FOUR
THE EUGENE WEEXLY GUARD. THURSDAY. AUG 26. 1909
I
es..es>ee>ess j »eesssss»»« jo est M e<
«-*♦
with a view toward elevating the quality of his trade, aud goods
which he manufactures«
,
The word "booster" evidently has its origin in slang, but has
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER
CHARLES H. USHER, Editor »n<1 l’ubi I «hcr
been used for so long that is has found a place in the English lan
Subacription prive, |1.50 per »«ar, if paid la advauea. 11.uu at aud guage, as expressive of force properly applied.
of yoar.
In the operation of street car lines it has been found that af­
- ■
■
------ —
Eatered at Rafear, Oregoa, poetufflca aa arcond-rlaaa m»Mrr
ter the current has traversed several miles of wire it loses its
Published every Thursday at Eugen«. Oregon
force or voltage, but still retains its volume, or amperage, when
Agrau tor rt»e ftwara
to
bring the volume up to the point where it will furnish the nec­
Tfca following .re *uthorii»d to tak. and receipt for nbaarlptloM or
essary
power an instrument called a "booster" is put in the line, !
Sr*M*ci any other bualneaa for Th. Dally aad Weekly Guard:
Ora «web—J. L. Clark.
which
transforms
the emperage to voltage, or volume to force,
Cab <ir<—George A. Drury.
All po.tmaat.ra are authorised te reoolve and reeelpt ter «vbecrlp this being termed “boosting the current.“
Bona te the Daily and Weekly Guard.
Quoting a recent authority, “the booster is the salt of the ■
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 1909
earth. He wars on evil by promoting the good. He makes sun­
We have the following Weber Wagons and intend to close them out at once AT
shine on the cloudy days and turns tears into laughter. He helps ;
HARRIMAN’S REMARKABLE PERSONALITY
himself by helping others, and when his boosting days are over ;
COST. They need no recommendation, but show for themselves.
aud
he
goes
back
to
the
dust
from
which
he
sprang,
the
world
is
“Master of human destinies am I.” wrote John J. Ingalls,
better for his having been in it.”
many years ago, for his subject "Opportunity." To rival the
mastery of opportunity seems to be E. H. Harriman s ambition,
Without waiting for the government to act. Los Angeles is
to be the arbiter of fates and of kingdoms, to rule the industries
going
ahead and spending $8,000,000 improving San Pedro har­
and finances of the world, not so much for the money that would
bor.
The
same city is putting in a new water system at a cost
pour in to him but for toe feel of power, the elation of dominance
2 only. 2’2 inch steel skein gear, only
of
$23,000,000,
and it is this spirit of enterprise, this facility
$69.75
and mastery.
for
taking
the
initiative
in
big
things,
that
has
built
up
the
great
Considered purely as a brain, an organizing, planning and ex­
ecutive machine, Harriman is the marvel of this age, remarks an Southern California city. The same spirit manifested in Eugene
4 only, 2%-inch steel skein gear, only...................................... •................ SY 2.80
exchange. Whether malevolent or benevolent, he is one of the would insure the carrying out of a comparatively small million
tremendous forces of modern life. His amazing and almost un­ and a half dollar project, like the Eugene & Siuslaw railroad, in ♦ i
interrupted success has gained for him inexhaustible supplies of short order. There is no doubt but the raising of only $ 150,000 I Same gear, with double box................................................... ................. $91.on
would guarantee the building of this road—and such a small !
capital, which he may use as he wills, and already men sup-
sum
should be subscribed in twenty-four hours. And it would be i 6 only. 3-inch steel skein gear, only.........................................
............... S75.90
posed to be monarchs of millions of money and thousands of
if
we
Oregonians were possessed of the spirit which has built up
game.
men, move merely as pawns in his
Same gear, with double box................................................... ................... S94.50
i
cities like Los Angeles, Seattle and Spokane.
Harriman is not money-mad, but power-mad. If he had
really rested in Europe, instead of fighting his physicians, dis­
1 only, 3’/4-inch, steel skein gear, with doub
..............
SI07.5R
According to Consul-General Richard Gunther, of Frankfort,
charging them and resuming his direction of affairs, his money
a new dirigible airship will soon be constructed in Germany. It
•
might have gone on piling up indefinitely, but he missed the
is
the invention of Professor Schuette, of the Technical High
touch of the buttons, and the sensation of the vibrating levers
School at Danzig, Prussia. The balloon will be 310 feet in length
which he controlled, so he went back to them. And so far as
and
about 50 feet in diameter. The skeleton frame will not be ! •
health is concerned, he was probably wiser than the doctors, for
composed of aluminum, but of double diagonal wooden ribs. The I
that labor which is a joy is a benefit, and the “rest” which irks
car or basket is to be about 120 feet long, and 12Ya feet wide. | !
These prices are at or below cost in every instance, in carload buying at the fac-
is a detriment.
The screw propeHor will be driven by two gas motors of 150 .t
He returns to America still broken in health, but probably to
horsepower each. The average speed is estimated at 50 Eng­ j :! tory. We are closing out and will buy no more. If you want nne of these soHidid
continue as long as life lasts his career of railroad conquest.
lish miles per hour. As the carrying capacity is considerably en­
Harriman is only a man, yet the limitations of ordinary men hanced by substituting wrood for aluminum, the new airship I I
are not his, and he cannot be measured by the standards applied would be able to take, besides the usual outfit and crew, from 1 ♦ ♦ wagons get your choice early, as they will not last long.
I
to other men. He must be considered as a force, and the incar- j 4000 to 4500 pounds of freight.
nation of forces which direct him while he directs them. He is
II
_________________
I
not a happy figure, this little man whose brain is sapping his i
With the building of the railroad across tbe mountains to . '» •
bodily strength, but he looms colossal above men who sneered Klamath Falls in actual progress and the Siuslaw road to the ; I
at him only a few years ago, and stands with Theodore Roosevelt ocean practically assured, Eugene is in a position to become a :!
>i
and William of Germany as one of the three most remarkable jobbing centre for a large territory—and the beginning of job­ h ■i
n
personalities and powers in the world.
bing business means that a place has entered the real city class.
>»
I
”
The Commercial Club could do no better at this time than to 'i
THE ONE IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE
advertise the advantages of Eugene as a location for wholesale | ¡I
houses.
Eugene will become the railroad centre of Western Oregon;
■!i
G5 EAST NINTH STREET.
PHONE MAIN 714
if she is awake to the opportunities of the hour. The railroad
After all this Sutton affair was only a drunken row among
♦
44^
construction era has dawned and in three years there will be I the students w'hich happened to result fatally. Who was to blame z>
many changes due to newly constructed transportation lines andj ' or just how Sutton came to his death will probably never be
the consequent development of the Oregon country. T
During [( qqwh —perhaps the participants were all too drunk to realize
this period of transformation, the town that is most advantage- i-"7 how\'t happened" themselves, . There have probably been
ously situated and hustles hardest for railroad facilities will , many similar occurrences at the naval institution, but they have
has the geographical loca-1 not been ..investigated,-
f .
reap the greatest benefits. Eugene
T
tion and it is up to the people here to bestir themselves in order i
flmt Ilf work. Don’t fail to “v th«
' Manicuring and
that no railroad which might be secured by proper effort shall
|iictun-a We are |>uttlng out
S. G. Beardsley,M. D
Notwithstanding the fact that Eugene has built several hun­
uow at half price
be lost.
Physician and Surgceo
dred new houses, including several large flats, there is now a
Hair Dressing
The surest way to compel recognition of the city’s claims is! demand for houseg to rent. When the 8chools convene next
I
olman
Studio
10 and 17 .Met I nag llhlg..
Ki-giulrr Bldg, i
to budd a railroad to the coast, giving a short haul to the ocean. month there ig nQ doubt but houseg wiU be at a premium. And UoMtlDg Slater«
Phone Main 17
nth and WilliunHU
Front Haile
013 Willamette Str*«-
This the people are able to do with their own means and the thjg condition tells the 3tor of Eugenc«s remarkable and con-
movement is now well under way and is daily assuming a more 1 tjnuous rrowth
McLEOD
S. D. READ
tangible shape. Already it has received direct notice from Mr.
3 °________________
GARRETT & MITCHELL
THE TAILOR
DENTIST
Hill, and is lending to draw the -ttention ol other railroad mag. ' We c„ build ,he Euge„e & Sius|aw railr<Jad a, far aj Hmira I
Olli*
oí (Ml’* Grill, 7U» #*-
Real
Estate
Brokers
Over Hall". Grocery
na ea.
is simp y up o e peop e to keep hammering a-ay , lb,a year ¡, every property owner and business man who will i
Ao. 5IH Willamette strec-t
Ib-giater Building,
at the project until it ts successfully earned out.
be benefi, ed wi„ do his
, Then lt
be a„
,0
l
’
hotu-
Main
liix.
It has been definitely settled that $75,000 will bmld this
re ,be funds l0 k
the work ,
lbe car8 arc rnn.
Foil IIEbT
Jesse G. Wells
proposed road from Eugene to Elmira, and that a similar sum
tQ tbe coast That is the approved Eugene way of doing
ATTORNEY
Teas, Coffees, Spices
lleglater Building
will extend the line into the Lake Creek region. After that »hinas
Give, «pedal attention to th. »»-
Eugene Cleaning
there wiU be no difficulty in securing the money, through bond
«minati.m of abiurarti, di .».dug
or Chinaware
«ottllng citiate», conveyan •■$ and «I-
sales, to complete the road to the coast, and on to Coos Ba*’.
and Dyeing Works
Roosevelt killed his first elephant this week, according to
lection.. Al»o to all peniiou miltMk
<
all
al
30
E««t
Ninth
Ht
reel.
A good part of the money necessary to actual construction
Phone Main ION.
yesterday's dispatches, We had supposed, from previous re- Everything pomible in cleaning and
G. II. MM KE, Mgr.
work has already been pledged, and it is to be hoped that work jorts, that he had already exterminated several herds, and had
Dyeing.
Corner Sixth and Willamette Hta.
of securing additional funds will not be allowed to lag.
Phone Main 122
Eugene Electric Co.
lieen reduced to the extremity of hunting smaller game be
Wm. G. Martin
The “Eugene Way” is acce;‘,^ M meaning that our peopl»
the big animals had all been killed off.
I. O. THOMAS
Attorney at Law
go ahead and do things, and in this instance the thing to be done
Will practice In all the <x.urta <*'
Electric Wiring, Fixture« and Sup­
SHINN
flee Warren riulldlng. i»J6 *IUi
pliva
is the most import&St that was ever presented to our people.
THE SIGN PAINTER
Pass along the medal for vitality. Not only has a Pennsylva­
Phone Main A.
KL'GLNK, OIL ett. atreet, oxer Crescent «tore.
» 77 Wett Eighth Street.
nia widow of 81 taken a new husband, but she offered to bet the
OPPORTUNITY
FOR
AMBITION
’
wm I f run HMDllluni
«V
clerk who issued the marriage license that she'd live to be a
DR. LULU HUNKERS-MARQUA*
k
-------------- -- —" ■
Poultry and Fish
hundred. The kid of 51 she has married will have to step lively
«3-.
thC C&U °f the Wheat
heard in the land m^T
Phyúcían and Sur<ci»
SmythsTransfer Co
* i>.
• •
'
• F ’
Residence ÏH K««t Eleventh »f»*
«atonal writers are giving advice ai/4’ making kuggestions as, to fceep up with her.
THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD
Weber Wagons at Cost
1 •
t
»
HANDY BUSINESS DIBECTÛBÏ
1
k
1» z» «« A
£ z»
ZH r. ♦ V
♦ L. Zk Mr« C ZX I • r c> «
X
ZV W" z« ZX *— I
*
*■1
Market
to the best
X
.n,nl» j i
fare of th.
geiher '’
or
method to secure help that ftT Heeded by farmers '
Ncr doubt of the new tariff being a ®tood tbin? for
on of
» k
“"J6“ One "rilA
put« It th.s' Chairman i*yne, who has copped a $500? Job as.depl \ a 3t.
“»fltel for the unemployed u in tS. West; the nn.
ant attorney -^Aneral in charge of customs L
1 e a
„I''."’ """V“8 matket is in lhe
■ Tl>« ”.1-
to
write
out
his
official
title
often,
he
’
ll
earn
t«
,aT
ry
‘
subserved by bringing Hw two to.
thArh.L“‘
«ssary in order to obtain it.”
t
A Chicago woman*
«“«ertake the expense nee-
been £iven a divorce bees
*'?bby
. Thought the general co'wpXaint
r of wives was the other WAy around—that hubby persL’tf ta
staying home Sundays, ins *eRd of going to churcb-
the argument that J'tt^en'w^o have"^»^ ^WeXn farms I “ ¿e^enfy-five thousand dolla
«'«io ri wil1 build the siu,law railroad
— 'x
j 5 toward the coast. From that
x
1 t,me on “ b*ea,yto secure in ’‘ney to cont*nue tbe work of
construction to- th« Siuslaw and on to Coos Bay'
have returned East, but only on pleasure^isiT' t J cv h S°mn
been drafted into the regular industrial army of thl west^
instead of begging would-be revoluti. mists to be good, Mex-
way that will be more
willing worker in the West does not long remain idie
ine ico s secretary of war addresses them in
convincing, by saying: “The government h 43 money- ammuni'
tion, soldiers and artillery.”
WHAT IS A BOOSTER?
Authorities define the verb “to boost”
i #
Goodness grp.cioii3!
rate, remarks an exchange.
° lf® Up* to ele* suit because of n
A booster, therefore, must be understood to be one working ed on him. I .
York.
»WI Willie t, eb tbre
"
. «I lieh he t.
1 »lied a inc. he w.**®
’ llhel
0
ew
tlaggage
stored free
for ten day*
Phone»—Main 32. Ititi 4012.
U H HMVTH Pe.m
I
FM, Rcxt-lvetl Dally
W. H. KIIKIEWAV, Prop.
Plionz Main 23
«V2M Wlllnnx-.'« S.
Oft!««, Register building Pbuo« *
Ml.
,
SPECIALTY— DI»*«»'* •” *n®
snfl rh, —■a
.—.WANTED----- -
Watches that won’t keep time
Yes, wc want you to send or bring us your watches that won’t keep time, watches
the average wafchmaket cannot fix. No work too difficult for us to do. Wc em-
ploy no tinkers, but we are expert watchmakers and supervise all work oursclvcs
and cheerfully guarantee every job.
I
I
Maurer-Copper noli Jewelrv Co., Inc
542 Willamette Street,
.......... ‘
K ado 1
EUGENE, ORE.
I
I
I
I
». »I*