The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-14
THE WEST FEELS THE LOSS
OF FOREIGN POPULATION
Financial Furry Has Caused Thousands Of all Ma
tionalities to Leave for "The Old Country
Weekly Letter Giving the Happenings
in the Middle West for the week.

head OF all the Armour interests
for he doesn't 60 to balls, he is a
stranger to receptions and he Is abed
when society" including Mrs. Ar
mour, appears at grand opera. Like
his father, p. ID. Armour, he is sim
pie in his habits and is at his office
by z in the morning. Mrs. Armour
and he are said to have agreed to
disagree as to the social whirl; she
enjoys 1t but he doesn't; he enjoys
himself in his way and she in hers,
and each knows the other is enjoying
life. Mr.. Armour's penchant of pen
chants Is for walking; he is a great
believer in the exercises that made
Weston, the pedestrian. famous.
Water rates as regulators of rail
rates never had the center of the
Istage more conspicuously than in the
case, very important to Chicago, now
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission on complaint of Missouri riv-
er cities that st. Paul and Minnea-
polls are given an unfair rate advan-
tage. Kansas City and Omaha jobbers
have protested against their FIRST
class rate from New York OF $1.47
while the Twin Cities rate Is only
'$1.15. In explanation of the rates
, railroads assert that as st. Paul is
near Duluth, at the head of the Great
LIKES. at st. Paul they must meet
cheap water transportation rates
hence the difference against the Miss
louri river towns. Regardless Of Chi
cagos commercial interest in this
rate question, its interest is still
greater In federal appropriations for
waterway improvements, for reasons
which are the reasons of all the
middle West. The seacoast would in
effect be brought inland, stretched
up and down the Mississippi, Ohio
and Missouri river valleys BY a deep
channel, from the Gulf OF Mexico,
and freight rates would be modified
by 1t, just as the rate from New
York to st. Paul now is reduced by
lake rates. All the engineering prob
lens of rle lakes to the gulf channel
have been worked out and 1t is en-
tirely feasible 1t can be made to
save the internal commerce of the
country millions of dollars a year in
freight charges
"A revival of the old cathedral
building methods of Medieval Europe
in the heart of twentieth century
Chicago Is the novel solution hit up
on by city congregation to secure
"a hundred thousand dollar church in
the face of the present financial
stringency. The church will be built
from corner stone to belfry with
materials and labor contributed by
members of the congregation and
their friends, and will not cost q
cent OF cash. A prominent archi-
tect has drawn the plans and several
contractors and business firms have
lpromised materials ranging from
sand, cement and crushed stone to
lstained glass and pew numbers. The
entire work of construction Is being
lperfsrmed at night by men and boys
of the congregation AS result the
walls of the church are rising day by
Y day, while work on practically all
other new buildings in the city has
come to standstill, until the finan-
lcial situation eases up. The work.
men are enthusiastic and in the midst
of ,tmodern surroundings show the
same zeal that inspired the builders
OF Notre Dame, Chartres, Lincoln,
Canterbury and other great French
and English cathedrals 700 years ago.
In those days the Bishop. who was
also feudal lord, proclaimed a
weeks holiday, and to the accom-
paniment of trumpets and chanting
of priests the inhabitants of the sur
rounding country would turn to and
drag the enormous blocks of stone for
the nave and choir and hoists them
into place. In this way cathedrals
were built without expense. that un-
der modern conditions would cost
millions of dollars. 1t is likely now
that the experiment will be tried In
,other places on larger scale.
Retrenchment has been adopted by
the Pullman Company, not only at its
plants at Chicago. st. Louis, Den
ver Wilmington. DEL, Buffalo and
Ludlow KY, hut In the operation
of It's cars. This will affect over
25.c00 employees and was measure
,of prudence to safeguard the earnings
on the full $100.OOO,000 of stock oil
which $64 900 900 has been voted from
time to time as stock dividend to COW
er surplus profits above the regular
dividend rate of 8 per cent. 10
scrape asong on profits of 11.6 per
cent. on its capitalization the COM
pany obviously will be compelled
take In sail. Various organizations
of commercial travellers are said
,perhps this is only jocular--to have
under consideration a recommends.
tion to the company that the Jobs