Established 1899 SHOPS FIRST. THEN HMMIITEE Lite Carolina & Northwestern's 5 Splendid Facilities Here. NEW MODERN DEVICES - USED. Two New Engines are Beauties — How a Locomotive Travels Side ways—The Drop Pit- Room to Enlarge. Written for the Democrat Bv Dr. R. Wood Brown. How many of our citizens know about the industries of Hickory except by hearsay? "Oh, yes, there is a cotton mill here right up the track about one half m ile west of the Piedmont wagon factory bat I never have seen it. Cer tainly I can direct you: Go east, fol low the Southern tracks, near the ice plant you can find a hosiery mill and I think th*re is another further east near a furniture factory. No I haye cever seen them, Yo« are welcome; a pleasant day." And so it goes in this thriving, bustling city. Industries all around which bring in bread and butter to the merchant but very few see them, ex cept the owners and operatives. How many have seen the main car and locomotive repair shops and store house of the C and N. W. Railway Co? Well I have had the pleasure of meeting the general manager, Mr. L T. Nichols, through whose courtesy I was enabled to learn much, listened to many derails and spent a vary enjoyable afternoon. Could Multiply bv Five. The Carolina and North-Western Railway Co. owns J3 acres, and has enough ground for five times its pres ent repair uecessitie?. The buildings, sheds, tracks, machine shops, moving cranes, everything, is so arranged, that at comparatively small expense it can be enlarged as required by the exigencies of the future. Did you ever see a locomotive travel sideways 180 feet? If not, go to the car shops of the C. and N W rail way Co., and see that transfer table or eiectic tractor. There is a hole in the ground 3 feet deep, 50 feet wide and 3 feet deep. 50 feet wide and 180 Ion;;. At the bottom of this depres sion are four rails on which rest the car wheels which carries the platfotm on which rests the locomotive and tender, A power house attached to the platform or table contains a three phase eletric motor (not much larger than one of the locomotive's cylin ders), with its gearing for decreased apeed, which moves these 310,00(V pound locomotives sideways at the rate of 15 feet a minuie from track to track, doing what it used to take 12 men to accomplish. This transfer table saves switching, tracks, y's and a large amount of track space, to say nothing about the time gained. Trolley wires and trolley poles convey the electric current to the little power house which is about 8 leet sauare. , Two New Engines. When I met Capt. Nichols, he was examining his two new beautiful loco motives, each weighing 240*000 pounds and each costing $13",000. They were being ' 'tried out" and it was one of these new engines that I saw caried sideways on the transfer table. These locomotives with eight drivers have a new improved valve gear or link motion for controlling steam into the cylinders. This gear is situated outside of the drivers, a poetry of motion, and add much to the beauty of the engines. Most of the parts of these locomotives can be duplicated like a machine made watch for these engines are as dslicate as a watch and no chromometer balance tuns more accurately; they have to be cleaned and repaired and taken care of just hke a watch, and like machine made watches can be easily repaired by inserting new duplicate parts. This makes it easy for the machinist as well as the jeweler. Only the watch maker who examined a watch without Wantiug to clean it died long ago. The Drop Pit. An innovation in the C. and N-W. C'ir shops, is the drop pit. Here-to ore w hen a set of wheels or bearings deeded repairing, the locomotive or car had to be hoisted, so the wheels could be removed or bearings examin ed, but this drop pit obviates this Procedure. This drop pit is 10 feet e ep and a little wider than the lameter of the driving wheels, and a - a massive iron frame over it 20 s eet fr° m ihe ground. The engine is op'aced under the frame that the offending wheel or axle is directly the pit. Heavy chains hung r&m frame, hold the wheels while ® section of the track is removed, then | •e wheels are lowered imo the pit , e Q taken to the repair shop or the *®age repaired at the pit. Thus the kneels are dropped instead of the r gine being hoisted thereby en atlgeiing other parts of the machann |sm, This drop pit is a very ingen- ? Us contrivance besides being a great lra e and money saver, i saw a very nwt mpply cir, which THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT 1 * 'V* ' i . - transports once a month supplies to agents, section hands and other em ployees, similar to a pay car but this car carries stationery, buckets, maps, pails, tools, etc., which represents money very decidedly." Air Compressor. In the machine sljop is a steam automgtic air compressor for cleaning locomotives and coaches, it also keeps a tank under 90 pounds preasure all the time. This compressed air from the tack is used to run the hand drills, conveyed through iron reinforced rubber tubing. I saw an employee using one of these Hand drills inside of a locomotive boiler. In this case the mountain could not go to Mahomet so Mahomet went to the mountain. The hand drills are about the size ol a cigar box which holds 100 smokes There are 14 different machines in the machine shop proper, ranging in i hgjght from 18 inches to 10 feet and a few inches to-5 feet in diameter, in fact all that is necessary to repair, engines, coaches and freight cars with the help of 50 expert machinists. It takes one month to repair a loco motive, making it as good as new. The largest locomotive I saw weighed 31Q».- 000 pounds. It was as wide' as a church door and as deep as a well. > * A large scrap iron yard gets the refuse as all car axles are welded from scrap iron. Nothing is wasted except the smoke and that helps to fertilize the surrounding farms. There are sewer pipes which take care of the surface water, and into these pipes the exhaust steam is forced. This is strictiy a sanitary method, as the steam destroys any germ which may be lurking for humanity. The store house is interesting for in it are all the necessities for repair ing, also those articles to run the road I srnd for the comfort of its patrons. | This storehouse contains over SB,OOO of stock and SI2OO of brasses. The oil house with its eight kinds o! oil is fire proof, also the building for cotton waste. Railroad Statistics The United States is a great nation of travelers and railroads. This country is only about 75 years old and now has more miles of track than the whole world had in 1860. The mileage of the United States in 1904, counting double tracks and switching tracks, is greater than the dis tance of the moon from the earth,-that distance being 240,- 000 miles. To take from the only railroad stastistics now available to me,in 1904 the length of railroad track in the United States w*s 297,073 miles, there were 46,743 locomotives required for freight and passenger traffic. Tnere were 39,752 passenger cars which carried 715,419,692 passengers, and 1,692,194 freighc cars which transported 1,300,899,165 tons of freight. Tnis would show that the United States has 6 locomotives and a fraction to the mile, while the Carolina and North-Western has 9 and a fraction engines to a mile, having 14 locomotives for its 130 miles of lineal track. Hickory Should Have Headquarters The C. and N. W. runs south from Hickory to Ciiester, S. C. and north from Hickory to Edge raont, Hickory being a junction point and its main car shops tmd store house located here, it is a logical conclusion that the head quarters of this road should be in Hickory. The citizens of Hickory should make some move to have the general offices of this growing railroad located in its natural geographical centre. Hickory could furnish a building, five rebate of taxes or give onus if it would wake up to its own interests, for it is only a question of a short time before the Carolina and North-Western Railway Co. will cross the Blue Ridge mountains then watch its , stock soar. Many Driven From Home. Every year, in many parts of the country, thousands are driven from their homes by coughs and lung dis eases. Friends and business are left behind for other climates, but this is costly and not always sure. A better way —the way of multitudes —is to use Dr. King's New Discovery and cure yourself at home. Stay right there, wJh your friends, and take this safe medicine. Threat and lung troubles find quick relief and health returns, j Its help in coughs, colds, grip, croup, ' whooping-cough and sore lungs make j-it a positive blessing. 50c. and ' SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed Iby C. M. Shufcrd, Mfoser & Lutz and i Grimes Drug Go. Wise Warning. Art cannot be taught; craftsmanship can be taught. It is the danger of all academies to confuse art with craft#' manshlp.—London Academy. Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR IA v V HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTJEML ER 26, 1912 ENORMOUS CROWDS FRIENDLY TO WILSON. Candidate Campaigning in the Near Northwest. r - DRAWS PICTURE OF THE BOSS. He is the Business Agent in Politics of the Spec al Interests—Says Trusts Flourished. Under Roosevelt. Gov. Wilson has been campaigning in in the near northwest In /St. Paul 50,- 000 lined the to see him, in Minneapolis 60,000, and in Chicago 50- 000. From Lake Michigan to the Detroit river he shook hauds with or was cheered by 15,000 people, who ! braved a nasty rain to see him. Every where the crowds seemed friendly and favorable. At Detroit he discussed the worst product ot our system of govern ment, saying: " A boss is not so much a politician as he is the business agents in politics of special interests. At least that is the kind of boss I have known, and the kind of bors I have known is not a partisau, he has got above politics, and and has an arrangement with the boss of the other party so that whether it is heads or tails he wins. They receive contributions from the same sources* the two bosses; they spend these con tributions for the same purpose. They have, underneath the surface the same programme, and the amazing thing to me is that I have recently met some bosses who did not realize that time liLd been called on the game. What lam amazed at in the political boss is not his subtlety,but his stupid ity. He is a perfect Beurbon; never changes his mind, he never forgets any thing, aud some of them don't know that the people are on to them and the way that is certain to spoil every pur pose tliat they have is to dare to show their hand in it Roosevelt and the Trusts. I "Trusts flourished more under former President Roosevelt's Administration than under any other in the history of the country,"was the way the Governor replied to assertions of Col. Roosevelt at Trinidad, CoL, taking exception to the Democratic candidate's declaration that during thi recent investigation by the Messrs. Gary and Perkins suggested the plank in the Progressive. Republican platform proposing a Federal com mission regtrtate the trusts. 4, 1 understand that the leader of the third party," said Governor, "has re cently said that he didn't suggest this change just the other day, that he had suggested it while he was President in one of his messages to Congress, dur ing that same term of the Presidency in which trusts grew faster and more nu merously than in any other administra «. ion we have had and that his conclu sion was—he doesn't say this, but .this must be the inference that the trusts had come to stay, that it wasn't p >ssible I to put them out of business, it wasn't ! possible to check their supremacy; that | ill you could do was to accept them as | necessary evils, and appoint an indus ! trial commission which would tell them how they were to do their business, not !an industrial commission which should tell you how other men should be ad nutted into the field of competition." Presbyterian Church Notes Next Sunday is "Rally Day" at the Presbyterian Sunday School. The ex ercises will be conducted in the main auditorium, a special program will be carried out by the children and others. The collection is for Sunday school ex tension. The pastor will preach both morning and evening on Sabbath. Owing to a conflict with the Baptist meeting in West Hickory, the Presby terians will post pone their meeting for four weeks till Oct. 27. Rey. J. G. Garth will preach at West Hickory next Sabbath at 3 p. m. but will not continue the meeting The "Holy City" motion pic sure exhibit proposed to be at the Opera House next Sunday has been cancelled. "V The implicit confidence that many people have in Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is founded on their experience in the use of that remedy and their knowledge of the many remarkable cures of colic, diarrhoea and dysentery that it has ef fected. For sale by all dealers. Mr. S. H. Jordan for Glark. x . /■ Dear Mr. Banks:—l thank you very much for the request and its accompanying compliment, to write something in the interest of Judge Clark's candidacy for the U. Sr Senate. I shall be glad to comply with request in a very short time. In this age of graft and insincerity, the office of U. S. Senator has become all important. In my judgment no man has lived in North Carolina since the days of Gov. Wm. A. Graham, better equipped for this office than Judge Clark. In that great body of great man, he would be a matchless leader. . Yours hurriedly, Conover, N. C., 8-21-'l2. S. H. JORDAN. ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK SERE , TUESDAY MGHSINC. IrThis tour of North Carolina next week Ex-President Uuose velt will give Hickory a short speech. Mr. P. A. Setzer lias received the following telegram: "Roosevelt through from Asheville on regular train No. 36 due at Hickory at 9:54 morning Oct. 1. We wiM- ask Railroad to hold train there for a few minutes. - The circus will be in town that day and the combination of the two events will bring to Hickory the biggest crowd in its history. COMMENT STORMING THE CENTRE Knowing that they have lost their right and left wings, the Predatory Interests are making a furious light for the centre. They concede Wilson and the House to the Democrats but they want to keep the Senate away from the Democrats and their alii es, the Progressives. To this end they are trying to get Smith returned from New Jersey. Smith is the traitor who joined Gorman in defeating the old Wilson tariff bill in Cleveland's day. Gov. Wilson is campaign ing New Jersey against Smith, and in order to take no chances in this desperate situation, Judge Wescott, the intellectual giant who has been making the race, has willingly come down to make way for Congressman Hughes, the best runner. North Carolina take no chances. That is why we are for Clark. Simmons lias lapsed into several dangerously reac tionary votes. Kitchin has fail ed to keep a vehement pre election promise. Clark, in jtie face, of fierce criticism, has for long years a consistent: re cord of fearless championship of the people's interests. If Democracy is thwarted dur ing the next four years, there lies beyond Socialism, which, drunk with bower, will slip un consciously and unintentionally into anarchy. In that case, we can hear the popping of bombs as they are hurled under the auto mobiles of multimillionaires. It is our genuine conviction that busi ness, big and little, will be best served by sending Judge Clark to the Senate. We wish we could megaphone to the plain people in every nook and cranny of the state, that they can best serve their country this year by compromising this fierce clash between Simmons and Kitchin by voting in the primary for Clark. And we think honestly that there is a good chance for a sec ond primary, in which Clark could win. Dr. J, W. Calyard, of Jeffer son, has been appointed a direct or of the State Hospital at Mor panton to succeed the late A. A. Shuford. The appointment would have come to Hickory, it is said, if the city could have got together on a man. The appli cants were Messrs. E. L. Shu ford, A. A. Shuford, Jr., and koy Abernethy. The Governor solved the problem by harking back from old Hickory to Jeffer son. Running up and down stairs, sweep ing and bending over making beds will not make a healthy or beautiful. She must get out of doors, walk a mile or two every day and take Chamberlain's Tablets to improve her digestion and regulate her bowels. For sale by all dealers. sin SIDE' REAGIIONABY RECORD. I- His Vote on Lumber Contrary to Platform he Helped Write INSIDE 10 1-2 MOS. HE LAPSED. ■ \ j A Curious Identity Between the Lumber Tax Democrats and the Lorimer Democrats in the Senate-a Log Rolling Offer. From Collier's. The man who drew the cartoon on this page, Herbert Johnson of the Philadelphia "North American," has a unique gift for putting a complicated political situation into a single vivid picture. {The cartoon shows Miss Democracy pictured as an old maid with a candle in her hand looking under the bed at mid-night, and crying "Help!" as she finds a burglar unuer -the bed labeled "special privilege."] So long as the Republican party was in power the representatives of special interests infested that party; they were driven out by the Insurgent movement, which began in 1909 and has just cul minated in the formation of a party. Now, just as the Democrats seem likely to come into, power, the special interests are quietly placing thtir representatives at carefully select ed strategic points within that party. If the Democrats are not extremely vigilant, they will suffer again the same experience they had the last time they came into power, eighteen years ago. What happened then was described only a few days ago by Woodrovv Wil son in these words: "It is of particularly sinister import that Mr. Smith should seek to return to the Senate of the United States at this time. He was sent to the Senate once before when the tariff had l>een the chief issue of the National campaign, and when the Democrats had, for once in a generation, an op portunity. . . . Mr. Smith was one of the small group of Senators, calling themselves Democrats, who, at that critical and hopeful juncture. Jn our politics, utterly defeated the program of the party. His election now might bring the party face to face with a similar disaster and disgrace." Governor Wilson was speaking of James Smith, Jr., now seeking re*?te(f tion as a Senator; hts words apply with iquil truth to Senator Furuifold M. Simmons of North Carolina, likewise peeking reelection. "Lumber, Timber, and Logs" The Democratic National Conven tion at Denver on July 4, 1908, adopted this plank: "We demand the immediate repeal of the tariff on wood pulp, print paper, lumber and logs." Senator Simmons of North Carolina was a member of the Committee on Resolutions which wrote this plank. When the platform, including this plank, was brought before the conven tion it was adopted unanimously. Senator Simmons, as a member of the voted for it; thereby he be came bound to a greater degree than other Democrats by the promise to the people contained in the words of the plank. The Record of Simmons Fate took exactly ten months and fourteen days to bring Senator Simmons his opportunity to live up to the promise made by himself and liis party. On May 24, 1909, there was introduced into the United States Senate (by a Demo crat) this amendment: "Nothing contained iu this act shall prevent the admission free of duty of the following articles: Lumber of all kinds." On that roll call Simmons joined the Republicans and voted with Aldrich, nay. And this was but the beginning. Simmons voted with Aldrich and the Republicans against reducing the duty on sawed lumber to $1 per thousand feet. Simmons voted with Aldrich and the Republicans against reducing the duty on plained lumber to twenty-five cents per thousand feet. Simmons voted with Aldrich and the Republicans against reducing the duty on coal from sixty to forty cents a ton. Simmons voted with Aldrich and the Republicans in favor of a duty of twenty-five cents a ton on iron ore. • And many others too numerous to mention. Lorimer and Lumber Turn now to Simmons' record on Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905 Lorimer. —It was observed that there was a curious identity between tlie iittle group of Democratic Senators who v.»ted in favor of'a duty on lumber and those who voted in favor of Lorimer. Simmons was conspicuous in both lists. There weie ten. Democratic Seuators who voted for Lorimer; of these, two were, at the time of the Lorimer vote, new Senators who had not been in the Senate al the time of the voting on fret lumber. - The following eight (out of ten pro-Lorimer Senators in all) also repudiated the Democratic platform pledge in order to vote against free lumber: - BAILEY JOHNSON, ALA. BANKHEAD SIMMONS , FLETCHER SMITH, MD. FOSTER TILLMAN It came out in the Lorimer exposure that Edward Hines, president of the National Lnmber Manufacturers' Associ ation (who said he spent $100,"000 to put Lorimer in the Senate), had spent the tariff session at Washington and once wrote that he was having a hard time "keeping the Southern Democrats-in line." Simmons voted in favor of Lorimer twice; the third and hwtvote came only a few weeks ago, when Simmons was in the midst of his fight for reelection, and all North Carolina was stirred up over it. On this occasion Simmois deserted Lorimer and voted to deprive him of his seat. Soliciting Bids Not only did,Simmons vote for a high tariff on lumber; lie addressed the Senate in favor of it: "I am ready, with him and with any other man on either side of this cham beV ['any other man' was generally Aldrich] to extend the same treatment to every product embraced in this bill; I do not care in what section of the country it is located." There you have it. That is exactly how every high tariff bilt has been passed—'"You vote for my lumber; I'll vote for your steel." Senator Simmons has put into a single sentence the whole mechanism of logroll ing. The Injury to the Party The action of Simmons and his little group of Democrats who joined him in repudiating the platform promise did very great damage to the party's pres tige. The New York "Wcrld," the most powerful Democratic daily paper in the country, said at the time; "There are political ems for whieh punishment Jp certain. i'hey- affront decency and good faith. Iltey reveal a degradation in oar political life which almost passes belief. They put the Democratic party on trial, not for its principles, but for its honesty. Errors of judgment may be defended and ex cused, but perfidy finds no'•apologist anywhere." "The Invisible Government" One of the most careful observers in Washington wrote this for the Denver "Express ": "Senator Penrose is following the footsteps of his predecessor, Mr. Aldrich, in trading across the party line when ft comes to protecting the bigli tariff schedules. The other day, when the Pennsylvania Senator report ed his suggested revision of the wool schedule .. Peurose held a little in formal meeting in the Senate lobby with Sonator Simmons of North Carolina. The writer stood by and heard this conversation: "Simmons; 'What do you want us to do? Do you nged any votes?' "Penrose: 'No, I think lean put it over; you fellows vote for your own bill.' "Sunmons: 'You don't need any of our votes tlien?' "Pearose: 'No, you fellows vote for your own bill. I'll take a chance on putting it over and then I'll fix it up in conference.' " There have been many denials and near denials of this statement. Persons who understand the invisible govern ment do not heed them; they know that this little situation pictures perfectly the relation between the reactionary Republicans and the reactionary Demo crats. The Whole Point "If the Democratic party does not keep it 3 promises now, it will never have another opportunity to do so."— Woodrow Wilson speaking at Sea Girt on September 8. Is Senator Simmons a man who N can be depended on to keep Democratic promises? Three on the Fence. Madison Herald. Up to the hour of going to press there remains three papers in North Carolina which have not formed or ex pressed a preference in the Senatorial race, to wit, Marion Butler's Caucasion, the Union Republican, and the News and Observer, formerly known as the "Old Reliable.'/* Make Use of Time. Know the true value -of time; natch, seize and enjoy every moment rf it. No idleness, no laziness, no jrocrastination; never put off till to norrow what you can do today.—Earl >f Chesterfield. Uncle Ezra Says "It dont take more'n a giH uv effon to git folks Into a peck oi trouble" and a little neglect of constipation indigestion or other liver derangement will do the same. If ailing, take Dr, King's New Life Pills for quick re' suits. Easy, safe, sure, and 25c. a Moser & Lutz, C. M. Shu ford anc Grimes Drug Co, OFFICERS OF FIB Aim USSOCIM. Fesperman President at Cataw ba College. t - —-—- DR. BUCHHEIT VISITS LENOIR. West Hickory People Attended Wesley Cbapel Campmeeting — South Fork Folks Coming to the Circus. - , The following officers- were se lected Friday morning for the Atheletic association: President, H. A. Fes per man, vice-president, P. M. Shulehberger; secretary .and treasurer, G. C. Peeler, ten nis manager, J. F. Carpenter. The other officers had al ready been elected, the previous year. At the close of the meet ing Professor Koffman, who is to act as coach in atheletics this year, made a stirring talk on Catawba's atheletic opportuni ties and on the indiviaual need of each student for physical de velopment. On fehe same morning the Civic League elected officers for the present yeai as follows: N. H. Farvel, president; SI J. McNairy, vice-president; H. F. Ingle, sec retary; and Miss Mary Peeler, treasurer. During the last two years this organization has, be sides doing many small but im portant things for the improve ment of the campus, built cement walks in front of the college and has purchased indoor and out door scenery for the dramatic work. It is intended this year that among other matters it shall help put the "Blue and the White" on a sound financial ba sis. Last week President J. F. Buchheit made a trip to the wes tern also to the eastern part of the state. While at Hickory he visited Lenoir college, where on the invitation of President Fritz, he made a short address in chap el to the students and afterwards held a conference with"Professor Fritz of that institution on the athletic relations of the two col leges. Every one feels that ath letic relations between these two uid nvuie can and ought tu Ue resumed. Ivey Dots Correspondence The Democrat A number of people from West Hickoiy went to the Camp meet ing at Wesley Chapel Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Make Mckenzie and Master Albert went to Rhod hiss Saturday to visit Mr. Mckenzie's sister, Mrs. Geo. Starnes. Miss Ida Houck from Granite was here several days last week visiting her uncle E. C. Hahn, Ales Huffman was here Saturday and Sunday visiting the family of J. J. Hicks, J. Weast and family moved from here- to Rhodhiss last week. Miss Julia Richards has been oyer at Lenoir several days visit ing her aunt who is sick with fever. L. Church has resigned a:rChief of Police for West Hick ory and no one has been appoint ed to take his place yet. Re ports speak very favorably of the big circus which is billed to exhibit at Hickory next Tuesday Oct. Ist" and our people will be there in force as they generally go in for this sort of entertain ment and many of them have seen Sparks World Famous Shows and they all say that it is fine. Mr. J. P. Burns, D. S. was in our town one day last week on business. Miss Jane Hildebrand from Drexel is here working in the mill. She is boarding with E. A bee. We noticed that J. W. Ballew was in our town one day last week shaking hands with his many friends. We are glad to say that Z. H. Pierce's two children who have been down with fever for several weeks, are now getting a little better. I notice that a quite number of our Democrats from West Hick ory was present at the Township Primary Saturday evening. Seems they are starting in time and mean to do some good work be tween now and day of election: Take Her to the Show. South Fork, September 25. Hello young gents, you who have been in the habit of carry ing your girls in your buggies on pleasure rides, do not forget to bet>n hand ready on the first day of October to carry her to Spark's great show in Hickory. To you husbands we say, do not forget your loving wives who have to bear the daily burdens in the managements ot the kitchen. Farmers are busy in making their pea hay and also with their fodder. The general health is ► faiily good COLONEL,