Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-18
THE NEW MINISTER no. 1ApAN.


or without recommendation as we thought
best.
THE NEW MINISTER TO JAPAN.
$50 far as Mr.. Swift's appointment was
concerned, it was made without aid from
the delegation. The President had favor
able opinion of him from the start. 1t
seems that few years ago, when Mr.. Swift
was in Washington for some time, he had
seat for about three months at the same
table with Mr.. Harrison. He got to know
him quite well. and liked him, and there
for appointed him unsolicited as Minister
to Japan.
Colonel Jackson was even better known
to the President. l believe they studied
law in the same Office
SOUTHERN PACIFIC EXTENSIONS.
Senator Stanford was asked if it were
true, as the Seattle people asserted, that the
Seattle Southern road, now being built, was
really Southern Pacific enterprise. The
Senator replied
Our road ends at Portland. As to ex-
tensions and branch lines of the Southern
Pacific, of which much has from time to
time been said, can only say that the rail-
road business is a business that won't stand
still. 1t is growing all the time, and we
will have to build branches. A trunk line
can build branches when a short line can
not. AT present we have no intention of
going to Seattle. We get along very well
with the Northern Pacific and don't need to
parallel it. AS to railroad building, how
ever, it will not DE long till a railroad will
reach all the way up to Alaska When it
gets there it will trend across Behring's Sea
and down into Asia. All this, believe,
will be done in twenty five years. and there
will be literally an iron girdle round the
earth.
THE SHOWS? Oh, they won't bother.
It's no harder to build road down the
Himalayas than to build across the Sierra
Neyadas or other places where roads have
been built. Snowsheds can and will be
built, the same as we have over the Sierra
Nevadas for forty miles. 1t won't make
any difference whether the snow is two or
forty feet deep. Yes, it will be costly, but
it will be done. Why, that's nothing COM
pared with what we have done in the last
fifty years. Behripg Sea is the worst OBJ
stacle but way will be found to conquer
even that. The reason why the road
through Asia is feasible is because it
would be long line, and could be DETECTED
according to the obstacles to be overcome.
have no doubt that, in twenty-five years,
a man can go clear round the earth by
rail-"
THE LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY
Senator Stanford then spoke of the pro-
gress of the great University which he is
founding here.
II hope" said he, 'to have it ready for
opening by the fall of 1890. spent some
time in Boston and other Eastern cities
after left Washington in looking up va
rious technical and scientific apparatus. |
am a judge of machinery, but when it
comes to the delicate apparatus lately in
troduced into the best universities of the
world for giving instruction am sometimes
at sea as to what is best, and am forced to
leave the matter of selection to experts.
want to get every thing of this kind that is
useful. / want the best, and am now
working out plans to get it.
II have also been looking around for
man for the Presidency. The man want
is hard to find. | want a man of good
business and executive ability, as we'll as a
scholar. The scholars are plentiful
enough, but the executive ability is scarce.
/ have not settled on anybody yet. and l
don't know whom shall get, but if can
not combine these two qualifications will
get a business man or / will take the Presi-
dency OF it myself until can get suitable
man.
THE cost of an education here will be
u.
nor will anything else except board, which
will probably be about 81 80 a week. /
want to place the advantages of the uni
versity within the reach of everybody
Classical scholars can come and pursue
special course and get as much knowledge
as it will be possible to impart in any in
of learning
A THOROUGH COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
am particularly anxious that the
young men who are by thousands gradu-
ated from the colleges of the land, and sent
forth weaponless, so to speak, shall here
find an opportunity to take up some spe-
cialty. We shall teach the classics, in fact,
everything beginning with the kindergar-
ten; but we shall also teach the specialties,
so that young men and women will not be
without knowledge of a speciality on
graduation. We will fit all the students for
some active calling in life. Ihope the Uni
versity will have a character and standing
from the start. Eventually / hope it will
have several thousand students. The real
problem is how to realize the possibilities
of tine students"
PROFITS OF THE PALo ALTO FARM.
Senator Stanford was much pleased to-
day, in looking over his breeding farm, to
find bis blood colts in so thrifty condition.
He has great many colts that he expects
will develop remarkable speed. He says it
costs no more to raise good horse than q
poor one, and that while he commenced
breeding colts in the first place as diver
sion from business, il has got to be profita-
BILE. He lately sold weanling to Saybrook
of Pennsylvania for S12,5 500 and he con-
siders this colt and Bell Boy, which lately
sold at $50, 600, very cheap.