Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-12
VIEWS AND NEAR-vlEWs,
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Keep Live Stock Away From Railway
Trncks-Bankers See No Signs
OF Peace.

OF Peace.
President Harrison, Of the Southern
Railway. expresses the opinion that
one Of the ways In which very sub
| stantiai saving of mcat RESOURCES may
be made Is through reducing the num-
Der of animals killed on railroad tracks.
On the railroads OF the United states
many thousands Of cattle and hogs are
Killed every year, and. as those killed
IN TINS way are not used for food,
this loss results In 'corresuondinHly
large decrease iii our available meat
supply.
Coming down to the meat of the
thing. Mr.. Harrison says:
The responsibility for this loss rests
mails who allow them to stray on tho
railroad right of way. When they
are killed the law places the respon-
sibtlity on the railroad and the owner
suffers no direct peculiarly loss. There
Is. however, in addition to the serious
reduction of the meat supply of tho
country, a further economic loss.
through the payment by the railroad
OF money which is urgently needed at
this Tina for increasing the transpor-
tation facilities of the country. the
lack OF which for the movement OF his
products TO market may cause n loss
10 the farmer greater than the amount
ne received for the animals killed on
the railroad. The extent Of this loss
may be indicated by the fact that the
southern Railway system alone paid
out in the twelve months ended June
80. 1917. more than 100000 for nni.
mails killed on tho right Of way. This
sum. even at the present high prices
OF equipment, would be sufficient to
ouy more than 100 standard box cars
CAPABLE of handling. at single load
more than 5000 tons of freight. and
tioDal cars would tend to the relief
OF the present wartime congestion OF
traffic"
Holland" who writes on various
subjects. but principally Industrial pnd
financial matters and is authority ON
the sam2, says:
"A banker OF long experience voices
the opinion that those who are watch
ing for approaching peace or an arm,
:seice would do we'll to pay no heed
10 the reports that como from Cor
many and Austria. but instead should
closely scrutinize the course Of the
securities market. Not yet has tho
securities market or the money market
revealed the slightest indication of a
disposition to discount the coming OF
peace, and yet In the opinion of tits
veteran observer. ii the reasons w.re
iairiy good for expecting an early ces.
Sation or hostilities. this would be re-
'ec'eo IN the action of the securities
market. That market rarely. if ever.
i2iis 10 discount the future"
Here is some information. more or
less valuable. that comes from the wall
Street Journal:
Have you broken your watch and
then wondered why il cost YOU from,
90 TO 200 per cent more to repair it
IMAM In past years? If you blamed II
ha
mead. Before the war. large quantities
OF watch parts, especially those the
more easily broken. were imported
from switzerland. but now only small
shipments are received. True, Ameri-
can companies turn out these parts,
put the high cost of materials and labor
mas mad It's effect, and. too, the lure of
munition profits has made itself felt.
The more delicate parts of guns and
shells, such as time fuses, are now
manufactured by the domestic watch
companies. which takes skilled labor
from other lines Of Matchmaking 1t
Is we'll, therefore, to take extra good
care Of your timepiece unless YOU want
to pay high price for repairs"
According to a dispatch from San
Francisco. $4,000 sacks Of beans from
Japan the largest single importation
ever made in the United States, are
being trans shipped from San Francisco
to Eastern markets. a train of twenty
nine cars. the first of four that will
carry the beans to New York, was
started East over the Ogden route.
The beans. valued at more than 1.000,-
600. arrived in Los Angeles recently on
the liner kotsu Maru. They are Of all
varieties. The large Importation Is
said to be due to the war. Moral:
Raise more beans In Virginia next year.