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JDHNSQH THE MlJ i TEST OF. THE. CLERMONT. Replica of Historio Vessel to Partici pate In Hudson-Fulton Celebration. Piping a thin treble note in response Human Side of Minnesotan Twice 1 to complimentary salutes of the sturdy tugs, launches aud ocean going steam ers ber 'original made possible, the re plica of Robert Fulton's first steam- HARD WORKER AND STUDIOUS boat, the Clermont, which Is to steam up the Hudson river ahead of the Elected Governor. DREAM Instance That Depicted His Great Love For Reading Devotee of Baseball. 'One of His Witty Stories How He Settled a Strike Without Riots. Much has been written of the-political career of John A. - Johnson, gov ernor of Minnesota, but very little has been said of the man himself, little that is descriptive of his personality, bis earlier career, bis traits and habits In short, nothing that gives a con crete idea of the man himself. 'The term "self made man" can be applied to Governor Johnson In Its en tirety. At the age of twelve years the ourutu ui lire uume ucvuivtu upuu uis young shoulders, and he even . then demonstrated that be was made of the material of which the heroes , of , the "United . States have been fashioned. Idncoln in his hardest days never had to endure more as a boy than did the governor of Minnesota. The boy's life was filled with the thorns pf, life, and the ..roses , were sadly , lacking. His rpareots. who a short time before his irti left Sweden and settled at St Peter, Minn., a small town in the south- J erh part of .the stats, were shiftless and. Improvident. At the age of twelve be was taken out . of school and ap prenticed to a printer. Here love for learning developed,- and he arranged to attend the country school "during half sessions until he finished. Twe terms at the high school finished bis education, but for years afterward he studied until he mastered the speech .vi ivui languages uuu uixii uit? uue ui the best read men in the state. After finishing school he remained with the country publisher who aided ' liiiu iu intra uHiue una . tearoea rue mechanical end of the newspaperbusi- Tiess. For years his life was a weary ' struggle. Hard work and domestic misery were all young Johnson knew during his boyhood .days: but his love foe literature opened to him a land of - .delight and" golden promise. ii.v. JH.'s Love For Reading. V X etoTy As told of him at St. Peter "which shows Ills love for reading. " When he was first apprenticed to the i 'printer he slept In tne rear or tne shop. His employer was Kina neartea. but thrift often got the better of him. So, seeing that his kerosene bill was about doubled with the advent " of young Johnson, "he. called the :boy to task and forbade him burning the J.imp At 'night for .reading purposes. John us'on solved the problem by, buying a supply of candles. This went well lin tii one night he went to sleep and left the candle burning. A small. fire was '4he result. . When the man. asked him itthe cause of the fire he confessed the entire affair and further added that he would gladly work and pay for the damage If he might be permitted to till burn candles so he might read at night This touched the employer's beart. and the boy was provided with a lamp for his own private use. As a boy Governor Johnson was a dull scholar and did not love work any more than any other boy of his age. but when he came to the age of reason and realized that his life would be what he made it himself he devoted blmself to his task with ardor." , While he made many friends, he made no .enemies. ' Baseball Enthusiast. .. Young Jonnson ; lert scnooi. to oeip bis mother. She took in washing, and John delivered the washing. Two years later be got a job as clerk in a -grocery store and then prevailed upon his mother to quit her job and let him support the family. One would think that an early ex perience of this sort would have hard ened and soured the, boy's character. put there was one fact that saved him .irom an excess of ridicule and perse cution. There wasn't a lad of , his age in St Peter that could beat him play 's ing baseball. He would come: from I bis work day after day and make his brother stand up against the wall in Tthe back yard while he practiced straight arm pitching. , '..' k Fond of 'good, clean, witty "stories. the kind with a laugh In them. Gov- great water pageant in the Hudson Fulton celebration, went through her official trial the other day In the Kill von Kull off Staten Island and. -though the trip very nearly ended disastrous ly. It was a great success In every way. Under her own steam tind pro pelled by an engine an exact dupli cate of the one Fulton worried over, the new ClTmont did more than nine THB CLKBMONT. miles up and down the Kill in the re markable time of two hours. . The trip satisfied the committee thoroughly, and the boat was accepted.. . The Clermont is a big boat. There is room for two to pass along the nar rowest part of her deck and for fully fifty persons to stand upright. In her. larger cabin aft She is 150 feet long and 18 feet wide, fiat bottomed and has two masts. 4 .', ', The boat's boiler, shows well above her deck. One remarkable thing about the engines is that in all the main parts, except the transmission to the paddle wheels, which is by large cog wheels, Is very similar Indeed to the engines still being used In tiv.er steam ers. The walking beam is at the bot tom instead of at the top: , When the new Clermont steams up the Hudson the Rev. C. S. feullock of Stratford, Conn., will represent Robert Fulton, and Ulster Davis, an old river pilot will be the captain of the boat Harriet Livingston, who sailed on the first trip with the inventor, will be rep resented by Evelyn Bullock, and Chancellor-Robert R. Livingston, the backer of "Fulton. Vrlll be represented -by bis great-grandson, Robert E. Livingston of Chevlot-on-Hudson. Financier; Planned One Great Railroad Trust For America." TO REACH EVERY. BIG . CITY. Would sail to the pole. Amos Bonsail Says Peary's Discoveries Confirm Kane's Theories. . In .commenting qp Commander Rob ert E. Peary's story of his dash to the north pole Amos Bonsail. the sole sur vivor of the Elisha Kent Kane expe dition, declared recently - that he be? ileves it Is possible to sail to the pole in a properly equipped vessel. . "Peary's narrative simply confirms the theory I have had .since the Kane expedition," continued the aged arctic explorer. "1 believe, and Dr. Kane be lieved, that there was an Open polar sea. The tides, the currents and the movement .of the Ice all seemed to be strong presumptive evidence that be yond the straits discovered by our ex pedition in 1853 at the north of Green la rid lay a great open body of water. ; ; "That my theory is correct is dem onstrated not only by the number of lends that at times threatened to baf fle Peary and which constantly imper iled him and his men;- but by the very! significant fact that he failed to touch bottom at the north pole with a 1.500 faihotn line. ;wtth these facts demon strated it is my firm belief that a ship as well equipped and protected as the Fram or the Roosevelt should be able to weather the passage to the farthest north.": r r ." '.,. - , i : vj APPLE DINNER FOR TAFT. : Spokane Plans One to Rival the Cele brated 'Poisum Feast. , '1 Spokane, Wash., is preparing to give President Taft a dinner that may be come as famous as the possum' dinner of the south. . ' .. . J In" one of the finest banqueting'rooms in tJio wnrlcl "thV nresident will be lm- rnor Johnson on one occasion .was w.ith tho fnrt -that Sriokane is asked if he proposed to be a candi- ; the home of the bSg red appie. The finest specimens of apples grown in the date for the Democratic presidential m ami nation. All Ready For a Strike. "I an .best answer ,that,"fc he re sponded, "by telling you of the expe dience of a Minnesota farmer... This. man of th,e soil took a load of grain to the city and exchaed it for a few .barrels of rye. the liquid variety, 'fie--burning home, he transferred a part, of ,-the load, and by . the. time he arriv- ' xi at his place "he was leeling very 1 comfortable. Walking f.tpward. , his ' (house, he ran into a rattlesnake colled mp ready for business. He stuck out )bis leg. 'Strike, gol durn ye!' he ex claimed. 'I'll never be in "better shape" for ye. than I am nowf " . 1 1 The-way Governor Johnson settled a 'trike one summer shows' his! J6wer s a conservative f officlaL The jnlners in . the .Mesaba range went out'ahdhere" i " was imminent peril of violence.' In stead of sending his state militia to the scene Governor Johnson himself - went alone. 'He' talked with the' stf Ike - 'ieaders, and with the employers. He -visited the - strikers 'and 'heard 'their - grievances. - He gave them good ad- . vice. If they ; remained' ordefly. " he .-jsald no , trogps .would JSe,sentt Jbut.lf ' they" became vlbleht he' would be forc ed to quell their violence with soldiers. ; The strike was settled without riots. Inland empire will be used In the dec orations, "nearly 20,000 apples being us'for'thlspurposealone, , ,. Apples will be served wnerever pos sible on the elaborate menu. Various Viands will be served in the hollowed out shells of apples. ; : Menu cards and special table jdeco- rations will be beautiful and artistic designs or tne proauct 01 ine orcnaja. and the 'bumper crop" will be suggest ed by ''bumpers of elder." , , . " : Amethysts For Brides. There is an amethyst craze at pres ent"; Amethyst : Js the only gem per missible for the"brlde. and It is used in a variety of ways. It is found even In 'hatpins. belt buckles ' 'and 'shofes, while necklaces faurly blaze, with the stones.' The "craize does not end "there, however, for" stockings, shoes, ": para sols and gowns , have taken on the amethyst shadet 1 , Transcontinental Trunk Line of Ex ceptional :. Efficiency Which - Would. Subordinate All Independents Pro jected Syndicate". Being Formed to Carry Out Late Millionaire's Plans. The waging dream of the late Ed-r ward H. Harriman, the railroad genius, was to organize one dominating rail road system in the United States with authority oyer all 'transportation busi ness of the country. One powerful group of financiers is being" organized to carry out the financier's plans. The lesser groups of railroad owners and the independent systems are- trying to organize to combat these capitalists. ' It was the Harriman idea to estab lish one magnificent trunk line between New York and San. Francisco, . The freight and passenger "service of this grand transcontinental trunk line Was to be-so superior to all other railway services between the two oceans- that it conld command the cream of all the high class transportation business, at good rates. The low grade busi ness was to be left to other lines, which would get just as much business as was allowed them by the master railway . men controlling the parent trunk, line. . . Hoped to Subjugate Big Lines HaVriman's plans included the "redac tion to a. state of commercial vassalage of all. lines 'not included in his system. The branches of his own system Were to reach every Important district of the United States and give good service from every first class city. The subju gation of the independent lines was to be brought about by the power of the grand trunk line to allot the quantity of business which was to be given- to the other systems.' He expected; to make the Pennsylvania railroad treat with the !blg trunk line jnst as'abject ly as the- owners of a tittle spur con necting at some faraway point bri the Union Pacific. ' an? big business or Urst Class traffic would natiiraliy yield an immense rev enue to the long and splendidly 1 equip ped ' ime- which could render superior service. This would double and treble' the ' value of the investments in the lines whlcb were to 'eo to make up! the transcontinental system, the big fa-' ther of all railroads. There would! be ehotighiTinone"y left" in the treasury to do- alt "necessary fighting ln"the'"early stages 'against ' systems which might oppose the thraldom. ' With this treas ury reserve always available the own ers of the big system would be'abl to dictate, railway development . 1n all parts of the country. . - . 'Mr. Harriman was especially "desir ous that his plans should be carried out. as their realization would make It immensely, valuable for his heirs hav ing bis holdings in .the companies which were to make up the grand trunk line, or' 'this "reason he 'did not " want the accumulations in the treasury distrib uted, as they Wer to be used In carry ing out his plans. ' Those who opposed his policy of piling up in bis treasuries large ' reserve stocks of needed lines were those who desired to 'engage In independent development on their own account In various sections of the land. Independents Seek to Forestall. The independent railway owners. and exploiters are moving aggressively now with the hope that they, can show enough strength to successfully ; live j against the men who will try to carry out the plans of Harriman-and secure tsnisl tt oil tha tMiftcnnrfatlrtn r top. H V ' VTA. Ml lilb VI UUOU I US.AVU f ' ' e'sts'of the country. 'It is understood in Washington that they have no or ganization, but by Working along the "same-lines In 'opposition to the men Hvho want to own all the railroads they wtll ?h'ave 'en'ough Tower to force the 'Harriman "and allied interests to per mit independent 'development and op eration. 'f 0ne bf 'the-' reason's fwhy Mr. Harri man ' wanted ''and his ' associates now want4:h'e 'B(itIve,' co-operation of Mr. Morgan is that he is in high favor In Washington. Just at present Morgan is most 'active- In' digging Into the savings of the French to - get financial support for his various enterprises.' "To 1 have i his assistance "Or " even '"domination at this crltlcal'time 'would be of immense aid to the men who are trying to carry to success the vast-plans of the dead manager. - Harriman knew better than any -that .there were differences -of 'opinion in ' his financial camp. While he was alive be held the opposition 4n subjection, y Some 'one- like Morgan is needed now to keep them in line. . i - Hot Ffght Begun. -,' " Tfietiside ODbbsition to Harriman' is being ' encouraged by the ' independent railway owners and 'developers. Tney contend ; tlutt 'It' Is' better fpr'the'raU ways' to thrtw down the bars and per mit the big systems'to fight their own battles. ?!'' - ::"';"''' , These "men have tnllllons 'affd millions of their own and thousands of miles of aMi?68dt; Tfiey 'do'fiOt relish the Idea' ffB6Sittin fnttWl men-'of the Mr rail-f ITxpjgd Fn(B(B TTirSip flap SAN FRANCISCO, SAN JOSE, SANTA CRUZ, LOS ANGELES and all the principal cities of California. ' (.-.: . ' ' ' -' . , ' ' ' - A Private Pullman Gar for the Exclusive Use of the BOOSTER GIRLS All Expenses will belaid by The Gazette-Times. Two weeks of sight seeing, pleas ure and recreation. The Oregon Booster Girls will be chaperoned by one of the most prominent matrons of Linn County. ' . , NOMINATE YOUR PATORITE TODAY Names will be published in the near fntnre 0RCQ0N A . All Nations Club., : , : The All Nations ciub,T whose purpose is to persuade persons coming to the United States from foreign countries "fvbuld be' left' out. to become- citizens, nas Deen incorpo rated. he;orgw Immigrants in getting a start in their new environment, ' way 'owners "who 'are to' Make them Subjects of the one big' system. -?Tbese in6nr dd not' wttnt'toask-,somer-great Central 'rallrbad' auth6rity every time; tney want to Buud a' inlle ot raHroad Brid get down' On'thelr knees and beg for freight and passenger business In their own "territories. Some of them would be taken in, but most 'of them This fight hasJbegun. 'It Is 'being bitterly and silently fought In the pri vate offices of the big banking booses of New York. - ? nBmmnnQmaTB UllUUUll JUUU1JMU 111U ' TOUR VOTE SCHEDULE NEW SUBSCRIBERS Daily G.-T., 3 mos, $1.50... . 500 votes' Daily G.-T.,' 6 mos, $2.50! . . 1250 votes Daily G.-T., 1 year, $5.00. . . 3000 votes". 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All nominations must be accompanied by proper address of can didate. The county has been divided, into two districts. 'One winner will be sent ; from each district. Candidates may secure subscriptions anywhere. Reports must be made to Contest Man ager at least once a week." At the close of the contest the Votes will -be: counted by five judges, selected by the candidates. The lady who has received the highest number of votes in her dis trict will be declared the winner in her respective district.. Successful candi dates must place themselves under the' guidance and direction of the chaperone and obey her reasonable commands. As .the young ladies who make up the party will, by their grace and presence, advertise our beautiful city as well as the state of Oregon, in no small way,. they will be expected to wear such badge or badges as will be suitable for that purpose. Votes will be issued on old and new subscriptions. Votes are not transferable. -Read the vote sched Oregon Boos tor Girl s Tour Dattgh Two of Oregon's Fairest ters Go From Benton County rSee That Your: Favorite Is One of Them. She Will Be Happy to Be One of The Booster Girls From Oregon The County has been Divided into the Following Districts: District No. 1 Corvallis and Additions District No. 2 Balance Benton County a The 'contest will close in a few weeks. Enter now and 1 nne ofthese Grand Trips. You swill never know I i howpopular you Jare until you enter this contest. This i trip is worth working for. Fill out the coupon at once I and mail to Contest Manager Corvallis GazetteTimes, j Corvallis, Oregon. t 1