Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-07

cause the American workmen meth
DDS prevail there, and dominate every
department of life and industry.
Hundreds of men are there from the
highland valleys of the Common
wealth-many from Juniata county
descendants of the Scotch and
Irish and German settlers who came
to America before the revolution of
lT76. 1t is stronghold of both
Catholicism and Professionalism, and
these two Christian elements look
more askance at each other than the
stranger within the gates at the first
glance c'p conceive of. 1t is an in
teresting hive of
RAILROAD INDUSTRY,
and as such is a study to every man,
who is watching the unfolding of one
of the great trunk lines of transport
alton of freight and travel of this in
dustrial day and generation. 1t
would be little without the railroad,
and step backwards or long war
between the states, which will take
place when the climax of the repub-
lie has been reached, would relapse
it into a state of primitive solitude.
Railroading is only in its infancy, and
within the fifty years to come the
trunk line of the Pennsylvania Cen
tral will have half dozen more
tracks running through from Phila-
delphia to Pittsburg to transport the
produce and passenger traffic of the
continent that goes east and west by
way of the valley of the Juniata and
the Conemaugh. 1t matters not
whether
THE MOTIVE POWER
be electricity or steam, the result will
be all the sams because the road has
been located on the natural route,
and the Pennsylvania railroad can
change from steam locomotion to
electric lOcom otion as readily as adapt
itself to the other shifting and pro-
gressive changes in the mechanics
arts. Everything here works
LIKE CLOCK WORK
on schedule time, and the sight Of
the men at work in the railroad shops
and yard, and in the telegraph de-
partment impresses the fact indelibly
upon the mind that Inen can be train.
ed to work Systematically and with
great precision.
The systematic working of the rail
road might be studied with profit by
,i,,Nef ayarr ,>boea of ;p1,,ytri l;fo
IF THE FARMING INDUSTRY
Of the Commonwealth, were conduct.
ed along the same lines of precision
that railroad business is, now diTer-
ent the result. A place and time for
everything and everything in its
place, and on scheduled time among
farmers would simplify farm work.
The railroader clnnot interchange
views on tho road or across fences an
hour or two a day, which in q month
aggregate several working DAYS.
That there is more comfort to bs de-
rived from farm life than from rail-
road life is only realized after man
has spent number of years at the
precise and machine like work on the
transportation lines. The farmer
may not handle as much ready cash
as railroader, but all the same lie
gets his living, raises everything he
needs, meat, grain, &c, while the
railr nader works for the money, and
pays for his living in cash. II the
farmer had to, or would of his own
accord take care of his hours rs
railrOader has to do, he would always
be ahead with his work. and do his
work well. II he would plow with
the care that is required in laying
railroad ties and rails there would be
no bad plowing, no skips and half
turned burrows and no half narrowed
and half cultivated fields to make
seed beds for - many weed stalks as
grain stalks. Farming is the great
est of all industries, and every dime
and penny is produced directly or in
directly from the soil. There is
more solid comfort to be derived
from farming than from railroad life,
if the people could only see it in the
hay day hours Of their life, but it will
be long tina N the future before
fsrming-if ever-can be systemized
like raiiroading, for the reason, that
every railroader is not his own boss,
but is bossed by boss on up step by
step TO the head bosses of the road,
who keep the work all along the line
up to general standard, here and
there, however, is farmer who is up
to the best methods of work which
count for him many fold.
GROWING.
Altoona IS growing, and since the
census year sevalal thous md more
people have located in the town, and
the settlement along the road is ex-
tending itself in the direc ion of Ty-
rome. The young man who can aud
will buy property along the line be
tween the two towns, and has the
pluck 'to stick to il" will find it n
nice nest egg for him in older days.
The railroad company pay to its
employees there, every month, four
hundred and twenty five thousand
dollars of its earrings.
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