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T he C oquille H erald VOL. 35, COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1916. NO. 15 FAVORABLE TO 13131672 Further Data Showing That Proposal is Good One for Coos County PLENTY OF ROOM FOR BOTH New Railroad Would Occpy Space Otherwise Wasted A prolonged session o f Rnadmaster Murdock and a representative of the Herald on Saturday resulted in the dig ging up of what appeared to be the fact that the right of way o f the Coquille- Marshfield road is 40 feet wide for a distance of a mile and three-quarters from Coalbank slough. This would bring it about to Millington. From there to Southport it is 60 feet, and from there to Summit it is 80 feet. To arrive at this conclusion it was neces sary for the road master to go through old records, surveys and maps, and to figure it out from them, but the figures may now he accepted as correct. This disposes o f the assertion so confidently made on the streets the other day by a party who said that he had helped set the stakes and knew positively that the right of way on "this side o f the Wall place” was only 40 feet wide. Perhaps the gentleman set only half o f the stakes and therefore cut the figures in two, for the right o f way is 80 feet wide all the way this side o f Southport. A s will be seen by A, H. Powers’ inter view in the Times, republished in this issue, the Smith property adjoins the county right o f way along the narrow portion, and the Sm ith-Powers Co. pro poses to crowd out upon its own land there. So we need figure on at least 60 feet, and that along a portion o f the road which will be practically a bee line. On the portion where curves must occur there is 80 feet to go on. The county has graded and filled to a width o f 30 feet along the middle of the right o f way, and proposed to make the roadbed 24 feet wide, the central 16 feet to be hard-surfaced. The Court promises to allow no cncroach- mentjon the 24-foot roadway. As the Herald understands it, then, the county requires 24 feet o f the 60-foot right of way, but we will be liberal and allow ourselves 30 feet. This leaves 30 feet o f the right o f way which the county does not propose to improve at the tax payers’ expense, for which it has no use whatever except as an exhibit o f the “ scenery” over which our esteem ed contemporary is so inclined to en thuse. It is true that the 30 feet to be improved now lies in the middle o f the 60 foot strip, leaving only 15 feet on each side. It is not to be supposed that Mr. Powers would want to strad dle the roadway to get the room he re quires; but he is clearly willing and the County Court will insist, that wherever the railroad would encroach on the im proved portion *5« railroad company must grade and fill enough on the west side of the road to btill leave the coun ty ’ s 30 feet intact. If, then, the Smith-Powers people, in their youth and inexperience in the matter o f log ging railroads, don't know how much room they want, then they can take the Sentinel's estimate o f their require ments, which docs not run over 30 feet, and still there would be room on the right o f way. To move the wagon road to the extreme western edge o f the right o f way would involve a large amount o f new grading, but that would all be up to the Smith-Powers people, so we should worry This side of Southport where there is a width o f 80 feet, there should be no trouble. Some details not heretofore covered are mentioned in the interview of A. H. Powers, repubublishcd from the Times in this issue. They need not be repeated here. Mr. Powers seems to be in error as to the width o f the right o f way near Bunker Hill, but that is not to be wondered at. considering the inchoate mess in which road matters were found when the present roadmas- ter took charge o f them. The discussion o f the Smith-Powers petition has been fast and furious for the past week, both in and out o f the newspapers. This is as it should be, for the proposition is perhaps the most im portant that has ever come before the people o f the county. A decided differ ence of opinion was manifested on the street. Some had jumped at the instant conclusion that any proposition to give the Smith-Powers people any part of the right o f way, under any considera tion, for any price, was a thing to be sat upon heavily and distinctly and without consideration. They had the example o f one o f the city's journalis tic luminaries in this and it was not to be wondered at. Still, when we heard the expressions used by one o f our heavy taxpayers, who took the occasion to score the county court heavily for spending so much money on the grade o f the road in question, we were in clined to wonder what he would say when he would be called upon to pay his share of the $85,000 which he would so cavalierly reject. For It is a cinch that the Smith-Powers offer on the gravel required for hardsurfacing the road between here and Marshfield means an actual saving o f aliout that amount. The county must have the gravel, and refusing the saving of $85,- 000 means just that much more to be raised by taxation. Other parties, whose first impressions hud hepn everse to the proposition, were inclined to find out exactly what the Smith-Powers people wanted, and were "open to con viction.” Still others had recognized the advantages o f the proposal and were enthusiastic in its favor, express ing their faith in the ability t>f the County Court to safeguard the inter ests of the public. Some had been first impressed by the fact that the proposal meant the expenditure o f a million dol lars or so in new railroad construction in Coos county, furnishing a competing line between the two portions o f the county and an entrance for a possible road to the interior. It seemed, in fact, that opposition among the people would not survive a full discussion o f the matter. Among the papers o f the county a similar diversity o f opinion prevailed. A clipping from the North Bend Har bor in this issue shows that it is ready to endorse the project if, on investiga tion, it prove all right. The Coos Bay Times is favorable, and even goes to the length o f republishing the Herald’ s editorial o f last week, for which we make our surprised acknowledgments. Hut Mike’ s copying o f one o f our edit orials is hopelessly eclipsed, as a spec tacle. by the sight o f the Record and the Sentinel standing shoulder to shoul der, and all by their lonely on the same side o f the question. For it is gener ally understood that Judge Watson fa vors the project, and A a t is sufficient to fix the position o f the Record in op position to it. The Sun is favorable. A. H. Powers Tells More Right-of-Way Proposition The Coos Bay Times prints the fol lowing article, which gives further ex pressions from Mr. Powers: Considerable discussion h a s been aroused here over the application of the Smith Powers Logging Company for a franchise along the east side o f the Marshfield-Coquille road between Bunker Hill and the Summit. A fur ther examination o f the application fends to confirm the original announce ment that the construction o f the road may mean much more than simply an other road between Coos Bay and the Coquille valley. A. II. Powers, head o f the Smith- Powers company, concerning his appli cation to the Coos county court which will pass on the request on December 30th says: "In case the application is granted, construction is to be started within six months and completed within two years. “ The road is to be strictly a common carrier, handling all railroad business in addition to the Smith-Powers logging business, making it a railroad and not merely a logging road. “ We desire a franchise along the ease side o f the road, covering a strip not to exceed sixteen feet in width The county’s right o f way between the Summit and Millington is eighty feet wide and from Millington on it is sixty feet wide. “ The county has improved a roadway eighteen feet wide through the center o f their right of way so the franchise which we ask does not cover any o f the improved portion of the road. "T he portion over which we seek right o f way is unimproved, being cov ered with stumps, or requiring grading or filling which we will do. "W here our road would run near a level with the county highway, we will construct a hog wire fence with two barbed wires between the two roads and in case our line should be below the grade o f the county’ s improved high way, we will construct a bulkhead along it to prevent caving. "W e will furnish bond or rather guarantees protecting the county against any damnge resulting from ac cidents from the railroad hying on the county’ s right o f way. "F rom Millington in, our company owns property extending practically the entire distance and if it should he found that the new railroad would crowd the county’s right o f way, it can be quickly adjusted. "W e do not want or expect the fran chise over the county’s property with out recompensing the county. We o f fer to give the county the gravel need ed along the nine miles o f highway for fifty cents per yard, delivered. "Furthermore we will agree to haul forever for the county all gravel it may need along the line at one-half the ex isting rates charged by the Southern Pacific at the present time. I believe that the Southern Pacific freight rate on gravel to Marshfield at the present time is $25 per car and to Myrtle Point $18 per car and to Coquille $20 or $22 per car. " I f the county will load the gravel at the pit, we will give them free freight rates for the gravel needed to improve the nine miles o f roadway alongside the highway over which we ask the franchise. “ We need and desire the franchise COOS 0 ClfflY CHEESE ASS’N Will Work on Plan that Has Made Tillamook Pro duct Profitable OFFICERS ELECTED THURSDAY Higher Standard and Better Prices the Objects About twelve men representing dif ferent cheese factories o f Coos and Curry counties met at the office o f County Agent J. L. Smith here Thurs day a m reorganized the Coos and Curry Cheese Association and elected officers for the coming year. The organiza tion was really perfected last spring but only after the season was so far advanced that it was thought impracti cable to put it in operation. The purpose o f the Association is to standardize the product o f the cheese factories and to improve the selling facilities. In order to do this the asso ciation will employ an inspector whose duty it will be to inspect the cheese o f the different factories and brand the product according to the class to which it belongs. They will also have a sales agent and all o f the product o f the factories belonging to the association will be marketed by him. The by laws o f the association places the maxi mum cost o f inspection and selling at one-fourth cent per pound. The Association is modeled after the one in Tillamook, which has been in strumental in placing the Tillamook cheese above the product o f the other Oregon counties. It is estimated that the factories already in the association have an annual output o f over one and one-half million pounds o f cheese and several other factories are expected to join in the near future. The advantages o f the association as outlined by Mr. Smith are that the cheese o f the different factories will be brought to a common high standard and the price obtained will advance -ac cordingly. Under the present system he says that buyers come in from the outside and induoe the cheese men to compete with each other in the matter o f price and in this way cause them to lose many thousands o f dollars in the course o f r. very short time. Prof. W. A. Barr o f the Dairy Ex tension department o f O. A. C. who was here last spring to assist the cheese makers in perfecting their organization was present at the meeting Thursday, in response to a telegram from Mr. Smith. He was of the opinion that it would be possible for the association to secure the assistance o f representative o f the Dairy Division o f the U. S. De partment o f Agriculture which will be held in the state next spring to aid the men employed by the association in get ting the plan fairlv under way. This service, says Mr. Smith,will be without expense to the association. It is understood that the association already has men in view to fill the positions of inspector and sales agent. The officers elected Thursday were: President, J. D. Carls, o f Arago; vice- president, A. VV. Coke, o f Langlois; secretary-treasure», A. Christensen. The other members o f the board are: L. N. Strong, o f Two Mile, and N. W. McDonald, o f Broadbent. Each o f the officials are creamery men in the lo calities in which they live. other wires with which a small town litters up its back alleys and piled them indiscriminately in the alleyway where we plied the hose. 1 stepped among them unafraid. They all looked alike. Hut they were not. In a moment of ; blase indifference I set foot on one of a I thousand, and centipedes with warm j and purring feet clambered giddily up ! my spine. I tingled from hair to toe j nails. I had stepped on a live wire. " I t was just such a thrill as hit me when 1 one day sat at the feet o f Miss Lyndon and Miis Gordon Here wi re | two girls who looked like a thousand others—but they were alive. The very air pulsed magnetism and I felt an enervating tingle as l listened. Seldom have 1 seen such poise, such absolute certainty in an art. They sang o f the sunny South ai d the tingle o f banjos ’ round the darkies' huts hummed to me, the melody o f the cotton fields was in iny ear unconsciously my Presbyterian i feet beat time, my. fingers ached for the bones and tambourine <>f my ama teur minstrel days. Miss Lyndon sang a Hallelujah shout and I just naturally ‘ got religion’ and wanted to ‘ Am en.’ Miss Gordon ran the gamut in dialect impersonations—she was the Melting Pot o f the nations in one personality— and I apologized to myself for never having heard o f this astonishing artist before. Then she recited ’ I Alnt Goin’ to Cry No M ore.’ And—cross my heart—I ain’ t! Every time I think of that performance my ribs ache. i laughed hard enough to break a diaph ragm that doesn’ t test ninety-nine per cent pure rubber. It wasn’ t imperson ation—it was personation. As a family man, the proud father o f six, I protest against this profanation o f the sacred ness o f the family circle. The way in which she took the soul o f the broken hearted child out and played with it was positively uncanny. If there is another elocutionist (I hate that word, and it doesn’ t any more apply to Miss Gordon than the feathers o f a nightin gale describe its song) who can equa her, I am from Missouri.” Why Lumber Has Raised PER YEAR $1.50 1 ncreases are being held out in some instances. Reports from employer» oi labor show a tendency toward still higher wages, and lead to the convic tion that the coming years are to be prosperous ones for the workers as well as the operators. The lumber industry proper, that branch which deals with the converting New* of County, State and o f logs into rough lumber, gave em Ninety-Six Quarts Caught in ployment to 3104 skilled and 7050 un National Interest Told in Disguise and Trying to skilled workers during the last two- year period. In this time $2,050,241 Brief Concise Form Sneak into Town was paid in wages to skilled workmen and unskilled men received $3,432,769. Including the payroll for office main tenance and operations in the woods the amount turned over to employes totaled $7,531,446. Eugene String Beans Shipped In this time the output o f rough lum Disrtessing Drouth Suddenly ber was $2,020,516,637 board feet, and to Mare Island Yard Afflicts Local People the valuation o f plants engaged in the business was $13,482,337. Oregon’ s dairy production in 1916 to E. A. Beckett was arrested this For logging operations alone $3,193,- tals $20,000,000. 282 was paid in wages. Men are now morning by Deputy Sheriff Laird and Rich strike in Ben Harrison mine at in demand for this work at wages taken before Justice o f the Peace J. Granite, Sumpter district, shows $1 a ranging from $2.75 to $3.50 a day. J. Stanley, on a charge o f unlawful pound ore. ly receiving intoxicating liquors. A f A Project With Merit ter the preliminary hearing the trial About 216,037 canaries, 7,080 part was set for Saturday to be held be ridges, 15,841 pheasants, 5,345 miscel There is no use getting excited about fore Judge Stanley. L. A. Liljeqvist laneous game birds, and 25,747 non the county court’ s position as regards appeared for the State and Walter game birds were imported in 1914 un the Smith-Powers franchise applica Sinclair for Mr. Beckett. der Federal permit. tion. That is a matter which cannot be Saturduy night City Marshal S. V. During 1915 the total road and bridge acted upon in a minute but will o f ne Epperson took charge o f 96 quarts of expenditures in the United States cessity require due and deliberate action. whiskey, which had been unloaded amounted to about $282,000,000, of The county court will recognize every from the steamer Telegraph and which probably not over $15,000,000 issue o f the big project and no one will which Mr. Beckett was preparng to represented the value o f the statute be denied a hearing. Protests will be take to his home. The booze was des- and convict labor. heard and given consideration along signated on the bill o f lading as paint Changes in the demurrage and recip with the argument for the franchise. and varnish from the W. P. Fuller While this paper is not desirous of Company, o f Portland, and was con rocal demurrage rules in Oregon as ap plying to interstate freight in carload taking up the fight and to be counted signed to C. W . Davis. As far as is lots have been decided upon by the as one o f those who want to deprive known there is nobody of that name Public Service Commission to become the county o f valuable franchises, we living in this vicinity. The consign do believe there is merit in the propo effective January 1, 1917. ment consisted o f four cases o f Cedar Service o f copies of the new order have sition this big lumber company has Brook and four cases o f Old Taylor made to the county. In the first place been received. whiskey. What will be done with the * California Favorite,” awarded the the railroad will not be built upon the .it;uor has not been determined. highway, but will occupy the east 20 grand steer championship o f the Inter It is reported that after the whis national Livestock exposition at Chica feet o f the right o f way, the grade to key had been taken charge o f by the go, was sold at auction to a Detroit be independent o f the grade o f the officers, Mr. Beckett admitted ¿hat it packing firm for $1960. The price per highway. This will mean that it must belonged to him $md said that he was pound was $1.75. The steer was raised j be graded the entire distance and will going to take it home. by the University o f California and the ! occupy a part o f the highway that will Mr. Epperson says that he had been It is proceeds o f the sale will go to the agri ! never be used for road purposes. rut hunting and as he was returning cultural department o f the institution. I to be separated with a good fence and will not cross the county road. The he saw men loading something in All records for the value o f the ; offer to reimburse the county with to a car at the dock and became sus country’ s important farm crops were ! gravel at a nominal figure is worthy of picious. He investigated and found exceeded this year despite the smaller ! consideration and the fact that the Mr. Beckett with what was apparent size o f the crops. Their value was road is to become a common carrier is ly a case o f paint but which upon ex- placed at $7,641,609,000 today by the another feature which will mean a sav- i mi nation proved to be whiskey. Mr. department o f agriculture in its final Epperson sent a S. O. S. call up town | ing to all shippers. estimates o f the year. That is $1,750,- California and other states have miles and Sheriff Laird and Night Marshal 000,000 more than the same crops were and miles o f public highways parallel- J. A. Jackson came to his assistance. worth last year. Higher prices, due I ing railroads and no objection has been They phoned to Bandon and received partly to reduced production and partly the information that there had been ! raised against the dagger. to the demands for American food from This paper believes that when the two cases, similar in size to the one the warring nations o f Europe, were Smith-Powers Co. offers to expend one seized, loaded on the Telegraph there. responsible for the vast increase in million dollars on a new railroad and in A search revealed the other case, value. so doing offers to save Coos county wl.ieh had been concealed under a pile Lumber is higher. Mills throughout thousands o f dollars on freight rates, o f empty fish boxes on the platform the Pacific Northwest report a general it is a project worthy o f consideretion, under the high wharf. advance o f $1 a thousand feet on prac and cannot be branded as a move How near the officers came to los tically all fir items. That the top has which is absolutely against the best in ing at least part of the second case not yet been reached seems to be the terests o f Coos county.—Coos Bay Har is shown by the circle of holes bored opinion o f leaders in the trade. The bor. in the box as it was found. Mr. Ep "high cost o f lumbering" is the reason person thinks that the case was dis behind the advance and it has been ac Change Game Law covered by some one while the officers celerated incidentally by the car short were up town phoning to Bandon and age, freight embargoes, curtailed pro A number o f important changes in bad they not came back about when duction and an anticipated continuation the state game laws were proposed by they did the party would have suc o f unsolicited demand. The higher the State Fish and Game Commission. ceeded in getting into the box and tak prices are applied principally to lumber Principal among them are: ing part o f the booze. sold transcontinental^. To reduce the length o f the deer 8ea- Tl.e reason that the arrest was not The second carload o f canned string I son 16 days, making it run from Aug made at the time o f seizing the liquor beans in a big order from the govern ust. 15 to October 15. It now runs from was that Marshal Epperson was not ment for use in the navy is being pre August 15 to October 31. positive that he would be within his pared for shipment at the canneries of To reduce the bag limit from three ligh ts in doing so. A fter allowing the Eugene Fruit Growers’ association deer to two deer and to protect year- Mr. Beckett his freedom it was ne at Eugene and Junction City. The car j ling bucks as well as all females. The cessary to obtain a warrant fo r his will contain 1600 cases of the canned • present law does not protect yearlings, arrest. The follow ing day being Sun goods, one o f the largest carloads ever ! or “ spikes," as they are called by day and Monday being also a holiday shipped out by the association. The hunters. it was impossible to get a warrant beans are consigned to Ma e Island To make the season on migratory navy yard, from which point they are birds coincide with the season under until this morning. Mr. Beckett was released this morn distributed to the different vessels of | the Federal law. This probably would the navy on this coast. The associa delay the opening o f the season until ing without bail. tion recently shipped a carload o f October 1. It now opens September 1. canned goods to Portland and one will Concert Takes Well. To increase the license fee for both go out today on the Middle W est.—Eu fishing and hunting to $1.50 and to re The free concert given by the Coos- gene Register. quire women to pay for both. The oniun Band was well attended and was present fee is $1 and women are e x appreciated by everyone present. The empted from paying fishing licenses. concert was held in the Scenic Theatre Lumber Business in Several minor changes also have instead o f the Masonic hall as adver Oregon Shows Increase been suggested. They, together with tised and the house was full including | the more important ones enumerated, the standing room. The Coosonian Salem, O re.— Capital to the amount will be submitted to the forthcoming cuartet, which was down for a couple ! o f $23,619,902 is invested in the plants session o f the Legislature for enact o f numbers failed to show up, but otherwise the program was carried j and equipment o f the various timber ment into law.—Times. SYNOPSIS OF MANY EVENTS ERE PAINT WAS FOR THE NOSE FARM CROP RECORDS BROKEN E .A.B EC K ETT UNDER ARREST Last week there was a raise o f $1 per thousand announced by the lumber manufacturers o f the Pacific coast on all fir products. Below are given the reasons that are said to be responsible for the advance: 1. That it is costing on an average o f $2 a thousand feet more to produce lumber than this time last year. 2. That car shortage is just in the preliminary s' age#T>f tfa'flo paralysis and that the real crisis will not come for several months. 3. That freight embargoes, similar to that recently declared on forest pro ducts and other non-perishable freight, are likely to become intermittently epi demic with the transcontinental car riers. 4. That mills are becoming hard pressed for suitable storage space ow ing to the continued excess o f orders and production over shipments. 5. That many mills are operating on reduced schedules and that some have discontinued operations entirely, except as to the conditioning stock intended for "e a r ly " delivery. 6. That the retail yards which under ordinary conditions drop out o f the market at inventory time continue placing orders legaruiess o f the feel ings o f the manufacturers, and in ab solute defiance of trade precedent. That the railroads, returning to wood construction after unsatisfactory experiments with steel and steel prices, will be in the market for 40,000,000 feet o f “ car material” in the course o f the next few months. 8. That shipbuilding, a decadent Pacific coast industry suddenly rejuve nated by unprecedented ocean freight rates, will absorb not less than 100,- over property which 1 think any fair 000,000 feet o f lumber in 1017. minded man will agree is practically useless to the county. For this useless Queen Wasps. property, so far as the coiyity is c o n The queens are the only wasps which cerned, we are offering to pay well and survive the winter, all workers and aside from the direct value o f our offer [ drones being killed off. jo the county and public, it will benefit the public bytiastening the further im At End of the Good Road provement of the Coquille-Coos Bay highway so that it will be serviceable To see what really happens at the all the year round.” —Times. end o f the good road, a public road industries o f Oregon, according to fig specialist o f the department recently The Second Lyceum Number had observations made in different sec ures complied by State Labor Commis sioner O. P. Hoff. This is exclusive o f tions o f the country. The observers working capital and timber holdings, The second number o f the Lyceum j noted many country-bound teamster® and includes only the buildings, mach Course consisting o f an entertainment who drove two loaded wagons, hitched inery and other equipment that is ae- by the Lyndon-Gordon Impersonators, one behind the other, to the end ot the | tually used in putting timber and the will be given at the Scenic on Monday good road, and then found it necessary articles manufactured therefrom on evening, Jan. 1. Those holding senson j to leave one wagon by the roadside to the market. Two years ago tha total tickets should begin to look them up j be returned for later, while all the | investment was $19,242,119. and get the dust rubbed off preparatory power o f their teams was devoted to These industries give employment to to using them on New Years night. | hauling a single wagon over the unim 22,984 persons, and the annual payroll For those not holding season tickets j proved road. totals $14,317,135. The preceding re- the admission will be fifty cents, school Farmers bound for the market fre | port of this office showed that 20,535 children thirty-five. quently were seen to haul wood and persons were engaged, and there was It was Misses Judith Hampton Lyn similar products to the beginning of paid in salaries the sum o f $13,493,031. don and Elsie Mae Gordon who, on be the good road, there dumping them, Wages on the whole, finds Mr. Hoff, ing given twenty minutes to show a and returning for the second load. both for skilled and unskilled workers, bunch o f Lyceum managers what kind When this arrived, the two loads were ! show an increase during /the last six o f an entertainment they could give, consolidated and easily hauled by a months and give indications o f going held that crowd o f hardened critics single team the remaining distance to higher. For the preceding year and a spellbound for over an hour. Tom Hen market over the improved highway. , half they averaged about what they In cne section o f the country where did for the previous _ two-year period. dricks, one of the best o f entertainment critics, has written the following " A p oxen are still used teamsters were ob All reporta received ahow that there served to bring their loads over tha is an undoubted reawakening o f busi preciation” o f the Lyndon-Gordon*: “ Once in my callow youth I ran with dirt roads with two or three yokes of ness in the timber industries, gradual, the volunteer fire company to a fire. It oxen. When the beginning o f the good it is true, but o f a nature that holds was what the boys call ’some fire.’ It roads was re-ched, the teamsters would out rich promise for the future. The burnt off the telephone wires, electric unhitch the extra animals and finish demand for men la steadily growing, light wires, and all the multiplicity o f «heir journey with a single yoke. • and inducements in the form o f wage j Facts Disproves Claims Following is some information ob tained from the annual report o f the Commission o f Navigation which goes a long ways toward disproving the claims o f the parties who would have us believe that the LaFolletteSeaman’ s law has killed the hopes of the United States for a merchant marine: Washington, Dec. 8. Merchant ships built in the United States in the first eleven months o f the year more than doubled in tonnage the whole o f laat year’ s output. The Bureau o f Naviga tion announced today that 1116 vessels had been turned out, with a gross ton nage o f 521.711. All but forty-nine were for the American (lag. Domestic Wooden vessels numbered 936, with a tonnage o f 127,276, and steel, 130, with 361,170 tonnage. The Atlantic and Gulf trade took 546 ves sels, the Pacific trade 263, the Great Lakes 114 and Western rivers 143. There now are building, and under contract, vessels with aggregate ton nage o f 1,200,000, the largest total in the country’ * history. out according to schedule. The fol- low ng program was rendered: Garlund Entree March. . . .K . L. King. Coosonian Band Visions o f Madrid (Spanish Serenade) ................... G. E. Holmes. Coosonian Band Misererie from II T rav atore.. .Verdi. Duet for Coronet and Baritone Overture— Grand Medley Su- perba ........................................ Dalby. Shadow M an.......................J. S. Fearia. High School Girls’ Glee Club A ddress............... Prof. C. A. Howard. Nearest and Dearest, Luigi Caracciolo High School Girls’ Glee Club March— Nationnl K m b lem .. .Bagley. Arabian Nights Oriental In term ezzo.......................... K. L. King. Im ogene............................... Clay Smith. — Duct fo r Trombones Selection— Martha, Flotow Barnhous* Coosonian Band A m e rica ..................... Coosonian Band. You are invited to attend the dance given by the Coosonian Band Satur day evening, December 30. The Rand reed» your support and you need the Band.