Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-26
THE ALBUQUERQUE MORNING JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1910.

American Trust building, there being
three structures Of 200 feet, the Nc
Cormick. the Peoples Gas building
and the LaSalle hotel.
A rival in Canada OF Chicago as q
market center was pointed out by
Hon. Frank Oliver, Dominion minister
of the interior, who was one of the
speakers at the banquet of the st. An
drew's society in Chicago. But the
day is far Off" he added. although
Winnipeg has the natural resources
behind her. In Canada our problem
Is one of opening up and making use
OF the tremendous advantages which
we have and which largely are I'M
touched. We in Canada are doing
everything possible to cultivate rela-
tions with the United States, We have
found that good American citizens
make good Canadian citizens. so Can
ada welcomes Americans TO the land
we have to open up" Railway con-
.struction in Canada is not under check
as in the United States, n new lines
northwest. from Winnipeg are among
the important factors counted upon
in the opening up process. President
Charles Hays has announced that the
Grand Trunk Pacific Will be com
pleted from coast to coast inside OF
three years. and this particularly Will
open up the vast territory northwest
OF Edmonton which is yet virgin and
urpeopled except by the pioneers, who
already have kept pace with the rail-
construction. The remarkable
feat of crossing the Rocky mountains
on a low prairie grade is expected TO
turn an immense amount of traffic to
and irom the Pacific coast 10 the
Grand Trunk Pacific as soon as com
p,cted. and already the available land
and the townsites which a few years
ago were in the midst Of the unpeo-
pied prairie between winnipeg ana
Edmonton are attracting investors
and settlers from all over the world.
The future of Winnipeg also was i'm
p%ortantly affected by the decision Of
the Grand Trunk to build a line 20
Hudson bay. These railway extensions
nave prompted the financing of vast
lumber coal and iron enterprises to
utilize the native OF h new
country opened up.
The growing wreck waste of Amer
lean railways, which is the biggest
OF their billion-dollar-a-year ex-
pense. has cheerfully been ignored by
executives of western railways in an
iswering Louis Brandeis, attorney for
the shippers, who offered to furnish
free Of cost advice that he says VIII
enable the roads ito save a million
dollars a day." whatever the merit
of Mr.. Brandeis' argument. the losses
in repairs, requirements, freight
claims and personal injury claims re-
sulting from wrecks on the steam
railways is admittedly waste, and the
totals are shown by the report OF
the Interstate Commerce commission
for the year ending June 80, 1908, to
be the greatest single item or ex-
pense. the total for that year being
approximately 100000 or a
quarter of thu, whole. At the same
time the deaths and injuries as well
as money losses were shown TO be on
the increase at an appalling rate.
Railway executives no longer are re-
luctant to spend money for plock
signals and other saiety
equipment. But Notwithstanding the
reduction in the wreck waste that
equipment effects, the losses con
tinue. The ~fallibility Of visual signals
has been illustrated by a wreck on
the Burlington system within a lew
DAVIS. A new engineer, unfamiliar
with the Burlington visual signals
ran plump into an open switch pc
cause he mistook the green light FOR
one Of safety. 1t was pointed our
that il the block signal system couiH
'be eomplemented by automatic equip
ment to bring trains to a stop, such
IA mistake as the n on the Burning
ton would be impossible. :.
The court for heart throb cases
created in Chicago is officially m to
dispose of cases of these classes;
Breach of promise, abandonment
child delinquency. neglect of children,
wife beaters'' and related complaints.
is where love and pathos inter-
in the recital Of marital oil
and parental apathy, Club
and settlement workers were
in the formation of the new
For several months these
women have petitioned Chief Justice
Harry Olson of the municipal court
q special court to deal chiefly with
pathos and marital troubles. 1t
was decided at q meeting of the judges
Of the municipal court to create the
domestic relations branch. Now Il
search is being conducted for the right
Judge TO sit and hear the cases. Chief
Olson said last night that as
soon as he found a judge who could
settle such ticklish questions a little
better than his associates he would
assign that judge to the new court.
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