The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-02-14


There is being made up in st. Paul a
private train which will carry ]. j. Hill,
of the Great Northern, and the railway of
icals over tens of thousands of miles of
railway lines. The object of this journey
is to reduce the expenses of the operating
departments of the railroad systems over
which it travels, and 1t is estimated that
$4,000 men will lose their jobs between the
time this train passes out of the snow
covered yards of ST. Paul, and the time the
engine whistles for the town on it's return
trip. Fifty thousand men, or more, will
go out onto the street, without hope or
expectation that the places they filled will
ever again be open to them. For the year.
ly millions that there are in it for Rookie
Teller and Morgan and Hill, these jobs will
be misunderstanding freight and passeng-
er agents will be decapitated by the whole
sale, city freight and ticket Offices closed,
railway yards and freight houses CONSOLE
dated, and where in towns there has here
tofore been from two to II local freight
and ticket offices. there will in the future
be one. This to the end that property may
profit. At low estimate the bread to
100000 mouths will be stopped and upon
the hunger thus produced, will be built the
avalanche Of wealth to be sQuarndered by
the protligates, both titled and otherwise
OF the Old World and the New The pro-
ducers get no benefit-that all goes to those
who hold the bonds. The public pays ju
as much for transportation as 1t did be-
fore, but the consumption of products is
increased and this army of out out work
men produces others of their kind. But
this is what the people voted so strongly
at the last election. 1t is what they want
They want to own nothing themselves
and as sure as the sun shines, they will
never own anything or be anything until
they know enough and have enough strength
OF character to enter the field and give
battle for their rights. So, here's success
to Hill and his decapitation train.-Apeal.
City Owned by Workingmen.
In Tell City. Ferry county, Ind. such is
the case. The workngmen of that city
own, control and operate the factories and
fix the Price of labor. The toilers are
formed into companies, and operate their
factories singly There is, however, no
common purse for citizens. Each man must
make living for his own family, but the
matter Of employment is simpl6ed thar
the difficulty Of this is minimized The
city was founded in 1853 by the Swiss Col
onization sociey of Cincinnati Each fac
tory in the city is owned by stock COM
pany of citizens. They were started years
ago by small sums furnished by individuals
Year by year the business grew, and as
soon as dividend was declared, this money
was added to that already in the business
In this way buildings were erected
and great sums of money were eventually
invested in the industries which have made
Tell City a fiourishing and famous manu-
featuring center of wooden utensils of all
kinds. Each stakeholder in a factory in
Tell City selects it's own board of managers
and superintendent, who are always stock
holders Each labOrer is paid at the end of
the week, according to the amount of work
done, or at a stipulated sum per hour. The
various industries employ 595 workmen
and represent nearly $7O0,00 of capital
There are no unemployed, and everybody is
busy and contented. and most of the work.
men own their own homes
H. H. Taylor.
Economy and utility are closely allied
in many of the industries that flourish
III Minneapolis, but nowhere are the
two more evident than in the products
of the busy factory at SIT and 619 Bryant
avenue north, where H. H. Taylor en-
cages in manufacturing enterprise
quite unlike any other the city has. Mr.
Taylor's business could be described as
the making of new floor coverings out
Of old ones.
Prior to the advent of the Taylor fac
tory in 1884 no one hereabouts had found
any possible use for carpet which was
so worn as to be unsightly. Old car
pets, whether of ingram, brussels, Will
ton velvet, or whatever, became dis
carded when their surface showed signs
of hard wear and the average carpets
life hardly exceeded five years. Mr.
Taylor, with looms of his own invention
proposed to make these old carpets into
new ones and handsome rugs, using
from five to seven pounds of the worm
out carpet for each square yard and
producing result more durable than
the carpet had been. Rug making is
the speciality of the establishment, and
no carpet, if it is not worn threadbare,
is SO old that the Taylor looms cannot
fashion a novel and serviceable rug
from it. Any size is made on the big
looms, which carry rug II feet wide
and as long as required, while the uni
fore rate, ranging from IS cents to 81
a square yard, puts the product within
anyOne's reach at cost far below that
OF new carpet of the same size, and
yet affords a floor-cOvering Of greater
durability and handsomer appearance
than could be bought Decidedly new
carpets for old is success, as Mr.. Tay-
lor has proved.