THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. TUESDAY EVENINO. OCTOBER IS, 1008.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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