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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
THE WEIGHT ENORMOUS.
The Enormous Load an Engine and Train
of Passenger Cars Makes.

h Enormous Load an Engine and Train
of Passenger Cars Makes.
Verv few persons have n adequate con-
oeption of the weight of locomotives and
passenger cars. The weight of some OF
them is enormous, and the only wonder is
that they do not pound and hammer down
the rails sooner than they do. Ever since
the inception of railroading the weight OF
passenger equipment has been constantly
increasing. and. apparently, tho maximum
has not yet been reached. There are many
who can we'll remember when, four or hive
decades back, tha locomotives and cars
that made up the ordinary passenger
trains of that day were but ~llllputlan com
binations az compared with the monsters
of the present. Passenger and freight To-
comotives have grown to immense proper
tions. For instance, the passenger engines
that haul the famous limited express on
the Pennsylvania belong to what is termed
the o GLASS, and the engine proper weighs
Sc 1000 pounds, and the tender. loaded. al
most an integral part of the locomotive.
weighs over 80, 600, 80 that the entire outfit
that heads the train weighs moro tnan
142, 900 pounds. Tit next heaviest engine
in use on the Pennsylvania sof the famous
mogul, or class I type, the engine and ten
der weighing over ISL 900 pounds. Then
como the giants OF the GLASS 2 type, the
total weight of engine and tender being
more than ITO. 900 pounds.
The very Goliaths. however, of the big
combinations of iron, steel and brass that
rumble over the Pennsylvania rails are OF
the class II build are freight locomotives.
The engine proper tips the beam at nearly
115, 600 pounds, while the tender, loaded
with the necessary fuel for the propulsion
of the giant. adds almost $4,000 pounds
more, making the total weight of each
engine of this class very close to $4,000
pounds. These locomotives rejoice in the
sweetly classical appellation OF hog" en-
eines. They might, perhaps, have bsen
more appropriately termed 'elephants.'
Think of nearly" ninety tons of wood and
metal. and mentally compare these mon
sters with the midgets OF forty or fifty years
ago. The increase i'll the weight Of passen-
ger cars has been very remarkable. All
ordinary coach on the Pennsylvania at the
present dav weighs about $4,000 pounds,
while the palatial Pullman sleepers are of
nearly $4,000 pounds weight. The big par
lor cars built by the Pennsylvania and in
use on its eastern divisions, weighs from
65, 900 to 10000 poundseach. The new style
cars in use all over the system range from
65, 900 to $4,000 pounds each. AN ordinary
passenger tram Of, say, half a dozen cars
with the accompanying locomotive, would
aggregate nearly, ii not altogether, 10000
pounds, while the weight of the limited
express, with it's two engines and sevcra.
Pullmans, is nearly $780, 900 pounds-a truly
enormous weight.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
SOLO TO THE MQRMoNS
The Alberta Railway Company Dis
poses Of Thousands Of Acres
Of Land.
The Sales Of Lethbridge Coal Not
So Great as the Company
Anticipated.
Great Weight of Modern Railway Trains
Minute Accounted For.

Tho report Of the proceedings at the
annual meeting of the Alberta Railway
and Coal in London. just re-
ceived, ia OF interest in Montana. from the
fact that the celebrated Gait coal, so gen
orally used in this vicinity, comes from the
mines of that company. The directors re-
port, says the Lethbridge News, that they
have recently effected sales to responsible
parties OF 722, 3s2 acres Of farm lands.
These parties represent the Mormons OF
Utah, and it is their intention to lntroduo"
works OF irrigation and to settle tho lands
with colonists from Utah, 4 result Whlch
cannot fail largely to promote TINS COM
pany's interests by creating traffic Tor thels
railway and increasing the value OF Leth-
bridge and other town sites. These sales.
in addition to mortgages on lands pro-
yiouslv sold, will increase the fund availa-
BILE specially for the land ~company's bonds
to an amount exceeding !sl60,00O and will
amply provide for the interest. The agree
ment with the Lethbridge Lsnd company
provides for the reversion to the Alberta
COMPANY of all the remaining town plots.
lands and mortgages, whenever the lama
bonds have been fully redeemed.
The business Of the Dunmore line in Can
ada has been satisfactory ana increasing,
but sales of coal in Montana have been less
than was anticipated, say the directors.
The recent developments Of coal mines
along the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railways is the reason. Custom
once secured By the company is nearly al
ways retained. md although the sales in
both countries do not exceed 1900 tons
H HBE EI ALI ~. 80 - ~k,~1 ~ArlrN n N - a
in excess Of that quantity, but cannot be
fully supplied owing to an insufficient num-
Der os cars being furnished at the standard
guags railways with which the company's
railways connect. The directors believe
that the present business j~ustides their
hopea, as recent advices show that the coal
sales in both Canada and Montana are in
creasing, the sales for November being
1900 tons. -.-
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
The Great Northern Extension.

This is what President Hill said in Spo-
Kane the other day in answer to the ques-
ton MS to how soon would the extension of
the Great Northern be completed to that city:
"We intend to have our cars running to
tho Columbia river by the first day of July,
and hope to be in Spokane by the middle
of March or LIST of April at the latest. 1t is
only 200 miles from here to the Columbia.
Track is being laid both ways o from
Sand Point and the gap of ninety miles is
being fast closed up. AS soon as the snow
goes off in the upper Kootenai we will have
it completed Ee@
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
The New Merchants,

Operated by the Merchants Hotel som
pany, now begs to announce that its rooms
are open for the reception of guests.
Rooms will be offered to transient guests at
$1.25 per day (parlor hoor). 81 per day
third foor), Is cents per day Fourth floor).
Extra for more thar one occupant. Rooms
to permanent guests at less rates. All
modern improvements; steam heat, electric
light. return electic call bell system. and
sunshine in every guest chamber. Brussels
and velvet carpets used exclusively
throughout the house. Office. elegant bar
and billiard room. cigar stand and palatial
barber shop on first floor.
DINING ROOM ~REOPENED.
The dining room in this hotel has been
leased to and is now operated separately by
the Misses Maggie. who are prepared to fur
mis- board at So for tickets good for twenty
one meals, 81 for twenty-one continuoul
meals, so cents for single meals.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15

stop was made. II n conductor stops live
minutes. where the business transacted
should have been done in three minutes, ha
10 asked to tell what was being done during
tho extra two minutes. Formerly ut points
whore engines Of freight trains were
changed a delay OF two hours and q half
was not thought too long for \ thorough in
spection Of a long train. This mnttar was
carefully studied out, and now \ delay Of
40 minutes is unusual. This saving OF
every minute on the long run from New
Orleans TO San Francisco amounts to a
great deal in the aggregate"
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
Death of "A California pioneer.

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Feb. A.--Judge Henry
Oscar Beatty, father of Chief Justice
Beatty, died at his home here to-day at the
age OF 50. He WAS born in WASHINGTON.
Kv., and at an early age removed t, Ohio.
whore he WAS admitted to practice law. Tn
1861 he came to California and settled in
Sacramento and practiced law here until
1868, when he went to Virginia City. and
the following year wns elected chief iudue
of the Nevada supreme court. He resirned
in 1868 and returned to SACRAMENTO, where
he has aimee lived and practiced law up to
failed.
Just received-Diymp IH oysters for ovstor
(.pfEtHI5S at IhS. t'Iun, "a, ~ 49,. '""A
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
"Isn't She Beautiful

Occasionally one hears this expression,
as a lady with a atrikingly lovely complex
ion passes along tho street. Certainly!
she uses the famous Blush of Roses manu-
featured by Miss Flora A.. Jones, South
Bend. Ind. Supplied by Miss Julia =.
Lawrence, room 4. Denver block. Broad
way, Helena, Mont. Price Is cents per
bottle.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
Samuel X. Davis Special

Samuel X. Davis Special
INVESTMENT looks
15OO-1,OOO hon Mountain. III cents.
1,OOO-3,O0O Yellowstone. Bargain.
10000 Helena and Victor. Cheap.
5000 California. Bargain.
100 "Combination,' $1.35.
Wanted at a low price.
5000 or 1000 Iron Mountain Extension.
1000 Southern Cross.
1000 Fourth of July.
Rooms 26 and 81. Bailey Block.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15

or the Christian church will have II snlo ON
Friday, Feb. 10, afternoon and evening, in
this parlors of the church. Homemade
CAKE, candy beaten biscuit, pickles, ielly,
preserves and nice nocdlework. '
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
Fast Running.

The Great Northern leaves Helena at 11:1O
a. M, and makes several hours quicker
time than any other line to st. Paul, Chi
cauo, and all eastern points.
They run palace dining and sleeping cars;
also free c~olonist slespsrs. Ticket Office,
No, 6, Main street. Il. II. LANGLEY.
General Ticket Agent.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
Irresh Maats Gl,ean For Cash

At the Rialto cash market, south end OF
Main street. Ask for prices. Telephone
ipE
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
New novels just received at The Be, Hive.

Mares @ Fisher, tho butchers. havo removal
way. Telephone 3O7. vi "''ho'
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
Arrivals at Tie He,eu,

T.. H.. Eeimbold. st. Chas. K. levy, Mime
Paul. apolis.
j. X. Blanchard, Rich W. C.. Smith. Great
mond. Falls.
l.. Is. Merton. Chicago. Edgar IL. Scott. Chi
j. II Manning, Port cago.
land. Ed harper, Chicago.
Il. ~. larson, city. W. Is. richards, Hell
4. p. Leonard. New ena.
York. Il. L. Purcell. Maple
Carbon McCioskcy, ton, n. -.
Fort Assiniboinc. A. b. Murray, city.
c. Wanzer, city. +. ID. Iiaskins, st,
Henry Prontiss, Jr., Louis.
Great Fails. j. Il. Portwcod and
Henry R"instien, San wife, Louisville.
Francisco. Sam rewary. ST. Paul.
+. Is. Fillmore. Omaha. Thomas Gahagan,
Ii. III. Scott, San Fran Great Falls.
cisco.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
Arrival. ut the Grand Central.

S. j.. Mitchell, Great George Seymour, Ton
Falle. Mile.
Mira, T.. Lawlors Ten w. }. Kennedy, Hell
Mile. ena.
W. d. Andrews, Mgr. Nellie Adele-Caines
Danl Snliy. Dan1 Sally.
w. A, Rogers. Livings- +. II. Smith, Liyiups-
ton. ton,
7. J. Vyo, Helena. !. d. Dudley. Maine.
II. II. Pierce, Helena. w. ID. Macauley. Hell
Mrs. N. Sproulc, Hell enn.
enn II. X. Bushnell, Hell
M. II. Taylor. Helena. enn.
N, NJ. Sheppard, Hell Il. rinda. Helena.
era. Or. Nirth, Helena.
John Duffy, Silver. NJ. Gnyer. Silver.
Mrs. l.. =. Crane, Miss Minnie i,otere.
Wickes. Rochester n. Y.
Pierce j, Kelly, Helena. p. L.. Batilrick, Elk
Duncan McDougall, horn.
Elkhorn. Geo. 7. Gehot, East
Percy Gordon. New Helena.
York. Chas. Raunionyille.
Chas. %l;usvitz. 81. Fanl. Great Falls.
A. K. Towle, Chicago. A. Levy. Rogeman
d. J. Mcleod, Alurys- +. Aolgerye. kaiama.
VIE. 700, Mich
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
HELENA IN BRIEF.

Jaekson's music store. Bailey block.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15

We have just received Choice Novelties and New
Weaves in Brocaded Bedford Cords, Figured. Crepons,
Crepon Fancies, New Scotch Cheviots, Fancy Diagonals,
Figured French Cheviots, and the Latest Novelties in
Fancy Suitngs.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
Tho Ladies' Aid Society

Just received-DiympI u oysters for ovsto,
at the Chamber Of Comncrcc
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15

Spring and Summer Goods are arriving daily for every
department and the remainder Of our winter stock must
be closed out at once. During the short time left we will
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-15
CARA TO Mr.. HARRISON.
The Great Mexican Revolutionist
Defends Both His Theory and
His Practice.
He Requests That This Govern
ment Win Not Interfere
With Him.
Claim That Neutrality Laws Have Not Reen
yiolated-Some Emphatic Remarks
About President Diax.

A recent dispatch from San Antonio an
nounced that CARA, the rovolutionist, had
written a letter to President Harrison.
The full text of the letter. the g%enuineness
of which ia vouohed for, is as follows:
LA S~1ERR1TA, State Of Tamaulipas,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-05
OUR CITY's GROWTH.

In every portion of Mayor Potter's re-
cent message occur illustrations of the
rapid and healthy growth of the city.
The water department, which has laid
seventeen miles of pipes, has made an
exceptionally good showing at a greatly
small pipes have been connected with the
mains shows how rapidly the city is
building up.
The public works department have laid
over $4,000 feet of granite curbing and
10000 lineal feet of new roadway. Gran
ite pavement has been laid on many of
the business streets. The quality and
cleanliness of Providence's streets put
New York to shame.
The work of building sewers goes
bravely on. They are needed.
The schools need constant reinforce
ment by the erection of new buildings.
Rapid transit is coming to further de-
velop the suburbs.
From all indications, if the present
percentage of growth is continued,
Providence must be city of 175, 900 to
200, 900 inhabitaats in 1900. But may
we not fairly expect a much more rapid
growth when all the improvements now
in contemplation are completed, when
the new station and post-office and belt
railroad and more parks have made the
city even more attractive as place Of
residence than it is to-day?
This depends on Republican control at
Washington. First and before all,
Providence is the centre and mart of
busy manufacturing district, and all its
fair prospects would be withered by the
cold blast of free trade
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-05

The Chicago Herald, which is the or
gan of the Springer Democracy of Illi-
nois. goes into ecstasies over the scaling
down of certain duties by the German
Reichstag in accordance with the recon-
mendation of the great Caprivi whom
Kaiser Wilhem discovered. This utter
ance is interesting as illustrating the
views of what we may now call the
Springer Democracy, but passing to the
specific issue raised the German situa-
ton deserves a little consideration.
:. The German tariff as it stood up to
the time of the revision was the crea-
ton of Bismarck's master mind. 1t was
devised primarily to raise money to
meet Germany's enormous war expenses
"a fact which the Herald should not
lose sight of. II was literally "a tariff
for revenue with incidental protection"
But Bismarck, in deciding where the
protection was TO come wisely decided to
foster by ii two immense interests, agri-
culture and manufacturing. Since that
DOlltN WIS lIlilOuuttb BlOSiNoS VI
German manufacturers has been won
derful. German wares now undersell
those of Birmingham in the London
shops. and a Providence business house
the other day distributed souvenir of
intensely patriotic hue representing our
feet of new cruisers, but which was
printed in Germany Much Of the
book work of England is done in Leipsic.
and Chemnitz knit goods are sold every
where. here as well as in England.
But agricultural protection had a
somewhat mixed result. Ii encouraged
the German farmer-whose sons by the
way. make far better soldiers than the
thin.chested city fellows, as the shrcwd
old chancellor must have reckoned-but
il made food dearer. Things went on
very fairly. however. until the present
year of terrible scarcity. Then. with
thousands of Chemnitz wcayers thrown
out Of work 10y the Mckinley bill, and
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-05
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

British Guiana has appointed its Royal
Agricultural and Commerc ial society IL
Worlds Fair Commission TO represent the
colony. and has appropriated 10000 for
an exhibit. President Ii. Howell Jones of
the Commission has been made its eXecu
tive officer. A space of 60X30 feet has
been requested near that assigned to the
Dominion of Canada and other British
American colonies, 40 that contrast may
be made between their exhibits and those
of the Latin american countries.
Director General Davis and Chiefs
Buchanan and Peabody, respectively of
the Agricultural and Liberal Arts de-
payments of the Exposition, have held "a
conference with a number Of gentlemen
representing nearly fifty agricultural col
leges and experimental stations in the
United States. regarding exhibits from
such institutions. IL was practically de-
cded that u complete experimental sta
tion, showing the work by students and
the results secured, will be established in
connection with the agricultural exhibit,
and that the exhibit by the agricultural
colleges will be made in the Liberal Arts
department.
Expert engineers are working upon the
drainage problem in connection with the
Exposition grounds at jackson Park. As
a result of calculation in the construction
department, n somewhat new plan will he
sewage All the offal, conveyed through
underground pipes, will run into four
large tanks at the southwestern portion
of Jackson Park These tanks are To be
thirty feet in diameter and forty feet deep.
The novel feature connected with the plan
is that the sewage deposited in the tanks
is 10 be treated chemically. aud The con-
struction department. believes that the
water flowing from Them after the chcml
cal treatment viii be almost pure and
wholesome 80 far a. l. known q similar
treQtment has never been adopted, except
az Berlin. Germany. There the method
has been found 10 work with satisfaction.
III equally successful ar Chicago the waters
OF the lake will not be polluted by the
drainage ron- tlle- Exposition gruur1rtS
The American street Railway Associa-
tion has applied for $1,000 square feet in
the Transportation building and appoint
ed n committee 60 help Chief Smith get y
suitable exhibit. which viii be collective.
The committee comprises men interested
in street railways from New York 10 San
Francisco " / from Montreal to ~. Louis
John ID. ~ 'irs j. the Chicago member.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-05
NEW YORK's LEGISLATURE.

AS soon as the New York Legislature
is organized and Gov. Flowers message
is read, Power Behind -the-Throne Hills
enumeration bill will be presented. 1t
will provide for an immediate count of
the inhabitants Of the State.
OF course, the Federal census tells
about what the result of the count will
be. The counties of Cattaraugus, Cay
uga, Chautauqua, Dutchess, Jefferson,
Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, Queens,
Rensselaer,, st. Lawrence, Saratoga,
Steuben, Ulster, Washington and
Wayne will each lose az assemblyman.
These are all Republican except Queens
and Rensselaer,. New York gains eight
members, Kings Brooklyn six, Erie (Buf-
falo) two and Monroe (Rochester) one.
Similar changes will be made in the
Senate.
The city additions do not represent
Democratic gains altogether. Buffalo
kicks over the Democratic leading strings
of Shechan occasionally, and only the
most outrageous gerryInandering can
prevent the Republicans from capturing
a portion Of the New York and Brooklyn
members. Still, the reapportionment
will on the whole greatly aid the Demo
crnts
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-05

hunger and starvation imminent all over
the kingdom, what more natural than
the American pig should be welcomed
once again and the duty lowered Oh CO.
reals. Bismarck in Office wonld have
done the same. The farmer will not
suffer, AS he will probably have several
years of good prices i'm succession until
the worlds normal food surplus is re-
stored. As to manufactures, there may
doubtless be some reductions and addi-
tions to the free list, as in the Mckinley
bill, but the Herald may rest assured
that Caprivi has not thought of giving
mp such an important source OF revenue
as the customs dues, nor of depriving
home producers of such protection as it
is practicable TO afford.
Protection is gaining, not losing
ground. Germany, France, Belgium,
Russia, Spain, Italy--only Great Britain
itself remains to preach the gospel of
free trade to the gaping Mugwumps of
Boston. and the London Times sadly adj
mits that protection seems to be in fash
ion now.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-05
A WORTHY OBJECT.

The current number of the Board of
Trade Journal contains an article upon
a topic which should interest every one
who is in the remotest degree related to
Proyidence's prosperity. This is the
project, heartily furthered by the Rhode
Island Business Mems Association. of an
industrial exhibition of the States re-
sources. The Journal seems TO assume
that the exhibition would be confined to
manufactured products" though we
fail to see why the line should be drawn
to exclude other objects worthy of ex-
hibition. OF the enterprise the Journal
well says:
Providence can boast Of n larger num-
ber OF industrial enterprises that are Pc
culiarly its own than any other city in the
United states such an eXhibi-
tion as is proposed would have field to
draw from unequaled in this country for
variety and excellence of manufactured
product. q IL is impossible to emu
merate all of the benefits that would re-
suit from such an industrial exhibition AZ
is contemplated. One general benefit would
be that il would interest all our citizens i'm
Il
large number of people from other States,
thereby insuring n lasting benefit to every
industry represented at the exhibition.
At any rate it would enable us to require
a better knowledge of ourselves, and then
we should be better qualified To impart it
TO others.
For Rhode Island has perhaps been
too conservative. Possibly the terrible
series of financial disasters few years
ago may have taught over caution. The
State has not hid its light under bushel,
but it certainly has not, nor has Provi-
dence, blown its own horn as it might.
The city of Pawtucket has set us a
worthy example in this respect. There
is no question that the cotton centennial
helped that city. But what has helped
it most has has been the push and vigor
of its business men, who have stood be-
hind the centennial and every other pro-
ject of benefit to the city. Result of the
centennial: There are probably ten per-
sons i'll the country to-day who know
that the Slater mill is in Pawtucket TO
one who knows that the Gorham works
are in Providence. Result of the energy
and civic pride of its citizens: The splen-
did growth the city made in ten years.
If Providence were to have an exhibi-
ton good many people would learn
something about the State which would
be to their and its advantage. The
NEWS would be glad to see the solid
business men of Providence moving more
actively toward the inception of this
enterprise.