1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
337 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Alleging that milk and cream served on 
Pullman cars on the Pennsylvania between New York and 
Chicago contained formaldehyde, 32 prosecutions have been 
ordered against the Pullman Company. The prosecutions 
are the result of investigations made by order of Dr. B. 
11 . Warren, Pennsylvania State Dairy and Food Commis¬ 
sioner. The investigators found that in the cars operated 
by the Pennsylvania Railroad pure foodstuffs were served 
and that all the milk and cream served on the cars oper¬ 
ated by the Pullman Company contained formaldehyde. 
. . . Seven men were killed and four injured by an ex¬ 
plosion in a mine owned by the Cambria Steel Company at 
Johnstown, Pa., October 24. The explosion took place in 
heading No. 20, a considerable distance from the ill-fated 
Clondike section, where 114 men lost their lives over four 
years* ago. The exact cause is not known, but it is sup¬ 
posed that the gas was fired by a blast. . . . The Ro¬ 
chester Railway and Light Company has been indicted on 
two counts by the grand jury, on the charge of man¬ 
slaughter in the second degree, for the death of Miss Earnie 
oppenheimer, of Rochester, N. Y. Negligence is alleged 
in installing and maintaining a gas water heater in her 
home, and it is also alleged that gas supplied contained an 
xcess of a deadly constituent, carbon monoxid. It is 
charged that the heater did not consume all the fumes of 
ihe carbon monoxid, and that it escaped into the kitcheln 
where Miss Oppenheimer was at work and caused her death. 
Eight persons lost their lives in a fire at Kansas' 
City, Kan., October 25, when a tenement house known as 
Hie Chamber of Commerce was burned. . . . Arkansas 
won a victory October 25 in its anti-trust suits against 
I he packing companies when Judge E. W. Winfield passed 
upon the motion filed by the State that the answer of the 
Hammond Packing Company be stricken from the docket 
and that the State be permitted to take judgment for 
$10,000 because of the failure of the officers of the company 
lo testify before the Commissioner in the recent hearing in 
Chicago. Judge AA'infield sustained the motion and ordered 
tliar a fine of $10,000 be imposed against the company. 
An appeal to the Supreme Court was taken. The packers 
hold that the section of the anti-trust law which compels 
corporation officials to testify against their corporations or 
themselves is unconstitutional. Cases have been brought 
against five other packers. . . . After months of work 
the fight has been won against the Colorado River. Octo¬ 
ber 25 the Southern Pacific engineer corps turned back into 
its channel, leading to the Gulf of California, the first 
water of the river that has flowed there for two years. 
By this great achievement .$25,000,000 worth of property 
and the homes of 10,000 persons are rescued from threat¬ 
ened inundation. Salton Sea, a vast lake which has been 
created during the two years that the river has been pour¬ 
ing into the lowlands of the desert, will now dry up. The 
engineers have built a concrete dam or gate, supplemented 
by a rock and gravel dam, across the break. 
Sixty members of the Omaha, Neb., Coal Exchange were in¬ 
dicted by tlie grand jury October 23 on charges of main¬ 
taining an illegal organization to control prices and elimi¬ 
nate competition. Simultaneously came an announcement 
of an advance in fuel prices by all dealers. Anthracite was 
raised 50 cents and soft coal 25 cents a ton. All dealers 
adhere to the new rates, notwithstanding a court injunc¬ 
tion forbids any establishing of prices. They maintain 
that the advance is simply a market rise. The grand jury 
investigation was started by the testimony of Walter Mills, 
a former secretary of the exchange, before Commissioner 
Prouty of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Union 
Pacific coal lands hearing, that prices on all coal marketed 
in Omaha were fixed by the exchange. . . . The Cir¬ 
cuit Court at Toledo, O.. October 2G, upheld the decision of 
Judge Kinkade of the Common Tleas Court in the sen¬ 
tence he gave Reuben Lemon, Rollin Beard, and Joseph 
Miller, convicted of conspiracy in restraint of trade in the 
sale of ice. These are the famous ice cases which were 
tried in the Common Pleas Court last Summer. The sen¬ 
tences given the men were $2,500 fine each and six months in 
the workhouse, and if the Supreme Court affirms the lower 
courts, the ice men must serve their sentences. The Circuit 
Court also held the Valentine anti-trust law constitutional. 
. . . At least 53 persons lost their lives October 28 
near Atlantic City, N. J., when a three-car train of the 
Pennsylvania’s newly equipped electric service from Camden 
to that resort plunged into the water from a drawbridge. 
The accident occurred at the Thoroughfare, a stream some¬ 
thing like the Coney Island creek at New York’s resort, and 
similarly situated. Whether the accident resulted from the 
spreading of rails or from the failure of overlapping rails 
to meet nicely has not been determined .vet. Two of the 
cars of the train lay 30 feet below the surface of the 
Thoroughfare, while the third car hung from the abutment 
of the bridge, its front end submerged in the swift running 
tide. Penned in the cars, the doors shut, and the vesti¬ 
bules between tightly closed, making escape practically an 
impossibility, a hundred passengers were bumped and tossed 
for 50 yards over the ties and then plunged over into ‘‘The 
Thoroughfare." Not a soul in the first two cars had tin 4 ’ 
slightest chance of escape. The rails on the draw, it is 
believed, had not been perfectly adjusted. The flange into 
which tlie rails* set had jammed, and a short space sepa¬ 
rated them. The motor car left the tracks, dragging the 
two other cars with it. From joist to joist the train 
plunged, the heavy iron wheels boring grooves into the 
wooden cross beams. . . . Commissioner Bogart of the 
New York City Bureau of Licenses revoked October 29 the 
licenses held by Sigmund S. Schwartz, who runs two em¬ 
ployment agencies. Schwartz, who did a larger business 
than any other labor agent in the city, bad been indicted 
by the United States Grand Jury as a result of the investi¬ 
gation which has been made by the Federal authorities into 
peonage. Schwartz had been sending contract laborers to 
the South where, according to the evidence .which had been 
presented, the men had been ill treated and abused. Agents 
in this city, Mr. Bogart said, receive from $1.50 to $2 
for each laborer sent to the South, and ns some of the 
agencies get orders for as many as 5,000 men at a time they 
are making large incomes from the business of shipping men 
to what Mr. Bogart says is practically temporary slavery. 
ADMINISTRATION.—The cabinet changes which will fol¬ 
low the forthcoming retirement of Leslie M. Shaw, Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury, and William II. Moody, Attorney- 
General, have been officially announced. The statements 
that George Bruce Cortelyou, of New York, would take the 
Treasury portfolio, and that Geoige Von Lengerke Meyer, 
of Massachusetts, now ambassador to Russia, would be 
appointed to succeed Mr. Cortelyou as Postmaster-General, 
were confirmed. The surprise in the announcement is that 
Oscar Solomon Straus, of New York, will enter the cabinet 
as Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The formal state¬ 
ment of the changes is as follows*: Secretary of the Treas¬ 
ury—George B. Cortelyou of New York. I’ostmaster-Gen- 
eral—George Von I.engerke Meyer, of Massachusetts. At¬ 
torney-Genera!—Charles J. Bonaparte, of Maryland. Sec¬ 
retary of the Navy—Victor L. Metcalf, of California. Sec¬ 
retary of Commerce and Labor—Oscar S. Straus, of New 
York. Mr. Metcalf will leave the' Commerce Department. 
and become Secretary of the Navy In place of Mr. Bona¬ 
parte, who will succeed Mr. Moody as Attorney-General. 
rostmaster-General Cortelyou will succeed Mr. Shaw in the 
Treasury Department, thus making a place for Mr. Meyer. 
Secretary Taft, it is said, will not go on the Supreme Court 
bench; he will stay in the cabinet. It is the understanding 
that he is to be President Roosevelt’s legatee for the Pres¬ 
idency. It is said that Mr. Straus will be the first Jew over 
appointed to a cabinet position by a President of the United 
States, Judah P. Benjamin was in the Confederate cabinet 
under President Davis. 
TIIE GRAIN TRUST.—Interstate Commerce Commission¬ 
ers Clarke and Lane heard testimony at Omaha, October 
24 to show that the railroads in Nebraska and Iowa tried 
to limit the number of grain elevators in small towns, and 
did not as a rule furnish cars to shippers whose grain was 
not at the track ready to load. Both elevator owners and 
railroads professed aversion for the men who wanted to 
haul grain to town and shovel it from wagons into cars. 
It was averred that such men interfered with business men 
who had capital invested and bothered railroads for cars 
that must be delayed under such circumstances. C. Vin¬ 
cent, manager of the Farmers’ Grain Company, composed of 
about 300 farmers along the line of the Union Pacific in 
Central Nebraska, said that although his company had some 
difficulty in obtaining elevator sites on railroad lands at 
first, it was later treated with perfect fairness. It has 
been in business a year and has caused an average 
increase in the price of grains of from 2 to 2% cents a 
bushel. It has been doing business at a profit. The com¬ 
pany has a clause in its by-laws providing a penalty of one 
cent a bushel in case a stockholder sells grain to anybody 
except the Farmers’ company. This, Air. Vincent said, was 
to protect the company from competitors who might other¬ 
wise bid above the market price to drive the Farmers’ com¬ 
pany out of business. Mr. Vincent said Omaha grain deal¬ 
ers treated his company fairly, and he felt that the big 
elevators in Omaha for the handling and storage of grain 
were good for the producers. lie said that the Missouri 
Pacific and the Northwestern Railway Company had refused 
to comply with the State law regarding the building of side¬ 
tracks to elevators when application had been made by 
farmers’ companies. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Joseph Battell, of Middlebury, 
Vt., has made a proposition to deed to the University of 
Vermont, which is aiding the United States Government in 
the promotion of the breeding of Morgan horses, an eight 
hundred acre farm at AVeybridge, for a small annual rental. 
United States Senator Redfield Proctor. ex-Governor E. J. 
Ormsbee and Professor .T. L. Hills, of the University of 
A’ermont, have already looked over the property, and, it is 
understood, have favored accepting Mr. Battell’s offer. Both 
the AVar and Agricultural Departments at AA’ashington have 
taken an active interest in the breeding of Morgan horses. 
Some of the most famous war horses of the Rebellion were 
of Morgan stock, notably General Phil Sheridan’s Rienzi, 
which carried the great cavalry leader on his memorable 
ride to AVinchester. 
The thirty-sixth annual session of the Indiana State 
Grange will be held at Columbia City, December 11-14. 
The thirtieth annual convention of the New York State 
Dairymen’s Association will be held at Elmira, December 
11-14. Copies of the last annual report of the Associa¬ 
tion can be obtained from Thomas E. Tiquin, secredary, 
Sherburne, N. A'., and will lie sent to applicants on receipt 
of 13 cents postage._ 
Stop slaving to do things for your children which they 
ought to do themselves. Keep it up and they will always 
master you. 
M ANY claims are made for ele¬ 
vated carriers for barn use but 
the fact remains that more 
“Drews’* are in use today than all 
other makes combined. 
Why,—Mr.Farmer? For the simple 
reason that the “Drew” is the best and 
cheapest carrier made. 
It is the most practical. It is the only 
device that carries its load to any de¬ 
sired point, drops it, and re¬ 
turns automatically, ready 
to receive another load, 
i That’s why actual users 
praise this carrier,—be¬ 
cause it performs all and 
more than its makers 
promise. 
The Automatic Drew Carrier is a Money- 
Maker as it saves the best elements of the 
fertility produced on the farm, which, in 
most cases, is allowed to go to waste—the 
liquid manure. This element is very rich in 
potash, which sells in the open market for 
5c per pound. AVithout a sufficient amount 
of this potash in your soil, your small grain 
is liable to lodge. 
By its use you not only save money, time, 
work and worry, but also health. Its use 
keeps the barn and yard scrupulously clean, 
offering an easy means of preventing the ac¬ 
cumulation of disease breeding litter, refuse, 
manure, etc. 
it is this feature of cleanliness that makes 
the “Drew” so necessary to up-to-date, pro¬ 
gressive Dairymen, who equip their barns 
Automatic 
DREW 
Carrier 
ivith it to increase the market value of their 
products, as well as to promote the health 
of their families, 
* * * 
But,—litter and manure are only a small 
part of the possible uses to which the Auto¬ 
matic Drew Carrier can be put. 
It is a valuable and practical conveyor of 
many other commodities, as, for example, the 
carrying of Ensilage, Feed, Grain, Potatoes, 
Coal, boxes,Milk Cans, Vegetables, Water,etc. 
AVith a "•Drew" you can save yourself much 
unnecessary drudgery and many steps. 
Hundreds of Farmers write 
us that they find it a wonderful 
convenience and labor saver. 
Such testimony is worth some¬ 
thing to you, because it comes 
from people who have proved 
by the test of actual experience 
the real worth of the Auto¬ 
matic Drew Carrier. 
AVhy not make such a test 
yourself? 
Now, here’s what we will do for you: 
AA’e will send you an Automatic Drew 
Carrier O.utlit complete, with detailed in¬ 
structions for setting it up. 
You can try it thirty days, and if you do 
not find that it will do the work exactly as 
we represent it in every respect, we will re¬ 
fund every penny you have paid for it. 
If you wish, you may deposit the price with 
your own bank, the money not to be paid to 
us, until everything is satisfactory. 
Don’t you think that the "Drew" must be 
pretty nearly right, if we can afford to make 
this offer? 
AA’ell, it is right, and all we want is a 
chance to prove it to your satisfaction. 
Will you let us do it? AVhen? 
WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG TODAY. 
Drew Elevated Carrier Co., il5 Monroe St., Waterloo, WIs. 
Branch Office and Warehouse:—Rome, N. Y. 
WORLD’S BEST BUTTER 
FROM DE LAVAL CREAM 
Cream skimmed by a DE LAVAL separator can be made 
into butter SUPERIOR to that which can be made from cream 
skimmed by any other separator or system. This is the FACT,— 
the proof of which grows more and more conclusive each year. 
Following is a list of the more important STATE FAIR 
FIRST HONORS awarded DE LAVAL users during* 1906: 
OHIO—Conover Creamery Co., Greenville.Score 98 
INDIANA—Ray & Arnold, Logansport. 
ILLINOIS—ArV. J. Kane, Morrison. 
AVISCONSIN-W. J. Clark. Troy Center. 
MINNESOTA—M. Sondergaard, Hutchinson. 
IOWA—R. Rergsather, Northwood. 
SIOUX CITY—C. J. Rohde, Manchester, Iowa. 
Of special note are the awards made at the Ohio State Fair 
where the highest score of 98 went to butter entered by the 
Conover Creamery Co. of Greenville, MADE FROM DE LAVAL 
HAND SEPARATOR CREAM, while the butter receiving the 
second highest score of 97 was also made from DE LAVAL 
HAND SEPARATOR CREAM by the Glen Echo Creamery of 
Springfield. Here, as in many other instances, we have a prac¬ 
tical demonstration of how much the DE LAVAL separator 
means in both creamery and farm separation. 
All highest awards in every contest of the National Butter- 
makers Association, from 1892 to 1906, including the great Dairy 
Show in Chicago this year, have been Avon by users of 
DE LAVAL machines. The butter receiving highest score at 
the World’s Exposition in Paris in 1901 was DE LAVAL made, 
as was also the Grand Prize butter of the St. Louis World’s 
Fair in 1904. A DE LAVAL catalogue will help to make plain 
why DE LAVAL cream is superior. Write for it to-day. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Randolph tk Canal Sts.. 
CHICAGO. 
1213 Filbert Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
9 & I I Drumm St., 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
109-113 YOUVILLESQ. 
MONTREAL. 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET, 75 4 7 tORONTC)T REET ’ 
NEW YORK. 
14-16 PRINCFSS STREET, 
WINNIPEG. 
