Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-29

counted the small cantaloupe is what the trade demands. Consequently the melons of commerce have come to be nearly uniform in size and are crated as standards, primes and culls, three inches or so across. will go into a single crate. One house searching for big shipments and low prices, contracted for all the canta- loupes grown on 5000 acres in a new distrct of the west, but aI- though the vines made prolific growth the crop of ripe melons amounted to almost nothing. There was something the matter with the soil--there always is in a new coun- try at the outset-but just what it was not known. probably a lack of humus. It is long road from the cantaloupe bed to the table where the melons are served with cracked ice in their centers.
 One Building For Railroads.
 All of the officers of the railway associations making their headquar- ters in Chicago may be housed in one skyscraper. for convenience and economy. This will bring together nearly fifteen freight and passenger associations, representing more than 100 railroads A committee has been appointed. representing both the freight and passenger organizations, to study the question further. obtain proposals for bids for the new build ing. and prepare report which will later be taken up by the associations as a whole At present the asso- citation headquarters are scattered through the Great Northern building ! and the Rookery It is expected that ! bids for the new headquarters build i ing will be received soon. The rail road executives are making a vigor ous and sincere effort to bring about economics and to improve efficiency | in order to make up the shTinkage in earnings shown in the pleadings to the Interstate Commerce commis- sion. One of the most successful efforts is that of reducing the per sonal injury and freight damage claims by increasing the safety of train movement and of employment. In the enormous losses in mishaps, wrecks and delays the greatest has become the interruption to traffic but the other items run into tens oi millions per year in the aggregate.
 Interested in Rates
 As the largest interior shippins point in the country and the origina tor of a vast amount of water-borne traffic. Chicago is keenly interested lin a comparison of rates which shows that the charges for Transportation , in American waters, which is con fined by law to American vessels are much higher than or the oceaI h,r fe f., i-. f hs l hands of foreign steamship compan , ies An article in the July numbe of the Outlook gives a comparison Of some of these rates. During thu , rast year, says this article, "th
 ocean liners transported grain iron ' New York to the continental Europ' a distance of over three thousani 2 miles, at an average rate of fiy $ cents a hundred pounds, or approN !. imately half the cost of moving s by lake and canal from Duluth t Q New York, a distance of less tha r fifteen hundred miles. in the Amel
 ican coastwise traffic which is prC tected against foreign competitio $ the rates are decidedly higher tha l. on the most costly vessels in tn h world travelling over the Atlantis 5 although the distances covered ar ;- much shorter. Thus it costs tw e cents more to ship a hundred pound e of flour over the 2,230 miles of tn @ water route from New York 10 Ga e veston than over the $500 mile Q from New York 10 Hamburg" Col O siderable interest is manifested b V important commercial interests l. knowing the reason for this marke IT discrepancy. It is pointed out tn; if the low rates quoted are remune - ative to the great Atlantic liner
 with their tremendous cost of ope
 ation. the logic of the facts woul
 seem to indicate that there is roo
 for decided improvement iu Il
 rates charged by American coastwis
 and interior waterway carriers.
 further inquiries justify such
 course it is likely that the matt,
 will le called tC the attention
 the Interstate Commerce commissio
 innocent Men Jailed.
 The innocent men he found in pri
 on have caused the former police i
 spector. Edward McCann of Cnicag recently pardoned to devote hil
 self to the rescuing of the priso
 CTS who are "railroaded" to per itentaries or circumstantial evidenC
 When he was released he was pr
 foundly eager to do something
 aid the men without influence VI
 suddenly are buried behind bars ali
 because they cannot disprove sJ
 picious circumstances. The m
 treatment of men released from pr
 on is even more common, accOrdtI
 to the records of the Central Ho
 ard association which looks aft
 such as well as it can with
 limited means. Superintendent
 Emory Lyon Of that organization
 addressing the National Conferen
 of Charities and Corrections urg
 the need in every state of a par'
 law such as was enacted by {
 legislature in Illinois. The prov
 ion for parole as well as for D
 bation should not be as a reles
 from punishment or discipline
 as a substitute for imprisonmen
 he said: When properly admin
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