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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. TUESDAY EVENINO. OCTOBER IS, 1008. -U." ! i-iji ii .l i i geeee gBeHB...J- ju a-!-i-jJ.!i-i LUiBg m " 1 '" aw a a WHEN THE POSTMAN TRAVELS IN THE SKY Aerial Mail Routes Will Supersede Land Incs and Pres- cnt-Pay Speed Will Look Like Ox-Teaming : . k What It Will Mean to Farmers. fur FREDERIC J. HASKIJC. Cch Ur. on. of th. ..rll-t J. ' vhleh th. nytn. machine w HI b. put. when perfected ( th. c.rrylns of Im portant mftIL invoice lesal mttr. . .bualMaa proclaim, too valuable to rl.lr over th. wlr. by cipher cod. ami too Important to b. delayed by the lower proeeaaa. of delivery by .team r'el.ctrlo train.' which run only it or 10 mile, an hour, will be th. thin,, carried on th. n.w lln Th. perfected aerial d.lW.ry .y.t.ra will axc4 any thlnir .l.e y.t known, for " nbf;"t0h a line a. dlract a. that tax.n by in. k0",JP.?. v.- h mountain naiiroaua, uiuit-. - - ,11. rnore direct th. route, when carrying -J1-T..7. -.11 .ri.h.hlt oackacef and unwiuu. . . - , In ."' h lick throu.h the mountalna that once th. train, had .1. airoaa. ftrldffM of ateel or .... r.. .v... . immiv.il the work thousands of-men and th. "P"" of million, of dollar, have been built In order to arold the tlm. Involved In rasslns; around th. head of a valley, bther brldre. df .diasyln heights have been thrown cro. .mall ountaln .tream. to avoid the delay In winding down th. on. miisiae ana vy l" i And .till a .tralght rout. ha. not been m All roil tea Alike to th. Airship. To level down th. crinkled, deeply lined face of mother earth has been too - much for the railroad men, and only th. .hl? of the akle. can follow a direct 'route oeiween given yuiuia. ...., awlft, lonr rtsa, and th. throuh-.hJp on some transcontinental airline of the futuraA will lift Itself to a favorable current above the clouds, and with never a pause to annex a double-header for mountain climbing, or to .hut off the steam for the toboggan slid, down ward on the other aide, with never a pause on a aiding, with never a delay from aaowsllde or spring flood In river ways, with never a fear of collision on some ahaap mountain curve, the .hip of the air will reduce distance to Its lowest figure and offer a passenger or ' mall service from one-third to one tenth that now given by steam and electricity. . ... I Far below would lie tn. eiuea around which the train would still grumble and crawl, valley, across which mun dane transportation must creep along Inclined plane., mountains that must be gone over by wheeled car. on tracks that " double and redouble om their course to overcome the great grades, forest, that are eve, watched for fear of the ' engine's .park, and lakea and aeas that must be circled by earth's common carriers. In upper air, un trammeled save by the swift wind cur rent, that he must master and bend to his own will, th. aviator of the future would carry the nation', most Impor tant postal Items. , BaUway Mail Clerk. Wo More. ' The mall car of today, fitted with pigeon holes, racks and bags, carries ' a corps of clerk, to receive and assort the mail. The successful aerial route i of the future would carry only closed pouches, at, aerial fixed rates, and have no ertra men on board. Cities er civilisation. Locked In by steep mountains, many people know little af the world beyond their own valley; pioneer group, may be Isolated on some far pratrl. and not yet liave received the blessings of rural free delivery, telephone and telegraph. The Inef ficient public roads system of the na tion allows a meager percentage of Im proved roads to the population, and winter frert. and spring freshet too often hem In whole townships. To these Isolated ones the airship of (tie ruture will c-nme a. the greatest Imaginable boon. TJie parcels post, the rural delivery of malls, the mall order service of big metropolitan stort-a H these mill be In the province of the air ship when It shall have become a com mon carrier for the common good. The remote rural dweller In the coming Utopia will have only to mail or tele phone In an order to his dealer for cer tain household good, or farm tool, and the aerial accommodation, stopping at hi. door that afternoon, will leave the thing., or a special express will drop carefully wvapped packages In oonv.n- I tlonal catch net. It was the building of good roads that allowed Paris to, develop her great au tomobile delivery system, by which shopkeeper. . distributed - their good, over a wider area and ao doubled their trad, many fold. It will be the bad country road, of America that will he a compelling factor In th. development of airship routes, for while a good coun try road will ever be an essential in the progress of the agricultural districts, postal and parcel, delivery will follow the lines of least resistance. They will take to the air where there are nQ heavy grades to be climbed and no mud. water, now, or streams ' to offer resistance to .peedy progress. There will be no need to condemn property to public uses by right of eminent domain in those days when a new rural route is tn be established, for as long as there is no damage done his property and no danger threatening his stock, the average far mer, will welcome the overhead fiver that is bringing the mail to his door, seed and tools to hi. barnyard, groceries to hla kitchen and new literature to his library. How th. Tanner Will Bo Helped. A quarter of a century ago only the urban dwellers had the dally paper. Today the suburbanites have been added to the list bv virtue of lmrjroved train and streetcar service and rural postal routes. In an early tomorrow the re mote rural dweller may have his paper warm off the press. If he wishes, the aerial newsboy droDnlnir it in remote dooryards with all the precision and iromptness of th. Independent urchin of oday. - One of the greatest difficulties lying In the path of the nation's agricultural progress is that of getting the small farmer of remote rural localities to be come Interested in the plana and experi ment, of the national department of agriculture. This branch of the govern ment Is the great clearing house for all perplexities, all successes, all prob lem, that come to the American farmer. By experiment, by comparison, by elimi nation the men in this work have proved the great possibilities that lie in the reach of the farmer. For his benefit iney apena million, of dollars in im SWIFT PLANT GREAT INCENTIVE Columbia Trust Company Re ports Great Activity in New Addition, Swinton. of A. evidence nf the faith dsodI. Portland ha v. In th. futur. of the'pe- nin.ula, the Columbia Trust company point, with ho little pride to the phe nomenal aal. of lot. In Dwlnton. Three week, ago last Friday th. plat of this new aauition wa. rued, ana up 10 yes terday over 160 lota have been .old. Th. Dial contained only 100 lota This eompany fully expects to have over one half the whole plat .old before th. end of th. present week. It I. noteworthy to say that all th. hiah-oriced lots bor dering on and adjacent to Columbia boulevard were th. first to .ell. II take, a lafa-e staff of efficient salesmen to devote attention to th. hundreds of prospective buyers. Th. Columbia Trust company thinks that it holds a record for high-grade subdivision lots. While the majority of the buyer, of Swinton lot. are Investment-seekers, many are going to Improve their holdings. Those who have made a study or development following the establishment of packing plant, in other cities are investing heavily in property adjoining the Swift Holdings Th. Columbia Trust eompany has mad. diligent Inquiries from Chicago, Kansas City. St Joseph. Fort Worth, Omaha and other place, concerning th. pi ogre., following th. packing-houses, end It ha. received nothing but good report, from those places. Th. following letter from a leading realty dealer of Forth Worth 1. the vole, of HAZED? DEAR, 110! JUST RUSHED Helen Taft Takes Her Kush ing at JBryn Mawr in ' Good Spirit. proving seeds- and plants, end printail-j 110ns or pampniet. setting forth the results of their Investigations. The prooiem is now can they get the remote 11 having this service would have at the . municipal postornce, sum, graceiui aerial towers built of steel and taller than the Eiffel tower. To the tops of ineae, electric elevators wouia laKeme pouches ready for the " through mail ship, and nets would automatically re ceive and deliver the pdbches designed for that city. Since the city of that Utopian era would be one in which civic pride was a primary law, the aerial towers would be the perfection of the architect's skill. It may be many year, beyond the tlm. of th. aerial postal service that the airship will become a common car rier for perishable wares. It will be - too expensive an undertaking to enter Into competition with the .jnodern re . frlgerator cars. But since money has been -able to receive almost everything It asks, the billionaire of the future may have his own private line for the transportation or such things as hi palate may crave and his plethoric purse afford. It would at least afford novel diversion to put on the Boston, New fork or Chicago breakfast table, fruit still fresh with the Florida dews. picked and sent that same morning by special airsnip. Th. Airship a. a OivUiser. ' As a clvillzer. a. a means of elimtnat Ing Ignorance and equalising, literacy, ine airsnip noios out great promise, A large portion of the nation's rural population la still practically Inacces alble to many of the influence, of high. eey krmer tn rend thA? Pamphlets mailed to this farmer can not always be understood, for diagrams of modern tools mean little to him measured by the old ones he uses, and reference to modern fertilizers and crop rotation mean nothing to htm when ha has followed the precedent set bv his father and bis grandfather. "Gospel trains" fitted with regular agricultural exhibits and carrying lecturers with stereoptlnons have gone through small railway towns at the suggestion of na tional and state agricultural depart ments, out even tnese nave not reached a great mass of farmers. The perfected airship, that laughs at bad roads or swollen rivers, could reach these, and with literature, exhibits, and pictures, demonstrate the ideas that the scientist and progressive farmer have fmmri tn be good. New seeds could be carried, new mod els of tools transplanted, and when the work of practical experiment was ready to be taken to each individual farm, the airshlo will hn the solution tn the transportation problem. Forest fires, that some yearn rntal im tn the billions in cost to the government, are sometimes seen too late bit the sturdv rangers to be prevented flr checked. When the sea-edges are being watched by swift revenue cutters In the sky, equally tractable scouts will hover over each national forest reserve to locate fires. The Gospel by Airship. The missionary in the coming Uto pian days will have passed the pictur esque phase of pack trmile and doa- train travel, and will come literally from the skies, as the Indians believe the first white men came. The gospel will move farther and faster with physical limi tations removed. The mother superior of the good Gray Nuns of Canada has only recently, at the age of seventy-odd years, started on a tour of insoectlon that Will take her hr Antr train and canoe for hundreds of miles through the fastneeses of the northwest. Other I Tlllian nun. of that order are worklns- their !" 'lft" way 10 an inland African mission that requires three months' travel from the coast. What an airshin could do fnr the spread of the gospel is almost beyond speculation. It seems to come as an 5nfw.er to ''nTe delayed, as a miracle to fulfill centuries-old dreams. practically .very great packlng-boua. ttnter, so that It Is evident that th. frtst Bwlft enterprise now Deing estao lehed in Portland will do the same for this city a. similar plants did for the eastern and southern cities: Fort Worth. Texas, Oct. S, 1J08. Columbia Trust Company, Portland, Oregon. Gentlemen Your letter of inquiry re garding the commercial effect of the bwlft and Armour packing plants, In Fort Worth, at hand, and I gladly an swer. I have been her. It years, and have surn this city grow from a population of 18,000 to 75.000. and Its principal growth has been .Inc. the packing house located here. Not only has the realty in the vtetnity of the plant, quadrupled In value, but Fort Worth I roper, two miles south, has equaled It cud then some. Ar an Illustration: 1 1 had for sale eight lots on Houston street, now one of our main business streets, the year the packing-houses came, for the sum of $2,500 each, and they sold for that sum. Today, if they were vacant, they would bring easily $50,000 each. This Is the way our business property has Increased in value In the last eight years. Residence lots, two miles from the business center, that sold eight years ago, on a certain street, for $300 and $500 now bring $5,000 to $10,000 each. Bltullthlc paving has assisted their values, but without the packing houses we would have been minus the paving, as we date all, or nearly all, of our prosperity from packing-house year, 1900. Farming lands in 1900 could be pur chased all oyer our county, 80 miles square, from $10 to $25 per acre. Now they are from $50 to $200 per acre. To go on and enumerate our commer cial prosperity account oft the packing-houses would require quite a vol ume. We are, by far, the city of the south, with the business eye of the west and east cast jealously upon us, especially the big packing centers like, Chicago. Kansas City, St. Joe and Omaha. We are second "now and will soon be first, and can never commer cially recede. Panics may come and go, but Forth Worth will go on forever. If you want to increase your pros perity induce all the big packing plants to locate in Portland. If you have money to Invest get it In on the ground floor now. Buy the vacant business property If there is any, which in your judgment will come in. ' If there is any (Catted Press Less. Wire.) Bryn Mawr, Fenru, Oct. II. Among the girl, of th. freshman clas. at Bryn Mawr who have been .ubjected to ru.hlng" by th. sophomore. I. Ml. Helen Taft. daughter of th. Republican presidential candidate. ' Although mysterious edlot was promulgated that Mis. Taft wa. not to b. subjected to nv roush" treatment she ws. eom pelled to do stunt, that signalised her anmission into in. Daoy col less. The girls who .ubjected Mis. Taft and her "freahie" comrades to such In dignities as being, fed with a spoon, wearing variegated hosiery and plung ing Into a waterless bathtub are careful to explain that Miss Taft waa not haaed "I did i monies dldat.'a daughter not escape th. Initiation eere- taugningiy admitted tn. can rl "all "all fre.hmen are heirs, to these stunt, and I cam. in for my .hare of It with th. other victims. suburban acreage for home sites scoop it up, cut it up into lots 60x100 and see it double and thrihble In value In two or three years. You have a big city now, but the packing-houses will give It an undying boom. Perhaps I had better say a steady, natural commercial growth, boom being unsavory when we remember the wild boom days of Texas and California. As I am a real etate man, I know whereof I speak. I hajve ceased to look through rosy spectacles, having passed tne days or ouna enuiusiasm. Gentlemen, you are welcome to those words. Regarding Fort Worth, like the Rock of Ages, they will stand, as a monument to our commercial great ness. It may take Portland, like It did Fort Worth, three or four years to awake and open Its eyes to packing house prosperity, but wake it will, and then It will wax rich and great and be happier than now. With well wishes, I am truly yours, CHARLES M. BROWN, Law and Real Estate. 2008 Hemphill. ' " ' ( McAllister Fool Them All. , matte. Pries Lessef Wlre.t Naw York. Oot II. Heyward Ball McAllister of Ban Francisco, brother of Ward McAllister, I. on hi. honeymoon. Mrs. McAllister waa, until yesterday, Melanie Jeanne Benke, 'daughter of a captain In th. French army. . McAllister left here Saturday saying h. wa. going on a fishing trip and not even his most tlmale friend, knew h. intended to marry. He went to an attorney and made arrangements for getting th. marriage license and a superior judge lenormed tne marriage ceremony In th. courthouse. The bride has but re cently come from France and cannot peak English. v (0 P 0 1 f (0) ll,"-. J al I iiii&iniiaaia' All Grocers Next Sunday's Transfer Supplement will consist of a beautiful shirt waist pattern, one that any lady will be proud to possess. Don't forget to secure the Sunday Journal of October 18th. It's 5c. OCTOBER IS THE FINISH OF THE; WESTBOUND COLONIST PARES They-apply from all point in Eastern and Southeastern states. Have you informed interested friends in the East? UNION DEPOT SERVICE.' THROUGH TRAINS W0 GKEAT LAND AT'CTIOX IX FAR XORTHWEST 'Rpeefil tMaoetm to TT JnariMl.t Regina, Bask.. Oct. IS. One of the f:reatest land auctions In hlstnrv is b nr conducted here this week under th. direction of the PnnltHtonn & U'entern Iand Company, Limited, a wealthy or ganisation, whicv. had the pick of large tracts In the heart of the rnu,nin wheat belt. Before the auetlnn onn. eluded it is expected that a querter of a million acres will hxve been hnil.i over to me hirnest HE LOVES EH JUST THE SUSIE ilian Story Follows His Ex-Wife About Like a Common Mooncalf. The Transfer Patterns with last Sunday's Journal seemed to meet with the universal approval of our women readers. This encour ages us to continue giving these patterns with The Sunday Journal Amount of fare can be deposited with any agent of the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY and ticket deliveries will be arranged at any point desired. Call on or write to A. D. CHARLTON, Assistant General Passenger Agent, 255 Morrison Street Portland, Oregon. (Colled Preat Leased Wire.) New York. Oct. 1J. Julian Story, the famous portrait painter. Is to have his ' winter studio in New Tork, according to an announcement made here, and gossip ' has it that ho will stay in New Tork be-j cause he still loves Emma Kamcs. the ! prima donna, who secured an absolute ! divorce from him a year ngo. and who I in to nlng st the Metropolitan Opera i house this winter. Both Karnes and Story have been , abroad this summer and the story is going the rounds that th. painter fol- I lowed the singer from place to place on . the continent to Inform her that be VJ I " I - I I Iff I II U I 7 Today special open ing in Fall Raincoats and Cravenetted Hats, and if you're not inter ested in these, here's a special Umbrella at $1.50. mp1 ClxOTHlBRS hlririera In rta.l. of various ' sisea. Pnumviiv. .tn. still loved her re here from many narti nt i'nii Acquaintances of the two say Btory and the- United Htates to attend the I tof,k apartments In a hotel near Mme. sale. As purrhasers are not reoulred i Eames at Venice and sought to see his live on the land the le has . former wire again. W hen he passed her tracted many investors and speculators who hope to reap large profits as a result of the rapid advance In land value throughout this section of the Canadian- northwest ne smiled, hut she did not recognise him The singer went to Paris and Story followed but failed to make any impres sion, according to reports. nirthdar of Bishop KHloy. Savannah. Gn.. Oct. 13. Rt n Benjamin J. Keller. Catholic hlshop of nf I day on the occasinn hi mrinoay. Mianon Keller recentW turned from London, where he i ous counties tn- slltr-flrst re- prominent pariwir.nt In the seoslnn nf i..in ronrrwu. ne Is now de- i rotlrg much of hi attention to the plan for Catholic missionary work on an ez tensleeeje among the nesrnea of the of the pope, la to raise a fund of 'lo- ' number of loral branches of tha W. C. by aanhal auhtK-rlptlons of 1 earn i r- In Tennoesee has mora than Tennrao White1 lUbboorra. (Special Duipatrh u"tte" Joernat I Chattanwga. vlnn.. Oct. 11. Trhlte rlbbona fluttered In Chattainoga today. Women of every creed and station, wrkrtng the snowy badge of the W. C. r. L. attached to emblems of the varl- and cities of Tenneaeee. gathered in force for the opening of the annual state convention of the fa mous temperance organisation. The seaalnns will continue three daya The members are especially Jubilant over the annual reports shewing that the The rurwl ! tn lira1 flrb ..j dliia the rathniie religion among rerit y be aad in ednr-at doubled during the past 12 months. guamrrxT coun wxrx gow. 3-170 Third Street. ,r?JM J' that kltvd of a weather '"L'T"1 that rheumatl.ro weather Is at hand. Get leadv for it now by gettin, . bU. of fo-;.-r.. fw Lrininteol rieeat i rh-tUMtHn. chnMalna. f ..- -r'lii jo'i'i ana mvnrim. 1 a-h2 :c tve and i r a bctu Ohio Labor FederaUoiL. apxial PUpatr to Tbe tiiaatl t rT"m. Ohio, Oct. IS. Lat)rs of organised labor throughout Ohio aa armliled In large Bombers In this dty toay for tbe opening of tha annual convention of the the Stta rmitiui of lienor. It Is the twentp-flfih anneal mee'tinrf or liver Jiiblle ef the organ isattna atxt the rmton la to Ka fit tingly -naneeninntl Te annual re pnrts ehow that nrlng - pmmt year tan T unions JoMefed the Obte feJeratioa, ... The Kind Yon Hare Always Bought, and which has been In use for orer 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per- fflf Jt-f onal supervision since its infancy. 'CCCCsAMl A Tint? no one to decelTA von In thta. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drop and Soothing Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine' nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Fererlshness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, ewes Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach amd Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. CENUIflE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of T&6 Kind You Haye Always BongM' In Vbq For Over 30 Years, Oregon City Trains Portland RaUway, Light & Power Co. Beginning Saturday, October 10, 1908, Oregon City trains will leave First and Alder streets as heretofore. ' ...... i Cazadero trains will leave East Morrison and Water streets. Passengers can take any car operating over East Morrison or Madison street bridges. HORSE SH OW Second Annual Horse Show of the Portland Hunt Club Oriental Building. October 15, 16, 17, '08 aata a aw mm Sals a Mow m Martial Draff rton, Sixth aaS Waaklartoa Stratta. Reserved Seats f 1.50 General Admission 50f Abo Tickets for Woman's Exchange "I860" Dance, Wednes day, October 14. Tickets $1.50 .11 READ THE SUN DA Y JOURNAL LARGEST. BKST grXDAT PAITR I TUB OnrtJOX COr7fTI.T 3 w - X t i
