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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-13

liant hued patterns. The hollyhoek and other old
fashioned flowers are in great demand for over
draperies, covering for furniture and upholstery
purposes.
The peacock design is especially attractive, and
usually is seen on cream background. Wall
papers and frieze are availablein the same motif.
Ribbon and garland patterns are especially lovely
for curtain draperies.
Imported tafetas sell for ST. a yard and are so
inches wide. Clever limitations in cotton taffeta
sell for % cents yard; in linen for 35 cents,
and are 30 inches wide The former material is
very popular and endless assortment of patterns
is shown, including striped effects aover forals,
the ribbon and peacock treatment.
Cretonne, English and French besides the do.
mestic designs is admirable for drapery and furni
ture slips and the patterns bewildering Art
tickings are good but somewhat heavier than ere.
tonne.
MARJORIE.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21
BAILIFF ON EASY STREET.

Mr.. and Mrs L. L. Daugherty and
daughter returned home to Ham
mond this afternoon, after a week s
visit here. Our old townsman and
former county sheriff is pretty well
on Easy street now. He owns a good
residence in Hammond gets s24 a
month pension. by a special pension
act, and $500 or 5000 a year as
court bailiff of the Hammond super
ior court, and has seen all his boys
grow into positions Of responsibility
and good incomes Rensselaer, Re-
publican.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21
By THE GADFLY

clique that he has been called the
champion salesman of the world AS
to Carnegie, he gave a shout of JOY
when he was out of business-as if
he ever could be really out. His pen
sion Is thirteen million, seven hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars
wear and. said to be the second larg-
est in the world. OF the men he made
rich. few were pompous, only very
few aimed at display and social posi-
tion, and all continued to wear the
harness of business. What Carnegie
has done is marvellous beyond express
sion. A century ago the merest pre-
diction of it would have made its ac-
complishment seem possible only
with supernatural assistance. Busi-
ness was never hard to him and new
er irksome. He has remarked that
d game of golf was much more like
hard work He has been everywhere
and seen everything and is the least
blase man in the world and the two
amazing achievements in his life
which are food for thought are, that
he made billion in life time and
he has never lost his head.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

eye on the middle Of the twentieth
century, rather than on the begin
ming.
He is man who is liked as well
as feared and those who know him
best admire him most. His strong
est personal characteristics are OBJ
horrence of notroiety. an imperions
will, acuteness of thought and brev-
ity of speech He is six feet in height
with the build of an athlete, and al
together he impressesf the spectator
as a man intellectually and physical
ly in touch with the foremost forces
of his time. Mr.. Morgan's offices
as well as all his personal adorn-
ments are unpretentious, and almost
anyone can gain an interview as he
does not sit in sanctum. Yachting
is his favorite sport and once on board
his famous yacht the Corsair, Nor
gan, the astute financier, becomes the
polished man of the world, the gen
ial host and charming companion.
There lives no better judge of fine
horses and dogs, a good cigar, an
entree, a bottle Of wine and-beau-
tiful women. He has done much for
art as his gifts to museums and the
Metropolitan art attest. His char
acter can be measured on the same
huge scale as his financial opera.
tions, and a simple enumeration o.
Mr.. Morgan's public and private bene
factions would surprise the public
and he wields the greatest power il
the financial world of any one man
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21
JOHN PTERPONT MORGAN, MAS
TER OF FINANCE.

And now we come to J. P. Morgan,
the master financfer, grandson of a
poet and son of a banker Measured
by what he has accomplished in the
last half century he is as powerful
a personality as the United States
has ever produced, In 1901 Morgan
was a steel king himself, for he had
successfully organized the Federal
Steel company and his intimacy with
Frick is said to have given him a
much more favorable opinion of steel
men than he had previously enter
tanned Gary tells us that when Nor
gan effected the union of the COM
panies into the Federal steel, he was
intrusted with between two and three
hundred million dollars. Morgan has
always been a builder and a peace
maker, a foe to hostility in any form;
so that to him the exit of Carnegie
from control was a business neces-
sity. To permit Carnegie to domin-
ate and sway the steel market was
unthinkable and in his opinion, the
peace of the American financial
world demanded the addiction of Car
negie. Morgan was then sixty-four
years old, or, what is better-sixty-
four years young. He was born in
Hartford, educated in Boston and in
Germany trained to be a banker.
Every step he has ever taken has
been from small to greater things.
In 1901 his banking house repre-
sented eleven hundred millions.
($1,100, ,000,O and in reality he
may be called British-American in
stitution. He has come to the rescue
of Wall street, pulled it out of the
slough of panic and placed it on the
main road of speculation. In the pre-
vious fifteen years he has reorganized
eight railroads; floated an American
bond issue of two hundred million
dollars, and the British war loan o.
the warIng coal operators and con
Iverted the Mexican national debt
His firm organized the international
Mercantile Marine company which
is upon the seas what the steel cor
poration is upon the land. 1t is tn,
most audacious example of the modern
genius for industrial combination. |
was formed by powerful interests
: superbly conscious of their strength
: but harrassed by wastefuI competi
: ton and the combine was not a mo
, nopoly but excited new competition
/ never before so severe. 1t is a recog
nized fact that British fnancier
: could never have achieved this with
5 out exciting tremendous govern
/ mental jealousy with which Mr.. MOI
gan most successfully contendet
: Wherever there is a great publ
: subscription to be raised. a railroa
Y to be financed, vast interests to b
s adjusted-as for instance the coz
j trade-Mr. Morgan is sought.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

the immediate building of the city a
reality. The factory site is a walled
city Every workman must pass
through one gate to enter or leave.
At present two thousand teams are
at work and from four to six thous-
and mer are employed.
SIS
The surrounding country and
neighboring towns are given z=;sEs
factories and oil industries and
it is not idle dreaming to predict that
in three years the population Of this
steel city-Gary in Lake County in
Northern Indiana-wlll be fifty thou
sand and in FIVE years it may super
cede Pittsburg in its palmiest days.
Where seventy-five millions are
now being expended, the outlay when
all is completed will easily reach the
two hundred million mark.
And so, the United States Steel
corporation stands as the finished
and perfected issue of a century of
invention. enterprise and progress.
1t is more than a national produce
tion, it is an aggregate of men and
ideas from all civilization. 1t is the
individual and concerted effort of
myriads of toilers of both sexes and
all ages, coupled with the great brain
force and managing ability of Nor
gan and his retinue which make Of
this industry such a prodigious in
stitution of which we seldom see
more than the finished result. The
glory of consolidation belongs to
Morgan; the holding together of this
vast concern and the equalizing OF
forces and compelling Of peace, are
due to many of his brainy confreres;
but the. United States Steel corpora
tion is "the product of humanity
the mighty accumulation of the
; thought of the world
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

Miss Eta Gaskill. teacher at the
Jones Business college is spending
her vacation at the home of her
aunt, Mrs. Philip Struebig Of Crown
Point
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

Mrs Reiduisky, who lives on 155th
street. was lightly burned at her
home last night by the explosion of
a gasoline stove. She was cooking
supper when the stove exploded.
throwing the burning gasoline on
her. She tore off her garments and
escaped iwth a few burns.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

Philip Struebig. who has been do
ing contract work at Crown Point.
has returned to his studies at the
Jones Business College.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

Charles Jones and his brother Har-
ry Jones of the Chicago branch Of the
Jones Business College, We're in Ham
mond on business yesterday.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21
JUDGE GARY AND THE NEW
STEEL CITY

Among the men identified with the
steel industry, Gary, Perkins and
Schwab climbed from the lowest rung
Of the ladder and stood first. Under
Morgan, E. H. Gary was first as head
Of the executive committee. Born
on an Illinois farm, he was first
clerk in a small court, a mayor, a
lawyer and a judge, and finally at
tracted the attention of the steel
king. He is best described as a man
of sense, not genius; of diplomacy
not bluntness. He represents Nor
gan's interests from the Chicago side
and it is his name which has been
given to the dream city built on the
lonely dunes in northern Indiana.
Millions upon millions viii be en-
ployed to transform this bleak des-
ert into the future home of vast
industrial community. The town Of
Gary covers four thousand one hun
dred acres, which were previously a
lifeless waste until the magic touch
of the steel corporation started 4
model city. At present it is graded
and waiting for pavements; it is to
have an average level of eighteen
feet above the lake, TO insure ex-
ceIlent sewerage. The principal
streets are Broadway and Fifth ave-
nue., which will be one hundred feet
wide, and Gary will not rise like
ordinary hamlets-nouse by house
and factory by factory-but the mil
lions from the steel company make
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

Frank Trayers left for a two weeks
vacation in the west. During his
vacation he viii visit Pixies peak and
other points of interest.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

A. G. Frieze and wife of Seattle.
Wash, are visiting friends in Ham,
mond this week. Mr.. Frieze saws ha
can notice marked improvement in
the city since he was here last, which
over fiye years ago when he worked
in the Office of Lawrence Becker.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21
WANTED

WANTED-Carrier boy to carry
papers in Jerusalem. Apply at
Times Office. circulation manager.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

The almost magic building OF Gary,
home of the steel industry; the great
prominence being given this institu-
ton by noted periodicals, and the abb
sorbing interest one and all take in
enterprises of such wonderful mag
nitude, make it pertinent for me to
relate much interesting history and
many unknown facts and occurrences
relative to the birth and progress Of
this vast industry which have been
given me by an editor of prominence
and a man in position to Gull the
purest truths.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

In Wall street his proceedings were
called the Carnegie steel bull'' and
it was known as a rapacious, rampant
bull. In his first fight with Rocke-
feller, he ordered seven eight-thous-
and ton ore carrying steamships.
He was only one of the two who had
thrown down the glove to the almost
impregnable Cassatt, and in his fight
with the Pennsylvania railroad, he en-
gagged the best engineers to map out
"a railroad from Pittsburg to the
ocean. He built a tube works which
cost twelve millions and laid out ten
millions more in improvements His
ihdomitable will stopped at no OBJ
stacles and no outlay. no matter how
stupendous,. and when all was in
readiness, he and Schwab consulted.
Even Schwab, it is said. was stagger-
ed when the final decision he was told
to carry to Morgan was the appalling
selling price of one half billion DOL
! lars. The enormity of this dream
price can be partially comprehended
when we discover that it represents
the value of all the wheat, barley
and cheese produced in the United
States during the year 1900. Hall
a billion dollars would pay the presi
dents salary for nine thousand
years.
Morgan called in Gary to consult
he more than favored the combina
ton, while at the same time all tn.
small steel companies were clamor
ing for Morgan to buy out Carnegi,
at any cost. Charles N. Schwab
who rose from q barefoot boy will
no prospects but what he mapped ou
for himself, to the presidency of tn
concern when only thirty-nine kear
/, old, accomplished the sale. Possesse,
of extraordinary astuteness, a cheer
full self-assurance: quick as a fiasI
to turn minutest items to his own ad
vantage. and never at loss for a rea
J son or an inducement, he so fuentl
/ and plausibly set this stupendou
business matter before the Morga
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

When in 1899 the great steel quar-
rel occurred with Carnegie against
Frick, the public awoke to the fact
that the steel industry was of mo-
mentous Importance by getting its
first glimpse at the company's work
ings and the first real knowledge
of the business profits. Carnegie
stood for one man power and the pro-
motion of any one who displayed
aptitude and a will for work. Car
negie was man of one corporation
one concern enlisted all his atten-
ton, while Frick was a man with
numerous irons in the fire and inter
ested in all, SO that their quarrel and
separation was inevitable. It was
when Rockefeller appeared restless
and offered to buy and Morgan show
ed unusual interest that Andrew Car
negie first realized that he was a
power-was in truth the Steel King.
Always recognizing business oppor-
tunities with lightning rapidity, and
quickly grasping the fact that Nor
gan and Rockefeller were afraid of
him, he jumped his price in a few
weeks to three hundred millions to
the utter amazement of all concern
ed But all negotiations proved fu-
tile and he determined to wage a
commercial war against every COM
petitor; so with all his Scotch deter
mination foremost he accompilshe
work which truly reads like fairy
tale.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

Third race, 5 II furlongs.-Bon-
art first; Weber, second; Harold D..
third.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-21

Latonia. August 21.-Track heavy.
First race, six urlongs.-Camp,
first; Frank Flesher, second; Mild
rene, third.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-10

twice moved toward higher levels, but
the water is still encrOaching. Unless
the flood Is stopped the Southern Pa
cific will have to spend millions build
Ing new line through the San Ber-
nardino mountains. That is why the
Southern Pacific is spending whatever
the engineers may require in an al
most hopeless effort to throw the COL
orado back into her channel.
The spreading of the SaltOn sink at
than 300 square miles of country have
ton and trembling in Its wake. Great
salt works have been annihilated, val
liable farms ruined. and the valley
threatened with depopulation. 1t has
been enormously stated that the an
tics Of the Colorado were due to Uncle
Sans reclamation project at the Yu-
ma dam site several miles north of
the break. AS matter Of fact the
government project had nothing what
ever to do with the accident which &C.
Cured in connection with private
irrigation enterprise.
Government engineers are taking
deepest interest in the battle with the
runaway river. becaus: they do not
know what effect the iilting of her old
channel by the Colorado may have on
the Yuma project. AS there is no con-
gressional appropriation Uncle Sam
cannot help the Southern Pacific en-
gineers beyond an advisory capacity.
The people of the valley can not at
ford to undertake the expense of stop
ping the flood on account of the great
cost and the railroad is making the
fight single handed. Plans have been
carefully prepared and 1t is hoped to
fulfill them when the Colorado Is at
lou, uafar
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-10
NEW KIND OF WHEAT.

S. c. Baughman, the Sphinx county,
South Dakota, farmer, who astonished
South Dakota and drew the attention
OF the agricultural northwest upon
himself by taking 966 bushels of
spring wheat from thirty-two acres,
has had conference with several lead
ing grain men and millers in Mime
apolis to whom he showed samples
Of what he believes to be a new and
powerful spring wheat destined to
work great benefit for the northwest.
Last year Mr.. Baughman determined
to change his wheat and try for better
results. An Iowa man had some wheat
that he thought we'll of for seed and
MIR. Baughman procured a quantity.
1t was peculiar in appearance, not
like spring wheat, yet Enthusiastically
of the hard quality OF spring, looking
somewhat like winter wheat, and sug-
costing, as one Minneapolis grain
buyer said who saw the sample, "a
winter wheat made over into spring."
Several farmers experimental with
this wheat, but generally it was mixed
with other varities or sown without
particular attention. Mr.. Baughman
selected his carefully and sowed it
on March q.
The first popularity noticed was
the early maturity. Long before other
wheat was heading this variety was
we'll headed out, and on July Is it
was cut. 1t showed astounding yields,
going slightly more than 80 bushels
to theacre. Mr.. Baughman cleaned
up $3.50 an acre after deducting
threshing and every possible of ex-
pense. In yield it even exceeded
many fields Of macaroni wheat in
South Dakota.
If the wheat will give results such
as Mr. Baughman realized it will be
boon to the northwest. North Da-
kota's average yield in 1905, accord
ing to government figures, was IA
bushels an acre, Minnesota averaged
1873 and South Dakota 1877. A wheat
that would yield more than 10 to 20
bushels in Minnesota or the Dakotas
would increase production to such
an extent as to revolutionize wheat
raising, and would tend to check the
spread of durum or macaroni-less
desirable wheat in nearly every way,
but which appeals to many farmers
because it yields heavier than spring
wheat.
Mr.. Baughman Is investigating to
find, II possible, the origin of the
wheat. So far as he knows it Is MOTH
ing that either the Minnesota expert
| ment station at st. Anthony Park, or
the Iowa experiment station has in
troduced, although It may prove to
have originated in one of hese schools.
no ,,o,, 1,uv oIothoo for ,,oro tho.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-10
INDIAN MARRIAGE LOTTERY.
There Is as Much Chance About 1t as
In United States,

Sir George j. Scott has paper in
"Blackwood" on the curious marriage
customs in some parts of India. 1t Is
not at all unusual for young people to
be married in accordance with the
Judgment and orders of their parents,
but against this day book and ledger
system there has often been revolt,
and the marriageable youths and
maidens have devised plans which
have become customs.
Up in the north of Yunnan once a
year the marriageable youths and
maidens assemble on either side OF a
narrow ravine and throw balls of cot
ton across to one another. If a girl
catches the missile the matter is set
tied without benefit of clergy. and
their future doings interest them
selves only.
If any youth is agile enough to catch
there is no doubt he must be desper
ately in earnest. and capable of any
thing. But this is comparatively
elementary game.
Up in the Rumai country every
year. about the month of October, a
marriage lottery-a sort of sweet
hearts sweeps held. The names of
all the manageable girls and of the
young men of the circle who want to
get married are written on slips of
paper and thrown into separate earth
en- pots. From these they are drawn
against one another by the local wise
man.
This simply determines the fact that
the Rumai girl has come out and is
ready to be married; and the youth
whose name is drawn against hers
thereby obtains particular letter of
introduction. with authority to make
love Immediately with what ardor and
sccess he is capable of.
The actual drawing of the lots is
preceded by procession of the young
men who want to get married to the
houses of all eligible girls. All those
who can play musical instruments
take these along with them and per-
form according to the skill that is in
them, with no regard whatever as to
what their neighbOrs are doing or
thinking.
Those who can not play either sing
Or dance, or do whatever they can to
show off, so as to attract the attention
VI Tic 6Hlo. uc plCooih6 VI S31Ciu &c
another matter to be thought of later
More than 100000 pieces of mail
went astray in the United States last
year because they were not directed
even we'll enough for the experts tt
decipher the names and addresses
Millions of this immense total wen
to the dead letter Office, where lo
of it was opened, the addresses of thu
writer's ascertained and the letters o.
| packages returned. But in a goot
many cases the writer's address i!
never found and the letter is reall!
dead" when neither the sender no
the prospective receiver can be dis
! covered.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-10

Do you buy clothes for more than
one? II you do, the store ads. now
adays should be mighty interesting"
reading for you.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-29
InYrn Ne,Hn Nntrn.

MARSHALLTOWN-A Palmer OF
Maquoketa was elected superintendent OF
the Marshalltown city schools to succeed
Y. l.. Coffeen who will leave january l TO
take charge of the Massachusetts Reform
School for Boys. .....
STUART-The library committee of the
citizens committee has received word from
Andrew Carnegie that he will give $500
90 go towards the building OF a library
here. The site il already owned by the
town, and work Of construction is to begin
at once.
CHARLES CITY-George Nash. a mem
Der of the grand jury and a democrat, has
received a letter threatening TO tar and
feather him and burn his home. Nash is
puzzled concerning the letter which Is
signed white Caps as he does not know
what the persons sending IL hope to gain.
DAVENPORT-A jury this morning ac-
quilted William Nagel, accused Of the MUIR
der OF Carl Brady near MusCatine In 1876,
OF the crime of robbery, the most serious
charge which The court would allow to be
held against him. He will be tried on lesser
indictments, brought against him in con-
neotion with tho murder case.
NORA SPRINGS--AIiss- Alberta Allis, a
graduate of the Nora Springs seminary,
and who has been instructor IN the depart
ment of oratory IN the same institution for
the last two years. was one Of the two
young women chosen from sixteen appli-
cants for admission TO the Dramatic club"
a the state university AZ Iowa City IN
the recent contest Miss Allis' home is in
Mason CITY, Ia.
NORA SPRINGS-Jay Cutler. the adopted
son of Mr.. ana Mrs. G. Cutler Of this place.
who is attending high school at Waterloo,
playing basket bali one evening last week
and injuring his eye The wire was
stretched between two posts I'm the gym
nasium and he ran into IL in such a manner
-Four stitches had to be taken, but doc Tors
say that the sight will not be injured.