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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
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A Life-Saving Crew at Practice Caught by the Camera
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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
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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
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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)