The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-18

parts of the land Some of the meet
tngs VIII be held next week, one of the
important ones taking place at Pueblo,
Colo, to-day. At these meetings no
ofhcial action can be taken, but reso-
buttons may be adopted and sent to the
general meeting of the International Or
ganization. 1t is said that the resolu-
lions will heartily solicit the member
ship of the engineers order. The engi-
neers are said to be willing to enter the
order now, and that at the next meet
ing of the international organization,
which is to be held at Milwaukee in the
spring of next year. they will vote
aye"
The membership of the international
organization is about 100000, and the
engineers have something like $4,000
members in their order.
Its this way, if you never done come
to think of it before, said the car por-
ter to me as he struggled with refrac-
tory window. There amt porter who
could afford to take any run If he was
to get nothing but company's wages.
He certainly would go bankrupt. You
expect to make your living out of other
little things: not that any of us gets
as much as the funny papers say we
do, but there's a little coming in for
things the porter does that amt paid
for when you put down the price of
your sleeper ticket. But when the
train pulls out and the porter takes
what you may say is his first real look
at what he's got in his car. it's expect
ing a good deal to expect him to look
right clipper and cheerful when there's
a dozen sections got ladies in them, but
he's got to do 1t, for the company made
that rule. What's the reason for it?
Well, it's just this: When it's a man,
all you have to do is to fix his shoes
4 u. L 4. L.
his station; maybe he'll call for a side
screen when he wants the window up,
but that's about all. and he just nat
urally gives you quarter That amt
much to him, and it amt much to
the porter but several of them soon
counts up.
But with a lady it's different She's
always mighty uneasy: she's got to
have a table, and then she's got to have
1t taken away. and the window never
does get to suit her. and she wants a
pillow, and then she wants more pill
lows, and you're lucky If she doesn't
ring you out of the only chance you
have to get a nap in the whole run just
because she wants glass of water.
And after all the things you've been do
ing for her right along, she's just as like
as not to walk right away as soon as
you set her grips on the platform.
"Oh, l can tell you ladies on a car
just naturally keep the porter guessing,
they certainly do, and the company
says you must be cheerful. But when
there's a lady gets into one of your sec
lions for the whole run, and she's used
to travelling about and to being looked
after, why then she sort Of knows that
the porter is looking at her, and she's
set him guessing whether she's one of
them sort that's no good except to the
company, or one of the other sort. So
If she's used to travelling. and maybe
knows something about what porters
has to do, well, she just sort of indi-
Gates to the porter-the way you've
done-that she's disposed to consider
him a business man."-Philadelph
| Times.
The railroads of the West, Chicago as
well as coast lines, are beginning to feel
the need of more cars. The heavy ship
| ment of grain has taxed the capacity Of
the lines. This is accentuated by the
amount of lumber now on the move.
Never in the history of the roads, a
well known local freight official stated
| yesterday. has there been such heavy
| shipments of lumber. He attributed it
| to the marked prosperity and the large
amount of building which is being car