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DAT AND ALSO WEEKLY I1Y
The Coos Bay Times Publishing Co.
FRED PASLEY, Editor.
REX LARGE, Business Manager.
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COOS BAY TIMES
Marshfield. Oregon.
FIRE PROTECTION.
AS nn nddltlonaj step in a move
ment to multiply means of pre
vention of losses by Are, the follow
ing letter has bedn sent from the
headquarters at Washington of the
International Society of State and
Municipal Building Commissioners
and Inspectors to the mayor of every
city in America:
To His Honor the Mayor:
Some municipal executives have
won fame by at least attempting to
reduce the cost of street car travel,
others by the strict enforcement of
liquor regulations, and still others
have done great good for their com
munities by imitating, or working on
behalf of existing wise laws regulat
ing this, that or the other thing that
needed regulation. But so far we
know of no city whose Executive has
zealously striven to eradicate one of
the greatest evils that besets and
threatens the extinction of every one
of our municipalities, fire. Yet its
ravages have meant 7,000 human
lives in a year, and in money in that
same period nearly half a billion dol
lars. Surely Is the matter worthy of
your attention!
Our fire departments have been Im
proved to a high degree of efficiency,
cost of some $000,000, a thorough
most of our cities have installed ex-; survey of the proposed 21-foot water-
tion. Our people have grown heed
less of the danger, and keep on build
ing so shoddlly that the wonder is
that we have not more such dlsastrs
as those of San Francisco and Balti
more. Our citie3 of 200,000 peoplo
or so feel well off when the year's
fire loss Is not over half a million dol
lars and the cost of fighting flro does
not exceed $300,000; European cities
of similar size are sorely stricken
when their loss exceeds $50,000 a
year, and the cost of fire depart
ments, etc., Is greater than another
$50,000.
Surely the time has come when
something drastic must bo done.
Little dependence can be placed upon
the Individual; he, the general run
of him, erroneously believes that his
interests aro best subserved by cheap,
flimsy buildings. It becomes the duty
of tho community, through its exec
utive and legislative bodies, to take
steps toward Its own protection by
the prevention of fire in spite of the
individuals' indifference In the mat
ter. Stricter building regulations
should be enacted and enforced; your
building departments should be given
more authority and more help, In or
der that not only the new buildings
may be better built, but that the old
ones be frequently and thoroughly
inspected and their owners com
pelled to make those buildings less
of a menace than they are to their
neighbors and to the safety of the
entire city.
We bespeak your earnest co-operation
In this matter. No one can
do so much for his city as can its
Mayor; the Press and your most public-spirited
citizens will rally to your
aid, and, last and lease, this Society
is yours to command. We have the
facts, the data, the experience, the
machinery, so to speak, to help you
In any effort you may make on behalf
of the movement we have inaugur
ated the country over for the Pre
vention of Fire.
Respectfully yours,
F. W. FITZPATRICK,
Executive Officer.
CAXAL PROJECT.
ANAL Information is of interest
to Coos Bay people because it
has to do with water transportation.
The following gives an Idea regarding
the cost of building waterways: A
dispatch from Ottawa, Canada, states
that the Georgian Bay Canal Commis
sion has practically completed, at a
cellent water-works, we have done
wonders in trying to cure tho evil,
but have made few efforts, indeed, in
way from Georgian Bay to Montreal
via the French river, Niplsslng, and
the Ottawa river. The engineers of
tho right direction, that of preven-the commission have not compiled a
final estimate as to tho whole cost
of tho canal, but from information
now available it is stated that the
total expenditure required for a con
tinuous and easily navigable water
way, with a minimum depth of 21
feet from Georgian bay to tido water,
will be closo to $105,000,000. It is
said that tho canal will shorten the
distance from Fort William, on Geor
gian Bay, to Montreal by over 400
miles.
It is estimated that with tho com
pletion of the canal there will bo
500,000 horsepower available along
its course almost as much as is
available at Niagara. With so much
cheap power available nnd with its
great resources of iron ore and tim
ber the Ottawa valley Is expected to
become one of the greatest manufac
turing centers of the continent. Re
ferring to tho early construction of
the canal, Sir Wilfred Laurier re
cently said that If ho had the money
to do so he would begin work Immediately.
PUBLIC COLUMN
"Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad."
When a railroad or other public
service corporation seeks some priv
ilege or franchise to which there may
be objection, it invariably happens
that the people to be affected get at
logger-heads over the proposals and
soon the air Is filled with charges of
bad faith, etc. Then, unless the peo
ple stop their senseless clawing long
enough to view the situation calmly,
the corporation, whether Its designs
be good or bad, gets what it wants.
The situation relative to biidglng tho
bay seems to be fast reaching this
status. Charges of bad faith, "graft"
and of ulterior motives having for
their object the furtherance of selfish
personal interests, are made with
breezy freedom and frankness by
those having opposing views. The
situation in this respect is so illogical
that the stranger can scarcely escape
the conclusion that they must all be
right otherwise they are acting, un
wittingly, as puppets in the game.
Meetings called to discuss the
bridge are given over to men who en
gage in purely personal exchange of
dubious compliments. Why Is It that
a subject regarded of such great Im
portance can not be discussed In a
dispassionate way? Even the much
respected Father Donnelly so far for
gets the amenities as to charge those
whom he thinks responsible for op
position to the 'bridge with being
"birds of passage who, after they fat
tened their maws and feathorecMhelr
nests, will wing their flight to other
fields of promotion and exploitation."
And this is precisely what is charged
against those who favor tho 'bridge,
which means, It must bo assumed,
that "tho colonel's lady and Judy
O'Grady aro sisters under tho skin."
It is often noticeablo that tho less
we know about a given subject the
more ready wo aro to give an opin
ion; but opinions aro valuable only In
so far as they are based on provable
facts. Specialists only are permitted
to offer unsupported opinions on sub
jects strictly in their line. Of what
value Is it to say that no bridges are
permitted across the bay at San
Francisco or at other points unless
the similarity of conditions with
Coos Bay are shown? Nor does it
serve any good purpose to point to
the drawbridge entering Portland or
in tho vicinity of Boston unless tho
conditions necessitating their exist
ence in relation to conditions at Coos
Bay are pointed out. Preambles and
resolutions carry llttlo weight with
the engineering departments of gov
ernment, neither do the opinions of
so-called prominent citizens unless
backed up by pertinent facts. If tho
engineers of tho War Department de
cide wrong on the bridge question
it will be because they had more
opinions than facts before them. And
this will be the fault of tho Coos Bay
people. If shipping and industrial
interests see in the proposed bridge a
menaco to navigation they should
take steps to gather the evidence and
submit It to those who will bo called
on to decide the fate of the bridge.
AN OBSERVER.
CORTHBLC & DURK1EE
Contractors and Builders
Plans .drawn, estimates fur
nished. CvA for Durkce, back
of Hibbard,s grocery store.
(P. O. Box 3.58.
MARSHEIELD
GENERAL HOSPITAL
MISS M. BLACK, Matron
Hospital for Surgical and
Medical cases. Rates reason
able. Phone 991.
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"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or
x make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his
house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his
door' RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Just now empire builders are building iron-shod paths to the commercial door of North Bend
b cause its factories have the frieght to ship, and their payroll talks
Like seeks like Is an eternal law of nature Although but imperfectly recognized, is
absolute This same law holds good in building of f actlpries A factory is built always at
that .point where there are fewest .obstacles to be overcome, where tributary raw materials are uhlim-
ited and markets unrestricted .If this holds good in one case ft" will hold Wood in several-a dozen ,
or a hundred . 4
North Bend but a few years ago had one factory, soon it had several, now there are a dozen, and the raw materials are her I
for a hundred more. Factories make payrolls, these in turn create business houses which invite banks, jobbers traders and trans
portation facilities, and all go to the making of a city because "Its Payroll Talks' which creates a demand for real estate There
is beaten pthto our door because we have the best bargains in North Bend real estate -
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