Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-17

assistant superintendent OF Inc MILL
eapolis e ST. Louis, over which he
later became general superintendent
from there he went to the Iowa Cen
| trail.
The annual report of the Chicago
Milwaukee and st. Paul road shows
the following financial results for the
year:
Gross earnings ........... SAL 1884 ,69i
| Expenses, ...... .......... 28,420, S3l
Net earnings .............. l3,463, So4
Income from other sources 144,755
| Total .......... ........ l3,bOS,6 DIT
| Fixed charges, interest. 1888, TIC
Balance above all charges 6,975, 44C
Compared with the preceding yeal
gross earnings increased $3,574,059
J operating expenses increased 81, Ass, 00C
and net earnings decreased 1888 $40
Freight earnings for the year increas-
ed $2,446,994 and passenger earnings
increased $919,592. In reference to the
big increase in operation President
>Earling says: 1.-The cost of operation
has been considerably increased du-
ring the year by the increased cost Of
material, fuel and supplies of all
kinds, and also the increased cost OF
labor in maintenance of way. There
was an increase in the average cost OF
the principal articles of material con-
sumed during the year as follows:
Rails, S7.S2 per ton; ties, 8 cents per
tie; coal, II cents per ton; lumber and
timber, $1.50 per thousand feet The
and directors of this company will be
held in Milwaukee Sept. Is. 1t is ru-
mored that there will be several
changes in the board of directors and
in the official staff Of the company.
Stevens Point Journal The men at
the Central shops, in all the depart
ments, are now working nine hours
and will continue to do so until further
notice. The quitting whistle blows al
5 o'clock No reason is assigned for the
shorter hours. The wages have been
cut accordingly. From present indica-
tons the men employed in the Stevens
Point shops will not be moved for sew
eral months, although the date was
positively set some time ago for Oct. /.
The shops at Fond du Lac are far from
complete. 1t is reported that several
parties have been in the city recently
looking over the several buildings with
view to occupying them with new in
dustries, one party representing mat
tress factory and another stove fac
tory. On inquiry of Master Carbuilder
Perry and Mayor Cashin, it is learned
that neither had any personal knowl-
edge of such concerns wanting to To-
cate here. Nevertheless the parties
may have been here, although il
wouldn't seem as if they were very hot
after proposition or they would have
looked up the mayor or some OF the
representative business men.
John G.. Woolley, candidate for presi-
dent of the United States on the prohi-
bition ticket. has secured special
train on the Burlington for an election
eering tour of Illinois and Iowa. He
will leave Chicago the morning Of Sept
10 for Omaha, stopping for an hour at
each of the important towns en- route
He will not reach Omaha until the
evening of the goth. After visiting
that place he will take the Northwest
ern back to Des Moines. and from there
will proceed to st. Paul and Mime
apolis. He will make a trip over the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
roads to the Pacific coast and back
making frequent stops en- route in both
directions. Of course, he expects tc
speach at each of the towns visited by
him in the hope of thereby securing
additional votes for the ticket.
All roads east Of Chicago have
agreed to reduce rates for the follow
ing gatherings: First great intema-
tional automobile exhibition and race
meet, Chicago, Sept. 1922; Wo-
mans Christian Temperance un-
ion, Alton ILL.,, Oct. 9-12 Carriage
Builders National association, New
York city, Oct. 1870. American
Street Railway association, Kansas
City, Mo-, Oct. 1919. National Spir-
itualists' association, Cleveland, O.,
Oct, 16-19 Western Catholic union
/ Alton, ILL.,, Oct. 1913, Woman's Home
Missionary Society of the M. E. church
Missionary Society of the M. e. church
Chicago, Oct. 17-24.
Western roads are voting on a prop
osition to make a rate Of one fare plu!
| So for the round trip from Colorado
| common points and points in Colorado
east thereof for the annual nationa
| convention Of the Campbellite Church
to be held at Kansas City Oct. IL to Is
It is proposed to sell tickets at Thu
rate Oct. 10, II and IA, with final return
| limits Of Oct. Fl. In connection with
this event another proposition is bein!
voted on with the view Of making Oct
9 an additional date on which tickets
may be sold in the territory in which
reduced rates have already been au
thorized.
Coal bills of twelve important road
! for the first half of the current yea