n-AJAii HI n-r-rvr n r ----- V"rT' H PART TWO INDEPENDENCE, OHEGON, FRIDAY, KKUKIAUY 21, 1913. FOUR PAGES Stirring Story of Achievement in New Steel Trail History of Milwaukee One of Much Progress Tale of How Great Railroad Interesting Its Aim Developing of (By Edmund Ellsworth Sumner.) HKHK-a to tho Creator Milwau keol was the torso seutiuinut expressed in a toast offered by the president of the Chi cago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway at a recent banquet given in Chicago to the official of that upturn. It wan brief aud to the point. No word could have beeu uttered to more aptly illutsrate the keynote of tbo addresses of the evening, the history, growth and dcvolopmeut of the big system com bined with the bright outlook and im portant plans for the future. And tho official who offered tho toaat, A. J. Karliug, the man who has little to nay but who docs things, concisely stated the case and echoed tho thought now prevalent in the mind of tho publio that the Milwaukee in among the load era in the list of important transporta tioa companies and first among West cm railroad with far-reaching plana for futuro expansion to meet the re quirements sure to come, incidental to tho industrial development and the gen eral prosperity of the country at tho present time. And so it comes that the same senti ment can here be made the motif of a tory of achievement, a new chapter in the stirring history of American trans portation, a recital that not only deals with the future up building of the Pa cific Northwest, but one that links tho East and the West; that brings to gether the Occident and the Orient. This is not in any sense a historical review of the Milwaukee, but in passing it might be interesting to note that in the early sixties the road was incor porated in Wisconsin to build a local lino 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 boon given to local branches that brought the products and people of tho outlying farms, mining towns and set tlements nearer to the main lino. As a local company it took its name from the places it aimed to reach and so Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul have been perpetuated for all time In a 10,000-milo system that reaches Ho quinm, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, tho Canadian boundary nnd a hundred other points; that penetrates the iron ore region of Duluth, the 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 So much inconvenience is caused to postoffice officials aud tho patrons of the postal service by the largo number of letters mailed to foreign countries without sufficient postage, that- Second Assistant Postmaster General Josoph Wtewart bus sent out a letter of in struction in .regard to tho amount of postago nocessary on letters that aro to travel to "foreign parts." The let tor follows: Tho department is in formed that many letters mailed in tho United States, addressed for dolivory. in foreign countries, which are subject to our postal union pastage rates, aro prepaid only two cents, the senders of such letters being under the impres sion, it is presumed, that our two-cent domestic postage rate is applicable to said lotters. Tho only foreign destina tions to which our two-cent letter rate applies are Canada, Cuba, Mexico, the Kepublic of Panama, Newfoundland, the Canal Zone, Germany (by direct steamers only), England, Scotland, Wrales and Ireland and tho City of Shanghai, China. To all other places the rate iB five cents for the first ounce or fraction of an ounce and three cents for each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce, which must be fully pre 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 pay only two conts would be short paid three cents, and, consequently, subject on delivery to an' additional postage charge of six cents. Pushed into the Far West Is and Purposes in the New Territory the California linos at Kansas City, Omaha orHioux City, that gridirons tho states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and tho Dakotas and lastly, through tho completion of its Pugot Hound sys tem, has built up a through line from Chicago and that whole territory to tho greatest harbors of the Pacific, those of Puget Hound. To reach this section tho line traverses a country rich in vast iudustiiul opportunity, but merely at tho beginning of its development. The building of the line to various ports of Puget Hound was but the first step iu the giant plans of this railroad. No sooner had tho sound of tho driving of the last spike died away in the echoes of the pine-clud hills of the Sound when steps were taken to build up tho local territory branch out into new fields and today, this, the newest of all the transcontinental lines, has, even at this early date, completed more local feeders than have other and older lines existing in the Pacific North west. The Milwaukee is aggressive as woll as progressive. No sooner bad the line beeu thrown open for traffic than its management looked far beyond the breakers of the broad Pacific. To tho far north lay Alaska, the 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 tho miners, the sealers, the salmon fishermen and the people generally. A few weeks after the lino was opened it transported the first train of high grado copper ore from Alaska to the Atlantic seaboard and this was followed by shipments by car loads of those remarkable blue foxes to the fox breeding farms of Nova Scotia. They looked to the Orient and long before the road was completed had plans 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 East and intermediate points to ports of Japan and China. It opened an Oriental agency and placed at tho head a capable young man to properly manage that department. What is the result of all those movesf Pass ing through this splendid inland harbor of Puget Sound, the gateway to the whole Pacific, are vast cargoes of freight gathered along the line of the railway and destined for distant Pa cific portB of this and foreign coun tries. This trade is but yet in its in fancy, although the beginning has been noticeably successful and indicates what a great tonnage will be built up in the future. All the ports of Puget fe AND ON "YOUR WAY TO fc FRISCO DONT FAIL TO VISIT "H. E COUNTRY WHERE THE NSsSV. ' '.'SOIL SPELLS SUCCESS. AND jJlL Nli 5Cl ou- NEIGHBORS HANDSHAKE (Cf A Life-Saving Crew at Practice Caught by the Camera ! , , r? . ' f ' f ' , , ,",'' s ? ' ' ' : ' ' 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 reacry when the test by wind and wave comes. Sound are vitally interested as from one or the other of them this volume of trade passes 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 reudily 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 the gateway to the Pacific pay tribute to the several ports; help to build them up and increase their population and commercial impor tance. It is the newest line to the Pugot Sound country, 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 miles over the sum mit. More important still, it will elim inate most of the snow troubles that have caused such delay and expense in Enjoy the Exposition, 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 termi nal: station. It haa 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 tem and joining with the people of that important center in all that pertains to Butte's betterment. At Great Falls, in the 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, 6" miles, and leading to the main entrance to the wonderful Mt. Bainier National Park; it pur But Don't Forget Us 9 f' v; ' chased the Bellingham Bay & British Columbia, 45 miles in length through the fertile Nooksack' Valley to the Ca nadian boundary on the north; in con struction it has built from Cedar Falls to Enumelaw, Beverley tf Hanford, Warden to Marcellus, Tifflis to Xeppel, Cedar Falls to Everett, Tacoma to Ab erdeen and Hoqniain, a grand total of 242 miles; 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, Seattlo 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 in 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) Men Who Aid City's Papers Metropolitan Publications Trust Correspondents in Rural Districts IT WAS 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 whea hell breaks loose." Joe McCul lough has 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, lie 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 clever 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 women in the home offices. 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 this 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 and, in case an adjoining county may have a doubtful represen tative, to notify his paper of any im portant happenings in order that all sections may be well "covered." The correspondent who, besides taking eare of his own territory, is also able to "tip off" big news 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 praise, 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. Jn 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 oh page two)