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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
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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 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
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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)