San Antonio Light and Gazette (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 214, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 21, 1909 Page: 4 of 10
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SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
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Founded January 20 1881.
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BUTCHERIES.
Slason Thompson who writes things
for certain railways has published a
statement that the reason for the aw- i
ful list of railway horrors in 1906-7 is 1
purely and simply that business was ।
so good.
The same thing has been stated be-
fore. In the eflfort to move more traf-
fic than the trackage could accommo-
date or the engines haul the railways
hurled thousands of human beings pas-
sengers and employes to death.
They tried to shunt freight trains
too long for the sidings and the trains
on the main lines ran into ends stick-
ing out beyond the switches. They
tried to pull trains too long and too
heavy and they broke in two and
wrecked themselves and other trains.]
They tried to make time by too close ]
margins at passing points and had col-1
lisions. They ran trains too close to-
gether and a slight delay made dis-
patchers gray headed and swelled the
roster of the slain. They worked train-
men and keymen too long hours and
they went blind and helpless from
weariness and sent trains like great
projectiles into each other killing
slaughtering maiming and sending
horror over the land.
You see business was too good. There
was too much to do. This is the dread-
ful fact. It is not a fool’s assertion.
The railways broke down under their
own traffic That is the actual fact.
Like any other complicated machine
our railway machine pressed beyond
its capacity ceases to work well. Press-
ed a little harder and it ceases to work
at all. As it was in the worst of the
best times—if such a phrase may bo
used—the railways had so far ceased
to work that the average freight ear
moved but twenty miles a dav.
If hat is to prevent the recurrence of
all those awful sacrifices of human life
of which Thompson speaks?
Have the railways increased their
trackage or their motive power or
their equipment? Not at all. It is ques-
tionable if they have as much of the
latter two as they had three years
ago. When the hard times came and
their cars were idle and their engines
in the round houses did they build
new engines and double-track their
lines and order new ears? No
Why?
Because they were trying to keep out
of the hands of receivers and to pay
dividends which would keep the Hills
and Harrimans and Goulds and Hawleys
from loss in the stock market. Stock
quotations had to be kept up whether
railways were or not.
Is this good sense on the part of our
railway management? Is it patriotism?
Is it even common humanity? Was
there ever a clearer issue- between the
man and the dollar!
The head of the black hand is dead
and may the organization soon join
him.
Considering these are dog days the
weather isn’t bad. It isn’t so doored
hot. “ 6
Statistics say jails and asylums are
full of blondes. Is peroxide really that
bad? ’
All indications are that the present
legislature met and will adjourn as a
Hoke Smith legislature
If Miss Addams or any other woman
is elected president the saloon keepers
and tobacconists had better look out.
The organization of the negro anti-
tuberculosis league is a step in the right
direction and should accomplish as
much as the white organization.
SATURDAY
WARM HEARTS IN ICE HUTS.
Mene the Eskimo boy who’ll soon
leave the United States never again to
live outside an ice hut has sized up
Americans and their manners with a
sentiment that will bear repeating:
“What is civilization?” the child
of the ice country asks. “It’s keeping
everything you can get and getting ev-
erything you can. It’s smiling politely
instead of being generous! It’s being
pleasant when it doesn’t cost you any-
thing! ”
We don’t look to the lips of an Es-
kimo to issue words of wisdom but
Mene mirrored the whole painted pre-
tending contemptible social scheme as
practiced in our “big” cities with
this:
“It’s smiling politely instead of be-
ing generous!”
Any man with money can give some
cf it away and say he’s generous. By
the same standards yes. Then there’s
sympathy. Money will not buy it and
a heart that is dried up with selfish-
ness can’t give it. The face smiles
the heart is a blank.
Mene is going back to shvagery
some people think but we suspect he
likes the people in the frozen country
because they know how to be gener-
ous.
Professor Frederick Starr noted stu
dent of humans at the University of
Chicago tells how up in the wild
Greenland country he came across an
Eskimo fishing although his hut was
filled inside and stacked up outside
with frozen fish.
Professor Starr was surprised that
the Eskimo would fish in the cold when
he had so much already.
“This is not for me” explained
the Eskimo. “Some of my people won’t
be as lucky as I arfj and. then I ’ll
have enough fish for them too.”
Such a doctrine of generosity does
not come from a people who are sav-
age. Mene is right.
The Eskimo has sized up the New
York philanthropists who fed aud
clothed him. He calls them ungenerous.
He got smiles but he didn’t get sym-
pathy. He got all he could eat and
drink and wear and no generosity to
color the courtesies that the proud
superficial silly people showered on
him.
Snobbery smiles silliness —but no
sympathy.
When will these polite people take
the words of Eskimo to heart?
It is to be hoped Thaw wiV be silent
in his asylum.
Cotton crop will short as to yield
but long we trust on price.
It will soon be time for the small
boy to resume his snail’s pace toward
school.
Policies may come and administra-
tions may go but Joe Cannon goes on
forever.
1 4♦» ■
Many a person returning from the
summer hotel will agree that there
is no place like home.
And yet one would have thought
President Taft would have lost flesh
struggling with the tariff.
Lucky is that man who. returning
from his summer vacation finds his
last winter’s overcoat good as new.
Speaker Cannon on his arrival in
Chicago said he wouldn’t retire.
Doesn’t believe In Osler anyway.
Now that the tariff has been adopt-
ed it will be up to everybody con-
cerned to learn what the rates are.
Bolivia by seeking to bring on war
■with Peru apparently thinks the lat-
ter ’# bark is worse than her bite.
An Ohio minister died after marry-
ing 5000 couples. Whether from his
conscience or overwork is not stated.
Wellman is busy again on an expedi-
tion to the north pole. Don’t know what
dog days are like up there but be had
better delay just a little while.
“Cost of congress is about 6500000.”
Probably classes itself as a luxury upon
which the people must pay high duty.
An automobile ran into a column
of British soldiers the other day. The
auto as usual wasn’t damaged.
Pity President Taft couldn’t visit
the south in time to see the closing
series between Atlanta and Nashville.
Omaha man has the skin of eight
men on his back. The correspondent
neglected to mention the man’s own
skin which makes nine
A New York man is sent to prison
for stealing two cents. Bad policy on
his part. Two cents wouldn’t keep
a man in cigars in New York.
Minister Wu has been recalled and
will probably be sent to Peru. A pity
too now that Washington has grown
accustomed to the questious he asks.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
ILB .os lk
Josh Wise Sayings.
“Th’ lifesaver sometimes seriously
interferes with th’ work o’ th’ fool-
killer.”
He was rather “stuck up” for just
a common mongrel cat. But that came
from his raising. He had no pedigree
and no pedigreed forebears so far as
anyone knew but he had a warm spot
in the hearts of his owners who had
reared him from a scrawny homeless
kitten timid and w-ary of all mankind
to a big black cat with a shiny coat
of jet fur and a supreme indifference
| for everybody and everything.
His name was Rastus. When Ras-
tus entered he took the softest cushion
and the cosiest chair. He ate his half
pound of liver daily and scorned cast
off food from the table. He knew no
fear and when anything interested him
he examined it.
But he examined once too often as
this recital of his exploits is to prove.
One night his mistress was awakened
by the noise of something bumping
against her door. This was followed by
a bedlam of noises—the sound of rust-
ling and tearing papers shrieks blows
against door and wall as of two men in
deadly conflict a rush as of someone
running aud then quiet.
Rastus’ master aroused at last by
his frightened mistress opened the door
gingerly and looked out. Nothing in
sight. He listened. All was quiet.
Then he went back to bed.
Morning solved the mystery of the
midnight noises. On the way down-
stairs the master found his necktie
curiously begummed at one end. News-
papers were littered over the floor. Ev-
erything movable about floors and on
chairs had been pulled awry. Then he
saw Rastus.
He was gummed from nose to tail
with a sticky mess of torn and shredded
fly paper. No two hairs had been
missed. The paper had stuck to almost
everything else in the-house in the cat’s
mad effort to free himself from it.
It took two hours two pints of alco-
hol and most of his hair before Rastus
was clean again.
For he certainly was “stuck up” for
just a common mongrel cat.
SAN ANTONIO
21 YEARS AGO
(From The Light. Aug. 21 1888).
Citizens petition the city council for
the opening of a street between Press
and Garden streets through the proper-
ty of W. Witte.
Citizens ask for the straightening of
Romana street from Acequia to the
residences of Colonel T. C. Frost.
Specifications are received by the
city council for the paving of Alamo
and Commerce streets as well as the
plazas and they are adopted with an
amendment that home manufactured
eament be used.
The mayor notifies the fire chief that
another location must be secured for
the Sunset hose company from the fact
that an injunction had been filed
against the city enjoining the city au-
thorities from erecting a station bn a
public park.
It’s here is the toque
That skyscraper joque.
High as an oque.
Which the women are voting so nice
But that unlucky bloque
(Meaning hubbv) can’t mnoque
For he will go broque
Stacking up to the toque with the
Drice.
If It Weren’t for Father
I
AS LISTENED BY - FRED SCHAEFER •
This thing of traveling by rail is im-
proving all the time.
It used to he that there were a hun-
dred roads you could get hurt on. But
safeguard after safeguard has been
thrown round it till now you can’t get
hurt on near as many roads. They’?*
nearly all been combined.
Another thing. You used to get on
the train and just give the conductor
your fare. Now all that bother has
been done away with. You simply get
to the depot an hour ahead of train
time and buy 16 different kinds of tick-
ets and coupons and wait till the man
goes through a course of bookkeeping
on your pasteboards and then you
board your train if somebody has been
thoughtful enough to hold it for you.
Neither do you have to take ypur
life in your hands after you get on.
You simply give it to the porter and
he returns it to you when you wake
up in the morning.
1 took my family on a trip last week.
There are so many of us that we trav-
eled in two sections.
We are all very fond of the cars.
THE EVANESCENT LANDMARK.
“Yes I’ve been back to the village and took a look at the old swim
ming hole. But it "had changed mightily.”
“How had it altered?
“There was somebody actually swimming in it.”
Why our youngest was bom in a sleep-
er. For that reason we named her
Bertha. Isn’t that cute?
I bought a half-fare ticket for my
oldest boy and he began crying because
he thought he was going to ride only
half way.
When we finally got settled in the
car we had a pretty nice time after all
the dust got settled.
I kept looking out of the window to
see which track we were on—the right
hand track going up or the left hand
track going down.
The conductor came by. “Don’t put
your head out of the window” he said.
I waited and then looked out again
to see whether we were going up grade
or the landscape had tilted. Again the
conductor came to me and said: “Don’t
put your head out of the window.”
This made me sore. “Why shouldn’t
I put my.head out of the window?” I
said.
“Well” he said “it might delay the
train. Only yesterday a man put his
head out of the window and we had
to go back two miles and get it for
him.”
I noticed a lady across the aisle try-
ing to raise a window and I went over
to help her.
“Madam” I said “I’ll open this
window but I’ll advise you not to put
your head out.”
“Why notf” she said.
“Because madam” I said “you
have red hair and the engineer will
think they’ve lit the rear lights.”
She didn’t pnt her head out of the
window.
There ought to have been a diner on
the train but there wasn't. I com-
plained to the conductor. “See here”
I said “I can’t travel with an empty
stomach. ”
“But you are” he said. “There’s
a tramp riding on the trucks of this
car who hasn’t had a meal for a week.”
“That so?” I said. “I didn’t think
we’d been riding quite that long.”
I told my wife about It. “There’s
OUR DAILY PUZZLE
THE COMBATANTS.
Oft In the rammer night.
When slumber's chain* have bound us
We wake to wage a mortal fight
Wish skeeters that have found na
Find bl* wife.
ANSWER TO TESTERDAY’* PUZZLE.
Sammer sale ot
a hobo riding free on the brake beam”
I said.
“If you had sense enough to do
that” she said “we’d be in $B.”
After that I went into the smoking
“Now Rastus what am de diff’rence atween a ole maid an’ a married wom-
an purchasin’ a spool ob thread?”
“Yah yah yah dat one’s easy. One sighs fob a beau an’ de odder buy*
fob a sew.”
“Wif youah kind pahmiwion we will now sing ’She Weans a Hich-Neck
Dress Beeaze it Saves Her Washiu’ Low.’ ”
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SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
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compartment until after the porter had
made up the beds. My folks thought
I bad wandered overboard for when
I got back the whole family was in
tiers.
THE MINSTREL MIDGETS.
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