Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-04-18

earnings increased S1,143,S7S, and pas.
senger earnings decreased $685., 1855.
Argus: Men are busily at work fixing
up and repairing excavators on the
Northern Pacific, and soon several will
be sent out on the road. This will give
employment to many men, as they are
sent in all directions at this season Of
the year.
Bismarck Tribune: According to the
mail clerks along the line, the weighing
ofmails is revealing b eavy mail traffic
on the Northern Pacific On the train
which arrived here yesterday morning
there were $4,000 pounds Of mail matter
out OF st. Paul, and the train which car
rled 1t left st. Paul Monday. one of the
lightest mail days IN the week.
Considerable stock is constantly going
eastward over the road to market. The
good prices are tempting the etockmen
to frequent shipments. There is an
average of four cars Of stock picked up
and shipped east each day on this divi-
sion. The stock IS mostly cattle, al
though sheep and hogs are frequently
shipped. Young cattle are being sent
west, and the dispatchers sometimes find
1t difficult to get stock cars to fill
orders.
The special merchandise tariff, under
the western classification, promised
Fargo by the general traffic manager,
went into effect Monday The new sched-
ule is voluntary reduction on the part
OF the Northern Pacific, and makes conc
Changes OF considerable Importance 10
points contiguous to Fargo. No change
III reference TO the rate to this city, ex-
cept one-cent reduction on frst-class
merchandise, is made. This tariff az.
plies only upon traffic originating at
Fargo.
Assistant Superintendent Becker, for.
merly OF this division, had Wild ride
recently on flying hand car. The Plain
dealer OF yesterday says: Lying along
the Northern Pacific track between East
Grand Forks and Carthage junction. can
be found the remains at uncertain inter-
walls of hand car excursion which
started out IN high hope this morning
from this city bound for Red Lake Falls.
Assistant Superintendent Becker made
all Of the arrangements for the event.
the greater part of which consisted in
rigging . sail to propel the car. The
rest Of the party consisted Of W. H.
Carver and Roadmaster Dave Vsnnetts.
The party boarded the car while the
breeze was good and Becker hoisted sail.
The wheels began to revolve rapidly and
the sail bellied out nicely, and on all
board experienced great satisfaction over
the success of the experiment. All would
have gone we'll had not Vannette and
Carver on the way to Carthage Junction
engaged in an argument over the amount
of speed that could really be attained
by the car.
Vannette contended that if every yerd
Of sail wss set the machine would do 80
miles an hour. Carver would no be con-
vlnced and to prove it Vannette had
Capt. Becker SWING to the breeze everv
square inch of rag aboard. The effect
was wonderful. The car seemed to hy.
Fifteen miles an hour was the rate for
the first minute. Twenty the second;
twenty-six, the third; twenty-eight came
with the next. Vannette was in high
spirits and just as the wheels began to
turn at the rate of thirty miles per sixty,
he became so hurriedly enthusiastic as
to be carried entirely off the track. The
car felt likewise and preceded him into
the ditch. He struck on his face and
remained for sometime unconscious.
Carver lay some distance away when
found just as unconscious and fully con-
vinced that thirty miles per hour on
hand car was possible. Becker walked
the track half mile from the point
he jumped off while the machine was
going dead easy at fifteen, and summon
ing help brought his two companions
to the city where DR.. Campbell dressed
their wounds and placed them in as easv
condition as circumstances would
allow.
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