Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-26
IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
Interesting Session Anticipated at Capital
Tuesday and Wednesday,
GETTING RAILROAD LABOR STATISTICS
Employees Beginning TO show . DispO-
sition 10 Furnish Labor Bureau
with the Faets De-
sired.
(From a star cnrresnnndentN


DEs MONIES. Dec. 25.-(special.)-The
annual meeting OF the iowa Academy OF
Science win be held In the rooms Of the
State Geological society in the capitol next
Tuesday and Wednesday. The meeting,
which is the seventeenth annual meeting,
will be highly interesting. The president,
Prof. H. E. Summers, is to deliver an ad-
dress on THE Problem Of Heredity," on
which subject he has made a study. Prof.
T. H. Macbride OF the State university is to
deliver an address on Some Neglected
Factors In Our Irrigation Problem" On
this subject he has given a great deal Of
time to investigation. He will also deliver
an illustrated lecture before the academy
and the science teachers round table Of the
State Teachers association on the Desert
Of Sanora." l. H. Ford has q paper on
Smallpox in the Public Schools" Prof. l..
H. Pammel has a paper on the Flora Of
the Uinta Mountains" Frank A. Wilder will
discuss the "origin Of the Llgnites of North
Dakota" Prof. David e. MADDEN will dis
cuss the Solar Surface During the Past
Ton Years." being observations made by
him at Alta. A valuable report is expected
from the committee on food deliberations.
This committee, at the head Of which is
Prof. Weems Of the State college, has been
@nA1 AANCoNA6nNhOhb " u ~ vi ycdE9
in regard to food authorizations, with a view
to perfectiAg a proposed law to prevent
authorizations in Iowa. Thu committee has
conducted original Investigations OF great
value. Others who are on the program are
Charles r. Reyes. b. Shimek, Alfred N.
Cook. H. w. Norris, Nicholas Knight, T. z.
Savage, Alice Ward Hess, e. c. Myers,
Howard e. Simpson, B. Fink, H. II. Hume,
Edwin Morrison, Frank F. Almy, William
e. Saunders. z. H.. Bailey, George w Car
yer and L. BeEeman.
Getting Railroad Statistics.
State Labor Commissioner e. D. Brigham,
who has been engaged during his term in
making IN effort to secure statistics in re-
gard to labor matters from a number Of
sources which have not hitherto been
worked, is receiving encouragement in the
matter of securing labor statistics from
railroad employees in Iowa. At first the eff
fort TO secure this information was received
with indifference or resistance. More re-
Gently the faiIrOad employees and ruiirUad
oficials have taken 6 different view of the
matter. He has Just received a sample
letter from the secretary Of a lodge of the
trainmen In q railroad center In Iowa, In
which he says:
PLEASE send me some Individual wage-
eaTner's statistical blanks to I'LL. The rea-
son Of my failure to all out the blanks
which you sent me some time ago was be-
cause IL was q hard matter TO fnd cut any
thing on account Of the lack Of interest on
the part OF the men working here, but I
brought the matter up and talked q
good deal about the Importance such infor-
nation will be TO the commissioner Of la
Dor"
This Is taken to indicate renewed interest
In the matter. IS It Is Of similar import to
letters received from several sources. The
statistical information asked for relates
to the wages and conditions Of employment,
hours n the safety appliances. ETC., of
railroad men. This IL a line of investiEa-
tion never before attempted and the fact
that the state lsboF commissioner is q
railroad engineer enables hfm to set at the
matter better han might otherwise be the
case. 81.
Iowa ButteF Shipments.
The state dairy commissioned has Just
received the reports from the railroads in
dicating the butter shipments from Iowa
points to the outside markets for 1902.
These reports show a steady decline in the
butter shipments for several years. The !