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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
ON LINES IN MINNESOTA
G. N. Division Superintendent Testife.
on Traffic

5.gtsE
L. W. Bowen, Superintendent Of the
39S miles of road was under. his charge.
His part of the main line is 200 miles,
Wyzata to Breckenridge.
From the time a train of dead
freight registers in at Breckenridge till
it registers in at Wayzata.H how long
does a train IN the average tale9''
as'taa +':e nnnrnissfesn
under normal conditions, the train
makeup at Breckenridge would take
10 hours; the trip of l12 miles to Will
Willmar S or 6 hours, if no switching
were necessary If grain, it would have
to be inspected. It would probably be
there ID hours, laying over all night
before inspection. Then the trip to
Wayzata would fill out about 20 hours
for the entire run from Breckenridge. =
Mr.. Bowen testified that engines on
his division were loaded to about 70
per cent Of capacity. In summer they
are loaded 100 per cent if the rails are
dry; -, -. 80.
enggime'''
don t think the danger from accidents
would be increased. !,
Do you find necessity for setting
cars out Of trains to set in long waiting
Tears
/ No, sir, there. has never been CON
gestion on my division.
6. Well said Mr.. Marble, t.they
ought to have you on some of those
western divisions.
& have been there, but had no con
gestion when was, he replied.
They ought to have kept you
there. said Mr.. Marble.
| asNo, I don't think so, said Mr.
Bowen, with a smile.
| On the subject Of coal supply he
said his division had four days supply
! on hand.
The witness proved very non-commit
tai. Answering concluding questions by
Mr.. Lane, he said he knew of no cal
congestion, knew of no reason for anw
and believed many of the complaints
unjust. Where an elevator has had
tnosscars for twenty day demand Of
other pressing business might excuse
the railroad.
Why should there be no shortage
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
Sincere Compliment to Roosevelt.

SAAASSAS 0o2AGA41ACIo W GOOSSVC!G
/ No higher compliment has recently
been bestowed. upon President Roose-
welt than that implied in the remark:
{ d. ii. Hartman is said to have, made,
that Roosevelt must be got. rid Of
politically at any cost" Whether the
railroad king actually made this re-
mark. as asserted by the rather sensa-
ational James Creelman in the,ycurrent
4 Pearson's, or whether it is a. case of
4 mind reading, the public viii be fain
to, believe that the assertion represents
fairly enough the attitude of Harri-
4 man and his ilk toward the president.
4 The further assertion is credited to Mr..
4 Hartman that he would take either Bry-
an or Hearst rather than Roosevelt, be-
cause sfwe cannot be worse Off than
we are now with that man in the
White House, for, if it comes to that,
we can get at the other crowd.''
Passing by the implied reflection ton
the honesty of purpose Of the Bryan
, and Hearst cults, one is impressed by
j the fact that this hostility to Roose-
y welt is iengendered by the very quail
ties that endear him to the 50 people.
He is not merely honest, he is fearless.
4 He is not merely fearless, he is shrewd
y and resourceful. He stands sauarely in
the path the railroad monarchs seek
to travel toward complete and con-
centrated supremacy over the transpor-
tation interests of the country. He is
alert, vigilant and incorruptible. Small
wonder, then, that it seems vital to our
Harrimans that he be "gotsrid of polit-
& ically." Small wonder, too, that the
& people talk Of insisting ION his serving
& another term IN the presidency. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
FROM RAILROAD OFFICIAL
Light on Car Shortage as Shed by Di
5 5.s vision superintendent.

Frank Bell, superintendent for the
Great Northern road at Melrose, was
called. He had with him train dis
patchers' sheets from June l to date,
and other memorandum. His division
extends from point just out of Min
neapolis to GAINESVILLE, about 200
miles,
"!Take the time train registers in
from your farthest point, GAINESVILLE,
what length of time should it take to
arrive in Minneapolis with necessary
delays9" was a question.
| About fortyeight hours,' he re-
piled. ''We have done this the pres
ent season. This allows about six hours
at each Of two division points, where
trains are broken up.o
In periods of congestion what has
been your rule9'
nTo let the oldest loads go frst.''
"To what per cent of, capacity do
you load your enginesR''
About so or 80 per cent. This is
very light loading. This is done to
callty and weather. In some districts
we have. severe winds, in others
snow {,
:" You are not ahampered for engines
or carsa'', H.
enc, sir. There has been no cal
shortage ON my division, except fol
short periods. The situation has been
better than last year or two years ago
Yesterday morning there were no loads
Iton the. division that had stood ovel
forty eight hours.1'
In favorable weather and condi
tions, to what limit do you load YOU
enginesq"' @
ITO their capacity replied Mr.
"Who gives you this capacityqv
| The master mechanic.
How is your coal supply?'
Not so great as previous wears
| We have not had coal more than thirty
six hours ahead. The coal ia prac
1 tically going directly thru the; Goa
sheds to the locomotives. Other year,
we have had five days. supply ahead
During July, August, September ans
October, the business of the line ha.
increased IS to 100, per. cent, mostly
disc and machinery. The eastboune
lis mostly lumber and shingles. The
/ increase has been mostly on thru
freight
/ ..On questioning by Mr.. Begg, tn,
witness said much Of the new bushes.
on his division was due to change il
routing, and also that in speaking Of
Ioaolng an engine to full capacity, :
ne meant the capacity given him, and
not the real capacity of the engine.
;MOn< dead / Freight he said, 81
think 10 hours is not unreasonable
| time to be taken up by dead freight
Sometimes at terminals. however
freight is not DELAYED over an hour o,
an hour and a half -
| Mr.. Bell, on questioning by Mr.. Lane
said h he believed dead freight would
and the going thru of one terminal.
4 Then going 800 miles, trai1
would take three days, and you thinl
this fair timeso asked Mr.. Lane.
! Yes, SIR
"Mr. Bell,' said Mr.. Marble, edo
you know how fast canal boat goes 3,
No, | have had no experience Will
Well, as fast as horse or maj
can walk. Don't Won think that il
about the same rate Of speed?''
Witness didn It know.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
FULL HOUSES AT LISBON
Farmers Unable TO Get Cars to Ship
Grain, Saws Grover.

Harry s. Grover of Lisbon, N D.,
was called. Lisbon is on the Northern
Pacific, has five elevators and -four
mill. The elevators are all full, but
there is no grain on the ground.
Do the farmers ship from your sta
tlon e. asked Mr.. Marble.
They would if they could, - replied
Grover. There is a farmers loading
platform, but not one car has been
loaded from it this year. The farmers
have been anxious to sell more grain,
even to the elevators, than they have
been able. -
ments9'
We'll, car 5000 was loaded at our
town Oct. Is and not unloaded in Du-
luth till Nov. 26. At Buttsville, eight
miles from us, on Dec 8, five empfies
were set out on a sidetrack.. The agent
OF The Great Western elevator there got
farmer with his team to haul them
to the elevator. There they were
loaded. When /. passed thru the town
last night, [ noticed the five cars were
still there
No snowplows on Engines.
Mr.: Grover called attention to fact
IN his observation that engines are
not this year equipped with small snow
ploWs, as is usual in winter. He be-
lleved this to be because of engines
beng IN poor condition.
believe that, in my county,, said
Mr.. Grover, /" farmers now still have 60
per cent of their grain, that 10 per
cent IS in the elevators, and 80 per
cent has been shipped. A week ago
last Monday the coal supply ran out.
TWO cars arrived yesterday and were
quickly emptied by farmers wagons in
waiting. ;sf Is. sss.s.
Since Sept. l. Lisbon has received
nineteen cars of coal. Two cars of coal
tshipped Sept. and 6 have not arr
rived. Nor have two ears Of wood
shipped from Northome. Dec. 6 and g.
and one from Cromwell has not been
heard from.
Loans and Deposits.
Showing the effect of the car short.
age on general business, Mr.. Grover
stated loans in one Lisbon bank have
increased $4,000 since Sept. 1 and de-
posIts materially decreased. The oppo.
site condition was true one wear ago :
| deposits were then increasing and loans
being paid. age
| Ernest Billings of Lisbon, director in
a farmers elevator, corroborated Mr..
! Growers testimony. r~,
Because of. the lack Of cars..' he
| sag our business has been curtailed
lao, GOO bushels. In December our ele,
vator had but three cars. What cars
1 have come have been fairly divided
among the elevators. None of the
farmers have been able TO get cars.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
Sufficient Transportation All I'm
d portant.

Nothing that has come out in the car
shortage inquiry has been so broadly
8 illuminating as the testimony of the
country bankers. No better concrete
illustration of effect could possibly have
been made. The country banker gets
close to his people. He knows their
means, their business, their ability to
make good, and to what extent they
may be carried. Thru all this complaint
of inefficient car service and inability
TO turn produce into cash he has not
failed to carry along his customers to
the fullest extent consistent with con-
servatism, for no one knows as we'll as
sthe country banker the inherent sound
ness of the northwest and no one has
so fully realized that the conditions
existing were abnormal ~
But notice the conditions. For twenty
consecutive years, according to one
banker who testified, he had never
known the deposit account,fto fail to
rise soon after September, and the loan
account. to. fall. This lis the natural
thing. The farmer is carried along by
Ssthe merchant, who in turn gets his ac-
commodation from ., the bank. Thus
when the country has produced its
crops and the process begins Of turning
the stream Of grain into currency, obi
cations Of long standing are paid off
and money accumulates in the banks.
y This:is as natural as sunrise and sunset,
the rise and fall of the tides.
Observe, then, how things were
changed this year. Deposits have gone
down and the: loan accounts have in
@creased. Some bankers loaned up to
the limits Of safety consistent with
capitalization and surplus and; refused
:stos entertain more applications. {
q Here was an absolute reversal5of nor.
NAL conditions. turning around of
things. A condition Of affairs upsetting
all business calculations, making neces-
ssary new arrangement, putting farmers
and business men face to face with
conditions relative to the money supply
and the satisfaction of obligations
never before known, and giving "a false
appearance to section actually more
prosperous. than any other part Of the
prosperity blessed United States.
Could anything carry greater evil
dence of the dependence of the country,
sin these modern times, upon transporta-
4 tiona Gould anything be more impor-
i tant than that the roads should do bet
&nr hp4 Oh,
for the providing Of better serviceq
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
DEC. 10

4 =
16oe-sara Constant, Godspeed and
Discovery sailed from England for
Virginia. ~ IL
162t-Enslish commons claimed
freedom OF discussion.
1ess-Wllllam ct Orange entered
London. SO
1777-Washinaton moved hIs troops
to Valley Forge.
1s1s-Fort Niasara taken by the
British.
1s2o-Mary- a. Llvermore born.
Died May 2ss 1926. S.
1s51-Turner, the celebrated paint.
er, died. - 49, -
1s62-The confederates recsptursd
Holly Springs, Mics, taking the GAR
rIson prisoners. &. s 8
1so3-East River bridge opened
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
MERCHANDISE DELAYED
Gwinner Merchant Tells of Freight
Traffic Conditions.

Alfred N. Carlblom Of Gwinner.
y. d., merchant, said that the eleya-
tors in his town are full and closed.
He told Of one car of merchandise
which he had shipped twenty-one miles.
which took six days in transit.
There are but three tons Of hard
coal and no soft coal in our town, -
said the witness. Coal has taken sir
weeks to get to lus from Duluth. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

eve. generally. have. sufficient cars
on the Northern Pacific, 500 and Great
Northern to provide for the merchan-
disc going west, replied Mr.: Dooley.
In response to questions by MI. Begg
of the Great Northern, Mr.. Dooley
stated they often, had to wait for cars
of eastern roads.
j. What WI q DO you transfer ll most OF
"At the present time, Pacific coast
shingles and -four. y
@.s' AS SHOWN BY "a BANKER
Conditions in Cummings, N. D., Are
Compared.
D. Larson of Cummings, N. D., said
he was cashier Of the Cummings State
bank, and also interested in farmers
elevator there on the Great Northern.
Our elevator has been filled since
Oct. 10, - he said. g Nov. 25 we were
relieved somewhat. In 1899 we handled
27O 900 bushels. last year 900 bush.
els, this year so far about 10000 bush
els Line elevators at our place have
been getting cars, but we can't get
What is the effect of the car short
age9o was asked.
At our station there is no effect, as
the line elevators are taking farmers
grain. =
Do you deal in coal9''
No, we did in 1899 and 1900, but
after that they said they couldn' t sell
us coal because other dealers objected
We were not in the trust. We tried to
buy from three or four companies
6 Did you sell cheaper than the other
dealers?''
. Yes, sir, we did. That was given
COAL We sold fuel when we had it out
of the cars. The railroad didn It object
but the coal companies did,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

The engagement of Miss Helen Byron
and her company will close with tonight's
performance of Sergeant Kitty at. the
Metropolitan.
Something entirely new in the musical
comedy line will be seen at the Metro
politan, beginning tomorrow. evening.
when Mabel harrison and Joseph E. How
ard will present 1.-The District Leaders
for the first time in this city. The play
is a, comedy-dr set to music and Is
interpreted by large and we'll balanced
organization of players.
AS Van Bibber in the one-act drama.
THE Iittlest Girl, at the Lyceun. T.
Daniel Frawley is seen in role vastly
different than any he has essayed pre-
viously in Minneapolis Lost Twenty
four Hours" follows like sunshine after
a storm and brings out such fayorites
as Mr.. Mortimer, Miss Clayton, Miss
Hill and others
Old and young alike are attracted by
the bill at the Unique this week. Headed
by Joe j. Bowling and his company. sup
ported by a number of clever vaudeville
artists. it offers something that pleases
all tastes.
/ "A Race for Life. with its strongly
drawn western characters, is pleasing
good-sized audiences at the Bijou.
Much interest is attached to the com.
ing engagement of ARIZONA" at the
Bijou next week.
Conversational comedy via the German
dialectician is being plentifully admins
tered to Orpheum @theater audiences by
Rice and Cady in new and capita1ly
clever satire on the racing game, called
Playing the Ponies"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Toledo is again after the Ice and coal
magnates and the Ann Arbor railroad
Wholesale rebating has been discovered
in, cases enough to cause fines ,aggregat-
ing s3,1Oo,OOO. That will eat up half the
profits of the seasons ice trade
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
Today the lack Of one gives. the telegraph
editor that leisurely feeling.

Cheer up; perhaps the laps have SNUG
gled q few regiments into San Francisco
also. They will be a vast Improvement
on the Frisco police force. 5sIS8 IS
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

A Montreal chauffeur who ran down
and killed an elderly man has just been
Jailed. This may slow him down-at
least while he, is inside. ss
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
NOT FoR ITS ARITHMETIC

Blk in Nebraska State Journal.
= Last Friday it was IL degrees be.
low zero in Minneapolis and 10 below in
Lincoln. a difference OF twenty-five de-
grees in favor Of this latitude Stand un
for Nebraska.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
AN @EAsYzIvyAY .euI j.

&. 81 New York Times.
theatrical Manag er--L can fuse .yo,,1,
play. It's entirely too long for the stage.
Anna teur PlayWrigh Well, can syot,
not lengthen the stage?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
VEIL MEANING. BUT .DlsAPPoINT.
Wa shington Star

flashing on: Star. IS. q d;
Sd q horsesis a mans best friend,,' said
the man who likes animals
Yes, answered young Mrs. Torliins
with a sigh, ..but when he gets on the
race track he is liable to prove one Of
those fool friends who make so + much
trouble. y SIS
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

''The funniest windbag, after ALL
said Robert Louis Stevenson, sis the self
made man. Naturally so, because he is
also self inflated. as Il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Mr.. Corriston has made a record un-
surpassed by few, Minneapolis Tribune.
| Is this a. knock or just Tribune Eng
liSh? III as ss..s az. ~ s..!. 80.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

! Mr.. Dooley testified in the railroad in
vestigation. 1t is understood that Mr..
Hennesy lays the trouble to the rail-
roads. -, ~ e, s,-:.- =, 3N*.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Mr. Carnegie would like to know what
is the matter with his having a peace
prize.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

The Bellamy storers have taken a
charming home in Washington for the
winter, one within a stones throw of the
White House, but, Of course, that exer-
else is all over.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Representative Murdoch Of Kansas
took gloomy view of the proposal to
raise congressional salaries. 1T would
not do any good" he said. CAS- soon as
the hotelkeepers learned how much we
got they would take it away from u.s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

The last of the populists have just de-
cided to drop their organization Many
Of them are Rooseveltians, others are
socialists; PETER is a republican and Mrs
Mary Ellen Lease is a Christian Sci
enlist.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Maude. Adams had a narrow escape
from being a stepdaughter to a scandal
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Is In The old Days a spresi dent s message
caused excl ement ia a newspaper office.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Chicago is having trouble with dealers
who are short weighing the. children on
their candy. Where is the peace ION
earth and good Will to men sW used to
talk about? III ,sssst
# we are going to inc crease The war and
navy outfits we nust, as senator Hale
points out, get some enemies somewhere.
why not take Mexico and Canada
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Rhode Island is about to inaugurate a
bachelor governor, who has surrounded
himself with a staff Of u bachelors. 1t
looks like q challenge g the girls sSof
Rhode Island. @ ,a IS s.58s ss,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
/ Nv ednes day vening,

Countries 9 /: 70 constr uct huge sfortifiea--
tions and EQUIP them with the most
modern artillery, and, in short. to make
ourselves feared and respected by onr
power to inflict damage, what things
might we not accomplish in the al.
rection of true progressl gS 81 4
The reichstag IS having ats troubles
with the kaiser, and the North Dakota
stag isgllikely to be involved with the rail-
roads. sts 81 So S.5Ssss4 RI 7S
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
James Bryce as Ambassador.

Semi official outgivings seem to as
sure the early appointment to succeed
Sir Mortimer Durand as British am
bassador to the United States Of James
Bryce, the eminent publicist who is
best known on this side as the author
lof "The American Commonwealth
who has been a member of parliament
for twentyone years and who is now
Eserving in the liberal cabinet as seere-
Etary for Ireland. The selection would
be most happy one, since it would
send us one Of Great. Britain's greatest
men and would raise the Washington
post to as high rank in the diplomatic
service as that held by Paris or Berlin.
Mr.. Bryce has given many other evil
dences than the striking ones contained
in his great book that he understands
America better than any living Briton.
Representing the Scottish constituency
tSof Aberdeen and being by blood half
IAN Irishman, he has always been home
ruler and broad minded statesman.
better than any merely professional
diplomat, he will be able to foster the
spirit Of fair dealing and friendship
/ which happily has sprung up of late
years between the TWO great English
speaking powers. Z ,@.,= .l.r
Like the great men of letters we have
. been accustomed to send to the court
Eof st. James, he will bring a fame
already established. But his equip
.ment includes "a profound knowledge Of
tour political institutions and Of the
tsprings Of our national spirit. In the
("new diplomacy the diplomacy Of
directness, Of candor and Of the q square
deal,' he should prove a skilled practi-
/ toner. Elk ae
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Many of the people Of Porto Rico put
on evening dress and high hats and went
out to meet the president, whom they
found attired in an old white suit and
Panama lid But then the president
had been working and had not had time
to change his clothes. ssG a1
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Much interest is attached to the com.
ing engagement of ARIZONA" at tho
Bijou next week
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

"A Race for Life with its strongly
drawn western characters, is pleasing
good-sized audiences at the Bijou
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

The engagement Of Miss Helen Byron
and her company, will close with tonight's
performance of Sergeant kitty at the
Metropolitan.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19

Try where Mr.. Phelan's herds Craze,
ana ne Knows and understands the
transp business from that end.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-19
, Says Repairs Are Neglected.

Phelan then launched into a denunci-
alton of the efforts Of railroads of the
northwest in recent years to cut down
expenses by making ahoddy repairs to
engines and cars, andSeven not making
any sometimes, when they were essen