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t i - - " ; ; b... ,. ,. , , - - 1 v,-v - . . . ;t': , jl "y r, THE ' OREGON ' SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, i SUNDAY MORNING, JULY S. 1003. 1 10R1( lillllD 3IR taft ani) j,r' L:. Y':x-w'- ? ,, -V ;- ,t r-ii -Eii ' ,Tr?- 1 - in St Paul and Other Cities Bent Upon Exciting Gov ernment Interest in Wat erways Position of Rail road Companies. - (Staff Correspondence of The Journal.) . 6t Paul, Minn., July 4. Here and In La Crosse, Dubuque and other river towns demand Is strong for the crea : 'tlon of -a six-foot channel In the Mis sissippi to St. Louis; farther east, par ticularly In New Tork, business men .' couldn't see the rationale of the plan to improv the Father of Vaters colncl- dentally, the deepening; of "the Mlssis . alppt will affect somewhat the cotnmer- ' clal supremacy of New York and Boston. . If there be logical connection between : these facts, one must make his own con sections. PODle hereabouts Ion aao were con. ; verted to the doctrines of utilization of ' 'waterways Inland, although they have been content with using the Great Lakes and have permitted the Mississippi and Missouri to remain a mere system of v watersheds, valueless lu late years to - commerce. Talking; with a prominent wholesale man In St. Paul, and seeking light why there had .not been more insistence on - the deepening of the Mississippi, he said: Control Appropriations. 'I don't like to be negative and to kick'; but the -truth Is that the rail roads largely controlled the approprla- tion of money in Washington for these 'XBtposet, and it has -been well-nigh im possible to force Inland Improvements ' . through. That's one reason, and the other was that this entire nation ' thought the use of waterways was too : slow for these enterprising days, and we negiectea Dettermeni or toe waterways - until we awoke to two truths that the roads were unable to transport freight In normal business times, but got so congested that goods laid piled up at terminals, and that water carrying is really as rapid as freight, on the aver- Thls la a snapshot taken at New Haven of William H. Taft and J. Pierpont Morgan, In gown and cap aa they marched to Woolsej hall, where the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferreO upon Mr. Morgan. HOW 0 mm v i An Interesting Analysis of Occupations Sought by College Graduates. ace. This last assertion has been made so t of ten that It seemed worth Investiga tion, so I went at It to get some facts. Here Is what I found:, The steel (.trust, for instance, beats the railroads for, speed in getting iron . ore from the mines In northern Minne sota to Erie or Illinois points on the Great Lakes. Not only do the boats carry ore cheaper, far cheaper, but they i get tne ore over course tn much less than a' week, when freight cars have moved In late years only about 24 miles a day on the average, which would require something like 40 days for 1,000 miles by rail for the same distance. Cpming up the liXkes, seeing the facil ities Installed by the steel trust for the expedition of freight, one realizes how much superior are the waterways prop erly used to the rail transportation. Xt and this side of the Sault Bte. Marie, the Steel trust built coal bunkers In Jha ''"exact line" of the steamers' course, so that they need not be taken one mile A towards land to the , bunkers formerly used, and this expensive bit of work was merely to cut off a few minutes on the time of each boat going and coming. At the Sault one saw ore-laden steam ers leave the locks and steam eastward without stopping for supplies, so that a few minutes might be saved, and a small aupply steamer ran out from the dock, made fast alongside, unloaded the sup plies, and then, casting loose, returned : to the dock to await another of th , trust's ore boats. Boats of takes. , One hundred f these re boats ply the waters of the Great Lakes and no expense is spared to save time and per mit them to keep steadily on their courses, carrying the rich Minnesota ores to the points of manufacture east ward. 'Furthermore, the transfer of other freight in terminals has reached what seems to be the limit of present in : ventive genius, and railroad men paua, doubting what next to do to rellevd the congestion, or what would be the con gestion in normal times. In Chicago - there is the ever-present problem of a city built on piles offering difficulties to the builder of subways, which will be the resort in other cities. An.l Chi- " cago, being the greatest rail center in the world, must be taken Into account 7 In all rail problems. But elsewhere, the question of ter minals bothers the railroad engineer and traffic manager and superintendent of ; operation, and none knows how to solve It I talked with railroad men down In the yards, both officials and operators, eind this is what one experienced man aid: "A fast freight will leave Pittsburg, run an average of 26 miles an hour to Chicago, make the same time lx-tween that city and gt Paul, and between St. Paul and some point to 'ne westward, yet so long delay will be caused In - transfer points that the average lime .of the train from origination to desti nation will be one mile an hour, during fierlods when trade is normal, which it s not now, by more than 25 per cent. "It isn't additional traoks end more engines we need, but it's terminals through which we can get freigh. quick ly. "Personally, I see no relief excepting through improved waterways. Our su-1 perlor officers in the railroads have I jaugnea at tne errorts-or those who have wrought for improvement of -.he water ways, cut those same railroad cfflcials have failed dismally to provide adequate aavtuiiw lur mo irannmi?io:i or rreignt. "Let me call your -mention to thls-r-railroad officials cUlrn that the conges . tion came on them suddenly, catching them unawares and that they are !iaine less for being unprepared. The truth' . 1 that five, 10 and 15 years ago freight was carried to Portland from Chicago In never less than 30 days, notwith standing through freight should re quire no more than ID days, or an av erage of 10 miles an hour. Some glow Freight. "We have reports that freight from Cleveland to New Tork city lately took three months. Indian packers would have beat that time. "It's all on account of the terminals SM I cannot see much permanent re lief, and look for a repititlon of ex perience we had up to fan O-oi-er so soon as business reaumes normality a (tain. j ' On every hand, nowadays, one bears 1 demands for the deepening of the waterways, and also not lnfreouentlv ! M expressions of preference for the ex- peodlture of public money on such lm- I provementa Instead of for tie enlarge-' ment of tb military eetabilnmnt l.y as much each year ae would carry out the river and harbor Improvement i scheme of the Natieael River A Mrv congreaa i,0.4 a er for ii ' 7e? . "l,-?261 nel from beret w le.tvv.ei, ad te make It 14 feet from there to the eea would eoet aa mack more. Then soma bealihful legislation aa4 )at coortU terpretatlon as te monopoly of ahera rihte by trana porta u orwnpenlee Ov. railreada have gobble aU useful land-1- riaee from here te New Origan would permit ike dsreispiusat ef rim t rai(Mf-taUo hum p rev eat fatura cof-feUoa of freight. It U tw WeU keeww that aa Irant wtU be raised betweea the t we parties rt the queetlnei aa te expenditure ef f ind for military porpneve ea4 their i fir wsterway Improvement. Majiyts . ' T aKat l.fc Am 4 k. - ' ' ' i f " rartleaa pellUca, jd that Uk f-wrce ,ef ltnwrtaBt saevement p.. I pet e taasrerea r CrlcOoiw Statistics showing the various occu pations'1 chosen by the various college graduates of this year have been se cured by the Times of New York, Business claims the larger proportion of the Harvard graduates, 183 of whom have' designated that aa their chosen calling. Law comes next, 94 of the young men meaning to take up that profession- 62 will go in for engineering; 47 will qualify as teachers; 32 will Btudy medicine; 16 will go into chemis try, and 14 Into manufacturing Indus tries. Thirteen have a liking for archi tecture and the same unlucky number mean to experiment with Journalism. Forty-eight have selected miscellaneous occupations, and sixty-nine are unde cided. Vocations of Princeton ilea. ' Princeton statistics show that the av erage age of graduation of members of the class of 1908 Is 22 years. 7 months and 8 days. The class contains 143 Republicans, 61 Democrats, 6 Prohibi tionists and 3 independents. Religious preferences are as follows: Presbyterian St), Episcopal 48, Metho dist 22, Congregationallst 8, Catholic 8, Baptist 6, Unitarian 3, Jew 3. Mormon 2, Unlversalist 1, Christian 1. Lutheran 1, Agnostic 1, Christian Science 1, Spir itualist 1, no preference 4. The vocations which the Princeton men will pursue are aa follows: Business 66, law 61, civil engineering 22, manufacturing 17, ministry 10. elec trical engineering 9, medicine 7, Jour nalism 6, teaching 6, real estate 8, brok erage 3, banking S, architect 3, mining L', reporter 2, mining engineer 1, diplo mat L publisher 1, Young Men's Chris tian Association secretary 1, politics 1, railways 1, financier 1, astronomer 1, illustrator 1, lumber business 1, loafing 1, gentleman of leisure 1, second-story man 1. Wistory was the favorite study with the Princeton graduates. English was second, politics third and science fourth Tennyson is the favorite poet, with Kippling second, Byron third. BasebaJl is the favorite sport. 64 voting for It, tennis is second with 86 adherents, and football third with 27. Wellesley is the favorite woman's college. Beven of the Princeton clasa sup ported themselves wholly while in col egle, 68 supported themselves in part, S7 won literary prizes and 62 athletic prizes. Of the Yale graduates business claims 86, law 69, teaching 29 banking 23. med icine 16, engineering 17, ministry 14. ar chitecture 6. railroading 6, forestry 6, and Journalism 4. The average of the class Is 22 years 8 months and 24 days (on graduation -day.) The average weight Is 147 pounds. ( mis is the lightest Xale class In four years, the average weight of Yale classes being 160 pounds.) Harold Sherman of Newtonvllle. Mass., is the heaviest, weighing 210 pounds. Clifton Adams of 14(11, N, H., Is the lightest, weighing 112 pounds. He is also the shortest, standing 6 feet 3 inches In height. Of tha class 61 are over 6 feet In height. The class is the tallest which has graduated from Yale in many years. Raymond Ives of New York Is tne tallest, standing 6 feet i Inches. The average expenses for the course were as follows: Freshman year .$1,062 Sophomore year . . 1.183 Junior year 1,197 Senior year 1,233 Total 1 4,16 Of the 317 members of the class, 79 r-elther drink nor smoke. One hundred and twenty-three wear glasses, 80 hav nig donned them during their course. No spvnlfin Information regarding the political and religious affiliations -of the class were obtainable. The average age of the graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy was 22 years,, 10 months, 4 days, the average height 6 feet 10 2-5 Inches, the average weight 140 pounds. The youngest man was just 20 years, the oldest 82; the tallest man 6 feet 4 Inches, the shortest Just a foot under; the heavlKSt man weighs 190 pounds, the lightest 11K pounds. Fifty per cent somotlmea participate In the flowing bowl, 62.04 use tobacco, while 48.88 per cent wear glasses. The average shoe is 7.38, the average hat 7.04, while the average collar is 14.78. IP CLOSING OUT SALE. A Great Chance to Buy Good (rood at Wholesale Prices. Women's and misses' ready-to-wear suits, coats, skirts, waists, rain coals, linen tourist coats, .hosiery, corsets musltu underwear, gloves, parasols, Wan), ni,f i, tahl llnfina . I wmu t tm ml n silks, ec, etc., at greatly reduced prices. MoAllen & McDonnell. Third and Morrison streets. Buying a Woman's .Smile. From the New York Sun. "Can a woman's smile be bourhtT Well, yes." said Mr. Owlllklnnoss. "sometimes, and It may be for little money. . Here Is a woman who for weeks has beeir" slttlnir on a downtown doorstep selling Shoestrings. This Is a disused door and so she interferes with nobody and nobody Interferes with her; and o she sits there, with her stock spread over the greater part of the step, while she sits iiti the other end. holdlna on her arm an Infant.- Ahd It always seemed to me that trade must be dull with her, because I ever saw anynody buy or her: and fln- lly I thought it was up to me to buy omethlng and sort o, help trade along little, because, you see, while the profit on shoestrings is "very large, still you don't make anything at all unless Combination Tool. A recent Invention of a Kansan Is de signed to save a carpenter the labor of carrying about with him a full kit of tools. It can be used for nail puller, bottle opener, screwdriver, pipe wrench. can opener, gas pliers, foot rule, hatchet and several other things. Selz Shoes Are Good Shoes . You know what "good shoe" means when you.say it comfortable fit, good looks', correct style and long service. ' That's what we mean when we say it; and that's what our Selz shoes are good shoes. You'll find it possible tt get a more per fect fit than you're accus tomed'to in these "good shoes and they're made to last. Selz Royal -Blue Shoes, $3.50 and $4.00. All Blaes aad Widths Harked In Plain Znjrlisb l'm Cor. 71b and Washington Sfs. TSSSSSSR JOURNAL LINERS COST LITTLE. ACCOMPLISH MUCH OREGON HOGS ATTRACT THE, PEN OF TORfULST CRISSLY (Eastern Magazine Writer of Note) IN PACIFIC MONTHLY FOR JUNE, Chicago's Tremendous Growth Following Directly Upon the Development of the Great Packing Industry Suggests What the Plant on the Peninsula The Union Meat Co. Is to Mean to Portland. (Extracts from "Wanted Two Million Hogs," by Forrwt Crissey. An article that trety Oregonlan wfll want to read.)' 51 Wi IT Of neis.u)o. tout a king Fire f vr" -"w rfi t tt t m r :".'.-' - r ''iV'- Jf: -r- 3 X'.T?1 You May Doubt It Now But You Can't Doubt It After You have seen Mrs. A. N. Colbv demonstrate that she can do it WITH THE AID OF ELEC TRICITY.. Everyone is invited to attend the daily demonstrations that she is making at the Supply Departriient of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, 147 Seventh street, between Morrison and Alder, and LEARN how entirely practical and extremely convenient it is to COOK WITH ELECTRICITY. . Regular demonstration at 10 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. daily. Special CHAFING DISH demonstration at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, the seventh. Special MEAT-ROASTING demotration at 2 p.rrL"Thtirsday,'the ninth. Main (6688 PHONES A5517 n u n H H H M M n n a n n M n a H i u R H n 8 wm ti I M n n Here before me was a man In the vigor of life who was about to tell me, from his own recollection, of the days when this Immense In dustrial . structure (Chicago Packlna- Town) did not even exist as a dream in the mind of man. Here was a husa Industrial .entity reachlas; its - tentacles of trade literally to the "uttermost partsof the earth" a single creature of mater- " lay'actlvlty. which, more than any other one "tfilng, has lifted Chicago from a sprawling vlli lage of 20,000 inhabitants to the second city of the continent. "Yes," reflectively observed Mr. Ward, as he wheeled his chair about, "It's hard to believe that all this great thing outside here has sprung up slnco I began to earn my way In the world. But It's a fact All you have to do is to 1 and hear It to know that It's one of the biggest and - Iive8t things on earth. ..... They (Chloagoans) don't realize that the plain truth of the matter Is that the yards and the packing houses are what have mad Chicago, and dons a mighty quick job ef the making 1 It's only by grasping what the animal Industry has accom plished in a few years tor Chicago that any other city can possibly realize what the establishment of great packing plants and selling yards are bound to mean to it. Can you name a single place whore a practical packing outfit has ever started up a plant on a modern line and on a modern scale that the business haan't grown be yond all calculation and the city expanded like dried apples in hot water? Look at Omaha, Kan sas City, Fort Worth, St. Joe, and all the rest of 'em! Packing plants are the ur city-builders, and no mistakes!" "And still you can recall the time when the packing Industry was unheard of and the cat tle business was " "pn a hand-to-mouth basis." interrupted the commission men. "Certainly I can recall It. Fact Is, It seems only yesterday when I sat In the old home schoolhouse, back on the Federal road. In Ohio, and watched drove after drove of cattle and hogs and sheep being driven past to Phila delphia and the" other eastern markets. And they . came from Illinois and away west, tool Gener ally arnan walked ahead and led a steer by a halter and the rest followed. "At the rear wojjld ride two or three men, de pending on the size of the drove. "This sort of thing was going on all over the country, and much of the stock was literally fat tened on the way. I recall on rich section of pasturage not so very far from my boyhood home where thousands of animals from the west were, halted over the whole season and put Into condition for th 'homestretch' on to the final market. "But there wasn't any market In the sense In which there is today. The drover who had brought his stock 100, 200, 800, S00- or even 1,000 miles was Just a likely to find the market where he had expected to sell so glutted that he could only dispose of his animals at a ruinous price. Of course the expedient was open to him of mov ing on to the next nearest big market or taking his animals a little back into th country, to good pasturage, and keeping them there until fi could peddle them out at something like a living price. If this was don one it waa don 1,000 time! Those were the days when the livestock business was about as uncertain as playing the races. Today it's the most certain and even bus iness I know of- and what has mad th differ ence? The packing plants! A free and open mar ket every day In tb year for cash! ... "Again, ther was th question of getting your money after sal was mad. It waa all a ques tion of Individual credit than and tb seller had to mak th credit for himself and take his chances. Oh I th world has moved on several pegs sine then, .and now catti. hogs and sheep are as good aa cash? And all th credit la dne to the packers That's what took th meat trade from a perlahabla, block-to-mouth ba sis and mad It a storaar traalnaea, a keeping business, a surplus-carrying buslne. "Th community that can attract tha aottrltiea ef any of th big packer and gt a modern plant located la It -territory Is dotug mora for Itself than It ca wU reall.- . ' s Whea this wteraa of th stockyards bad fin ished, I 'turned t th -maa who aajoya tb dis tinction, at tha yards, of ha ting been closer to th 1st Oastavc F. Swift thaa any other maa saw II Ting. ao4 Ball: "Mr. Leavltt, you don't think that Mr. Louis Swift and his associates of the Union Meat Com pany are overshooting the mark in making such 4n Immense outlay for a big packing plant at Portland, Oregon?" 'That isn't a thing for me to dlscuss-and 1 decline to discuss it," he answered, "but of course I don't think anything of the kind. In some regions '.where plants are established the animal Industry is more Tlrmly rooted and mora widely developed than in others but, depend upon it, the merits of any region hav been sifted to the bottom and the horoscope of its industrial future cast with a far-seeing eye before the huge initial investment Involved in a modern, packing plant is decided upon I And as to the big Port land enterprise, of course that la not a new proposition. It has been tried out for several yeara. and has long since passed the experimen tal stage. However, I'm not discussing Port land; aH I want to do is to emphasize the point that no leader In an Industry as solid, as highly organized and as conservatively conducted aa the packing business is going to go Into an en terprise involving the expenditure of millions Unless the situation absolutely and completely Justifies it." To complete the triangle of my Interview, I went to the office of Louis F. Swift, president of Swift & Co., who Is vitally interested In the Union Meat Company. "Yes." admitted Mr. Swift, "It Is true that mo uiuuu meai company is going to erect a big modern packing plant on the extensive acre age secured near Portland, at the intersection of the North Bank road and the line of the Ore gon Railroad & Navigation Company, on the Pe ninsula, This we regard as an Ideal location. "The Union Meat Company has for some years had abattoirs and yards at Troutdnle, aliout 20 miles from Portland. The business done by this plant has been substantial and quite satisfac tory under the existing condition. In fact, the compuny has become one of the largest siaugh- torers on th Paclfio Coast. Last year they . slaughtered at the Troudal plant about 60,000 cattle, 60,000 hogs and 75,00 sheep, besides oper ating factories for the manufacture of the vari ous by-products. Including glue and commercial wool "Of course. It Is expected that this volume of business will be greatly exceeded by that of the new plant In faot. It seems only natural and reasonable to expect that the six of last year's business will prove to be only a well-defined 'Indication' of the livestock Industry of that Northern Paclfio region whan carefully devel- oped under really favorable circumstances and adequate conditions and facilities. "The rapid strides In packing-house construc tion which hav taken place In lata years, to the end of meeting the highest standards in sanita tion, have Influenced us quit as much as other considerations in a decision to abandon the old plant and put up a new one which shall be as Ideal In its construction and all lta appoint ments as It la In Its location. . "Again, I confess to the feeling that there Is 'not a mora alert, progressive and hustling people on the face of the earth than thla people of th Pacific Coast, and that the best of anything la none too good for them. Anything short of thf best Is not up to the standard which they have set for themselves and which they maintain with rare energy and fidelity. This is the kind of people which inspire faith on tha part of a ron-resldent who Is responsible for tha Invest ment or the non-Investment of larg euma In aa enterprise which means much to them as well aa to Its owners and management. "Where ther la so muoh alartnesa. so much energy, so much acumen and keen bualneas ap plication, there Is little likelihood that any ma terial opportunity is going to escap lta normal -development or pass unrecognised. Again, where this is th spirit, on feels that ther Is a sens --of loyalty and etaadfastaea wtilch will stand tha test la a time of trial All tha considerations g6 to mak up tb Impression that tha peopl of th Pacifla Coast will rto to aat any oppor tunity. This la a most Important onsideratlon In thla particular eaaa, for th raaea that t bring thla industry up to th standard to which we are building will require a certain ehaag la th Industrial habits aad practice of tha people, a certain cooperation without which th measure of expansion aad sooces at which wa ar aira : lag can era reel y b attained.' Tor example, -i flare aay that tha 8 tat ef t : .""JLwv . V Oregon la at present compelled to bring from tha eastern states over 76 per cent of tha pork prod ucts consumed by Its people while Oregon It self abounds In good farming, agricultural coun try. Ther la no raason In th world why, with a guarantee of the big open market aha ateady demand for pork products by the existence of the new packing plant, the farmers of Oregon should not raise all, and more than all, th hogs used, in their atate ' " ' "And this leads me to place emphasla on an expression which I nave just used, an open mar ket. Arrangement have been tnade with th present owners of the Portland Union Stockyards to establish a public livestock market near the packing-house location. What is the result of this? Evory farmer of that region who wishes to raise, livestock can do so la the absolute cer alnty that he will find a cash market right at home for his SBCk any day he chooses to ship It. He can always get the full market value for his offerings, any and every day In the year. This opportunity has never before occurred In that territory. .... "The meaning and possibilities of the AlRSka trade are Just Beginning to be un derstood; and aa for the Oriental trad w have not yet begun to scratch the auxfac of It I Bo, X can see an immense fntur for this trafflo which has marvelous capacltlea of expansion. It ia one of those propositions where the possibilities ar so great that It la difficult to say: "It will ro thus far and no farther.' Certainly we hav every reason to believe that the trade of this gateway to the Orient and to Alaska Is bound to be large and progressive Enough la already "known about it to demonstrate that Uh pro gressive paclters can no longer afford to haul stuff from eastern plants; it mnt be handled on the Pacifio Coast to oome within the lines of economyand sound business practice." The enterprise, on the ground, will be tn charge of C. C. Colt, who. Is president of th Union Meat Company. What the livestock, packing and allied Indus trios have done for Chicago will never be told In specific figures. To attempt it would be Ilk trying to figure out what sun and rain have don for the tvheat crops of the Dakota. But there are some figures which, are certainly Illuminat ing and intensely suggestive to those who read between the lines when the characters used are numerals. Tha sum paid by these allied Chicago Industries in a year in wages and salaries Is twenty-five millions of dollar. Thla helps aom to ae what the animal Industries hare dona for Chicago, doesn't It? ' And this Is- only a beginning! There la no way of estimating how vast a sum they expend arery year for materials of every sort. Take a view af the question from another an gle; how about the trs.de, tha money which a great livestock and packing center brings to a city. Well, fully 600,000 persons visit tha Chi sago stockyards every yar. Probably th num ber la really greater than this, for It la a mat ter of record that 400,000 attend tha great Na tional Livestock Exposition. How much do the visitors spend whll In Chicago? That Isn't an easy question to answer In a positive way But those who hav com tn contact with thes vis itor evry year and. know them "right down to th ground" ar abla to mak a very shrewd aad reeaonabl stimat of what that amount must be Such an estimate waa figured out for me la the office of th president of the Union Stock yard Transit Company and tha amount la twenty-five jailUon dollar. At first thla aeema Impossible - "It's only ISO apiece." waa tha quiet suggestion. "Of coarse, many coma In who do not spend more than S10 hut there are comparatively few , wbe go below that figure. On the othr "hand. It should bo remembered that a very great number ef these visitors are stockman who core la with carloads and va tralnloeda of stock, for which they receive th cash. "Ia aaaay ease th stay in the otty eorere twe or three weeks for tha stockman aad hla family. All thee consideration go to make aa average expenditure of III a visitor look decide!? rea sonable. However, you may cut the total ef la a00.ee down t tll.o.( and atlli have aboet aa big a eunvaa tha avers g man cea appreclata.' It certainly doea lock aa If s b Lay pecking u livestock laduat ry la a good thing for tha elty aad th territory which la cboeea aa lu location! - II -0 - T'-
