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centlve. for the Northern Pacific to
build into Idaho until the independent
line . became something: more than a
possibility.
Exactly the same cqnditionB exist in
Central Oregon today. Scattered all
through that vast region of undeve'l
oped wealth are thousands of settlers
who are unable to make more than a
scanty living from the rich soil, simply
because the lack of transportation pre
vents them from reaching market with
anything that cannot be driven on the
hoof. This is one of Mr. Harriraan's
undeveloped gold mines. He has no in
tention of abandoning it, selling it or
giving it away, but he will not uncover
its riches until he is forced to do so by
the advent of an independent line, such
as has just convinced the Northern Pa-
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bound to reach a market. The Lewis-ton-GrangevIUe
electric line has pulled
the cork which the Northern Pacific has
kept In the Clearwater bottle, and
something similar will happen In Cen
tral Oregon when "the worm turns," as
it will sooner or later.
- NOTE AND COMMENT. '
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Henry Watterson has introduced the ex
pression "lobster into International ora
tory. "If John Paul Jones was a pirate."
said Mr. Watterson, "Washington was a
high way man and Franklin a lobster."
which must have mystified the English
speaking Parisians who attended the ban
quet. Radium remains firm: for the latest
London quotation reported In an exchange
is 5SS0.000. .
The "practical" model of a battleship Is
being built in a government dockyard for
- n i -. n'.l.. u V
that l-ranee is i nilrnnoec aA ., Htfr-,ntlon of such we n or mcrrmre 9l
neither a republic nor a monarchy (that I a , ' ' n. nf monv cannot fall to go Into the navy. In this advanced
is to-say. she is not a republic in the ! ,,.,. -rrt nn a mat I age. It Is strange that no royal father
tions. The elder Rlner was arrested,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses. .Now he Is convicted.
This satisfactory' determination of the
trial will, it may be Imagined, be
viewed with nq little trepidation by
other gentlemen who have been en
gaged In the same game. The Prose
cuting Attorney evidently means business.
lirON COMMON GROUND.
The Haviland porcelain factory at
Limoges, France, was recently the
scene of a stormy and disastrous labor
riot, which had to be suppressed by the
military. The fact that France is i
000,000 was placed in Europe, and Ger
man investors secured $3.0W,e09 of the
Rock. Island fcsue aiid have already
taken nearly that amount: ( Colorado
& Southern bonds. The JW.toe.eee Issue
of Western Pacific was all subscribed
at home, and the money will be forth
coming as needed for construction work
on the line.
As has previously been announced in
the news dispatches, nearly all of the
money secured by the Southern Pacific
from the sale of bonds will be used in
betterments on the road and improving
Its equipment A large share of the
funds secured from the sale of bonds on
the other roads will be used for similar
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PORTXAND, TRIDAY. MAT 19, 1965.
NORTHERN PACIFIC IN IDAHO.
Official announcement that the North
ern Pacific would Immediately build
a. line into the Grangeville coun
try, in Idaho. Is not unexpect
ed. There is nothing in the de
velopment of the country, in financial
conditions or in the store of knowledge
possessed by the railroad company that which will tend to aid the material jle
-ii-nc not in evidence six months or six velopment of the state are: The law
NEW 1MVB OF THE STATE.
At the end of ninety days from ad
journment of the Legislature of 1905,
when the laws enacted at that session
are going into effect, nothing has devel
oped to indicate that there has been
placed upon the statute-books any law
which will be harmful to the material
or moral advancement of the common
wealth. On the contrary, a review of
acts passed shows that a number of
new acts promise to promote the Indus
trial welfare of the state and raise the
standard of public morals. Perhaps
the practical operation of the laws may
develop many defects, but at this time
It would appear that there Is much less
cause than usual for comments upon
the evil consequences of sessions of the
Legislature. For the good record. If it
ultimately proves to have been good,
credit is no doubt due in a measure to
these Influences: The absence of a Sen
atorial contest, a minority faction
strong enough to hold down the faction
that organized the Legislature, the ref
erendum power ready for the use of the
people if unwise legislation were
passed, and a Democratic Governor
anxious to veto any measure that would
not be approved by the people.
One mistake the Legislature has cer
tainly made, and this the people have
undertaken to correct by the filing of a
referendum petition at Salem yester
day. In defiance of protests and warn
ings, the Legislature passed an appro
priation bill containing Items that could
not stand upon their own merits, and
the people may set that act aside by
their votes In June. 1906, thereby say
ing to this and future Legislatures that
the representatives of the people must
not misrepresent the wishes of their
constituents. It will cost the state not
less than $100,000 to establish the prin
ciple that every appropriation must
6tand upon its own merits. Those who
voted for the objectionable appropria
tion bill must bear the responslbllity
Amerlcan acceptance of the term, nor a
monarchy In the European sense of that
term) was demonstrated In the manner
In which this strike was handled. In
the first place, without due considera
tion, as It appears, or without exhaust
ing milder methods according to the
American Idea, military power was
evoked and dragoons charged the mob,
afterward firing Into Its ranks, first
with blank and then with ball cart
ridges. Unlike the military officers
of a monarchy, the commanders of the
troops weakened at this point one
striker having been killed and another
wounded and withdrew, leaving the
rioters in the role of martyrs. The Mu
nicipal CounciL of Limoges, being com
posed of Socialists, promptly Issued a
proclamation that the troops had fired
without provocation upon inoffensive
citizens, and later voted $4000 for the
relief of the Tamllles of those who were
killed and Injured In the riot. The mat
ter was carried to the Chamber of Dep
uties and the government was vigor
ously attacked for using French troops
to defend the rights of Americans the
Haviland brothers, Theodore and
Charles, being citizens of the United
States. It was finally decided, how
ever, that the Havilands were within
their rights in discharging a foreman
with whose methods they were at vari
ance, and that the authorities must
preserve order.
Whether the country Is a republic, a
monarchy or a cross between the two.
this latter decision is one that, sooner
or later, must be reached In a matter of
this kind. It does not signify that the
disturbance-had its beginnings in a real
grievance, or that, in the first place,
public sympathy was with the men who
quit work. A boycott is ordered and In
its train speedily comes disorder: public
sympathy declines, and. when to the
boycott Is added violence toward men
who attempt to take up "he work that
the others laid down, the determination
that law must be observed and order
maintained follows.
President Roosevelt made plain to
Mr. Shea, who has engineered the Chi
cago strike to a disastrous finish for the
Teamsters Union, that behind hls de
termination as a last resort stood the
authority and power of the Nation. M.
Etlenne, French Minister of the In
terior, voiced the same principle in re
gard to the strike in Limoges Law-
many industries scattered throughout j
tne country. The t air as a iactor m
trade or general prosperity in the
Northwest Iff of small consequence, and,
other condltons remaining as they nqw
exist. Its coming and going will cause
hardly a ripple on the financial water
of Portland and the Pacific Northwest.
British dignity has been hurt by seiz
ure of a sealing schooner by the Uru
guayan government, and a British man-of-war
will be dispatched to Montevideo
to make a full Investigation of the
trouble. Part of the crew found Its
way back to Canada on an American
man-of-war- and this fact led a mem
ber of the Canadian Parliament to state
that "It added nothing to the prestige
of the British flag to have It known that
Canadian seamen have to look to the
American flag for protection." ' If this
starry banner of liberty actually did
protect the Britishers, It will be the first
time on record that It has ever protect
ed any sealers. The Uruguayan Inci
dent, however, does not establish a pre
cedent for seizure of schooners, and In
the end the Uruguayans will pay the
bill and offer apologies, just as the
Americans did after seizing British
schooners in Bering Sea many years
ago. As yet no money or apologies are
forthcoming for the Illegal seizure of
American schooners by American reve
nue cutters.
MEN WHO GET BIG SALARIES -
What the Great lararaaee Cempaale Par Their Important OUcla!
Railroads aad Trait Ceaiaaales Are Geaereaa With Their Presidents
aad Xaaagera.
years ago. The construction of the
road was warranted at that time, and
the road -would have been built if the
management of the railroad had sus
pected the intention of some other line
to enter the field. But in the Clear
water, as in Central Oregon, the Wal
lowa and the Nehalem. the railroads
for the expense to the state.
Among those acts of the Legislature lessness must be put down, by force If
necessary-, it any government is to
maintain its right to that title. All
civilized nations meet here upon com
mon ground. Toward the foe to order
from within greater consideration Is
shown than toward the foe to peace
from without, but, pushed to a final
conclusion, the means to secure and
maintain order and to promote peace
are the same.
There were some famous names on
the list of directors who were not re
elected at the Northern Pacific's share
holders' meeting In New Tork yester
day. Harrlman, Rockefeller. Stillman,
Ives. Thomas and Twombley are names
with which to conjure, and perhaps, If
the men who bear them had done l?ss
conjuring, they might not have been
succeeded by the "other crowd." The
financial strength behind the men who
have just left the Northern Pacific di
rectorate is not yet exhausted, and It Is
altogether probable that they may yet
bz at the ton of the column The
Northern Securities fiasco proved disas.
trous to the Harrlman Interests, but the
"tainted" money of the house of Rocke
feller will buy steel rails, ties and roll
ing stock, and it will not be refused "by
Harrlman or any of his crowd that Is
afforded an opportunity to handle it.
reauirinc one railroad company to
transport the cars of another company
whose lines connect with the lines of
the first, and at rates which shall be
reasonable: the law granting the Gov
ernment the power to lower the waters
of Klamath -and adjacent lakes: the law
creating the office of State Engineer,
regarded this marvelously rich fleldfor appropriating money for hydrographlc
traffic as an undeveloped gold mine
from which the riches could not be ab
stracted until they were ready to take
them out. The Northern Pacific, hav
ing successfully bluffed Mr. Harrlman
out of the Clearwater country years
and topographic surveys, and authoriz
ing the condemnation of water rights
where needed for Government reclama
tion projects: the pure food law, dis
couraging the sale of any but first
class dairy products; the law appropri-
KET CS HAVE THE FIGURES.
Chief of Police Hunt realizes the
gravity of the situation caused by the
Issuance of licenses to so large a num
ber of saloons about the entrance to the
Fair grounds. He calls for a substan
ago. had nothing to fear from that di- atlng money to defray the expenses of tla, reinforcement of the police force in
winn farmers institutes; me esiaonsnmeni
The territory was naturally tributary of timber and stone testing at the State
to Portland, and Mr. Harrlman had University.
long since surrendered all of his rights Among the laws which promise to Im
In Portland territory In exchange for a prove public morals are these: The law
monopoly of the California field. Being making It a misdemeanor to sell liquor
thus quite securely Intrenched against to minor females and permit them to be
ooeslble competition, any effort to pro- in any place where such liquors are sold
vide the rich Clearwater Country with
transportation facilities was unneces
sary, and no effort would have been
made If the Lewlston and Grangeville
or served: the laws creating juvenile
courts, providing for parole of convict
ed persons, authorizing Judges to im
pose indeterminate sentence and mak-
order that he may be able to cope with
It. Specifically, he wants 148 more men
than he has at present, that life and
property may be given a fair guarantee
of protection in this vicinity. .
We 'have been told by our thrifty
Councilmen that these saloon licenses
Mere granted in the financial interest
of the city, and that the thirty-odd
licenses issued made substantial and
needed addition to the funds In the city
treasury. If there Is a man "good at
people had not revolted against railroad ing corporal punishment the penalty for figgers" on tne license committee of the
domination and neglect and begun work
on an Independent electric line. The
movement struck a popular chord and
the railroad adopted the same old tactics
which have In the past blocked every
important railroad project started In
the Pacific Northwest.
Representatives of the road, and a
few Idaho citizens enjoying special
privileges from It, went up and down
The Nez Perces country advising the
farmers not to contribute to the sub
sidy. And assuring them that the North
ern Pacific would Immediately build
Into the country. This plan for throt
tling such industrial insurrections had
always proved .satisfactory In the past,
but In this case It was a failure, and the
Independent line soon received sufficient:
encouragement to make its construction
a certainty. The time-honored "bluff"
Is frequently used in all works of Wgh
finance and railroading, but when it
loses its effectiveness something more
substantial must take its place. The
Northern Pacific bluffed to the extreme
point of safety, without driving the
nervy Idaho people out of the game,
and' is now forced to put up the cash
and build the road.
The road will give an outlet to a vast
area of the richwt farming land In the
Pacific Northwest. It will not only
open up many bundred thousand acres
of new land, but it will give the farm
ers, on land already under cultivation,
an opportunity to reach, the markets
with their products without the neces
sity of expending , all of the profits of
their work on a haul to railroad sta
tions so far distant that they cannot
be reached In a day's travel by team.
But the construction of the proposed
branch of the Northern Pacific should
not interfere with, the electric line. The
prospects for an open river from Lew
lston to the sea are brighter than they
have ever been, and that open river will
yet force the Northern Pacific to aban
don its route up Potlatch Canyon and
haul Idaho products to market over a
water-level route.
When tha O, R. & N. Co., in response
to the command of the Northern" Pa
cific, abandoned the Idaho field, Port
land was robbed of a trade field which
was oars by right of geographical loca
tion, discovery and development and
neither the cowardly and unbusiness
like action f the O. R. & N. Co. nor
the aggree6lveae or the Northern Pa
cific will prevent us from eventually
reaching that field. The Northern Pa
cific -will abandon Its ub natural routing
of Idaho freight over two high moun
tain ranges and "tote fair" with Port
land, or Portland will have a rivar
route of her ewn to the interior. There
was no aipareat saoouragesteat or ia-
wlfebeatlng; the law appropriating
money for the aid of institutions caring
for wayward girls; the law which prac
tically raises the age of consent to IS
years; the law making It a felony for a
man to live in or to solicit for a house
of Ill-fame. Other acts, which directly
affect neither the material nor moral
welfare of the state, but which seem
worthy of commendation, are the law
placing stringent regulations upon the
operation of automobiles, the hunter's
license law. the tax commission law.
the tlcket-scalplng law, and several
laws relating to proceedings In Circuit
and Probate Courts.
Common Council, will he please show
how and to what extent the city will
profit by these licenses after having
paid for the large increase In the police
force made necessary by the opening of
these saloons near the Fair grounds?
Let us have a credit and debit state
ment purely .financial, since the ques
tion of public decency has been utterly
ignored in this connection that we
may see how. this municipal "get-rich-qulck"
scheme with the large saloon
endowment at the Fair grounds Is like
ly to turn out.
Ezra Meeker, honored pioneer and
sturdy pathfinder of the Oregon Coun
try, will show the wondering visitors
of the Lewis and Clark Fair "how it
was done" by "coming over from Puyal-
lup In true pioneer style, with covered
wagon containing camp equipment and
drawn by oxen, and by cooking his
meals at his own campfire This will
prove an object-lesson wjll worth
studying by those who come over In the
luxurious parlor and sleeping-cars of
swift railway trains. There Is one
statement in regard to the proposed
trip, however, that Is instinct with
sadness, it Is that his wife Is "too old"
to share this trip with him. Unless she
is an Invalid. Mrs. Meeker should re
fute this statement by accompanying
him.
RINER'S RIGHTEOUS CONVICTION.
Conviction of Contractor RIner ought
to be a warning to all looters of the j expansion and Industrial development
PROSPERITY'S TXOOD TIDE.
The pessimist, who. like the poor, is
always with us. Is unduly alarmed for
fear that the present period of business
public treasury that a day of retribu
tion has come. For many years con
tractors have formed pools In Portland
to defraud the taxpayer, first by charg
ing excessive prices for public work.
and second by doing the work in an In
efficient and unskillful manner. The
Tanner-Creek sewer is a most flagrant
example of criminal disregard for the
rights of the public and the health and
well-being of Its citizens. But 'there is
Teason to believe that It Is not the only
Instance. If every sewer built In Port
land through many years could now be
uncovered, no doubt we should find, in
some of them at least, most interesting
and unexpected conditions.
The Oregonian does not say that all
contractors are dishonest, and purpose
ly and deliberately defraud their em
ployer, the City of Portland; but it does
declare that they have, as a class.
looked upon the city as a "good thing"
and have not been required, and have
not expected, scrupulously and exactly
to fulfill their contracts as they should
have been and would have been If they
had been doing the work for a private
corporation or business man instead of
the easily gulled and indifferent public.
The Tanner-Creek scandal and its
righteous outcome are the Tesults of a
new-found purpose on the part of the
-neonle as a whole no longer to be
wronged, cheated and deceived by swln
An act- classed as one of the minor
laws passed by the late L3gislature for
bids the public exhibition of hypnotized
nersons.v This law Is now In force.
Wlth some others, notably the law re
quiring an attendant to be sent from
the Insane asylum and penitentiary to
convey insane patients and convicts to
these Institutions, and that governing
the speed of automobiles on the streets
and public highways, this law should go
far toward reconciling taxpayers to the
large expense Incurred by the session.
has the courage to break away from the
army or navy as a training school for
his heir. In the days when fighting was
the common lot of Kings, a military train
ing for kinglinS3 was sensible, and gave
the rulers experience of the most Import
ant business of life. Nowadays all that
is different. Fighting Is now merely inter
mittent, and when there Is any Jo be done
the King is carefully placed in the rear.
Why. then, should not Princes be trained
as men of. business? They would gain In
a year more knowledge of how their na
tions existed than would be possible in a
lifetime of soldiering.
Several score additional Moros have
been civilized expeditiously.
Tainted money is a wearisome subject.
both to those who have it and to those
who have not, especially to the latter
class.
Tne Ingenious young man who told
stranger that the marriage ceremony was
not regarded as necessary in America de
serves a time of seclusion to strengthen
still further his wonderful imagination.
An exchange, which, doubtless belongs
to what the Portland Medical Sentinel
calls the "Philistine press. ' says that a j
medical journal vouches for the truth of
the following story, but we do not Indorse
the exchange:
"A woman who was seriously ill awoke
one night to find the nurse sitting at the
foot of her bed smoking a cigarette and
reading a novel. Greatly startled, the
patient raised herself up In her bed and
cried out. "What in the world are you do
ing, nurse?'
'To which the nurse replied: 'Good gra
cious! I thought you were dead.' "
More of the Stelner-Gibney brcach-of-
promise case. Miss Stciner. the sister or
the defendant, testified that she advised
her brother to break oft the match be
cause Miss ibney on one occasion wore
sixteen different colors In the' same cos
tume, and these sixteen did not include
green or yellow. That should be suffi
cient cause for breaking off the most sol
emn' engagement.
Salem has a chicken whose head Is
turned upside down. Portland has lots
of girls whose 'heads arc turned.
In Fresno a woman has had a man
arrested for stepping on the train of
her dress. The man should be upheld.
If a woman leaves her train sculling
around, it is only reasonable that it
should be stepped upon now and then.
An imperial decree has been made
In China whereby temples are being
used as schools, and the North China
Herald says that images are being
torn down to make room for boys anx
ious to -learn English.
Germany fs abandoning blue for army
uniforms and is adopting cloudy, gray.
This Is getting to be a gray old world
all around; soon we may expect Tommy
Atkins to appear in black Instead of
red. and Italian bandsmen in some
sorry color.
A Birmingham churchwarden, says
the London News, was reading at a
vestry meeting a list of subscriptions
to the parochial funds. The list began
as follows: Tho vicar, a guinea: Mrs.
half a guinea: an anonymous
donor, myself. 25 shillings.'
New Tork World.
When President James W. Alexander,
Vice-President Jaraes Hazen Hyde and
Second Vice-President Gage B. Tarbell,
of the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
informed Insurance Commissioner Hen
dricks that their combined salaries as
officers of the Equitable company reached
a grand total of J2SO.00O a year. Mr. Hen
dricks nearly collapsed. Such enormous
salaries are regarded as astounding, even
in this age of big figures.
In the case of young Mr. Hyde, of the
Equitable a youth, as business ages go.
of 2 his salary of $100,000 a year seemed
surprising to many who heard of it. Fur
thermore, Mr. Hyde announced that he
received something like $30,000 more salary
from two other companies In which he
held office, so that his yearly "pay"
amounted to an eighth of a million dol
lars. According to 'no less an authority than
Henry Clews, the veteran financier, "the
higher up on the salary list a man goes
In New York, the less, as a rule, grow
his hours for work." But a careful can
vass of the list of big salary-earners tends
to disprove Mr. Clews's assertion, for al
most without exception the men who are
paid large amounts for their services In
New York City do work- hard and put in
long hours as well. There are presidents
of many big companies who from the
standpoint of salaries paid to men in simi
lar positions in other corporations ought
to be drawing J50.000 a year, yet are cred
ited with comparatively small salaries.
The reason for this Is that their positions
are merely nominal, the real work being
done by some secretary or vice-president,
perhaps, who Is given a salary commen
surate with the work he does rather than
the title he bears.
Among the highest salaries paid in New
York City are the following:
James W. Alexander, president of the
Equitable. tlOO.OOO; James Hazen Hyde, the
same company's vice-president. 10O,0OO:
Richard A. McCurdy. president of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company. JIOO.OOO:
William H. Newman, president of the
New York Central Railroad, 5100,000, and
William E. Corey, president of the steel
trust, J100,00).
Of these live men, Mr. McCurdy Is the
oldest. having reached the age of "0. He
was born In New York, and began his
active life by practising law. In 1S60, he
was elected attorney of the Mutual, and
has gradually gone up In the list of offi
cers through sheer hard work and perse
verance. Mr. McCurdy Is at his desk In
the company's office every morning at 9
o'clock, where he remains until noon.
After his luncheon he returns and does
not leave his work until about 4 o'clock
in the afternoon.
The New York Life Insurance Company
pays Its president. John A. McCall, a sal-.
ary of 573,000 a year, and tnere are no
complaints that he does not earn it. Mr.
McCall does not arrive at his office until
10 o'clock in the morning, but makes up
for It by the ardor with which he attacks
things after his arrival.
In the J6O.00O salary list are. found suoh
men as Stuyvesant Fish, president of the
Illinois Central Railroad: Frederick H.
Eaton, president of the American Car and
Foundry Company, and Gage E- Tarbell.
the second vice-president of the Equita
ble. .
The SCO. 000 class of salaried men contains
many more names. In It are WlUiam H.
Truesdale. president of the Delaware.
Lackawanna &. Western Railroad: Sam
uel Spencer, of the Southern Railway: E.
P. Ripley, of the Atchison: George J.
Gould, whose combined salaries as presi
dent of half a dozen roads really bring
him into a higher list: S. C T. Dodd.
counsel" of the Standard Oil Company:
Lyman J. Gage, of the United States
Trust Company: Levi P- Morton, of the
Morton Trust Company: Edward King.
Union Trust; A. J. Cassatt, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad; Charles S. Mellen. of
the New York. New Haven Sz Hartford
road, and Valentine P. Snyder, of the
Bank of Commerce.
Richard Delafield. president of the Na
tional Park Bank, receives a salary of
540.000; H. H. Vreeland. of the Metropol
itan street road, 523,000. and generally a.
present from the stockholders that brings
It much higher; John D. Rockefeller,
president of the Standard Oil Company,
receives 535,000 salary, and Is allowed the
same amount for secretary hire; while
August Belmont, as president of the In
terborough, gets along on a 525,000 salary.
F. P. Olcott receives 540,000 as president
of the Central Trust Company, and
though 64 years old, is at his desk at 9
o'clock every day. Joseph Schwab, the
brother of Charles M. Schwab, gets be
tween 540,000 and 530.000. and is Indefatiga
ble. James Stillman. president of the
City National Bank at 540.000. and of the
Second National at 520,000. is also a direc
tor In over 20 corporations. George F.
Baker Is president of the First National
and the Astor banks, and receives 543,000.
Senator Dryden. of New Jersey. Is pres
ident of the Prudential Life Insurance
Company, and gets 540.000. while Samuel
Sloan, a veteran financier, at SS. is still
president of a ozen small roads that
must bring his salary up to a good big
figure.
Emmanuel Chapelle. an agent for a
champagne house, receives 53O.O0O a year,
and may be said to work all the time, day
and night booming his wares.
Frederick D. Underwood, president of
the Erie, comes in the 530,000 class, too:
and those who had complaints against
tne Erie a couple of years ago remember
how hard he worked at that time to
straighten matters out personally.
In fact, the entire list of men who re
ceive what to most of us .would seem
abnormally high salaries shows few . lag
gards or men who do'not work hard and
steaaiiy. A big salary' is like any kind
of a salary you must work hard to get It.
and continue to woric hard to keep it-
NEW YORK'S WATER FRONT.
New York Sun.
What large city has a water front
which rivals New York's 155 miles in the
five boroughs?
From the city line on the Hudson below
onkers to the Battery there Is a water
line of 16 miles; on the Harlem, between
Manhattan and the Bronx, six miles. The
eastern and southern boundaries of the
Bronx include a water line of 23 miles,
and the water line which extends from
the north boundary of Queens on. Long
Island Sound to Its' south boundary at
Rockaway Beach, and Includes the whole
of the East River and some distance on
ae Atlantic is SO miles. The boundary
line of Staten Island, all water, is 30
miles. The entire water front of New
York City is seven miles longer than the
distance from New York to Troy.
Lhe configuration of New York is such
that part of its water boundary Is the
Atlantic Ocean, another part is the Long
Island Sound, another part Is Newark
Bay. and the Hudson and East Rivers
complete these boundaries.
As the possibilities of New York City's
extensive and undeveloped water line are
recognized and utilized with the resources
at New York's disposal, another of the
advantages of the consolidation of the
boroughs Into the Greater City will be
better understood.
Young King Alphonso says that he
can nave no other Idea of marriage
"than of two persons loving and seek
ing the happiness of the country and
Its greatness." When Alphonso falls In
love. If he ever does, he will find that
he has forgotten all about country.
greatness and kingship.
National honor to Porter in Paris, the
same to Choate in London, Emperor
William doing stunts on every occasion
to cultivate our friendship it seems
that we are on mighty good terms with
the world. The only fly in our ointment
are the Moros, living under our own
flasr-
in city and country will be followed by
stagnation "after, the Fair." Reason
ing back from effect to cause, we must
accordingly assume that much of our j
present prosperity Is due to the Fair,
the preparations for which are now
practically completed. The assumption. ,
however, Is fallacious, for the reason
that the present era of good times la
not confined to any particular locality.
The weekly table of bank clearings
shows heavy increases, ranging from 25
per cent to 100 per cent In cities
throughout the East, Middle West and
Southwest, and these Infallible trade
barometers are supplemented by other
unmistakable evidences of prosperity.
Jt is only In good times, when plenty
of work and good wages have enabled
men. to lay by a few dollars, that the
strike can flourish. In periods of great
depression, when the free souphouses
become a necessity, the laborer thinks
more than once before he abandons his
nnxttinn to tro out on a sympathetic
strike. Big crops and nigh prices last
year did not contribute so much to the
prosperity of the Middle Western and
Eastern States as they did to those of
the Pacific Northwest, but all through
the Middle West money is unusually
abundant, and Industrial enterprise,
where it is not temporarily throttled by
strikes. Is making -new records.
The New York Journal of Commerce
There will be the true ring to the per
sonal exhibit of Ezra Meeker, who
comes to the Fair from the Puget Sound
country with a traveling outfit' of '
He Is a genuine pioneer in spirit and in
flesh.
Investigation shows that Mr. Rocke
feller has no intention of giving 510,000,-
000 to establish a pension fond for, cler
gymen. Investigation is now and then
superfluous.
King Edward Is having his teeth
"upholstered." If we were a King "no
half-and-halfvaffalr I mean, but a reg
ular royal King we should have ail
our royal grub beaten Into such pulpy
tenderness that our royal gums could
chew It up without the aid, of our royal
teeth, domestic or imported.
An English librarian says that men
as a rule, cease to read books after the
age of 40. If he means that men of
more than 40 have sense enough not
to read any book that Is not also over
the age of 40, he is right.
Some practical jokers in Puyallup placed
powder In a stove. The man who at
tempted to light the fire had both eyes
blown out, so he was naturally-, unable
to see the joke.
It Is a curious thing that the operatic
cavalry officer, who always sings a song
about the saber, never falls at one time
or another to stand with the hilt of his
sword In one hand and what is supposed
to be the cutting edge tightly grasped In
the other-
Some girls have sucq. eyes that every
time they look at you it feels as If they
had jabbed at you with a couple of hat
pins. ,
Rojestvensky and Nebsgatoff have
effected a junction, and this in spite of
the injunction long ago Issued by the
naval sharps of five nations.
In the big yacht race across the At
lantic we shall hear of no postponement
on account of the weather nor failure
to make the time limit.
dling contractors. The "Rlners procured I has complied a statement showing that
the Tanner-Creek contract from the new bond Issues since January 1, 1903.
city by a trick; then they proceeded In have reached a total of JS2S,oiS,000, and
the moBt conscienceless manner to vio
late the terms of the contract. Their j
sole object was to build an alleged
sewer that would somehow pas muster
of official Investigation and indorse
ment, and to get the mey. They "were
of this amount but ?235,90,00 was for
refunding purposes, leaving the net
amount of bonds representing new cap
ital Issued nearly 5W.M6,Wft. The plac
ing of tltese- bonds was accomplished
without the necessity of diverting
I caught They failed to get their money. J American capital from other enter-
Thelr bondsmen were required byl prises, and a large share of them was
waw Williams to rebulM the sewer In i taken abroad. Of lhe Seuthern Pacific
accordance with the original pcttca- jand Mkeourl Pacific lmw, nearly $1M,-Jb. on airtaenUc Wera-aUon."
It becomes more and more apparent
that the Armours gave shippers a cold
deal in their refrigerator cars.
The open season for wifebeaters be
gins today.
Oregon's Maypole the whipping post.
How Long Whales - Live.
Washingtss Post.
"As to the age to which whales live.'
says Dr. True, curator of biology e-f the
National Museum, "there !s ne accurate
data, but I am inclined to the opinion
that some of them live to an age In ex
cess of forty vears. This theory to borne
out by the finding In a whale 1SW of
a harpoon wnic naa kkwkw -to a
ship that was stmk auriag the Civil 'War.
Ten years before the war the afclfk had
cralced as a whaler.
The estimates that whales Hve Je e a
thotiMRd years 44 are fanciful, and net
Reflections or a Bachelor.
New York Press.
Marriage Is speculation; divorce Is In
vestment.
People never know too much;, they think
they do. '
There is hardly ever any use m prac
tidnz virtues unless you preach them
verv loudly because nobody will be
Heve lt.
The air! with a tall neck that Isn't thin
takes an awful mean advantage of other
girls to have also dark eyebrows and
golden hair.
There Is hardly anything more charac
terlstic of a woman than the way she
makes excuses to her mother for things
her -husband does which she won't excuse
herself.
'Whirl, and Follow the. Snn." .
Tennywt. 'The Dreamer."" . , '
MoanlnE your Iceae. O Kartb.'
Heart-iremry and oTtrdOsel
But air well that ends well.
Whirl, and Tollow the Sua!
He I raelnr from heaven to heaven
Aad. 1cm will fee lost than won.
Toe air well tht ends well", ,
"Whirl, and follow ths Sunt ".
The ReSca of tfce Metic uen BtetS, "
O weary ae. has it fcecaaT ; : ' f
Bat aW'a well that. ei
Whirl, aa4 follow the Sua! -
'r
Fk rmm will have ptim .94Mr-M-u(e
Or ever year pace he r! ' -
A tM's tfekt !- -
Whirl, aac Mtow tr
Helen Gould Rewarded a Boy.
Chicago Record-HeralJ.
Durango. Colo. For warning Loco
motive Engineer J. C- McCabe ot
rocksllde ahead. Leroy Irvine Dixon. 9
years old. Is to have an education, the
expense of which will be borne by Miss
Heleir Gould. Tne lads parents nave
given their consent and Miss Gould will
allow them to select any preparatory
school they desire.
The boy discovered a rocksllde last
October on the Rio Grande track where
the railroad skirts the canyon or the
Las Animas River. He knew a pas-
senser train was due soon and waved
a handkerchief, flagging the train. The
canyon Is more than 100 feet deep at tne
place.
Egg-Breaking a Trade.
Chicago Journal.
X eorresDondent who has been search-
Ins for the most monotonous method of
earning a living decides in favor of that
of cracking eggs, "i met a man wno saio.
hp was a biscuit manufacturer on a large
raip. and he was rather lncimeo to coast
about the number of eggs nis nrm Dougnt
in the course of a year. Now, it seems
that, to avoid calamity, five eggs are
broken Into a bowl at a time before being
added to the common stock. There are
men. he told me. who do nothing else
but crack eggs. They become so expert
that a man can dispose of a thousand an
hour, or ten thousand a day.
Turn About.
Chicago Journal.
An eminent actor had been introduced
in a club to a gentleman wno proressea
a -creat liking for the stage. A few days
later the actor recetvea irom nis new ac
aualntance thla note:
"I hnve ncara irom many sources mat
your performance Is excellent. Will you
send me two seats lor . any nignt next
week?"
The actor made Inquiries and learnad
that the man was the possessor of great
wealth. So he replied:
"I hear from many sources that your
wealth Is Immense. Will you send me
5200 any time this weeKT"
Some Tongue Twisters.
The sun shines on the shop-signs.
She says she shall sew a sheet.
She sells sea shells.
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick,
The sea ceaseth and it sufflceth us.
A neisy notee, annoys an oyster.
Peers peer train the pier perusing penny
nasers.
Fighting fever's feverish fight fighters
feverishly fear fever.
Feminine Cravings.
' ' London Worla.
. Why does not someone, think, out some
thing fer women, ta supply the place of
the man's whlsKy-ana-soda sum. cigarette
Surely there jnitst be .seme harmless
equivalent for her. She need not .be tald
It barmles. beatace la that case' it
weald lose Its' seet; but the aareon who
can And some, such will be a. .benefecter
to the, sex.
THE MSLUMP2N ST. LOUIS.
St. Louis Star.
Watch that slump.
It was to come with the close of the
Fair, and our neighbors In Chicago were
specially solicitous for the result.
Here is the latest evidence of the na
ture of the slump from possibly the best
of sources:
Real estate transfers in St. Louis for
April numbered 1550 and aggregated 5T.2S3.
7S8 in value, 3 compared with 1410 instru
ments of a value of 57,823,490 for the pre
vious month. In April, 1904. there were
S78 transfers, of a value of 51.045,739.
The real estate business of St. Louis for
the first four months of 1S05 totals 4650
transfers, amounting to 525,431,180. as com
pared with 3089, of a value of $lo,10i,9SS for
the same period In 1S04.
This is a gain of 1j71 In the .number or
real estate transactions and 510,385,134 in
the value of property transferred for the
present year, as compared with the four
months of last year prior to the opening
of the" World's Fair.
The Fair has been our best friend and
ally, because It served to show the world
what we had and what we are.
Once these two things were known, the
rest was easy.
That Boy of Yours.
Milwaukee Journal.
We chaperon our girls and carefully
guard them against unwortny boys.
but we leave tne boy to choose for
himself his associates and his achievements.
Girls are naturally winsome, gentle.
companionable. They win their way in
homes and hearts. But the boy. noisy,
awkward, mischievous, is invited into
few homes and feels none too much at
home In hi8 own.
About the only door that swings
with sure welcome to the boy, about
the only chair that is shoved near the
fire especially for the boy, about tne
only" place where he is sure of cordial
greeting is where he ought not to go.
It Is one of tne hardest things in the
world to get hold of a boy to get a
sure grip oh- him.
He is hungry for companlonsnlp and
he will have It. You can t cnatn him
away from it- He wants the compan
ionship of boy3, and nothing will take
its place.
If the rime of selfishness nas so in
cased your heart that tne joys and
hopes of your boy cannot enter Into It,
the boy Is tD be pitied, but so are you.
A Novel Rental.
London Telegraph.
A curious method of letting land was
again observed at Bourne when the
White Bread Meadow" was onerea. ine
auctioneer is stationed on the Queen's
Bridge, and as each bid for the rent ot
the field is" made a boy is started to run"
to a given- public house and back- again
to the bridge. The person whose bid
is unchallenged when the last boy re
turns to the bridge Is declared to be the
tenant of the land for the ensuing year.
F. G. Sbilcock on Friday let the land by
thls method, when a tenant was found
at a slight increase on. last year's rent.
His Doubtful Compliment.
Houston Post.
"What was that he said?" queried the
Indignant "grocer. "Did be dare insinuate
that I ought to put less sand in ray
sugar?" "Not at all. When I told him that you
were selling sugar cheaper than any other
dealer In town, he saiS It took sand to do
business like you did."
Tainted Times.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Tainted woaey. J -
Tainted stocks.
Tainted ways of
Getting rocks:
Tainted garments.
Tainted shoes.
Tainted food
And tainted fcoe-ie.
Tainted saeralC
Tainted; sports;
Tainted, eases
la the coarts.
. Tainted votes
And tainted tricks
In the- wrld--Of
3KHUr.
Tainted soye,- .
Talated.p-lays,
!hts lad days. f
Tainted msad; .i
Talated. wivM . Z
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