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PART TWO
Stirring
History of Milwaukee
One of Much Progress
Tale of How Great Railroad! Pushed . into the Far 'WestIs
Interesting Its Aims and. Purposes the
Developing of New Territory
(By Edmund Ellsworth Sumner.)
HERE'S to the Greater Milwau
kee! was the terse sentiment
expressed in a toast offered
by the president of the Chi
ago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
at a recent banquet given in Chicago to
the officials of that system. It was
brief and to the point. No words
could have been uttered to more aptly
illutsrate the keynote of the addresses
f the evening, the history, growth and
development of the big system com
bined with the bright outlook and im
portant plans for the future. And thu
tffieial who offered the toast, A. J.
Earling, the man who has little to say
.but who does things, concisely stated
the case and echoed the thought now
prevalent in the mind of the public
that the Milwaukee is among the lead
ars in the list of important transporta
tion companies and first among West
ern railroads with far-reaching plans
for future expansion to meet the re
quirements sure to come, incidental to
the industrial development and the gen
eral prosperity of the country at the
present time.
And so it comes that the same senti
ment can here be made the motif of a
story of achievement, a new chapter in
the stirring history of American trans
portation, a recital that not only deals
with the future up-building of the Pa
cific Northwest, but one that links the
East and- the West; that brings to
gether the Occident and the Orient.
This is not In any sense a historical
review of the Milwaukee, but in passing
it might be interesting to note that in
the early sixties the road was incor
porated in Wisconsin to build a local
line connecting several of the then im
portant towns in the Badger State. Lo
cal development was the watchword
and ever since the closest attention has
been given to local branches that
brought the products and people of the
outlying farms, mining towns and set
tlements nearer to the main line. As a
local company it took its name from
the places it aimed to reach and so
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul have
been perpetuated for all ' time in a
10,000-mile system that reaches Ho-
quiam, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, the
Canadian boundary and a hundred
other points; that penetrates the iron
ore region of Duluth, the copper dis-
' tricts of Calumet, that connects with
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Postal Official Tells Public What
Stamps to Use on Letters
to Go Over Seas
So much inconvenience is causod to
postoffice officials and the patrons of
the postal service by the large number
of letters mailed to foroign countries
without sufficient postage, that Second
Assistant Postmaster General Joseph
Stewart has Kent out a letter of in-
biuciiou iu regard to the amount of
postage ueces.iTv on letters that are
to travel to "foreign parts." The let
ter follows: The department is in
formed that many letters mailed in the
United States, addressed for delivery
in foreign countries, which are subjoct
to our postal union pastage rates, are
prepaid only two cents, the senders of
such letters being under the impres
sion, it is presumed, that our two-cent
domestic postage rate is applicable to
said letters. The only foreign destina
tions to which our two-cent letter rate
applies are Canada, Cuba, Mexico, the
Republic of Pannma, Newfoundland,
the Canal Zone, Germany (by direct
steamers only), England, Scotland,
Wales and . Ireland and the City of
Shanghai, China. To all other places
the rate is five cents for the first ounce
or fraction of an ounce and three cents
for each additional ounce or fraction
of an ounce, which must be fully pre.
paid or the letters become liable on
delivery to a charge equal to double
the amount of the deficient postage.
For instance, a single-rate lottor pro-
pa. 1 only two cents would be short
paid three rents, and, consequently,
subject on delivery to an additional
postage charge of six cents.
TOLEDO,
Story of
the California lines at Kansas City,
Omaha or Sioux City, that gridirons the
states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota
and the Dakotas and lastly, through
the completion of its Puget Sound sys
tern, has built up a through line from
Chicago and that whole territory to thu
greatest harbors of the Pacific, those
of Pugot Sound. To reach this section
the line traverses a country rich in
vast industrial opportunity, but merely
at the beginning of its development.
Ihe building of the line to various
ports of Puget Sound was but the first
step in the giant plans of this railroad.
No sooner had the sound of the driving
of the last Bpike died away in the
echoes of the pine-clad hills of the
Sound when steps were taken to build
up the local territory branch out into
new fields and today, this, the newest
of all the transcontinental lines, has,
even at this early date, completed more
local feeders than have other and older
lines existing in the Pacific North
west. The Milwaukee is aggressive as well
as progressive. No sooner had the line
been thrown open for traffic than its
management looked far beyond the
breakers of the broad Pacific. To the
far north lay Alaska, the world's treas
ure house. It had been known for
years, but the Milwaukee rediscovered
it and sent its agents into the far in
terior, opening offices and getting ac
quainted with the minerB, the sealers,
the salmon fishermen and the people
generally. A few weeks after the line
was opened it transported the first
train of high grade copper ore from
Alaska "to the Atlantic seaboard and
this was followed by shipments by car
loads of those remarkable blue foxes to
the fox breeding farms of Nova Scotia.
They looked to the Orient and long
before the road was completed had
plans for a direct line of ships. It was
the newest road, but it is to date tho
only transcontinental American line
that has adopted a through export rate
from the Far East and intermediate
points to ports of Japan and China. It
opened an Oriental agency and placed
at the head a capable young man to
properly manage that department.. What
is the result of all these moves! Puss
ing through this Bplendid inland harbor
of Puget Sound, the gateway to the
whole Pacific, are vast cargoes of
freight gathered along the line of tho
railway and destined for distant Pa
cific ports of this and foreign coun
tries. This trade is but yet in its in
fancy, although the beginning has been
noticeably successful and indicates
what a great tonnage will be built up
in the future. All the ports of Puget
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Achievement in
A Life-Saving Crew at Practice Caught
Men and apparatus combine to protect life and property off the Western coast. The above picture
shows a company of these fighters of the storm in a sham battle, that they may be reaay when
the test by wind and wave comes.
Sound are vitally interested as from
one or the other of them this volume of
trade -patsen directly over its wharves
into the doep-water shipping. What
will be the ultimate result and how
greatly each Puget Sound port will be
aided can be readily judged.
What the road is doing for all the
ports it reaches on Puget Sound is too
well known to need more than a brief
resume. In tltis locality it has plans
for greatly widening its scope. Here
are the headquarters of the Western or
Puget Sound lines; here in this state
already 'are radiating numberless feed
ers and all through freights passing
into the ships at the gateway to the
Pacific pay tribute to the several ports;
help to build them up und increase
their population and commercial impor
tance. It is the newest line to the Puget
Sound country, but already the work
has been well started on the $1,000,000
tunnel in the Cascades. It will reduco
the grade to a maximum of one per
cent and save nine miles over the sum
mit. More important still, it will elim
inate most of the snow troubles that
have caused such delay and expense in
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operating trains over this range of pic
turesque Bcenery but deep winter
snows.
It is building into Spokane and pre
paring to erect there a palatial term!
nal station. It has plans for widely
extending its local lines in Western
Washington and electrifying many of
these lines. At the City of Butto, tho
center of the smelting, copper and zinc
mining, it is building up its local sys
torn and joining with the people of that
important center in all that pertains to
Butte's betterment. At Great Tails, in
the same state, it is likewise giving
much attention to local improvements.
Here is a water power that in time will
be valuable to tho future electrifying
of the lines and the Milwaukee is
keeping pace with tho local improve
incuts by joining in all now enter
prises that make for the advancement
of local conditions. The same is true
of other placeB along the wholo route.
In Western Washington it has been
busy from the day tho last rail was
laid on the main line. It bought the
Tacoma Eastern, 67 miles, and leading
to the main entrance to the wonderful
Mt. Rainier National Park; it pur
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chased the liollingham Bay & British
Columbia, 45 miles in length through
tho fertilo Nooksnek Valley to the Ca
nadian boundary on tho north; in rou
struction it has built from Cedar Falls
to Enumclaw, Beverley to llnnford,
Warden to MarcelliiB, Tiff lis to Neppel,
Cedar Falls to. Everett, Tacoma to Ab
erdeen and Hoquinm, a grand total of
242 miles; it has established ear
barges on Puget Sound between Kenttlo
nnd Bellingham, Scuttle und Ballnrd
feattlo and Port Blakely, Senttlo nnd
Kuglu Harbor; it has built important
terminal facilities at Tacoma, Seattle
and other ports. .
Still aggressively inarching onward,
current reports indicate that it will
build a line through tho very heart of
the Olympic peninsula, tho richest tint
ber district of the Northwest. It nl
ready skirts tho southern end of that
body of land, but the completion of tho
new lines will bo tho factor in develop
ing tho northern ami central portion.
This ono plan alone will menu every
thing to this rich country and ndd to
the commercial importance of tho cities
of the Sound.
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FOUR PAGES
Men Who Aid
City's Papers
Metropolitan Publications Trust
Correspondents in Rural
Districts
IT WAS Joe McCullough, the famous
managing editor of a great East
ern daily, who said: "A good edi
tor ulwaya has a man on the spot
when hell breaks looso." Joe McCul
lough has been dead for more than a
decado, but hiB advice has been fol
lowed by managing editors all over the
United States. In fact, his advice has
been construed as meaning the having
a man in every spot where anythiug
might happen by any possibility. Tho
result has been the small town corre
spondent. He is an important but in
conspicuous cog in the vast and som
plieutcd machinery necessary to the
production of the metropolitan paper
of today. Columns have been filled .
with .tho records of famous "beats'
scored by clever reporters on big dai
lies, and there has never been any luck
of exploitation of the feats performed
in "landing" stories of thrilling inter
est to thousands. No doubt many of
these tributes to genius and enterprise
were deserved. No one, howover, has
ever spoken a word of commendation
for that great army of humidor news
paper men, who, situated in districts
outlying the cities, represent the larger
paper, each in his individual . terri
tory. As essential to the city paper ns
its trained editors and reporters are
the country correspondents. The man
aging editors of these papers, if no ono
else, appreciate tho value of tho out-of-town
representatives, and thoy pay nl.
most as much attention to the effective
ness of their corps of men in the
"country" as they do to the men nnd
women in the home offices. . Thoy-are
quick to detect any signs of unrelia
bility or inefficiency, nnd are not slow
in making a change if there be reason
for it. They realize tho fact that it is
the unexpected that is always happen
ing and that tho unexpected picks out-of-the-way
places to happen in ns often
as anywhere else. It is important to
managing editors thnt there bo no weak
link in the chain of correspondents who
serve in the rural districts. For this
reason no time is lost in replacing an
incompetent, unreliable or careless cor
respondent with ono who approaches
tho standard thought necessary.
Ordinnrily one correspondent is ap
pointed in each county of tho stato im
mediately adjacent to tho city where
the paper is locnted. The correspond
ent is required to handle nil news in
his county nnd, in enso an adjoining
county innv .'live doubtful rcpresen
ttttivo, tn 'io'i nis paper of any im
portant iiaiui -ii'ngs in order that all
secti"! - innv i. "covered." Tho
corr.", .inden , besides taking care
of his own territory, is also aide to
"tip off" big news events in contigu
ous territory, conies closest to highest
esteem possibly for the mannging edi
tor to bestow. While it is rare for a
llvo correspondent to recoivo a bit of
credit or a word of praise, as happens
occasionally to the city staff man, yet
ho knows from the fact that his
"story" is given liberal space and
thnt he is well paid for it that he is
not altogether forgotten or entirely un
appreciated. The mere fact that he Is
not "fired" shows that ho is "making
good."
Tho country correspondent is usuully
invariably, almost a reporter on the
leading newspaper of the principal city
of his county. Whilo some of the big
papers acquiesce in tho employment of
a correspondent who has retired from
the newspaper field and yet keeps lri
touch with tho news enough to serve
his paper well, yet the majority insist
thnt a correspondent be actively con
nected with a daily newspaper. The
evening pnpors of tho cities naturally
profor that thoir representatives bo
omployod on the evening papers of
their respective towns, while the
morning daily papers desiro thoir
correspondents on the morning sheets
of "down state." The reason is very
plain. A representative of a metro
politan evening sheet employed by a
morning paper in his home town cannot
give thorough attention to the morning
news for the renson that hit night
work prevents him from reaching his .
desk ns early in the dny as the report
ers of the evening papers do. On the '
other hand, the men employed on the
afternoon papers are apt to miss impor
tant happonings late at night, "stuff"
that would have been handled by the
men of the morning papers. In the
smaller counties whore big event are
few and good correspondents rare, the
big papers must take the best they can
get and risk getting "scooped" on big
(Continued on page"two)
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