flTE SIHTDAT OREHUSriAX. rOKTLAITD, yOTKffBEB 20, 1910.
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PRACTICAL COURSES IN DOMESTIC
SCIENCE HELP HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
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y m L'CH iDtirrat u rihlblted In th
f dowDtova market district lul
ek at the appearance, of be y lee
of aeiioua young persons, with buel-ceea-Uke
notebook, who asked easer
questions about rate of meat and
their prices. Hi virtue of different
torts of V.rh, and the K and history
f the chR-ken and turkeys displayed.
They were rnemhers of tho domestlo
sctenre classes In the city bls;h soaoo" .
who were taklnr tdvtnUft of tha
lialf-day sessions consequent on '"mid
term exams" to Jolo the marketing ex
peUltlons arranicrd by the'r teachers.
Wm IJllan Tlnsle and Miss Mart
William, of the Washington; Mis
ll'wls; Iller;. of tho Lincoln, and Mrs.
:iien R. Miller, of tho Jefferson Hlh
rV-hool. chaperoned tho different groups
of embryo housewlTe and Imparted
abundant Instructions: while the market
tnea In all the places visited not -only
answered cheerfully Innumerable ques
tions, but volunleere4 much useful and
Interesting- Information of a;reat ad
vantage to tho students. In several
eases special cuts were made to Illus
trate some of the qaestlons. arid the
Ctrl were Invited Into the -tutllnc-room."
where they could see just how
their school dlaraina and chart were
related to the artual division of the
carcasses, and Just how to recosjnlse
tie different muscles when they ap
peared In tho form of a "Chinese pus
He. at so much a pound, on the count
ers. Incidentally, several of the Ctrl,
born and brought up la Portland, dis
covered many varieties of fish, fruit
and veeetables hitherto unknown to
tnem even by name. These market
expeditions. It seems, have aa Immedi
ate purpose as well aa a general edu
cational one. They are intended aa
part preparation for tha "l-cent
lunches' which are a feature Of tho
second-term domestic eclence classes.
In croup of two all the slrl are re
quired to plan, purchase, cook ami
serve a luncheon for 1 "pay Ins
trues u" at a cost of not more than 1(
rents a head, for raw material. The
guests usually members of the class,
tnouirh teachers, parents ''and friends
from outside are also admitted pay In
advance, and the hostess-cooks then
Uy out the dollar thus obtained to the
b.st of their ability.
Here ' Is a menu recently planned
and served by Misses Pearl Snyder nd
Itnnrri lirjran. of WahlE.gton High
tH'hool:
Oram of potato and celery soup.
HaKcd uimoo with dressics. lemea
Kirnllb.
Isotato balls. Hat buttered biscuits.
t!rv. rspe end nut saisd.
' It row a Htt with lemon syrup sauce.
Some careful planning went to the
making of that menu. Advantage was
Uken of foods In season and conse
jitently at the lowest price and best
suality. such as salmon, at 10 cent a
pound, apple at le cent a dosen.
grapxe at cents a pound. Tho outside
parts of tho salad-celery gave flavor
to the soujs which received also the
trimmings left over from the neatly
cut potato balla served with tho fish.
The crusts from the fish dressing gave
the necessary browned crumb for tho
Frown Petty pudding, and the ends
of the lemon, ueed for garnish and
sauce to the salmon, gave flavor to
the brown sugar pudding sauce. Ths
riico light biscuits were carefully but
! tered to avoid wast and cut down tho
butter bill, and water, not milk, was
used In mixing, but the guests llkrd
them just as well that way. A simple
dressing, made with grape Juice, lemon
Juice and sugar, woo in gno.l taste
with the salad, besides avoiding the
expense of oil. butter or eftgs. as in
Kronen, mayonnaise or boiled dressing.
In short, "there was a reason." a the
advertisement say. for everything.
Mies Snyder market "llsf ran as
follows: IS pounds pots tors, 4 rents;
one-half pint milk. IH cents: one two
pound head of celery, I cents: 1 V
pounds salmon. IS cents: four ounces
of onions, t cents: three lemons. 7
cente: six ouncees flour. S cents: four
ounces nut. ( rents; vno pound grapes,
& cents; five ounces butter, 10 cent;
two pounds sugar. 12 cents: one ounce
dripping. 1 cent; two and one-half
pound apples, 10 cents: one loaf stale
bread bought at half price. 14 ounces.
: S cento; paid to school for season
ings, etc S cents: total, ftg cent a
Tho guests expressed themselves as
"much pleased and quit satisfied. and
tho calculations mad by tho hostess,
from her dietary tables, showed that
the meal wast a fairly well balanced one.
and contained more than enough tls-sue-bulldlng
and energy-sunplylng ma
terial for one-tlilrd of a day's stamlnrd
ration for ten women at moderate
work.
The table was prettily and correctly
set. and the sometimes dreaded "clean
ing up" was neatly and quickly accom
plished. So stands the record, with the
teacher's written comments and criti
cisms on the bulletin board of the
school kitchen.
It appears that small quantities of
materia.!, such as sugsr or flour, may
ho purchased from the school supplies at
oro J8 -T
the prices that would be paid if they
were bought In family quantities; but
all other marketing must bo done by
the student herself.
That ths girls are making practical
use of their cooking lessons Is shown
hy the letters re.-eived from parents
expressing their satisfaction with their
daughters' Increased usefulness In the
home and the Increasing plensuje taken
in tho work. One girl makes all tho
bread for the family since hers Is now
better than the kind "mother used to
make." Another student gets a good
four-course dinner every Sunday for a
well pleased father and a rested moth
er. Another does all tho family conk
ing. A former student. Instead of tak
ing up uncongenial work outside the
home, has abolished the hired cook, has
taken her place, and Is "getting really
acquainted with her own home and
mother.'
Another. In her second term, shows
such aptitude for making and serving
nice things to eat. that already her
friends are giving her orders for cakes
and salads, and she Is asked to help
Inexperienced hostesses with "com
pany" lunches. By the time she leaves
high school she w'll have built up a
nle little profitable business, which
111 either comfortably supply "bread
and butter" or will enable her to save
money for higher trslnlng.
Tho market expeditions are the prac
tical sequel of marketing lessons In the
class-room, and are to be continued on
Krlday afternoon and Saturday morn
ings throughout the ternr- so that all
fie students. In small groups, may have
an opportunity of learning how to or
der and select meats, fish and vege
table, and how wisely to spend a
"table allowance," whether large or
small.
TURNING POINTS IN
SOME GREAT CAREERS
JTJCAH P. BENJAMIN Hew Failure on Plantation Furnished the
Brains of the Southern Confederacy.
BT MADISON C. FKTEK3.
JVDAH P. BENJAMIN, pronounced by
the late Justice Brewer, of the
United State Supremo Court, "the
brains of gte Southern Confederacy."
and declared by Schouler In his "His
tory of tho V'nlted Slates." "the ablest,
the most versatile, most constant of sll
pals" civil councillors." was born of
English Jewish parents at St. Croix.
West Indie. In 1811. removing In 1S1J
to Wilmington. X. a His precocity at
tracted Mooes Lopes, of Charleston, a
wealthy Jew, who sent tho hoy to
Talo In 1S2T, but wishing to bo Indepen
dent "no left In his sophomor year.
Ills parents had moved to New Or
leans from Wilmington. and there
Judah followed them. He became a
notary's clerk, taught school at night,
studied law at every opportunity and
was admitted to tho bar In Mil. His
success wss phenomenal from tha be
ginning, and he soon acquired an Inde
pendent fortune. He bought a sugar
plantation with tho Intention of settling
down as a planter. He made some won
derful experiments ln extracting the
Jute from the sugar cane, which to
this day are used In the large sugar
no Ids of the South, but his venture did
not pay and he was compelled to give
up the plantation scheme, ctolefly. bow-
ever, through floods which destroyed
most of his property.
Ill failure as a planter was the turn
ing point In his great career. He was
compelled to return to the practice of
law. Politics began to Interest him.
In M44 he was a member of fhe Louisi
ana constitutional convention. In "4 as
Presidential l-.lertor-at-Large for Lou
islnna he csst his ballot for General
Taylor.
Admitted to p fact ice before the Su
preme Court of the I'nltod States, he
soon became one of the leaders of the
Federal bar. Senator Vest records the
fact that Judge Black was Benjamin's
adversary In his first case and that Jus
tice Field nad told Black when the
court took Its recess, after Benjamin
had stated his case: "You had better
look to your laurels for that little Jew
from New Ortans has stated your case
out of rourt."
PrestdeiSx Pierce tendered Benjamin
the position of Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
which Benjamin declined. In 1851 Ben
jamin was elected United States Sena
tor from Louisiana. He was twice re
elected. In '6 Benjamin wss one of the small
group of Senator who succeeded In securing-
the nomlnetlnn of Bm-hansn for
President. Mr. Buchanan offered him
the Attorney Generalship, which he de
clined. Benjamin's attitude In the Senate ov. .-
tered almost exclusively around his
fixed belief that the duty of the Federal
Government was to protect the slave
property. All his Important political
speeches in the Senate were directly
concerned with the slave question. His
speeches were powerful exposition of
the Southern view. Henry L. Dawes
has classed Benjamin with Sumner,
Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Yancey and
Breckenridge as an orator and ono
whose productions were not less eloquent
than those of Fox or Pitt. Patrick
Henry or John Ad.ims.
Referring to his farewell speech in tho
Senate. Sir Georse Cornwall Iwl was
discussing It with some friends in a
London club. Going up to Lord Sher
brooke. Lewis asked the noblemnn If h
had read Benjamin's speech. "No." an
swered Lord Sherbrooke. "Then read
It." advised Lewis, "for It is far ahead
of anything our own Benjamin (Disraeli)
could have done."
The part Benjamin took in the Con
federacy will never be known nnttl a
complete history of the South has been
written. He thought to bring England
to her l:nees through a cotton famine.
Cotton was then king and the astute
statesman felt sure that tho holding up
of .this product would be sufficient
cause for Interference on ".e part of a
country which depended on the raw ma
terial for her finished products. But
the Emancipation Proclamation of Lin
coln made it morally Impossible for Eng
land o Interfere.
As to France. Benjamin was on terms
of Intimacy with Napoleon III. He had
made several visits to that country and
he knew the Empt ror and people well,
but France, too. had to hold off htr
hands.
Benjnmfn. hMwver. succeeded in ne
gotiating hans from the Et Linger fam
ily, of I'arlM, with which to carry on
the striiKKlc. When Krlanger. from
whom Benjamin had borrowed money In
Paris, cume over to this country to see
for himself t'i real stale of affairs, he
went to the Sla'e Department, where he
had an Interview of two hours with Ben
Jiniln. the conversation being In French.
In a speech In the Confederate House of
Kepreventatlve, referring to this Inter
view. Governor Foote said: "On the oc
c:ienn of the recent- visit of Mr. Er
liinger. Minister Plenipotentiary and En
voy Extraordinary from Hi Highness,
the Emperor of France, to His High
ness, the Wnuld-Be-Emperor of the Con
federate States. Juriss Iscsrlot Benja
min, the conversation was in French
for two hours."
When 1-ee s;i-ron'!ered to Grant and
Jefferson Davis was outlawed. a
price was also put on the head of his
Secretary of Slate. Benjamin lost all
his property and Red to the West indies,
hence he made his wav to iAintlon.
and there, a I the age of 6. when most
men think of laying down the burden of
life, there came a second turning-point
in his great career.
He entered Lincoln's Inn as a l.iw stu
dent In 1 s55 and owing to his brilliant
merlcan record he wus admttted to the
English bar In less than a year. From
t:ie first his success was phenomenal.
He made colonial appeals his specialty.
Just as he had made California claims
a specialty at the Louisiana Bar. In a
short time he was making money at the
rate of $100,000 a year.
He rose In a few years to be the
srknowledged head of tho English legal
profession. He retired with well-won
end well-worn laurels In 1SS2. Bench
end bar vied with each other to show
him honor. A public dinner was ten
dered In his honor in the Inner Temple
on June SO, 1SS3. which was presided
over by Sir Henry James. The greatest
legal light In England paid glowing
tributes to the Grand Old Man of tho
Bar who had made hla profession a
shining success on two continents, de
spite every obstacle and difficulty.
After he quitted the English Bar ho
went to Paris to live. Hi daugtiter.
Nlnatte, had married Captain Henri de
Bnuslgnac. of Jh One Hundred and Sev
enteenth Regiment of the French line,
and wa living with her mother in the
French capital. There he died on May
6, IBM. at the nge of 73.
BOYS' AND GIRLS' AID SOCIETY ASKS
PUBLIC TO COME AND HELP ITS WARDS
Annual Thanksgiving Appeal Issued hy Superintendent Gardner and Directors-Some Facte About Work the
Society Has Been Doing For Tear.
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AN AWAKENING UP CRY
Public Co-oporatlon and Completion
of Panama Canal.
PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 17. (To tho
Editor.) The Information received
from ranama that tho Panama Canal
will be completed within the next
three years Is the best that has come
our way for a long time.
Portland must bestir Itself to make
ready for that event, which is fraught
with the most momentous conse
quences for our advancement, to take
tho lead as the chief commercial city
of tho Pacific Coast. With San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles both having
more population, this may seem to
some to be an extremely optimistic
statement; but looking to Portland's
relative position, measured with the in
controvertible fact that our tributary
field Is In extent ten or twelve times
more than either San Francisco or
Los .Angeles, tho proposition seems
easy to verify.
Government statistics give tho drain
age of the Columbia River and Its trib
utaries at 2S3.O00 square miles. To
this, as Portland's Inevitable field of
vantage, must be added some 45,000
square miles In south and southeastern
Oregon, which from the railroad con
nections becomes Portland's own. Tho
two considerably exceed 300.000 square
miles, w.ilch. excluding the Alaskan
area. Is more than one-tenth tho total
area of tho Unitud States. This Is tho
Imperial domain that lies at Portland's
feet, without a shadow of rivalry
north, east, south or west.
As If further to accentuate Portland's
ascendency In this field, nature has
bestowed tho complement of over 2200
miles of navigable waters to serve as
a chock mate for possible railroad ex
actions, compelling reasonable freight
rates. In face of tho pooling possibili
ties which the railroads delivering to
tho land-locked harbors of Puget
Bound may clamorously call for In the
Interest of Joint terminal rates.
With tho oompletion of tho Panama
CanaL ships will delt-rer freight from
any Atlantic port to Portland In 25
days, at an average freight rate. In
cluding toll, of $ per ton. At tha
present time freight by rail, from
Chicago to Portland average $25 per
ton. consuming 25 days In making the
trip. The finesse of railroad owner
ship manipulation will over be able to
Impress any honest law-making body
with the admission that freight rates
west from Chicago and like gateways
may be charged at lc.i mile for mile
than from Portland and like terminals
eastward, mile fo mile.
The debatable ground where the
tides of Eastern and Western rates
will face each other for commercial su
premacy will be the eastern boundary
of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and
New Mexico, these four states and all
the others nearer the Pacific Coast be
ing wholly tributary to the Coast ports.
Not commenting on the pitiable posi
tion of Puget Sound, which wftli It
six competing cities cannot, all told,
outside of Alaska, count on an exclu
sive tributary field of 5000 square
miles. It behooves the commercial In
terest here to square themselves for
preparation within the next three
years to subserve the empire this pu.
at their feet.
Portland should Insist that not ono
cent higher tribute should be Imposed
against the transportation of our mer
chandise eastward, mile for mile, than
from Chicago westward. Portland
'should prepare for any attempt at any
other inclination, with a fleet of
steamboats to assert Us opportunities
and Its merchants, acting In concert,
will make Portland one of the few
great commercial cities on the face of
the earth. CHARLES P, CHURCH.
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FOR a period of over 23 years the
Boys' and Girls Aid Society of Ore
gon has worked for the betterment
of dependent and delinquent children
throughout the state of Oregon. For
many years before the advent of ths
Juvenile Court the Boy' and Girls Aid
Society of Oregon took charge of de
pendent children and a large number of
delinquent In the county of Multnomah
who were brought before the Municipal
or Circuit Court and turned over to the
Hoys' and "Girlif Aid Society of Oregon
under sunpended sentence. From Janu
ary. ISM, until May. , the society did
much of the work that is now done by
the Juvenile Court.
Since the Inauguration of the Juvenile
Court the society has to a great extent
discontlnuedsreceivlng Juvenile offenders
and is now devoting Its energies to de
pendent children. The society has cared
for about 40 children since Its organiza
tion. It work Is to place children com
mitted to It in family home throughout
the state of Oregon and there are now
untlcr Its care about 00, Including 65 now
on hand at the Receiving Home.
No doubt a large number of citizens
will remember Ira F. Powers.- whoee
photograph appears with this sketch
who up to the time of hi death wa
an active member of the board of trus
tees of the society. Mr. Power devoted
much of his? time and energy to the up
building of this Institution and before
the society had a home, used his own
residence for the temporary care of do
pendent children.
Superintendent Gardner has now been
in the work for nearly 18 years and has
s?en it gradually build untu now tiio o-
! i if. w( JJ ktiiiv
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clety passes through Its hand more
children than any other Institution In the
state and nearly every one of these cases
has a sad history of Its own.
The need of the Institution are per
haps greater this, year than ever before.
Besides the large number to maintain
In the receiving home the board of trus
tees are contemplating putting in play
ground apparatus and manual training.
Besides the fire protection at the receiv
ing home will bo greatly Improved. Wil
liam F. Woodward has this matter In
hand and is asking donations for the
play-ground gymnasium.
The board of directors, composed of
some of the most prominent men of the
city, 1 active In the work and pays par-
tlcular attention to the expenditure of
the money. Jvery om ib imsnou im w
the auditing committee, composed of
Rev. T. L. Eliot, Judge Wolverton and
Mrs. Levi White.
The socloty asks all it friends to come
forward at this, time of the year with
donation no matter how small, they will
be thankfully received. Everything 1
acceptable that 1 useful In the house
hold together with clothing. Especially
now do the children need shoes, over
coats and underwear and everyone who
ha anything of the kind to donate will
confer a favor on the management by
communicating with the receiving home
phones. East 8, or B 1404, and all dona
tions will be promptly called for.
CALIFORNIA MOST SOLID REPUBLICAN
STATE, BUT HOUSE POWER IS SLIGHT
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Eight Representatives of Grand Old Party to Count Little in Democratic Body of Congress-Panama Pacific
Exposition Bonds Carried Overwhelmingly-Governor-elect Johnson Besieged by Plum-Seekers.
BT HARRT B. SMITH.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Nov. 19.
The campaign that has Just closed
In California, with the election of
a solid Republican ticket, ha demon
strated that In proportion to her total
vote, California Is about the most solid
Republican state In the Union. With
all the defection from Johnson, and
with all the seeming blunders made
... vi. rsmiukti managers, he has
been elected by the largest plurality
given any Governor since the days of
Stoneman. There, isn't a Democrat In
office anywhere that u ot
When there was a sort of faint
chance that a full count of the vote In
filonaJ District would
LUf5 r ol -"J-
show that Jodge John Baker, Demo
crat, had defeated Congressman Engle
brlght, there were a lot of- loyal Re
publican who hopea mat. w new.
would be true. Not that they had any
thing against Englebrlght, but they
.v.. nf at least one Demo
cratic Congressman to represent this
state in the nexx umgn.
Ton see. the great Republican sweep
t- h. .t.te was really too much of a
good thing. The next lower House of
Congress Is to De uemucmuc
fornia Is going to send eight Republi
cans into that Democratic -House and
as one cynic puts it. "All they 11 get
for the state Is their per diem and
mileage."
Exposition Bond Win.
The state as well a the city of San
FrancUco gave loyal support to the
bauds for the Fanama-Paclflc Exposi
tion It was thought there might be
n strong vote in the South against the
five million dollars worth of bonds
that the state was asked to give, but
all over the length and breadth of
California, the vote In favor was over
whelming. San Francisco, naturally,
voted in favor of these bonds 20 to 1.
while In Los Angeles the vote was 2
to I.
This week the city of San Francisco
held a special bond election and voted
to assess Itself another five million
. .. . . v. a ..nncltlon. This will
make an assurance of 110.000.000 to j
say nothing of the $7,500,000 that ha
been subecrlbea by xue peujj.o .i iwBc
Wltk a fund of 117.500.000. all that
California needs to make the exposi
tion a success Is the indorsement of
Congress. That, apparently, Is not go
ing to be an easy matter to secure,
but the Western delegations can be
depended . upon . to fight to the last
ditch. - . . '
Even should Government indorse
ment be refused In favor of New Or
leans, the exposition will be held.
The campaign showed the liquor
and brewery men making fools of
themselves and monkeying with a
buzzsaw that they surely ought bo
hare sense enough to leave alone.
In California, the voters who desire
statewide prohibition are In the mi
feorlty. They probably would remain
so for a long time If merely let alone.
They agitate their prohibition Ideas
more or less all the time but have not
secured sufficient strength to be taken
very seriously.
But these good people, plus an en
raged partisan faction, will not be In
the m'nority. The fight on Wallace for
Lieutenant-Governor was foolish. The
functions of the office are unimportant
from the temperance standpoint. He's
harmless, but to rouse hi friends
might be dangerous In the extreme.
Governor's Patronage Blgr.
Governor-elect Johnson, when he as
sumes office next January, will have,
directly and Indirectly, 2800 offices or
patronage places at his disposal. Al
ready the scramble for places has com
menced. The election of an Insurgent
for Governor of California has directed
attention to possible Federal appoint
ments, this having been stimulated by
a recent statement by President Taft
that In the apportioning of public of
ficers he would consider the Insurgents
In those states where they had become
dominant over the old-line regulars.
The insurgents, too, have In view, a
high Judicial office, that they would
like to fill with one of their own num
ber. That Is the United States District
Judgeship now held by John J. de Haven
and during whose Illness Is temporarily
filled by District Judge Robert S. Bean,
of Portland.
General James Smith, of Philippine
fame, and now a member of the United
States Customs Court, Is said to have
the favorable consideration of Presi
dent Taft for this place.
While Immigration Commissipner
North la under suspension pending an
Investigation, there are those who re
gard the office as practically vacant
and open for a new occupant. John
II .Rogers, campaign manager for Con
gressman Hayes, already Is on the list
of applicants.
Notwithstanding the term of Post
master Arthur G. Fish will not expire
for two years. Charles F. Curry is now
being discussed as his successor. Curry
was for some time connected with the
postal service, having been In charge
of a station In this city.
Census Work Praised.
Hart Momson, special agent of the
Census Bureau, wno was here from
Washington a few, days ago, gave San
Francisco and Oakland great praise
for reliable counts. In this city, Mom
sen went Into districts In the burned
area south of Market street, where he
suspected that all was not right On
Mission street were two lodging-houses
which reported more than 500 lodgers
eaoh when the census was taken last
AprlL The Investigator found that
each place still has more than 600
lodgers and over 600 room. The
rooms, of course, were small, but the
proprietors convinced him with their
books.
Gown Display Dazzles.
For a clothes' show, the Pomeroy wed
ding Thursday of last week was a close
second to the opening assembly. Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was one of the
prettSjst young matrons present. Her
dreamy and ewft browny eyes were ad
mirably set off by her costume of brown
velvet. The coat was made with a broad
collar of white satin and her hat was
covered with plumes of a deep orange
shade.
With this striking combination, Mrs.
Roosevelt carried a huge muff of yellow
lo
Miss Marian Newhall looked unusually
handsome in old rose satin, with white
fox funs and a small crush hat of rose
velvet. Miss Helena Irwin, who Is the
best gowned of the younger girls, wore
Instead of her favorite rose color, an
especially pretty frock of dull blue chif
fon made over white eatln, and a large
picture hat.
The bride' gown was a graceful prin
cess efTect of white satin embroidered in
pearls and tiny gold beads but she looked
even more charming In her going-away
costume of brown velvet with a small
brown hat trimmed with pink plumes.
All of those details must be correct for
firmr handed from the society
editor who knows all about such things.
Paper Against Owner's Side.
One of the anomalies of the recent cam
paign was the stand taken by John D.
Spreckles and hi son, Jack. The Call,
of which John D. is the proprietor, sup
ported Hiram Johnson for Governor, but
the Johnson cause did not engage the
sympathies of either John D. or his son.
Both were ardent booster for Bell and
expressed their confidence by large bets
made through a young man who is very
friendly with Jack. So we were treated
to the curious spectacle of the Call doing
everything in its power to make the pro
prietor of the Call and his son lose
money. And the Call accomplished its
purpose.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
way contracted the other day for C0OO.O00
worth of cars with which to handle the
Western traffic. A reporter In talking
the other day with an ofNeial of tho
Santa Fe wa told that all the signs
Indicate an unprecedented development of
the industries of the Pacific Coaflt.
"Though a third transcontinental road
is now in the field," said this official,
"each of them will do far more business
than was formerly done either by the
Southern Pacific or the Santa Fe."