Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-09-25

lies have less than four waiIInl
youngsters, while many of them ar,
blessed with five or more. In Riving
ton street the stork has provided =
tenement house containing twenty
nine families with 102 families,
reporter VINO went uptown look
ing for babies among the higher
priced apartments experienced hard
ship. The landlords of the houses
when approached looked panied.
There aren't any of the little fel
lows around was the invariable re
sponse. Wed like to see a few OF
them"
In SIN big apartment houses visit
ed twenty-one babies were found
ihey were distributed among ASS fam.
lilies in four years. The Barnard nj
seventy'first street and Central Park
West, exhibited four babies, the last
one born more than year ago.
The Ansonia, at Seventy.fourth
street and Broadway, has only seven.
and the Euclid on Broadway. near
Eighty-sixth street has six. There is
one solitary baby at the Breton
across the street The Chatsworth. nj
Sventy-second street and Riverside
drive, mas only one.
Il don't see why II is that we are
treated so shamefully by the stork -
said the landlord of one of the apart
ment houses. we welcome It as cor.
daily as we know how. but il seems
10 be a cruel fate which is keeping
our infantile population down.
NEW YORK, Sept 21.--More than
s25O.O00.000 in orders now on the
books of the steel rail. car and loco
motive manufacturers is the total of
new business which prosperity has
rolled up in one line of industry-that
of railroad equipment.
In the case of the rail orders 1t IS
easy 10 get at the figures for the total
orders placed for delivery In 1906 are
known. and the valuation can be cal
cuiated on the basis of the schedule
price of s2S ton that all the manu-.
facturers adhere to.
In the case of locomotives the esti-
mate is that of leading manufactur-
ers. 1t is learned that the American
Car Foundry company, which con.
trolls more than 40 per cent of the
business OF the country In the car
building line. has orders on Its books
amounting to approximately 10000
600. and on this basis the total for
all the manufacturers is calculated.
In the case of both cars and loco.
motives the estimates include all side
appliances. such as air brakes. auto
matte couplers and the like.
That the railroad managers of the
country are certain of the continu.
ance OF prosperous times for an I'M
UNITED period is evidenced by the way
In whicl they have been placing or
iers with the manufacturers of euuip.
ment In every line of railroad sup
plies there Is record-breaking rush
Of orders. The books Of the rail man.
nfacturers for delivery In 1905 wers
closed some time ago and already or.
1ers have been received or practical.
ly closed for delivery in 1906 totalling
'''s'V' fDuh. his
means q gross business, on the basis
OF -2S II tor, in excess OF 325 .OOO. 900.
Back Of the great prosperity in all
lines CT business are the heavy grain
crops of this year. with the corn hnr.
vest record-breaker II has been cal.
culated that to move the crops alone
the railroads need 100000 freight
cars
The enormous demand for new steel
freight cars has been reflected In
great pressure on the mills manufac.
turing steel plates. An advance In the
price of plates is predicted as likely to
take place any time. It is thought
that the price will be put up 81 a ton.
but this is not expected to interfere
with the demand.
The cali for rails has overtaxed the
billet mills and has led to talk of the
probable necessity of heavy billet i'm.
poriations from abroad. Every rail
making plant In the country, north
south and west, is busy.
The Pennsylvania railroad last week
ordered II 900 new freight cars to be
delivered as soon as possible. II Is
that they are to be of 100,
900 pounds capacity each. and they
Will cost something like $4,000, 900
Men fond of statistics figure that this
number of cars would make a train
almost $50 miles long 1t Is possible
that the Pennsylvania may order 49,
900 more cars soon, for delivery
through next year to one road alone.
Large orders for cars and locomotives
nave been received from many other
roads.
There were fifty new cases of yel
low fever at New Orleans yesterday.