The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-01

and mis- neighbors are coming money
out of livestock, and the Great North
ern is getting the freight.
A Fighter, but Fair One.
mo empties are to be hauled on this
line If I can help it, was the iictum
that went out long ago. This battle
cry and the low grade which saves mo-
tive power and operating expenses are
the Hill recipe for dividends.
BY this same policy of following the
lines of least resistance and keeping
his cars and cargoes full, MIR. Hill ex-
rects to achieve his oriental trade en-
terpTise. For dozen years he has
pOndered the wonderful! possibilities of
aggressive Japan and awakening China
with their combined population of $780,
00o.000 Ultimately, he reasoned, count
less millions of tons of freight must be
exchanged between this oriental human
mass and the great nations lying t. the
west. Why should not this traffic 90
by way of the Pacific. the American
continent and the Atlantic, instead OF
through the Suez?
With this question in mind Mr.. Hill
sought out statistics of the canal and
concluded IL had physical limitations
and always would have them for the
passage of big freighters. The larger
Atlantic liners are Obliged oftenuimes
to squeeze through the narrower pass
ages with only a few inches TO spare.
Oftentimes their hulls drag akng
through the sand. Six miles an hour
/ is a good rate of speed and as a fur
Their handicap it is necessary to 'tie
up" and pull to the sides as far into
the sand as possible to let other boats
go by.
Thence the course of reasoning was
this: The big cargo can be hauled rel
atively much cheaper than the small
Cargo, There is no limit to the size of
the boats that can pillow through the
Pacific. The distance from New York
to Yokohama, by the Suez route is
$4,000 miles From Seattle to Yoko-
hama by the Pacific is 4.240 miles. The
respective distances from these two
places to HonskOng are 11,575 miles and
$3.50 miles. 1t is 1850 miles shorter
from Seattle to Yokohama by the Great
Northern steamship route than from
San Francisco by the central Pacific
route These were some of the lessons
the little globe in the private office
taught.
When Mr.. Hill built his two wonder
full boats-the Minnesota and the La
kOta-to ply between Seattle and the
orient, he considered the earlier IiInita-
l.
Instead of giving the boats over entire
ly to the carrying of freight he made
them combination freight and passen-
ger crafts. For passengers he made
his ships as beautiful and luxurious as
the best of the Atlantic liners. Not one
of the delights or comforts of modern
travel was denied. There is a complete
telephone exchange. with instruments
in every cabin and every official de-
partment. The better quarters are ar
ranged in elaborate suites, with en-
trance halls, private baths, full-size
brass beds, commodious wardrobes and
every convenience kindred to them.
His Courtship and Marriage.
When Mr.. Hill was q railway station
agent near st. Paul he boarded at the
Merchants hotel. Mary Michigan serv-
ed him his meals He lost his heart to
her and won her promise that some day
she would become his wife.
Il want you to go away to school
for several years, and when you come
back, If you still love me, we will be
married." said MIR. Hill.
1t was so agreed, and AIR. Hill bore
the expense of educating his fiancee.
Their affection lived through the years
of their separation, and the marriage
was seiemnIzed in a Catholic church.
of which denomination Mrs. Hill is d
deVout follower
The nappiest hours for Mr.. and Mrs.
Hill are when their three sons and six
daughters gather around the family
board and renew memories of the days
when they were all together in the do
nestle circle.
The Hill mansion in st. Paul is one
of the show places of the northwest.
From the exterior it is an impressive
pile and within it is a home of mag
nificent distances" The main hallway
affords a vista 100 feet long. The rest
of the house is in proportion. The Hill
private art gallery is a paradise ior
lovers of the old masters. There are