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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
ARE FALLING OFF.
Western Railroads Fail to Maintain
Their Record on Earnings.

The Chicago Tribune says: Santa Fe
earnings suffered another heavy de-
crease during the month of August. For
the first two months of the present fiscal
year the decrease from last year is
$645, 119. If September does not pan out
any better than July and August the
first three months of the fiscal year will
show a decrease in net earnings of
about S100O.000.
This. however. does not indicate that
the company is doing a poor business.
The earnings for the last fiscal year
were phenomenal, and it would have
been wonderful if the company could
have kept up that gait for another
year. 1t is also a fact that the Santa
F'e is beginning to feel the competition
of the Rock Island for California bust
ness, and rates cannot be maintained on
as high a basis as heretofore.
None of the big railroad systems
centering in this city are doing as big
and profitable business as they did d
roads are trying to increase their ton
mage by making lower rates. At the
Missouri river grain and provision rates,
! it is said, are in a disturbed condition
and business is being diverted via the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and the
Southern railway to Norfolk and New
port News. Colorado rates have gone
all to pieces and on certain articles the
reduction amounts to about 80 per cent
The knowledge of the fact that rail-
road earnings generally are decreasing
and that the big showing made in net
earnings last year was in part due to
the fact that in many instances new
equipment and large improvements
were not paid for out of earnings but
out of new bond or stock issues is in q
measure responsible for the big slump
in railroad stocks yesterday and on Sat
urday.
Conservative railroad managers like
President Stuyvesant Fish of the Hi
nois Central and Roswell Miller, chair
man Of the board of directors of the
| Milwaukee & st. Paul. have beer
preaching caution for some time an6
openly stated in interviews published il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02

nothing about it until I saw 1t in the
paper" He said that TIE matter of
getting enough cars with which to
handle the traffic which came to the
Santa Fe was serious one. "At this
season of the year. said Mr.. Morton
when traffic is exceptionally heavy the
railroads are invariably confronted with
a car famine. Along our lines the traf-
fic in all classes of products is very
neaVy, and the car problem is difficult
to solve. 1t does not paw the railroads
to maintain a lot of idle cars on the
sidetracks- for nine months in the year
to meet the extra demand during three
months. We have got to meet the stu
alton the best way we can
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
BUYS TEN CITY BLOCKS.
Santa Fe Invests Heavily in Oakland,
Cal. Property.

Oakland, Cal. Oct. Deeds were
placed on record Wednesday by the
Realty syndicate conveying ten whole
blocks of land to A. H. Payson, as trus-
tee of the Santa Fe railroad company.
between San Pablo avenue and Hub
bard street. near Emeryville and in
cludes the site for the new depot and
yards of the San Francisco and Pied
mont railway, which is an adjunct of
the Santa F'e system. The transfer OF
this property is looked upon as an evil
dence that the Santa F'e will at an early
date have its trains running into Oak
land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
NEW ORIENT MANAGER.
Dickinson Leaves Union Pacific for
the New Road.

The Kansas City Journal says: Ed
ward Dickinson. since April, 1893, gen
eral manager of the Union Pacific and
prior to that assistant general manager
of the same road, in the service of which
he has spent over thirty years, has ten
dered his resignation and is to become
general manager of the Kansas City,
Mexico q Orient, the new road being
Dullt from Kansas City to Port Stilwell,
on the Pacific coast of Mexico, by Presl-
dent A. u. StilwelI and associates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
An Old Trunk.

Yesterday an old style rawhide trunk
passed through Baggag emaster Bishops
hands, says the Ell Paso Herald. Hav-
ing been on a farm considerable during
his life Mr.. Bishop knows that in order
to toll a cows age it is necessary to
count the wrinkles on her horn. If this
same rule applies to rawhide trunks,
Mr.. Bishop says that this trunk must
be II ,657 years old, as he estimates that
number of wrinkles in the trunk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
Complains of Car Shortage.

Paul Morton, second vice president of
the Santa Fe. passed through the city
Wednesday on his way to Colorado.
occupying his private car 222 attached to
No. s. Mr. Morton said there was moth
ing special in his going to the Rockies
When asked concerning the report of u
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
Boon to Young Housewives.

az have Just started
Pm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
SANTA FE SURGEONS MEETING
Will Be Held in Topeka Next
Week.

From all over the system the mem
bers of the Santa Fe Railway Medical
and Surgical society will come to To-
peka next week to hold their sixth an
nuaI convention which meets in this
city October 8 and 10. 1t is expected
that hundred or more of the 100 Santa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02

the Tribune recently that many of the
roads were overca pitalized and that
trouble would come sooner or later on
account thereof
Following is a detailed comparative
statement of earnings, expenses, etc, of
the Santa Fe system for the month of
August, and for the two months of the
present fiscal wear since JuIv 1.
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hooks. hame hooks, and round rings. Re- setting tires and the use of the traveller. Compositions are written on these sub jects monthly. Also monthly examina- tions are given in all work.
 Third Term.-The use of welding com pound Welding steel, viz: Spring, tire, axle and tool. How to get the measure ments on jobs without the bed. Welding and setting axles. Measurement of the track of axles Welding and setting tires also dish of new wheels. Making clips, nuts, brace ends; also welding braces the proper length. Putting work togeth- CT. Bench work.
 SECOND YEARS WORK.
 First Term:-Horseshoeing. The condi- tion of shoeing floor. How to make a shoer's fire. The name and use of shoe ing tools. What a mould is and how to make it.; also how to strike on a shoe. The names and sizese of shoes and nails, also the different kinds of shoes. How to file a shoe, how to pull shoe off, how to trim a foot and clinch a shoe. The diff ferent parts of a foot and how to drive a nail. The different kinds of shoes that are used for horses with different ways | of travelling; also different shaped feet. Special lessons in fitting for special cases. Monthly compositions.
 Second Term:-Wagon work, such as farm wagons, express wagons and plat form wagons. Dash and rail work. and the different kinds and names. Fender work. Make different kinds of tools. also tempering. Work from drawings. Re- pairing different parts of buggies. Esti- mating cost of different articles, and jobs Trimming up jobs. Compositions monthly on these subjects.
 Third Term:-Buggy gear work. Body and hoop work. Practice in truck and
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well, am sure.
 During the fall of 1899, through the ir- sutution l accepted work as superlntend- ent of a dairy farm in Florida. far l white owner, who accGmpaniCd hy his family was in the North for one var seeking more desirable health. He said on hss return that he was satisfied in ovNry re- spcct. He requested ne te main. but having trained another during his ab- senee. and there bCirg an 9ppcft unity to re-enter school for further duty. 1 did so after enjoying a splendd years work. I was better fitted for position again of ftrtd me with Il CT operative ertanle,y company located ar RccGs.ilo, Pa. Y l raised the standard and excclic nce pf the butter product. l also served as form manager for the Schohcd School at Aiken, s. C., but wishing to complete the academic and agricultura courses I re- turned to Tuskegee.
 ITO prepare myself for the responsi- bilities of life is why am here. I sm in the day sohGol, in the senior class, and work every Monday and every other Sat- urday in crder to be sure that 1 get sll the practice as well as the theory in- structops in agriculture offered here. I mean to become a successful farmer.
 Charles F. Collins.
 q am now 21 years Of age. Three years
 
 l was encouraged by white gentleman of the same town to enter some school that I might make myself more useful and more helpful to the people of my community. At home my occupation was cattle raising and farming. At last de- ! cided to enter the Tuskegee Institute as the best school affording the opportunities sought. In 1898 l entered here. At first was assigned to work in the agricultur- al department. the work which l knew more about than that of machinery. La- ter on I was offered the trade for which I at first applied, but I had learned more about agriculture than I ever knew be- fore and desired it rather than machin- cry, so I did not change. I have been working in that department now ever since and find that the more work at 1t, the more learn of it. the better like 1t and the harder I strive to master 1t. I can see that the methods employed in conducting such a business are teaching me that even a farmer can conduct his business along scientific, economical and intelligent lines.
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properly, what starches to use to pre- vent rapid mildew and the like.
 T have never regretted my coming to Tuskegee but I do regret that l could not have been under the influence of such a leader as MT. Washington is sooner 1 have tried to make the most of my ad- vantages, and as I go from here in May. as graduate, 1 hope l shall endeavor to prove myself worthy of the sacrifices that have been made by my parents. and the assistance rendered me by my friends and Tuskegees faculty. i#. FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP.
 Milton Key.
 During the first part of the year 1896 I heard so much about Tuskegee Insti- tute that I wanted to attend it. I wrote Principal Washington asking if might be allowed to enter as night school student, as I was not able to go in the day school. He wrote saying that might so on the first day of October of the same year I started for Tuskegee on foot. After walking around very short while 1t was borne in upon me that I would have to begin new life to stay any length of time.
 q entered the preparatory class, night school. on the Marshall farm. thres
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I asked MT. J. H. Washington, the di- rector of industries, what he thought hao brought about the change. He said: For merly the majority of the students want ed what they called a nice job, one In which they could be, as they said, gen tlemen. Money was no object. Now part ly from the teachings of the school l think and partly from observation, they are coming to have a very different idea with regard to work They have found that it Is not necessary for man to be dirty, simply because he works at trade or on the farm. They are coming to see, too, that a man can hope to have little recognition unless he has some tang ible results to show for his labor
 The school is divided into departments and the various subdivisions. The exc cutive council is made up of the follow ing:
 Booker T. Washington, Principal; War ren Logan, Treasurer; John H. Washing ton, Director, Mechanical Industries; Matthew T. Driver, Business Agent; George w. Carver. Director, Agricultur- al Department; Edgar J. Penney, Chap lain; James D. Mccall, Director Aca- demic Department; Julius B. Ramsey, Commandant, Tuskegee Battalion; James N. Galloway, Manager. Marshall Farm; Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce, Lady Principal; Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Director, Industries for Girls.
 In all the various departments of the school not one exists but that can be and is used to support the school and make practical workmen. And all who have as sisted in building the school none has done more than Emmett Scott, private secretary to the principal He is a Texas newspaper man and has worked diligent- ly and inteligently with Washington.
 Perhaps no more easily comprehensible
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chemistry, mechanical drawing and Bible, l was promoted to the senior class. The studies Of the senior class, with two ex- captions, epend upon the line of work or trade you follow. Being printer take physics, mechanical drawing, mental philosophy and Bible. l spend the last two periods of eighty minutes in the af- ternoon working at my chosen industry. Besides these two periods. every school day l work every Monday and every Sat urday. Notwithstanding I have complet- ed the three years course as laid down in the printing office, I am constantly at work at my trade. The two exceptions to which I referred In the matter of studies in the senior class are that not withstanding our taking different trades, we all take Bible and mental philosophy
 'I expect to graduate the coming com mencement, and if I do l am sure I shall feel proud of the training 1 have received at Tuskegee during the five years (and
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TUSkEGEE INSTITUTE; ITS POWER; NEEDS

Among other things. Tuskegee stands for work, the dignity of labor. Carlyle has said "To labor is to pray If that be true, Tuskegee workers are constantly in reverential attitude.
 'G came to Tuskegee with the determin- ation to learn something that will benefit me and my race 1 was successful in making the A middle class and by dili
 gent study entered the next higher class, the senior, at the beginning ef this school term My special work, however. is along the industrial line 1 expect to finish the course in cooking this term. To this work, then, the prepara ton of wholesome. appe- tizing food or in the teaching of others to do so 1 expect to devote much of my life believing tha- to be good. conscien- tious cook is for me, colcred woman liy- ing in the Southland, an important and worthy work, for .'Whe sweeps room as in Thy sight, makes that and the action fine"
 'I have entered the nurse training di- vision with the expectation of finishing that course. This is to be my avocation in life. While here I have learned many invaluable lessons, both by preeept and f example, and 1 am always anxious to persuade my Texas friends to come here. l have been amply repaid. In fact, had
 l net another nome and a duty to per form, should Scafeely WlSn 10 leave TuslIegeo."
 -Four years ago, arrived at Tuskegee, was given my rooming quarters and tho following day assigned to work. l appli- ed for the printing industry. There are several reasons why I applied for this special trade. The main one is that as my ambition has always been wholly profe ssional. general mastery of the principles and art of this special indus try would serve purpose in my partic- ular case that no other industry here would serve that 1t would serve not as an end in itself, but a means to an end, my real object being to get such knowl- | edge Of this branch of Industry as would assist me in paying my tuition when I leave here and enter upon the study of
 medicine. One other reason why I ap-
 piled for this special industry is that I ] have always been of the opinion that I could more easily and rapidly grasp the rudiments of ana acquire proficiency in the matter of doing things in it than
 l could in any other branch or trade 1 "I entered upon the night school, I made 1 the B middle class. l remained in the
 night school until last year (three i scholastic years), when I entered the | day school, a member of the A
 middle class Having served my ap- i premiership my instructor recom-
 mended that l be given certf- | cate. which l received last commence
 ment. Having completed the studies of
 the A middle class, which were Algebra, English liturature, bookkeeping, physics.
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miles from the school proper I worked here during my first twelve months. The next twenty-four months following I worked in the foundry and machine shop every day and attended the night school. After the twenty-four months had ex- pirea. l had enough money in the schools treasury to enter the day school. but I still worked on my work days in these shops
 fror7 the time I first entered this school. l have not lost single term. nave spent two of my vacations in Bir- minG-.an, Ala, the others nere at Tus- kegee working at the trade which l am pursuing.
 The good this school has done for me ana IS stlll doing, cannot be described in my words. For example, before I left my nome to come here. l would go off III search of Work and I am sure 1 found II very hard indeed to secure a ioh for more than 30 or 75 cents per day. and the Job was always very hard one But
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carriage forgeing. Different kinds or ltraps and their names. Talks on general work are given each day. Repair work { of an advanced order is done by the students while this course is being taught. KEYNOTE OF. SUCCESS. For some time after the institute was established the students as a general thing were not anxious to learn trades
 They were glad to work while at the school but it was as means to an end and not for the sake of what the work would teach them. Often the parents who sent them wanter their children taught books" The last five or six years have seen A change in this respect. Now. al- most without exception the students wish to learn a trade, and the applica- tions for places in the trade classes are often more than the school can accom- modate.
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idea of the manner in which the students enter the college and work their way through can be given than by simply let ting some of the students tell their own stories. Consequently 1 quote a number of those who are now at the institution just as they prepared the statements They follow
 THERESA E. ELLSBERRY.
 'I was born in Montgomery Ala. My parents died before l was old enough to know them As grew up, l lived with first one relative and then another My relatives did not take as much interest in me as a mother could have, and so my educational welfare was not serious ly thought of for a long while. When I was old enough I was sent to a private school where my school life began, and as l grew older liked school better each time 1 went, but unfortunately for diff
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now when I leave school to spend my vacations. all I have to say is this, I am a Tuskegee student. and have no trou- ble whatever in securing good work at a good salary
 My main object when I left home was to finish both the course of study in the academic and industrial departments. This I shall soon do. and shall be very proud because I shall be able to help myself. and shall be better able to help my people"
 t< DRESSMAklNG.
 Mamie K. Gowin.
 'T came to Tuskegee January 1, 1901. My home is in Hazelhurst, Copiah County, Miss. I came for the purpose of learning anything which would be beneficial to me- and I can em phatically say that l have been greatly benefited In every respect since being here
 My trade Is dressmakng. Something I prize very highly because l feel when one has a thorough understanding and has learned to be a perfect dressmaker she has in her possession. first some thing which will be a great help to one and to others; second one has power to demand good wages. as this work is ah- solutely necessary and the world Is in need of conscientious and sldlful dress makers.
 'I had some knowledge of sewing be- fore I came here, but since being here I have added so much to the little I knew. "I have learned the art of drafting. This enables us to draw any pattern which a dressmaker requires and in this way we gain great profit. as we haven't anything to deduct from our salaries to purchase the patterns needed.
 T intend to get well equipped in this trade. dressmaking. and then to work in every way possible to help others; to make the world better as nearly as can.
 q thank the school and its principal most kindly for what have learned since being here"
 FARMING.
 William H. Crutcher. ''I was born at Harrodsburg. Mercer County Ky, in 1876. Often sitting around the fireside, I have heard my parents talk over their many difficulties in com ing through life.
 When quite boy my father received a Tuskegee paper, and l delighted in hearing him read of its work and of the
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advantages offered poor boys in helping them to secure an tcneatrn.
 My father bei1g B plastcring eantrac- tor, wished one cf his boys to become more acquainted with the modern ways of he pastering industry and tnt my older hrotlcr to Tusi-cgca to better pre- pare hirI to meet the (, rnsrds b, ing made upon him and at the aag1, ti5 2, }r Nish I this industry kept in the family. Ills work today spCeks fea lsfh .. 4 as 5. result he contracts and onploys a ndm- Der of other hands.
 My choice cf industry was farming and l waited for my brothers return be- fore coming here. After completing the public school course and taking an ex- animation, l was successful in the west ern part of the state, a school at Monti- cello, Wayne county, Ky where l taught one year out of four prior tc ccming to Tuskeg gee. l arrived here January 16 1s9I and began work at once in the sci cntific agricultural classes. ] have done
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ferent reasons. I could not remain in school long at time I went however. whenever I could
 Tn November. 1893, I went to Birfning- nam to i've with a cousin and went to the pubic school there. The course was not very nigh then. so after finishing l Ter. 'hal l could not let my school life end just here. Having heard of Mir Wash llstoh ana his school, I wrote for a cat alogue and sought information from those who had been here October l, 1S97 came to TusHegee and was very fla
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have remained every summer and winter of those five years), shall have renamed here; and there will be but one thlng above all that that shall regret that is I shall never be able 10 repay Tuskegee for all that she has done for me; thatl could not II I would because the benefits conferred are priceless and incalculable. But though I shall never be able to fully compensate Tuskegee for all she has done for mel think have sufficiently caught her spirit and the spirit oI her founder ana my teacher, Booker T. Washington, to go out feeling that there Is responsibility 10 lift as I climb; feeling that l owe IL 10 myself and my people to live pure, unselfsh and useful life; feeling that wherever my lot chances to be cast that there must I cast down my buckets and humbly and nobly Learn to labor and 10 wait"
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LAUNDERING. SadelIa M. Donaldson.

"Amone my earliest recoliections are some in regard to the good done oy the r,,sl,eeee institute. In my younger oass .xnressed desire of becoming SUI 5or+ of the school, am when the oppor- +,,ritv for attending presented ltseh'
 s. ,,v home in Mississippi with the oe- .ern,,nation to stay in school until l haa completed the course. s+,,dv is
 ..hs tbe academic course or seuu' "
 ,l,ed out. there are two dlVisions +o,v and a normal course requii- prepa.s s,.'.ee ann four years respectively 10 complete ,,,., |, the fall of 1899, wade the B middle class wnicn tno l.annnd in the normal course. Du,ins .as attended day school anu pau my yn,, dave which were Tuesdays anu oa. "o,h ;n the housekeeping division. u.eds th,s work in my middle year pun s ,.oooived a certificate for exceiiehce last May. ..,,o,,e;ro this year is
 o.,r,g We have a well equippeo ,aundrv in Dorothy Hall the o'rl .n i.''strio1 building It includes an eneine ,s, two asserting rooms an noiiiiie roon and wash room.
 "Alonc with the practice or lauiioel li,e
 a,al instructions are given to those speS ,,nner classes. We are taught the III .ns ..trv of the work, we are taught no" cilein.s ,ove stains and how to make soap