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tiJl4mMaMmit&i&U)m i& THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1907. ,fl Coos Bay Times AN INDKTEKDKNT nn,U",, "''S'ArKI rUBLISHBD KVEUY UAY EXOI'lTINa MON DAY AND ALSO WKRKLY hY Tn .'00s Bay Times Punusmxa Co. The policy of The Uoos Bay Times will be Republican in politics, with the Independence of which President Roose velt is the leading exponent. Entered at the postoQlce at Mnrshflcld, Ore son, for transmission through the malls as sccund classjnialljmattcr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single copy, daily, 5 cents Per month, daily, - - 50 cents Three months, daily, - $1 25 Bix months, daily - $12 50 One year, daily, - - - $5 00 Weekly, per year - - $1 50 Local readers 10c Una first inser tion, 8c lino each succeeding inser tion. Address all communications to COOS BAY TIMES Marshfield, Oregon. HELL'S JIAV IIOTTLKK. The news columns contain great Information concerning the probab ilities of rapid work on the Drain road to Coos Bay. It is entirely in line with tho statement contained in this paper on another date that Ore gon is shortly to be the battle ground for several great transcontinental companies. From sources which can not bo discarded or belittled the in , formation lma been received that the whole railroad world is watching this section where tho interest centers in momentous events. It is not only tho Southern Pacific, but the Great Northern, tho Northern Pacific, the Rock Island, the Northwestern and the so-called Moffat road, which are pointing to this neglected but re sourceful land. They are aware of. the value of Coos Bay as a great and capacious harbor and their advent hero may be expected with confi dence unless, in a careless or impa tient moment, wo so act that tho harbor will be crippled or will be practically turned over to one com pany alone. In that event we may expect only the Southern Pacific, for tho incentive to make Coos Bay a terminal will bo no longer active with the other companies. Tho people of Coos Bay want the Drain road. They are glad that the Southern Pacific has become active. They are glad the Northwestern, tho Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, tho Rock Island and the Moffat road aro active. They notice that Mr. Seymour Boll, who has been quiet for a year, becomes activo the mo ment this general railroad activity begins and the great railroad con flict Is commenced. They naturally ask what this application for a fran chise now means. If the ordinance proposed by Mr. Bell were less lib oral for tho applicant and left any power in tho city to regulate or con trol tho action of the street (?) rall- road, tho curiosity of the citizen might bo less pronounced. But It only requires a reading of the ordi nance by any thoughtful person to seo that such n franchiso will be a triumph for anyone who gets it. The most simple minded neophyte could tako such a franchiso and find an 'assignee at onco who would pay him a small fortune for it. There aro men who would pay a price to tho city If tho franchiso could run to them. In fnct, it would only be nec essary to offer any ono of tho rail road companies mentioned nil tho rights which Mr. Bell hopes to ob tain by this instrument and they would not only pay well for It but would oporato it at onco. Why? Bo causo in tho hands of such a com pany it would mean the ownership of Coos By and tho end of water competition. Now some Innocent persons mny jay that tho company owning tills oad under tho proposed charter, Is ' V.. bilged to transport cars for other porson or corporations at a rea sonable rate. Sec. 11 of tho ordi nance Is as follows: "Tho said Soy luour H. Boll, trustee, his heirs or assigns, shall under tho provisions of this franchise, transport nud switcli at n uniform and reasonable prico' for any porson, firm or corpo ration, any and all cars of such per sons, firms or corporations." Tills is nil tho restriction Mr. Boil or liis nsignco will havo on his or its rotations witli other companies for fifty years. Lot us supposo tho.frau chlso woro assigned, just in that form, to the Great Northern Railway company. Supposo then It did not havo tlmo to transport or switch cars for tho Southern Pacific. Suppose It fixed a high rato for doing tho work. Do you think tho Southern Pacific would enjoy tho litigation which must follow or tho merchants delight In their inconveniences? Who Is to fix that reasonable rato and whut would ho tho offect of tho failure of Mr. Boll and his assignees to comply with this provision? It is the most important, provision of the ordinance aud yet It provides no tim Ire to decide what Is a reasonable rate .and leaves no power in tho city government or people to even sug gest what is reasonable. If Mr. Bell shall refuse utterly to comply with this provision, there 13 no forfeiture declared and no inconvenience or punishment follows. Even in the matter of running passenger cars no obligation rests on Mr. Bell or his assignee. If he runs two ca'rs every day he holds the franchise. No mat ter If the whole city Is disturbed by the failure to run more than two cars a day, no power can require him to run more for fifty years. In a great city where strikes sometimes occur, street car companies often paralyze all traffic by refusing to comply with reasonable demands of strikers and are brought to terms only by the prospect of having a forfeiture de clared. Not so with this franchise for fifty years. Mr. Bell will have It all his own way. Tho truth is that it would be bet ter to grant this franchise to the Southern Pacific. It would enable that company to occupy the water front exclusively if it crossed the bay at North Bend. If it came down on the east side it would bo even more effectual to place the control in that company's hands, for 'the water front on the east side would belong "to that company and the line from the de pot up to North Bend would take the water front of the peninsular. We hope the Southern Pacific will not consider that we aro fighting its entrance into these cities, merely because we aro objecting to Mr. Bell's charter. GEMS AM) LIGHT. When tho crowd meets in the market place, each member loudly denies that he has any love for the fine shades of thought and feeling which are embodied in tho sentiment of poetry. But when the crowd dis solves, each goes to his own place and in silence estimates the gains of the day. Whether It be profit, or triumph, or glory, he measures its values, after all, by one standard only tho standard of love and hope. He becomes a poet In act and feeling and, if only ho can find a man who will put that sentiment into words compress it, so to speak, into a lit erary gem, he will honor that man and cherish his work. Oftentimes the poetic sentiment, like an atom of radium, is so wonderfully com pressed that it takes a great soul to see and appreciate it, .but when it is seen It lights up all the dark world, and men learn that it is not the struggle and tho coarse conflict of the market place which they covet, not the profit, the triumph or the glory, but the poetic delight which comes after long dreary hours, In the sentiment of a single moment. Some of the world's briefest poems havo been like those particles of ra dium. This little octave which has won the prize of immortality as be ing tho best of the shortest, Is an example: The night hns a thousand eyes, The day but one The light of a whole world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, Tho heart, but ono Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. There Is a littlo gem in the Tech nical World magazine by Ralph Hod son, called "Tho Hammers." Some how it seems specially striking in more ways than one, as wo read it and then listen to sounds of the builders' work around us. Can you see tho radium light? Noiso of hammers onco I heard, Many hammers, busy hammers, Beating, slinping, night and day, Shaping, heating dust and clay To a palaco; saw it reared; Saw tho hammers laid away. "And I listened, and I heard Hammers beating, night and day, In tho palaco newly reared, Beating it to dust and clay. Other hummers, muffled hammers, Silent hammers of decay." That is It. Work on, strugglo on, fight your battles well, and build; but It is uot what you build that will II vo. Only tho spirit with which you build does not decay. Tho house you construct goes to (ho next genera tion, decadent and desorted. But If you build It with tho right thought, tho right spirit, your children will rebuild moro splendidly, hi lovo and hope, honoring you and bestowing blessings on ages unborn. Bo you not seo? Corinth, that ancient and historic city, is "beaten to dust nnu clay." But they built with tho right spirit and the architecture of Cor inth comes to us with its mossago of hope and love nud teaches us how to build with a largor and bettor pur pose. A SMATjTj, shallow harbor. Do Coos Bay people really think tho world knows tho truth about it? Hero is what Success Magazlno, pub- lished In New York City, says In an article by one Chauncey Thomas, called "Our Northwest." "In a large sense Puget sound is a great landlocked, mountain-protected harbor with a depth from 100 to COO feet. Here Is coal In tho hills by millions on millions of tons. The other Pacific harbors have none so far discovered, except ing Coos Bay, bdlow tho Columbia, which is a small shallow harbor." Success prides itself on the accu racy of Mr. Chauncey Thomas' arti cles and vouches for their correct ness. The excerpt from his produc tion would Indicate that has never been In Coos Bay. No use to be se vere with him for he could not help being misinformed. Up in Seattle things look big close to and very small afar off. That's the way they probably looked to Mr.. Chauncey Thomas. There is no question about Seattle and- Pugeh sound, but Mr. Chauncey Thomas should have got his facts about C003 Bay the way he got them about Seattle by a per sonal visit. Then things would have looked large to him on this end and not so large on the other. Yet, after all, Coos Bay is not sufficiently ad vertised In the right place. We have sent our statistics broadcast and not shot them into even our own con gressmen. There is probably not one member of congress or the United States senate who can be called disinterested who understands Coos Bay. It was thought that. Chairman Burton of the Rivers and Harbors committee would be a friend to this bay when he declare dthat he was delighted to learn that we could get 40 feet depth on the bar and an equal depth in the harbor. But fate has now run him up against Tom Johnson for mayor of Cleveland and taken him from the committee where his knowledge would be useful. The Chamber of Commerce should make an effort to Impress the com mittee on Rivers and Harbors as well as the president of the United States and the commission which has ac companied the chief on his progress down the Mississippi river, that Coos Bay is not a "small shallow bay" and that it is only a small, shallow In vestigation which would permit any man to say so. Coos Bay is 15 miles long and averages two miles wide, and some of Its deep water inlets aro from six to ten miles further. It has no rock bottom and there is not a bay between San Francisco and Puget sound which can be deepened and improved so cheaply. With slight expense it can be made the su perior of any harbor on Puget sound because It would have plenty of an chorage for all the naval fleets of the United States. Puget sound has not the coal either In quantity or quality which this bay has. KANDON. Bandon-by-the-Sea claims the lar gest operating sawmill In Coos coun ty. The now Cody mill with Its big band saws and its up-to-date machin ery throughout Is an acquisition which helps, if anything were need ed to do so, to make Bandon ono of the permanent cities of the coast. That city is entitled to the admira tion of all who appreciate a spirit of enterprise and energy. She is one of the few cities of tho middle Pa cific which have been able to give positive evidence that in the long lost years Oregon was only waiting to hear the command ring through what seemed to be the tomb of her opportunity saying- "'Arise. Come forth!" Bandon was among tho first to hear and to obey. Others aro still rubbing their eyes and look ing at her sleepily, but the example of tho city by the sea, will inspire them nil. It is not belittling Bandon to say that the position and water advan tages of Coos Bay render It improba ble that Coos Bay can ever havo a rival for metropolitan greatness In Southwestern Oregon. If it wore probabio or oven possible, Bandon would bo tho one. But so excep tional are tho conditions which point to tho selection of coos Bay and so roniarkablo aro her harbor advantag es, that she has no jealousy and can have none. She therefore halls Bandon and extends to her the right hand of genulno satisfaction. Ban-don-by-the-Sca has made excellent progress and is uestlned to make moro in tho future. At the mouth of tho Coquillo river sho Is tho pro spective metropolis of tho Coquillo Valley. Sho lias the advantages of water navigation for thirty miles into tho interior by tho Coquillo rlvor which, whllo not large is ample for all tho uses of tho 20,000 peojlo who will hor city limits. Sho has a beach wllch for plcturesquonoss and weird and wild beauty Is not surpassed on the Pacific coast, and when railroads enter this section, as thoy must in a short time, Bandon-bjthe-Sea will bo nn attraction to tourists and to society nil over tho couutry between tho niouutalns aud tho sea and in tho great lntor-mountnln country to tho east. Bandon has a destiny. .Ladles suits at Prentiss & Co. 'a. The, Steamer M. F. PLANT Sails From North Hcnd nt 1 O'clock, Thursday, Sspt. 20Ui. No reservation will be held after the an-lral of rtrtj vim tlclurt i bought. F.S DOWAg;ent MARSHFIELD, : : : : OREGON Portland & Coos Bay S S Line BREAKWATER Sails for Portland and Astoria every Thursday C. F. McColIum, Agt. Phone Mam 34 CURREN BROTHERS CONTRACTORS AIL Kinds of Work Done PHONES v543, 146 and 271 North Bend, Oregon California and Oregon Coast Steamship Company. Sails from Portland Saturdays, 8 p. m. Sails from Coos Bay Tuesdays, at service of tide. P. Baumcartner, Ast. L. W. Slmw. At. Couch St. Dock, Portland, Ore, WHY DO PEOPLE BUY IN BECAUSE It is choice inside residence property, lots 50x100 with alleys, is well sheltered with a good bay view and prices of lots are reasonable. For particulars se TITLE GUARANTEE & ABSTRACT CO. Henry Sengstacken, Manage. We Pride Ourselves In Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Library Furniture and Hitches Fn nitiire; all kinds of Fancy Fu-nltara and Special Orders ot Fixture. Prepared to make aU kind of Poultry and Store Fixture. Wo do H kinds of Repairing nnd Roflnlsli. rg. Call us up about your orders. Coos Bay Furniture Co. North Bend, Oregon. FOI Cures C( JLand Luni rio A. St. Dock mer Alliance B. W. OLSON, Mastar. Marshfiold, re., Phono 441. r AND n... t - i ..i 9S VSffeSfWT a mmiM aBiio, v-uma, vuy, A- wjppc, ASinma, IHroat The Genuine Is in the Troubles, Prevents Pneaonia and Consumption bellow packaop RED CROSS RHARMAGY Coos Bay Steam Laundry -Of-- MARSHFIELD and NORTH BEND All work now done at the North Bend Plant Edgar Mauzey Agent, Marshficld North Bend Phone 1031 Marshfield Phone 180 l.vaMvlHr:.lwatwrmya;lKgffsaa Flanagan & Bennett Bank MARSHFIEI.U. OIIEOON. Capital Hubicribeil JW.000 Capital Paid Up !0,000 Undivided Fronts 3fi,000 Docs a ceneral banking business and draws on the ilnk ot California. San Kranclsc CallL, First National Bonk Portland Or., First National Bank. Roecbu'rg, Or., Hanover Na tional Bank, New York, N. M. Itotbohild & Son, London, England. A1k sell change on nearly all the principal cities of Europe. Accounts kept subject to check, safe deposit lock boxes for rent at 5 centa a month or $5. a Tear. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS QOW WHY Always has on hand a good stock of & General Merchandise AT PRICES THE CHEAPEST All Kinds of Groceries and Clothing COOS HAT TRANSFER & STORAGE COMPANY. II. C. Ilreckenridgc, C. H. Walters. All kinds of Transferlng and Job bing. Prices rcasonablo and Goods handled with care. Phone 6G1. CAB CALL SERVICE AT ANY HOUR GOOD HEARSE and VEHICLES. IIEISXER, MILLER & CO. Livery, Feed and Sulo SUblo Third and A Sts. Phona, 1201 Marshfield. nmtmfflromwtKm All Parts i the World We use the necessary foeflfttos far sending money to all parts of tie world, and without danger or loss. .. . FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF 8 COOS BAY, Marshfield, Ore. H tmmammstHstironusttmmntttttmj BLACKSMITH 4th and ESt. G. E. NOAH G. E. Noah has Just opened a first class blacksmith shop nt comer A Fourth and E streets, South MnrsS Held. Patronage of public respect fully solicited. Horseshoeing a spe cialty. CONTAINS NO HARMFUL DRUGS . - SE 1 McPherson Ginser Co. I 'a - Wholesale liquor dealers 9 'j Cigars and saloon uup- M 3 plies. M " ' u I California Winex a Specialty I Front SI., Marshfield I !( "1 vi I "v