National Republican., 1886-12-11
TIE s1E11ApAReER Can.
An Interesting Talk with a Member
Of the Company-The livestock Car
Success and In Great Demand.

an intoreettng Talk WIN member
OF the Company-The livestock Car
Success and In Great Demand.
~ have called to see II you have any
facts you would care to furnish for pub.
llcatlon respecting the shellabarger live
stock carr" Asked a reporter for the Ma.
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN yesterday of u rep
resentative of the company.
~ do not know that we have anything
Of special interest at this time. But the
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN has evinced such
kindly feeling toward our enterprise that
II you will indicate anything you care to
know, l will be glad to furnish you the in-
formation II possible"
81 see that you have made some changes
In your board Of dlrectorsPn
"Yes. Two OF the members elected In
August reside at distance, and Il was
found impracticable for them TO attend the
meetings. Two others were elected TO
serve temporarily. Their places have been
dlled by the election OF ID. l. Murphy. chief
clerk OF the pension Office; Jesse B. Wilson,
president OF the Mutual Insurance Com
pany Of this District; George Ryneal, jr,
the well-known Seventh street merchant,
and Hon. Allan Rutherford, late third au-
ditor, Treasury Department"
~ would think you would extend your
field Of operations to Canada aud other
countriesPh
ave expect to do SO. Mr.. c. c. Dun
canson, Of our board, had letter OF In
quiry lately from Australia regarding our
car. So you see that for an enterprise that
was practically unknown the first OF last
June we have made some progress In
notoriety at least"
You Intended TO send some cars TO the
far west, did you not, ere this pn
1--WE did. But In the first place we found
IL greatly TO our interests TO make several
trips In this section. Then all our cars
were not completed until short time ago
owing to some financial difficulties that
befell the company engaged In their manu-
faeture. We expect to send cars to three
different points in the west soon. We have
contract with one railroad company TO
use some OF our cars with q view to their
adoption, and others are sure TO follow"
your enterprise"
"He is. A profit Of $75 on q single car
load OF cattle over what he would have re.
ceived from a shipment in the ordinary way
is calculated to make man friendly. Mr..
Murphy had q letter from Maj. Hill not
long ago, asking for the use of one of our
cars for another shipment. No doubt car
will be sent him.
"Are you as sanguipe as before OF the
success OF your enterprise ?"
"The outlook becomes more and more
encouraging as we proceed. The railroads,
the cattle shippers, the humanitarians, and
the people generally have met us with a
friendly interest surprising our expecta-
tions. The fact is that the Shellabarger
car was conceived to meet want long
felt and that no one had been able to meet
We have demonstrated to the entire salts.
faction OF at least one great railroad COM
pany, and to hosts Of shippers and others,
that, as distinguished Humanitarian has
said, 'the Shellagarger compartment stock
car is just the thing Our full victory re-
mains to be achieved, as Wellington gained
Waterloo, 'by hard pounding, hard pound
ing.' We will try and have no lack Of
that,n