Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-06-14

reason given for the order is a desire to
secure uniformity, and the more business.
like appearance of the smooth-shaven
face.
1t was reported from Omaha that the
u~norganized clerks and stenographers of
the Hartman railroads had received a 10
to 20 per cent increase in wages, taking
effect Immediately. This action, it was
stated at the Union Pacific headquarters,
was in recognition of the heavy advance
in the cost of living.
Charles NJ. Schwab of Pittsburg is
credited with being of the opinion that
the steel rail now in use is not of the
right material or shape to support the
fast and heavy trains of the present day.
He says the only solution he sees is a
nickel steel rail, which, it is estimated,
will cost three times as much as Besse-
mer. Some nickel rails nave been used
on the Pennsylvania road, and while the
results were not entirely satisfactory,
they they showed that a nickel rail could
be produced that would surpass all others.
An official of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany has declared that on a recent run of
the Pennsylvania eighteen-hour flyer from
New York to Chicago twenty rails were
broken by the train.
In the May number of the System
Magazine Edward p. Ripley, president of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
way Company, treats of the mutually OF
interest between the people and the rail-
roads. He takes the ground that the rail-
road should be conducted as a cold-blood-
ed business proposition, and that only
as it succeeds as such can it satisfy it's
own stockholders or efficiently serve the
section through which it runs. He points
out that it is to the interest of the rail-
road to develop in every possible way the
resources and industries along it's line,
thus inducing travelling and settlement
and increasing the prosperity Of the peo-
pie whom it serves. On the other hand
he contends that the welfare of the peo-
pie depending on a particular railroad for
service requires that the road be so con-
ducted as to enable it to maintain its
equipment and service in frst-class shape
and pay a fair dividend upon it's stock.
The first statement from the Pennsyl-
vania lines west of Pittsburg concerning
the effect of the new 2-cent fare law on
their business has just been issued on
behalf of the Cleveland and Marietta,
which is entirely in the State of Ohio. It
shows that during 1906 the passengers
carried increased 13h per cent, and that
the number of miles travelled increased
715,536, but that in spite of this the pas
senger earnings decreased $4,000, or about
3 per cent. The report hints that before
long the passenger service will AVE to
be curtailG if the 2-cent rate remains.
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BY 81 to 9, the New York State Senate
voted for the bill already passed by the
Assembly to compel railroads over $50
miles long to carry passengers at the
uniform rate Of 9 cents q mile
Through its attorney, John G. John
son, the Pennsylvania railroad filed a bill
in equity against the county of Philadel-
phia to prevent it from demanding PEN
alties for violations of the new 2-cent
fare law, which is to go into effect Oct. /.
The plaintiff urges that the lower rate
will do great injustice to the stockholders
by rendering the passenger business nom
compensatory. 1t also declares the bill
t. be unconstitutional.
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