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New-York tribune., 1897-01-30

and fashion was unable to stand up under the
towering competition Of these houses. Com
pared to the gorgeous splendor OF these houses,
II appeared dingy and old-fashoned, and finally
gave up the struggle.
The American people are pre-eminently race
Of travellers The railroads Of this country are
a barometer of the Nations prosperity. When
the American gets money he doesn't indulge
himself as the European but he takes trip.
New-York is the mecca of all these travellers.
and with such travel hotels are needed New
York presents attractions for the traveller that
no other place in the country can offer. Here
there are the yacht races, the Horse Show, the
bicycle show and a thousand and one exhibi-
tions and entertainments that attract people to
New-YOrk. Horse Show week in New-York sees
the hotels crowded. 1t Is not the travelling
salesman the business man that comes here
fashion and the society Of the country. Visitors
come equipped with the latest fashions and
make the hotels extremely lively for the time
Then NewYOrk is the great clearing house for
European travel. Every that goes to Eu-
rope or returns from Europe passes through
NewYork. These travellers always manage to
spend a day or two in the metropolis either be-
fore sailing or after arriving. and they con-
tribute to the great tide OF business that floats
In and out Of the big hotels.
The time has long since passed. so far as this
city is concerned. when the guest Of hotel
New-York tribune., 1897-01-30

is willing 10 be on hand AT stated nour 'hree
times day to get his meals. and be satisneu
with a bare room in which are placed bed'
bureau and washstand He wants something
more, and to supply this want the modern MOTEL
has been built. Upon the European plan he ex-
ercises the greatest possible freedom The guest
arrives at the hotel and Is assigned to room.
He can make use OF the room whenever he wish
es to. so long as he stays. He Is not fettered
about the hours for meals At any hour OF the
day or night that he comes In he finds the
oommodlous cafe open and within as brief
space Of tinss a. possible he Ii able to get any
New-York tribune., 1897-01-30

METROPOLITAN HOTELS.

F1REPRoOF PALACES IN BRICK. STONE.
MARBLE AND STEEL. ENRICHED
WITH PRICELESS FRESCOES
AND FURNISHINGS FOR
NATION OF
TRAVELLERS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-19

has been accomplished that takes away
the general traplike character of the box
es in which 800 clerks handle the precious
mail matter of 70,0O0.000 people.
1t is freely admitted that the pay of
these men. compared with what they are
required to know and the shocking risk
which they assume. is out of all fair pro-
portion. A postal clerk must spend as
much time in acquiring proficiency as a
doctor or lawyer devotes to the learning
of his profession. Besides the danger of
their occupation a postal clerk on some
of the lines must not only know how to
get a letter to a town in the quickest pos
sible time, but he must know what car
rier in a town like Chicago to give it to.
1t is a fact that although the army of
clerks has grown from 200 to 75Uv and in
twenty years time the percentage of cor
rect distribution has risen from 1888 to
9S.0S there has been no Redistribution of
salaries.
The wages paid clerks is as follows:
Glass l. $500 to $500: class 2. $500 to 5000:
class 8. $1,000 to sl15O: class 4. $3.50 to $3.50:
class 5. $3.50 to s1400.
A postal clerk who is injured while in
line of duty is allowed time by the de-
partment in case he must lay off. But
there is a sharp drawing of the line in so
far as the meaning OF the words Line of
duty apply. For instance not long ago
n man rode on a mail wagon to the car.
lie fell off and broke his leg and in con-
sequence was laid up for weeks. The de-
partment in that case ruled that the
clerk was not in the discharge of his du-
ties when the accident took place and de-
clined to make any allowance. Another
man jumped out of his car to get a pot of
coffee at a railroad lunch stand. He sus-
tanned injuries which laid him up for a
month. but the authorities decided that
he was not discharging any duty and
would not allow for lost time. In order
to be allowed for off time in case of in
jury the hurt must be sustained while
the clerk is at work at the case or table.
For several years there has been an at
tempt made to convert the money which
accumulates from the deductions from
of failures to report and for other rea-
sons into a sort of benefit fund from
which incapactated men who have been
injured while at work or the widows of
those who have lost their lives shall be
paid a stipulated sum, and this plan has
always failed because of a strong aver
sion to any sort of a civil pension list
This feeling has up to this time prevent
ed legislation that would afford indemnity
for the loss of life or limb while handling
Uncle Sans mails.
If soldier is shot by a redskin out on
the plains of Wyoming the government
gives him pension, but if clerk who is
required to commit to memory ten times
more information than any officer or SOL
der of the whole army and who assumes
greater risks each time he takes to his
car, he must be satisfied with what he
gets from the accident companies, and
they won't pay for any injury unless the
ailment can be seen with the naked eve"
Chicago Tribune.
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LIVE LIVES OF RISK,
Great Mortality Of Uncle SANS Postal CO..
Clerks.

1.-THE percentage Of postal clerks killed
and wounded while In the discharge Of
their duties Is greater than the American
army suffered in the loss of soldiers in
the war with Mexico"
The above remark was made by a for
mer postmaster general and Is now re-
called by reason of the recent startling
fatalities attending railway postoffice
clerks while at work In their cars in the
seventh division of the service.
Since June 26 of this year no less than
nine clerks have been literally ground to
pieces Or charred into unrecognizable
masses while at work and exposed to the
dangers of the rail. Five of these men
were killed at one time in one car on the
Wabash road, between St. Louis and
Kansas City, on the night of June rs.
More recently two more were killed in a
head-end collision on the Santa Fe, near
Emporia, kas., and in the accident of
like character there was another fatality
ninth victim met his fate on the Wabash,
near Kettesville Mo-. and SO in ore di-
vision, comprising the states of Missouri,
Kansas and Colorado, and the Indian and
Oklahoma territories, there have been
killed in three months time nearly as
many men as have lost their lives in any
whole year in all the eleven divisions of
the railway mail service during the last
twenty years.
Here is table which shows how the
grim reaper has followed the growth of
the postal service. 1t has been compiled
from the reports of the general superin-
tendent of the railway mail service:
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News OF the Railroads.

Conductor David Pratt Of the Grand
Trunk has resigned his position, in
order to take a needed rest after Is
years of constant service.
The new station of the Aroostool1
Northern r. r. Co. on the Houghton &
Weeks seed farm, Fort Fairfield. has
been named Houghtonville by General
Manager F. w. Cram.
An Ohio millionaire has begun suit
against the Lake Shore Railroad to
test the compaEy's right to refuse to
sell mileage books at $40 except on
condition that they be used exclusively
by the purchaser.
Some of the freight cars which come
east nowadays are literally covered
with notices extolling and signs indi-
cativeof the virtuesof somebody's soap.
which merely shows the progressive
ness of advertisers nowadays. One has
to look sharp to see what line the cars
belong to.
Gen. Agent Whitney of the Portland
Union station has adopted new rule
in regard to stopping trains. In for
mer days engineers relied on their own
judgment in this matter. They would
run into the train shed, slide along,
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sight some object and when they
thought they had gone up to it. would
stop. Sometimes they hit it and some-
times they didn't! Now a man stands
in the train shed with his eye on the
RAJ of the train and when it has gone
as far as it ought to he signals the en-
gineer to stop.
Great quantities of lumber are
shipped on their way to New York, AMI
the Maine Central freight trains carry
a miscellaneous collection. One train
noticed recently was loaded with
mighty cedar poles for telephones: cars
of cedar sleepers, cedar posts for un.
derpinning and fencing: rough pine
boards from Bangor. with the edgings
still on; joist orMassachusetts houses;
heavy pine timbers; planks and scant-
ling: two cars of dry shingles and
car of laths. rock maple and yellow
birch cord wood for the city yards; q
car of fine old pumpkin white pine
logs for some match factory, and
wedged in between all this timber was
a car load of swine and another of
potatoes.
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Our Musical Festivals.

Even Milton admitted that "song
charms the sense" But it does not
require nowadays the refined percep
ton of the poet to appreciate the fact
that it does more. Sir Thomas Browne
declared that there is music where
ever there is harmony, order, or pro-
portion" Is it too much to infer that
tc the we'll ordered mind music is in
"dispensable?
But it is not necessary to go into alb
stractions to demonstrate the desira-
bility of such musical awakening as
is resulting from, the festivals held in
Bangor and Portland. Not only have
they developed the desire for more in
the hearts of all who attended them
but they have aroused and encouraged
such enthusiasm as in all probability
will provide more. Emerson said
nothing great was ever achieved with
out enthusiasm" and certain it is this
series Of choral events was achieved
by enthusiasm and cooperation that
seemed impossible to most at the be-
ginning and the enthusiasm has grown
as does the SNOWFALL that is rolled on
ward. The faith of the promoters in
the musical abilities and appreciation
Of our people has been generously re-
Warded and along with it all the spirit
impetus, so that the whole has been
creditable alike to those who originated
the undertaking, to those who partici-
pated in the hard work of preparation,
| and in the fulfilment of the splendid
| results and to the State, which has
given to the world some of it's most
| famous singers.
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Maine Industrial News.

A macintosh factory is about to be
started at South Union.
F. L. Bryant & Co. of Pittsfield have
a rush of orders at their wood manu-
factory and at present are working
crews both day and night.
VIM. Burke of Brewer, who recently
finished his brick manufacturing oper-
ations for the season made about 7OO,-
900 bricks during the summer.
The third order for pulp from Europe
has been received by the Piscataquis
Falls Pulp & Paper Co.. at Montague,
and it will probably be shipped before
the cold weather comes.
The Warren wo mill is prospenis)
in these days Al q aNwork is con.
cerned. Ordersa "a Wiz occupy the
mill until Marchs lore Yoods are pro-
duced than for years. (;
Among the recent orders received by
Fay & Scott OF. sDexter, is one for 4 !
lathe to go to Sweden Recently two
pattern makers' lathes were. shipped, !,
one to Lawrences Mass, and the other
to Cleveland, Ohio.
The Fox Island Granite Company,
Vinalhaven, is in a very prosperous
state. and the prospects are that i
will continue to be so throughout the
winter. AT the present time the COM
pany employs "a men.
1t is expected the lead mines at West
Lubec will be operated by a new COM
pany early in the spring, as a receM
investigation disclosed much valuable
ore in and about the old shaft. which
can be gathered at large profit when
the mine is placed in condition again
F. p. Thomas of Rumford Falls. has
let contract for about 2,OO0,OOO OF
spruce pulp wood to cut in Shelburne.
N. III. He will put in about 3,OOO,Wv
feet more between Rumford Falls ann
Berlin. He will probably do sma"
amount of business on the HOughtoh
branch railroad this winter.
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Totals .42l7

BY the above table IL will be seen that
in the whole territory of the service dur
ing a period of twenty-one years there
have been only three whole years in
which the fatalities of three months of
this year have been exceeded. There is
only one other instance when as many or
more men have been killed at one time.
and that was at Upton, O., April IS. 1891,
when six clerks met terrible death on
the lake shore and Michigan Southern
road.
great deal of the danger to postal
clerks is caused by the position of the
postal car on the train. Invariably it is
placed next to the engine. This is rem
dered necessary on account of mail
catching requirements. 1t has been found
that to run two or three cars past the
crane the suspended pouch become loos-
ened. rendering it liable to be pulled off
before the catcher can get hold of 1t. and
for that reason the car is placed ahead
IS far as possible SO as to make the
catch certain. 1t is also claimed that the
postal car must be stopped at station
platforms out of the way of loading bag
gage and express matter.
Only the other day it happened that q
car of theater scenery was placed next to
the engine of a Chicago and Alton train
which also carried a postal car. The
train was wrecked near Alton; the car of
scenery was rolled down a steep declv
ity and smashed into kindling wood. Had
the postal car occupied its customary po-
sition it is reasonable to suppose that
some at least of the mail crew would
have lost their lives
Some years ago a clerk on one of the
Chicago roads finished up his work. and
on nearing a terminal sat down on a lot
of sacks in the end of the car. The
pumping machinery of the locomotive got
out of order and it was necessary to run
it up and down the track to get the water
started. While backing toward the train
the iron horse became unmanageable and
dashed into the postal car at full speed,
instantly killing the clerk inside the car.
These incidents illustrate the risk of the
life of an average mail clerk. There
seems to be no time when danger is not
near
OF all the men on the train the clerks
have the least chance to save themselves
in case of an accident. If it so happens
that the engineer is enabled to sound
warning blast trainman may get out on
the platform on the end of car and
look for soft place to alight if he desires
to jump. There is no such chance for the
postal clerks because many of the cars
have no platforms. ingress and egrees be-
ing had through side doors. Even if he
gets the warning. which is seldom. he
must leap out the side door at right an
and in nine times out of ten the poor fell
lows adopt the latter course.
The department in late years has not
been unmindful of the safety of postal
clerks while in the discharge of their du
ties in so far as the construction of cars
is concerned. Much effort has been ex-
pended in having the cars built with
greater resisting capacity in case of acct
dent. Heavier timbers are used and pos
tai cars are now built according to the
plans suggested by the railway mail SER
vice officials, but it is admitted that little
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He hunted high and low. far and wide
for those bovines but without success.
Then he called upon his nelghbors for
assistance and they Joined in the
search. Boys. thickets and bosky
glens were traversed. old wells We're
uncovered. BY Friday morning the
hunt became general when a neighbor S
boy happened to visit the barn of the
absent-minded man where he found
the two cows tied up. gaunt from the
hunger and thirst of a three days fast.
Then it dawned on the farmer that for
particular reason he had tied those
cows up on Tuesday night, also that
Wednesday morning after milking, but
here was a blank in his memory which
his neighbors now try to fill in when
they meet him and greet him with the
remark: Say, Mr.. b., have you found
your cows?"
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Charlie, A Dana.

It is not as easy today to Impress
ones individuality on great metro
politan newspaper as 1t was In the
days of Greeley and Raymond. But up
to the moment his hand ceased to guide
ito nolicv few ever read the New York
Sun without thought of the veteran
journalist whose personality was so
CLOSELY connected with it and i'm
parted to 1t such an unmistakable
flavor This was true of the Sun, to
greater extent than of any other news
paper in this country. Pulftzer's bust
ness sagacity is impressed on the read
or of the New York World. almost I'M
avoidably. but no one turns to the pa
ner for his views of the important
questions of the day or for glimpse of
any literary quality Of his mind.
Perhaps the two qualities of Mr..
Dana's later work, which attracted
widest attention, were his intense
Americanism, not jingoism, and his
power of satire. He was man beloved
by his associates, kindly. genial ma
ture, but as an editor he was a thor
ough hater and an interchangeable
enemy. And he could carry his per-
sonal feelings to an extent that would
not have been possible We're it not for
the brilliancy of his work. Nothing
that he ever wrote and nothing that ne
ever inspired, and much of the best
work done on the Sun is believed to
have been inspired by him, had the
fault of dullness. There was nothing
tawdry or commonplace about it. He
had a genius for surrounding himself
with a high order of talent. Nothing
mediocre was even tolerated in any
department CT the paper.
Mr.. Dana hated shams. To such
degree was he suspicious of anything
labelled reform that he sometimes con-
demned that which had practical value.
Whether his early experience as Il
disciple of the Brook Farm experiment
at Roxbury, Mass. may have in
fluenced his judgment of reform eX
periments in general, is not known but
the superstition is not improbable.
Aside from the busy life his news
paper work required Of him he found
time to accomplish considerable liter
airy work, though for that matter his
editorials, and everything which came
from his pen had something of that
quality. In 1855 he planned and edited
with George Ripley the New American
Cyclopedia. With Gen. James H. Will
son he wrote the Life of Ulysses S.
best minor poems of the English lam
guage. He also edited with Rossiter
Johnson Fifty Perfect Poems"
His first newspaper work was done
on the Harbinger, Boston publication
devoted to social reform and literature.
He then worked on the Chronotype, d
Boston daily. In 1S47 he went on the
staff of the New York Tribune and for
the most of the time was identified
with that paper up to 1862, when he
differed with Mr.. Greeley in some mat
ters connected with the management.
From 1868 to the close of the war he
was assistant secretary of war. The
| first number of the Sun published by
Mr.. Dana appeared on Jan. q, 1868,
and he it was who organized the pre-
vious year the company that pub
lished it. Since that time he has been
regarded as solely responsible for the
tons of the day.
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The opinion of Ex-Governor Boies
that free silver coinage at the ratio of
16 to 1 will have to be abandoned by
the Democrats and that the defeat Of
last fam should be regarded as the
final decision of the majority on that
question has called forth various opin-
IONS DR.. Gordon OF Portland, member
of the national Democratic committee
from Maine. believes Boies is mis-
taken and says: while there were
errors in the Chicago platform, I am
convinced that the sentiment in it's
favor is not diminished throughout the
country" What were the errors, doc
tor? "Errors?" Impossible! We knew
the doctor is possessed of a good deal
of independence on occasion but he is
rash when he admits that the Chicago
platform contains errors, and is too
good a physician to contemplate them
without thought of suggesting if no:
applying remedy. What the errors and
what the remedy, doctor?
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There is unrest in Georgia. That
peace which usually comes with the
autumn haze and restful colorings of
foliage and field has lost something of
it's soothing quality; there is a riff. in
the lutte, a discordant note in the har
monies of Natures lullaby. Where
once the moonbeams tricked the lovers
fancy with blissful shapes, horrid APP
partitions dart from the darkened nook
and compel the hair to rise; the flavor
of the possum is not what it was and
the long-haired, bewhiskered victim Of
the "crime of '73'' is not sure but some
thing worse impends. A few days ago
there was born in Meriwether county,
Georgia, SO the story goes, male in
FAINT with a full set of long silken
but in that time acquired a thorough
comprehension and command of the
English language, at least we are left
to infer as much, for after few short
hours of earthly existence he lifted up his
voice and said: There will be no more
rain in this county for seven years, -
and died. O. but there is hot work
ahead for red-headed Populism! Does
Thomas Watson realize wherein his
duty lies: can Prof. Bateman appre
ciate the magnitude, the length, the
breadth, the depth and the superficial
area of the aching void he is expected
to fill in Watson's absence from the
editorial helm at this crisis? No rain
for seven years, the mystical seven!
hath ten horns, that each horn shall be
tipped with szfver and exalted?
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Work at the Eastport factories is
booming of late. 1t is no uncommon
sight to see small steam tug coming
down harbor with IS or 20 large sail
boats in tow. funnel-deep with little
fishes to be converted into sardines
OF various brands. Wages are good.
Girls make such good wages packing
nsh, that 1t is next to impossible to ge.
girl to do general homework. The
small boy of the cutting shed makes
government employees wages on days
when fish are plentiful.
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From estimates made by Southern
statistician there lies south of the Ma
son-Dixon line SO,S50 square miles of
coal land, or 40 per cent. of the total
coal land in this country. In 1880 the
II Southern states produced 6,529,S0o
net tons of coal, about IA per cent. Of
the country's bituminous mined that
year. Last year the same states pro-
duced 1915, 900 tons, or "a per cent. of
all the bituminous mined in this coun-
try that year. There were employed in
mining in these Southern states last
year 61,574 laborers receiving wages to
the approximate amount of $4,000, 600.
The average price of the coal at the
mines was S4 cents a ton. This same
authority AYERS that not one-tenth of
one per cent of the coal of that region
has been taken out and enough re-
mains to provide fuel for the South for
the next 1000 years, allowing for all
probable increase Of population, -
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Seven millions in revenue from
August importations, eight millions for
September and ten millions for OCTOBER
is the upward tendency under the
Dingley tariff, so that with the return
of normal conditions and the disposal
of the anticipatory impOrtations the
eighteen millions per month desired
does not seem so far off as it did not
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