. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ransmitted for use direct toany machine, at even a greater saving than50 per cent. Where steam power and belts are usedthe expense of power is about the same,whether the shops are running light orheavy ; but with electrical power, evenwhen generated by steam, like the newplant of Eraser & Chalmers, in Chicago,there is little useless work done when in-dividual machines are not at work. Small Thanks for Favors. There are certain classes who use rail-ways for freight transportation that wouldkeep yelling ag
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ransmitted for use direct toany machine, at even a greater saving than50 per cent. Where steam power and belts are usedthe expense of power is about the same,whether the shops are running light orheavy ; but with electrical power, evenwhen generated by steam, like the newplant of Eraser & Chalmers, in Chicago,there is little useless work done when in-dividual machines are not at work. Small Thanks for Favors. There are certain classes who use rail-ways for freight transportation that wouldkeep yelling against the exactions of rail-roads if they got their goods hauled fornothing. There are numerous industriesthat have been developed by the cheaprates given by railroads, yet those who rate, I588, and at the Australian rate, |3,50oper carload. The managers of our transcontinentallines appreciate the fact that green fruitcannot be sold in this market in competi-tion with Eastern fruit and pay a highjrateof freight per ton per mile, and thereforeto develop the industry they A Simple Form of Reducing Motion. ought to be most thankful, return for thefavors the blackest ingratitude. Thelatest example of disgusting thanklessnessis that of the fnut growers of California,who, in convention assembled, passed reso-lutions l)latning the railroads for not pro-viding all the facilities desired. These same fruit growers have been pet-ted and spoiled by the extraordinary favorsgranted them by railroads. Thev paysmaller rates than any other perishablearticle. Fast lines of freight have beenestablished for their benefit, the trainsare frequently run at express train speed,and everything possible is done to get thefruit promptly to market. The New YorkCommercial Advertiser, conmienting onthis subject, says: The average charge for hauling allfreights in the United States by railway in1893 was 89 cents per ton per 100 rate includes coal, coke, iron ore,limestone, pig iron, st
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