Weekly Telegrapher, The (Newspaper) - March 14, 1888, La Porte City, Iowa OP per in These are strict ly A Commission will given to Getters up of Sample Copies Sent RATES One 1 s on i Three i per eent OH this rate for additional ar rangements made for large advert ments of long 10 dents Per Correspondence i ii i weekly published in the interest of the Operators of It is the only jour nal in America devoted solely to tuese and is the hallway a befret plent Order is destined soon to em brace of the Hallway opera turs of tills Its List is Increasing I ROMANCE AND Bq you those days we had to When we built our fancy railroads castles In the air How oft we talked together of what we thought wed doi Our cars would all be bright and and everything be We would up all the railroads and build them Together wed inspect and wouldnt it be fun Wed tunnel through the mountain and bridge the ocean And such things as collisions they would be no Across each hemisphere our patrons would be On our great railway system that circled round the In like ours a man can take a And sleep in perfect safety with no fear of a Our couplings would all be and cars not bump together our coaches would be comfortable in any kind of Our imaginary engines across the country rolled On rails of solid silver and wheels of solid Were traveling now lifes railroad with many jolts and jogs Weve passed thro numerous tunnels and over countless frogs The road leads up a uneven grade and f right of such Iowa lw to be and the effect that VOLUME NUMBER me road leads up a uneven And Just from day to new is being often find a rail left a switch that needs repair Some new improvement to be spine new expense to We travel somewhat slowly but we are moving Our smoky little engines are up the When at last we reach the summit and the final rail is laid When we find that with set brakes we are rushing down the grade When we glide Into lifes terminus and hear the death knells May we end mir Journey the timer snv ON TIME 1 OUE Railroad i following practical e A from 11 there could not be some way suggested by which a business correspondence could be taught by actual similar to the custom of learning by establish ing and practicing over a peanut Young men who yearn to become fluent as business correspondents should strike up a friendly interchange thought with the gen eral claim agent of a vigorous For mutual benefit and improvement it fully equals a much longer correspondence with the pension a gen eral claim agent will frequently squirt orig inal thought and droll conceits and into his which you cannot hope to find even in the more polished work of the pension Let the young man who wishes to write letters which will be thoroughly courteous and open a with the pen sion department but should he desire to cul I judged from the wonderful wordj a decline in emp painting of the In my minds eye I en ay could see the with its tongue out legislation as is propos about four sinking exhausted determined bv in the generals The letter stated that the return of the tracer had demonstrated the fact that the butter was He wrote me once more to state that the matter had been turned over to the and that he begged leave to subscribe himself my friend and well and to repeat with even greater earnestness than ever that this was a dictated The me sharply for send ing so far away for and then went to Florida to seek much needed I then fell the hands of the first assistant audit who enjoyed signing his name to state 1 hereby its mnv of tors line it u Telegraph operators who re a sample are requested to ex amine Its and if It meets with your approval yon are cordially invited it your support and Address Telegraphers La Porte Established August ments which did not in any way compromise I never got the but I ob a terse English style of erecting Goth ic banked up with odd little three cornered adjectives that I could have secured in no other I was paid fur the butter at The Train The annual chestnut about the criminal carelessness of the train dispatchers is going the rounds of the and to a person who is conversant with duties of the train dis patcher they to say the Yesterday was but an average day on the Air Line division of the Lake Shore and yet there were 358 meeting points made by trains on that division during the 24 requiring over 500 train orders besides at every telegraph station the train dispatcher receives a report of the arriving and depart ing time of every and these reports there were over days these fig ures will be The dispatcher is obliged to have the exact location of each train in his mind He must fig ure hours ahead where trains are to perhaps through a detention to some train which could not be the entire program will be former orders de 811 this must be so as no train and the track kept clear for passenger He must have every side track in his how many cars it will and how many cars there are standing on it at the present so as not to make a meeting point there if the side track has not room enough to hold the and besides there are a hundred and one lit tle things that no person who has never been in the position can know And if through the of a minute detail of a single one of the orders by some conductor or a terrible accident oc without stopping to wait for the matter to be nine tenths of the news papers in the country will come out in glow ing announcing that the whole thing resulted through the criminal careless ness of the train And yet it is but very seldom that a dispatcher is From 1878 to ger rate on the leading ed from cents per per In nine In 1870 jf rate per ton per oH 242 cents in li rates sixteen than 100 per This has been operation of catfi because the the total led within nine all the undue there m the demand for restrict missioners report for shows that miles of or age of the did no interest and renf shows that the total roads are not they show a slight of consin earned in i cent more than fj England roads earned a cent and the These figures cannot be judged bj many Tne cent fare law would put a solvent and on New York Yet ft New York tothe square nil f Nb greater passen cents fell more than freight Wa roads was In other fore were more in the last year about by the and per have let Late ban doub were making for ut the com having t of the mile ex ie report also the Iowa itoe railroads and Wis of 25 per the New of 104 per per cent Iowa Standards of a two the of that conceived of than to overlook facts like ed from the employ of a The fact of the matter that railroad companies do a gentle air of subdued mirth in his a sort of chastened if I may allowed to use such a let him buy worth of stationery and begin to in quire about the breakage or or leakage or or stealage connected with the transportation of goods by a large Some years while in the act of grow ing up with the country out West 1 sent east for some butter to be shipped at butter that was made real cream from 1 received that the butter had been Part of it Only 20 out of but the freight on the whole amount got in one day ahead of the 20 I paid the and not know ing any of the officials but the general pass enger with whom 1 had held some cor 1 wrote to He wrote me that such claims should goto the gen eral freight I wrote to the general freight agent in a tone of pleasant and freight and for the election by ing him to return the butter that I liked fun i popular vote of a commission having just as well as but that it had gone lute power over most extraordinary not put a man in this position until he has been ti ied for and they are convinced that he is never careless and is thoroughly trustworthy in every It is about time to give tlu other side of the question a little V AS OTHERS SEE Crusade Against Railroads Viewed by an East ern The Marvels ot One of the marvels of telegraphy was ful ly demonstrated last operators in the Western Union office in this carried on an interesting conversation over hill and over mountains capped with through valleys of perennial under the Atlantic Ocean with its un explored over the regions of and under the with the land of the The time was three oclock in the just after a heavy nights good night having been received on the last press The dramatis were three and the way the affair came about was as follows Have you a Bob bet but Ill keep Who are you working will Tom Ive old Fox Hes going to turn on the cable and by the mortal Frost Ill speak to Valentia or rattled off the and came in There is the cable said the Chi cago go for old To us have Valentia to is San Fran who wants to speak with Tor Bay is doing the cable London to San to meet you by It is just striking noon by Pauls and very as How is the weather there This is responded San Fran It is four standard time and not yet We receive many cables from but never had the pleasure of Any Ameri cans there It is raining slightly There ire plenty of mushrooms on the and the boys will be selling violets on the street cor ners having secured a signal from wrote San is on here They want to connect the of the New World with one who fi umber past has always occupied a place in determining the policy ad conduct of trans in the A man in every commencing his railway ca reer with humble his advance gradual at first but becoming more rap id as the years went on and accompanied by a steady broadening of diameter and capac excited the admiration of even those who differed from him in matters of Being a man of strong with the faculty of winning the attachment of around he stood high in the regard anc lve of those with whom he was associated and especially so among the subordinates with hosts of whom Tom Potter was the ideal of whatever was complete in a railway His gradual advancement from the with the he al ways had a though it might be only a for every excited in the humblest workman a feeling of ana loyal ty to which contributed greatly to his success as a This feeling extend ed also largely to those who met him in a business way among the patrons of the And it also had its effect upon the legislative bodies with which he had to deal his winning and honest ways brushed aside the feeling of distrust which so often exists among them towards representatives of One ot most remarkable traits of Potters business life WHS his promptness in arriving at He made a good lis 1 tener when matters were brought up for dis in his or even referred to York The agitation in Iowa is at because it recalls in several respects the granger and and ljut few were seems likely to repeat some of its extrava on nis to malie tlB subject clearly under The legislature is flooded with bills j His when providing for sharp reduction of passenger were forcible and in the simplest In many cases it would seem as if his tions in arriving at decisions were as keen as those of a for he would often have far and that if he would send on the who hopes it is nud difficulty undoubtedly in explaining why rest before it acquired that peculiar bouquet to succeed Allison in the senate if ne took though the outcome which comes to butter when it is full meri the latter should become president is a fully sustain the correctness of his ac I would be He wrote me er in this Of him it can only be ing for the of lading or way or said that he has strange notions of the way whatever it stating also that the i to advance his political way It may be letter was 1 had a long that will win popularity among A business man once expressed to the writer an estimate of the opinion with which Potter was held by the business men of wiuuii This was to the effect that Pot dence with and through the unthinking by indiscriminate onslaughts fer arrive at a decision express ly infatuating interchange of thought he on the but the reaction will surely in fewer and stand by it than er came right out and said that these were even in Iowa and outside of Iowa other western his but always claimed that each letter was a dictated He did not tell me who dictated the meantime my butter was probably sidetracked in a small seeking madly to get out and shrieking lor air and I was going to say wildly tearing its but it was not that kind of The general freight agunt wrote to me at last that he had sent a tracer after I went home and told my that general agent had sent a tracer and a Bernard dog out in search of our Some time had though we had been eating bacon gravy on our bread two when a long letter from the general freight addressed in a beautiful Spencerian hand with cap was received and contents The general said the tracer had returned in the Allison could not suffer any more grievous injury than to be identified by foolish friends with legislation tending to cripple Iowa and so im paling the value of the securities owned by eastern Railroads should be subjected to proper like all should exist to serve the not to rule or op press But the welfare of the rail a is is inextricably bound up in the general and for community to be hostile tu its railroads is as absurd asit would be for a man to be hostile to his heart or his liver To compel to run at a loss is to make sure that life and limb will be less because road cannot be kept up t the highest to cause a general depreciation of the holding of from the Burlington upon which the bulk of his lifes work has been his entrance upon a new field was mark ed with the hardest made necessary in acquainting himself with the details of the property he had become These added to the physical complications under which he had been A sufferer for some caused his breaking and even a cessation from did not enable him to regain the strength he had He was a true friend and a gener foe and the vacancy caused by his re moval will not soon be Re V WK are a great many orders for Clarks Railway Head our announce ment in another to San it ORDER RAILWAY is pleasure to span half the globe to speak with The pleasure is signaled Tom from the Western Union The Pacific speaking with the through the the Bay of Biscay and the Med Sea is a wonderful Francisco The above Order was organized at Cedar June and after one years successful existence held its Second Annual Session at on the 15th day of at which session rep from all parts of the United States were in The Constitution and Statutes of the as adopted and to be embrace the following principles That no member shall teach the art of Telegraphy to any person without the con sent of the Grand Chief at tested to by the Grand Secretary under the seal of the Grand and then not without the of the Superintendent or Chief which must be obtained before the consent of the Grand Chief will be Should any Brother be convicted of using his influence for the purpose of creat ing a he shall be expelled without further That the habitual use of intoxicating liquors shall be a sufficient cause for the re of any An insurance of has adopted which is payable upon the death or total disability of the This insurance is not but is left optional to each member all are urged to become members of this depart ment of the as it insures you a means of relief for yourself and family in time of The objects of the Order are to raise the Standard of the Fraternity by decreasing the number of to furnish good service for a reasonable To assist members who are sick or in des and to enjoy such ben as generally appertain to Societies of this Every other branch of the Railway Ser vice have their organization and they have noven of inestimable benefit to their mem and we believe from present indications chat in the near future the vill rank r The Be Robert the facetious editor of the Burlington has been lecturing to large audiences in different parts of the and in his amusing style he imparts to the rising generation some wholesome ad The following is from one of his lec tures Be somebody on your own my and dont try to get along on the reputa tion of your Nobody knows and nobody cares who Adams grandfather and there is not a living who can tell the name of Brigham Youngs f The lecturer urged upon his hearers V the necessity of keeping up with the every day and not in the Hard work never was known to kill men it was the fun that men had at intervals that killed The fact most peo ple had yet to learn what fun really A man might go to and spend a half a million and then recall the fact that he had a great deal more fun at a picnic twenty years ago that cost him 05 The theory that the world owed every man a living was Tho world owed a man There was a living in the world for every provided the man was willing to work for If he did not work for somebody else would earn and the lazy man would get There were greater opportunities for workers out West than in Eastern but men who went out Wast to grow up with the country must the applicant shall be of mortal charax 17 years of age and and must have had at least one years experience as a Railway if actually in the employ of a Rail way Company at the present If appli cant is not in the employ of a 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