Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 12, 1912, SECOND EDITION, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextsMWwft tu tf itf . I v N if k.c -', o PA01 TWO P WPP P Wfc, ., .MM.PN 1 '"Mff ""'" " " ' ' ' ' ' ' wrlu " 'All Stsry f MedftH-rS Mest Famous " " " V lr Hcrfftl Englrwtiy Wrji le- 5 p k U -3 p f a. a I Mie 'M h row wy, earneu Way ptf Mjiti M(i. Pcrham tljo most Jramous, cijlWu nbw roa!lant.ot;iackHn county, cer tainly; tmMnost fatuous warrior. Is '..-V At.ii.1 .. e...ni. i (man"dc o,t civjsJry In GrnnCsVIcke burs'catofcilpHaud hero of' ninny battlv.now vl(,vlnjc upon his orchard homo near Mcdford. "Gaa.nj-aL Sooy-Smith ia. in his S3rd c4ri(stlil; vigorous ami a command ing lKF " ln U,'S hohalf,. Senator Chamberlain Introduced nt tho pres ent session of congress, a bill to re storq him to hla rank in the army a itesurvod recognition of his bril liant ecrylccs to his. country. , In addition to his army record. .General Sooy-Smith has aa enviable record, as an engineer, having de signed and built the first steel bridge at Niagara, the Sarannah, Georgia, six bridges across the Missouri river, two across the Mlssisslpl, two across the. Ohio, and many others, small and largo, throughout the country, and built the first 100 feet of the Hudson river tunnel at New York and developed tho pneumatic process for sub-aquQuos constructions. Ho first devised the- methods in vogue for laying the foundations of Chica go1 skyscrapers and aid In tho devel opment of steel buildings. Dora It. Ohio General Win. Sooty-Smith as. born at ITarlton Pickaway county, Ohio, July 22, 1830. Ho received an ex cellent common school eduoatlou In the school of that village which was an exceptionally' good one, taught by a very fine teacher; and stood first in bis class when he completed his course at the ago of fourteen. He had an ardent desire for a col legiate educatien: in which he was encouraged by his father, who was unablo to supply him with the money necessary for procuring it. At the close of a conversation with his' father on the subject, tho latter took a quarter of a dollar from his pocket, and handing it .to young Sooy-Smith,, said: . "Take this, which is all tho money I have, VI give you my be$sing with it. and hope that 'you will be .able qwork"your own way through col- 4- f ri' , ?. .n t t- iC .' tnh"- ', WWWK' ' K ? . ' t ' ' At the At 8 p. rii. f ilfrjtYtttttttftf5 mm m i Etui cm 1 1 y h General William Sooy-Smith 'My ' - :SSaEttp-'pppppppppppppppppW HHIHH aBllr tH ..IllVflV .B -v,..IIIO.IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIV ' PpPtip lege; and git the education which j you and I bo ardently desire." i Story t B;irly Strtisle Speaking of the incident. General Sooy-Smith sas: "I thanked him from tho bottom of my heart, and set out for Athens, the scat of the Ohio university. I had married brother living there and made my way to his house, where I remained until I got additional preparation In an excel lent school, and then got ap pointment as Janltorat the uutversity and took carp of its three large buildings and Us campus of ten acre, with its trees and graveled walks, and made the fires in the recitation rooms, carrying the 'coal v Hear United States Senator Geer 1 ! , t r ,tt,tt, -a MEDFORD MAITi TRIBUNE, V ll OF AMERICA C 4 t- - up threo pairs of stairs during the winter time. "For these soryiccsJ received eight cents per hour of actual work, and my room rent and tuition. In this way 1 worked my way through and had fifty dollars saved when I grad uated at the head of my class, fioi? to Wet Point Point "Jubt then the cadet who had represented our congressional dis trict nt West Point came homo to die of consumption, and urged nut lo apply for an appointment as cadet to take his place, which I did. Our congressman, the Hon. Samuel V, W'uton, gave me the appointment til preference to the sons and relative.;, t ;r, 1, F s tryH Oii tne Present Campaign Natatdriilth MTOFORT), ORISON, SATURDAY. OOTODKR 12, 15)112, oMiU strongest ,ioltt lrnl"f f laiHlSjnf tOr onrpffilly oMpilnltii. tho i'lnljis,of hljy.1)pUo4t4UNvtM'.nK: v 5J 'Young man', l glvo you liln ap pointment, miv mtiko u man nf yoir self. "l HRMircd him that 1 would do my best, ns tho tojrs or grntltudo tl t'd my oj.cn. And thn mitlitfnvtinh with which' ! ucnl him our cadet register fvoin er to oar,Hhown my plnro lit tha first five of pur class, wiw wcru to bo placed In thu stuff corys, can he, bettor Imagined Hum prcficd. KcnIuiin Army OmunUMon "Aer griuluntlng at Went Pglut. 1 Bet'ved In tho regular nnny for two icnia; ;umI then finding uimy lire In tliuo of peaco Idle and uupromUIng, I took tho ndvlco of my HUporlor of ficers and resigned my commission, taught n sotcct school for two yara In lluffalo, Now Yorkt and then en tered tho profession of civil engineer and followed It for fifty eurn with most gratifying success, as, nhown In tho following detailed account of my works, which Is given not In tho spirit of boasting but la tho hope that It may stimulate all tho joung men who may pcruso III to do like wise or hotter If they cau. ''Then lot us bo up and doing With a heart for auy fate, Still achieving. hIH pursuing. Learn "in- labor and to wait." KitttlHccrlug Kxplolts n 1SGT he made tho first survis fop the International bridge, across tho Niugara river, and vaa also cut ployed by tho city or lluffalo ns an expert, to examine tho brldgo pinna that wcro submitted. About )S58 Gen. Smith removed to Trenton,. J., having been olecto.il engineer and secretary of the loco motive works In that city, then the chtof iron bridge manufactory in America. Whflp hep. tho plvll war developed, and he was Immediately sought for aud commissioned colonel of the Ohjo volunteers, as before mentlonqd. Previous to leaving tho Tcanton Iron Works, General Sooy Smith had done importnut work for his firm In Cuba and also constructed an Iron bridge across the river at Savannah, for Iho Savannah & Charleston Railway company, in which ho sunk cylinders pneumatic ally, which was u novel Imprqvemcnt. From tho time that ho ro-cutorcd tho army, Gen. Sooy-Smith was steadily advanced, ills part In tho West Virginia campaign was an nc tlve ono and ho was present nt Shi Ioh and Pcrryvlllc. Fine War ltwottJ From April 13, 1802. when he was made brlgalor-generaL of vol unteers ho commanded successively the 3d and 4th divisions of the Army y Gnamberlam r J Issues Good Music iv i-1 of Ohio, until Into Into I Kit!!, whon. under den, Grant, lialnn Joined the army, ho was mado co)nmiUdar of, thu 1st dlylNlon of thu lfltlt urmy corps. This Vlohshurg cnmiwlgn gnvo him much oxperlouce, When Gen. Sooy-Smith was mado chief of tho cavalry of tho dopnit meat of Touuossoo, ho wan attached to tho staff of both tumorals Grant and Sherman until, y token of hla Httcunous llfo, his hqulth wub so im paired that Inflammatory rhotima tst!) forced lii ttj jeitve tm vorytcn In SeptemhtM' of ISO I, After thu wur Gouural W. Sony Smith roHtimed the pructlco of plvll englueurlhg in Cilcago and sluro then has hcun nil llliiBtintlnn of what men of ago aud experience can nc comidlsh. As at) export wpiker on difficult .nroblouis qonornl Sooy-Smith Iuih been success. Ills ingenious nhjllty niH stnod hlu In goqd stend, and he has .biased tho way In hU prgfosslitu. 'l,Io r.econstructpd tho Wnugoshnnve light bouse, nt t(o western entrance of the, trails of Mackinac, bult the first,. nl-sttc railway brldgo u tie wjrd, ,9ver Mc Mlssour.1 rlvort nt OjaaowV Mo., ?nd HuhatructureR pf Hlxvot)iqr hrligc by pnomnntlc pro cesscoflndl $ HudHpn mYfv ,ljiiiel at fjtovy 'orK vl urrMSfH Sfodcni ."Methods Gonoral tymyStu., with l! . Introdupod Into tho United States tho free-lug' process fr difficult sub aqqepus .work and at onp tlmo sank two Shafts tu a dopth of 1()0 feet, no cr before acconiplUhcd by any known method. Ills clover brain completely chuug ed th methods of constructing foun dations for heavy buildings In Chica go and other clticn. Ills Invqntlon ' carries the limits down through mud aud soft earth to hard bottom, "0 feet or mqrp by menus of pjles cut off bqlow waiter surface, and whoro these could not bo driven without eiidaugurlpg foundation of adjacmt buildings by Hlnklng col umns of concrete to bard bottom and resting tho buildings on them. General Sooy-Smith has also aided It) development of plnuv of high steul buildings throughout thu world General Sooy-Smith assisted In opening the harbor of Green luy, Wis... and has many bridges to bis credit- When one passes over tl)o famous bridge of T)mnhn aud Leavenworth, qnu must remember General Sooy-Smith who built them, as well as that oyer tho Missouri riv er nt PlnttsniQulh, Nebraska. An Alt Jtoiiml (icitliiN General Sooy-Smtl had served on numerous engineering commissions, bqch for government and prlynto convents and ho was a loudpr In urg oi the ' TONIGHT ing tho govornhu'iit to '"cleat uiit lo"ard to tout AmOilcau i)ici)ht iud waa a jiuomber of suqjt u.bofird for An iti) Inventor una iiutlijtMh'lun'itl Sooy-iJnilth has ntso demonstrated his elovoruuMH. Ito Invented tho first pneumatic caisson .over coiiMtructed and designed and Introduced, huccohh fully n now syBUMH-of fireproof build- in gf. vAh an iMituir, Oumirnl Hopy-Smlth Ih wo)l known, athough m linn oi flllOd hhiH.ilf tq lepoitri ind pn)11 Hlnunl pnpois. Ills biochuio entitled "Tho iliulson lllvr Tunuol," vas read on Optpbcr 0, IHSt,lipfqi tho . -1.1'iui L i'M.J X -.1 FEEL- BADLY TODAY? 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