The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-10

press companies is quoted as saying the
express companies couldn't afford to pay
the tax. but tina the people could. The
dividends must not be reduced.
I'VE are acting on the advice of our
attorneys and positively decline TO pay
the cost of stamps, no matter now
many protests merchants send in nor
how many adverse decisions authorities
render said the gentleman. The mer-
| chants union of New York and the Ex-
press Traffic association have an under
standing that a test case is to be mace
in the courts. which means that the SUI
preme court will eventually give a ruiz
ing. But as any court can only interpret
a law as il stands and as this law does
not state who shall pay for the stamps,
| leaving no opportunity for any court
TO decide such question. i believe the
law viii have to go back TO congress
and a new bill be drafted.
w simply cannot afford TO pay Tor
stamps. To pay a cent on every pack
age would eat away the few respect
| able dividends express companies nave
been able by great economy TO pay. we
handle far more packages than railroaus
i'm proportion to our earnings, ana sl'-
! 900, 900 gross in a year Is "A DIG tnlhS
with US. Besides. we pay about 40 per
/ cent. for transportation privileges. III
we must pay for stamps Wen have TO
raise our rates, and as we never deal
in fractions of nickels except in the
case of printed stuff the public wouIu
find charges increased 5 cents on every
thing everywhere. This the public would
not like, and by so doing we would sim
ply be paying about one-half the In
crease to the railroads"
In the transportation Xhibi at the
trans-Mississippi exposition at Omaha
there are eight new and two old locomo-
tives and five new freight cars. BESIDES
these. there are the Pullman train or
palace cars exhibited at Chicago, At
Ianta and Nashville. the Union Pacific
private car built for President Lincoln
and a fac-simile of the first sleeping car
built by Pullman in 1859.
Three of the engines are built by the
schenectady Locomotive works. They
are the following: Northern Pacific 10
wheel compound; cylinders, y inches
and "a inches by 2S inCnrs: steam pres
sure. 200 pounds; weight of engine, l'3.-
500 pounds. Chicago & Northwestern
lO-wheel standard; cylinders, - inches
by rs inches; pressure, 100 pounds;
weight, $4,000 pounds. chicago *
Northwestern eight-wheel standard:
cylinders, 10 inches by "a inches; pres
sure, 1870 pounds: weight, 1000
pounds.
The Baldwin Locomotive works ex-
hibit a six-wheel shifting engine, an
eight-wheel engine for the st. Louis
Peoria q Northern. a 10-wheel COM
pound freight engine for the Chicago
Milwaukee a St. Paul and a 1O-wheeler
for the Kansas City, Pittsburg d Gun.
The Rogers Locomotive company ex-
hibit a l0-wheel engine (No. 3sl) Duilt
for the Illinois Central.
The Union Pacific railroad shows an
eight-wheel engine (No. u, built in 1906,
by the Cooke works. rms
engine has cylinders 15x22 inches, and
the weight of the engine and tender is
116. $50 pounds. TIL road also exhibits
a lO-wheel engine mo. 1ij0D, buil- by
Cooke in 1890. This engine has cylinders
22x2S inche
This road exhibits three freight cars,
a box car of $1,000 pounds capacity. a
stock car and a furniture car so feet
long. The Northern Pacific exhibits q
box car of 10000 pounds capacity, built
for the lumbermen of Washington, the
woodwork being entirely from the tor
> eets of that state. The ceiling Is of &C.
dar. the aseia Of spruce, the door sili'
of ash aldl the sills. roof AM sizing oI
fir. a Swift refrigerator car - shown
Eastern trunk lines have decided Il
:. meet the conTetition n' the CanndJlf
Pacific on immigration business They
!, have agreed upon a uniform plan oi
action. and will act as "A unit against
the foreign road. Up TO this time th'
trunk lines generally have kept out OF
the fight. The change i'm affairs may
help the Western lines in their nShl
against the Canadian Pacific.
Western railroads anticipate larg'
earnings next fall. Crops promise L
be a good average and much merchan'
disc is expected. And besides, rates arr
likely to be advanced I'm all directions
Just now business Is slow and earnings
have fallen greatly as compared witt
what they showed nearly the entir,
first half of this year.
Chicago Great Western arnings II
June were $3.50. 160.97. an increase O
80. qO7.1 d. 1t earned the fourth week n
June SIPS. $40. 81. an increase of $l3,S6O.St
The first two weeks of June decrease
were shown.
The official announcement of the ap
pointment OF :. II. Calderhead as gen
eral freight and passenger agent OF tn
washington & Columbia River road ha
been made by General Manager Nc
Cabe.
I have 800. TO gfveAto any person VIII
can procure a better handspring ma
! | put i'm for 81. Watches cleaned, Sl.5'