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(tea mrntB SUNDAY MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PItESS. VOL II. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1907. No. 38. mm EDITION GARY SUITS STEELJiOYS Corporation Officials Visit the Mushroom City Mil lions Spent. THREE MILES OF PAVEMENT Every Tart of Mammoth Plant In Embryo Looked Over by (Jay ley and His Associates. Chicago, Aug. 31. An official In spection of the now mammoth steel plant and town of Gary was made yesterday by Janes Gayley, flrst vice-president of the United States Steel corporation. Vice-President Gayley was accompanied on the trip by several members of the board of director.s of the steel corporation. The particular object of the in spection was to see how the ?45, 000,000 rocently appropriated by tho board of directors for machinery and other equipment at tho new steel plant Is being expended. Mr. Gayley and his associates, after a thorough Inspection of the plant, which now is being rushed to completion, and after seeing every thing that is to be seen in the new town rising out of the sand dunes, expressed themselves as being satis fied with tho progress of tho work and tho manner in which it is carried on. Vice-President Gayley and a party of fourteen arrived in Chicago in the morning and registered at the Auditorium Annex. They were ac companied by their wives and a num ber of servants. They went to Gary shortly after noon and returned to Chicago In time to catch the 5 o'clock train on tho Burlington rail road for Denver. See Every Part of Big Work. At Gary Mr. Gayley and his party were met by W. P. Gleason, super intendent of the steel plant, who con ducted tho visitors through the vari ous parts of tho works. Catching first a glimpse of Broad way, tho main street of the new city, tho party was escorted north across tho sandy stretch, that lies between the built up part of the town and the site of 'tho steol mills along the southern shore of Lake Michigan. It was there that most of the time was spent. Structure after structure, clean and fresh, smokestacks of great height and furnaces in various stages of construction, all ultimately to become the greatest steel produc ing works in tho world, wero what Vice-President Gayley and his party saw as they stamped through tho sand. On Site of Furnaces. After taking a general survey of the buildings Supt. Gleason took the party to the site of the sixteen blast furnaces and the eighty-four sixty ton basic open hearth furnaces, which are to bo a feature of the plant. Eight of the sixteen blast fur naces will be built during tho next year, work on them to begin on March 1. Tho blast furnaces will have a daily capacity of 450 tons each. Plans for tho open hearth furnaces then were explained to Mr. Gayley by Supt. Gleason. The .buildings will be Identical In every detail, each being laid out on tho dimensions of 1,180 feet long, 204 feet wide, and. containing fourteen furnaces of sixty tons' capacity. The charging floors are 80 feet wide and pouring floors 61 feet wide. The pouring platforms are under construction. In these buildings, It was explained to Mr. Gayley, a big sum will be expended for machinery. To Install Hugo Cranes. Several seventy-five ton electric cranes will be installed on the charg ing floors and tho pouring floors will have 125 ton cranes that will be used for lifting and swinging the molten ore. This feature of the plant ap peared to interest tho party. Tho charging floors open Into storage yards, each more than seventy-one feet wldo which run tho entire length of tho buildings and which are served by Ave cranes. Mixer buildings will bo construct ed at tho end of each of tho open hearth buildings nearest the blast furnaces. These will be 85 feet wide .and 120 feet long, containing mixers of 300 tons capacity, operated by hydraulic power. Ladles will ho handled by soventy ftvo ton cranes with fifteen ton aux iliaries. The finishing end of tho plant will include slabbing, blooming and billet mills, a rail mill of 900, 000 tons annual capacity, one forty eight inch and one 1G0 inch nlato mill with a combined capacity of 300,000 tons a year. Thero will bo also structural .mills and eight Inch to twenty Inch merchant mills. Labor and Time Waste Eliminated. In designing the mills, tho engin eers have aimed to secure tho great est economy in the handling of ma terial. Thero will be no waste of time or effort. When the furnace section of the plant had been Inspected Mr. Gayley and the other visitors were taken down to the lake shore to view tho projected harbor. The plan of tho corporation provides for a slip a mile long as a harbor for ore carry ing steamers. This waterway will have a depth of twenty-five feet and will, be 250 feet wide. At the point where the steel plant is being constructed tho lake Is shallow for some distance from shore and It Is the intention of the corpor ation to fill in enough to accommo date nearly one-third of the plant. From this point, Mr. Gleason pilot ed his visitors through the new city growing up south of the mills. Hero Mr. Gayley saw new homes under constiuctlon on every hand. Broadway Is three and a half miles long between the Grand Calumet and tho Little Calumet rivers. From one end to tho other, banks hotels, stores, and offices are under con struction. The street is 100 feet wide, has wide cement side walks, and Is paved with cement and asphalt, corrugated for flushing and draining purposes. AL WATERMAN SEES PHOSPHORESCENT SEA Al. Waterman, the genial electric light of commerce, representing the Pacific Hardware and Steel Co., of San Francisco returned from the val ley this morning via Drain, Scotts burg and way points. Al. reports business fine, hut like all who havo spent any time on C003 Bay tho long ing to return and mix again with companions and friends was upper most in his thoughts, after living from hand to mouth in the valley. Ho also looks forward to partaking of one of Dr. Hayden's "Curries" with much pleasure. Al.- reports one of nature's rare phenomena while coming along the Gardiner beach, this morning, a phosphorescent sea, and while tired and sleepy he would not have missed the same for any amount of money. UTTER FIRM WILL BUY NEW MACHINERY Mr. Moran, who is interested In the Utter brick yard on Isthmus In let, was in tho city yesterday and said the company has decided to pur chase a lot of now machinery for the yard. Among this will be a new brick machine and a dry kiln. These supplies and improvements cost a great deal of money and require much tlmo for installation, and the firm Is not certain whether it can be running in full bla3t this year or not. Tho machino now In use is not satisfactory and tho firm found it necessary to make tho additions mentioned. CEMENT BLOCKS FOR BUILDING ON DISPLAY Daniel S. Orr has a sample of con crete block on exhibition at tho Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Orr Is an experienced manufaturer of concrete blocks and has an experi mental plant on Broadway near Washington avenuo where ho :s working with cement and Myrtle Point gravel. Tho sample ho shovs compares very favorably with build ing material of this sort, as manu factured in other places. Mr. Orr says ho can manufacture this con crete building material and compete with imported brick, slnco the amount of plaster required is much less than with brick. STATE OFFICERS WILL VISIT COOS COUNTY John Wall, Grand Chancellor, and L. R. Stlnson, Grand Keeper of Rec ords and Seals, of the Knights of Pythias for Oregon, will be on Coos Bay next week for tho purpose of inspecting tho various lodges of the order. They will arrlvo on the Alliance. , NEWS OF NORTH BEND Doings as Recorded by Times' Regular Correspondent J. H. Robertson of El Crco, was in town yesterday. Thorn & Wieck have made three tons of Ice at their plant, which has a dally capacity of eight tons. They will make enough Ice to supply the local demand. Tho Ketchum Klub are moving to day. By Monday morning they will be settled in their new quarters In tho Winsor Block. Two cases have been commenced In the Justice's court. In both of which J. H. Guerry is plaintiff. In one case R. C. Holmes and wife are defendants and in the other case J. W. Grout and wife are the defend ants. Tho former is for ?125 al leged to be due the plaintiff for pro fessional services rendered the de fendants, and the latter Is for $250 alleged to bo due the plaintiff for similar services. N. C. McLeod rep resents the plaintiff and C. E. Mayheo tho defendants. A crowd of young people left last night to spend Sunday up Haynes Inlet. They spent the night at Peter son's and today will visit Mr. Robert son's home, El Creo. Miss Elizabeth Davenport, a sis ter of W. A. Davenport, arrived last WIRELESS ON SAN FRANCISCO BOATS Steamers Rose City and Bay City to Have Telegraphic Equipment. Wireless telegraph apparatus will be placed on board the new steam ships Rose City and Bay City, which will operate between San Francisco and Portland for the San' Francisco & Portland Steamship company, says the Oregonian. Official information to this effect was given out yester day. When the flrst of the vessels goes into service on the line she will be prepared to receive messages from all points on the Coast where there are wireless stations. The Rose City and the Bay City were recently purchased by Mr. Scherwln for service between San Francisco and Portland. sThoy wero then known as tho steamships Law ton and Kansas City. The latter was a Morgan line b,oat and operated be tween New York and Savannah. The Lawton was purchased from the government and had been used as a transport. The names of tho two ships have been ordered changed to the Rose City and the Bay City. ' At present the only merchant ves sel on tho Coast having wireless tele grap equipment is the Pacific Coast company's steamer President. She is operating between San Francisco and Seattle. The Government, now en route to the Coast from tho east, is also so equipped. The federal government has estab lished wireless stations at Flattery, North Head, Cape Blanco and Point Reyes. For a vessel at sea it is a comparatively easy matter to make a connection with one of these sta tions. On tho occasion of the trip of the steamship President to Nome, a message was received by the opera tor of North Head whem the vessel was 2,300 miles to the northwest. One was recently sent from San Francisco to a government vessel 600 miles to the westward. To the shipping Interests and to tho gov ernment the placing of wireless ap paratus on all steamships Is a matter of the greatest importance. RAINS ARE INJURING VALLEY HOP CROP Snlem Reports Resumption of Wet Weather Last Night Hops and Prunes In Danger. Salem, Aug. 31. A rain sot in again tonight in this section and promises to continue for some tlmo. The barometers show Indications of a heavy fall. There are many dis couragements on account of the present rain, as it has been wet of late and the hops are not picked. This rain will add further damage to this crop. The prune men are also apprehensive that damage will result to the prune crop as the fruit is nearly ripe and Is likely to crack If tho wet weather continues. To day was tho first day of the rush to hop fields and the pickers had not gotten well started. Mold on hops la quite common. Wednesday from Lincoln, Nebraska". Sho will assist her brother, who In tends to open a real estate office very soon. Perry Mouzoy, who has been run ning tho North Bend News Company for some time past has quit working there. He still retains an Interest In the business. He doesn't know just what he "will do. First of all, how ever, he expects to take a little rest. Prof. A. B. Raab and family, the Misses Wilson, Mitchell, Miller and Davenport, and Mr. Carmlchael and W. A. Davenport, returned Friday evening from a several days' camping trip up Coos River. Entrance examinations for new pupils and those who failed to pass their examinations were held yester day at.' the North Bend public school building. During vacation the sclfool building has been repaired thorough ly and the upper story finished and divided into two rooms, which will bo used by tho high school depart ment. The school will open Tuesday morning. Another teacher, Mr. Ray Hevener, was employed last week. He will have charge of the eighth grade. Mr. Hevener comes from Ashland, Oregon. FITCH HAS WRITTEN NEW MODERN COMEDY Deals, with American Life in a Com edy Vein Gives out Interview on Adaptation of Foreign Dramas Pairs, Aug. 30. C. Fitch has com pleted a new play which will have a Frohman production in New York next season. Fitch, who has been making a short stay in Paris at the close""of his annual automobile tour "of Europe, said today that tho play was a three act comedy dealing with American life, not specially society. The title is still undecided.' "All last winter and spring I spent consid erable time In thinking out tho main lines and filing in details, and fln aly brought the play to a satisfactory shape," he said. "I had it written In my head, so to speak. During the automobile tour through Italy in tho early summer, I interpreted my wan dering to settle down in Venice one month, which was devoted entirely to putting the play on paper and making the finishing touches. Ven ice is an ideal place for literary work, owing to tho absence of noise and tho facility for concentrating one's thoughts undisturbed." Fitch took advantage of his stay In Paris to make arangements for tho adaptation of his play, "The Truth," now running in London, on the French stage by Tristan Bernard. When asked if he thought American playwrights wero still inclined to copy European stagecraft and tech nique Fitch replied: "Tho tendancy Is toward the meth ods best adapted to the requirements of American audiences. "As to the adaptation of European plays, I believe that any really good work based on motives' and circum stances which an entire audience can appreciate requires little adaptation for America, whereas plays turning on a particular phase of foreign life are always unlikely to secure full appreciation. This accounts for tho comparatively small success obtained in America by Paul Hervieu, whoso works I greatly admire. SEVENTY MEN DIE IN BRIDGE DISASTER Collapse of Cantilever Structure Consequent Deaths Due to Late Warning. New York, Aug. 31. Theodore Cooper of this City, who had been consulting engineer in charge of tho huge cantilever bridge which col lapsed Thursday, feels keenly tho accident which cost the lives of 70 men. Cooper says that on Thursday evening after his inspec tor came to him and told him things did not look well for the bridge, ho sent a message to the men at work to get off the bridge and stay off it. Cooper has not been notified whether tho warning came too late. Cooper says he believed tho brldgo as planned to 'bo absolutely safe. Cooper is one of the most distin guished' engineers In tho country aB well as the most experienced, Buy your groceries at Saccbl's, HAS NO MONOPOLY ON GRAVENSTEINS Coos Hay Product Is of Excellent Quality, However Baldwins Equally Fine. The Coqulllo Sentinel has tho fol lowing pertinent remarks respecting the exploitation of the Gravensteln apple, which Is being carried on by the Chamber of Commerce, supported by the Times; "There are a good many people In this section of the county who are de sirous of knowing what variety of fruit "Coos Bay Gravenstelns" and "Coos Bay Loganberries" are. They have been reading for the past few weeks In the Times about these varie ties and are wondering if they are dif fenent from the ordinary gravensteln apple and loganberry of which every person in this section of tho county .has all they want to use and some left to sell. Besides this, hundreds of bushels go to waste every year. Or, If It is something now wo would like to get wise to the variety and urge our people to follow suit and set out some "Coos Bay Gravenstelns" and "Coos Bay Loganberries." If they aro different, wo want some, badly." It Is natural for any community to make big claims, but tho Impression Is not Intended that Gravenstelns aro grown only on Coos Bay. The val ley raises Gravenstelns, the Siuslaw country produces as good Graven stelns as can be raised anywhere on earth, tha Coqullle country likewiso, produces and ships somo of the finest Gravenstelns, and the people about the Bay should know tho great im portance which attaches to the grow ing of this particular variety of apple. Nobody denies that agricul ture and horticulture in general are sadly neglected in tho country around Coos Bay and since it is so well known, it seems to be tho mis sion of tho Times to enthuse more life into those pursuits and to widen them If possible by attracting now tillers to this country. Mr. J. W. Watt, now a resident of Coos Bay, but formerly of tho valley, said yesterday to a Times' reporter, that Gravenstelns are grown all up and down the Willamette valley, but the product is usually of Inferior quality as tho pests are common there and thus the profits are not so generous as they can bo made in Coos county, whero there are no troublesome pests. Mr. Watt added that the Gravensteln Is not the only applo which Is grown hero to per fection and said ho had seen better Baldwins from the Myrtle Point neighborhood than anywhere elso In the United States. ELECTRIC COMPANY TO INSTALL BOILER The Coos Bay Gas and Electric company will start work on Installa tion of a large new boiler at their Marshfield plant this morning. The work will require about a week, and tho company has requested tho pa trons In tho center of tho city to uso as little electricity as possible dur ing that time, as tho current will not be so strong as usual. DEFRAUDING THE CUSTOMS. Conspirators Who Robbed Customs Taken Into Custody. Porls, Aug. 31. The police havo unearthed a scheme that has been in operation for a long time past to defraud the French customs. Sev eral officers and tho clerk of a largo freight Arm doing business with the United States and England and a clerk In tho customs department wero taken Into custody. Tho frauds aro estimated at $200,000. SALMON RUN LIGHT SO FAR THIS SEASON Mr. C. E, Nicholson, of tho cold storage plant, says the salmon run has been very light thus far on Coos Bay, and compared with tho run of last season it is already a month late. Tho fishermen aro taking on an average about 100 flsh per night, where last year they wero catching anywhoro between 200 and 300, tho averago for last season being closo to 300 por day. Photographers Attention, Tho Marshfleld Chamber of Com merce offers a fine prize for tho photographer getting tho best photo graph of tho boat, fleet on Monday. Sept. 2, Labor Day. The fleet will leave Marshfleld at 9 a. m. for North Bend. Get out your cameras and kodaks. LABOR WILL HAVE IIING Monday Set Apart For Obser vance of Legal Holiday All Coos Bay PARADE PROMPTLY AT 9:30 Speeches, Hall Game, Wntcr and Other Sports Will Make Full Day. Tomorrow, Labor on Coos Bay will celebrato for the first time. Tho selection of a day for tho annual observance pf labor occurred in 1887. Tho observance was started by the labor organizations as a class. but later on it was urged in the sev eral state legislatures as worthy of being a legal holiday and was adopted as such from time to time by states until now, it is universal throughout the country. Tho flrst, Monday In September Is tho day designated for the recurrence of tho ceiebratlon. Tho entire day will bo given up to tho parade, addresses, sports and contests. Tho sports include water contests, ball game and other similar amusoments, tug of war, bicycle races, etc. The parade will form on Front street at Wolcott's store at 9:30, and then things will be turn ed loose and tho day's fun will bo on. The line of march is as follows: Parade forms at corner of C and Front streets at 9:30 a. m., headed by Acme band, followed by Mayor and Council in carriages, Business Men's Floats, North Bend Carpent ers' & Joiners' Union, Ship Carpent ers' Union, Marshfield Carpenters & Joiners' Union, North Bend Long shoremen's Union, I. W. W., Retail Clerks' Association, Marshfield Long shoremen, Painters' & Decorators' Union Machinists & Ironworkers, Coal Miners' Union. March West to Masonic Temple, North to High School, East to Mer chant's Corner, North to County Bridge, East to Front street, thence South to starting point. Immediately following dissolution of the parado, tho people will as semble on tho Plant docks whero tho speeches will be mado from a stand erected for tho purpose. Ad dress of Welcome by Mayor Straw, Responso by C. A. Strickland, Mar shal of the Day, Speeches by Francis H. Clarke and C S. Vandersloot. Water sports will follow tho speak ing and these will likely continue kuntll noon, when intermission will occur for meals. The ball came and other sports will take place at tho ball ground from 1:30 to 3:30. After these streot contests will ho held on Front street, tho day to close with a grand ball In tho even ing Boats will ply between Marsh- . field and North Bend every half hour. CONCRETE FOUNDATION IS NOW COMPLETE The Rogers-Bowman building con crete foundation is built up to grade and the supports aro being placed in the basement. These aro of wood and brick and tho work is being car ried on rapidly. The firm received a shipment pf 32,000 brick this week, for tho inside foundation work. Tho plans for the flrst story have been changed and this story will be built of concrete, owing to tho Inability of securing brick as fast as necessary to hurry tho work. HIGHBINDERS GET BUSY. San Francisco Chinamen In llxun i Two aro Dead. San Francisco, Aug. 31. A mur der, declared by the police to have beon tho work of hlghblndere, was perpetrated In tho Chinese quarters, at 7 o'clock this morning. So Ho Yick, a member of tho nop Slng Tong, while walking on Wash ington street, was shot dead by an unknown Chinese who Is bolleved to belong to the Suey Sing Tong Tho murderer made his escape. TTc tragedy is thought to bo the sequel of tho shooting of Leo Long, a Suey Sing man, In Oakland at an early hour this morning. For Sale Good reside ure o Broadway. J. D. Johnson. Ri mi 'i & : 41 .