Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-01-25

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bottle filled with some colored liquid
which he attempted to throw at ke~.
Patrick ]. Brady, the priest otficiat-
ing. The members of the congrega-
ton overpowered the man and turned
him over to a patrolman AT the sta.
ton he gave his name as Earnest
Foley, a metal worker, but refused to
give an explanation of his conduct.
The contents of the bottle are being
examined by chemists.
price follows the cost more closely" ="
Louis F. Swift said in his report as
president of Swift & Company at the
recent annual meeting of that com
pany. Swift & Company's result
sheets show less than per cent pro-
fit on sales during 1910. A profit is
made on by-products, which were
wasted before we learned how to uti-
lie them by the aid of modern ma
chinery and scientific handling"
That high prices penalized the pack
ers was the aspect put upon the cost
Of living by his explanation for the
increase of capital from $4,000 900
to $75,0OO,00O by Mr.. Swift who said;
I'VE are obliged to pay higher prices
for raw material than formerly, and
it takes more money to do business
now than in times past. 1t also
takes more capital for construction
OF plants and building and the opera
ton of facilities necessary to handle
and keep our various products up to
the high standard demanded by our
customers and government require
ments. During periods of pIenteous
supply and lower prices for live stock
and finished product, the producer
may be dissatisfied, and criticise the
packers. During the period of short
supply, and consequently higher
! prices for live stock and finished pro.
duct the consumer may be dissatls-
! fed and criticise the packer. Thus
it is seen that the packer is indeed a
'middleman, but the fact is lost sight
of that with varying costs and vary
| ing selling prices the packer receives
a uniformly small margin of profit on
sales In the controversy over eff
cheney of railroad operations the rule
was conceded that of all possible
causes of high prices waste is the
most potent that scientific manage
ment has disclosed wastes reaching
an enormous aggregate, even now
little realized; and that scientific
mana cement has presented the only
workable means yet devised for avoid
ing the greater part of the waste.
Signals That May Fail.
The need of automatically stopping
trains when stop signals are disre-
garded or not seen by engineers has
been given renewed attention by Chi
cago railroad officials as a result of
two disasters recently on eastern
reads equipped with automatic block
signals. In the wreck of Batavia, n.
Y, on the New York Central system,
due to a fog which obscured the eau
tionary signal 1000 feet from the
station, the engineer saw no warn.
ing until the tail-lights of the wreck.
ed train were only a few hundred
feet away. Six dead and a score
seriously injured were the victims in
that case. Near Nevada, Ohio, on the
Pennsylvania railroad a wreck in
which six died and many were
seriously injured was officially as
cribed to the disregard of visual sig
nails by one engineer who passed
three sets of blocks signals without
obeying them. During general pow
WOW in Chicago of officials of the
Pennsylvania system, A. NJ. Schoyer
general superintendent west of Pitts
burg, was appointed a committee tc
secure from the League for Public
Safety information concerning auto
matte stop equipment which in ser
vice tests was found to avoid the
dangerous emergency" stop which
has condemned stop devices with
operating railroad men. Distance
fog, storm, low burning of the lamT
all make the reading or visual sig
nails at night one of extreme difficulty
for the engineer, but the Block sigma
and Train Control Board of the Inter
state Commerce Commission in its
search for a practical stop signal has
made little progress owing to the
great number of impractical ideas
which it has had to consider. The
use of colors for night signals was
recently condemned by Prof. George
NJ. Stratton, of John Hopkins Univer
sity, who suggested the use OF line!
OF lights, the position of which tha
instead of the color, would serve a.
signal indication. White" say
!, Prof. Stratton, "in houses, shinin,
through windows, and hanging Ian
} terms on gates at street-crossings, ar
often mistaken for safety signals
with disastrous consequences. Green
is no more trustworthy. Smoke ha