of their subordinates make a mistake and to be certain that nothing la In the way of the presidential train. When the train passes from one division to the next the transportation manager leaves the train to make way for the man who is responsible over the next division. Whoever covers the entire 15,000 miles of the journey might observe at least thirty different men, sitting perhaps In a seat In the smoking car, with slouch hats pulled over their eyes, keeping careful track of every Incident of the trip. They are the division superintendents, each of them with the entire burden and responsibility of ths presidential train on his shoulders until it passes safely beyond the limits of hla territory. When such connecting points are reached the observer, If he walked out on the platform, would be likely to hear a conversation like thla: Hello. Ed." Hello. Bill." Everything 0. K.7" "Tes, thank God." Hows expressed a desire to see andeongrat-ulat- e the chef on his triumph. Word was taken to the magnate In his special car and he sent back word that if the president desired to see him he could be found in the kitchen. State Rujian The in Barnwr. Russian state, which is ths most socialistic one qn earth and tha one that the worlds money power Is almost forever fighting, is by far the greatest economic unit on the face of the globe. To ninety-nin- e reader 26?" Waiting at CedarvUle. "Wish me the same luck. Good- night PILOT ENGINE TRAVELS AHEAD, berintendent, and practically every employe over which the presidential train notified days in advance of The exact minute of Its and a carefully arranged of Its arrival at and Khedule station on the linedeparture wap sent put to every station agent and faction hand. Beginning several hours before the train was due every foot of the track was carefully patrolled by keen-Isye- d men, who felt the responsibility iwhich rested upon them. If President had sat up in the JdcKinley to the train be might have seen at intervals of ,a few min b4 all night sMit therellow lk Els ,ieee 4 m jggfwn of Bl'Egjpljtfai sentinels who were to guard his safety and assure . kls convenience. Practically, it might almost be aald that the train paaaed between two lines of watchmen, so close ere they together and so careful le their watch. . Nor does railroad vigilance atop there. That, In fact, la only the beginning. All day and all night long a pilot engine runs a little In advance of the Presidential train to make sure that nothing has been overlooked Then the train would pull out at forty miles an hour and another man would take the place in tha smoking car just vacated by the sleepy-eye- d man who has left the train at the division terminus. When a train carrying a king or emperor leaves one of the great capitals of Europe It la always possible to stop every other wheel on the line and leave the track perfectly free for the passage of the Imperial special. But In the United States the railroad manager has also the problem of running the regular passenger train and keeping freight trains moving with as lit-tJdelay as possible. This greatly complicates the problem. As a mat- rant. w tram tm the regular schedules when the preei dentl&l train is moving Its wheels, and the traffic manager has troubles of his own for a day or two after It has on passed. Every train dispatcher each division knows that the special has passed for several days by the complaints which come In from shlp-per- s of perishable goods, even If official notice were lacking. It is his hard task to see that everybody is kept satisfied, even while the demands of the presidential train are compiled with. It Is safe to say that traffic will be entirely upset on every road drhlch la traversed by the train for at least forty-eighours. These same train dispatchers and their, assistants hare in charge the difficult task of keeping the president and his movable cabinet In constant communication with Washington. Telegrams in the obscure presidential cipher may be thrown from the train at the most station and there most always be on duty there a man capable of handling the work In an Intelligent way. A mistake made by a night operator at Spodunk might possibly result In an International difficulty. The responsibility which every man connected with one of the roads over which the train passes may therefore be imagined, t After all is aald and done the mu who la chiefly responsible tor the comfort, and in a large degree tor the welfare, of the presidential party, rides in ths last car of the train. He Is a colored mu, ud he is in charge of the culinary department of the presidential train. Before he la selected the whole force of the road la carefully scrutinized. He is chosen as one among a hundred, ud as a rule he feels not only ths responsibility but the honor of his appointment. It Is told of the chief cook on a previous espresidential Journey that after pecially fine breakfast the president lf, r rwnt ht WAITING FOR THE PRESIDEN-, TIAL TRAIN. which could by any human possibility endanger its safety. Close behind the presidential train is usually seen a second engine, so that It Is closely guarded before, behind and on both sides. Still other precautions are taken. Every station agent la notified that on the night or day when the train bearing the President Is to piss his station he must be continuously on duty. He may not leave the responsibility to his subordinates. He must personally attend to the arrangement of the proper signals and see to it with his own eyes that everything possible is done to forward the train with speed and safety. If may pass his little backwoods station at sixty miles an hour, but he most stay on duty and watch and wait night, and, util It flashes by in the mm call up with a sigh of relief he the next station on the wire and announce that the Presidents train has gone by and the weight has been lifted ' from his shoulders. Even week before the date of the journeys start the roadbed has been ls carefully inspected by the higher of the several roads over which the presidential train le to pass, and Improvements and alterations ordered. A little later a second trip of Inspection Is made to see that the orders previously given have been carefully and properly carried out. There are three Instead of two men In the cab. One of them Is the , u THE AUTOCRAT OF THE PARTY, ACCEPTED DESIGN FOR THE WQRLD8 GREATEST out of a hundred this statement will J of the most Imposing archltee-Ihwill represent stirring historical events doubtless be starting. The Russian ornaments In the world will be In the history of the navy. The design state draw an annual net profit of Um naval arch to be built at the Bat Is the work of Ernest Flagg, the New rubles from Its forests, mines, in New York city to commemorate York architect who designed the buildand agricultural property. It receives leij th famous deeds of ths - American ings of the Naval Academy at Anaap-oilannually 80,000,000 rubles from its Mfy. It will be visible for the Corcoran art gallery In Washmany for the nee of loflee out at sea. The communities of arch, not lnclud-l- o ington ud other buildings. them. for or to land It ceded purchased the statue on Its top, will be 12$ The work will be crowded with naval It Is building by far the longest and (M In height Tha width will be the emblems and decorations. The top will most costly railway in the world, and aae, thus giving it mas-d- v be surmounted by a quadriga of seaextremely of it owns and works over 20,000 miles effect The piers will be decorated horses. On each side of this group ud railways, the net revenue on which large groups of statuary standing crowning each of the huge piers win be of the net revenue in elaborate pedestals. These groups classic equal to barge filled with naval tro- of all ihe railways In the UulteS States. Iu 1898 It received 1800,000,000 Into Its f of which 'sum coffers, nearly uieaMe. Itrwd fLL getls greater than ihqt of Prance by Al s, ex-ser- fs Well-kno- u one-seven- th phles. In the Interior of the great opening each tide will contain five niches cut into the base of the arch. The niches are to be filled eventually with tha statues of naval heroes. The eaterpriae of building the naval arch was undertaken by the Naval Aeadsmy Alumni association. , A number ot wealthy New Yorkers have pledged themselves to contribute 1509,009. A general solicitation for funds will he commenced soon. People throughout the country to be ask to contribute. , one-hal- THE mo ffCLAto more thu 1200,000,000.. La 1890, when on of the banks of London was unable to meet its obligations, the Russian government had with it on current account a balance of so muy millions 8. Shsckler ot Wellsville, Ohio, has wnlch unwind from a reel on top ot of pounds that when the bank of Eng- Invented and applied for a patent on a that vessel. land came to the rescue a request was levies to destroy Ironclad battleships, Immediately made to Russia not to Which Secretary of the Navy Long and If Stagger Humanity. dispose of her balance before a certain rMident McKinley believe will be a When the English budget was Introso be to would do date, since to preciduced said that every Boer l somebody pitate a financial crisis of the utmost killed had cost fS.000. The British have certainly not killed 10,000 Boer. It Is doubtful whether they have hilled 1,000. If it hss cost them 1750,000,000 to hill 10,000 Boers, that is (75,000 per Boer. If only 5,000 have been disposed of, the butchers bill amounts to (150,000 apIecATBeri war less than 40,000 Boer families In the two repub- - esee ee-- more than she ever borrowed In any two yean of any other war In bei history. Moreover she has spent mors than we spent In our civil war in ths same length of time. Our most expen. slve year was the fiscal year 1865, whef we had over a million soldiers undtf arms. The cost of tha war for the year was (570,887,(77.89.' . England has paid over (750,000,009 for a year and a half of Boer fighting and expects to pay a billion before the job la ever. At Naundorf in the Hnnsdtck near the Rhine, a Roman temple has been ONE OF A THOUSAND SLEEPLESS SENTINELS.' t gravity. Finally, betides being a capitalist and a banker of this magnitude, the Russian state le also a metallurgist ud a spirit merchant In a word the proud claim is made for it that It Is the greatest landowner, the greatest capitalist, the greatest constructor of railways ud carries on the largest business la the world. " - r THE EXPLOSIVE ADHERES TO THE IRONCLADS HULU , C enclosed in a walled enclosure mess- England war when the began. lies sub "Mhe invention having been suited to tbetr inspection. could have given every family (20,000 uring 220 by 200 feet. The tempi mors thu she stands la the middle and is 60 feet by Shsckler' is a well-knoelectrical without spending any Boer repu- 60. It contains mors terra cotta ob. The for fighting. engineer ud has worked for two years has paid -. an hla Invention, Its utilization all de- blic; whose combined population Is less jects than have been discovered kitherto la Germany. They hr votive ofor . Milwaukee, Detroit of vhso that pends on tha success of the submarine British , empire the ferings, about 100 being whole figurboat- - The device is a ' steel box two have given the ever bad in its ines representing goddesses. Small oquar, highly magnetised, filled most costly war It ha same space of bronze statuettes of Mars, Jupiter and the Id whole with powerful history explosives. The box la Mercury have also been found, attached to the top of a' lubmarine time. England baa Juat borrowed Installment rasel in UCh taanner that It can be (300.000,000 to pay a mere The CriThe Pennsylvania railroad Is rereleased when under a steel battleship, of the cost of the Boer war. to bare over 28,000 Individual the Increased ported and by magnetism tb box will Imme- mean war of three years Boer shareholders who must be notified o( The (195.000,000. debt national by diately adhere to the armor of that the new stock allotment and receive vessel, it discharge Is regulated from war has lasted a year and a half. la subscription warrants. borrow to had has ths submarine boat by electric wire. that time England . offl-tla- 1 NAVAL ARCH. THE SCOTT RESIDENCE, WHERE THE PRESIDENT WILL STAY WHILE IN SAN FRANCISCO. |
