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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
American Firms in London,

The great increase in the number of
American houses in London, either
holding their own offices or being rep
resented, is becoming noticeable. One
can hardly pass through any leading
building in the city without meeting
with the names Of American competi-
tors. The iron and steel trades lead the
way; machinery makers by the score
are to be found: hardware and fancy
goods men are much in evidence; boot
and shoe shops abound, while patent
medicine manufacturers are extremely
numerous. In fact, it would be difficult
10 pick out any leading American in
dustry which is not well represented
in London.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
BARS AMERICAN BEEF.
British War Office Confirms Report as
A~.,x, nrda-

British War Office Confirms Report as
to Army Contracts Order.
The British war office confirms the re-
port that it is going to try the experiment
of supplying the army with only home
grown beef. The experiment will extend
six months from June /. The director Of
contracts, a major, said to London
press representative: The new rule APP
plies only to refrigerated beef hitherto
bought in the open market in London. 1t
will not seriously affect the American
trade, as the total weekly supply for the
army is only 100000 pounds. which is
barely per cent Of the weekly Imports
of refrigerated beef into England from
the United States"
Oficials at the Washington Agricui-
tural and State departments are incfn-
ed t. take a serious view of the action Of
the British government in excluding
American beef and meat products from
the British army contracts They agree
that the move has an eminous look and
regard it as the entering wedge of a
far-reaching policy which may seriously
cripple American exports.
Secretary Wilson says New Iealand is
able to furnish all the meat needed by
the entire English government aud that
in his opinion the government has acted
against American meat at the demand Of
the capitalists who have for some years
past been investing their money in I'M
mense packing establishments in Austria
liza. While the British government has
the reputation of always purchasing
where it can buy the cheapest it is be-
lieved that the time is propitious for tho
abandonment Of this policy owing to tn,
dissa tisfaction throughout the kingdom
over he Industrial depression assigned ts
the heavy war expenses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Trade and the Los Angeles Chamber of

Trade and the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce.. !
Alabama proposes to appropriate $25,-
600 for an exhibit.
Georgia has appropriated sum suf-
ficient to pay the expenses of fine ex-
hibit
Iowa has appointed a commission and
an exhibit is being arranged. The Ag-
ricultural and Horticultural Boards will
participate in the display.
Idaho has appropriated $4,000 for
an exhibit.
Pennsylvania appropriation for rep
resentation is $4,000.
Minnesota has appropriated $4,000
for an exhibit.
New Jerseys appropriation for rep
resentatiOn is $4,000.
North Dakota will expend it's apprO-
priation of $4,000 for an exhibit.
Kentucky has appointed a commits
sion and Sn exhibit is being arranged.
Maryland has appointed a commits
sion to prepare an exhibit and the Bal
timore Manufacturers Association is CO.
operating.
Delaware has made an appropriation
for an exhibit.
Washington, Montana, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas and other States will
be suitably represented.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23

Triumphal Bridge at the intersection
of the two principal thoroughfares and
at the head of the dock landing of the
State and foreign building allotment.
The size of the building is S4x122 feet.
A ten-foot terrace walk extends around
the outside, being widened at the north
west corner to a circular form, thus
providing an ample approach from the
dock landing. The lower floor is in
tended for the use of the general pub
lie and the upper floor for rne commits
sioners. State officials and the State
and acetylene gas for illuminating pur-
poses. The artistic manner of lighting
constitutes part of the interior decora-
tons. AS the approach from the dock
landing is the most picturesque, the
building is embellished at the north
west corner with statuary group. The
background worked in relief upon the
plaster shows the great seal OF the
State. with its hills, trees, sunrise ana
sheaves of wheat and arrows. In the
IoreSiOunu - tue ceutet hSuAS S''A7
on the PROV of a boat to typify the
State. The Ohio River is represented
by a Mermaid and Lake Erie by q
Triton.
The Michigan Building occupies a
Tery desirable site in the Court of State
and Foreign Buildings of the EXPOSE
ton. The style of architecture is coli
onial, with large porches. There is a
large hall with mantel, ladies and gen
tlemen's parlors, secretary's Office,
check room, postoffice, lavatories, etc.,
on the ground floor. and hall with
mantel, committee-room, directors
room, two bedrooms. ladies' parlor and
bathroom. The floors are hardwood.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
/, A BIG DRY GOODS TRUST.
1t May Drive the Little FeIlows Out of
Business.

Business.
The latest mammoth trust to be exploit
ed is that of dry goods. J.sPierpont Nor
gan, who fused the steel kings in mass,
and John Claflin, head of the well-known
New York wholesale dry goods house.
are the promoters of the unihcation.
They propose to combine all the impor-
tant dry goods stores, wholesale and re-
tail, throughout the country, and this
is intended to drive out of business the
lesser merchants and the commission
firms, as the trust will deal directly with
the manufacturers. thus ending the mid
dlemen. 1t may also ruin the importer,
for this colossus will take the product Of
European factories without the aid of
the importer. 1t is thought something
like 100000 men will lose employment by
this new plan. Travelling men will DO
displaced, as letters and kilograms will
do the work formerly executed by tho
commercial traveller.
Speaking of the proposition A. ID. Jul
lard, a prominent banker OF New York,
who is taking leading part in it, said:
The man who has an enormous
Broadway rental to pay for store car
rying special line of retail stock can
not long compete with the department
store proprietor, who can carry the same
kind of a stock and put it away in the
basement of his big building. Just as tho
department stores to-day can undersell
the small retailer, so u combination Of
department stores can sell at cheaper
rates than prevail now in the individual
ones''
The New York Journal of Commerce
says that the scope of the Associated
Merchants Company. which has been or
ganized by John Clafn, and which
Messrs. j. p. Morgan & Co. are financ-
ing, is much wider than at first report
ed The businesses that Mr.. Cladin pro-
poses to buy are, it is understood, among
the highest character in the city. No
definite contracts have yet been made,
and negotiations have not yet reached
q definite stage.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
He Returned II.

Wit has often saved an offender from
punishment in military as well as in
civil life
Not long since a noncommissioned Of
ficer entered a barrack gate in Dublin
was mistaken by the fresh one" on
sentry. who Immediately ''came to the
shoulder"
The nOncom., unaware that his col
onel was just behind. returned the sa-
lute-a thing not permissible in the cir
cumstances. Arrived at his quarters.
he shortly received an order to attend
before the colonel.
On presenting himself he was asked
how he came to return the salute.
knowing full well he was not entitled
10 IL
Not in the least embarrassed, he
promptly answered:
'-Sir, 1 always return everything 1 am
not entitled to-
His ready wit pleased the colonel,
who Iaughingly dismissed him.-Lon-
don Spare Moments.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Facts Ahout the CentnrY.

An Industrious calculator has been
searching out some interesting facts
concerning the new century. He points
out that the twentieth century will con
tain $685. days, which lacks but one
day Of being exactly 5,21S weeks. The
middle day of the century will be Jan.
1, 1851. Fifteen out Of the hundred
years will begin on Wednesday and the
same number on Friday. Fourteen will
begin on each of the other days of the
week
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
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Australian Billy" Murphy. the once
well-known featherweight boxer. is now
4 Waterman in Sioux City, Iowa.
Some critics believe that the pcnnant
race in the National League will be a one
sided affair between Brooklyn aud Pitts
ourg.
Ireland will send a fine team Of run
ners, jumpers ar weight throwers TO
represent her IT the Pan-American Ex-
position during the four days devoted %
the Irish carnival
Nearly 1000 race meets will be given
permits by the National Cycling Asso-
citation during the season Of 1901. II is
estimated that the amount Of purses TO
be given out will foot up 100000.
The American team Of shooters that is
to compete against the pick Of English,
Scotch and Irish marksmen in England
this summer will be captained by Thorn
as A. Marshall Of Keithsburg. Ill. Mar
shall is one Of the best-knOwn and most
expert shots in the country.
Bob Fitzsimmous is said 10 be growing
old, a Cincinnati scribe says there Is
60 denying the fact that the ex.cham-
piOu age - BedIlb5 utdfss Oh MS Shout
ders. Fitz looks young enough made up
for the stage. but IN street attire his fea
lures show plainly that he is no longer
the youthful boxer he once was
A team OF picked American athletes
will visit the British Isles the coming
summer 10 try for the English champion
ships and incidentally 20 have a crack al
the Irish and Scottish titles.
Jeffries and Ruhlin will likely fight in
San Francisco after all. The National
Sporting Club Of that city is very .anx-
ious to have the men appear before - and
is willing TO Offer good pu>-
- announcement by the allied bicycle
manufacturers that they would supper,
racing teams the coming season means
considerable 10 the sport and the racin:
men. II means taat the best Of the rae,
ing men OF this country will be seen %
the national racing circuit.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23

selves with shaking hands after the
English fashion, and in such an event
it may be asked whether it would not
be well to pass a law ordaining that
no one shall indulge in this form of
greeting whose hands have not been
first thoroughly purified by means of a
solution of picnic acid or Of bichloride
of mercury.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Recent Democratic Victories.

We have an abiding hope that the
demonstration of last Monday will not
turn out to have been a mere muscular
spasm and that it will not be found on
the morning after the November cleo
ton to have been a stark corpse all the
time. Spring elections are not always
significant of results in the fall, but
there is enough in she Democratic vic
tories of the LIST inst. to be of great val
ue under good management, after the
chaff and heresy shall have been sifted
out.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Shot at Short Range.

Mrs. Fourthhusband-Is it really true
as the papers intimate, that our United
States Senators frequently talk for the
mere purpose of killing time?
Mr. Fourthhusband-No question OF
it, my dear.
Mrs. F.-what a reprehensible prse-
tee, 10 be sure.
Mr.. F mindful Of the fate Of his pred
ecess0rs)-yery true, but there are
greater offenders: our local cemetery
bears testimony 70 the existence OF
more fatal takers than those whom yoU
seeuse.-Boston Courier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
A Chance for Mckinley,

If Mr.. Mckinley revokes the appoint
ment Of William A. Rodenberg, the
Tanner henchman and avowed spoils-
making civil service commissioners,
he will be deemed simply to have fallen
into and out of an entirely human
error. If he does not revoke it he will
be adjudged to have stultified himself
as an advocate in Congress and de-
fender in the President of the merit
system. He can suffer nothing by
revocation. He can suffer much by con-
firmation.-New York Press Rep.).
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
An Incorgruous Policy.

In CONNECTION with our Philippine poi
icy, does it not seem strange that the
Moros and Jolos, who are Mohamme-
dams, polygamists and Shareholders, are
allowed to govern themselves as they
see fit, while the Tagalogs and other
Christian tribes are governed by the
dictates of an autoc:atic commission
and are ruled as vassals and subjects
by irresponsible satraps?-St. Paul
Globe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23

of the Philippine problem. The archt
pelago does not belong to US, but to the
people thereof. We sin against our
own principles quite as much by contin-
uining as by establishing a government
of force. The Filipino people are alien
to us In race. in color and language We
cannot say they are part of us In any
way that creates rightful national con-
nection.-DeS Moiles Leader.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
In Keeping with His Policy.

1t is quite in keeping with the policy
of the noble and imperial major that
plans should now be in contemplation
for the corruption of Aguinaldo, 1t is,
of course, impossible for a true McKin-
leyite to realize that there is such a
thing as honor and patriotism except
for bargain-counter use. Mr.. McKin-
ley himself has not hesitated to change
his mind. to abandon plain duty, to
forget sacred obligations and to under
take lines of procedure which he him.
self had described as criminal.-Johns-
town Democrat,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Hesse's Grand Duke.

The Grand Duke of Hesse is skinful
VIII. tie needle. and his embroidery is
sai6 to be beautiful. He takes the
greatest interest in his work. and is
particularly clever in the arrangement
of colors. He has very artistic ma
ture. as he is devoted to music. dancing.
and acting, but he does not care much
about more active pursuits. though he
both shoots and rides.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Que More Backward Stem.

President Mckinley has appointed to
the vacant civil service commissioners
ship ex-Congressman Rodenberg of
Illinois. one of the politicians left "out
of job" by the people. Mr.. Roden-
berg's peculiar fitness for this place
and his sympathy with reform are in
Dictated by the vote that he cast in the
House a year ago-with seventy-six
others-to strike out the appropriation
for the support of the commission in
which he now finds a refuge with a
salary. Poor old civil service reform
is having a hard time!-New York
World
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
The Pension Commissioner.

If Mr.. Evans has not done his duty as
Commissioner of Pensions discharge
him from the office, but do not appoint
him to another. If he has done his duty
he is the man for the place and should
be kept where he is. We do not often
get a man in the pension office who in
sists on running it himself, instead of
allowing the pension sharpers to run it
for him. Courier-Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Democracy Gaining Ground.

The right influences in Democracy
seem to be gaining ground by natural
gravItation of brains to the top. The
elaborate plans for reorganization"
have been less influential than the mere
operation of reason among Democrats
themselves. There has been no over
throw of organization" in Cleveland
or Chicago or st. Louis, but the rank
and file there have taken possession Of
the existing organizations and are in
control.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23

S I + l GUY refrain
from kissing any
one" Nine. Petit
is leader of the
new society. She
is the leading
woman lawyer of
Paris.
If kissing goes
out of fashion
those who desire
to give evidence of
conjugal and ma
ternal affection
will be obliged to
C on t e n t them
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
He Il Behind the Times.

Perry Heath says he does not know
whether he will accept the position Of
chief of the Bureau of Publicity and
Promotion for the st. Louis exposition
at a salary of $4,000 a year. Perry is
behind the times. Everybody else
knows that he will accept just as soon
as it is definitely offered to him.
Omaha World-Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23

While Rufus hurriedly hitched team
to the two-horse sleigh, put in the robes
and secured bottle of rum for consump-
ton en- route, Simeon, in the tool room
of the mill, gave his exclusive attention
to the careful loading of his revolver,
which was one of the old ''pepper-box
kind, but sufficiently deadly weapon at
close quarters.
Within half an hour, the pursuers
started, and when she had seen them off,
Mrs. Mulveil jagged away home in a
much more contented and hopeful frame
of mind.
She had sent Murder to hunt down
Love.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Government for the Philippines.

The question of what measure of
self-government the Filipinos shall ell
joy is to be determined by public opin-
ion in the United States. In order that
public opinion may have a chance to
develop and find expression there must
be peace in the islands themselves
New York Evening Fost.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
TARIFF BALL AND CHAIN.

A dozen years ago President Cleve-
lands tariff reform message brought
down all the manufacturing interests of
the country on his head. They were all
satisfied with things as they We're. All
they wanted was to keep the home mar
ket from being flooded with the prod
ucts of the ''pauper labor of Europe
Now it is the manufacturers who are
agitating for tariff reform. Cleveland
is dead and his work has been taken up
by the men who helped to kill him.
In the April number of the Engineer
ing Magazine is most significant arti-
Gle by Mr.. William L. Saunders. a
prominent mechanical engineer and
publisher of the technical journal, Com
pressed Air. Mr.. Saunders dwells at
length upon Secretary Cages blunder,
by which we have been subjected to
reprisals from Russia; points out our
need of foreign markets, and concludes:
IF the bars of protection serve, as
they do now in the case of this Rus
sian business, as dams to obstruct the
flow of our products into foreign fields,
then let us take them down. Mr.. Blaine,
a disciple of protection, evidently saw
clearly that reciprocity was essential to
the maintenance and integrity of pro-
lection; hence he coupled it with his
protection idea. If protection has built
up the United States to its present posi-
ton, and if to be a great manufacturing
country is desirable in the interests of
the whole people, then it is as Import
ant now to protect the manufacturers
by open doors as it was to build them
up by a tariff which has now become
useless and which has begun to be
hurtful."
In the same number Of the magazine
Mr.. Alexander Hume Ford describes
the boundless opportunities for Ameri-
can energy in Russia in supplying the
needs OF that continental empire for ma
chinery, railroads, bridges and manu-
featured goods of every descriptiOn-au
depending, of course, on access to the
market upon such reasonable terms as
our tariff policy is destroying. Already
there are thousand Americans in St.
Petersburg engaged in making openings
for American products in Russia.
And the editor comments:
america is fast coming to see that
what she needs is not paternaiism and
political meddling, but wider markets"
The next tariff contest in this coun-
try will be fought on very different
lines from the last one. In fact there
may not be any fight at all. The same
President under whom high protection
reached its zenith may be the one I'M
der whom it wifi be laid away by com
mon consent.-Chicago American
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Some State Buildings.

One of the handsomest buildings in
the Court of State and Foreign Build
ings at the Pan-American Exposition is
that erected by the State of Ohio. 1t
stands on the broad plateau near the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Were ON the Wrong Side

Senator Hanna says the Ohio cleo
tons We're nothing but local affairs.
Very true. and it is unfortunate indeed
that Mr.. Hanna's party was so uniform
ly on the side that did not suit the peo-
pie who did the yoting.-MinneapOlis
Times
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23

their meetings with her childish plead
ings to come to God. Evangelist Ed
wards sacrificed a lucrative legal prac-
tee in Devonshire to take uD the call
ing of an evangelist. He has been in
the United States for nearly a year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
"a LITTLE CHILD
SHALL LEAD THEM. "

Little Margaret Edwards, the daugh-
ter of Roland d. Edwards, the English
evangelist, is the youngest revivaIist in
the country. She assists her parents in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
The Railroa Trust.

The story about the new company TO
control all the railroads Of the United
States may or may not be true. # it is
not true to-day it will be tomorrow. 1t
is merely the last. inevitable step in a
process that has been going on steadily
since our railroad system began and
that has been making more rapid pro-
gress in the past few months than ever
before.
If Mr.. J. PierpOnt Morgan, Mr.. Will
lam X. Vanderbilt, Mr.. James J. Hill,
Mr.. Edward D. Hartman, Mr.. George
J. Gould, Mr.. John d. Rockefeller, Mr..
Jacob H. Schiff and Mr.. James Still
man, who have been named as the au-
thors of this scheme, should undertake
to control all the railroads of the Uni
ted States, they could do it without any
trouble. The only question is whether
they think the time has yet come to
take the step. T
The railroad system of the United
States was capitalized last year at
twelve billion one hundred and sixty
five million three hundred and twenty
seven thousand eight hundred and for
ty-nine dollars. That is over twelve
times the bonded national debt of the
United States. 1t is four times the debt
of Great Britain. 1t is equal to the
capital of a dozen billion-dOllar trusts.
Ii represents over a hundred and TWEEN
ty of the hundred million dollar trusts
that were considered the monsters Of
finance a few years ago.
But the railroads are not so unman-
ageable when they are approached by
the right men in the right way. OF
their total capitalization the stock rep
resents only So, i42, 1S1. 1S1, of which a
would amount to less than $2,S75,000,-
600. AS many railroad stocks are sell
ing far below par, it is probable that a
majority could be bought for $1,000
10000.
But it is not necessary for Mr.. Nor
gan, Mr.. Rockefeller and their asso-
ciates to own a majority of the stock.
When the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
died it was found that he owned less
than one per cent of the stock of the
New York Central the typical Wander
bilt road" With 100000 in cash,
their skill in manipulation and their
control of banks, industrial enterprises
and financial agencies of all sorts, the
members Of the proposed syndicate
would have no trouble in securing the
mastery of every railroad in the ooun
try.
When the Universal Railroad Trust
comes, whether to-day. tomorrow or
next week, it will handle revenues more
than twice as great as those of the ma
tional government and employ ten
times as many men as the United States
keeps in its army on a war footing.
And then the Americans policy-"Pub-
lie Ownership of Public Franchises
will be the central issue of practical
politics.-New York Journal