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Medford Mail Tribune
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Full Ivcwioa Wlro Report.
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The only paper In the worli
publlahed In a cliy the iIm of
Medford having u loaned wlni.
lOTTI! YEAR.
MEDFORD, ORKQON, SUNDAY, .TIJLY 24, 1910.
No. 107.
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- IN MED FORD'S SOCIAL REALM
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Thu Htoiuly uxodiiH for tliu moim
taliiH and thu Houahoro that gooH on
during tliu inontliH of July, was more
marked this wcok than any previous,
booaiiHo of thu added attraction of
thu Chautauqua itHHuinhly at AhIi
laud, which closed Friday night.
Many availed thoiiiHulvoH of thu op
portunity to hoar Ex-Governor Folk
of MiHHouri Monday night, while u
largo representation attended thu
two concerts Thui'Hday and Friday
ovoniugH liy thu PnsmoruH. Anions
tliOHo Hoon weru: Mr. and Mm. F. W.
SlrcolH, MiHH Urauu Calhoun, Miss
Myrtlu Calhoun, MIhh Welch, Mihh ,,. no Wt.ek) ruUirning to Portland
Clare Gibbony, Mm. h. M. Janney, for t!l0 ,mM f kcIiouI, where Mihh
Mr. and Mrs. J. h Worlinnn, MiHH. Marion 5h n Htudent in the Joffcrson
Faiiuiu Niinnti, M!hh JoHiipliIue Huh
Hell, Mr. and Mm. C. L. IteanieH, Mr.
and MrH. Porter Neff, Mr. and MrH.
J, 0. Gore and daughters, Mrs. II.
0. Wortmun and Mr. Carl Glasgow,
Mr. Sam Glasgow, Mihh HumphriaH
and Mihh Agnes Isaacs.
( Prohahly no hook of Hummer fic
tion in itHked for moru often at thu
local hook HtoroH and tho library
than "A Modem Chronicle," by Win
Hton Churchill.
TIioho who have followed tho lofty
ideals of codtict and eharaetor in
"Tho Cristo" and "Richard Carvel"
doubtless lay down this lateHt hook
with a feeling of diHappointuieut not
akin to diHgtiHt at thu surprising du
volopmcntH of vverHatility of emo
tion diHplnyed by the heroine. If tho
modern American woman Ih entirely
without rusourcoH within herself for
growth and divot-mon, thin woman of
Mr. Churehill'H may bu a type, but
'tis hard to maku sober-minded,
thoughtful people believe it. The
book in easy rending, fascinating in
interest and as a Htudy in modern so
cial conditions affords food for
ihoiiKht.
Mrn. A. S. Hliton and children lmvo
K.u in newpori lor an outing ol
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several wcokh.
Tho lawn Hocinl Friday evening at
tho homo of W
II. Meeker, lm-mi liv
tho IndicH of tho Methodist Epiwro
pnl church, wuh well attended and
no of thu moHt enjoyable affairs of
the week, being liberally patronized
by friendH from all the churohoH.
Icon woru nerved by Mrn. Clarence
Mcokor, MIhh CryHtal McNury, Mi'hh
Clara Wines. Misses Ewbanks and
Mordoff, and tho Indies felt verv
much gratified by tho huccchh. A
plenHnut foaturo of tho evening was
tho muHio furniHbod by Mr. Whotsol
with a Victrola.
Handling
HT HE HANDLING of a million
dollar job is no Hiucuure. Fow
thuro aru who roaliro tho hard work,
thu worries and thu troubles which
heHot "tho boss" on every side, or
tho immeiiHo amount of vitality and
driving jwwor that is required to
keep things moving. It is no job for
a winner, and uppoaln to mo an an
incoHHaut gamo of football; a
utraight danh to tho goal would bo a
happy incident touchdowns aro Bel
dom made in ono sprint it tnkoH six
feot of pluck as well as two foot of
Bpecd to hammer and hatter through
tho opposition. And yet today in
Medford thoro is a young man, bare
ly paHt 30, who h HUceoHHfully hand
ling a million-dollar job, And ho
will win nut, but thoro will bu no lino
and cry about it. lie renlirx-H that
it would bu fatal to cry for help, and
hu is too hiiH.y doing big things to pay
any attention to thu comments of thu
crowd.
It wuh my good fortune to be nl
lowod to Hpond n half day "on tho
job" "with tho boHH." Ordinarily ho
ih too busy to bo burdened with a
sightseer, OHpocially ono who knows
nothing hut tho asking of (iiestiouH.
Yet I found that ho was never too
busy to toll of tho work, for hu is
mightily intoroHtod. I approached
him on a fricndHhip basis and ho did
not know that I intended to tell thu
story of how hu was handling a million-dollar
job to thu rondoi-H of tho
Mail Tribune Indeod, I dared not ask
him quustimiH about himself, for I
know that friendship or no friend
ship, ho would soon find some ox
oiiso for gotting rid of me, for hu in
too lniB.y to talk of himsolf. His job
is another mutter, Regarding it and
Hov. W C. Itoutor, I'll. D former
pimtor of tho FirHt Methodist church
of thin city, now of Nowburg, Or.,
Iiiih ruttirnud to liin home, after a
IhihIiiuhh trip through the valley.
Whilo here ho occupied the pulpit of
tho 1'ruHhyturian church .Sunday evo
nine, where liu wuh greeted hy a largo
audiencu or l'oiinor friendH and an-
ho oi at oh.
MrH. Susie Turner Neil, daughter
Marion and Hon Tumor, of Portland,
are viHiting relatives and friendH in
tliu valley, iiiey expect to be in
Jacksonville and .Medford August 1
high school.
MIhh Faucher, who ban been thu
Kiu'Hl of MiHH Helen Watt for a
mouth, Iiiih returned to her home
near RoKohurg. Minn Fannher is an
accompliHhed iniiHiciau mid old
Hchoolinatu of Mihh WattcH and madu
many friendH during the weeks of
hur visit.
Mr. and MrH, J. D. Cochran, who
wore quietly married in Redding,
Cnl., Juno 120, aro now at home at
Klamath FiiIIh, Or. It will be re
membered that MrH. Cochrnu wan
Mi'hh I.utwiii Ulrich and one of the
opulnr teaeliors liiHt year in the city
hcIiooIh.
Mrn. F. II. Farrar of Gold Ray
lea.vofi thiH week for an extended
eiiHtern trip. Sho will visit in Min
upapoliH and Chicago and then go to
her old home in Toronto, where many
relatives reside. Sho will he abHent
about three montliH.
I . B. Drown nnd family are mak
ing a tour of Klamath comity and
KaHtcnt Oregon in their automobile.
Thoy expect to rotuni by way of Al
liany, where they will visit Mr. nnd
.:... '
I MrH. Roberts, fonner residents
of
Medford.
Mi'hr Nellie McNeil, who completed
her course at tho University of Ore
gon last yoar and Iiiih been taking a
year of poHt-grnduuto work, will
leach Latin and Gennnn in the Me
Minnvillo hiuh school, entering upon
her duties in September.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Kline left Fri
day for a visit to thoir fonner homo
in Columbus, O. Thursdny evening
thoy wcro guests of honor at an clnb
ornto dinner Riven at the Nash prill
bv Colonel F. L. Ton Velio.
a Million Dollar Job
all of its details, ho is willing to
talk and ho is enthusiastic over its
possibilities.
When tho Clark & Iloncry Con
struction eompniu,' last winter secur
ed n contract for paving in this city
totaling $000,000 the men who direct
thu destinios of tho firm, which has
handled somo of tho largest con
tracting jobs outside of railroad
building on tho const, began to look
around for a man thoy could put in
Medford. Thoy decided upon Arthur
V. Clark, a young member of tho
firm, who hud done a great deal of
work and who had hnudled somo
fairly lurgo-sieod jobs in a satisfac
tory lnnunor. Tho firm realized that
tho lotting of a contract in Medford
for .fflOO.000 wuh but a starter thut
a groat many more streets would bo
added to tho original contract. They
know that tho contract would nearly,
double, and thoir faith will in all
probability ho justified, for already
$200,000 worth of work additional
has boon ordered and petitions aru
nut for mora streets.
So Arthur W, Clark, a young man
of barely 30 years, but old in respon
sibility, full of driving forco and iu
itiativo, was sunt to direct tho work.
Mr, Clark was given but one brief
erder: "You go to Medford, do a
good job and comu homo." Mr.
Clark camo to Medford; ho is doing
a good job (I quoto tho city engin
eer) and ho will probably go homo
in a year or two, only to bo given ,i
still larger job. For no man can
stay on tho job with him hnlf a day
and fail to sou that ho is making a
Hiioooss of his work.
Fow of Medford's residents real
ize tho immousity of tho work now
Monument Unveiled and Museum Opened
In Honor of Thomas Paine, Author-Patriot.
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Tho Thomas I'atuo HIatorleal nssocluUon has completed It plans for making the home of the uutbor und Hevo
lutlouary war hero ono or tho most Interesting historical spots In tho United States. The house which was given to
Paine by tho government for his services during tho Hcvolutionary yrar has been turned into a museum, and after
years of search original manuscript, drawings nnd pictures havo been placed in tho home, which Is located at New
Itwhollit. N Y. n Huliurh of Now Yorlc citv.
going on in Medford. . In order that
they may grasp this in a concise
manner here aro a fow facts and
figures:
Two hundred and fifty men are
employed, all, for tho most part, be
ing export workmen,
Ono hundred and oicjity horses aru
owned by tho company, and they arc
constantly trying to-obtain more.
Fourtcon cnrloads of material ar
rives and is used each day on tho
streets.
Tho largest size of any asphalt
paving plant is in operation.
A rook screen is in operation
which loads -100 wagons daily,
scooping tho material from tho creek
bed.
Three steam rollers arc in constant
operation.
Ono largo grader is in uo, which
plows up thu streets and loads the
dirt onto patent dump wagon.
Eighty patent dump wagons are in
use. J
Ten thousand Micks of cement aro
piled about on tho streets of tho citv.
Fifteen thousand saoks aro held as
a rosorvo forco in tho warchouu in
caho a freight tio-up should occur,
so that tho work uood not ho delayed.
Three barges aro stationed at
Gold Ray and aro usod for pumping
sand' from tho river bed onto cars.)
From .$10,000 to $15,000 is paid
monthly to tho Southern Pacific
compnny for freight charges.
Fiftcon thousand dollars is thu
average monthly payroll, or over
$000 n day.
A largo conmoto mixer and a sec
ond ono ordered.
Tho company has already com
pleted tho paving of West Tenth
By tho first of August thu com
pany will havo completed South Riv
erside, South Holly and South Cen
tral. On thoso three utreots the con
crete hnso is already laid and In
ready for asphalt surface.
The concrete ha-o is now being
laid on South Central.
Cuius and gutter- havo been plac
ed on Laurel, Eighth and North Riv
erside and curb is now being laid on
North Central.
So great will be the amount of ce
ntred, Genesseo street and En.it
Main street,
inont used in tho citv that Mr. Clark
estimates that the sacks which he
will return nnd on which ho is al
lowed 10 cents each will amount to
$20,000. In other words, 200,000
snoks of cement will bo used on
Medford's streots.
Thoso aro tho figures wliich will
give you somo idea of what it means
to handlo a million-dollar paving job.
A second large couoroto mixer ha,
been ordered, for tho pavers aro
crowding tho cement gang too close
ly. Mr. Clark's office is in his auto
mobile. From one part of tho city
to another he is constantly traveling,
seeing that all parts of tho work is
progressing as it should. East side,
west side, north and south 1 was
hurled in his auto Friday afternoon,
until 1 began to think that there was
not a street in the city that had not
somo part of his crow upon it. So
long has Mr. Clark beei driving over
torn-up streots that ho thinks noth
ing of hurdling sower trenches,
plowing through heaps of grnvel and
dodging henvy wagons and telegraph
polos, It is an education for a man
From a Layman's Point
to ride with him, although it seems
at times ns if yo"r education would
he brought to an abrupt end. As ho
drives his auto ho is driving a big
job with all of tho vim and vitality
that six feet of brawn at 30 can
muster.
First wo shot down North Central
to where tho huge grader, operating
like a hugo harvester, was tearing
up tho roadbed and piling tho dirt
onto dump wagons. Fifty men are
at work in this crow and they nre
tearing up tho streets in fast shape.
After a word or two, there with tho
foreman Mr. Clnrk hurried mo down
to North Riverside, whoro a largo I
gang was engaged in putting in tho
concrete curb arid gutter. This gang
is spread out for somo distance and
comprises 120 men.
Next wo visited tho concreto lay
ers on South Central and thero wo
found 2o men employed. These men
aro all experts with tho exception of
a fow muckors. A small rail track
runs up an incline to the top of a
huge mixer, run by a largo gasoline
Migine. Up this track are hauled
cars of material, which is dumped
into the mixer. From tho mixer it
passes into largo carts especially
constructed and is hauled off to
where it is being laid on tho streets.
Hero is a crow of six men, who are
experts at spreading thu concrete o
that a uniform grade is maintained.
This is put down rapidly. Then in
threo or four days tho crew handling
tho bindor follows.
From tho couoroto "hiixers wo went
to tho south end of Central, whoro
tho largo paving plant is in opera
tion. Hero is a plant that represents
tho latest ideas in tho art of paving.
Miss Alice Streets, who leaves for
Ucrkclcy in the near future to re
sume her studies at the University of
California, visited in Ashland during
tho week, the cucst of Miss Dorris
Bayly.
Mr. nnd Mrs. II. C. Stoddnrd, who
havo been enjoying a two weeks' trip
to Los Angeles, have returned and
will begin nt once the construction of
a modern residence on Queen Anno
Heights.
Mrs. K. K. Kubli of Portland has
been in tho valley, tho guest of her
mother, Mrs. Mary Miller of Ash
land, nnd Mr. Kubli's mother, Mrs.
G.J. Kubli of Jacksonville.
Mrs. William Langdon nnd daugh
ter, of Clear Lake, S. D., who arc
guests of Mrs. II. E. Gudhucs, were
Ashland visitors during Chautauqua.
Mr. nnd Mrs. F. E. Merrick nnd
family are nmong thosc making the
auto trip to Crater Lake, driving
their own machine.
3Iiss Laura Reamcs of Berkeley,
Cnl., sister of Mrs. John White, is in
the city on n visit to relatives and
friend?.
Mrs. Helen Hnskins nnd Mis Fan
nie Hnskius, accompanied by a mnid,
aro occupying the Hnskins cottage nt
Newport.
o
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Meeker
were among those attending Clinu-
tauqun nt Ashland during the wdek.
Mr. nnd Mrs. Claud Miles, accom
panied by Mrs. Robert Tc'fcr, aro
enjoying an onting at Butte FalN.
Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Shields have
returned from Abhlaud. where they
attended tUe Chnutanoua assembly.
Mrs. C. R. Ray nnd daughter. Miss
Mabel, are spending a few da3-s dur
ing the heated term at Prospect.
Mrs. Lou D. Jones nnd daughter,
Miss Mnude. were Ashland visitors
the first of the week.
e
Mrs. F. II. Raj and her mother,
Mrs. Gage, of Gold Ray, nre among
the guests at Seaside.
Miss Agnes Conlon of Seattle is
the gnest of Miss Emily Janney for
the summer.
Mr. Joo Lecget has gone to South
ern California to spend his vacation.
Huge vnts of boiling asphalt aro scon
ns well ns groat ovens in which tho
material with which tho asphalt Is
mixed is heated. There is a A-ast
amount of noise and grcnt clouds of
dust. Men grimy with dirt peer" at
you from all parts of tho huge plant
and it is with relief that one com
pletes u tour of inspection and gets
out into tho sunlight again. Crude
oil is burned and is kept in a huge
concreto tank beneath tho plant.
Thero is nothing of a temporary or
a makeshift order to bo seen here.
The asphalt wearing surface
is put down by a gang of 15 men, all
of them -burly negroes. This gang is
one of tho most expert in tho em
ploy of tho company and has beou
with them for a number of years.
Thoy spread tho material and do tho
finishing.
Ono could write columns about tho
big job of tho stables, of tho black
smith shops, of tho oil room, of buy
ing axlo grenso hy tho barrel, of the
firo department, of tho thousand and
ono countless details which aro in
cluded in this hugo job. That Mr.
Clark is prepared for an emorgency
of nearly ovory kind is shown hy tho
fact that ho has oven erected a tank
at the plant in which ho keeps sovor.il
thousand gallons of wator for use In
caso tho citv supply should fail. It
would bo something entirely unex
pected indeed that would catch him
napping. So thorough is tho system
to which tho work is reduced that
if a foreman should stop a mnii for
a half hour from hauling gravel in
order that ho might haul a bit of
lumber the offico force would know
it that ovoning. System is tho key
note of tho whole affair. Every man
Drs. Carlow & Carlow leave July
20 for Portland, whoro thoy will taka
the steamer Roso City foe dan" Fran
cisco, to nttond the national con
vention of tho American Osteopathia
association, which moots thoro Aug
ust 2 to 6, inclusive. Thoy expect to
return about, August 0.
Mrs. Claud Jones of Sams Valley
was in Medford Friday on a shopping,
expedition.
M. M Taylor of tho Nunau-Taylor
company of Jacksonville, was a Med
ford business visitor Friday.
Judge W. D. Fontou passed
through Medford Friday afternoon
on his way south.
Daniel Kelly of El Paso, Tex., ar
rived in Medford Friday night and
will look over the valley with a view
to locating. Mr. Kelly has heard
wonderful things of the Rogue River
valley in general and of Medford in
particular and intends giving the
section a thorough investigation. As
he expressed it, "I don't want to in
vest without thorough information,
nor do I intend to take a hasty look
and go away with a wrong impres
sion. As far as I have gone, it looks
good."
Mr. nnd Mrs. W. H. Stewart and
a party of friends left by auto Sat
urday morning for a trip to Crater
Lake, Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls
and other points.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Palm and
Trove Lumsdcn left Saturday morn
ing in Mr. Palm's car for Crater
Lake and tho rest of the scenic
points.
S. W. McClcndon of Gold Hill was
in Medford on business Friday after
noon. Word Whiteside of Central Pout
was n Medford visitor Friday even
ing. Agent Roscnbaum was a visitor at
Ashland Friday.
Tho Ladies' Aid society of tho
Methodist church meets Tuesday af
ternoon at tho church for work.
Mrs. E. M. Lumsdcn has gone to
Seattle and other Washington points
for n visit.
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Stine havo
joined tho Medford colony at Cole
stiu. of View
is timed on his trips between tho
plant and tho street and over' load
of material is checked up. Thero arc
no leaks.
It is n big job that Mr. Clark has
on his hands a job that many a
man would fall down on. But ho
will drive it to tho last ditch, for he
is full of tho optimism of youth and
is not afraid of hard work. II1X.
REJECT ALL OFFERS TO
ARBITRATE RAIL STRIKE
TORONTO, Ont., July 23. Tho of
for of tho minister of labor to fam
ish a hoard of arbitration to sottlo
tho dispute between the Grand Trunk
railroad and its striking employes,
has been rejected.
Vico-Presidont Barry of tho con
ductors declared tho men wore "arbi
trating in thoir way and doing a good
job of it, too."
Tho strikors' committee, replying
to the minister's offer, accepted, but
only on torms that they bcltcA'od
would bo rejected.
Tho strikers wanted to name two
of threo arbitrating board, mention
ing P. II. Morrissoy of tho switch
men and E. E. Clark of tho inter
state commorco commission, former
ly head of tho Order of Railway Con
ductors, as thoir choico for tho two
places.
Presidout Hayes of tho Grand
Trunk replied, rojcctjng tho offer
mado by tho minister.
Offtco workers nearly .-.lways se
cure thoir poaltlons through adver
tising or answering want ads, For
"business" la done most .-.Iwaye In a.
"business way",