New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21

ten years Old and II is only within the last five
years that It has spread to the extent that it
practically includes the entire rural portion OF the
country where there enough population and
passable roads to make II possible Tom Wat
son, the Georgia Populst. is the father OF the
rural fres delivery system. having introduced the
first bill and fought its first fights An appTo-
priation made for experimental service
under the last Cleveland administration. It was
successful. and since 1t has grown wonder
fully from year to year The rural carriers needed
some sort OF medium OF interchange. and news
paper established 1.-THE r. +. d. News" This
is a monthly journal Of sixty-four 10 nuety-siX
pages. and covers the entire United States mora
thoroughly than any other publication going. Each
issue has numerous letters from carriers in every
state relating experiences and interchanging suS-
gestions. The News carried successful cam
paign for an increase IN salary to 500 year 1t
conducts departments to instruct in the of
vehicles and horses. 1t has social and literary
features designed to attract the women and chill
dren of the carriers family. 10 has a circulation
OF about twenty-five thousand. and 10 keeps Up
with the procession. This enterprise is merely one
Incident which shows the march OF progress in this
country in ten years.
Now that liquid air be produced for as little
as Ave cents gallon IL Is being called into ser
vice TO aid in smoothing out the difficulties of
business life. In ice factories and refriserati7g
plants the fumes Of ammonia from broken pipe
are deadly poison. and many deaths result from
inhaIing them To leave the breaks unstOpped
means thousands OF dollars loss Several sorts Of
air cans connected with the outside air BY tubes
have been IN use TO enable workn!en to repair bro
ken ammonia pipes. But the latest and II is said.
the most satisfactory Continuance is = cap which
fits over the head like a divers helmet, connected
with q tank OF liquid air carried on the back. the
lfc,,fd air eyaporates is warmed enough TO breathe
in its massage through the helmet. and leaves the
vorknaen free 10 operate without fear or breaking
the air tubes.
The operations OF Yankee engineers are source
OF constant wonder and bewiderment all foreign
ers The daring way in which the Americans blow
,,o mountains that como in their way or string
bridges over seemingly impossible canyons almost
takes their breath away On one job IN South
America contractor used about $4,000 worth Of
powder In blasting lie employed eight thousand
men and completed a piece OF work in less than
three months that local authorities said could not
be done inside OF ten years He put three thousand
kegs OF powder In blast. and when the shot
went of il sent over seven hundred trainOads of
rock down a elf into the river. There was such
mass of this debris that it raised the water OF the
stream hfy-fve feet I'm less than twenty minutes
The channel had be blasted out 70 let the water
through. The force OF this immense charge was 50
great that IL huge powders the size OF box /
cars sailing over the hill Ike a flock OF buZZards
flying over barn
In the holidays each year Chicago is the storm !
OF the turkey trade. At this fourteen
firms in the Windy City engage in desperate compe-
tition for the control Of all the birds within a ]
radius Of several hundred miles. One enterprsing
buyer went 500 miles west Of Chicago on a trip |