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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

FREIGHT CARS AND THEIR TRAVELS.
Chicago Record.


conductors train sheets, first checks them
against the reports which are sent MIN
by the checkers at the different division
points. The car numbers are then entered
in a record book. against the proper sta
tons at which the cars are reported. The
stations along the road instead of being
known by their correct names, are deslg-
mated by numbers, and these numbers re-
present not only the stations but the num-
Der of miles these stations are from the
terminal of the road.
Thus. the number "163" would represent
a station of certain name which is l6'
miles from the terminal Of the road AT
the end of the month, when the mileage is
figured. these numbers facilitate the work
greatly. as if an item occurs OF ten cars
moved from the terminal of the road to
station No. 163, the mileage is readily seen
to be 1GSO miles.
Conductors, of course. frequently make
mistakes in reporting car numbers. but
the system of checking and rechecking
is so complete that but little or no trou-
BILE results. \ conductor on his train sheet
may report the number of a car as 100
and the train checker as "10l." The car
accountant on noticing this discrepancy,
will consult his last record of car '10O'
and will perhaps find that il is on some
southern line.
lie Will then look up his record Of car
"10l," and if his last account shows it in
the vicinity reported he viii accept that
number as being. the correct one; but if
his record should show this car also on
some foreign line he would then have to
80 back TO the previous conductors report,
and would perhaps find the correct num-
Der of the car was "1O5" or '107."
As soon as any car belonging to a given
company is delivered TO a connecting line
this road must pay at a certain fixed rate
for every mile it travels. The highest rate
paid Is cent a mile on a refrigerator cars
belonging TO private packing companies.
Three-fourths of a cent a mile is paid on
refrigerator cars belonging to railroad
companies and sixteenth of cent mile
is paid on all other cars. At the end OF
the month each company makes out a re
port to the different foreign lines of the
mileage their cars have made during the
month. and these companies then make a
bill against the reporting road for the pro-
per amount of mileage
In the course of the year IN the neigh
borhood of 100000 changes hands in the
settlement Of mileage accounts. and i'm no
commercial operation is the same conf
dence displayed in handling such vast
amount of money. No opportunity what
ever is given the different roads to go back
of the signatures Of the respective officers
for an examination of the mileage as GER
titled by them. and while this may be taken
advantage OF I'm some few instances. IT is
the exception rather than the rule and is
only resorted to by small roads on the edge
of bankruptcy.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Small line of Fringed Table Cloths that we want closed
ga Red and White Cloths at 29C; 90 Cardinal Fnged Cloths
1914 Cardinal Frnged Cloths at $780, 124 Cardinal rnged Cloths
"a Bleached Fnqed Cloths &c. One lot Of about rs nged
Table Covers reduced TO acc.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19
HOTEL HAPPENINGS.
Some Tales Told by Travellers, Yes
terday,
In the Hobbies and Offices of Local
Places of Entertainment - The
Names Cleaned From the Regis
tarS

A well known citizen of Salt Lake
City was about the Mcclure last even
ing, and in speaking of that new State
gave expression with the proyiso that
his name should be unmentioned) TO
some features of the Mormon element
in that country. AS stated by the gen
tleman, il would seem that the Nor
mons have not entirely given up the
belief in the doctrine of plural wives and
that the long quiet and apparent acqui-
essence in the present law had and was
for the simple purpose Of gaining
Statehood, and that when the State ma
chinery was in working order 1t would
be found that they would at least at
tempt to make it an old time feature in
their daily and public existence. In
other words, the judicial machinery,
and as far as possible the legislative,
would be in strict accord with the well
known beliefs of the MormOns upon
this subject, and YOU will see trouble
between the general government and
that State and It's people.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Apropos Of this, It 3 also currently
reported that the present reform
Council has been guilty Of the same
er-ma alleged against the lest Council
me PIX cn-l0lng Of bills because the
apprcpr.a-.Ols wele exceeded. In the
absence OF figures. under the policy no"
ob,2-Cing a- the office Of the City C-erN'
the details caElO- be given, but runner
has g that the three months appropr-a-
ton ordinance for January. February
ar1 Naccl. 1895. waf exceeded, several
Of the dsp3rtmeBts spending more
money dur.ng -haLa,srval than was ap-
propr.a "a 90 them. and that the same
king occurred curing The fag end or the
year. b-ls 20 sflarge amount in the as-
greg2te having been held over until the
appropriation flor the first three months
Of 1896 became 3vilable. IL VIII be
readily rem fubered tha one Of the cn-3l
charges against the last Council was
this holding over Of bills. thereby m
curing foa-lg debt which had 70 be
l.qu.dfs 0u- Of future approximations.
yet, Enless figures are very deceiving,
tle( Dresel- reform body has been
~ - OF that very same thing. and has
~ cut OF the revenues Of 1896 scne
thousands O., dollars of bills contracted
during November and December, 1879,
and this i'm the face Of enormously IN
creased taxation. is this cutting into
the revenues oil 1896 10 be one or the
reasons for again increasing The taxes
during the present ye2ct
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Windsor: Mrs. w. z. Cra;ghead
Philadelphia; j. w. Gray. Washington
A. 5. Carr. Evansville; w. II. Williams
Columbus: G.. c. Ralston, Toledo, o..
Edward c. Walton, Winsted, Conn.
S. r. Mallory and wife. St Marys; w
B. Mcclellan and wife, Miss Ella A.
Adams. Wilmington. Del; J. e. Rock
well. Chicago; j. P. Vanwinkle, Dan
Vile, Ky.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Behle-: J. L. Thomas, J. NJ. Thomas,
$. NJ. Thomas John L. Thomas Wilkes
burg: J. H. McGrew, r. w. Brown,
Washington. Pa: W. H. Stoves H. H.
Flack. S;stersville; J. G. Gall, Mar
tins Ferry, o.; J. R. Mehen, Parkers-
burg.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

'I believe" said a well-known trav-
cling man at the Windsor last evening,
"tha. this immediate vicinity is soon
to experience a most important bust
ness revival [ learned to-day on the
other side of the river, that the Ma
tcnal glass works, Of Bella.re, would
start Their plant on Monday next, with
force 70 commence with Of five hun
dred men. This Of itself will help out
Wheeling. and adds, n my judgment
another new feature to the business
prosperity of 1896"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19


~ S'i 49, e,S nrocess which was
tn"e '-.o Ii''' 49, -,..b -, h7or a- ,1e
-..'., 80. sb,ni +be time r1e ReDub-
80 49,. -..e-s me- vociferous in sAou,-
llc'. ~. ,,.-,n-icr of working a trans
ing --G.. h, -ro. 5onarrment of the city
81 i-i.',-',.' 49, r.IIsn under .la ban OF
and FRAT the next thing
.-e ., Il ',-' .,.os.. is Inc removl, Of the
we ll, Nh -sa substitution Of other
ePp.. . . as .,ssrs of .aviry money. This
ans, -,,.lro money ak the gas works
asa ... - 7bs reader of the great
tt,frgs C,vr,il was TO- DO after Che Main
s-Tes 5 9-'..,-- --so,is Something like q
ha-l-' , 80, ~-,,- si7Dsai since tha. de-
cA- I ,'-.,ls0- vet the building or
t......., -,5s .,c.omoishei nothing eX-
''-.-'-. ..,-~is5 y c7pple Of icbs for the
C-, ~ '''
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19
FUR CAPES

All 1000 and $22. so Fur Capes at $1,000
All $25.OO $780, $50. 90 and $35. GO Electric Seal
Wool Seal and Monkey Fur CapeS $500
gey-Lades Misses and Chldre1's laCkes Many reduced
than half price.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

A railroad must give TO foreign cars
while on its line the same care as to oil
ing and packing that it gives to its own.
II foreign car is damaged through n
wreck or by careless handling. It must be
repaired and put in perfect order before
it is delivered 10 its owner In order to
prevent bad order" foreign cars from
coming on to a road. inspectors are sta
toned at all Interchange points, whose
duty it is carefully to examine every car
offered and see that It is in a perfect run
ming order
II there are some small defects about the
car which do not materially effect its run
ming, as a broken door or a cracked oil
box cover, the car is accepted but q de-
feet card is tackled on each side Of the
car showing that it is accepted with such
minor defects as may be enumerated.
DO not cars get lost or stolen? I'm very
rare eases only. and then some one has
failed i'm his duty. One Of the largest rail
roads entering Chicago report that they
have completely lost track of but four
cars in fifteen years. Connected with tho
car department Of every road are several
'lost-car' agents. whose duty it is to
look up delayed or lost cars.
Every month a list is furnished these
men by the car accountant giving the
numbers Of cars then on foreign roads
which for some cause or other are being
delayed. II is the duty of these agents TO
find out where the cars are and send them
home
Occasionally a car gets showed off the
end Of switch track into underbrush.
where it lies forgotten until the brush be-
comes so thick as to completely hide IT,
The numbers and initials Of cars occas-
ionally become 50 blurred and indistinct
that the road on whose line they are. find
themselves unable to tell who their pro-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

on Michigan road a short time ago
car had been lost track Of completely. and
the most diligent search failed to reveal
its whereabouts. a farmer finally volun-
teered the information TO the lost-car
agent that the car he was looking for was
about "seven miles from the track back
in the woods" The agent on investigat-
ing the matter. found this to be the case.
The previous winter n temporary track
seven miles long had been laid back I'm the
woods from the main lipe to a lumber
camp. Some OF the contractors ar the
camp. being IN need of a comfortable
kitchen, had appropriated a car for the
purpose, removing the body from the
trucks. which We're then showed in a ditch
and covered with brush.
In the spring when the temporary track
was taken up this car was overlooked
with the result that il was left stranded
I'm the woods seren miles from the place It
should have been.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

NJ. Jchn NJ. TOmburg, of Cory, Pa,
a well-kncwn engine builder, IS a guest
Of the Mcclure.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Stsmm: J. W. James. Fairmont; J.
G. Rohrbark, Warrington; Chas. HAIRS
barger. West Union; X Robey. Oil
CITY; 2. Allen, Pi-ts5urg; ". J. Cleve-
land. II. E. Lynn, W. p. Rowe. Phila-
delph.a; w. S. Sutcliff, Toledo; L. B.
Henry. Cincinnati; P. o. Shaughnessy,
New York.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19


NJ. Jchn NJ. TOmburg, of Cory, Pa,
well-kncwn engine builder, IS a guest
os the Mcclure.
Mr.. Henry Weber, of New York, a
wall-known travelling man, IS at the
Mcclure. on his first visit, after a sick
ness with the fever for four months.
Mr.. c. W. Warden, representing the
well-knOwn publishers. VIM. Mann &
Co.. OF StauntCn. Va. was a guest last
evening Of the Mcclure.
st. Charles: w. W. Bates, Fairmont;
John Coleman and wife. S.stersville;
T. G. H9.Des. Chicago; Ray w. Smith.
Warren, Pa. p. 4. Turp:n and wife,
Greene county, Pa; p. J. Laughton,
Woodsfeld, o.
Mr.. Lew Seidbauch, a well-known
Wheeling travelling man, IS again on the
road. and was guest last evening OF
the Mcclure.
Brunswick: ]. G. Duval, West LIB
erty; J. s. Waltz. West Alexander;
Mrs. Go. McCure. P.ttsburg; n.
Schaner. Belmont E. T. Petty and lady,
GAINESVILLE; W. c. Shane, St5ubenvile;
J. :. Ward. S.. ersvlle. W. Va.
William J. Morris and Jas. T. Nc
CURE. of Chicago. who have been in The
CITY several weeks. selling a work on
the proceedings Of the Catholic Con-
gress. held during the Worlds Fair in
Chicago. and who have been stopping
at the Behler. Will leave the city to-day.
They We're very successful in their can
vassing. and made many warm friends
who will regret their departure. Mr..
Norris was so fayorably impressed
with Wheeling. that he seriously con-
templates returning to locate perma-
nently in this city.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Mr.. r. B. Burgess, representing Will
iamS q Werner Co., of Rochester, n.
y. is a guest of the Stamm Hotel on
his regular visit 10 the Wheeling trade.
Mr.. Burgess has been working the
Wheeling territory for about seven
years and is we'll and favorably known
% the jobbers in this city, outside even
of his line. Il always like to make
Wheeling" said Mr.. Burgess to the
Register last evening at his hotel, for
the reason that l can always transact
my business in a very agreeable way
with rhe jobbers of Wheeling. They
always receive me we'll and YOU can
soon get their orders or not. They will
not put YOU off and will soon tell you
whether they will buy or not I carry
about 400 samples in chocolate
goods, and the public have but little
idea Of the confectionery industry in
this country. There is not over . per
cent. OF the confectionery consumed in
this country imported and recently the
American manufacturers are establish
ing branch houses in England"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

McLure-J NJ. Comb, Philadelphia;
o. II. Hutton, Jr., Providence; R. H. Os-
car, L. WO5rner, 5. NJ. Brewster, Fred
Charles, II. NJ. Cohan, New York; Roger
l.. Foote, ID. r. Hemt. w. S. Hyser, Gin
cinnati. O.; r. Helsley, Wellsburg; H..
H. Flock. Sistersville; NJ. J. Connolly,
d. 5. Downing, Butler; A. c. Williams,
Philadelphia; c. r. Corlett, Washing
ton, d. c.; S. NJ Block, Richmond, Va;
w. Z. De Butts, Boston, Mass.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Mr.. Henry Weber, of New York, a
wall-known travelling man, IS at the
Mcclure. on his first visit, after a sick
ness with the fever for four months.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19
THOMAS F. WATSON DEAD.

4 Prominent and Popular West Virgininn
Passes Away--Wnl BE Missed in Fair
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Mr.. c. W. Warden, representing the
well-known publishers. VIM. Mann &
Co. OF StauntCn. Va. was a guest last
evening of the Mcclure.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-11-19

"This is most queer" said the gentle
man, and he listened expectanty.
Then he heard the numbering sounds of
heavy object being carried directly past
his door. With a curious feeling he
opened the door and went out into the
upper hall. A long, narrow, coffin-like
shape was standing i'll one corner against
the wall. The fading light from an only
window fell directly upon it, making its
wan wood whittier.
The gentleman involuntarily shuddered.
"W hat does this mean?' he questioned.
"Oh, it's only a cedar chest" stammered
Hiram, heartily wishing he had never
made it.
AT that moment the nurse came out OF
the sick-room. "W hat an ominous thing
to bring into house where the lady has
been so ill.," she gasped. And she went
to the cook and told her privately: SIT
was one thing to be nursing a sick per-
son, and anot her to be having a coffin sit
ting right outside the door. And she'd
have to bring her midnight lunch into
the madame's room hereafter, as she had
no mind to see what that chest looked
like at night"
Now the dame was convalescent, and
learning somewhat of the impressions
her cedar chest was creating, she ven
tured out of her room to look at it her
self.
at smells like grave" she said. "I'm
not going to stay i'll a house with that
Ii, ,I, knI
ordered my own coffin"
And forthwith she gave orders to have
everything packed and in readiness for
instant departure. A few days later, a
caravan of trunks and carriages passed
along the road leading to Ellsworth, and
the danes house was boarded up and de-
serted. Then all the facts became COM
mon gossip, and the people of all the
country round, even up as fer as Els
worth, made very merry at Hiram's eX-
pense, and the story of the cedar chest
went down into local legend. And
through the winter, when the DANES
house in its coat of snow stood like the
ghost of itself, it was whispered strange
noises, like the hammering of nails, and
sounds as though earth was being
shoveled on coffin, mingled with spec
trail signs and means, were heard from
that part of the dwelling where the cedar
chest stood. And there it stands yet
solitary, in solitary house; and people
shun the place as haunted.
Sable Villa, south surry, Me,
October 81 lssb.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-11-19
DEMAND FOR GOOD ROADS.
wherever They Have Been Agitated There
Is Noticeable Improvement.

From scores Of localities in every cor
her of the land comes the cheerful mes
rage, "Our roads are better than they
have ever been," says The l.. A. W.
Bulletin. Ard the same thing holds
true of town and city streets.
1t is very clear to an intelligent OBJ
server III u position to broadly view the
field that more and better roadbuilding
IS being done this year than has been
done III any past year.
The agitation fer improved highways
has begun to produce practical results
The people are getting their feet on the
ground and are Undertaking the worth
OF their theories regarding good roads.
1t Is pleasant to note that the people
everywhere appreciate the many advan-
tages to be gained from improved high
ways Every mile of good road makes it
easier to secure more of the same sort.
The example is contagious
Even i'll localities where no work for
the betterment Of roads has been begun
there has been created dislike for mud
that will result in its early disappear
Rnce.
Everybody wants good roads when
their attention is called to the matter.
With some one to act as a leader they
will follow. Pick out just the right sort
of man and put him in charge Of your
streets and highways, and he will make
it more of pleasure and Of greater
profit to reside i'll his neighborhood
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-11-19

We all know that any tired muscle can
be restored by rest. Your stomach is a
muscle. Dyspepsia is its manner of say
ing 81 am tired. Give me a rest To
rest the st1macG y1u must do its work
outside OF the body.
This is he Shakers method of curing
indigestion, and its success is best at
tested by the fact that these people are
practically free from what is without
doubt the most prevalent os q. :. .sea5es.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial not only
contains digested food which is promptly
absorbed without taxing the tired diges-
tive organs, but it is likewise an aid to
the digestion of other foods in The stom-
ach. A 10-cent trial bottle will convince
you of its merits, and these you can OBJ
tain through all druggists.
LAXOL is the best med cine for chill
dren. Doctors recommend it in place of
Castor Oil.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-11-19
MAGAZINE and Book Notes.

General Horace Porter, in his Cam
paigning with Grant" in the Christmas
Century, deals with General Grants de-
meanor during he battle of the Wilder
ness. General Porter says that even dur
ing the most critical moments, General
Grant manifested no perceptibe anxiety,
but that he was visibly affected by the
sight of blood. During the second day
OF the battle Grant smoked about twenty
strong cigars, his highest record in the
use of tobacco.
ELECTION Night in New York forms
the subject of a full-page draw ing by w.
7. Peters in Hdrper's Weekly of Noyem-
Der IA. Portraits of the new governors
will occupy page. Illustrations by
Remington, Keeper, and others accom-
pany an article on the "Horse Show" The
second instaIment of S. X. Crockett's
story appears, with illustrations by Rosina
Emmet Sherwood.
The journal Of Medicine and Science
the official organ of the Maine academy
of medicine and science, published at
Portland, has just rounded oat its second
year. The magazine has greatly increased
in size and quality during its short life.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-11-19
Road Notes.

The comparatively small kingdom Of
Italy has 81, 0G0 miles Of highway.
The United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland has us, 900 miles Of
highway.
In many parts Of Europe river and
canal routes are legally regarded as
highways.
The Roman roads, according to their
Importance, were from s to 30 feet in
width.
According to Mulha1l, there are in
the United States eco, 100 miles of pub
lie highway.
Little Denmark is admirably provided
with roads, having 1000 miles of pub
lilo highway.
Until the beginning Of the nineteenth
century all travel in Ireland was done
on horseback.
Belgium, hardly larger than one Of
our New England states, has 5,700
miles of public highway.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-11-19
SAFE FROM AN ENEMY.
Many of Our Country Roads VIII Keep
Out Friend Foe.

Out Friend or Foe.
Some writers are clamoring for a
great system Of military roads over
which we could hurry our armies in
case of invasion by foreign foe.
1t seems to US this is not the proper
view to take Of it. Why not keep the
roads We have in many parts Of the
country? No foe could pass over them.
They are the best kind of protection
against friend or foe who may seek to
pass along them.
There are many towns so effectually
hedged about with these bottomless bar
riers that progress can't reach them in
100 years. They are barricaded against
the world about them.
Sitting amid vast contiguity of
mud, some communities live and rot
like weeds i'll a bayou, or if it ism t
mud it is sand or dust that makes trav-
cling impossible, or, at least, unpleas-
ant.
AS sure as anything can be mud is
going ont Of fashion. Public decency
and convenience are being looked after.
Il. A. ". Bulletin.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-11-19
AfnaI Notitfs.
NOTICE OF FoRECLosuRn.

WHEREAS, Mary Scammon, of Franklin,
w Hancock county, Maine, ON the 30th
day of November, 1889, by her mortgage deed
of that date recorded in book 276, page 500. OF
the Hancock county. Maine, Registry Of Deeds
conveyed in mort gaze to Ira Scarnmon, then
of Eastbroo&, in said county, but now de-
ceased, 4 certain lot or parcel n' land sit
uated in Franklin aforesaid, ard tCunde ed
and described as follows, to wit: Beginning
at the Mill Brook At the northeast corner
bounds of Jeremiah Bragdon's lot, so-caled;
thence south htty-three degrees west seven
tY-onc rods to stake and stone; thence
north sixteen degrees west niuety-une and
one-half rods more less to q stake and
stones on the north line of said Bragdon
lot; thence south sixty-three degrees east to
the Mill Brook or Pond; thence by the Pond
or Brook to the bounds first mentioned, con-
tanning exclusive of reserve foHtS-1ne acres
more or less. And whereas the said ira
ScammOn is now deceased and the under
signed, Howard V. Scammon, is the duly APP
pointed and qualified administrator of the
estate OF said "a SCammOn, and whereas the
conditions of said mortgage have been
broken and are broken and unperformed,
now therefore, by reason of the breach of the
conditions of said mortgage, l. the under
signed, in my capacity administrator as
aforesaid, claim a foreclosure OF said mort
gage and give this notice thereof as is re-
quired by statute.
Dated this 27th day Of October, a. d. 1896,
HOWARD V. SCAMMoN. :