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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1913)
i PART TWO Stirring History of Milwaukee One of Much Progress Tale of How Great Railroad Pushed into the Far Wet It Interesting Its Ainu and Purpose in the Developing of New Territory (By Edmund Ellsworth Sumner.) HKUE'H to tho Greater Milwau kee! hi tbo torse sontitneut expressed In toast offered by the proHulcnt of the Cbl cgo, Milwaukee & St. Paul Unilwuj. at h roeont banquet given in Chicago to the official of that ayatom. It wan brief and to the point. No word could have been utterd to more aptly illutHrate the keynote of the ddrsc of the evening, the history, growth ami development of the big ayatmn com bined with the bright outlook autl im portant plau for the future. And tho official who offered the tmmt, A. J. Karling, the man who ban little to ay but who doe thing, concisely stated (he case and echoed tho thought uow prevalent in the mind of the publii! that the Milwaukee i among the lead er in the lint of important transport tion compauie and first among West ern railroad with far reaching plan for future expansion to meet the re quirements ure to come, incidental to the industrial duvelopment and the gen eral pronperity of tho fount ry at the present time. And so it cornea that the name senti meiit can hero bo made the motif of a story of achievement, a new chapter in the stirring history of American trans portation, a recital that not only deal with the future -up-building of the Pa cific Northwest, tut one that lt U East and tho Went; that bring to gether the Occident and the Orient. Thi is not In any onso a historical review of tho Milwaukee, but in passing it might be interesting to note that In the early sixties the road wa 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 peoplo of the outlying farms, mining towns and set tlements nearer to the main line. As a local company it took its nnino from tho daces it. aimed to reach and so Chicago, Milwaukee and Ft. I'aul have been perpetuated for all time in b 10,000 mile system that reaches Ho quiam, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, the Canadian boundary am! a hundred other points; that penetrates the iron ore region of Puluth, tho copper dis tricts of Calumet, that connects with Postage-Shy Notes Bother Postal Official Tells Public What Stamps to Use on Letters to Go Over Seas 80 much inconvenience is caueod to postoffice officials and the patrons of tbo postal service by the large number of letters mailed to foroign countries without sufficient postage, that Socond Assistant Postmaster Qouoral Joseph Stewart has sent out a letter of in struction in rogard to the amount of postage necessary 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, addrossod for delivery in foreign countries, which are subject to our postal union pastage rates, are prepaid only two cents, the senders of Buch letters being unci or 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 Panama, Newfoundland, the Canal Zone, Germany (by direct steamers only), England, Scotland, Wales and Iroland and tho City of Shanghai, China. To all other places the rate is five cents for the first ounce or fraction of an ounco and three cents for each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce, which -must be fully pro 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 letter pre pa. only two cents would be short paid three , cents, and, consequently, subject on delivery to an additional postage charge of six cents. Story of the California lines at Kaunas City, Omaha or Sioux City, that gridirons tliu statu of Wisconsin, Iowa, MinuesoU and the Dakota and lastly, through the completion of it l'ugut Mound sy tern, has built up a through line from Chicago and that whole territory to the greatest harbor of tho Pacific, those of i'ugct Bound. To reach this section the line traverse a country rich iu vast industrial opportunity, but merely at the beginning of its development. The buildiug of the line to various ports of Puget Sound was but the firni step iu tho giant plans of this railroad, No sooner had the Round of the driving of the last spike died away in tho echoes of the pine-clad hill of the Hound when steps were taken to build up the local territory branch out into new fields and today, this, the uewcht of all tbo transcontinental lines, has, even at this early date, completed more local fueders 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 boon thruwn open for traffic than its management looked far beyond the breakers of the broad Pacific. To the far north lay Alaska, tho 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 miners, the sealers, tho 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 tbo Atlantic seaboard and this was followed by shipments by car load of those remarkable blue foxes to the fox breeding farm of Nova Scotiu. They looked to the Orient and long before the road was completed had dans 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 Kant 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 tho result of all these movent Pass ing through this splendid inland harbor of Puget Sound, the gateway to the whole Pacific, are vast cargoes of freight gathered along the lino of the railway and destined for distant Pa cific ports of this and foreign coun tries. This trndo is but yet in its in fancy, although tho beginning has been noticeably successful and indicates what a great tonnage will be built up in the future. All the ports of Puget 1, FRlSCO DONT FAIL TO VISIT W T585 "'"HE COUNTRY WHERE THE W Jll Soil spells success, and V -il kS yow- NEIGHBORS HANDSHAKE 1 1w fCx :wMmm STOP ANC V,S,T us! r rTRV MONMOUTH, I'OI.K COrXTV, OKI-CON, FRIDAY, FKWMAKY 21, l!i:s. Achievement in A Life-Saving Crew at Practice Caught by the Camera -r' J. 'J Jftr f i' - V" V ' ' t , - 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 ready when the test by wind and wave comes. Sound are vitally interested as from one or the other of them thi volume of trade passe directly over its wharves into the deep-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 this 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 tho gateway to the Pacific pay tribute to the several ports; help to build them up nnd increase their population and commercial impor tance. It is tho newest line to the Puget Sound couutry, but already the work has been well started on the $1,000,000 tunnel in the Cascades. It will reduce the grade to a maximum of one per cent and save nine iniles over the sum mit. More important still, it will elim inate most of the snow troubles that have caused such dolny and expense in Enjoy the Exposition, ' , , " Mil I UIi', ' -1 I ' operating trains over this range of pic turesque scenery 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 Butte, the center of the smelting, copper and zinc, mining, it is building up its'local sys tern and joining with the people of that important center in all that pertains to Butte's betterment. At Great Kails, in tho same state, it is likewise giving much attention to local improvements. Here is a water power that in time will be valuable to the future electrifying of the lines and the Milwaukee is keeping pace with the local improve ments by joining in all new enter prises that make for the advancement of local conditions. The same is true of other places along the whole route. In Western Washington it has been busy from the day the 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. Eainier National Park; it pur But Don't Forget Us New Steel Trail W y ;' v I T'' 7 ' ' 'y ' -a ', ' ?4 -' chased the Bellingham Bay Sc British Columbia, 45 miles in length through the fertile Nook sack V alley to the Ca nadian boundary on the north; in con struction it has built from Cedar Falls to Enumclaw, Beverley to Hanford. Warden to Marcellus, Tiff lis to Neppel, Cedar Falls to Everett, Tacoma to Ab erdeen and Hoquiam, a grand total of 242 iniles; it has established car barges on Puget Sound between Seattle and Bellingham, Seattle and Ballard, Seattle and .Port Blakely, Seattle and Eagle Harbor; it has built important terminal facilities at Tacoma, Seattle and other ports. Still aggressively marching onward, current reports indicate that it will build a line through the very heart of the Olympic peninsula, the richest tim ber district of the Northwest. It al ready skirts the southern end of that body of land, but the completion of the new lines will be the factor iu develop ing the northern and central portion. This one plan alone will mean every thing to this rich country and add to the commercial importance of the cities of the Sound. (Continued on page two)TrT FOUR PAGES Men Who Aid City's Papers Metropolitan Publications Trust Correspondents in Rural Districts IT WA& Joe McCullough, the famous managing editor of a great East ern daily, who said: "A good edi tor always has a man on the spot when bell breaks loose." Joe McCul lough bag been dead for more than a decade, but his 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 anything might happen by any possibility. The result has been the small-town corre spondent. He is an important but in conspicuous cog in the vast and com plicated machinery necessary to the production of the metropolitan paper of today. Columns have been filled with the records of famous "beats'' scored by elever reporters on big dai lies, and there has never been any lack 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, however, has ever spoken a word of commendation for that great army of humbler news paper men, who, situated in districts outlying the cities, represent the larger paper, each in bis individual terri tory. As essential to the city paper as its trained editors and reporters are the country correspondents. The man aging editors of these papers, if no one else, appreciate the value of the out-of-town representatives, and they pay al most as much attention to the effective ness of their corps of men in the "country" as they do to the men and woman in the home of f iees. - They are, quick to detect any signs of unrelia bility or inefficiency, and are not slow in making a change if there be reason for it. They realize the fact that it is the unexpected that is always happen ing and that the unexpected picks out-of-the-way places to happen in as often as anywhere else. It is important to managing editors that there be no weak link in the chain of correspondents who serve in the rural districts. For tais reason no time is lost in replacing an incompetent, unreliable or careless cor respondent with one who approaches the standard thought necessary. Ordinarily one correspondent is ap pointed in each county of the state im mediately adjacent to the city where the paper is located. The correspond ent is required to handle all news in his county snd, in case an adjoining county may .'ave donbtfjil represen tative, to mc'.; nis papr of any im portant li.iMi' '.:i!gs in order that all sect! "i - niav vl! "covered." The corr ol den , besides taking care of his own tjrritory, is- also able to "tip off" big newff events in contigu ous territory, comes closest to highest esteem possibly for the managing edi tor to bestow. While it is rare for a live correspondent to receive a bit of credit or a word of prr.ise, as happens occasionally to the city staff man, yet he knows from the fact that his 'story" is given liberal space and that 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 he is "making good." . The country correspondent is usually invariably, almost a reporter on the leading newspaper of the principal city of his county. While some of the big papers acquiesce in the employment of a correspondent who has retired from the newspaper field and yet keeps in touch with the news enough to serve his paper well, yet the majority insist that a correspondent be actively con nected with a daily newspaper. The evening papers of the cities naturally prefer that their representatives be employed on the evening papers of their' respective towns, while the morning daily papers desire their 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 reason that his night work prevents him from reaching his desk as early in the day 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 happenings late at night, "stuff" that would have been handled by the men of the morning papers. In the smaller counties where big events are few and good correspondents rare, the big papers must take the best they can get and risk getting "scooped" on big (Continued on pagetwo)
