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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-11-14
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Needs S,a.. Laws 70 ack
Him up

It is said that a United States Tim
her Agent is to be stationed IN thls
CITY after the first of the year 10 loon
after the interests of Uncle sam IN
the timber regions. Mr.. Ilmpermah
will be welcome, but his coming is
q trife late. according to the opinoln
Of most people who have ever given
the matter any consideration. me
time that he should have been mere
was when the big timber thieves
rajded the forests and their work
tells the story Whenever they saw
chance to cut out cord of wood,
they did it, and it is safe to say that
more timber ground was cut over
that did hot belong to them than they
really owned.
When the Legislature meets TINS
winter, some steps should be taken
20 regulate the cutting of timber and
| especially second growth. that is
spllnging up in every section OF TINS
| State The farmers should be the
| first to take hold of this matter, as
! their future water supply is threat
enel every time timber cutter gets
| into the forest Thousands OF young
| trees have been cut down during the
! past few years that should have re
ceived the protection OF the State,
| The trouble has been that Nevada,
! like most of the wetern tates. has
never had any law to regulate this
matter With a State law to back UP
timber agent. this can be straight
| ened ont to the betterment of the
| people at large In the future when
the State of Nevada sells lands il
| should have some provision regarding
the cutting of timber. The condition
is the same in most of the western
States and Nevada should be the frs
to take the lead.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-11-14
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PLAY
4 LIVELY Comedy IS ON
PROGRAM
A Coed Company With New
| Features

The Irishman in the various walks
of life by his witty sayings and anus
ing actions, causes the majorities of
the smiles which tighten the bur
dens of humanity. The Irishman on
the stage only exaggerates the Irish
man we meet every day.
However, it is universally acknow-
lodged by critics that no other man
can so successfully portray the care
less, happy go-lucky Irishman as Bar
new Ferguson and that there is no
play in which Mr.. Ferguson has ever
been featured that gave him so many
opportunities as "McCarthy's Mis-
hans" in which he apears. He will
introduce his latest speciality with
John Mack. the team being known
as Ferguson AID Mack This is the
funniest Of all eccentric specialties.
specialties by Caron and Herbert,
the worlds greatest comedy acrobats.
James E. Fome and Marguerite Fer
guson. Charlotte Ray Dick Ferguson
and Grace Passmore the d Estelle
! sisters and the Misses Fem and Vince
| Ter, Virginia Logan and company
| OF twenty people will come to the
opera house tonight.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-11-14
a BIG
PROJECT
ELECTRA, & rOn CARSON
A. LEI
grast~r oa Figure on
Figure on
TaG hfGve

There is big scheme on in this
.ection. It is proposed to build an
electric line from this city to the val
lev above. 1t has been admitted for
q long time that a railroad would
pay between this city and Carson val
ley. as the amount of freight and ira
ffc that goes that way is astonishing.
From private sources it is stated that
the new electric company that has
come to this city is figuring on es-
tablishing an electric traction system
up that way and have even gone to
the trouble OF securing estimates on
the material needed to put such a
road in operation.
There is no question but that it
would pay. The freight alone that
comes and goes would keep a road
busy, as every pound of produce that
is shipped from the valley and every
ounce that goes in has to be teamed
in ard out One thing to the advan-
tase OF an electric line is the fact
that no grade is encountered between
the points. 1t is straight away be
tween the two valleys and this would
enable a line OF this character to haul
| enough TO pay. Several times the rail
! road has had survey made and plans
t for a road have been drawn, but they
! have given the mater up for reasons
/ best known to themselves.
/ Should the Floriston people an
no,lnce that they mean business, the
people can look forward to a line uI
! that way in short order. as the com
pany is out f9r business and wher
they make an announcement it car
bedepended upon. While such move
move would be bad for the teamins
interests yet it is in line with impro
/ vements of the age and the wonder
] is that it was not taken hold of ear
lier
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Moved to Carsoy

Mr.. and Mrs. James Howard and
family will move to this city the com
ing week. The ranch in Washoe val
lev has been leased for term o.
wears and as Mr. Towards health has
not been of the best for the past ye3i
it was decided to make Carson home
The many friends in this city hope
that the change will be beneficial Il
Mr.. Howard
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-11-14
Washoe Majoritles

The official returns fr1il Washo2
county give the following ma jorities
for candidates on the State ticket.
VanDuzer. 29S: Sparks, s9S: Allen.
531. Talbot. 1879: Douglass. So: RYAN,
267: Mcmillan, rs: Kelley. 20.. :;
Maute. 10: Ring. 427: Dodge, 81:
Kirman. 242.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-11-14

Good dry split pine and limb wood
mas never been humed and ia prime for
USE VIII be sold in quantity to suit
patrons. Saving done at short notice
cut to suit patrons. n. SAyAou
PAe1e ~;
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-11-14

4 club to study political economy
has been organized in Virginia City
They should take up the subject o.
Nevada politics la Reno. 1t is Ger
tainiy interesting.
One day il is reported that there
is to be q strike on the S. P, and the
next that the strike is off However.
freigth does not arrive and the met
chant is wondering if he hadn't better
do the striking.
Scafolding is being placed in front
of the county building preparatory to
placing the cornice in position.
There are 81 900 worth of iron rails
at the depot for the Cabin No mine
at Olin ghouse. They were purchased
at Reno from the n. C. o. railroad
They are heavy rails but the amount
of work blocked out on the Cabin No.
requires them The mere develop
ment work in this rich property as
now outlined will take several wears
Dispatch.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-11-14

Ihere will be a dance in .Empire
THIS evening at Barretts ha! IF vo,,
are looking for a good time here is
your chance
"A party OF prospectors are canned
IN the western addition and are mt
ting in their time in the hills colse
70 this city.
The Conservative, 1902-05-08
Jbe Conservative.

from compared estimates ana ACTUAL
counts, the proportion of children
under IL to grown operatives appears
as between IA and Is per cent, while
in South Carolina it is at least 8 per
cent.
The Associated Press reported the
president of the Whitney mills as
stating before the legislature that 30
per cent of his operatives were under
12 years, which percentage he says
referred only to the spinning room,
but that is startling enough. James
X. Orr stated that 25 per cent of
his machinery was run by children
under IL years. These cold precent-
ages do not give an adequate express
sion of their meaning. 10 the horri-
fed visitor the mills appear to be
swar ming with little children. The
light and easy work of which the
managers speak is to stand on their
feet all day before spinning frame,
where the threads may break at one
end or the other or in the middle at
any moment, and when the thread
breaks the spool stops and the thread
is to be rejoined and the spool
started again.
A baby has one frame to attend to,
but most have two, many have three
and some have four or five. The
boys are generally doffers or sweep
ers, that is, they have to change the
bobbins on the frames as they become
full and substitute empty ones. In
the exercise of their work they often
run 16 or II miles day with their
trucks. The little sweeper plies a
broom bigger than himself to perform
these actions, trivial in themselves,
uninterruptedly for 10 hours a day
OH the average, with only one-half
hour for rest and food We all re-
member how Lord Shaftesbury OBJ
tanned powerful backing for his child
labor law by inducing gentlemen in
high place to repeat for Is minutes
the very action required of the child.
At the end of that time he was will
ing to vote for anything to put a stop
to such barbarity.
Without regulation of hours there
is no reason to prevent the mills
working at night and when they can
do so profitably they avail themselves
of this permission. have talked
with little boy of seven years who
worked for 40 nights, in Alabama,
and another child not nine years old,
who at six years old had been on the
night shift II months
A clerk in cotton mill told me
that little boys turned out at two in
the morning for some trivial fault,
afraid to go home, would beg him to
allow them to 60 to sleep on the
Office floor.
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The Conservative, 1902-05-08
CHILD LIFE VS.. DIVIDENDS.

dragged into the mills when scarcely
out of their babyhood, without edu
cation, without opportunity, being
robbed of health morally and physi-
cally, forced to labor as in the days
of negro slavery negro children never
were With their baby hands these
little slaves are undermining the
liberties of the future, not only Of
the cotton operatives of the South,
but of the American working people
nor only of the working people, but
of the community in which they for
good or evil are to play so large a
part.
And what is the universal reply
to your question, 'Why are they
there?''
They are there, it is said, "to
attract Northern capital" scathing
comment on both those who sell and
those who ask the sale. The South
ern states of America are the only
section of the world where the crime
of infant labor is permitted, crime
which if not quickly wiped out will
write itself large on economic and
industrial history, to the everlasting
shame of the people of America.
Take the number of the children
employed! Statistics are very diff
cult to obtain. In quoting figures it
is to be remembered that we are not
dealing with the denser population of
the North and East. The whole popu-
lation of Alabama, more than one
third of which is negro, and does not
count in this connection, is only
about the same as the city of
Chicago.
There is but one of the Southern
Commission-North Carolina Mr..
B R. Lacey, as Labor Commissioner,
gives in his last report 1905 children
under Ia employed in 261 mills.
Taking this as general average
would give at least 10000 children
under IA in the textile mills of the
South.
The Cincinnati Post recently sent a
correspondent through the South to
investigate the subject of child labor,
simply as matter of news, and par
ticularly cautioned him not to exag
gerate. Out of at least one thousand
children employed in five mills in
Columbia, S. G., he estimates 400 to
be under IL years of age. Applying
this proportion to the above figures,
would give at the very lowest COM
putation, little children, infants be-
tween 6 and 10, as operatives. He
spoke personally to numbers of chill
dren, who said they were seven and
eight, and others who were so little
they did not know their own ages.
In Alabama, they estimate that
The Conservative, 1902-05-08

too weary to do anything but fling
themselves down for rest.
In South Carolina Miss Jane
Addams, of Chicago, found a child
of five working at night in the fine,
large, new mills. Only few weeks
ago 1 stood at 80 at night in
mill in Columbia, S. G., controlled
and owned by northern capital,
where children who did not know
their own ages were working from 6
p. m. to a. m. without moment
for rest or food or a single cessation
of the maddening racket Of the ma
chiney, in an atmosphere unsanitary
and clouded with humidity and lint.
Slaughter of Innocents.
The physical, mental and moral
effect Of these long hours of toll and
confinement on the children is indie
scribably sad. Mill children are so
stunted, that every foreman, as you
enter the mill, will tell you that you
cannot judge their ages. Children
may look, he says, to be 10 or IL,
and be in reality ID or Is.
A horrible form of dropsy occurs
among the children. A doctor in
city mill, who has made special
study of the subject, tells me that 10
per cent of the children who go to
work before 10 years of age, after
five years, contract active consump-
tion. The lint forms in their lungs
a perfect cultivating medium for
tuberculosis, while the change from
the hot atmosphere Of the mill to the
chill night or morning air, often
brings on pneumonia, which fire.
quently, if not the cause of death, is
forerunner of consumption.
How sternly the "pound of flesh"
is insisted on by the various en-
ployers, is illustrated by the case of
two little boys of 9 and II, who had
to walk three miles to work on the
night shift for 10 hours. One night
they were five minutes late and were
shut out, having to tramp the whole
three miles back again. The number
of accidents to those poor little ones
who do not know the dangers of ma
chinery is, appalling.
In Huntsville, Ala, in January,
just before I was there, child of
eight years who had been a few
weeks in the mills, lost the index
and middle fingers of her right hand.
A child of seven had lost her thumb
a year previously
In one mill city in the South a
doctor told friend that he had per-
sonally amputated more than hun
dred babies fingers mangled in the
mill. A cotton merchant in Atlanta
told me he had frequently seen mill
children without fingers or thumb
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23

brooklyn Ferry stock. ..-
Hoboken Ferry LIST 5s. 1916. .
do stock
y Y & r r Ferry Co stock.
do LIST mtg Is. 1922. ......
n Y & II F Con IS. 1916. -.
10th & 23d ST LIST mg IS. 1915
Union 2 Of n Y & r stock.
- y y n T fst mtg IS. 19&6.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23

but also in the units of service rendered per NM
of railroad operated. The service so reHueieu II
the wear under report 4S53.3S359Z unlts' "oo M
+bar fo,,rfoId what it had been in the year enoed
June 90 1889 q 203 $50. rs units) ana 'ne SCI O "
rendered nor mile of railroad operated was more
than two and A half times as great as IL hao oeeh
thirteen years before
But these statistics fail to show the fuil
of the increased service rendered as 1t 'ahes no
account Of the transportatio of company freight
- .hicL s1o IRA TO tons were this year carried
ono mile as against ss0O9534s tons carried one mile
in the year preceding. This year increase IL
the volume of company freight therefore was
1oo1 nor cont in contrast with increase Of
only 10 Sc per cent the number OF tons OF reFe-
nue. freight carried mile While it is not now pos
sibIe TO state the volume of company freight which
was carried one mile in the earlier years II is
certain that as A necessary incident of the bust
moss there were carried mile, during the year
under report in addition the 4,4520 s27 tons
Of revenue freight. s1O734.752 tons OF company
freight; that IS say. the total service rendered
in the carriage of freight of all kinds. exceeded
that shown by 1921 per cent.
The charter of the company provides that the
State of Illinois shall receive in lieu OF taxes
per cent OF the gross receipts of the 100 miles or
railroad originally built The paid this
wear was Ss1l 3ss which. If capitalized at 81 per
cent would give s26.o59o2i as representing the
proprietary interest OF the State of Illinois In the
Illinois Central Railroad This is the largest pay
miles OF additional second track put in service
in the wear In the betterment OF the property
there have been spent during the year $SVSo4'' ol
which S26s 4l2 was charged TO betterment funds
previously provided. and A,3i0172 betrayed from
current income. the remaining S.4Son2 oelng
charged to capital The policy OF the company of
improving the standard and maintenance has been
strictly adhered to.
MADE ASSISTANT SECRETART.-J- Ashley
Griffin has been made assistant secretary OF the
Fifth Avenue Trust Company. Mr.. Grimm mas
been loan clerk of the City Trust Company since
its incorporation Prior 70 that he was paying
teller of the Kings County Trust Company
SEVENTH NATIONAL INCREASES-A meet
ing of the stockholders Of the Seventh National
Bank has been called for October p. to vote on d
proUosltfon TO increase the capital stock from
& 700 GOO 10 81 10000 A report that this proposed
action foreshadows consolidation with two other
local banks was denied yesterday
CONSOLIDATED NATIONAL.-The Consolidated
National Bank recently organized with a capital
OF 81 100000 and a surplus of equal amount began
business Yesterday morning at Nc 81 broadway
Willis s Paine is its president. and Mortimer H.
Wagar president of the Consolidated Stock ana
Petroleum Exchange is its vice-president-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23
STOCKS GENERALLY LOWER.
HIGH MONEY RATES AND Low BANK HOLDINGS FAIL TO IN
DJ7CE IMPORTANT LIQUIDA TION-DECLINES SMALL
c,11 MONEY RATES TOUCH 20 PER CENT. RULING AT II
tations were

Closing prices yesterday Of the principal active
securities and net changes from Saturdays quo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23
OUTSIDE SECURITIES.

The market for outside securities was quiet and
prices were generally irregular. The trading how
ever IN some of the more active securities was on
1alriy large scale Rock Island issues continued
10 ne the attraction: the was hrmer on
dealings of about 5000 shares advancing 10 6lIa
Inc preferred stock fraction off. however
selling down to s612. but later raIying 10 ST. about
80" shares were dealt in. The bonds were shade
off, selling down to ssh About $4,000 was dealt
IN Northern Securities opened firm but shortly
after sold on nearly point from 114e 1885, but
on increased purchases recovered about half of
the early loss; about 1000 shares dealt in.
United States Realty issues were irregular: the
common sold down to 1865 dealings amounting
-9o shares. and the preferred TO 1885 sales of
ABOUT fm shares American Can issues were some
what nrmer; the common sold at 133.. Distilng
OF America sold at 30i. Virginia Iron, Coal and
Coke was strong. selling at SO. The bonds adj
vanced nearly per IS. United States Ship
ouliding preferred sold at 59A. Transportation at
IA New-Brunswick Coal sold 6G6ls. Standard
oii SOLD down TO go. In the copper shares Mon
treaI and Boston sold down 3; about 1000 shares
were dealt in and Greene Consolidated down 10
-6's- The market closed quiet and irregular
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

MONEY MARKET.-Call money touched n per
cent ruling at Z per cent. There was calling OF
loans yesterday by the banks. It is obvious that in
depen6ent of the various forms of financial relief
that have been arranged and now being dis
c,ssed the banks themselves must strengthen their
reserves There is no cause for apprehension, but
money rates are likely to be close all Of this week
The 81 600 600 in gold consigned to the National City
Bank is expected to arrive Tuesday or WedneS-
day The payment of s150cO0 authorized yesterday
morning on account of gold deposited on the Pacific
Coast 10 the credit Of the British Bank of North
America has been offset by transfer of 100000
~ %avr-OrJeane The banks in their operations with
the local Sub-Treasury start out this week under
favora ole auspices. They gained Saturday $52o-
GOO making total gain from the Sub-Treasury
since Friday Of S91S0 eco, and tie institution was
debtor at the Clearing House yesterday morning
for 800 642 The local banks are practically out or
tae lime money market but. heretofore. the
trust companies and corporations not associated
with the New-York Clearing House are placing
time money at 6 per cent and upward. The rate
,7oniralI is per cent Out of town interests are
The y,-incraI-n fact almost the only dscounter OF
,,rir7e mercantile paper which is still quoted NOM
inaTv At per cent as the minimum.
FOREIGN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES weakened de-
oi5s51. T., the morning on the high money rates
- s5e5e7. ga. for demand a rather liberal sup
,,l,. Of Grain and cotton bills also helped in the
so---7rar5 movement After suffering an extreme
derressioo 10 4 s5s5 sterling steadled somewhat
rotwithstan dng the higher money rates 70 4So@40
S5sn for demand The rise was attrlnu1eo 10 snort
-.,o,. bz, srecrlative brokers. Actual closing
fo1loz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23
. DENVER AND RIO GRANDE.

The report Of the Denver and Rio Grande Rail-
way Company for the fiscal year ended June 81
makes q satisfactory exhibit. The increase III the
gross earnings of thing less than per cent
is not large. \ decrease in operating expenses and
an increase of nearly L per cent in net earnings
considerably more significant. Ever since the
Denver and Rio Grandc passed under the control
of the Goulds large sums have been expended for
improvements and hetterments-in fact, perhaps
the Denver and Rio Grande annual report Is one
of the most striking illustrations that have To
hand recently OF the modern scheme OF managing
railroad properties. Both in the tabulated state
ments and in the reading Of the report. fire.
quent reference is made to such items as 'mod1-
fcations Of grades and alignment, expenditure
for Improvement" etc. This only shows that the
management OF the Denver and Rio firande fully
realizes that competition be met and best re-
suits realized only by having the property in the
best physical condition. During the fiscal year
the Denver and Rio Grande charged of $4,000 for
renewal fund and appropriated 100000 for new
equipment. After making these heavy deductions
and paving dividends amounting $4,000 its
preferred stock, there left profit and loss
surplus of $685. II should be stated that the
figures used above are the basis OF the combined
report OF the Denver and Rio Grande and the Rio
Grande Western strong point in the financial
condition Cf the company is that il has floating
Indebtedness. 1t is known. according the New
York News Bureau. that George J. Gould has al
ready planned for stil further extensive improve
ments on the Denver and Rio Grande system
When these are completed II will be possible
operate this property at considerably less cost
proportionatey than heretofore. Even if Mr.. Gould
is not elected director of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company, the Denver and Rio Grande will get
Its share Of the traffic originating in connection
with TINS property When the steel plant at
the Colorado Fuel Works is in operation this traffic
VIII ne considerably larger than at present