El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-29

Certain Economic Devices Perfected
After Twenty Years Labor By
An Old Rallrodder.
Daniel York, who was q guest of one
of our citizens at Christmastide and on
Christmas day granted an interview to
reporter for the HERALD, threw
light on the railroad situation that will
crafty the members of the American
Economic association, who are holding
their annual session at Cornell univer-
sity, Ithaca, N. Y, this week, and will
amaze railroad presidents. Railway
economics was the subject of discussion
at the meeting of the economists on
Thursday afternoon, the speakers in
Guiding DR.. B. 81. Meyer, of the Uni
versity OF Wisconsin,; w. 81. Baldwin.
way, and Martin A. Knapp, chairman
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. Mr.. York had hoped to send q
paper to Com missioner Knapp to read
at the meeting, but his trip to the
southwest with his party prevented.
In the Christmas day interview the
inventor, who once held confidential
position with the late Congressman
VIM. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, rep
resentipg the Vanderbilt interests
on the directorate of several roads, and
was also at one time intimately con
nected with one of the Jay Gould prop
critics, showed q grasp OF the railroad
situation second to no other man, and
the revelations he made as to the real
reason of the depressed state OF so
many railroad securities as we'll as
the remedy he provides to enhance
their value will be of absorbing inter
est to the whole world of railroaders
and economists.
Like his former associates, he is silent
and reserved, a nd ordin arily eludes the
vigilance of newspaper folk, but as the
invention is now ready for exploitation
and the inventor has ample resources
for all needs, the friends whom he Wis
tied in Ell Paso gained his consent to
meet reporter and lay before him q
model of the devices which promise to
place the crippled giant of commerce,
as the railway has been called, on It's
feet again. The devices are not chill
dren of accident or inspiration; the
inventor has given twenty years to his
labor of love, applying TO 1t q mind
trained to view the transportation
problem from every standpoint and
solve it on its merits.
Before detailing the interview the
reporter would say that Mr.. York's
visit to the southwest is for the pur-
pose of ascertaining personally If the
glowing reports sent out from this
region are not too highly colored.
Should the facts he gathers substan-
tiate the reports, FL Paso will be made
the southwest cen ter Of operations OF
one of the strongest companies in the
world, and be the location of an i'm
portant manufacturing plant.
FIRST GLIMPSES.
The interview was by appointment
and when the reporter was conducted
to the library in which he was to meet
Mr.. York he saw on the floor a minia-
ture railroad track, with the model of
a car on it and the devices and access
series used in connection with the To-
vention scattered about. The car was
at q platform and opposite was
q small wagon for use in exhibiting
the workings of the devices. Sitting
down on a footstool that he might
operate the model conveniently. the
inventor began his description of the
invention and demonstrated it's prac-
in very few minutes by load
ing and unloading the model car and
the miniature wagon, making COM
ments as he proceeded.
SIT is very simple to operate, you see,
with no complicated parts, Yet, as 1
shall demonstrate to you it has In it
elements of economy and points of
utility which will effect revolution in
the transportation system of the
world.''
Reaching for the specifications aud
the accompanying drawings, he then
the utility of the inven-
tion by means of the accessories and
the drawings, running rapidly through
the specifications, and as one after au-
other of the accessories for handling
different classes of food products and
all classes of freight WAS applied to the
car and to the wagon, the reporter
grew more interested.
He saw before him one of the most
perfect labor saving inventions that
has ever been devised. The accessories
were uniform aud interchangeable, and
worked in such com bination as to null
tiply the utility of the main invention
twentyfold and to admit of its applica-
tion to all sorts and kinds of land We
hicles and water craft-in facilitating
the handling OF farm products, stock,
freight, baggage, express matter and
even mail matter. But it is for the
of farm products and ordi-
nary freight that it is chiefly adapted.
AS A LABOR-SAVER.
"Now to demonstrate the economy
Of the invention," the inventor con-
tinued, seating himself in a chair.
THE present practice of transporting
farm products and miscellaneous
freight requires six or more separate
and distinct landings piece by piece
QD when it is loaded on a wagon at
the farm, factory, mill, store or ware
house of the shipper; (2) when 1t is un-
loaded at the freight station; (3) when
1t Is loaded into the car: az when it is
unloaded from the car at the receiving
station: (5) when it Is loaded onto the
wagon of the consiRnee: (6) when it is
uulOAded at it's final destination.
Even where freipbt Ia loaded direct