The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-05-13
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From the w YORK Sun.
Four young men alighted from a
coach in front of the new Post Office
in Jersey City. q few minutes after III
o'clock on Wednesday evening. and
entered the Internal Revenue Office.
where one of them handed 10 a clerk
q osri6ed check for S38, 600. aud
asked for it's worth in revenue stamps
of different denominations for tobacco.
The demand was a large one. but 1t
was expected. and orders had come
from Washington to keep the Office
open until midnight. Within an hour
Of midnight, the stamps we're given to
the four young men, but nobody was
permitted to quit the Office. At the
iirst stroke Of the midnight hour a
Waterman unlocked the door, the fou:
young men grabbed their packages Of
stamps, hurried down the stairs. and
we're driven rapidly to the counting
room of p. Lorillard & Co.'S tobacco
factry, where they were met by
several members ofthe firm. surround
ed BY forty men handling and as,
sorting packages of tobacco. For two
houn the shipping department was q
busy scene. Three men were putting
the revenue stamps on boxes. nine men
men were wheeling packages on hand
trucks. six men were casing small
boxes, seven men were cancelling.
counting. and checking stamps, Others
were moving and throwing the
packages into trucks, aud Mr.. Hearn
was experimenting all. AT fifteen
minutes past 2 o'clock a two-horse
truck with l4O boxes of plug tobacco
in it vas driven furiously two blocks
to the freight depot of the Pennsyl'
vsnis Railroad, where five baggage
cars and eight men were waiting. In
the roundhouse, close BY, was iocomo
tive 719, which Engineer Net Wilson
was preparing for a fast trip.
As soon a. the truck mounted the
incline to the depot platform freight
handler mounted beside the driver.
and by the time the tail end of the
truck was turned toward the door OF
one Of the baggage cars he was ready
to toss the boxes to two men who
stood ready to put them upon hand
trucks that two other men were to
wheel. Inside the car were two mell
ready to pack the boxes closely. and
Receiving Clerk Terrill and an as
sistant were on hand to check the
receipts. For nearly six hours truck
followed track into the depot, until
tweuty-four loads had been deposited
upon the platform. Some of the boxes
were large and unwieldy requiring the
strength Of two men to move. but
Others were small and compact, and
could be tossed from hand to hand.
Lights were placed in convenient
places until daybreak.
Attwenty-five minutes past o'clock
the last truck with twenty heavy
cases in it was unloaded. and few
minutes afterward the doors of the
five baggage cars were closed, the
locks sealed, and the engineer of the
ward locomotive at one end Of the
train was given the signal TO pull out
the cars. By that time ex-MayOr
Siedler, Of Lorillard 4 Co., and many
workmen and clerks. had arrived
from the factory. On side track wa
locomotive 7l9 pumping water from
the tank into the boiler. Engineer
Wilson was Furnishing the brass
works. and Fireman Ryan WAS oiling
the journals. Standing beside the
locomotive were Superintendent Nc.
Crea. Freight Agent Butler, aud
several other officers Of the railroad.
The locomotive is one OF the largest
passenger locomotives on the road,
and has ponderous wheels. 1t drew
from Philadelphia that evening a
section of a regular train, and was
detailed to draw the regular freight
train.
As soon rs the baggage cars were
hacked against the locomotive Wilson
was at his station ready to open the
throttle. The escape of steam from
the boiler almost drowned the noise Of
passing trains, but Engineer Wilson
heard s'Go ahead" spoken quickly BY
the superintendent, and Eve seconds
afterward tie large wheels began to
revolve, and Wilson began to do his
share 10 running the special freight
train to Chicago in twenty-four hours
This train was run in order to filI
contracts with merchants in Chicago
and other cities in the West. For
several months dealers had been
reducing their stock so that they
could take advantage IF the reduction
of tax on the LIST of this month. For
more than two years the manufac.
turers and dealers had been unsettled
because Congress was undecided what
to do. On the LIST of March last an
act was passed reducing the tax from
d cents . pound to is cents. The
trade thereafter began the revive, and
for several weeks heavy orders have
been received BY manufacturers, with
directions that they should not be
filled until after the LIST of May, when
the act took effect. Last week the
stock OF tobacco in the hands of
wholesale dealers in large Western
cities Was very email. and the demand
for small quantities for consumption
caused q rise in prices. The dealers
wanted more stock, but they also
wanted to save eight cents a pound
by waiting until Thursday.
Therefore, Lorillard 4 Co.. and
other manufacturers prepared large
stocks and were ready 70 ship them
as soon rs they could get new stamps.
No rebate was to be allowed on stamps
on hand, aad only . necessary few Of
them we're purchased as the first Of
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