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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-01
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Railroad Conditions as They Existed
Forty Years Ago.

At a banquet rendered Mr.. G. R.
Davidson, the retiring secretary Of the
sas City last week, Col. E. S. Jewett, of
the Missouri Pacific responded to the
toast, Progress in Passenger Service
After telling of his employment by the
Burlington road at Galesburg, ILL.,. in
1885, he went on to relate conditions
that then existed in railroad service. In
part he said:
In those days salaries were small.
Our division superintendent received
the glorious salary of $3.50 a month,
freight conductors $3.50 a year, and pas
senger conductors $500 a year, and the
poor freight and ticket agents a nomi-
nal sum. can remember in those days
Z. St. John, now vice president and
general manager of the Seaboard Air
line, as ticket agent at Quincy, Ill, at
the glorious salary of $50 a menth.
Those were the days when engineers
received only $50 a month and fremen
only $50 month-no extra fer over
time or extra mileage. One freight
brakeman was expected to hold any
freight train for all stops, and help wood
engines every u ST Is miles. The time
card speed was II miles an hour, using
II hours from Galeshurg to Aurora,
which is now done in five or six hours,
with two brakemen, with air brakes,
who have nothing TO do but ride and
draw q good salary of from SEQ to $50
month, en- a mileage basis
At that time the use of telegraph for
train service was unknown. Passenger
trains were first-class and freight trains
second class. All east bound trains had
the right to the road at a meeting
point for % minutes. after which west
bound trains would proceed, running %
minutes late. Both trains with the same
rights failing to make meeting point
would then proceed under flag. It was
no unusual thing for them to meet be-
tween stations. and the one that made
the best distance made the other back
up-and I must say that less accidents
happened in those days than we have
now, fer trainnen were more careful
and more dependent on their ewn good
judgment AS I have said, those were
the days before telegraph, telephone,
steel rails and modern tracks, such as
we have now. The time from Chicago
to Quincy or Burlington fer an express
train was from ten to twelve hours, the
same time being made now in from five
to seven hours.
1T was about five years after my
service on the Burlington read before
the modern sleeping car was put in use
On the Burlington ine-not Pullman,
and there was no Pullman conductor.
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Vice President Morton OF Santa
Fe Reviews Fast Year.
Says Every Month Has Been q
Record Breaker In Tonnage.
WHAT Is INEVITABLE.
Declares Advances Must Be
Made In Freight Rates.
Reductsd Wages Would Follow
Defeat of Such Action.

Paul Morton, vice president of the
Santa Fee system, who is recognized as
an authority on railway matters, in re-
viewing the past year, says:
THE tonnage of the Western rail-
roads for the year 1899 was expected to
show very handsome increase over
1898 and has more than fulfilled it's
promise. With hardly an exception,
every month of 1899 has shown an in
crease in earnings over the correspond
ing month of 1898, although 1898 was
quite a satisfaot ory yesr fer the trans
portation lines. The movement of live
stock, coal. lumber and manufactured
articles and general merchandise has
been large, and particularly is this true
of the latter, which has demonstrated
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Peter MaheIr.

I do not think he will keep me off.
did my last hard training today and
have not made up my mind which one
is worth betting, on.
Tod Sloan: In my opinion the merits
of the two men are on a par. Should 1
bet on them a flip of a coDper will de-
eide which one I will choose.
Joe Vendig: I am just as positive
that Maher will win as I am that am
alive at this moment. I have $1,000 to
bet that he viii win.
William Freshman: I have just bet
81 900 even that Mccoy will win. con-
slider the bet already cashed.
In St. Louis as we'll as in New York
there is considerable betting on the
Maher-McCoy fight Billy Garen. man
500 even on Mccoy and he has couple
of hundred more which he is ready to
wager the same way.
Peter Maher rules the favorite at 5
to f. There was considerable betting on
the result today. Although Mccoy has
been able to hold his own for the last
week the great amount OF Maher money
has made the Irishman favorite-
Honest John Kelly" who practically
made these odds, has already bet So, 900
and has S., 900 more at the same price
Kelly found great difficulty in placing
his money at evenS and decided to give
the Mccoy admirers the better Oh the
odds
"Pittsburg Phil'' was more fortunate
than Kelly in placing his money on the
Irishmai and last night succeeded in
betting $1,000 at even money with Jake
JOSephy, the banker. Phil has several
thousand dollars more to place at the
same price. Joe Vendig is. another
plunger who places his fa1tn IN the
Irishman. He has bet $4,000 and has
an additional s., 600 to wager on Peter
A number of small bets were recorded
at the uptown hotels last night. Jim
Corbett, who is holding the stakes for
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RAILROAD NOTES.

Tom McNerny, division clerk at Ros-
well, came home Thursday to spend the
holidays.
Engineer Bourn, who was recently let
out on account of slight wreck, is now
in Chicago
Lester Hays, of Assistant Superin-
tendent Studer's office, has been trans
ferred to Harrington.
The Rock Island conductors will give
their second ball at Herington, January
25th.
John Gill, superintendent of power
and equipment at Trenton, spent Christ
mas with his family and relatives in
Horton.
Storekeeper Schneider presented each
of the clerks and foremen in his depart
ment with a box of 10-cent cigars for
Christmas.
Corydon Fisher. who resigned from
the storehouse on the 18th, is now OPP
orator for the Rock Island at Pond
Creek, Oklahoma.
Mrs. w. B. Weed left last week for
Harrington, where w B. is now in the
employ of the Rock Island, and where
they will now reside.
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Mrs. Hazen and the Economist.
[From the Washington Star.1

IFr0m the Washington Star
The quick wittednass of Admiral
Dewey's wife just at present one of the
most conspicuous women in America.
is shown by the following incident of
her life in Washington when she was
Mrs. Hazen.
General Hazen was the first head of
the weather bureau in Washington, and
found the new position by no means a
sinecure. 1t was almost impossible to
persuade the members of congress to
vote for him the necessary funds with
which to carry out his plans as he de-
sired, and he was at the same time
grumbled at as if he were positively
and personally responsible for the
weather, which it was fad of the mo-
ment to say that he furnished. Mrs.
Hazen was the recipient of all his woes,
and gave him her full sympathy, espe-
cially one spring when the appropria-
ton had been Shamefully cut down by
the economy loving chairman of the
committee on that special appropria-
ton.
A few days after the passing Of the
mutilated bill Mrs. Hazen was a guest
at an afternoon reception at the house
of one of the cabinet members, where
the most detestabIe and uncomfortable
weather, untimely and unlocked for,
was the topic of the moment. AS Mrs
Hazen crossed the room to make her
alieuS to her hostess she was waylaid
by the arriving chairman of the Offend
ing committee. who accosted her thus
"Well, Mrs. Hazen, well, madam. and
is this the best your husband can do
for us in the way of weather.
Mrs. Hazen turned, looked at him
with a sudden flash in her pretty eyes,
then answered, clearly and sweetly:
Yes, Mr.. Blank, the very best-for
the appropriation"
The discounted man fed, in the
midst of the hardly concealed smiles of
the surrounding guests.
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FRIED ONIONS.
Indirectly Caused the Death of the
Worlds Greatest General.

1t is a matter of history that Napol-
ron was a gourmand an inordinate
lover of the good things Of the table, and
history further records that his faVorlte
dish was fried onions; his death from
cancer of the stomach, it is claimed
also, was probably caused from his eX-
cessive indulgence Of this fondness Tor
the odorous vegetable.
The onion is undoubtedly wholesome
article of food, in fact has many medict-
nal qualities of value but it would be
difficult to find a more indigesuble ar
ticle than fried onions, and to many
people they are simply poison, but the
onion does not stand alone in this re-
spect. Any article of food that is not
thoroughly digested becomes source
of disease and discomfort, whether it
be fried onions or beef steak
The reason why any wholesome food
IS not promptly digested is because the
stomach lacks some important element
of digestion, some stOmachs lack pep
tone, others are deficient in gastric
juice, still others lack hydrOchloric acid.
The one thing necessary to do in any
case of poor digestion is to supply those
elements of digestion which the Stom-
ach lacks, and nothing else does this
50 thoroughly and safely as Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets.
DR.. Richardson in writing a thesis on
treatment of dyspepsia and indigestion,
closes his remarks by saying, for those
suffering from acid dyspepsia, shown By
sour Watery r1SlngS, or for Hatulent
dyspepsia shown by gas on stomach.
causing heart trouble and difficult
breathing, as well as for all other
forms Of stomach trouble. the safest
treatment Is to take one or two Of
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after each
meal. advise them because they con-
tain no harmful drugs, but are com
posed of valuable digestives. which act
promptly upon the food eaten. [ never
knew a case of indigestion or even
chronic dystepsia which Stuart's Ca
tarrh Tablets would not reach"
Cheap cathartic medicines claiming
to cure dyspepsia and indigestion can
nave no effect whatever in actively di-
costing the food and to call any ca
thartic medicine a cure for indigestion
is a misnOmer
Every druggist in the United States
and Canada sells Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets, and they are not only the SAT-
est and most successful but the most
scientific of any treatment for indiges-
tion and stomach troubles.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE CIRCUIT
Three Teams Will Be Changed, Says
Latest Report

Milwaukee, Jan. 1.-The Milwaukee
Sentinel tomorrow will say that as a
result of a secret conference today be-
tweer President Ben Johnson, of the
American League, and NJ. R. KiIIilea
president Of the Milwaukee baseball
club, three changes IN the circuit for
1900 in the American League are fore
casteG. Comiskey will take his ST. Paul
team to Chicago, the Minneapolis will
be taken to Louisville and the Grand
Rapids aggregation shifted to Cleye-
land, lit being reported that President
Johnson has received the assurance of
the National League magnates that
they will eliminate Cleveland and Lou
isville. from the National League map.
and cede the territory to the American
Leag4e, which is also said to have
Brush Soden, Reach and Freedman as
allies who are deemed sufficiently DOW
erful 10 secure for it the territory in
Chicago which Comiskey covets with
out fracturing the National agreement.
These changes give the American
League closely woven cireuitI and
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FROM HORTON.

Fifteen men went to Guthrie this
morning to work on a branch of the
Thirty more men will go down tomor-
row mOrning.-EI Dorado Repu blican.
A. A. Snidemann. agent of the Rock
Island railway, left Saturday for 30
relief is NJ. G. Nuckles, wne is now per-
manently engaged with the Rock Is
land.-Dodge City Republican.
r. E. Torrington, who was formerly
employed in the Santa Fe freight offices
in Wellington, has been appointed
ticket agent for the Rock Island at
Wichita This is the job Harry Bixby,
formerly of wellington. was supposed
to be slated for.-W ellington Journal.
A. Fasig, who is drilling wells for the
Santa Fe railway at Syracuse, is in the
city. He will return Tuesday. Mr.
F'asig had used mules in well drilling,
take an engine with him when he re-
turns. His work will last some weeks
yet.-Dodge City Republican.
w N. Macintire. General Foreman
Bankers chief clerk, has resigned mis-
position here and is now on his way to
Oakland, Cal, his future home. Billie
as he is known among his associates,
has been doing railroad work for the
past twelve years. He was transferred
to this city from Emporia in February,
1896, and has given the best of satisfac-
ton to his employers, being a very rapid
and accurate stenographer.-NeWt
Republican.
Among the Industrial triumphs of the
year for Oklahoma is the completion of
the extension Of the Choctaw railroad
from Wister Junction in the Indian Ter
ritory, to Little Rock, Ark, and the
absorption of the Memphis & Little
Rock railway by the same line. thereby
giving a continuous independent line
from the Mississippi to Weatherfords
Oklahoma a distance of SOS miles.
Perfect lodge No. 2s8, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen of Argentine an
nounoes the fifth annual ball to be given
at Nokes' hall Wednesday evening,
January "a, 1900. The railroad men
know what to expect when the firemen
give a ball and from the arrangements
that are being made it is certain Nokes'
hall will never shine more radiantly
or be filed with happier throng than
at the forthcoming ball. Deveny's full
orchestra has been engaged for the oe-
casiOn
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FROM EMPORIA.

Engineer Befer has left the Emporia
pool and will run out of Wichita
Engineer Role has returned from
temporary ervice on the eastern di-
vision.
Fireman Ole johnson, who has been
running out of Wichita for several
weeks. is again marked up on the beard
here.
Roadmaster Bradley and his family
have returned from Arizona. Bradley
has been there about five months load
ing steel and looking after other mater
iaI for the company
Bert Miller, who has been visiting
Will Breen, left for Hartford. He viii
spend two days there with his parents
and then return to Parsons, where he is
the air instructor.
Rollo, Pease, Wiebrioht and Ramsey
are the four Oldest engineers on this
division. Roi >, who now runs the
fast mail engi he is the oldest He has
been on ne line about 80 years and has
at one time or another mad about every
run on the division Pease and VIE
BRIGHT who are next in order, run out
of Strong City. Ramsey, the youngest.
something over 10 years, runs out of
Salina-
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very propftious. There is every reason
to believe that the tonnage for the
next year will keep pace with that of
1899
During the past year there has been
quite a good deal of construction in Sec
tons Of the country that seemed to JUS
tify it. Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tories both have more railroad than
they had q year ago. Northern Iowa
and Southern Minnesota have both ad-
ded to their mileage; while there is
some new railroad being built in Cali
fornia. Chicago and Kansas City will
benefit by the construction of most of
this new road, because it opens UP new
fields Chicago and Kansas City are
to be congratulated on having a rail-
road of their own very shortly from
Chicago and Kansas City to San Fran
cisco. under one management
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-01
A MILLION FoR EQUIPMENT.
Katy Road Contracts For Material
Additions to Rolling Stock.

Austin, j exas, Jan. IA contract be-
tween the American Car and Foundry
company. of st. Louis, and the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas Railroad COM
pany, for the purchase of rolling stock
by the latter company. has been fled
in the state secretary's office here. The
construction aggregates 81, 900, 600.
The contract includes the construc-
ton of 1,24e boxcars, eacn of $4,000
pounds capacity; 100 furniture cars.
each As feet in length. 200 furniture cars
each 80 feet. in length, and 100 coal cars.
each of $4,000 pounds capacity. The
price to be paid for the 1910 boxcars IS
S755, 426; for the 800 furniture cars, S21s.-
500; for the 100 coal cars, sos, 500. The
total amount is divided into 60 pay
InanfS
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d number of bettors, received $4,000 Of
Maher money to go at the best odds
MANY DELEGATIONS ARRIVE.
The sporting men from nearby
cities are arriving on every train and
the presence of such a large delegation
Of visitors would give the impression
that a championship fight is to take
place. Chicago, Pittsbur~ Philadelphia,
Cincinnati and Boston will be well rep
resented at the ringside.
The management says that the club
house will be heated by steam, End ev-
cry effort will be made to make it COM
Portable for the spectators during the
progress of the battle The Brooklyn
elevated and trolley lines have guaran-
taed the club officials that even should
the fight go to the limit they will run
the people back to New York by s
O'clock.
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SERIOUS TROUBLE FEARED.
Railroad Managers Are AppreheNsivs
Over Brake and Coupler Law

Chicago, Jan. There is considera-
bic apprehension on the part of officers
Of Chicago roads over the ability of a
number of the lines to get in under the
six months extension granted by the
interstate commerce commission for the
equipping of all cars with automatic
couplers and air brakes.
After a canvass of the field it may be
said that not one of the roads will have
a car unequipped with either device at
the expiration of the six months extern
sion. There are many smaller roads,
important outside connections of the
big Chicago companies, however, that
have no more than so per cent of their
rolling stock supplied with the auto
matte coupler and lower percentages
with the air brakes. 1t is the prevailing
opinion that the lines that are SO far
behind will not be able to finish the
work in six months and this is causing
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SPORTING NEWS.
Kid Mccoy and Maher wiz Do
Battle Today.
Over His Own Signature Each
Promises to Win.
BOTH ARE IN TRIM,
The HOOsier Never Appeared to
Better Advantage.
And the Irishman Is Strong
and Confident.
BOTH ARE IN TRIM.

White Plains, N Y, Jan. IL ana
interested in looking over the betting on
the fight. I hope N1aher will be a to
L shot. I like to be the short end OF
it, because I always win those fights.
I have finished my routine work and
owe many thanks to Mr. MuIdoon. It
is due him that 1 am in a condition fit
to fight for my life. am confident that
I will win. If I win I think will fight
no more. KID MCCOY.
Westchester, N. Y, Jan. IL am in
better condition than ever before
think I will win inside of fifteen rounds.
McCoy's cleverness did not keep Sharkey
off him. I am faster than Sharkey. so
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will work just enough to keep well
limbered up. Betting don't count with
me. Most bettors bet from liking and
not from Judgment If win I'll chal-
lenge Sharkey.
PETER MAHER.
New York, Jan. Peter Maher and
Kid Mccoy are ready for their fight
which is to take place this afternoon.
The men will meet in the arena of the
Coney Island Sporting club.
They will enter the ring at 8 o'clock
in the afternoon.
New Years day will be a day Of joy
to one and a day of sorrow to the other.
Mccoy is confident that it will be joy
full day to him.
Maher is certain that the day will
bring him money and pleasure.
The bettors are divided in their opin-
ions. Good judges are betting against
each other even as each fighter is bet
ting on himself.
Just how it will end only time can
show.
The opinions of a few sporting men
follow:
Johnny Staley: I think Maher will
win, and am anxious and willing to bet
any amount on him at even money.
Riley Grammar: Both are good men.
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anxiety to the officers of the larger
roads.
The law prohibits one road from
handling cars of another line net equip
ped with the automatic safeguards. 1t
is immaterial whether the road receiv-
ing such cars has all of its own rolling
stock equipped.
Superintendents of the local roads
say that if the law this point is
strictly enforced it may cause almost
innumerable tie-ups and ebstruct COM
merce.
Regardless of the anticipated trouble
it is not believed that the time limit
agreed upon for the work will be ex-
tended beyond the six months announc-
ed.
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Knockout. Val Flood. Roby. Ind ........
Knockout. Ike Hayes, Helena, Mont.
Knockout Tom Johnson, San Francisco
knockout. Nick Burley, San Francisco.
Draw. -..-..Joe McAuliffe San Francisco 4
Knockout. George Godfrey, Boston 80.
Knockout. Frank Craig, Boston 1900. 6
Won. Peter Courtney, Hoboken :. 8
Exhibition. Billy Smith, Linn, Mass. 3
Draw Jim Hall, Boston ............. 6
Won. MERRY Slattery, Baltimore. l
Knockout. Bob Marshall, Coney Island /
No decision Fitzsimmons, Madison So. 8
Knockout, Steve O'Donnell Maspeth, Ii.
knockout by F1tzsimmonS, I4angtry, Tex.
No decision Fitzsimmons. MadisonSq..... 3
Won. Frank Slavin, Madison So. 4
Knockout Joe Choynski, B'way A c.
Knockout. Steve O'Donnell, Coney ISld l
Won........C. c. Smith, Buffalo ....... 6
No decision. Steve O'Donnell, Phil. 49,. 6
Draw Tom Sharkey, New York..
Won Mike Morrissey, New York.
DRAW. Gus Rubin, New York; %
KID MCOY'S RECORD.
Won. ........B Billy Steffens. Cleveland -. 10
Won........ Shadow Maher, Memphis. 10
Draw Dick .OBrien, Boston ::......25
Wor......,.. Charlie Smith. Louisville. 2
Won. ....,...Joe, Sheer, Louisville ,-...... 9
Knockout. Dick Moore, Louisville. 49,. s
Knockout. Abe Ullman, Baltimore $3.50. 13
Loss Ted White, London ........ 10
Knockout. Tommy West. New York. 2
Knockout. Tommy Ryan, New York Is
Knockout. Frank Bosworth, Memphis. 2
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promise to add immensely to its
strength.
It was also determined to adopt the
Reach BAH for 1900, an amicable agree
ment having been reached by the Phil
adelphia magnates and President John
son at recent conference.
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Mr kenna csnvalescing.

z. D. Kenna. general attorney of the
Santa Fe, residing; in Chicago, has been
seriously i'll for several weeks suffering
from appendicitis MIR. Kenna is now
on his way to recovery and hopes to
be at his office before the New Year is
far advanced. He has been able to sit
up for some time, but has not yet at
tempted to leave his hone
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rheumatism Cured in a Dav.

mystic Cure" for rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in l to 8
days. It's action upon the system is re-
markabIe and mysterious. It removes
at once the cause and the disease i'm
mediately disappears. The first dose
greatly benefits. IS cents. Sold by
Swift & Holiday. Druggists, 523 Kan
SaS avenue.
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Two coaches. remodeled for the occasion
ran between Chicago and Quincy. The
lower berth was thrown fiat on the
floor between the seats. It was dou-
bic berth, and fer this yeu paid 81. Two
single berths were above, canal boat
fashion, end for these you paid 90 cents
EACH
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pneumonia grippe and throat and lung
troubles Its early use prevents consump-
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stores.