New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-21
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS.
u,,r LESSON OF EZEKIEL's VISION AP-
Piled TO LATTER-DAY TRANS
PORTATION.
cropcr n pANIELs's ADDRESS BEFORE THE
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF "T>HnAN i"'
st.<GrR AND TICKET AGENTs-CLoSE

s,.~crP AND TICKET AGENTS-CIOSE
OF THE CONVENTION.
wi, s.,., een,j-annual meeting of the American
.ao,a,,or of Genera! Passenger and Ticket Agents
IS hroueht 10 a close AT the Murray Hill Hotel
,.os,ordav The committee appointed to draw up
clr,ions upon the death of a. Y. Z. Carpenter.
,,hn for many years a member of the associa-
ton. reported
The main reof the daywas the annual address
which was delivered by George II. Daniels, general
Messenger agent of the New-York Central ana Hud-
son River Railroad. 1t was in part as follows:
The subject for present consideration is
nineteenth century application OF me F'S,on vi
Ezekiel to the transportation business OF '9-daH
and the particular words to when woH ba,ar Of
your attention Will be found IN the Irst cnapSS po
the book of the Prophet Ezekiel and part OF the
LAS il were a wheel In the middle of wheel.
To my mind this vision of 5000 years age may may
Of commerce Of The presen-the most wonderful
age of the world The outstretched wings are the
Where shin NAV sail The hands under the wings
are the countless hands of the toilng millions VINO
another by the great transportation interests OF
the busy world of commerce OF TO-DAY and land in
every country on the globe burn eIgr ana 70 GUIDE
in the darkest night d61 or Sn sda in hps and
the safety of the world on shore Inc nrr 1 70
,e the mover that propels the great steamships
and the swiftly flying trans; a IN f n the world "A
SyerH sea b ana middle Of out of the fire
went forth ghtning The lgh'h ana takes mes
sage OF good i'll to the uiieriSeSo caan through
VOTE un1 forests across sandy deserts whefe no
human being can 3ng eN ran and returned as the
srneaTance Of Hash Of lightnng TINS means the
!aSt Sonc over mountain here. through the noun
tajn there in and out with almost the r"pu''E oI
the n whcSl IN the middle Of wheel Of trans.
1,t enirtt of commerce Is in the Wheels OF traits
,1rtati6n that on land and are forever turning
distributing among all TIE nations o Of ' nr ndnsTy
P nve,tion and bring to us from every corner OF
the globe the fabrics of the older cvllizat9Hs. A
"a Wheel in the middle of a wheel and the oid
captive prophet of 800 years ago, HNE ,e hon bn
GIop,f od his vision of what be in this far
off time Of the nineteenth Cthtq I has aJjnd more
TO the sum of human learning than all the centuries
' The at trainspor;aton interest of the weird is IA
wheel in the midle OF retro Wn9f' vas, as il
r roans TO us. is only wheel in the mid
die Of wheel" But when en,ry you s,o st%p of of
money of every krdgold silver ana wv d
purchase 9nethirt Of b ts partcnar Whee he
passenger department is more important Mhe'i
admit but no well-!nformed railway man VIII Deny
that an efficient passenger dtpd.IiVI' 81 ,ri,Ss
lutte necessity to ths proper conduct oil the business
At the beginning Of his paper your attention on W hs
world which was nearly 5000 years Old 1ou ar
nov invited b to Sas amazd the wises men who
have lived during the last 900 years IL Is W. y~ o}
very recent work on this subject one OF the great
Professor Varis work covers the perioa IN IN
which Florence developed from an unmportdnt
town into city of world wide Ienowm, s's% "a,
and learning The period was not long 9ne a1,
is an added item OF interest when we consider the
grandeur of the changes that We're MiouS H "a
been accomplished in zoo years. At the opening
of the period Florence was nothing az us ~
.he
Of her position at the later date the aghoy SAYS
when bound TO recount how handful OF men. SET
tied do on s anal West yPe. OF
Europe and accumulated such vast we nnor tha5 r
tne thrones He has also relate how these rich
merchants founded modern poetry win their Dah,e
their Arnofo and Brunellesco. and o. their Mlchaqi
Angelo. who was poet painter scup,Or ah huhng
which the world will astingy admire. The nrsi
t tnes: potcal science and civ history born
in Florence with Machiavelli ToWarq the emu OF
the Middle Ages this narrow township seems n
small point of fire. shedding light over all the
world ,.. ..,n...
1.-The story OF the two centuries in which all thls
was achieved Is the story OF wonderful people.
both brave and clever, and because IN th.r inter,
course with oh Thar p%od tend Gr to P the G pbG3n Of
Florence They fought and negotiated, intrigued
they were bound make Florence the foremost city
of the Italian peninsula"
One Of the most wonderful things about this won,
dsf9l city chat It's P9PuaGn , {ed9m , exceeded
Chicago is the American Florence. In less IMAM
sixty years from her Incorporation she has grown
from nothng 70 magietn' G' u 6dngs
are among the grandes in the world; her public IN
country on the GLOBE she is striking example Of
what free, intelligent. industrious ana COURAGEOUS
People WORKING toge;her for one a'o"eu P''p'Se'
10 human mind can estimate what chieag9, win
no beD ciQ &c old
that in the Columbian Exposition she gave the
have passed ever looked upon and that man
turtles 70 come Will fail to behold its equal! Havhs
In SO snort time accomplished 50 much. She St3hd5
to-day upon the shore Of OF our greatest 4nlal
seas, an empress among the monarch cities OF the
In the history of Florence much space is devoted
TO descripu9n 81 the various gnills or aSs3cIla-
It was governed. Each OF these associations had its
THeGa sool ' and S he AZ of
the city: We have seen with what success.
The transportation interests we represent. 50
portSnce to the world at large than thousand cities
BOSTON. Buffalo. 81. Louis. Cincinnati. New-Oreans
and San Francisco are but few OF The hundreds
OF cities served by the lines Of transportation with
The American Association of General Passenger
is The b odg m b r OF KIND on 9
lines interviewer with every other commercial
interest that they S DE b
entire country; and If it has done well in the past
future. nowit hstanding the fact that there are in
the United States score OF similar associations.
for all the others more or less local in charac-
ter none Of them National or international.
II the members OF this and other associations
OF general passenger agents would give to IN" con
sideraion OF the subjects brought before them the
same earnest thought; and the same determination 10
accomplish the possible results for the interests
they represent that characterized the ''FlOrentne
Guilds 700 years some of the results OF our
work would be: Improved methods for the conduct
OF passenger traffic increased facilities for travel
more uniform and consequently more satisfactory
rates Of fare. fewer industrial and commercial dis
turbanceS. net revenue for the shareholders
the railroads. and peace and prosperity FOR
the entire country. Railroad strikes Ike railroad
wars passenger rates Of no benefit except 10
a few labor aetators In the one case and a few
tick -scalpers in the other; they both result In
loss 20 the strikers the railroads and the public at
large.