Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-19
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS,

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| IAN important case was settled in Spring
field. Mass, last week. which was Of great
interest to the numerous mercantile estab-
| lishments who use the cash carrier system
| in their business" said Frank s. Thomas
| Of Springfield at the Riggs House yester
day. Most Of the cash carrier systems
| now in use are equipped with the patents
| Of ]. c. Martin, which are owned by the
Martin Cash Carrier Company. Another
| company, known as the Martin q Hill
| Company, and also as the Lamson Com
pany, brought suit. which AFFECTED the va
lidity of Martins patents. as well As their
use by the Martin Cash Carrier Company.
which. II upheld. would have caused all the
| houses using the Martin system to have
| been subject to heavy demands for royal
| ties and other damages. The suit, how
! ever. was decided in favor of the Martin
| Cash Carrier Company. Every one who
| shops in the big stores here and elsewhere
| is. of course familiar with the wonderful
| system. You buy an article from a clerk.
| who takes your money, wraps II IN a little
ticket. upon which she has written the
| amount of your purchase and the denomi-
| nation of the money handed to her, puts X
in little box. and places the latter on the
| metal framework which runs above the
| u
less cable and whirled away to the cashier
| in some remote portion OF the building.
who in turn returns to the same clerk the
| change that is coming to you In less time
! than it takes to tell about it 1t took a
| number of years Of diligent labor on Mar
| tins part to perfect the machine that has
| banished the shrill shrek OF cash from
the bargain counters Of the big millinery
| stores, ard the singular part Of 1t Is that
| the most difficult thing to overcome was
the noise made by the cable Steel wire
| was first used, but its whirr 1t went over
| the various wheels was too much for the
| nerves of the employees. At last it was
| found that a closely woven wooden cable
solved the vexed.problem. and now the only
| sound that a shopper hears when the per-
fected system Is used Is the clink Of the
little boxes they are started on their
Journey to the cashier, and their musical
rattle as they return to their final desti-
nation"
IT spent a couple of months recently trav-
cling through Mexico" said Warren Field
Of Boston at the Ebbitt last night land
never saw a more happy and apparently
more prosperous people in my life. con-
fess that had started out on my Journey
with considerable misgiving about the char
acter Of the people across the Rio Grande
and 1 made up my mind that l would have
to sleep with one eye open in order to save
my valuables and be suspiciously On the
alert when / had dealings with the ma
tives. I soon found that my fears were
unfounded. l discovered that the Mexican
men Of business were wide-awake and pro-
gressive and were quick to appreciate and
take advantage of any fair opportunity
| that might be offered to them to enlarge
their means of making money. Indeed;
was struck with the Americanism II
may use the word to characterize energy,
application and determination, of our south
ern neighbors. / was prepared TO see q
great deal Of suffering and poverty from
what / had read about the conditions Of
free silver coinage countries. but / was
asreeably disappointed in perceiving that
the people generally Of all classes seemed
to be bright and happy and what is better
than all. at work. 1 believe that Mexico
Is on the eve Of a great upward move
ment In an Industrial sense that Will sur
| prise nations more favored, and I advise
the agents Of labor saving machinery ana
improved appliances of all descriptions to
try the country as field for their oper-
atoms be ,..use there will I've no N
about its wonderful fertility
THE conservative men Of New York
state are almost a unit in favor of the
adoption Of the plan proposed by Elihu
Root. which will limit the veto power Of the
governor of New York." said John r. Ham,
lin. the New York lawyer, at La Normandie
yesterday. 'The proposition has been laid
before the constitutional convention, which
Is now In session, and the hope Is enter
tanned that 1t may be adopted an amend
ment to the state constitution and sub
mitted TO the people for their approval.
! Mr.. Roots plan Is extremely sensible as
well as very novel. 1t provides that before
a bill shall become a law II shall be pre-
scented, sitter II has passed the legislature
to council to be composed of the governor
and two of the judges of the court OF ap-
peals, who shall be designated from time
to time by the chief justice of the supreme
! court. If the governor and one Judge shall
| approve measure, the governor shall sign
/ governor b,.f
| 1t meets the views of the two judges the
| two judges shall sign it, And II a bill
shall not be approved by the governor and
| one judge or by the two judges. 1t shall be
sent back to the house wherein IL Originate
| ed for further consideration. The estab-
lishrnent of such board of review as that
| contemplated in the proposed plan would
i be long step forward in the direction OF
| legislative reform. which Is badly need
ed in New York. as well in nearly ell
the other states OF the Cnion."
Everything is mess on board Ship"
said an old naval officer at the Arlington
this morning. "A mess is really a club, in
which the officers. for instance Join to-
gether and subscribe pro rata to a common
fund for a common purpose. Thus there are
the newspaper mess. the cigar mess and a
whole lot of other messes. and on a vessel
| which is newly commissioned for a cruise
and cruises generally last three years
| there is a cable code mess. the details of
which may be interesting. The officers be-
| longing to the cable mess select some one
person in the United States usually the
wife of one of their number. to whom will
/ be cabled whenever the vessel reaches a
! port the news of the general condition Of
/ the mess. The cablegram Is sent to this
one person. and she in turn telegraphs the
translation of II to each of the families Of
the officers belonging to the mess. In this
way the expense of communicating with
home is largely diminished. / remember
once when in Japan We sent home a ca BILE
| gram of two words. 1t cost 81. or about
40 cents apiece. These two words Informed
several hundred anxious people IN oil parts
Of America that their dear ones ON the
other side Of the world were safe AMI we'll
The message was sent to the wife OF our
executive officer. who in turn sent the
| translation, as 1 have indicated to all of
our families. The code is being improved
every year, by the way, and the cipher Is
now both amplified and simplified to such
an extent that 1 am surprised that IL is
not used more than IT is on land in the
transaction of commercial business"
II. and ID. Reorganization.
The organization of the Southern Rail-
way Company (the successor of the Rich