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THE MORMXG OKEGOMAIT, " FKIDAY, MAY 2(1. 191(5. J." ALBANY VIEWED AS LAND OF. PROMISE Progressive Business Methods and Prosperity Reported by Addison Bennett. PAYROLL IS LENGTHY ONE Banks Show Thrift of llcsulents, Aew Industries "Are Bcin Ks tnhiished and Schools Are " x Overflow Ins With Iujlls. BY ADDISON BENNETT. AtBAXV. Or.. May .25. (Staff cor respondence.) Albany Is the pivotal city of the Willamette Valley. From it in every direction railroads diverge like the web of a spider, making it the greatest railroad center in Oregon, with the single exception of Portland. Sit uated in the heart of the "Willamette Valley, which it is often said contains more good agricultural land, including, ot course, its tributary valleys, than the entire State of Washington, it has lying around it in every direction some of the finest farms in Oregon, in most cases owned and operated by the most progressive farmers of the West. In a paragraph we thus have the con ditions that have brought Albany to be one of the most prosperous and most beautiful cities of our state, and the lovely little city is still on the upward inarch with a growth equalling any other portion of the state. For the citizens of Aibany are as keen a set of people as you will find anywhere, and they are ever active, generous and enterprising when it comes to any movement for the betterment of the city they love. Citizenship In Lauded. In those two paragraphs we have the cause and the effect, the reason and the logic, of Albany's growth and prosperity; but we have not even a glimpse of the future Albany. A city to become a metropolis must have two assets. The first and, perhap"s, greatest is a tributary country to support that city; the second is a homogeneous mass of citizens to take advantage of the opportunities of those resoucres. If there is any city in Oregon or Washington that has a more active lot of citizens than Albany has I have overlooked that city, for I have failed to find a place where the people all seem to work together in. harmony for the upbilding of their town as the Albany people do. How many years this has been true I do not know. I only know it strikes me as being" liter ally true now. Perhaps had it been that way there for the past two or three decades, Albany would have stood higher in her rank among Oregon cities in the census of 1910, when there were reported to be 4275 people there, mak ing the town rank with Oregon City, which had 4287, and close to Roseburg, La Grande, Corvallis and The Dalles. Train Service rnusnal. There are nine different lines of railways running in and out of Al bany, giving something like 40 pas senger trains each day. And do not forget that Albany is on the Willam ette River and enjoys the low freight rates that river competition gives. It Is true that the Willamette is not alive with steamboats every day in the year as far up as Albany, nearly 100 miles by water above Portland, but it is on record that last season a lot of 20 tons of alsike clover seed was shipped from Albany to Charleston," S. C, by water. At almost all seasons of the year there is a boat service to and from Portland three times a week. Speaking of that alsike seed ship ment reminds me that there is a lot of eo-called "white land" in Linn County, which has been considered of an in ferior quality. A few years ago it was discovered that this land was ideally adapted to the growth of al ikc Before that much red clover seed was produced there last year there were 33 carloads of the two seeds chipped from Albany alone. Most everybody who knows anything about farming knows that where a good yield of clover can be had the production of the seed is one of the most profitable branches of agriculture. Payroll da Large. Just take a glance at the payroll in dustries of Albany. Chair factory of Bert and Fred Veal, largest exclusive chair factory on the Coast; large flour mill of Portland Milling Company; Al bany Mill & Klevator Company, ware houses at Tangent, Tallman and Albany and mill at Albany; oldest and largest co-operative creamery in the state; cheese factory of Frank Pate; the large tannery of M. Sternberg & Co., a large and successful concern; planing mill and ladder factory of C. C. Cameron; cabinet and box factory of Boner Brothers: sawmill of Albany Lumber GOOD WORK FOR SICK WOMEN k The Woman's Medicine Has Proved Its Worth. When Lydia E. Pinkham's remedies were first introduced, their curative powers were doubted and had to bo proved. But the proof came, and grad ually the use of them spread over the whole country. Now that hundreds of thousands of women have experienced the most beneficial effects from the use of these medicines, their value has be come generally recognized, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound i3 the standard medicine for women. The following letter is only one of the thousands on file in the Pinkham office, at Lynn, Mass., proving that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound is an article of great merit as shown by the results it produces. Anamosa,Iowa. "When I began tak ing Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com - pound I suffered with a displacement, and my system was in a general run down condi iaon. I would have the head ache for a week and my back would sche so bad when 1 would bend down I could hardly straighten up. My sister was sick in bed for two months and doctored, but did not get any relief. She saw an advertisement of your med cine and tried it and got better. She told me what it had done for her, and when I had taken only two bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound my head began to feel better. I continued its use and now I don't have any of those troubles." Mrs. L. J. Hannan, R.F.D. 1, Anamosa, Iowa. Company; sawmill of Oregon Hard wood Lumber Company: Ice factory, cold storage plant and ice cream fac tory of Kroschel Brothers; Albany Fruit. Juice Company; the Corvallis & Eastern Railway machine shops; gar age and large machine shop of J. L. Irvine; garage and machine shop of John Hammel; packing-house of Xeb ergal Meat Company. Now a look at the banks: The Albany State Bank has a capital of $60,000, sur plus of $6350, and deposits of 1163. 805.49. Private Bank Operates. J. W. Cusick & Co.. bankers, have a capital of $75,000. surplus of $15,000. and undivided profit of $3101.52. Their deposits are $365,710.44. The First National Bank has a capi tal of $100,000, surplus and profits of $101,756.69, and deposits of $729,423.29. The same officers serve in the same capacities for the First Savings Bank. It has a capital of $50,000, surplus and profits of $4345.57, with deposits of $565,358.50. There are two newspapers In the town, the younger of the two now be ing in it's 42d continuous year of pub lication. When it comes to hotels, Albany can compete with any city in Oregon. The St. Francis Hotel, owned by E. H. Rhodes and managed by W. H. Rhodes, is as good a stopping place as any person need apk for. The Hotel Albany is a newer stop ping place, and has a larger building, it being six stories high and of mod ern construction. It Is said the build ing cost $90,000, and the furnishings $30,000. ' , St. Charles Old House. The St. Charles Hotel is known to almost all of the oldtimers in Oregon. It was a famous hostelry in the old days. It is still doing a big business and is conducted in a. way to please the traveling public. The St. Charles was opened in 1860, and many of Its present customers have been stopping at the old house for 50 years. The Kuss House is also a good stopping place. Then there is a place much patronized by travelers, who change cars at the Union depot the Depot Hotel. This hotel does a large tran sient business and the- guests go away pleased with the services and satisfied that they got the worth of their money. I wish I had a column or two to tell about the famous Albany fire de partment, and the scalps it has taken in the years agone. For over 40 years it was one of the best-known volunteer departments in the West, and a terror when it came to competing with the laddies of other departments in feats of activity. At a great tournament held in Portland in 1876 it made every other department in Oregon lower its colors. - Now it is a semi-paid depart ment, but with all the old-time vim, about -the only difference being that now there is always somebody on guard and the equipment is modern. The Chautauqua building at Albany is of a similar nature to those of Gladstone and Ashland, and is on the same circuit. The structure is finely adapted to the business, with a seat ing capacity of close to 3000. Each year this is, I think, the seventh the audiences grow larger and the season more successful. Commercial Club Active. The Albany Commercial Club has ever been one of the greatest activity, and it is still conscientiously working for the good of the town. Many of the industries of Albany came from the work of the club. A. L. Fisher is president and W. A. Eastman secre tary. , Albany College, founded in 1867, is one of the finest assets the Presbyter ians have in the country. It has stood in Oregon as one of our foremost in stitutions of learning. It is now on a firmer and better footing than ever before, having recently succeeded in raising an endowment fund of $250,000, James J. Hill giving $50,000 toward it. Dr. W. H. Lee is the acting president. There are in attendance about 100 pu pils. Of the public schools. Albany claims to stand side by side with the best in the country, both in buildings, equip ment and methods employed. Albany sure can brag about her schools which goes almost without saying with all of our Oregon cities. They all stand high, and Albany ranks with the best. The efficieijt superintendent is Pro fessor C. W. Boetticher. Two splendid high-school and four fine grade-school buildings are .occupied and running over. Recently an election was held and $50,000 voted to build a City Hall, which will be put up in the near fu ture and you can get it will be worth the money and a beauty. The Albany people always get value received. CANNERY NEARLY READY ESTACADA PLANT WILL EMPLOY CO OX SMALL. FRflTS. R. C. Dentins Sponsor for New Enter prise, Wbleta. Has Frequently Been Attempted Elsewhere. Estacada will boast its first indus trial payroll in the course of the next few weeks, when the small fruits be gin to ripen. Arrangements have been completed by R. C. Deming, one of the leading small fruitgrowers of Clackamas Coun ty, for the opening of a modern can ning plant at Estacada, which will give employment to 50 people in the plant and fully 100 pickers during the berry season. The Initial payroll for this season will run about $6000, according to Mr. Deming, who is completing de tails regarding equipment of the plant. For a number of years Estacada has made intermittent efforts to start such a project with co-operative financing, but the plans have never materialized. The plant will confine its operations this season to the canning of logan berries, raspberries, evergreen berries, blackberries and gooseberries. Last year Mr. Deming and other fruitgrowers of Clackamas County canned their fruits at the Gresham plant and marketed their product through brokers and wholesalers in the East, under the wholesalers label. This year, however, all goods from the Esta cada cannery will go under the trade mark "Demefltore Delicious Quality," the "Demestore" trademark being the first syllables of Deming, Estacada and Oregon. BOOK TELLS OF CONGRESS Pan-American Deliberations Added to Chamber Library. The report of the second Pan-American Scientific Congress, which was held in Washington, D. C, December 27-January 8, has been received by the Portland Chamber of Commerce and is regarded as a most valuable addition to the statistical files of the Bureau of Trade and Commerce. The volume contains a condensed report of the proceedings of the con gress, as well as a full list of the many hundreds of influential persons, socie ties and institutions attending the ses sion or invited thereto. At the sessions of the body the lead ing men of the 21 American republics were called on for reports, treatises and commentaries bearing on all phases of the development in the Western Hemisphere of economics, art. sociol ogy,' theology and their myriad subdi visions. The results of these discussions a-e related in the report. OREGON TO GET 150 CONVENTION SEATS Republican National Commit teeman Williams Starts for Chicago This Morning. DELEGATES GO NEXT WEEK Tickets Will Be Provided Progres sive Representatives and He mainder Will He Apportioned Itegardless of Polities. Ralph E. Williams, Republican Na tional committeeman for Oregon, will leave this morning for Chicago, where he will attend a series of meetings pre liminary to the National convention, week after next. Mr. Williams is a member of the sub-committee in charge of the detailed arrangements for the big meeting, such as planning of seating accommodations, distribution of tickets, employment of clerical help, assignment of committee rooms, and a thousand other things. The sub-committee will hold a meet ing next Wednesday, May 31. when, it is expected. the last preliminary routine will be disposed of. A meeting of the entire - National committee will be held the following day. Contests among state delegations if there be any will be heard. Only three or four contests have been reported so far. They are all from the Southern states, where dissatisfaction has developed over the reduction in the number of delegates. Mr. Williams expects no serious trouble over them. Contests to He Reduced. The committee has adopted a rule that precludes the possibility of con tests among delegates from those states having-the direct primary. In all such states the election certificates of the Secretary of State will be ac cepted as final, and such delegates will be seated arbitrarily. However, no contests are reported in any such states. Oregon's 10 delegates, elected at last Friday's primaries, will go to Chicago without their official certificate of election, inasmuch as the official count will not have been completed in time. But it is "probable that Secretary Oicott will be able to issue "unofficial" cer tificates testifying that the bearers have been elected on the face of the unofficial returns. Inasmuch as no contest presents itself in this state, such certificates are expected to be sufficient. Mr. Williams Is eager to see the con vention nominate a man that all ele ments of the Republican party can support consistently. In line with that idea he came out early last Fall and advocated the nomination of Justice Hughes. He was probably one of the "original Hughes men." Committee la "Neutral." "If Hughes takes the nomination he will, without doubt, be the choice of the Chicago convention," said Mr. Will lams yesterday. "However, so far as the National committee is concerned, there is no disposition to influence the nomination of anyone. Every candi date will have an equal chance Roose velt, Cummins, Burton and all the rest." Mr. Williams originally favored the selection of Senator Borah, of Idaho, as temporary chairman of the convention, and now that Senator Harding, of Ohio, has been given that honor, he would be delighted to see Senator Borah or eome other Westerner named for Vice-President, granting, of course, that Justice Hughes will be the nominee for Presi dent. "With the growing sentiment in favor of. Hughes," he said, "it would not be surprising to see Hughes nominated on the second ballot. It should not be later than the third ballot. "Will he accept? Well. I know no more about that than anyone else, but I can't imagine how he can refuse." Delegates to Start Next Week:. Members of the Oregon delegation will not leave Portland until some time next week. Most of them will join with the delegates from Washing ton and Idaho and travel in a special train leaving Spokane over the North ern Pacific on the morning of June 2. The Progressive delegates, it is ex pected, will go on .the same train. Under the rules of the Republican convention, each state is allowed seats for the same number of alternates as it has delegates. Oregon did not elect any alternates, so Mr. Williams has arranged to seat the five Progressive delegates as alternates in the Repub lican meeting. The other alternates' seats will be distributed among Ore gon people. In addition, Mr. Williams, as Nation al committeeman, is allowed 13 seats, which have been given to Oregon people. As a member of the sub-committee, he hss.rranged for accommo dations for 125 more. Several delegates to the Democratic convention, which meets at St. Louis during the week following the Chicago convention, have arranged to attend the Chicago meetings and Mr. Williams has provided them with seats. Polities No Bar to Seats. Mr. Williams'headquarters while in Chicago will be at the Blackstone Ho tel, where all Oregon people be they Republicans, Democrats, Progressives or what-not can apply and secure such accommodations as are In bis power to give. Through Mr. Williams' Influence two doorkeepers and 10 assistant sergeants at arms have been allotted to Oregon. Most of these positions have been given to Oregon boys attending schools and colleges In the East. While the places carry no pay, the experience will af ford a liberal education for the boys. Because Oregon is the only state that offered a test of Justice Hughes' strength, and with a result so over whelmingly in favor of his candidacy, the Oregon delegation, says Mr. Will iams, will be In an advantageous posi tion. It is probable that a member of this state's delegation will be given the honor of seconding Justice Hughes' nomination. Mr. Williams will remain In Chicago for a few days after the convention. He was elected by the Republican vot ers two years ago to succeed himself on the National committee and. will assist in organizing the new committee. It is his opinion that if Charles D. Hilles will accept re-election he will be made chairman of the National com mittee again, although the advice of the Presidential nominee on this point will be sought before a decision is made. CHURCH MAY BE MERGED Action of Methodist General Assem bly Awaited Here. 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