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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1893.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1893.
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Galveston, Tex., December 1.
MERELY A DIFPEJiENC 'E IN METHODS.
Dan-bury, Conn., is governed by the
town meeting system. This system hits
prevailed from the flrat settlement of the
place. Danbury has now 17,000 inhab-
itants, and although the majority own no
property, every one of voting age and ca-
pacity can participate in the town meet-
ing's and have tt voice In the financial
affairs of the community. The hatters
of Danbury are on a strike. As a conse-
quence they have no work and no money,
and the problem of existence has wor-
ried them a good deal. At a recent town
meeting the hatters were in the major-
ity, anil they passed a resolution appro-
priating $50,000 from the town treasury
for their support. Noting which, the
Atlanta Constitution remarks "Nobody
ever dreamed that the non-property own-
ers would ever vote themselves the money
of their neighbors, but that is precisely
what has come to pass." Why would
nobody ever have dreamed such an easy
and sequential dream as this? It is be-
ing attempted in other instances every
day. Because the methods of confisca-
tion are not so open or direct as those
to which the Danbury hatters have re-
sorted does not change the essential
quality of the raids, if constitutions
and charters were not in the way a ma-
jority of the voters in any municipal
community could select at the polls tools
to accomplish for them results exactly
similar to the direct appropriation which
the Danbury -hatters voted themselves
out of the town treasury. More or less
successful reaches of this kind to exploit
the public substance for private use have
been frequent in city councils, state leg-
islatures, and even in the congress of
the union. The spirit of such exploita-
tion has been at work in all our known
varieties of protection through class and
paternal legislation. The Constitution
further says: "The New Englanders will
have to wake up to 'the fact that their
town meeting system will not work satis-
factorily in large towns like Danbury.
A representative government is needed.
The hatters never would have succeeded
in pulling $50,000 out of the treasury of
Danbury had it been under the rule of
a town council. The idea of allowing mass
meetings to engage in municipal legis-
lation is absurd. Sooner or later such
meetings will degenerate into mobs, and
then communism will be on top." Far
more is needed than a "representative
government" responsive to the momen-
tary will of a numerical majority. With
a responsive municipal machine conveni-
ently at hand perhaps a dozen $50,000
joibs would have been forthcoming. The
only restraint in the last extremity is
the city charter or the constitution. We
see frequently evidences of a willingness
and readiness of responsive party agents
to disregard even the restraining pro-
visions of organic law. The Constitution
is eminently clear, pertinent and sound
when it finally says: "The supremacy
of the law must be maintained. It is the
only hope of the poor, as well as of the
rich. Anarchy will drive every dollar
out of sight, but under the rein of peace
and order the wealthy and charitable
classes will do everything in their power
to aid the unfortunate. Boston must
stop her anti-rent war at the beginning,
and Danbury must reorganize her gov-
ernment and prevent mobs from looting
the treasury. Lawlessness is the worst
of all evils, and it should be promptly
nipped in the bud." This is true every-
where and always, whatever the form or
denomination of government may be.
The only hope for the poor and the rich,
for the good of all in the progress and
development of civilization, is in the se-
curity of law and the stability of order.
THE NEWS' TRAVELING AGENTS
The following are the traveling repre-
sentatives of The Galveston News and The
Dallas News, who are authorized to solicit
and receipt for subscriptions and advertise-
ment* for either publications I. B. Bald-
Cyclone Davis is lugging around nine
volumes of Thomas Jefferson.
When a man can not get over the truth
he spends his days trying to get around
it.
Retribution travels more than a mile
in a minute.
Every candidate for governor should
be measured between the eyes before he
takes the range.
The country has been out after the
wrong kind of protection.
The most dangerous kind of slavery is
voluntary slavery. Every free voter
should remember this.
It will take something more than
the rage of Mr. Boutelle or the suave
blandishments of Mr. Reed to cover up
the fact that Jingo Jim and Ducklegged
Ben were deliberately hooking the island.
It is quite natural that a brass collar
should make one's neck stiff.
Some men are so cowardly that they
will try always to catch a dilemma by
the tail.
There is no quality that can take the
place of the self-reliance, independence,
and manhood of the individual.
Let the government go out of private
business.
Take away from public men the power
to levy taxes upon the people in order to
raise easy money for their campaign
lieutenants and pets.
SNAP SHOTS.
The man who lives beyond hl3 means
is bleeding somebody else.
Do not do to-day what should not be
done until to-morrow.
Thoughtlessness is very expensive.
There is no substitute for economy.
Uncertainty makes love eager.
Who has not seen a big ugly girl stand
under the mistletoe and defy forty boys?
To educate and strengthen a man give
him somebody to depend on him.
The revolution that succeeds is gener-
ally considered all right.
LARGE ATTENDANCE.
Marlln, Falls, Co., Tex., Dec. 25.—Christ-
mas day opened bright, clear and cool and
is observed by all the business houses being
closed and everybody having a good time.
A large congregation was in attendance
at the Methodist church last night to hear
the farewell sermon of the Rev. W. W.
DeHart of Waco, who leaves soon for
Florida.
Cards are out for the K. of P. reception
at Kinx'a ojftra house the night of the 27th.
ST A TE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout the State
Are Talking About.
The San Antonio Light says:
San Antonio has suffered comparatively
little in ihe trade depression of the last
year. It I* true that the volume of her
business lias not Increased as tt would
have done had conditions been more fa-
vorable, but it is also certain that she
ha held her own better than any of her
sinter cities. This is evidenced in the con-
stant growth of her population, In the
.steady trade that has occupied the atten-
tion of her capital, In the uninterrupted
movement of her building industries, iu
the opening of new streets, the improve-
ment of old ones, the extension of her
light and water service Into new districts,
in the healthy nature of her retail trade,
evidenced by the almost total lack of fail-
ures iu her business circles, in Hie exten-
sion of her rapid transit lines, In the in-
auguration of new enterprises that have
sp i»dlly come into successful operation,
and in every way in which the natural,
healthy, sustained and vigorous growth of
any community could be indicated.
The Coperas Cove News asks: "Do one-
tenth of the people ever read the lengthy
messages of the presidents of the United
States?" No, but it is impossible to
condense the matters expected to be
treated in a message in a small compass.
Some people wish to see what he has to
say on every subject, and so the whole
message is read by their united efforts.
The same paper says:
The cigarette habit is daily on the in-
crease, and unless there is a prohibitory
law passed in the near future the coming
generation of young men will be as devoid
of constitutions as a laborer In South
American swamps.
The Jackson County Progress says:
Mr. Laras Jenson, one of the Swede farm-
ers from Nebraska who bought land in
Jackson' county last fall, has arrived with
his teams and implements and gone to
work making preparations to put in a
crop this coming season. Others who pur-
chased at the same time have come with
him.
The Beaumont Journal on meanness:
It may have been mean in the Galveston
merchants—or an element of them—trying
to get the excursionists to Houston down
to the Island city. That might be granted;
but what is charged as having been at-
tempted in this matter by only a small
proportion of Galveston is not half so
ugly and ungenerous as the many savage
flings at the whole of Galveston which ap-
peared in the Post of Wednesday. In that
issue the aggregated population of Galves-
ton were accused of being thieves in reach-
ing for "everything in sight," including
what belonged to others: in being spiders
who weave webs to trap the unwary,
and being filled with meanness and jeal-
ousy. Excursionists who should go down
to the island were advised to take drink-
ing water with them and to keep their
hands on their pocket-books. If the at-
tempt of a few to Induce excursionists to
go to Galveston was mean, what word
will fitly characterize the brutal malignity
of the Post's assaults? But was the al-
leged attempt mean? The excursionists
paid the railroads the fare demanded; they
were required to pay for what they got
in Houston; they did not belong to any
set of people and were free to go where-
ever tney pleased. The Post seems to
think, however, that they were Houston's
meat, and no other town had a right to
interfere.
The Two Republics says:
There is no country on the globe which
produces more fibrous plants than the re-
public of Mexico. The principal and most
productive of them are the henequen
(sisal), lachuguilla and pita—in the order
named. At present the only plant that is
cultivated for that purpose is the hene-
quen, which is the chief object of export
of the state of Yucatan. This plant, which
in one species of the "agava Americana,"
Is strictly a tropical one, and flourishes best
on a shallow soil over limestone forma-
tion, and is indigenous to the soil of Yuca-
tan. Before the time of the conquest of
Cortez. up to within fifteen years, the na-
tives of Yucatan utilized the fiber of the
wild plant for clothing, twine, etc. It is
only within a comparatively short time
that it was discovered that this fibre was
valuable in the markets of the world, and
the oeople of Yucatan commenced culti-
vating it with such success that in the
period of ten years Yucatan jumped from
the poorest to the wealthiest state in the
republic. The annual yield of the fibre In
the state of Yucatan is about 500,000 bales,
varying from 300 to 400 pounds to the bale.
The states of Vera Cruz, Tabasco and
Campeche are giving especial attention to
this industry.
The Alvln Sun says:
Mr. J. L. Fussell of this city, who is con-
tributing an interesting series of letters to
the Stin on one of the minor resources of
Brazoria county, its forests, was at one
time office boy on a paper in Philadelphia
which was edited by the poet—at that time
not known to fame—John Greenleaf Whit?
tier.
Alvin is a prohibition town. The Sun
says:
Thirty jugs were received at the express
office one day last week for Alvin people.
Don't know what they contained, but sup-
pose it was some kind of syrup for Christ-
mas festivities.
The Port Lavacaen announces the
happy marriage of John Gonzales to
Annie Bredt. John may repeat the lines
applied to another man who married a
lady with a name that sounded like that
of his wife. The verse ended with the
words:
I'll be content with Annie Bread,
And won't have any but her.
The Bryan Pilot reports a characteris-
tic hunt by townies:
Never has there been a better equipped
hunting company and a more jovial crowd
left this section than the one that left on
the 9th instant for Saint Bedia, in Walker
county. So far as they were concerned,
there was nothing lacking for a first-class
hunt; good wagons and teams, good guns,
good days, with plenty of ammunition,
plenty of good grub, plenty of medicine in
case of sickness or accident, especially
snake bites. All the time they were pre-
paring to go, and up to the time they ar-
rived there, all that they thought neces-
sary to kill game was for them to get into
the woods. But after two days' hard hunt-
ing they found that only one deer had
been fool enough to try to run over one
of the party and got killed in the attempt.
The Greenville Herald says "usually
the more a man accumulates the poorer
he feels, and the more one learns the
more ignorant he knows he »is." So, as
St. Paul says, learn, in whatever state
you are placed, therewith to be content,
though efforts to acquire knowledge and
improve your business circumstances by
honest efforts are to be commended. The
Herald adopts the following from an-
other publication:
Enduring success and honored age await
the youth who labors diligently, and who,
with temperance and frugality, depends
upon his own exertions for success.
A cave of Adullam. The Temple Tri-
bune says:
The old swamp fox, Hon. Marion Martin,
wants to gather together all the odds and
ends of old political parties and disaffected
democrats and organize a new deal. He
wants all those who oppose Cleveland's
financial policy, those who oppose national
banks, those who oppose creating a
bonded debt, those who oppose an interna-
tional conference upon our financial ques-
tion, those who favor free coinage of
silver, those who favor a reduction of
taxes—national, state, county and city—and
those who favor an income tax.
The Beeville Bee says:
As the holidays approach the irresponsi-
ble small boy and his fireworks are on
deck to the danger of the town. Why
merchants who have everything they own
in the fire-traps of this town sell fireworks
is difficult to conceive. For the sake of a
few nickels they endanger property worth
thousands of dollars....Small boys, allowed
to loaf around town at night, soon de-
velop into first-class hoodlums. In the
school of hoodlumism is the gambler and
criminal graduated.
lays County Times on gubernatorial
timber:
General Mabry's tilt at the Galveston ar-
tillery has brought him .suiHciently before
the people to allow of him entering the
free-for-all gubernatorial contest Buffalo
BUI is a candidate for governor of Ne-
braska. We liked his show: but for guv-
ner—well, maybe it will do for Nebraska.
This week the weekly editors, publish-
ers, printers and other tollers on the
country weeklies enjoy their long vaca-
tion. Even the printer's devil Is turned
loose for a season, as the bad character
for whom he is called Is to be after
being confined to his own place during:
the thousand years of peace and happi-
ness promised to the world after the
present state of things passes away.
Those who work on city dailies are not
allowed Sunday at the end of the week
or seven days at the end of the year for
rest and recreation. They put in three
hundred and sixty-live days and nights
during the average year, and one more
in leap year, through respect for the
Roman calendar and Anno Domini. They
do not even omit an issue in order to
attend the meetings of the press conven-
tion, as some of their country cousins
do. Other revelers sing, "For this night
we'll merry, merry be, and to-morrow
we'll get sober," but the rural merry-
makers devote a whole week to pleasure
and only swear off at the end, with a
promise not to indulge in strong drink
until the return of another Christmas,
unless it is sweetened or they are in-
vited by a friend. Some of the old ones,
however, are reluctant to take the
pledge, because, as one of the gang at
the north lately said, it makes a fellow
feel mean to be obliged to break his
promise. Possibly it would be better to
take the gold cure, though that seems to
add to the blues.
The Wharton Spectator says:
We have just received a letter from Mr.
W. S. Hoskins, general superintendent, in
which he states that the company will in
a very short time rebuild the waiting-
rooms and otherwise provide better accom-
modations at the depot. The railroad com-
pany has always been, and especially under
Mr. Hoskins' superintendency, very prompt
In attending to these matters, showing at
any and all times a willingness and desire
to .accommodate the traveling public. »
Make the rooms large. There are many
negroes about Wharton who will want
comfortable places to stay when the
weather is cold.
THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
Many Signs of Increasing Activity in the
Projection of Enterprises.
Reviewing the industrial progress of the
south for the past week, the Manufactur-
ers' Record reports that there are many
signs of increasing activity in the pro-
jection of enterprises and in the number
announced as definitely settled upon. A
good deal of activity is noted in municipal
improvements, especially in waterworks
systems, which are to be established in
a number of towns. The Iron business of
the Birmingham district is reported as
showing considerable improvement, though
restricted by the uncertainty of tariff legis-
lation. In the enlargement of established
plants a fair showing is also presented
The flour milling industry shows consider-
able activity, twenty-three corn and flour
mills having been recently completed, the
greater part of which are in Tennessee and
Kentucky. The industries reported for the
past week are of great diversity, including
box factories, ice factories, iron mining
companies, carriage works, steam laun-
dries, broom factories, phosphate mining
companies, coke plants, saw mills and
many others. The leading enterprises re-
ported for the week in the Construction
department of the Manufacturers' Record
are as follows:
Baltimore, Md.—A. W. Wheatfield to erect
box factory.
Baltimore, Md.—AThe American lumber
and box company, erecting large shook
and box factory.
Hagerstown, Md.--S. M. Schnidel ha?
started factory for pneumatic tire armor.
St. Louis, Mo.—A $7500 carriage factory
will be built by N. B. Sinister.
Clarksvllle, Tenn.—Clarksville lumfbe?
company to erect new mill.
Denton, Tex.—Williams & Van Daren,
steam laundry.
Waxahaohle, Tex.—Modern milling com-
pany.
Kansas City, Mo.—'Sily-Early-Thomas
grain company; capital, $10,000.
Davidson, N. C—Cornelius cotton mills
to put in electric light plant.
Spartanburg, S. O.—Plaindealer publish-
ing company; capital, $2500.
Homer, Tex.—-Manning & Little started
broom factory.
Salisbury, N. C.—Orcaleaf tobacco com-
pany, to start a factory.
Atlanta, Ga.—Jack's steam bakery; cap-
ital, $10,000.
Augusta, pa.—Augusta packing company,
started paekery.
Christianburg, Va.—Walters & Gardner,
developing feold mine.
Cliurchland, Va.—Southern fruit packing
company, to ere3t box and barrel factory,
company just formed with capital of
$10,000.
Welch, W. Va.—Charleston coal and coke
company, commenced erecting mining and
coke plant.
Arkadelphla. Ark.—Smoker mercantile
company; capital, $15,000.
Fort Meade, Fla.—Phoenix phosphate
company, mining, etc.; capital stock,
$150,000.
Atlanta, Ga.—Baldwin cigar manufactur-
ing company, started factory.
Quincy, b'la.—City has voted $20,000 for
waterworks.
Baton Rouge, La.—Canning company noiw
organized.
Oakland, Md.—George M. Mason builds
flour and feed mill.
St. Louis, Mo.—Little & Bro. investment
company; capital, $10,000.
St. Louis, Mo.—Brown & Clark paper
company; capital stock, $2^,000.
Charlotte, N. C.—Standard ice and fuel
company, to erect factory.
Houston, Tex.—Bering manufacturing
company, erected new factory building.
Pickens. W. Va.—The Pickens company,
to erect electric light plant.
Vivian, W. Va.—Peerless coal and coke
company, erected coke ovens, etc.
Atlanta, Ala.—E. A. Headley to build saw
mill.
Augusta, Ga.—Augusta ice company, to
manufacture ammonia acid, etc.
Hagerstown. Md.—Cold storage house 'by
William Dunn & Bro.
Kentucky—Eight flour mills have lately
been completed in this state, also four
corn mills.
Tennessee—In this state eight flour mills
have also been completed, besides two corn
mills.
Dalton, Ga.—W. H. Prates has completed
flour mill.
Fort Worth, Tex.—Anchor woolen mills
started up.
Charleston, W. Va.—Potts Valley furnace
and mining company, to mine and manu-
facture iron, etc; capital stock, $10,000.
Columbus, Miss.—Broom factory started
by Howard Marshall.
Boerne, Tex.—Otto Kutzer has started
broom factory.
San Antonio, Tex.—'William Ruppersberg
has started a broom factory.
Aldrich.—Saw and grist mill by Brauer
& Oliver.
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YOU CAN'T FOOL A BOY.
At Least This Particular One Was Not to
Be Caughlt Wdlth Chaff.
Detroit Free Press.
Women can't read a 'boy's nature as men
can, and they might as well own up. The
Fort street mother who yesterday sent her
boy to a drug store with a bdt/tJle and a
sealed note imagined that she was sharper
than the serpent's 'tooth when she wrote to
the druggist: "Send me 'lua-lf a pint of port
wine, and write on the label p. w.—poison."
The druggist followed orders, and when the
boy got outside he tore off the wrapper
and read it he label.
"P. W.—Poison," he mused as he walked
along. "Wonder what that is? P. W.
doesn't stand for bedbugs, and I kno-w it,
and it doesn't mean rats, either. P. W.
oan't be hair dye, nor scalp wash, and I'm
going to touch my itongue to Ht."
He touched. It tasted 'so good that he
took a sip, and meeting three of four boys
just then, the crowd entered a lumber yard,
and P. W.'d the contents of that bottle
until only a gill was left. Then one ol the
lads ran home after a dipper of water,
filled up the battle, and the Fort street boy
trotted homeward, whispering: "P. W.
means pretty weak, and If she finds it so
she musa'i blame aobody bmt the drug-
ALAS! BUT TOO TRUE.
The
Great Number of Railway
Receiverships and Fore-
closures.
Nearly Thirteen Per Cent of the Entire
Mileage in the United States Af-
fected—Startling Figures.
Railway Age,
During the year now closing nearly 13
per cent of the entire railway mileage of
the United States, representing over 12 per
cent of the entire capitalization, has gone
into the hands of receivers. During the
two years 1892 and 1893 the companies for
which receivers were appointed represent
over 19 per cent of the mileage and nearly
16 per cent of the capital stock and bonds
of all the railways in the country!
These seem incredible statements, but the
figures now to be given prove them un-
happily too true.
The year 1893 will be forever memorable
as a year unprecedented in the number and
magnitude of railway bankruptcies. Its
predecessor showed an alarming increase
In this respect over the immediately pre-
ceding years, and the record of receiver-
ships for the first half of the present year
indicated no Improvement. But when the
July panic destroyed all financial conli-
dence and involved every interest, many
railway companies carrying heavy loads
of Indebtedness, which in ordinary times
would have kept afloat, were unable to
meet their Interest obligations, and the
last few months has seen the list of re-
ceiverships grow to extraordinary propor-
tions. The Philadelphia and Reading fail-
ure In February was the first great wreck
of the year, and although several others of
importance soon followed, it was after the
panic began that the most notable calam-
ities took place. On July 25 came the Erie
failure; in August the great Northern Pa-
cific confessed bankruptcy, and in October
the greater Union Pacific system went
into the hands of receivers. Meantime and
since, less notable companies, though many
of great importance, have dropped Into the
insolvent list until now, two weeks before
the close of the year, we find in the re-
cord lif companies for whom receivers have
been appointed since January no less than
seventy-one roads, with nearly 23,000 miles
of line, an outstanding bonded indebted-
ness of almost $754,000,000 and capital stock
aggregating over $334,000,000, making a total
of almost $1,288,000,000 of stock and bonds
from which all returns are suspended, with
the certainty that a large part of their
value will be wiped out before the long
process of courts is ended.
The alarming increase In the number of
receiverships, the amounts involved in the
past two years and the extent to
which the work of insolvency among
railways has been going on during the last
ten years are Indicated in the following
summary, which we reproduce from our
annual record:
RECEIVERSHIPS FOR TEN YEARS.
No. Stocks and
Year. Roads. Mileage. Bonds.
1884 37 11,038 $714,755,000
188 5 44 8,286 385,460,000
1881) 13 1,799 70,340,0 JO
1887 9 1,040 90,318,000
1888 22 3,270 1 80,814,000
188 9 22 3,803 99,004,O.JO
1890 20 2,903 105,007,000
189 1 20 2,159 84,479,000
1892 30 10,508 357,092,000
1893 71 22,534 1,287,952,0J0
Total 10 years 306 07,400 $3,382,487,000
Thus it seems that in ten years 306 rail-
way companies with 07,403 miles of line,
or nearly 40 per cent of the entire railway
mileage at the commencement of this year,
and representing the prodigious aggregate
of $3,382,000,000 of bonds and stock have be-
come Insolvent and gone Into the posses-
sion of the courts. In a few cases, notably
that of the Philadelphia and Reading, in-
solvency has occurred twice within the ten
years, so that the table contains some
duplications, though this forms a small
fraction of the totals. In the last two
years only—1892 and 1893- the number of
new receiverships was 107, representing
over 33,000 miles of road and over $1,645,-
000,000 of capital. The entire railway mile-
age of the United States at the end of 1892
was 175,200 miles and the bonds and stocks
aggregated about $10,500,000,000. It is thus
evident that the process of insolvency is
moving rapidly on toward the point of in-
volving our entire railway system. There
must be an entire change in the attitude
of the public and the laws toward capital
invested in railways or the ruin which
these figures picture will become general.
The sequence of receiverships Is fore-
closure sales, and in this direction the re-
cord of 1893 is encouraging. In mileage
and amount of investment the foreclosures
of last year are less than for several years
previous, showing that the harvest from
the crop of receiverships sowed in the bad
times of 18S5-87 has been nearly gathered.
Twenty-three roads were sold to the high-
est bidder in 1893, but they are all rela-
tively small, their mileage aggregating only
1410 miles and their capital stock and bonds
only $17,264,000. Contrasted with the re-
cord of new defaults these figures are a
relief, and yet the loss which must have
re ulted from the scaling down or wiping
out of securities aggregating $47,000,000 is
actually no light matter.
For the eighteen years during which the
Railway Age has kept this record the
yearly summary of sales is as follows:
No. Stocks and
Year. Roads. Mileage. Bonds.
1876 30 3,840 $217,848,000
187 7 51 3,875 198,984,000
187^ 48 3,906 311,631,000
1879. 65 4,909 243,288,000
1880 31 3,775 263,882,000
188 1 29 2,617 127,923,000
1882 16 867 65,426,000
188 3 18 1,354 47,100,000
188 4 15 710 23,504,000
188 5 22 3,156 278,494,000
1886 45 7,687 374,109,01)0
1887 31 5,478 328,181,(100
1888 19 1.596 64,555,000
1889 25 2,930 137,815.000
1890 29 3,825 182.195,000
189 1 21 3,223 168,069,000
1892 28 1,922 95,898,0)0
1893 23 1,410 47,264.000
Total 18 years 549 57,080 $3,176,466,000
Terrible evidence of the unprofitableness
of railway Investments is shown in the fact
that in eighteen years 549 roads, aggregat-
ing over 57,000 miles—one-third our pres-
ent mileage—have been sold for debt, in-
volving in loss bonds and stock aggre-
gating $3,176,000,000! If the ' end of this
career of disaster had been reached there
might now be hope of better results, but
a host of railways are still awaiting the
orders of the courts for sale, and the pro-
cession of insolvents has increased with
amazing rapidity in the last few years; so
that it is a painful certainty that the
record of foreclosures in the coming years
will be even greater than that of an equal
period in the past.
RECEIVER TRUMBULL.
Railway Age.
Mr. Frank Trumbull, who was last wesk
appointed receiver of the Union Pacific,
Denver and Gulf, is only 35 years of age,
but has spent many years of his life in the
railway service. He began on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas October 1, 1874, as a clerk
in the comptroller's office, and remained
with that road for six years, being also
for two years traveling accountant In addi-
tion to the first named position. On De-
cember 1, 1880, he went to th.e Missouri Pa-
cific as clerk in the auditor's office, and on
January 1, 1882, was appointed freight au-
ditor of that road. He held that position
until January, 1886, and was also from
May 1, 1882, to January, 1886, freight claim
agent. In January, 1886, he became auditor
for the receivers of the Texas and Pacific,
and had almost entire charge of the finan-
cial affairs of that road during the receiv-
ership. In 1888 he organized the Citizens'
coal and coke company of Denver, of which
he is still president. He is also a director
of the I>enver tramway company, and is
interested in several other enterprises.
In the biographical dictionary of the rail-
way officials of America for 1885, Mr. Trum-
bull's name appears as Nathan Frank,
but In his appointment as receiver his
name is given as simply Frank Trumbull.
HAD A HOLIDAY.
Hempstead, Waller Co., Tex., Dec. 25.—
According to time honored custom the
Houston and Texas Central authorities yes-
terday ordered all trains on the Central
system, excepting mall trains, to rest oa
Chrhtmas day, and thus enable all cr*ws
to enjoy a holiday dinner at their homes.
The arrangement to do this was perfect, us
the men were furnished paHs&a last night
and to-day to go home on the fast trains.
The crews will return to-night, and all
trains will move forward as usual. Kall-
road men appreciate favors of this kind,
which nerves them to Increased efforts In
advancing the Interests of the company.
On Christmas annually all crews receive
full pay In honor of the day.
This morning Station Agent Tlte John-
son, a veteran of over twenty years' serv-
ice with the company, was presented with
a fine gold watch and chain as a ^..»rlstmas
present 'by the employes of his department.
Night Clerk Charlie Llmper presented it
with a neat speech, and Agent Johnson
replied in his prominent characteristic
style.
RECEIVER WILSON TALKS.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. 25,—Receiver Wilson
of the Santa Fe arrived in Topeka to-day
from St. Louis. He said the receivers
would appoint D. B. Robinson, first vice
president, agent of the receivers, to have
full Charge of the active operation of the
entire .system. Mr. Wilson said the re-
ceivers had in general agreed that no
sweeping changes would be made in the
management or the road, but the matter
would be definitely determined at the meet-
ing of receivers to be held in New York
next week.
Mr. Wilson wired his resignation as clerk
of the United States district court to
Judge Foster, who is to-day In Galveston.
A reply was received accepting the resig-
nation and appointing George Sharritt as
temporary clerk of the court.
All wages of employes of the Santa Fe
and 'Frisco roads will be paid at once.
TWO MASTERS IN CHANCERY.
Little Rock. Ark., Dec. 25.-J. G. Cald-
well appointed two special masters in chan-
cery to-day for the Santa Fe system.
Judge J. R. Johnson of Topeka was ap-
pointed master for the Santa Fe proper
and Colonel L. H. Reynold of St. Louis
master for the 'Frisco, with instructions
to co-operate with the receivers hereto-
fore appointed In adjusting the affairs of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe roads.
The appointments were made on applica-
tion of attorneys and in following up the
rule where large corporations are placed
In the hands of receivers. The special
masters will be required to file reports
from time to time, giving a statement of
the condition of the system.
RESIGNED.
Alice, Nueces Co., Tex., Dec. 25.—Hugh
Skinner, formerly in the employ of -the
San Antonio and Aransas Pass railway as
bill clerk, resigned his position with that
company to accept a similar position on
the Mexican National railway In this city.
Mr. R. B. Taylor now holds down the
bill clerk desk with the §an Antonio and
Aransas Pass railway.
AT THE POSTOFFICE STAMP WINDOW.
A Good Place to Hear Queer Questions and
Study Human Nature.
Brooklyn Eagle.
A good place to study human nature Is
the postoffice stam.p window, and a good
time is just now, when the rush to mail
Christmas and New Year's presents is at
its height. An Eagle reporter spent an
hour to-day watching the passing throng
and admiring the imperturbable mien and
unvarying politeness of Stamp Clerk Thorn-
ton while he answered the hundred and
one foolish questions that people put to
him. There is a regular inquiry department
in the postoffice; but it is located so far out
of the way that the stamp windows which
are in point blank range of the thought-
less public have to bear the brunt of the
inquisitive fusillade.
"Bless you, we don't mind it," said Mr.
Thornton, "for, you see, we are. all used
to it, and then we are philosophers enough
to know that it is absolutely beyond rem-
edy and must be born. Then again we
feel a kind of pity for the people who ask
fool questions, for they themselves don't
realize the silliness of it all. The idea of
asking a man if "
"Please let me use your pen and ink a
moment?" said a young woman tripping up
to the window at this moment and reach-
ing through It with her hand all ready, as
though In a great hurry.
"Right around to the registry depart-
ment," replied Mr. Thornton, and he went
on with his talk, though the young wo-
man gave a little shriek of amazement.
"The idea of asking a man if he thought
it "
"This parcel has come undone, and I
know you'll oblige me with a piece of
twine," Interrupted a little old woman, but
Mr. Thornton said he had no twine, for,
he said, his stock was made up exclusive-
ly of postage stamps, and then he went on
speaking to the reporter: "If he thought
it bttier to register "
"Tills letter is going to Europe," said
an elderly party rushing to the window,
"and 1 want to know if I could save time
by sending it over to the New York post-
office."
"No; you would lose time," replied Mr.
Thornton, and then ne made another at-
tempt to resume his chat with the reporter
In vain. People thronged the window to
buy stamps, have packages weighed, bor-
row pen and ink, to ask when the next
mail goes out, and Mr. Thornton continued
to get rid of stamps, make change and
answer questions, and all the clerks are
having about the same experience.
TEXAS ABROAD.
Washington Correspondence Globe-Demo-
crat: Senator Roger Q. Mills of Texas went
over the field, of Cthlck-amauga recently. He
entered the battle a colonel and came out
commanding a brigade. Eight generals
were killed in the two days' fighting, four
on each vside. One of the confederate gen-
erals killed was James Deshler, and Mills,
as the ranking colonel, took his place at
the head of the brigade. Thirty years al-
most to the month the senator revisited
the scene. Going down into the pine forest
east of the Kelly lleld he picked out the
ground over which he fought as if It had
been only the week before.
"And here," said the senator, "is the
very spot where Deshler fell."
Deshler's brigade was part of Cleburne's
division. Cleburne did not get into the
•battle of Chickaimaugia. until late in the
afternoon of Saturday, Senator Mills says.
His troope were east of Chickamauga. They
reached a ford at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Such was Cleburne's haste he did not give
the men time to pick their way across,
but marched them through in a solid col-
umn. The Chickamauga is a cold stream.
It heads in great springs a few miles up
in the mountains. At 4 o'clock of that
September afternoon, Mills says, the di-
vision took that Icy bath to the armpits,
marched fight on into the woods, and until
it came fo the front and pitched into the
divisions of Balrd and Johnson. The fight
was continued until long after dark, and
tlhen in tlneir wet clothes the confederates
lay down to wait for morning. No fires
could be lighted, for the 'lines were not a
gunshot apart.
In all of his war experience Senator Mills
says he remembers no night so disagreeable
as that one in the pine woods between the
first and second days of Chickamauga. Sleep
was impossible. Out in front of where
Mill's Texas regiment was lying a Union
officer had fallen, desperately wounded.
After the filing ceased the moans of this
poor fellow were all that broke in on the
stillness. The Texaris listened awhile, and
then they began to fidget. Two or three of
them came to their colonel and said they
wanted to go out and do something for
"that Yank."
"Stay where you are," said Mills. "Don't
you know that you can't venture out there
■*vit'h'out getting shot yourselves? The
enemy's line Is just beyond."
The Texans quieted down for a little, but
wympathy was too strong. Tihose pitiful
moans were worse to hear than the roar
of a cannon. The Texans began to talk
again about going out 'to "that Yank."
"Well," said Mills, who Is not fllnty-»
hearted, and who wa» beginning to find
t'hose moans pretty hard to bear, "do as
you please, but it's dangerous."
Two or three stalwart Texans look off
their shoes, so a« to make no noise, and,
carrying a blanket, stole out into the Inky
darkness. After a few minutes they came
back carrying the Yankee officer in their
blanket. The poor f el Low bled until he was
in that condition Which made the frovsty air
doubly ihard on him. The Texans carried
him back of the line. Bahind an old log
house, which would hide the ligl?t of the
flame from the enemy, they kindled a little
lire, the only one on all that part of tlhe
battle field, put the poor union officer down
beside it, and made him as comfortable as
possible. Then they went back to the line,
to be ready for the desperate assaults of the
next day upon the log works, whlrh the
union troops had hastily thrown to-geUwr,
CURRENT COMMENT.
Globe-Democrat: Neither Russia nor any
other European power Is going to start a
war In winter, except on great provocation,
nnd there does not appear to be any pro-
vocation at the present time. Four or live
months hence the weather will be more
mvorable for campaigning than it is now.
It is safe to predict that the peace of
Europe will not he broken before April or
May at the earliest.
• • •
Memphis Commercial: There Is no modern
development of industry or art which Is
so notable as the growth of the science ot
advertising. A great newspaper, In our
times, is an epitome of all the vocations of
the people among whom it Is published.
All the channels of trade and business are
represented In its columns, until it has
fairly come to be a vast index of human
interests and employments.
• • *
New York Tribune: School Commission-
er Hubbell's effort to induce the boys In
the public schools to refrain from cigarette
smoking Is commendable. He hopes to
prevail on a large number of boys to sign
a pledge not to smoke cigarettes until they
are 21 and to use t'heir influence on other
boys to prevail on them to abandon the
habit if they have already formed it. Cigar-
ette smoking Is bad enough at any age,
but it is the universal opinion of physi-
cians that it is especially injurious in the
case of growing boys.
m m m
Mobile Register: We favor a democratic
caucus on the tariff bill. The reform of the
tariff law is strictly a party question and
by what is done In the direction of reform
the party will be judged. There are wide
differences of opinion on the question of
what way and to what extent it will be
best to reduce the tariff and the great
question of how to make good the prob-
able deficit between next year's receipts
and expenditures of the government has
to be answered. Wre would like to see
harmony prevail In the discussion of these
questions and think the result will be ob-
tained by a party caucus and agreement.
• • •
Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer: The strong,
trenchant phrases in which the president
deals with the fraudulent pensioners com-
pels the admiration of every fair-minded
opponent. When he says that thousands
of neighborhoods have their well known
fraudulent pensioner he states a fact that
no one can gainsay, and when he goes on
to comment upon this shameful state of
things, he illuminates that familiar fact
in a way that must be at once startling
and impressive for those who have In-
clined to treat it as trifling. It Is a cu-
rious illustration of the effect of familiar-
ity in dulling the sense of wrong that
people will treat with respect a man known
to be guilty of pension fraud when they
would turn with scorn from any other
kind of thief.
NEWSPAPER RECREATION.
It is a good wind that bfows no man 111.
[Newport News.
Never stand Jn a draught. If you can't
evade at pay it. [Chicago Tribune.
And the prospect is that coal will go Le-
thlgher than ever. [Chicago Tribune.
The storm scenter is usually located In
the weather bureau. [Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
As the weather grows colder your char-
ity should grow warmer. [Baltimore Amer-
ican.
The more the professors try to suppress
football the more the students kick. [New
York Globe.
How good and free from fault we feel
when some one else is being scolded. [Atch-
ison GJobe.
Hair mattresses are quoted much cheap-
er now that the football season 13 over.
[Chicago News.
Sovereign is rather an appropriate name
for the head of the nights of Labor. [New
York Recorder.
A railroad pass has no value when two
trains violently meet on a single track.
ILowell Courier.
AnbltraJtion is a good remedy for strikes,
but it is better to use dt as -a preventive.
[New York World.
The weather is ch'lll, coal is high, and a
Wagner club has been organized in Chica-
go. [Chicago Record.
Next year we shall expect to find the
horses at the horse show all In costume.
[Commercial Advertiser.
The tariff bill will be reported on the 13th,
but It is probably destined to get there just
the same. [Boston Herald.
The tariff question may be a local issue
with politicians, but it is not with the peo-
ple. [Indianapolis Sentinel.
Terrence V. Powderly can now appreci-
ate as never before what dt means to be out
of work. {Buffalo Express.
A man must be Indeed deaf If he can't
hear his own Jokes when he perpetrates
them. [New York Journal.
Will the bosses ever learn the lesson
that in politics the people can do their own
bossing. [New York Recorder.
Whatever Is done with dncomes, by all
means pile up fhe tax on cigarettes; the
higher the better. [Chicago Post.
Our Industries are surely reviving. Four
men were digging clams in the lagoon yes-
terday. [Martha .s Vineyard Herald.
The cost of the Lehigh strike will fall on
the people. They will find it all charged
up in their coal bills. [New York World.
There are four seasons in Chicago—rain,
snow, slush and smoke; but the greatest, of
these are all four of them. [Chicago Mail.
People who complain of hard times in
this blessed country should cai icir eyes
upon unhappy Brazil. [Baltimore Ameri-
can.
All the cranks are not on trial. Some of
them are paying the crowd of lawyers who
are defending Prendergas/t. [Swansea Ga-
zette.
The senate does not rel'ish the idea of
having its executive session copyright In-
fringed on by the administration. [Chicago
Record.
Writh a vessel capable of making thirty
miles an hour we shall see about who is
ruling these old waves. [Cleveland Plain-
Dealer.
Joseph Doe has been nominated by tihe
president as assistant secretary of war.
Is he a relaJtive of John Doe? [Baltimore
American.
A court of law will now proceed to dis-
cover how cranky a crank has to be In
order to be irresponsible for his acts. [Chi-
cago Record.
One of the free "raw materials" which
come in regardless of tariffs Is the winter
brand of Manitoba atmosp»here. [Kansas
City Journal.
Seattle and Taeoma had a football game
recently. It must have been lively—fouglrt
with the latest improved firearms, perhaps.
[Indianapolis News.
If an increase In the tax on cigarettes
should result in cigarettes stinking worse
than they do now—but that is impossible.
[Chicago Tribune.
Two Chicago cabmen have been arrested
charged with highway roblbery. But why
this Invidious distinction In otnly arresting
two? [Chicago Times.
It 'has "been decided by a Delaware court
that the razor is not a deadly weapon.
Barbers rarely kill-^they merely mutilate.
[Kansas City Journal.
Twen'ty thousand men spent Sunday
Shovelling snow, not Counting heads of fam-
ilies who wanted an excuse not to go to
church. [Chicago Post.
The whole cost of the world's fair was
$25,540,537 85. The 85 cents must represent the
season's hire of one of the plalsance or-
chestras. [Chicago Record.
Somebody has sent an infernal machine
to the kaiser, it was too thoroughly an-
archistic to be effective. It wouldn't work,
[San Francisco Examiner.
A southern newspaper says that nearlj,
every house in Honolulu has a telephone."
They are certainly having a "hello" of a
time there. [New York World.
A lady older than the constitution of the
United States has just died in New Orleans.
Sihe must have had a good constitution her-
self. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A football player was recently struck by
a train in New York and survived. This
shows ho<w hard they are to kill and yet
'they are killed. [Detroit Free Press.
King Humbert doubtless notes with some
regret that recent events have considerably
diminished his prospects for getting Into
Newport society. [Washington Star.
The only objection we can diiscover to the
nevvly-organ'lzed American symphony so-
ciety Is that lit 4s composed almost ex-
clusively of Germans. [Commercial Adver-
tiser.
No marriage engagement should be more
than six months long; the most ardent
lover gets tired of Hv4ng up to hds girl'®
•ideal any longer than that. [Atehtooa
Ulobe.
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