New-York tribune., 1901-01-27
THE PASSING THRONG.

A man who was a friend OF James c. Pearson.
who took out insurance policy for s24o'oS IN the
Mutual Life Insurance Company
JAMES C few days before his death, said
PEARSONs yesterday: Il was greatly shocKed
INSURANCE. when ] received the news OF my
friend James c. Pearson's death.
The stories aAoat about the $4,000 insurance "nch
ne carried on his liIe. and which had been taken
ont hut two DAYS previously, erroneous. improp-
ery state the facts of the case, and leave raise
impression upon the minds Of third parties. was
very well acquainted with Pearson. and know an
about this insurance matter the iacts OF "hi0"
these:
in an amount of insurance so great as Mr
Pearson applied for-S240 OO0-the insurance com
NAMES exercise great in taking risks ana suo-
iect the applicants TO most searching physlcai eA-
animation. Pearson had been examined a Hun'
of times the final taking place in Ne"-hOIA n
on the Saturday previous TO his death, when oc-
cl,rred on the following Thursday. On the day on
which the last examination took place. namely sa'-
urdav Mr Pearson notihed-and Tor the HlsI
,iroe-that the insurance company would accept the
risk and was prepared to issue the policy. on
Sunday Pearson returned 10 Boston, ana on VI IL.
y Gay e ,orar ~ 20 IN of INDIGESTION since both his
urlse and his temperature remained AoIlhdl' -
Hs Rse on on ra 10 W He%Yor that evening and agreed
10 meet him the following day at me Nadit}Ier
man having the faintest idea that Mr. Pearson MAS
0n the following morning the agent Of the insur-
eDce company called Mr.. Pearsons lawyer lI
WaldOrt-AStOTla.
Mr. Persons lawyer accepted it,, and gave the
agent a check for the amount St i IlT =, "a The
once ol me p,,' a,,r was his most intimate
s-s1S no vou mink he would have been here IN
NeyvNYori had he realized that his best friend lay
dying IN fba Bqs9n ndv 10 roof Of Mr. Pearson death
has been put in yet and unth ms - uolc ,i,, Nv
can be no question raised as TO their paynE o. OF
not paying the amount due on me poll,Er ErarrtI ~ 4,
extraordnary thng 10Y a 5il f ~ anen5icitis
shortly thor-after Any doctor Will tell you OF
shock 10 his friends for ne waS m ib, dii@ and re,
TWO hundred pounds. six teeL IN htlss.' 80 rs
The last man You would have expected to dls b9I M
thirty-siX years oa, ID apG 49, an a'ii'''e' -''
a.PeaTs6n was very rich man-so rich indeed
tbar even so large a sum S240,Go could MAKE
bI9 l,Ttle real difference one way the other in
his estate
/ 4. stearns of Portland. ore. was delegate
,o the Irritation Congress recently held, and when
seen at the Waldorf-Astoria yes
,r,Frn,Ds terdav he talked of irrigation in
THE GREAT the West "On page S'l OF liIe
BASIN. January Issue OF me -.
,rr,ter snealxs of the Great Basin lying between
the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific sierras as
a vast oval area of sterile plain Walereu pS d ie"
feeble streams specifically mentioning ehe Noiu
hia River as one. l wonder if that writer mao ever
visited the region he talks Of gliby; II seems
tmpossibe since he shows such palnIu lshoI @ aIlCe
sng the The reeion south of the Union Pacific Railway
10 those who know il better than 90 Iet % ISIa
at the territory from there 10 the BRUSH ,I
line region approximately from 900 10 .po s dlIe
wide from east TO west ana aoSut a sizes of
Wyomiug Utah. Nevada, California, oregon
q region covering over six hundred thousand square
uiles-a territory larger than all NeW-E1ils
vania Indiana. Illinois Iowa, Wisconsin and Miehi-
CANAL drained by the feeble SoiunlDld. tIs iIs
thousand feet above the seals watered by streams
straight from the mountain SIDES, when t GStIE T q
zrol1lT of fer
bee Connecticut or Potomac To can Such a
able display of Grass ignorance that may justly be
termed reprehensble AT the cascades the Colunn-
Memphis in the Mississippi. The cascades are
above the point where the Columbia receives the me
Willamette, which, at its falls furnishes thlFteeh
times more water power than do the falls OF the
This region has more than a million population
which is increasing at rate that viii give II more
any OF the happy and prosperous farming popu-
lation that inhabit this great area and see they
American Exposition al Buffalo the exhibit Of the
Great Basin country viii be Of nature to astonish
and reward its visitors"
IF you will examine the soil there. both that which
bears and that which IS sterile ground" continued
Mr.. Stearns, you will find IL all
SAYS 1T is Of the same character. and you will
HIGHLY PRO notice also that each homestead
DUCTIVE. has little stream, led along
nearby higher level, with lesser
streamlets flowing down TO fields OF grain, grass.
except that everything there grows wonderfully ex-
aggerated in size. You viii then understand why
the National Irrigation Congress came into being
and why the General Government should build stor-
age reservoirs the heads Of the streams, for the
benefit impartialy Of all the low country, on the
same principle that IL improves the harbor OF a
city for the benefit Of its outlying country Within
this sterile there are hundreds or miles OF
railroads costing millions of dollars TO construct
and busily engaged in carrying the products OF
that desert which always viii be a desert. vast
oval Of sterile plain! You will find there
single wheat fields greater in area than the whole
State Of Rhode Island. IL may be news TO some
million bushels OF wheat left from fits last
seasons crop. Could the men who put their lives
into the various railroads have regarded the country
a desert? Can the capitalists and hnanciers
who compete with cash for the ownership OF
their stocks regard il? Does J. j. Hin live or is his
a fable? Do Lewis and Clark or does Cen
eTal Isaac Stevens in their published reports and
notes, regard the Great Basin sterlle2 Yet that
Is the region which the writer in The Century so
fippantly alludes 10 desert The records at
Portland show that from that port in 1900 there
were shipped abroad l5.SjSO00 bushels OF wheat,
almost all of which was the product Of this Great
supplying the needs of home consumption. More
than two thousand carloads of green and another
thousand carloads Of dried fruit were handled by
the railroads in this during 1900. Does this
like sterility? The truth is. the Great Basin
IS soon TO be the fairest, the popUlous and
the productive part OF the Union in all things
that constitute material wealth"
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