Weekly Telegrapher, The (Newspaper) - March 28, 1888, La Porte City, Iowa OF nor in These terms nre Strict ly adhered A Liberal Commission will be given to letters of Sample Copies Sent ADVERTISING RATES Oun 1 1 Hiron 1 on yo per cent discount on tins for additional ar rangements inside for advert e ments of long 10 cents Per Correspondence VOLUME mm mount LA PORTE A log of driftwood Tossed on the watery Another log touches and parts Thus tis with telegraphers On lifes unresting sea We and and Drifting why not treat us kindly You men of wealth and lore For soon well meet and To meet again no For we in Gods own His song of praise will sound And thank our Heavenly t No brass is there to OUB Use of Train Telegraphy in the The Electrical Review in its issue of the 24th gives the following interesting account of the use of train telegraphy in a blizzard The New Jersey division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad has if more completely blocked by the late phenomenal downfall of snow than perhaps any other line running out of Jersey this being especially so between Perth Junction and Meagre accounts in the dailies have mentioned a severe accident that occur ed on at 4 on this division of the Lehigh Valley near the sta tion of Three as the result of which the lives of four men were lost and a larger number Thp accident was caused wd ft snow into During the com mencing on the line early Monday the regular telegraph service lines of the Le high Valley Railroad became entirely but the single steel strung upon short of the induction train telegraph system of the Consolidated Railway Tele graph now in use upon this remained although buried in and was the only line that could be by the road between its terminal at Perth Am boy and and has been of the most signal service during the week to the road for the transmission of dispatches between snowbound trains and the directing officials at Perth as well as the only means of communication between the head officials at Bethlehem and the wrecking and the relief trains sent out from time to and extraordinary opportunity for prac exemplifying the great and undeniable value of this system of communicating be tween trains at any point by means of the induction train telegraph system was shown at the wreck referred to As an oper ator of this company was on board of the re lief or snow train upon which the wreck took for the purpose of communicating with the train dispatcher from time to was aboard at the occasion of the and at once telegraphed the the fact to Division Superintendent who was quickly at hand and used the train telegraph exclusively for sending over medic al aid and help for relieving the injured anti relieving the mangled bodies of those that were Donnelly as well as those in charge of the and fact this entire division of the are most enthusiastic in their pruise of induction train telegraphy and say we do not see how we could have got along without It in this particular proved itself to what has always been claimed for an iri aid in the management of rail not alone under ordinary circum but also at times of The fact that all other telegraph lines were down on this division during the that this line remained entirely intact was due to the method of the plan of the Consolidated Railway Telegraph Com pany being to use only stout firmly and strongly set into the with no cross arms and carrying a single In this way it is scarcely possible to conceive of a storm capable of overthrowing a single line of the advanced and intelligent enterprise which has been evinced by the management of the Lehigh Valley Ry in thus so to the way towards the use of this invaluable adjunct to modern railroad man affording not alone a great conven and safeguard to the management of their own but also a convenience and comfort to the fortunate passengers upon this well managed A gentleman who started for Washington on the train late Sunday stated that he and his fellow passengers were blockaded this side of Philadelphia for many long dreary without any possible way of communicating with the outside ex cept by the hazardous proceeding of plung ing through the dangerous snow drifts for some said as far as we could look back from the rear of the we could see the heavy telegraph poles with their many upon and across the track this also extended in both directions and a knot of my fellow passen in conversation to whom I had been ex what train telegraphy was as I have read of Why dont the railroads appreciate at once the enormous advantages of this and the great convenience and comfort it would be to their passengers and also a source of profit as to the railroad company having the far sight and enterprise to adopt this wonderful and extremely practical system of telegraph ing from trains said again this almost any of us would now give from one to five dollars for a chance of by means of this system had it been with our anxious them flirted up his tail 11 come The believe his but filial the The snakes front of him every their heads to sen if he w They started off toward their tails at intervals At last they led him to and there he was thousands and ranged iti As he all began to sound theft noise was like a couple of dozen nail strange sight NUMBER weekly Wished in the interest of Hallway Operators of II is lie only jour nal in America devoted and is lie the of Hailway a olent Order which destined to em brace of the opera tors of this Us list is its of tors and it a valuable operators whore a sample copy are requested to ex amine its and If it meets with vour approval you are cordially invited Address Telegraphers MKI Established August to him scarcely ped out into along in uthen turning following twisting up to eluded hollow by seeing of rattlesnakes V into view the and the and a in full id and he was about to which he had rescued looked up at mpt so appealingly that he became the snake which had been rescued mm a lingering began to bite the nd whirl round and round in great It kept right on biting until dug quite a friends and No severer test of the entire and practicability of the perfect working of this system during severe storms of any tion could be well afforded than that which had just occurred along the line of the Le high The ordinary telegraph line of this road if better calculated to resist a severe storm than those usually upon eastern for the they do a deep hole in the ground wf When it had gone down i i its sharp the hole per until seen but the tip end of its its hold of the rattle and repeated the whizzing operation until it too had disappeared in the hole in the Then another snake took hold of its tail and vent down ing to be compared with those upon the lines running out from tUe Grand Central or on the Pennsylvania or Erie but even this well constructed as it as well as the leaving only the Induction Train Telegraph System of the Consolidate Railway Telegraph V Reptile constructed in this A severer test could not have been conceived than that afforded by the late storm on the line of this and has fully proved all ol the argu ments made in behalf of the adoption of this system of at all times and in all conditions of with the moving trains from the directing of the independent of the use telegraph sta as has been so clearly ed during these last few days upon the Le high upon such i short the system was of what then would be its value upon the long stretches of single track Imes of the west and especially during their snowbound periods extending sometimes over taking lor example the Northern and Central Pacific Railroads A word certainly should be on behalf A singular illustration of precocity and of the fact that dumb animals oftentimes are capable of manifesting was devel in the experience of Farmer Joshua of Moon some davs says tho Pittsburg While the farmer was riding along one of the roads which led back from the Ohio river to the wilds of county his attention was attracted by the rustling of the leaves by the and on a closer examination he found that a fullgrown rattlesnake had in some manner got caught between two fence and with the aid of its mate was making frantic efforts to extricate The two snakes would twine around one an giving the assisting reptile enough stretch to twine ils tail around a neighbor ing They pulled and but their most vigorous efforts availed noth Farmer who is a kindhearted a corresponding member of the West cm Pennsylvania Humane watched them for some and alighting from his he removed the rail and re leased the imprisoned c The two snakes seemed electrified with joy and hap and wriggled around the road in front of the farmer in playful and tried in every manner to testify their Finally one of them wriggled up one of the wheels of the and crawling on the seemed to look attentively at a copy of an agricultural journal lying which the farmer had just taken out of the It was addressed to Joshua Broad Podunk Cross Moon A minute after the snake crawled down out of the and it and its mate looked at and it seemed at the out of their bright little shining eyes Another and until hundreds of snakes had gone down out of did they continue to This was continued for several hours and snake after snake had gone down the hole until it must have contained several thousand yards of rattlesnakes For some time the farmer was puzzled to unravel the but finally out of the hole there came rushing There was a great gush of dust and and then a shrill whistling noise which told the It was a nat ural gas The snake he had having seen his name on the paper the had gone to Farmer While listening it heard about the gage on the It may not be a crime known to the but is a It touches the most sacred of individual rights and is a crime against peace and When a man wants when he offers his strength and skill for the necessities of in the name of all that is sacred in lib erty and the pursuit of let him have it without hindrance and without pen If working men who join unions and brotherhoods can persuade others to well and but there should be no coer nr penalty if men choose to re main independent of organizations it is a matter of choice and no penalty should on the o her if men choose to join labor seek to improve their condition and advance their they should be rather than have obstacles placed in their wav or be made to pay any in all such matters there is a common sense view RAILWAY The above Order was organized at Cedar June and after one year s successful existence held its Second Annual Session at on the loth 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 permission of the Superintendent or Chief which must be obtained before the consent of the Grand Chief will be is n sense u to be taken of but above all let u 1 any Brother be convicted of 6 cl his it be the universal sentiment that no shall attach for the exercise of an Good Advice to Locomotive Every seat at Immanuel Baptist Taber was filled recently with locomotive en gineers and railroad employes to hear Dixon address themon the Red and White He said The red light is signal to and the white light to go So God throws signal lights along he way of The great corporations are he great who force you to work on It would pay for the railroads to top running on The president of i New Jersey railroad resolved not to run on and though it was predict ed it would bankrupt it today is the best road in the It was the Del aware I Dont work on Sunday unless forced to do so to support the of creat be expelled without gratitude it had called Jh its associates and had dug the well in order that its humane savior might be independent for An Inalienable Below is the concluding part of an article from the last number of the Mag u journal that has always been most conservative But it must be remembered that all the workingmen of the United States and Can ada are not members of labor not a majority of them are on the rolls of ourselves what arid and then wriggled over into a sound ing their rattles in a joyous While Broadhead was deeply impress ed at the time by the singular actions of the he thought no more of it save to re flect that he had done a humane When he sat down to breakfast on the succeeding morning his wife told him that a grasping lawyer had been clown to see him with a no tice that he was about to foreclose a mort gage which he held on the good old farmers as the crops had been and he was not prepared to he felt very much Then there came a at the kitchen and with a dread in his heart that the sheriff had come it last he opened To his infinite astonish ment he found the two rattlesnakes that he had met the proceeding clay coiled upon the They had evidently rapped on the door with their He stepped back quickly m but the playful demeanor of the snakes reassured Then one of referring to this we have neither the right nor the to be In that they so choose is nobodys bus iness but their The right to choose is our individual as sacred as the right to think or It is a right every man ex when he joins a labor organization or any other To seek to impose any upon men who choose to become members of such organiza or who decide not to join is an outrage of monstrous which cannot will not and ought not to be And such penalties are im posed HUC creating denunciatory com far and The subject is well worthy of the most canfill it is up for and will not down at any mans nor ought it to be It is one of the important ques tions of the It should be subjected to the severest The question has a man the right to choose for himself whether he will or will not join a labor With one comes the answer No no set of no government has a right to say The right is inherent aud It is a primal and can be cloven down only by and only despots will impose any penalty whatever for the free exer cise of that If a man desires to join a labor who shall say nay Who has a right to say nay Who shall im pose a penalty for this exercise of free will his unalienable right to choose What is the too often imposed Not prisons and but loss of all too On the other what has been the penalties when a exer his unalienable right to choose to de cide for declines to become a mem ber of a labor organization the pen alty has been the loss of Ostracised and he has found himself an idler and a there is no right side of such There is nothing to be said in their There is no element of justice or fair dealing iu such a condition of and hence then is but one course left for those who won i and that is to seek to do away with them We would keep no huu a days Midi against life and li breeds hunger j a crime that denies a man r You have to do It ie right pull an of the ditch on A Chinese merchant resolved not to open his store on At first he was deserted now he is the richest man in The ten commandments are signals You all had better hang out signal lights to stop playing dancing round Dont run the engine over these rotten Thus save a wrecked life by obeying the red light signal to An inch misplacement of a switch sometimes causes dreadful So you must take care of the small things of Keep out of the first game of licentious thought or inclination to be then you will stay on the right When a wreck is on the road they throw out signals to stop coming beware of running into wrecked characters lest they wreck yours rather try to straighten out their wrecked the signal out on the widened You cant run trains on one Some try to do running by works or faith You must run on two rails of faith and Keep clear of the train who are tampering with Gods Whether the Bible fire is metaphor ical or there is enough to make a red any The new theology of these days has widened the track Take Gods book of orders and you will be able to run your on schedule safely There are wreckers whose business is to make wrecks of character in this They are They are the whisky man and gambling fraternity and freethink There should not only be red faces and throats in the would re quire every saloon to hang out a danger signal to warn men from Get on the up young for it is hard to using his influence for ing a he shall further That the habitual use of intoxicating liquors shall be a sufficient cause for the re of any An insurance of f has been adopted which is payable upon the death or total disability of the This insurance is not but ia left optional to each member all are urged to become members of this depart ment of the as it insures you a meana 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 and striving to furnish striving to furnish good service for a reasonable To assist members who are sick 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