The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-14

Speaking of the incidental earnings of
Pullman car employees, the Pullman
conductors wno have "A run I'm and out
OF Mexico have a side Inc that. in
comparison. a big fat pension is no
where. As a money broker or eXchlng-
er. the average banker cannot begin TO
compete with him I'm business transact
ed and profits footed up. This is how
he gets in his good work: Every tour
list who goes to Mexico from the I'm Z
cd States gets a large mount of his
money changed into Mexican coin. tn
Pullman conductor knows this as well
as any one. and To oblige the travelling
patron he always keeps a surplus" Of
the free silver on hand. He favors the
traveller with the Mexican currency
without nccessitating the latter To get
II on the border" but does he cx-
change even minus the eN-
change? Never, \ double margin Is
charged-one for the trouble Of hand
ling the money and the other To protect
himself against any possible rise in III"
price OF silver on the New York market.
And on his return trip the accommodate
ing Pullman representative Is i'm the
same business. He is amply supplied
with United states currency for the
purpose OF assisting the home-hound
tourist in getting rid of his superfluous
Mexican dollars at a rate Of exchange
quite different from that he received
when entering the foreign country. II
is another double margin for the Tex
change says n Railway Journal.
The Pullman conductors are not in the
exchange" business solely for ac-
~commodation, which fact many "A tour
ist to Mexico will attest.
Twenty-Five or % years ago there was
n line across the continent. the Ulion
and the Central Pacific. Pacific Mail.
then as well as now. vas in the carry
ing trade betwecn the Atlantic and Pa
cifc. The gross earnings Of the Union
Pacific We're about SIC. zoe. 000. ana q
the Central Pacific about SIS. 600 900. or
a total OF s.. 900, 600 for transcontinentaI
railroad traffic, including what little To-
cal business had developed along the
lines. Earnings in the last fiscal year
Of transcont.ncntal roads:
Canadian Pacific 800. . SEA zoe. coo
Northern Pacific. .... ...... %. 700. coo
Union Pacific. ............. l6.5OO,00O
Atchlson.. ...... . "a. ... '".3'O,VOl
southern Pacific. 1900. ..... a. 500 600
Great Northern ...... $4,000. 2s,6OO,O0o
Total. ........ -. ........Sl Na. 100000
The growth seems almost beyond be-
lief. Rates have fallen I'm 10 years in
| gigantic proportion. but tonnage car
ried has increased in much larger pro-
portion. The country .raNersed Is be-
ing built up, and developments with
Hawaii. the Philippines. and TO com"
with China n Japan. open an Amos;
boundless opportunity FOR expansion oi
4 business.
President Stlckney Of the Great
Western has discovered A new source ui
revenue. which is a boycott. His tAc-
DRY is that a boycott helps a railroad
instead OF ~injuring Il because 1t inspire.
public sympathy. a few days ago nc
received the following cablebram from
London:
Reported here that Atchison, Tope-
ka a. Santa Fe and Rock Island and
Pacific have given notice to boycotj
against Chicago Great Western raj.
way. Is 1t true. and what viii IL amount
tor"
HIS reply follows:
Their last boycott increased ths
-west-bound business To Kansas city 4
n Ca!c1gO Great Western rallwa;